Cougar Community News

We wish all of our families and community members a wonderful Winter Break! We are appreciative of your support and efforts to make our school the best it can be! May you all enjoy rest and joy during the season!

What an amazing evening full of family fun to head into the holiday season! Thank you to our Staff, Students, and PTO Volunteers who helped set-up, run stations, and clean up. We couldn't have done it without the leadership and organizational skills of our Innovative Schools Facilitator Deanna Victor! We appreciate all the families who came out to enjoy this community event! Enjoy the pics below primarily taken by our own Yearbook middle school volunteers!

These community members had the lucky raffle tickets to win the fantastic grade-level baskets. Congratulations and THANK YOU to all who donated to the baskets!

DECEMBER

• Dec. 23 - Jan. 6 - WINTER BREAK - NO SCHOOL

JANUARY

• Mon. Jan. 6 - NO SCHOOL
• Mon. Jan. 13 - Internet Safety Presentations for Middle School Classes
• Jan. 13-Feb. 14th - iReady Winter Diagnostic Assessment window
• Fri, Jan. 17 - Empathy Assemblies, 8:30am 3rd-5th Grade, 9:00am TK-2nd
• Mon. Jan. 20 - Martin Luther King Jr HOLIDAY - NO SCHOOL
• Tues. Jan. 21 - PTO Meeting, 4:30pm in Art Room/Design Lab or Zoom LINK HERE
• Thurs. Jan. 23 - Trimester 2 Progress Reports viewable on Parent Portal
• Fri. Jan. 24 - Healing Heels Assembly, 9:00am TK-4th, 10:10 5th-8th

FEBRUARY

• Feb. 17-21 - Presidents' Week - NO SCHOOL

Our elementary PE teacher, Katelyn Hull organized a Turkey Trot for the fourth and fifth grade students on Friday. The course ran through the field, quad, and playground. Due to rain in November, the event had been postponed.

Our adorable Transitional Kindergarten and Kindergarten classes entertained their families on Friday morning with a Winter Concert.

Thank you to everyone who came to Cocoa and Crafts yesterday, it was an amazing turnout. So many families and students came to purchase raffle tickets that made $650. We look forward to having more events in the new year.

If you haven't downloaded BoxTops yet it is a great way to give back to our school. Just simply download the app, and scan your receipts.

Hope everyone has a happy holiday and nice time off of school.

Nicole PTO president

We hope you all have a wonderful winter break filled with all the things that bring you joy, peace and recharge! As we head into the new 2025 year, we want to thank you for all you've done to support our students, families and community this past year. We are so grateful for each of you and hope that 2025 brings you all that you're wishing for!

We have several terrific workshops for families and staff in January, including Keys to High School Success, Supporting the Read Aloud at Home, the Loving Solutions series workshops, and a brand new on-demand video workshop on student digital citizenship for families in our new Family Engagement Video Library on our website-- www.sanjuan.edu/FACE. January Events are listed below (click the picture to download your copy).

Woodside’s 2nd Annual Cocoa, Crafts, & Community event was a great success. Over 300 people showed up to create and share hot chocolate and cookies. A big thank you to the Woodside staff and our amazing PTO for setting up such a fun event for everyone to enjoy.

IIf you would like to connect with me, share a bit of your story, or ask questions about the design work taking place at Woodside, I’d love to chat! Email me at dvictor@sanjuan.edu.

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Our open enrollment period is happening now! It ends at 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24. During this time, you can submit an application to have your student attend a school other than their neighborhood school as long as space is available and you are willing to provide transportation for your student.

You can now log in to Parent Portal to view your child’s assigned school for the next school year to help you decide whether to participate in open enrollment. As soon as you log in to Parent Portal, you will see both your child’s school for this school year and their assigned school for the next school year (2025-26) listed just below. If you are satisfied with your child’s assigned school for the next school year, no further action is needed. If you would like to apply to make a change, you can complete an open enrollment lottery application starting Dec. 9.

Because open enrollment is a computer-generated lottery and not approved on a first-come, first-served basis, you can submit your application anytime during the open enrollment period.

Applications will be available online at www.sanjuan.edu/openenrollment and at the San Juan Central office at 3700 Garfield Ave. in Carmichael. For more information, call (916) SAN-JUAN or email oel@sanjuan.edu.

Important Dates:

Open Enrollment – December 9,2024-January 24,2025

Inter-Transfer priority window – January 31,2025-February 28,2025

Enrollment begins K-12 – February 3, 2025

TK Lottery Window – February 10, 2025- March 14, 2025

TK Lottery Results/email – March 28, 2025

TK Lottery Enrollment Due – April 7, 2025

Intra District Transfer Window – March 3, 2025-April 25,2025

Our two Elementary Boys Basketball teams practice on Tuesdays/Fridays for one team and Thursdays for the other. If you have any questions, please email Renzo at rbozzalla@sunriseparks.com or call 916-725-8843. Email is the preferred method of contact. Please allow 24-48 hours for a response to all voicemails and emails. Game Locations: Rusch Park. Season Dates 12/3 - 3/1.

The Middle School Girls Basketball League has begun. Practices are Wednesdays and Thursdays, 6:30-7:30pm at Woodside MPR. Season Dates 10/29 - 2/1

We would like to thank all of our gracious community members that donated to Our Giving Tree!! This year was one of the best ever, giving us the ability to brighten the season for over six families and 21 students! We would like to thank Holy Family Church for food donations, Rotary Club of Citrus Heights, and CHASEN members for their support, as well as our Woodside families and staff for contributing!

The attached holiday resource guide includes free family events and activities, toy drives and holiday baskets, and ongoing food and meal resources.

Office phone - (916) 971-5216

Mrs. Taylor Gonzales-Moore, Secretary - taylor.gonzalesmoore@sanjuan.edu

Mrs. Ana Johnson, Clerk - ana.johnson@sanjuan.edu

Mrs. Deb Johnston, Vice Principal - debra.johnston@sanjuan.edu

Mrs. Beth Wahl, Principal - ewahl@sanjuan.edu

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