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School Phone: 408-252-5414 ~ Absence Line 408-252-5414-6 ~ FAX 408-996-9725

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BoardofEducation

Superintendent:PhilQuon

BoardMembers:AnjaliKausarBenLiao,

JosephineLucey,GaryMcCue,

PhyllisVogel

GARDENGATEELEMENTARY

CUPERTINOUNIONSCHOOLDISTRICT

10500ANNARBORAVENUE

CUPERTINO,CA95014

NancyWood-Principal

KathleenMcCulloch-PTAPresident

AliciaHancock-Shepard-SSCChairperson

SCHOOL CALENDAR MARCH 11, 2010

3/8-3/12 SPRING BOOK FAIR3/11 6:00 p.m. SPRING SOCIAL AND BOOK FAIR3/14 DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME BEGINS3/12 SCHOOL SPIRIT - CAREER DAY

3/13 Sat. 7:30 a.m-1:00 p.m. GRADE 3 - FISHING IN THE CITY - CAMPBELL PERC. POND3/15 STAFF LEARNING DAY - NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS3/16-3/18 8:00 a.m-9:00 p.m. FUNDRAISER - BONJOUR CREPE CO.3/17 3:45 p.m. SCHOOL SITE COUNCIL MEETING3/19 REPORT CARDS3/23 8:00-11:35 a.m. INTERNATIONAL DAY

(ALL KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS ATTEND 8:00-11:30)3/23 6:00 p.m. C.U.S.D. BOARD MTG. - DISTRICT BOARD ROOM3/25 6:30 p.m. LAWSON INCOMING 6TH GR. PARENT NIGHT3/25 7:00 p.m. MUSIC CONCERT - GR. 4, GLC4/1 7:15 p.m. PTA MEETING4/2 SCHOOL SPIRIT - CRAZY HAIR DAY4/5 YEARBOOK ORDER DEADLINE

4/5-4/9 GRADE 5 - MARIN HEADLANDS SCIENCE SCHOOL4/6 6:00 p.m. C.U.S.D. BOARD MTG. - DISTSRICT BOARD ROOM4/7 6:30 p.m. H.E.A.S.T. PERFORMANCE - GLC

EVERY TUESDAY IS EARLY DISMISSAL Students are dismissed at 1:30.PRE-PAY FOR CUSD LUNCHES at PAMS (Parent Account Management System) Lunchroom! You can make payments andview your students account balance online by going to http://www.pamslunchroom.com or by calling 1-888-994-5100.TO EMAIL STAFF:[email protected]: If your child will be absent, please call 252-5414. Ext. 6, by 8:30 a.m. to report the absence.HOMEWORK: Homework may be requested for illness absences of three days or more. Please call the office before 9:00a.m. to request the homework for pickup after 3:00 p.m.

Parent Traffic Duty: March 16th - 19th Parents from Rm. #3
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TA REFLECTIONS AWARDS 3/8/10

ou might enjoy this fact that Garden Gate had an unprecedented number of 156 entries in the PTA Reflections program thear. We had the largest number of any school that participated in the program!

GARDEN GATE STUDENTS WOW THE CUSD BOARD!

On Tuesday evening, members of our student council put on an outstanding presentation for our superintendent and schooard. The theme was about the many wonderful things we are growing at Garden Gate, including learning, friendshooperation, and so much more! Congratulations to Nelson Niu, Ron Talmor, Victoria Whall, Debarshi Basak, Pran

Muthuraman, Rupali Sujan, Ian McCulloch, Jeffrey Xu, and Andrew Chang for their excellent presentations. Congratulations amany thanks to their student council advisors Joyce Che, Sarah Schwinge and Peter Ward for their coordination, hard work aupport of the students! We received many compliments on our presentation!

GARDEN GATE DESTINATION IMAGINATION TEAM, INVENTING STARS, PLACES FIRST!

On March 6, the Destination Imagination (DI) team comprised of Garden Gate students Vishal Swaminathan, Amrita Nagasuwetha Alachi, Varum Soma, and Pranav Muthuraman placed first in their competition at Independence High School in Saose. Their challenge included improvisational acting, story development, teamwork and research skills. The Inventing Staill now move to the state level competition to be held on April 10, 2010 at Independence High School. Congratulations to all

hese students and their parents!

TUDENTS ARRIVING LATE TO SCHOOL - PLEASE READ

ainy days aside, we have been experiencing a larger than usual number of students arriving late to their classrooms. Pleaemember that it is very important to have students in their classrooms at 8:00 a.m.

s it states in our parent handbook: It is important for your child to be at school and on time daily, so that he does nmiss instructional time or disturb others by coming in late. Students need to be lined up at the door when the seco

ell rings at 7:55 a.m. If your child is late, they will need to go to the office for a late slip.

lease do not take or send them directly to the classroom, even if it is 8:01 a.m. They are late and need to get a late slip. Alsemember that leaving just five minutes earlier in the morning can help ensure that your child will be on time. Please read telpful suggestions below for other ideas.

NCLUDE THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR EVENING WRAP-UP Excerpted from www.keepkidshealthy.com: Pack all the items you and your child need for work, school, or daycare and load the car or place coats, bags, and lunc

boxes by the door. Designate a shelf, basket, or area for each family member to place whatever needs to go out the door in the morning. Check the calendar in case your child needs sneakers for gym or a snack for a field trip. Pack lunches and refrigerate sandwichessometimes this is easiest to do while making dinner. Put your car keys with

the sandwiches if it helps you remember to add the sandwiches to lunch boxes in the morning, or put a note on thelunch box to remind you.

Check the weather report to plan clothing and outerwear for the next day. Have your child pick out the clothes she wants to wear the night before, or lay out two outfits for her to choose betwee Choose your own outfit for the morning, and take five minutes to lay out your clothes the night before to make dressing

hassle-free. Decide what to serve for breakfast to avoid early morning debates.

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Keep meals simple, and get your child to commit to a choice the night before. Wait until the weekend to maketime-consuming breakfasts.o Some hot items, like pancakes, French toast, and bacon can be made ahead of time and reheated.o For those desperate mornings when you or your child oversleeps, have breakfast items like muffins, fruit,

granola bars, or cereal in a plastic bag that can be eaten in the car.o If you're a coffee drinker, prepare your coffee maker and set out a travel mug.

Shower or bathe your child at night. Give your elementary school child her own alarm clock so she can start learning to wake up on her own. A clock radio

that wakes her to music will better ease her into the routine. Let her pick out the style she likes best so she feels vestein this "grown-up" item.
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PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION (PTA) NEWS & RESOURCES

Garden Gate Elementary School 10500 Ann Arbor Ave., Cupertino CA 95014

HELLO GATORS!

THEIR FUTURE IS NOW!You soon will be hearing a lot about the district-wide effort to save our teachers. It has been named Their Future IsNow!The parent that has taken up the commitment to lead Garden Gate is Sophia Chan. You will be hearing moreabout this campaign next week.

THE BOOK FAIR IS HERE!This is our second and final Book Fair of the year, with an Ice Cream Social on Thursday evening from 6:00 8:00 pLets hope for no rain!

FUNDRAISER - BONJOUR CREPE COMPANY - MARCH 16-18Please remember to come to the Bonjour Crepe Company between March 16th and 18th located at 19929 StevensCreek Blvd., Cupertino. Enjoy a great dinner with family and friends while raising funds for our school. See theattached flyer for additional information.

PLEASE WELCOME SONIKA AGRAWAL, OUR NEW PTA TREASURER!At the last PTA meeting, we elected Sonika to our Executive Board replacing Sumitra Penmetsa. Sonika is a CPA, aCA! So she comes well qualified. If you see her around campus, please make sure to say hello and also thanks.Being Treasurer is an important, time consuming, volunteer position. We welcome you, Sonika, to our board!

I would also like to thank Sumitra Penmetsa for her time spent working as our PTA Treasurer. Thank you for your timand dedication Sumitra! I enjoyed working with you.

NEW BOARD NOMINATIONS!

Also at the last meeting we nominated a large number of people to our board and committee seats. Our nominatedExecutive Board is as follows:Merav Talmor PresidentAzmeh Ahsan Executive Vice PresidentAngelia Kan 1st VP Safety and EmergencyManonmani Ramdass 2nd VP Direct DonationsLavanya Sivakumar 3rd VP Family EventsMegha Shetty SecretarySonika Agrawal Treasurer (She has been elected for the remainder of this year as well).Sanjay Agarwal AuditorJhulan Haldar HistorianDavid Hodgkins Parliamentarian

Please make sure to stop these folks and give them a big thank you for accepting the nominations. They are

committing to doing their very best to benefit all the children of Garden Gate, we owe them our support and dedicatioWe will vote on these candidates at the next PTA meeting, Thursday, April. 1st so please join us at this celebratorymeeting! We still have a few positions open for committee seats and can always use extra people to assist thecommittees, so please call me if you are interested, and check the website for open spots!

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Kathleen McCulloch

Garden Gate PTA President
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Garden Gatestudents areparticipating in aquarter-drivefundraising program,Pocketful of Wishes,which benefits children with life-threatening illnesses.Money raised in the next month will be given to the GreaterBay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation, so they can providemagical wishes for local children. Students can drop theirquarters and other change into a box located in each

classroom. As a school, if we can raise $2,000 for thisworthy cause, there will be a special school-wide prizenvolving Mrs. Wood! Classes will also set individual goalsand could earn additional prizes. Please donate yourquarters (or more) if you can!

LAWSON MIDDLE SCHOOLLawson Middle School counselors will be on our campuson March 18th talking to fifth grade students who will beattending Lawson for the 2010-2011 school year.Conversations will center on thetransitions they will bemaking to middle school.

Look for papers they will bebringing home from thatmeeting. In addition,parents are invited to attendan Incoming 6th grade ParentNight Thursday, March 25 at 7:00 in the Lawson EventCenter. This meeting is for parents only.

BOXTOPS FOR EDUCATIONWe are continuing to collect Boxtops for our school. Simplycollect 25 Box Tops (10 value each) put them in asandwich bag with the students name and bring them toschool on Tuesday, March 30h . Your child can exchangethem for a prize from the Box Tops table outside the schooloffice at dismissal (1:30-1:45 pm). For more informationplease go to http://www.boxtops4education.com/AboutBoxTops/Products.aspx) Together, let's earn cash forour school!

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME BEGINS MARCH 14TH.Dont forget that Daylight Savings Time begins March 14th.Be sure to turn your clocks forward one hour before you goto bed on Saturday night or you will be one hour late foreverything you do on Sunday. Firefighters suggest that

twice a year when you change your clocks, either forwardor backward, you should also check the batteries in yoursmoke detectors.

RECYCLE, REDUCE, REUSE, REPURPOSEGreen Productivity Room Duplicating Training

Garden Gate Parent Volunteers,Along with our Gators, staff, and community we will bepracticing Going Green a decision to reduce our carbonfootprint of paper, and to obtain a strong footing ofrecycling, reusing, and repurposing resources. As of March16, 2010 everyone using the productivity room must attendGreen Productivity Room Training. This training will include:

the New Green procedure and nuances of the copymachines, ditto machine, bookbinder, and tour of wheresupplies are put away. In order to use the copiers andproductivity room all must participate in training. Oncetrained you will have a trained volunteer button and on thetrained Green Gator list.

Two Training Opportunities will be held in the ProductivityRoom:

Monday, March 15, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.(Teachers In-Service Day) You may bring your students tothe training and there will be Green activities for them toparticipate in.

Friday, March 20, 2010 at 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.

This is a great opportunity to meet others and to help ourschool.See you at the Green Productivity Training!

Go Green Gators! Please RSVP to Terri [email protected]
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DISTRICT NEWS SECTION

010 STAR TESTING DATES

TAR Multiple Choice Testing for grades 2-8 will begin the week of April 26, 2010 and continues for two weeks. The STARogram is a state accountability measure that helps us assess how we are meeting the needs of our students. You can helpepare your child for the test by ensuring your child goes to bed on time, eats a good breakfast, and leaves for school with asitive attitude. Please do not schedule any family trips or doctor appointments during this time.

ATHEMATICS SPEAKER SERIESBeyond the Book: Learning More Mathematics - Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 7:00 8:30 p.m.ollins Elementary School, GLC, 10300 N. Blaney Avenue, Cupertino, CA 95014 - No RSVP Neededstrict students and their parents are invited to participate in the Mathematics Speaker Series. The next speaker, who willdress interested middle school students and their parents, will be Joshua Zucker. This presentation is offered free of charge.shua Zucker, whose talk last year was very well-received, is a talented and knowledgeable teacher whose accomplishmentsthe field of mathematics have been recognized both in his tenure as a writer for the national MATHCOUNTS competitiond as the Director of the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival. Joshua discovered his love for number theory at Dr. Arnold

oss's summer program at Ohio State University many years ago. As a student, he was invited to the US Math Olympiadummer Program and was a member of the first US Physics Olympiad team as well as a top -10 scorer on the Putnam. Onceain, Joshua will challenge students with insightful, intriguing problems and offer parents words of wisdom about mathucation that will help them work with their sons and daughters in productive ways.

e Speaker Series is part of the district's Math Initiative Plan and is sponsored by the Cupertino Educational Endowmentoundation (CEEF) and a grant from Microsoft Corporation. All featured speakers will encourage students to think deeply, toallenge themselves in mathematics both beyond and within the traditional curriculum, and not to rush through courses.

E ANZA COLLEGE SUMMER EXTENDED YEAR PROGRAM 2010e Anza College in partnership with the Cupertino Union School District will offer the Extended Year Program this summer,ornings only, from June 21 to July 16, 2010.

tudents entering grades 6 through 10asses will be held at Kennedy and Miller Middle Schools, and will include: Java Programming, Geometry, Intro to Algebra,EGO Robotics, Speech and Debate, Fashion Design and many others.

tudents entering grades 1 through 5asses will be held at Eaton Elementary School, and will include: Pre-Algebra Prep, Writing: Paragraphs to Essays, Readingensive, Mandarin Chinese, Math & Art, Mandarin, Journalism/Writing, and more!

ogram brochures will be sent home in early March and will also be available in the school office. More information isailable at www.extendedyear.deanza.edu.

arly registration is by mail only and will begin on March 8, 2010 and ends on May 21, 2010. There will also be walk-ingistration available from June 1 to June 8, 2010.

2009-2010 DISTRICT CALENDAR

March 15, 2010 Staff Learning DayApril 12-16, 2010 Spring RecessMay 28, 2010 Staff Learning DayMay 31, 2010 Memorial DayJune 10, 2010 Last Day of School
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