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January 25th – Culture Loops Assembly

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January 25th – Culture Loops Assembly

PTA-sponsored Student Assembly, January 25th, 2018

CULTURE LOOPS
An educational tour of the Middle-East, Latin America and West-Africa

Take a fascinating tour of West-Africa, the Middle-East, and Latin-America without leaving the school. Culture Loopspresents the music from those three regions on authentic instruments that students and staff find toe-tappingly informative.

Students will be guided by award-winning composer/recording artist/teacher Michael Smolens single-handedly creates a whole ensemble, playing and ‘looping’ a half-dozen parts that magically interweave. This is a powerful and inspiring role modeling for students to see a multi-instrumentalist play so many different instruments from different cultures using modern looping technology.

The instruments used are: Senegalese balafon (marimba) and djun-djuns (conga-like drums), Turkish dumbek (goblet-shaped hand drum), Brazilian tamborim (small tambourine), shaker, melodica (small reed keyboard), alto flute, and voice & vocal bass.

PTA Awards Assembly

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PTA Awards Assembly

PTA held a Student Award Assemblies Friday, December 15th to recognize individual students and classes who have done exceptionally well in our PTA activities: Bronco Gallop fundraiser, Membership drive, Reflections Art Contest, Box Tops, etc. .Eight Bronco Gallop fundraiser top winners from each grade will take the limo ride and have a pizza lunch date with our principal Mrs Hicks. The winners are:

  •  Isabella Garcia Padilla (TK, Ms Divizich)
  • Jacob Sanchez (K, Ms Uyeda)
  • Jessica Bai (1st, Ms Cheng)
  • Lewis McColgan (2nd, Ms Fulton)
  • Neer Patel (3rd, Ms Ynzunza)
  • Marcelo Urbano Paras (4th, Ms Chug)
  • Andy Li (5th, Ms Maciel)
  • Heather Hughes (6th, Ms Dillon)

The top class for fundraiser is Ms Fulton’s 2/3 combo class.

Those eight families have contributed 10% of the total amount raised during the Bronco Gallop. We would like to express our sincere gratitude for their above and beyond effort to support Brookvale PTA!

The top three classes for PTA Membership drive are Ms Bi (2nd), Ms Garcia (3rd), and Ms Fulton (2/3 combo).

Throughout the fall, Brookvale PTA has sponsored a STEAM Museum assembly, a laser assembly, Diwali dance celebration, and a parents workshop on family life.
In the spring, we will continue to fund classroom and departmental needs as well as bringing music, drawing, and BMX Bike Performance assemblies and a Chinese New Year Celebration.

We’d like also thanks to all the parents who have volunteered in PTA activities, and teachers who have given us suggestions and feedback. Thank you!

We wish all a happy holiday! Have fun!!

 

Parent Workshop Resources

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Parent Workshop Resources

Thank you to Anya Manes and all the parents who attended the helpful and eye-opening workshop last night! For those who were not able to attend, Anya has provided us with some additional resources:

Dear Brookvale Elementary parents,

Thank you to Laurie for organizing, and thank you all for attending the workshop on answering your kids’ questions about sex.  I hope you got a ton out of the evening!  Here are some resources that I think you’ll find helpful:

  • I promised you a books list!  Hopefully you got to flip through the books I brought, and here’s a handy list of my favorite children’s books and books for parents.
  • The infographic you received as a handout.  This one is in color and you can click on any piece you’d like to learn more about and be taken directly to the source.
  • The Top Ten Conversations to have with your child about sex and relationships, with age guidelines.

On the feedback form, several of you said that you would have liked more examples, especially of age-appropriate questions and answers.  My plan was that by practicing, you’d hear both the questions and various ways of answering them.  Unfortunately, that activity kept getting interrupted!  The other needs in the room were pressing, and we didn’t have the full 2 hours for this workshop.  I usually reserve this resource for my clients, but since we really didn’t do very much of it in the workshop, here’s a video of me modeling answering questions BRAVELY with my daughter’s finger puppets.

Thank you for stepping up and having these conversations with your kids!
In support of you,
Anya