Weekly Wildcat

January

Jan. 19: Achievement Reports released on Powerschool

Jan. 22-31: Parent/Teacher Conferences, 2:13p.m. dismissal

Jan. 22 - 26: Great Kindness Challenge (flyer below)

February

Feb. 8: TK/K Enrollment Info Session at South High School Auditorium from 5:30-7pm (flyer below)

Feb. 9: Prospective TK/K Parent Tour @ 9:30 (please arrive 15 minutes earlier to check in)

Feb. 12: No School

Feb. 15: Walteria STEAM Fair: 3:15 - 4:30, Walteria Quad; Open to all; free!

Feb. 19: No School

Please check our website calendar here for current events

Monthly Nutrition Services Menu

Your child's first semester Achievement Report shows progress in the first half of the school year. As you review the first semester Achievement Report, keep the following in mind:

The Achievement Report is aligned to the California Common Core State Standards. The Achievement Report is designed to clearly communicate to parents what their child’s actual individual achievement is. The goal is to let parents understand what students know and are able to do on a set of rigorous, academic standards, at a particular point in the school year.

So how should you read your child’s Achievement Report? The report lists the essential grade level standards that your child is required to master by the end of the school year. It is a goal oriented system. At the first semester reporting period, it is very appropriate to see 2’s – “Progressing toward the standard.”

For more details on how to read your child's Achievement Report, please contact your child's teacher. Parent Teacher conference time is the perfect time to get ask questions, receive clarification, or discuss how you can help at home. Parent Teacher Conferences will be January 22-31 and dismissal will take place at 2:13pm during these days.

Here at school, we are busy learning about Kindness and the importance of showing friendliness, cooperation, and helpfullness in our community! Learning happens best when it is done both at school and at home. This month classroom teachers are placing special emphasis on modeling, explaining, and guiding students to understand how to demonstrate kindness. Each teacher will be selecting 1 student to be recognized for showing examplary kindness to be recongized at our Monday Assembly at the end of the month.

The 2024 STEAM Fair is here! Below are the packets if your child would like to enter the fair.

TK - 1: Collections Project Packet

2-3: Inventions Packet

4th-5th Grade Experimental Design Packet

The Walteria STEAM Fair is back! Please click on the above flyer to learn about the types of projects your child can submit. The Watleria STEAM Fair is happening on February 15 from 3:15 - 4:30.

The Innovation Convention is coming in March 2024.

Open to all students TK-12th Grade.

Held at El Camino College

More Information to come in 2024

2024-2025 TK and Kindergarten Enrollment Information

Evening Parent Informational Session: February 8, 2024, 5:30 - 7:00p.m. @ South High School Auditorium

Enrollment begins February 26, 2024

• Kindergarten is for students with Dates of Birth 09/02/2018 to 09/01/2019
• Transitional Kindergarten is for students with Dates of Birth 09/02/2019 to 06/02/2020
• If your child is currently enrolled in a TUSD TK class, you do not need to re-enroll your child for Kindergarten

Prospective TK/K Parent Tours

February 9 / March 8 / April 12 / May 10: 9:30 - 10:30 a.m.

• Reservations are not required.
• Please bring a government issued ID to be scanned to receive a visitors badge to take part in the tour.

Click on Flyer Below

The Building Bridges Department is hosting more free Active Parenting classes this winter/spring. Please see the fliers attached for families to sign up. There are classes for both parents of children ages 5-12 and teens.

The Walteria Running Club is open. Signing up now secures your child's spot to begin on Friday, January 19. Click HERE to sign up. Registration open through January 18, 2024. Registration will close at noon.

Seeking PTA Board Positions! Please consider nominating yourself or others interested in serving on the PTA Board. PTA is a great way to support the students and teachers at Walteria. No experience needed -training is available. Scan the QR code to make a nomination. For more information please email: parliamentarian@walteriaelementary.org

We are using a new company, Treering, this year! Treering has some great perks including hard cover yearbooks and personalized yearbook pages that only show up in your personal yearbook! See attached flyers to order and to design your personalized pages! We are collecting photos for the yearbook. Please submit photos for all fall events by 1/31/2024.

The time to purchase the yearbook has come! Please follow the instructions to purchase your yearbook. You are also able to design and customize 2 special pages that will be printed in your unique yearbook! A hard cover option is also available.