Thank you so much to our PTA and wonderful parent community for all of the appreciation you showed our teachers and staff last week during Teacher Appreciation Week. From the lunches, to the gift cards, to the very sweet messages and emails, we all felt the love. Thank you so much!

It's hard to believe that we are just a few weeks away from wrapping up another school year. These next few weeks are packed with learning, end of the year testing and fun! Please keep your eyes open for how we will be collecting Chromebooks, hotspots, library books and classroom materials as well as passing out the yearbooks.

May

17 - PTA Meeting 7:00 p.m.

20 & 24 - Virtual Academy Parent Night 6:00 p.m.

21 - Panther Prowl Logo Contest Ends

21 - 6th Grade Promotion donations due

24-28 - 5th Grade CAST (Science) Testing

31 - Memorial Day - NO SCHOOL

June

4 - Early Dismissal 1st-3rd ONLY 1:33 p.m.

8 - 6th Grade Drive Thru Promotion (times vary)

7-9 Early Dismissal 1-3rd 1:33 p.m./ 4-6th 1:21 p.m.

9 - LAST DAY of School

9-10 - Chromebook/Hotspot return

If you would like to give us some information about your child and the type of learning environment you think would work best for your child, please fill out the following survey. Please keep in mind all of our teachers are highly qualified and will ensure a well rounded educational experience in their classroom. This survey will remain open until May 28th 4:00 p.m. This is optional and is no way a guarantee for placement in a certain teacher's class.

Parent placement consideration survey

Dear 6th Grade Parents,

The 6^th grade promotion committee is making plans for a special Drive Thru Promotion event for our 6^th graders before they move on from Parkmont. It is hard to believe that this is their last year here. They have missed out on a number of key events that 6^th graders usually get to have, and we would like to do everything we can to acknowledge and celebrate their hard work.

We are requesting the parents of our 6^th graders for a donation of $5-$10, but any amount is appreciated. Donations will go towards commemorative gifts for each student, and remaining funds will help with the cost of the promotion. As final details will be dependent on parent donations and support from the PTA, the deadline for donations has been extended through May 21, 2021. This will give the committee enough time to put everything together before the event.

If you would like to donate, please contact one of our representative parents:

Ms. Barrientez- Yok Yee (yokp@yahoo.com)

Ms. Chon- Karen Chieng (karenchieng@me.com)

Ms. Oliver-Brown- Tiffany Wong (tiffhuynh@hotmail.com)

Ms. Radhakrishna - Chaitali Shah (chaits82@gmail.com) or Sirisha Gannamaraju (gannamaraju.sirisha@gmail.com)

Thank you for your support!

Parkmont 6^th Grade Promotion Committee

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.

There will be two parent information nights (5/20 and 5/24)to learn more about the Virtual Academy being offered for the 21-22 school year. More information found here.

We are already thinking about the Panther Prowl next year but we need your help! Take a look at the Logo Contest Design Contest rules and deadlines. All entries are due on Friday, 5/21.

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/