Best of Luck to Our Conga Kids Team!!

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Best of Luck to Our Conga Kids Team!!

Join us in supporting this year's 5th grade CMCS Conga Kids Team: Tatum, Brandon, Jordan, Cynthia, Willow, Aulani, Bella, Ryan, Grace, Sadie, Caleb, and Marissa! This 5th grade team will be competing on Wednesday, April 19th at Marina Del Rey MS for a chance to advance to the Grand Finale Competition. Here is your invitation to attend:



ABOVE & BEYOND CLUB!!

                   Congratulations to all of the students selected                         by their teachers to join the Above & beyond Club! 


 





SAFETY FIRST!!


Hello Parents!
We'd like to extend a huge welcome to our new Plant Manger, Albert, who will oversee all of CMCS maintenance and facilities.  He's already tackled a bunch of work orders and service calls.  We'd also like to welcome back our night shift buildings & grounds custodian, Rick, who returned from another school.  It's a breath of fresh air that we've resolved our two critical vacant positions.  LAUSD is short staffed district wide.
We'd also like to thank our two parent volunteers leading our Safety and Facility Committee:  Ben Dennis and Howard Chiang. Both Ben and Howard have been tracking safety issues.   
We would like to ensure we have an effective safety and maintenance work flow process and tracking.   If you see something on campus that needs attention, please let us know by completing this short form.  Our team is committed to providing our school with exceptional service and support.
CMCS: Safety & Facility Committee
Ben D.: hideo@rocketmail.com
  Howard C.:  lanternhouse8@gmail.com
Both are also listed in our Fresh Schools website.
Lastly, a reminder that our School Beautification Day and Town Hall is this coming Saturday, April 22, 2023 (9am to 2pm) which coincides with Earth Day.  
Our teachers and staff have completed their Beautification Day wish lists. Please help us make their wishes come true!
Click here to sign your family up to participate and we can order the correct amount of food
or paste the following link in your web browser:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfmrjzTPGdiTOr9aqjKOP-6ohrhyy9RdoWZOBa9S_qB9azydg/viewform

See you there!

Beautification Day is almost here! Our campus could use a bit of sprucing up. Teachers and staff have completed a wish list of items  to be cleaned, repaired, or painted. Please help us make their wishes come true . . . 


Click here to sign your family up to participate.


IMPORTANT DATES:

April 22      Beautification Day/ Town Hall Meeting 

April 27      Open House

May 1-5      Appreciation Week

May 1-12    SBAC Testing for Grades 3-5

May 5         Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Celebration

May 17-19  5th Grade CIMI Camp trip

June 2         Children's Day!!

June 3         5th Grade Dance 

June 5         5th Grade Ice Cream Social

June 8         5th Grade Culmination

June 9         Last Day of School






 

IMPORTANT NOTICE ABOUT PARENT VOLUNTEERS

We LOVE our parent volunteers because they do SO MUCH for our students! The Annual Read-a-thon, Sweethearts Dance, the heritage assemblies, the Book Fair, and helping teachers in the classrooms, chaperoning field trips, and valet . . . it all matters a lot and we are all grateful for your strong support! As we readjust to having volunteers back on campus, we must remind you of the following:

1) Once you have opened an online volunteer application, you have 30 days to complete the process: submit your parent commitment form, TB test clearance (within 4 years), and fingerprinting for one-on-one tutors and overnight field trip chaperones. If you plan to volunteer on campus, you must upload your COVID vaccination card to dailypass.lausd.net to be approved by LAUSD's Community Engagement. 

All incomplete applications created before February 10, 2023 have been declined. If your application was declined, you are welcome to reapply once you are ready to submit the required documents.

2) You may volunteer on campus only after your application and COVID vaccine card have been received, reviewed, and approved by Community Engagement. You will be notified by Parent and Community Services once you are approved.











Friday Morning Assembly       

         

Link:  https://lausd.zoom.us/j/88971868966                                         

Click here to view the Friday Morning Assembly presentations.



1-to-1 Homework Help is Here!

To support students and families, LAUSD is providing on demand homework help with a personal virtual tutor. This support is available to all elementary and span K-8 LAUSD students at no cost to families in multiple languages. We have contracted with Paper to ensure 24/7 instant support for all students and families. Students may log into their schoology account and click on the Paper app. For more information please visit https://paper.co/lausd



 LAUSD/SCHOOL POLICY ON ELECTRONIC DEVICES AT SCHOOL

CELLULAR TELEPHONES AND OTHER MOBILE DEVICES It is the policy of LA Unified to prohibit the use of cellular phones or any electronic mobile device by students on campus during normal school hours. Students are permitted to possess cellular phones, or other electronic mobile devices such as cameras, electronic games, radios, MP3 players, computing devices, tablets, etc. on campus, provided that any such device shall remain turned off and stored in a locker, backpack, purse, pocket, or other places where it is not visible during normal school hours. Students are permitted to use cellular phones or other electronic mobile devices on campus, before and after school or during school activities that occur outside of school hours. For LA Unified, state, and national assessments, students are prohibited to access any unauthorized electronic devices at any time during the entire testing session. Students must comply any time a request is made by school personnel to cease the use of a cellular phone and/or other electronic mobile device even before or after school. Schools may adopt more stringent cellular phone policies through the School Site Council. Cellular phone use on the school bus is for emergency purposes only; driver authorization is required. For more information, you may call Transportation Services at (800) 522-8737. LA Unified is not responsible for lost or stolen cellular phones or other electronic mobile devices.

If a student is found using and/or displaying a cell phone, it will be taken away to be returned to a parent upon request.

You may find this information in the Parent-Student Handbook  (page 6) which is posted on our school website under the Resources tab. A hard copy of the handbook should have been sent home by the teacher. If not, please let me know. Also, please let me know if you have any questions regarding this LAUSD policy at trk2932@laud.net.



IMPORTANT CMCS LINKS

For your convenience, this list of the important school links has been added to the website under the "From the Principal" tab.


FRIDAY MORNING ASSEMBLY (webinar):  

Link:  https://lausd.zoom.us/j/88971868966

Meeting ID: 889 7186 8966

 


COMMUNITY CORNER BLOG:   https://communitymagnetcs.blogspot.com/



CMCS WEBSITE:   https://www.communitymagnet.org/




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