Volume 10 (20-21)

Happy New Year and Welcome Back! I hope that over your winter break you were all able to relax and have fun! While the hopes of brighter days are ahead and there is lots of talk about returning to school at some point, right now we are operating under business as usual. It is my greatest hope to be able to safely bring back students and staff to school this year. As information is available and decisions are made everything will be communicated to you from our Superintendent through our normal communication channels.

I'm sure you would agree that our teachers have been amazing these past few months! I understand that distance learning is not ideal, however, I have witnessed high levels of teaching and learning everyday! Our teachers, staff, students and parents have had to learn so much, adapt to so many changes and have managed to create classroom experiences as close to normal as possible. I am so proud to be a part of this amazing Parkmont Community.

Finally, after this week's unbelievable events, your children may have many questions. The teachers recognize the need for students to have a space to process their questions and feelings. Teachers are having and will continue to have conversations that are appropriate with our students in order to help make these traumatic events understandable. It is our job as educators to empower our students to create a better world and be the voice for a change in America.

Continue to take good care of yourselves and others.

Ms. Johanna Cho

Principal

January

11 - Priority Enrollment (TK/K sibling) begins today

18 - No school - MLK Jr. Day

19 - PTA Meeting 7:00 p.m. (Zoom link)

22 - Progress Reports go home today

30 - Variety Show Audition Forms due today (link below)

If you have a NEW student incoming to FUSD for NEXT school year please take note of the upcoming Enrollment Timelines. We thank you for sharing this information with new families who are not receiving our newsletters.

Current Parkmont students will receive a letter in the mail with instructions to prove residency in order to reserve your spot for the 21-22 school year.

Photos for 6th graders "future careers" are NOW DUE! We have only received about 50% of pictures from our entire 6th grade class. Please send your photo to: yearbookatparkmont@gmail.com so that you 6th grader can be included!

2020-2021 Yearbooks are available online for $25. We will have a limited amount of books this year, please pre-order your yearbook today.

https://ybpay.lifetouch.com

The school ID code is: 14257321

We are excited to present this year’s annual Parkmont variety show on a virtual platform. Calling all the enthusiastic performers from grades TK to 6 to enthrall us all in the virtual Parkmont variety show 2021.

Please submit your participation forms using the link https://tinyurl.com/parkmontvarietyshow by Jan 30, 2021.

The Auditions will be held virtually in the 3rd week of Feb and the Final show will be in the 3rd week of March . Final date will be communicated soon.

For any questions related to Parkmont variety show, please reach out to parkmontvarietyshow@gmail.com

Every year people make resolutions or set goals to be active! This month's Parkmont Family Challenge is to show us how you stay active! Do you like running, bike riding, skating, dancing, playing a sport or doing gymnastics? The possibilities are endless. Show us how you like to stay active and healthy! Hopefully you are moving your body each day and getting some exercise which is so beneficial for your mind, body and spirit! Get moving Panthers. This challenge ends 1/31/21. Remember, you must be logged in with your FUSD google account to access this flipgrid challenge. flipgrid.com/55b9767d

Starting on January 4th, the FUSD 'Grab and Go' Meals will be distributed 3 days a week: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Child Nutrition Services will still be serving 7 days worth of meals; Mondays and Wednesdays will each be serving two days worth of breakfast and lunch meals, and Fridays we will be serving three days worth of breakfast and lunch meals.

New Distribution Times:

• All High Schools, Walters Middle School, Leitch Elementary and Cabrillo Elementary will serve from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.

• All other FUSD 'Grab and Go' meal sites will serve from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm.

• Morning pick up times will stay the same: All High Schools and Walters Middle School will serve 7:30am to 8:00am.

We send communications weekly to keep you up to date.

Reminder Emails are typically sent each Monday. Every other Friday we send our school Newsletter. Check your spam if you are not receiving emails from us. Occasionally, we will send a phone call message to our families. Please listen to the entire message.

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Website: https://parkmont.fremont.k12.ca.us/