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๐Ÿ€March 2025๐Ÿ€

ParentNewsletter๐Ÿ€March 2025๐Ÿ€
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General Reminders

  • Please look at our Supplies list if you wish to donate supplies to your childโ€™s teacher. Students need their own school supplies this year!

  • Please check your childโ€™s backpack every morning as no toys or Pokemon cards should be brought to school, nor should candy or unhealthy snacks


    For more resources, check out our Parent Hub or our website!

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๐Ÿ“– Book Blast Summary ๐Ÿ“š

Thank you or all your efforts with Book Blast. This was one of our most successful events, and I'm so happy that all of our students are going to go home with a book in just a few weeks. Here is a breakdown of each site!


Breed: Collected $1245 in donations. 149 books are going to be delivered to the school site. 24% of the students participated.


2nd St: Collected $839 in donations. 172 books are going to be delivered to the school site. 19.5% of the students participated.


Eastman: Collected $2219 in donations. 222 books will be delivered to the school site. 26% of students participated.


That's a total of $4,303 received and a total of 543 books coming to Extera!


Congratulations to Mr. Moreno for being the only teacher to reach 60% class participation. He is going to receive a $100 shopping spree!


I hope you all had a positive experience with Book Blast. We look forward to doing this again next year and getting more books in the hands of our students.

Volunteers Needed!

We are looking for volunteers to support at schools in the following areas:

Morning Drop Off, Recess to host a coloring table with students or Lunch Recess to play a game like loteria with students, or Recruitment.

Please contact Melissa if you would like to know if support is needed, prior to going to campus!

All Volunteers must be approved by principal prior to coming on campus

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๐Ÿ“… Important Dates for This Month ๐Ÿ“… Important Dates for This Month

March (Womenโ€™s History Month)


3/3- 3/7 Read Across America Week

3/5 Parent University Class- Strategies for English Learners

3/7 Report Cards Sent Home

3/8 SEL Day

3/8 Regional Basketball Tournament at Los Angeles Leadership Academy Charter- Elementary 9-1pm, Middle School 12:30-3pm

3/10 - 3/14 Minimum Day Dismissal for Conferences: Elementary (12:55pm), Middle School (1:25pm)

3/12 ELAC/SSC Meeting #4 at Home Office

3/12 EPS2 Spring Picture Day

3/13 MS students to iFly Ontario

3/17-3/28 Summative ELPAC Testing

3/17 Trimester 2 Awards EPS MS During Huddle

3/18 EPS Platica at 9am 2nd st Library

3/18 Platica EPS2

3/19 Trimester 2 Awards EPS2

3/20 Parent University- STEAM Museum at Breed 3-5pm

3/20 Trimester 2 Awards at EPS Breed

3/24 Spring Pictures @ 2nd St

3/27 Spring Pictures @ Breed

3/28- 3/30 8th Grade Overnight Trip

3/31 Cesar Chavez Day- No School

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Elementary

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Elementary

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Middle School

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Report Cards

Report cards are going out on Friday, March 7th. Please take time this week to set up time for your conferences. We recommend reaching out to your child's teacher directly to set up an appointment.

Who is ready to come to conferences?

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Attendance Update Attendance Update

Better than 94% is our target!

EPS Breed: 91%

EPS 2nd St (5th/6th): 91%

EPS 2nd St (7th/8th): 87.9%

EPS2 Eastman: 91.5%

๐Ÿ† Perfect Attendance โฐ

EPS Breed

Stephany, Violeta, Randy, Mateo Mikailah, Andrea, Kervin, Andrew, Mia, Maximo, Santiago, Jared, Alexia, Michael, Ana Rosa, Sofia, Alexa, Eliseo, Martha, Gabriela, Jesus, Ethan P, Ethan R, Jacob, Isabella, Dayton, Sebastian, Gilmer, Glendy, Alan, Kenneth


EPS 2nd St:

5th/6th grade

Manuel, Mateo A, Adelyn A, Sherlyn, Alianny, Aaron G, Matias, Eduardo, Efren, Jeremy, Maria, Anthony, Victor, Katherine, Nislay, Alan, Samantha

7th/8th grade

Gael B, Luvia, Valerie G, Cristina, Jacob L, Frank L, Adalia, Melissa P, Hayden, Lucy, Stephanie, Ester, Dulce, Daniel M, Kevin N, Abigail, Jayden P, Jennifer, Frank R, Ashley


EPS#2

Andre, Juliette, Yasmin, Kassandra, Veronica, Daniel, Vivianna, Dylan, Aaron,

Allison, Dwayne, Jayden, Alejandro, Paul, Nathan, Mathew, Guimel, Aliani, Jocelyn, Julie, Vanessa,

Matthew P, Cesar, Mateo, Isaac, Jeremias

Students of the Month Students of the Month

EPS Breed

TK/K: Glendy, Isaias

1st Grade: Violeta, Zoe

2nd Grade: Mikailah

3rd Grade: Jared

4th Grade: Delilah, Anthony, Sofia


EPS 2nd St

Ester, Franck, Anthony, Maria, Keyshla, Karla C, Wendy, Juliana, Jacob L


EPS #2

K: Cesar S., Salma C. 1st: Athena M., Jonathan C.

2nd: America T., Viviana R. 3rd: Sophia A., Isela U.

4th: Esmeralda G., Juan M. 5th: Juliรกn E., Karina ร.

๐ŸŽ’ Middle School News ๐Ÿซ ๐ŸŽ’ Middle School News ๐Ÿซ

At the end of each month, students get to earn a field day to celebrate their hard work and positive choices. Here are some pictures from the activities that teachers brought to students this month!

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Teachers vs After School Basketball Team

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Teachers vs After School Basketball Team

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March Reading Challenge

This month, Middle School is having a reading challenge. The mentor block class with the highest amount of minutes read, will win a free meal from Cane's. But we can't make it that easy...Students will have to compete against teachers and their minutes read! Next month we will announce who won!

Test Prep

Our SBAC prep classes are off and running at Middle School. These students are signed up for a 0 period or 7th period, to get some extra help from teachers.

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We are currently enrolling for Middle School! If you would like to make sure your child is on the list to transfer over and enroll in our Middle School program, please call Melissa! If you know a family that would want to join our Middle School, have them call the office for more information and set up a tour!

Uniforms
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Elementary Uniforms

Uniforms are required every day unless specified by the Principal. You can find the uniform information attached.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dG48gylNqt3Ad6FMzMVbOtMi3kHWnCAK/view?usp=share_link

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Middle School Uniforms

Uniforms are required every day unless specified by the Principal. Mondays are dress down days where students can wear jeans and a colored top to represent their house.

Important Links

School Calendar

UPDATED CELL PHONE POLICY!

Calendar of Events

Extera Website

EPS Website

EPS#2 Website

Parent University Schedule

Past Newsletters Past Newsletters

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LA Wildfires Newsletter: https://secure.smore.com/n/pcsqj

Parent Meetings Newsletter: https://secure.smore.com/n/a96uk

Parent Engagement Newsletter: https://secure.smore.com/n/nh15g

Hispanic Heritage Art Contest: https://secure.smore.com/n/73y14

Parent University Buzz #3: https://secure.smore.com/n/vc9s8

Special Newsletter- MS Student Council: https://secure.smore.com/n/a4nse

Parent University Buzz #2: https://secure.smore.com/n/0kazwf

Welcome Back to School: https://secure.smore.com/n/1av0x

Parent University Buzz #1: https://secure.smore.com/n/h7x61

Contact Information Contact Information

Monica Salas: msalas@exteraschools.org

Monica Ortiz: mortiz@exteraschools.org

Lucrecia Villamar: lvillamar@exteraschools.org

Valerie Martinez: vmartinez@exteraschools.org

Melissa Diaz: mdiaz@exteraschools.org

Estrella Orellana: eorellana@exteraschools.org

Keren Valle: kvalle@exteraschools.org

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