Urgent Update!

For three years now we have been searching for the perfect home for Innovations Academy. Moving year after year has been difficult on both staff and families alike. The time has come for the district to provide an adequate school facility. Tomorrow night, we will be speaking out at the San Diego Unified School Board meeting on this issue. We need as many families and students to come out and show support. This is perhaps the most important event that you could attend this year. We cannot afford to continue to pay high rent for office spaces any more! Please come tomorrow night (Tuesday the 1st), at 5:00 to 4100 Normal street, San Diego, CA 92103. Your presence there will influence the decision. Today the students were busy making signs, so we need them to come and hold them up for all to see their needs.
Also, if you signed up to interview students for Biz Town, we are going to be conducting them starting tomorrow. There is no set time to do this. Whenever you can come would be great. Just remember that we break for lunch at 11:30. It would be great if each volunteer for 5-7 students. Today we will be filling out our job applications.

Biz town prep

Yesterday was so much fun going to the Microsoft store. I could not have done it without the help of all of the parent volunteers. When we got back everyone was so excited that we continued making more power point presentations. We talked about the possibility of presenting our POL's (presentations of learning) on power point. Students will be picking one project and one content area to present to the class. We decided that power point might be a fun way to do that.
Next week we are going to be interviewing for jobs at Biz Town. If you signed up at family night to interview students, you may do it anytime during school hours that are convienent for you. We begin interviews on March 1st through the 3rd. If all goes well, children should know what their jobs are the following week. I am currently going to be collecting money for Biz town. The cost is twenty dollars per child. Thanks for all of your continuing support!
Also, Elyssa has requested that parents call to RSVP for her birthday this Saturday. So far she has not gotten any responses back.

Thanks for your support!

I would like to start off by saying thanks to all of the parents who came to family night last Thursday. We went over some important stuff which I will reiterate. Item 1, it looks as if we have enough volunteers for the field trip to the Microsoft store. Each child needs to have 5 dollars to pay for transportation. I am hoping to collect the money be this Friday. Next Tuesday, the 22nd, we will be leaving promptly at 9:00a.m. to walk to the trolley station, so be sure to be on time to school. We will then proceed to Fashion Valley mall and head over to the Microsoft store. Once there, we will learn about Power Point and Word programs. At 12:00 the class decided that they would like to eat at the food court before heading back to school. If you would like to send additional money to eat at one of the restaurants, that is fine. If not, please send your child to school with a sack lunch.
Also, I need your permission to set up a gmail account because the minimum age is 13. We only will be using the account to access Google documents. This will enable the students to save automatically online. It will also allow me to share their files directly with me. Don't forget that Biz town in coming up in March and we will be needing to collect 20 dollars to cover the cost. Let me know if you are unable to pay for any on the upcoming events. The children had a fundraiser for field trips and there is some money there that we could use.

Important Updates

This week we have some important updates that I would like to discuss. We are currently through our first unit of Biz Town. The children have learned about the circular flow of economies, philanthropy, free-markets, and scarcity. We will need to have parent volunteers to help with making each company run smoothly. We also need volunteers to interview students for their jobs. Parents will go to Biz town on March 17th at 7:30 to go to the training for an 1 1/2 hours. I will present the information at this week's family night, this Thursday, from 5 to 6pm. I will also be having parents set up a GMail accounts in order to facilitate our writers' workshop. This will allow all of the student work to be viewed by me at any time on Google documents.
In science we are continuing to explore "What's the matter?" I am moving back the original due date of February 14tt in order to complete Biz town lessons on time for our field trip. Speaking of field trips, we are going to be headed out to the Microsoft store on February 22nd, to learn about how to use Microsoft word and PowerPoint. Permission slips will be going out this week so be looking for them.
Also, don't forget that there will be no school this Friday and Monday due to the observation of Presidents' day. We combined the holidays so we could have the four consecutive days in a row. Please also remember to send a reusable water container for your child to use during the day.