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MV Mission

We are the MV Golden Bears, a united community of students, parents, families and faculty. We are dedicated to ensuring the life long learning and success of every student in a safe, positive learning environment. We will accomplish this through teamwork, communication and perseverance!

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Principal’s Message— I’d like to thank and	Week at a Glance

congratulate each of our Master Chef Jr. competitors for their participation in MV’s first ever cooking competition. There’s no doubt about it, we’ve got some amazing cooks on our campus who really know how to whip up their favorite cultural dishes. Check out page 3 of this week’s Growl for pic-tures of these talented chefs! Although we’re unable to facilitate an in person multicultural fashion show this year, the show will go on, but through pictures. See 8 for details. Finally, I’d like to wish everyone a safe and wonderful Spring Break. Enjoy your loved ones and the beautiful spring like weather. We look for-ward to seeing everyone back on campus on Tuesday, April 6.

PEEP	PARACHUTES	Students in Room 22 today made Peep Parachutes. This lead to
a discussion of mass versus air resistance. Payton had the winning design in Track A with a double par-achute. Woo Hoo!

It’s March Madness in6th Grade—6th grade has been learning about argumentative writing. To apply their knowledge the 6th grade classes have been competing in a March Madness Debate Challenge. This week they had a total of 4 rounds. Each round students debated a different topic. In order to score points
for the debate students had to use evidence from credible sources and have strong rebuttals. The winners of each debate moved on to the next round of our bracket until we had a winner from Miss
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Seabury’s class and a winner from Miss Avitabile’s class. Today was our championship debate. Mrs. Everson and Mrs. Holdener were the judges of today’s intense debates. Students that were not de-bating became our news reporters and wrote articles about each debate. After the debates, our 6th grade students in Ms. Avita-
bile’s class continued to celebrate March Madness by building catapults dur-ing a STEM lesson. Students were provided materials to design a catapult
that could be used to shoot a ping pong ball into a basket. If they couldn’t make a basket with their design, they would have to go back to the drawing board to redesign their catapult. March Mad-ness proved to be a fun month!

Mon., April 5 *Spring Break—No School *National Library Week *Safety Week—Fire Drill Tues., April 6
*P2 Lesson #1—OPM Cheering others success

Wed., April 7

P2 Lesson #2—OPM Cheering others success

*Zoom Day for all classes *Board Mtg., 6:30 Thurs., April 8
*P2: Lesson #3–OPM Cheering others success

Fri. , April 9

*P2: Lesson #4 & #5—OPM Cheering others success

Upcoming Events

*April 12—District LCAP Mtg. MV Office Hours: Monday—Friday 7:30—4:00

Quote of the Week

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G - Be Golden

R - Be Respectful

R - BeResponsible

S - Be Safe

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Celebrations Around the World

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Ch’ing Ming Festival or Qing Ming is celebrated on April 4 or 5 by Chinese people all over the world. Ching Ming means ‘clear and bright,’ when the outside air and light becomes pure and clear as in the spring. It is a joyful day in which the Chinese honor their dead. Families visit the graves of their ancestors, cleaning them, making special offerings, and sharing a family picnic. In China Ch’ing Ming is a national holiday. Ch’ing Ming is also called Tomb Sweeping Day. Weeds are cleared from the graves.

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Dr. Delk’s class is on a HOT streak! Theyhave again captured the title of most spirited primary class. Inthe upper grades, Mrs. Thomas’ class squeaked by Mr. Snively’s class for the honorof hosting the Spirit stick this week. Things are VERY competitive in the 4th grade!

Here are our P2 students of the weekfor showing a love of learning:GrantMcBride (Williams), Iris Sutton (Dritz)Nevaeh Vedrine (Panosian), LanceHeu (Mushegan)Aidalynn Keophimphone (Duzi), Kai Ba-trez (Byrom),Diego Barajas (Avitabile), Aesha Thwabah (Snively), Drake Sears
(Cortes), Elen Aghakhanyan (Lewis), Valaila Begay(Delk 2nd), Joshua Cortez (Delk 3rd)

From the Nursing Department

Attention 6th grade parents—If your
child has received the Tdap and 2nd Varicella already,

please bring in the docu-mentation as soon as possi-ble to the Health Office. Please schedule doctor’s appointments, if possible, around instructional times. We appreciate your cooper-
ation.

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Mountain View’s Annual Fashion Show in Pictures!

Would you like to represent your culture in our upcoming picture Fashion Show?

We would love for you to be a part of it!

Please send 1-2 pictures of you posing in an outfit from your heritage or culture that you would

included in our Fashion Show slide show.

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Make sure to include your name, grade level, and what country you are representing.

Please send your pictures, and all necessary information to Dr. Delk at

Triciadelk@cusd.com

Allpicturesaredueby

April9th!!!

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