The School Site Council is, once again, conducting our annual parent survey. Please complete the survey to give us feedback about your experience this year as a parent at Don Callejon School. A full page of survey results from last year’s survey, and actions taken as a result, are available from the link below.

The survey is anonymous; however, the classes with the highest level of participation will celebrate with a pizza party. To be eligible for this reward, please respond by Friday, May 18, and include the name of your student’s teacher on the final page of the survey.

Parent Survey

Results from 2011 Parent Survey

May already!

Suddenly there is a lot going on in the library that is out of the ordinary. Your students have certainly noticed that the library has not been open for our regularly scheduled classes because of the STAR testing. This will continue through May 8 and then we are back on “normal” class library times. I have been squishing 2, 3 or even 4 classes in here at one time to get the books they need in the hands of our students .

Along with an amazing trio of volunteers, I am inventorying our library this year so that we can ALL be sure what is here and what is no longer here.

Our 1 day ½ price Book Fair was fantastically successful! I can tell our students and their families will be doing LOT of fun summer reading – This year we sold over $3000 worth of books. Thank you to all our families for supporting reading for fun and learning.

All through this school year, our students have enjoyed talking to, watching and feeding Dewey D, our library Betta fish. Dewey will be offered as an auction item at the Spring Festival here at school on May 12. He is a very social and friendly fish and I will miss him – but I know that one of our great families will love offering him a new home and helping out our school at the same time.

I have been encouraging the reading of nonfiction for fun and now it is time to share the fun we have had. I will be decorating the library with “fascinating, interesting facts” flags. Interested students may stop by and pick up the blank rally flag to decorate with the name of the book and an illustration of the phenomenal new fact they discovered in a nonfiction book. All rally flags will hang in the library so it would be terrific if both sides of the flag were decorated.

All student library books will be due back by May 18 and all middle school textbooks by May 23. Watch for notices coming home to let you know about books that are due. Library check out for parents will end this Friday, May 4 with all books due by May 11.

“Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt a the end of the year.” Horace Mann

Happy Reading

Mrs. Taylor, Librarian

Measure A is a local school measure placed on the May 8, 2012 Mail Ballot Only election by the Santa Clara Unified School District Governing Board. If approved, it will provide approximately $2.3 million per year in local education funding.  Please refer to the document below from the District for answers to Frequently Asked Questions.

Measure A FAQ

Due to tremendous budget cuts over the last several years, Santa Clara Unified School District is joining many districts across the state in implementing furlough days for students and staff. We already had furlough days on January 2, March 12, March 26, and March 27. The final furlough day for this school year will be on Monday, May 21. More information regarding these days will be posted on the Santa Clara Unified School District website, www.santaclarausd.org. Parents are encouraged to plan ahead for activities for their students on these days. There may be a few exceptions for programs that run on a contractual basis, so please check with your school contact for exact program offerings on those days. The reduction of staff salaries by five days results in approximately $2.3 million dollars that will go toward the budget deficit for the 2011-2012 school year.

Please see the attached flyer for more information about attending Don Callejon Middle School. This publication was developed for incoming Sixth Grade students and their parents.

Middle School Welcome Flyer

Yearbooks are now on sale for $38. Pick up an order form in the front office, or download an order form here.

Yearbook Order Form

Share your photos taken at Don Callejon School events for possible use in the 2011-2012 yearbook! Visit community.lifetouch.com and enter the activation code LTSYNE.