Do you remember your favorite teacher? Mine was Mrs. Knapik who was my kindergarten teacher. I clearly remember her playing guitar and the piano and we would sing songs each day. I had many other teachers that have had an impact on me; those who were funny, introduced me to wonderful books and taught me new ways to think and do things. As we celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week next week, I hope you will take some time to recognize our teachers. This year has not been easy on anyone, but I'm sure you'd agree our teachers have made this year a great one nonetheless!

You may have heard that we recently lost Mrs. Laird. She taught at Parkmont over the past few years, job sharing with Mrs. Pacheco. She was full of energy, passionate about teaching, her students and had a love of learning! One of her loves was writing and poetry. We are asking that any student who may wish to write a poem about or for Mrs. Laird please do so and we will compile them all into a book to be kept in our library. Please send them to Mrs. Petersen @spetersen@fusdk12.net

Take care,

Ms. Cho

May

1 - PTA Family Math Day 9:30 (TK-2nd) and 11:00 (3rd-6th)

3-7 - Teacher Appreciation Week

5- Spring Pictures

18 - PTA Meeting 7:00 p.m.

31 - Memorial Day - NO SCHOOL

April is Safe Routes to School evaluation month in Alameda County! Please take this quick 5-minute parent/caregiver survey to inform the program for next year. We’d love to know more about how families used active transportation during the COVID-19 pandemic, their transportation plans after in-person learning resumes, and any concerns about active transportation to and from school post-reopening. All parents who submit a survey by May 14 will be entered to win one of ten $50 REI gift cards. Thank you!

SR2S Parent/ Caregiver Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XCFL3VP

Take the survey in another language:

● Español

● Tagalog

● Tiếng Việt

● 简化字

● فارسی

We are facing declining enrollment in TK/K for the 21/22SY. Our TK teachers will be holding two parent information nights to help bolster our enrollment and to share with parents how important TK is. Flyer is attached.

May 11th- 7:00pm

May 13th- 7:00pm

PTA is hosting a Family Math Day on Saturday, May 1st. Please register in advance and then you will receive your confirmation and zoom link. There are different links for the grade level spans. Please note the times:

TK-2nd grades, May 1, 9:30 a.m.

Register in advance for this webinar:

https://russianschool.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RjPU1j1IQI-GLJ3REumAQg

3rd-6th grades - May 1, 11:00 a.m.

Register in advance for this webinar:

https://russianschool.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e_Cwvn7IRVO1KBd4pJQe6g

Lifetouch will be taking pictures of students who choose to have their spring pictures taken. These will not be included in the yearbook and are meant for purchase only. The full schedule is found here. Parents, please be sure that students are not playing on the play structure while waiting their turn. Social distancing and masks are required. Picture day ordering information found here.

PTA is collecting gift card donations to give to Parkmont teachers in honor of Teacher Appreciation Week.

Teacher's Day Appreciation Week Gift Cards sign up

https://www.konstella.com/app/school/5ecd5cd90cda5de548976292/signups/60878c3e51bc6624dc2e6a24

Parkmont PTA Exec Board Nominees for 2021 - 2022

Elections will be held on May 18th 2021 association meeting. We are still looking for a volunteer for the 2nd Vice President. If you are interested , please send an email to parkmontpta@gmail.com

Executive Board Position Nominees

President: Renuka Sivarajan

1st Vice President: Aarti Talwar

2nd Vice President: Volunteer Needed

Recording Secretary: Neeti Pandey

Financial Secretary: Priya Padmanabhan

Treasurer: Gowri Raman

Parliamentarian: Revathy Santhakumar

We are looking for parents who might be interested in chairing these committees for next school year. We thank you in advance for helping keep these Parkmont programs running.

Committee Chair Description

FAME

FAME is an Arts and Music Enrichment Program supported by PTA. We need two volunteers to coordinate this program for next school year. FAME happens between Oct - April of the academic year. Please send an email to fame.parkmont@gmail.com

Reflections

Reflections encourages students of all ages to unleash creative talents and express themselves. It is offered by CAPTA and it will give an opportunity for students to show their artistic talent at National level. We need a chair to coordinate this program for our PTA unit. Reflections chair need to coordinate reflections submissions between Sep - Oct of the academic year. If you are interested , please send an email to parkmontpta@gmail.com

PTA Communications

We need a volunteer to help our PTA unit to send regular email communications for the 2021 - 2022 academic year. If you are interested , please send an email to parkmontpta@gmail.com

PTA website Admin

We need a volunteer to help maintain our PTA school loop website with the latest information. If you are interested , please send an email to parkmontpta@gmail.com

Family Math Night

We need a volunteer to help us host Math night for next academic year. Time frame of Math Night is between Feb - March of the academic year. If you are interested , please send an email to parkmontpta@gmail.com

Variety Show

We need a volunteer to help us host the variety show for next academic year. Time Frame of Variety show is from Dec - April of academic year. If you are interested , please send an email to parkmontpta@gmail.com

Red Ribbon Week

Red Ribbon week is an alcohol, tobacco and drug prevention awareness campaign observed annually in October. We need volunteers to coordinate the Red Ribbon Week activities for our school. If you are interested , please send an email to parkmontpta@gmail.com

Founder Day's Chair

Every year we celebrate our PTA/community volunteers during the month of Feb. We need a volunteer to coordinate the founder's day event. If you are interested , please send an email to parkmontpta@gmail.com

Ground's Beautification

Our school has a small garden in front of the office and library. We need a volunteer who can help us maintain the garden. If you are interested in gardening and can help our school, please send an email to parkmontpta@gmail.com. If any of our neighbors, even if they kids are not going to our school, can help us.

FUSD 'Grab and Go' Meals are 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/