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W I T H H E A R T , S P I R I T , A N D P R I D E !
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O f f i c e M a n a g e r — L i s a W i c k s	A t t e n d a n c e — N i c o l e O s s u n

Principal’s Message— While the year 2020 impacted the world withunbelievable challenges and uncertainty, the one thing that’s certain, and remained a constant,was the strength,
unity, and love of this community. On behalf of the entire MV educational team, we have genuinely loved partnering withyou and serving our MV stu-dents and families. We wish everyone happiness, joy, and great healthover the winter break and into the New Year. Our Positivity Project theme for the week of January 4-8 is Optimism. Howfitting it is to start the next year with optimism and hope. I am optimistic the year 2021 will bring better things our way! Stay hopeful and have a wonderful holiday season!

—Friday is the final day for the annual Rotary Club/Student Council canned food drive and the Girl Scouts toy drive. You can
deposit canned foods in the bins located inside the MPR. There is a box located in the main office for the collection of new, unwrapped toys/games. Please help to make the season brighter for those in need. Let’s spread our kindness and generosity during this holiday season of giving!

Multicultural Article from Room 2—Second grade stu-dent, Arya Kumar, in Mrs. Brown-Washington’s class chose to spend her Daily 5 activity choice by writing about a favor-ite family tradition. Here’s her article about Diwali.	Di-
	
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	Mon. January 4
*No School—Staff Development

Positivity Project Week 15– P2

*Safety Week—Earthquake
	
	Tues., January 5

*P2 Lesson #1—Optimism
*Student Council Apps go out
	
	Wed., January 6

*P2 Lesson #2—Optimism *Zoom Day for all classes
	
	Thurs., January 7

*P2: Lesson #3—Optimism
	
	Fri. , January 8

*P2: Lesson #4&5—Optimism

U p c o m i n g     E v e n t s

wali is a festival. It is a fun festival. Diwali is the festival of lights. It is a Hindu festival. At Diwali we light up diyas in-side the house and outside the house. Diwali is on November 14 and on Saturday. Diwali is my favorite festival. We eat sweets and give gifts.

Free thermometers—It’s not too late to get your free thermometer. See instruc-tions in the graphic to the right.

*Jan. 11—Student Council apps due

*Jan. 15—End of the 2nd qt. MV Office Hours: Monday—Friday

7:30—4:00

MV GRRS

G - Be Golden

R - Be Respectful

R - BeResponsible

S - Be Safe

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!

Quote of the Week “We must accept finite disappoint-ment, but never lose infinite hope.”

Martin Luther

King, Jr.

How have we used our Title 1 funds at Mountain View?

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We use our Title 1 allocation to fund out full-time SRL, one day a week for our school psy-chologist (SPED programs pay for the other days so that combined, she can be on campus full time), our RTI/MTSS Tier 2 Push-In and Tier 3 Pull-out Intervention teachers, ELA and Math research-based intervention curriculum, sub-stitute teachers for teachers attending profes-sional development trainings, professional de-velopment conferences or materials for teach-ers, technology (laptops, charging stations, ipads), assemblies for students, AR software, kindergarten testing software, supplemental instructional materials for students, school materials for students for at-home use, books for students, Sierra Outdoor School student support, Family STEAM Night, and Parent Academy.

Celebrations Around the World

Kwanzaa is a holiday that honors African American people and their culture. It is cele-brated from December 26 to January 1. Dr. Maulana Karenga, an African American teach-er, created the holiday in 1966 to help Afri-can Americans learn about their African histo-ry, culture, and customs. He studied many different harvest festivals that are celebrated throughout Africa before he created the new holiday. He named the holiday Kwanzaa which means ‘first fruits’ in Swahili. Feasts called karamu are held on the night before the last day of Kwanzaa. People perform in plays and gives speeches.

Did you know? CUSD’s

Zero Tolerance Policy—It is the policy of the Governing Board to promote harmonious hu-man relationships that enable students to gain a true understanding of the rights and duties of people in our society. To further this in-tent, each school is responsible for creating a safe school environment conducive to student learning. A safe school environment miti-gates against anxiety-producing or demeaning incidents taking place within the confines of the school. The Governing Board declares the schools operated by CUSD to have a zero tolerance policy (BP2110) applicable to: Sex-ual assault or battery, battery, possession of, selling or furnishing a firearm, possession of a knife, or possession of a dangerous object, possession of an explosive or explosive de-vice, sale, furnishing, in possession or under the influence of alcohol, a controlled sub-stance, or any other form of intoxicant, van-dalism where property damage exceeds $100, repeated mutual combat, robbery, extortion or participating in gang motivated intimidation, hate motivated behavior, assault or threaten-ing of school staff and terroristic threats. Stu-dents in violation of the Zero Tolerance Poli-cy shall be suspended and considered for ex-pulsion and/or voluntary transfer.

Positivity Project

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Week 15—Optimism

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