Skyblue Mesa Newsletter

From the Principal’s Desk

Dear Parents,

A student absent from school without a valid excuse three days in one school year, or tardy without a valid excuse in excess of thirty minutes on each day more than three days in one school year, is considered truant. Students who are truant will be reported to the Director of Student Support Service. This is defined by Education Code 48260. Every four weeks schools are required to run attendance reports.  Letters, created by the District School Attendance and Review Board, are mailed to parents to inform them of absences and tardies.  If you receive a letter, I am available to problem solve and try and find solutions to your child’s attendance issues.  It is important that you make every effort to get your children to school on time every day.  Students who exhibit a pattern of excessive absences may be referred to the Santa Clarita School Attendance Review Board (SARB).

 

Report Cards will be coming home this Friday.  Please be sure to check backpacks.

 

Debbie Bohn, Principal

 

It’s Back / Student Store

The Student Store opens Friday, December 5^th   , during lunch!  Come by and buy all your school supplies.  Remember, the Student Store is not open on Minimum Days.

Healthy Families

Healthy Families is low cost insurance for children and teens.  It provides health, dental and vision coverage to children who do not have insurance and do not qualify for free Medi-Cal.

Who can join Healthy Families?

Who may qualify?

• Children up to their 19^th birthday.
• Children in the family without employer-sponsored health insurance in the last three months.
• Children living in California.
• Children who are not eligible for or are enrolled in no-cost Medi-cal.
• Children who meet citizenship or immigration rules.
• Children born to mothers enrolled in the Access for Infants and Mothers (AIM) Program, who are not enrolled in the no-cost full scope Medi-Cal Program or employer-sponsored health insurance.
• Children in families with incomes within the Healthy Families Guidelines.

Website:  www.healthyfamilies.ca.gov

 

To get more information: call

1-800-880-5305, Monday through Saturday 8:00am-8pm and Saturday

8:00am - 5:00pm.

Or email: healthyfamilies@maximum.com

 

 

 

To enroll you will need:

1. Income verification-Current pay stub, child support, alimony, other sources of income
2. Name, birthday, birthplace of child to be enrolled.

For those currently receiving benefits from Healthy Families, open enrollment is November 15, 2008 through December 31, 2008.

 

New 211 phone resource number

211 is an easy to remember three-digit dialing code that enables a caller to access over 28,000 health and human service programs throughout Los Angeles County, twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week and is TTY accessible.  211 LA County, formerly known as INFO LINE of Los Angeles, has been providing these services since 1981.

Services include:

1. Comprehensive information and resources about full range of human services in the community and assistance with linking to those services.
2. Code enforcement
3. Elder/dependent adult abuse hotline
4. First LA Parent Helpline

-Specialists can assist with enrollments into programs, such as Healthy Families, Medi-Cal and Healthy Kids.

5.  Safe baby surrender hotline

6.  Winter shelter hotline

 

Dates to Remember

Friday, November 21

   MINIMUM DAY

 

   Grades 1-6/Dismissal/12:26pm

   All Kindergarten / 8:00am-11:20am

 

   CRAZY HAIR DAY

Monday, November 24

   All Kindergarten / 8:00am-11:20am

   Site Council Meeting – 4:00pm

 

   Kindergarten Thanksgiving Play

            6:00pm/Big MPR

 

   PTO General Meeting/6:30pm

              Small MPR

 

Wednesday, November 26

   NO SCHOOL

   Thanksgiving Holiday

 

Thursday, November 27

   NO SCHOOL

   Thanksgiving Holiday

 

Friday, November 28

   NO SCHOOL

   Thanksgiving Holiday

Monday, December 1

   Awards Assembly / 1^st & 2^nd Grade

               8:15am / New MPR

 

Tuesday, December 2

   Awards Assembly / 3^rd & 4^th Grade

               8:15am / New MPR

Wednesday, December 3

   Awards Assembly / 5^th & 6^th Grade

               8:15am / New MPR

 

Friday, December 12

   MINIMUM DAY

 

   Grades 1-6/Dismissal/12:26pm

   All Kindergarten / 8:00am-11:20am

 

Monday, December 15

   Site Council Meeting – 4:00pm

 

 

 

 

Friday, January 16

   NO SCHOOL

   Staff Development Day

 

Monday, January 19

   NO SCHOOL

   Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

 

Friday, January 23

   MINIMUM DAY

 

   Grades 1-6/Dismissal/12:26pm

   All Kindergarten / 8:00am-11:20am

 

   Twins Day

 

Monday, January 26

   Site Council Meeting – 4:00pm

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