February 5, 2023

Happy Sunday and Happy February💗 I had a nostalgic weekend. I got to watch my sister play water polo with her Oakland masters team at a UC Davis tournament. It was extra fun because she was playing against many college club water polo teams including the Davis team she played for. Their team strongly beat everyone they played and she remembers getting beat by the masters teams at that same tournament years ago. It was so fun to be back at UC Davis, drive around the town and eat lunch at Dos. (IYKYK) Both my sister and I went to Davis, so it was special to be there together. Have you visited your college town lately? 

This weekend also marks the last weekend before the Brooks' hit their crazy sports season which goes from now until December! Here we go!! 

Jesse Bennett comes this Thursday! As I know many of you have, share the info about her books. She is giving 50% of all books sold back to Stoneridge. There is a link on stoneridgeshop.com

Friday is our Sweetheart Dance. It is from 5:30-7pm. The tickets are available on stoneridgeshop.com

TOSA Tidbits:

EL Update

We have changed the dates for our ELPAC testing when there aren't as many enriching activities buzzing about campus. Our new dates are April 12-19. In the next couple weeks, I will send out links to the practice tests to prepare students for what to expect. I feel better about these dates and appreciate all your flexibility when we met during PLCs last week to try to make the original dates work.

Lunch Count and School Milk: Lunch count is super important right now. Food services is watching our numbers closely and we ran out of food two times last week. Ana always adds a few meals to the count she gets each day, but even that was not enough. We are telling students not to get a lunch if they did not order one, but we have no way of knowing. If you could please reinforce this with them, that would be wonderful. Thank you!

Lunch Count: 

• Please take lunch count for the different choices offered each day. Miss Ana prepares the food for the students each day based on these numbers. She needs to limit the number of extras she makes. This is especially important on those days with popular items like breakfast as lunch, chicken nuggets, tacos and frozen yogurt days. A reminder to students to only take a school lunch if they have ordered one and to take what they chose in the morning, would be very helpful.

Milk: 

• The district has changed the system for students receiving milk if they brought a lunch from home. Please share this with your students: Students with a home lunch can still get milk. They need to check out with Miss Kathy so she can document how much milk we are going through. They will also be encouraged to take 2 items from the salad bar.

Did you know... Ally Simmons' first cousin is Sara Barreilles!! Wow! So cool. I had quite a few of you know that.

Did you know one of our staff members had goats at her dad's house and they had to milk them every day at 5 and 5.

What makes you unique??: If you haven't already, please add an interesting fact here: Unique Fact

Coming Up This Week:

Tuesday, 2/7: Staff Meeting at 2:20pm

Wednesday, 2/8: SSP's by invite only

Thursday, 2/9: Brooks off site in the morning, Jesse Bennett Assembly from 9:15-10:15am, PTC Meeting at 2:30pm

Friday, 2/3: Morning Flag Salute at 7:50am, Sweetheart Dance from 5:30-7pm

Fun Fact of the Week:

Have a great week!