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                <title>Six Flags Read to Succeed</title>
                <description><![CDATA[55 Venetia Valley students received a free ticket to Six Flags this summer for completing 6 hours of voluntary reading! Reading has great consequences and here is another one. Congratulations Falcons! ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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                <title>Open House</title>
                <description><![CDATA[Open House at Venetia Valley is Wednesday, May 22. The Middle School band will open up with a concert at 5:45 pm in the gymnasium. Elementary School Open House will be begin at 6:00 pm. Middle School Open House will begin at 6:30 pm. Please don&amp;#39;t forget to stop by the teaching garden to view and taste the produce but also view the beautiful murals painted by Jen Cariadus, one of our parents. ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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                <title>Recognizing Our Classified Support Staff</title>
                <description><![CDATA[Celebrate Classified Employees Week ! Classified support staff provide those services that support student learning in every position they hold. Our schools would be unable to function without these invaluable members of our staff. In addition to the performance of their day to day responsibilities, our support staff finds innovative ways to reach out and connect with students. They foster a safe environment, while at the same time reaching out to advance learning. It is obvious our support staff generally care about our students. Please reach out and acknowledge and thank each and every member of our classified staff. ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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                <title>Beautification Day at VV / Dia de Embellecimiento</title>
                <description><![CDATA[El dia de enbellesimiento estuvo bien! Tuvimos los padres de VV, y los estudiantes voluntarios del colegio Saint Mary Americorp, nuestro personal, del centro familiar, estudiantes y profesores de la Universidad de Arte de San Francisco. &amp;middot; Pintamos la &amp;aacute;rea de k&amp;iacute;nder (black top) con muchos juegos interactivos de actividades de Playworks, incluyendo cuadro por cuatro,( four squers), rayuela ( hopscotch ), el curso del triciclo ( tricycle course), forma de circulo (shape circle), una peque&amp;ntilde;a cancha de futbol (soccer) y cuadros de n&amp;uacute;meros hasta 100 &amp;middot; Tambi&amp;eacute;n se realiz&amp;oacute; un gran trabajo de preparaci&amp;oacute;n en previsi&amp;oacute;n de los arbustos que ser&amp;aacute;n entregados este mes. Rosy Chu del canal 2 llego y renov&amp;oacute; e hizo el compromiso de proveerlos con unos arbustos, arboles, la tierra y el abono. &amp;middot; El profesor Tom Sieu y su clase &amp;ldquo;sistema Digital&amp;rdquo; hizo una presentaci&amp;oacute;n de los dise&amp;ntilde;os preliminares para murales en toda la escuela usando una t&amp;eacute;cnica de mosaico brillante. Beautification Day went well! We had VV parents, students from St. Mary&amp;rsquo;s College, Americorp volunteers, our VV Family Center staff, students, and a professor from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco. &amp;middot; We painted the Kinder black top with lots of great interactive Playworks game activities, including four squares, hopscotch, a tricycle course, a shape circle, a mini soccer field, a 100 number grid, etc. &amp;middot; We also performed a lot of prep work in anticipation of the shrubs and trees which will be delivered this month. Rosy Chu from Channel 2 came in person to renew her commitment to providing shrubs, trees, soil, and mulch. &amp;middot; Professor Tom Sieu and his &amp;ldquo;Digital Systems&amp;rdquo; class made a presentation of preliminary designs for schoolwide murals, mostly in a bright mosaic technique. ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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                <title>&#8220;My Favorite Teacher&#8221; Contest Winners</title>
                <description><![CDATA[Barnes and Noble chose to recognize five outstanding teachers for recognition in Marin County. Of the five selected, two are from Venetia Valley! Middle school Social Studies teacher Ray Slater was selected based a compelling essay written by 7 th grader Carla Acevedo. In addition, retired teacher Suzanne Logan was selected based on an inspiring essay written by 8 th grader Natalie Rivera del Carpio. Mr. Slater and Mrs. Logan are scheduled to be recognized in an award ceremony in April. Carla and Natalie will be acknowledged and recognized as well. ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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                <title>1st Grade Trout Release  &#161;Los Estudiantes de Primer A&#241;o liberan a las truchas!</title>
                <description><![CDATA[Environmental Education at VV First Graders Release Trout! On January 25th first graders at Venetia Valley received trout eggs. All the first grade teachers attended an all day trout workshop on a Saturday and in return were given the chance to have a trout tank in their classrooms. Chuck Schultz a volunteer from Trout Unlimited delivered 30 eggs to each of the four first grade classrooms. Chuck visited our classes about twice a week, providing comprehensive lessons to make the learning more meaningful to our students. The trout were fertilized on January ninth and 20 days after fertilization, they begin to hatch. We completed math lessons determining the exact hatch date, and made predications on how many eggs would hatch. Our trout hatched the weekend of January 30th. Between January 25th and the 30th the students studied the first two life cycles of the trout: from egg to Alevin. They learned about the importanceof clean, cold, spring water for the trout. The students practiced reading thermometers and regularly checked the temperature of the tank to ensure that the temperature remained close to the temperature of fertilization (about 56 degrees Fahrenheit). After our first eggs hatched, the students learned about the importance of protecting a trout&amp;rsquo;s habitat. They learned how important trees are to the trout because: the tree canopy keeps it cool; and the leaves from the trees fall to the stream, sink to the stream floor, providing food for the bugs that the trout&amp;rsquo;s then eat. As our trout turned to Alevins and swam with their yolk sacks, the first graders learned about the next stage of the trout&amp;rsquo;s life. The trout burrow to hide from predators because their yolk sack prohibits them from swimming quickly. Thus, a trout&amp;rsquo;s habitat needs to have rocks to provide shelter for the young Alevins. In our tank, we were worried because we couldn&amp;#39;t find any trout, but then we realized they were burrowing just as if they were in their natural habitat. It took seven days for the Alevins to turn to fry! Once they are fry they zip up and down the tank. Our tank went from empty to full of 18 trout zipping around. We learned more about trout in our reading lessons, using poems and highlighting important phonetic skills as we sang about our trout and took notes on its body and life cycle. In order to survive trout need: food, shelter, and water. We played a game, called Oh Trout, to learn about their needs. For the Oh Trout game, the class makes a huge circle with one &amp;ldquo;trout&amp;rdquo; in the middle. The trout decides what it needs &amp;ndash; food shelter or water. The circle (representing the environment) decides whether it is going to be food, shelter or water. The trout must find someone from the environment to meet its need. One trout finds a match, then there are two trouts. Two trouts find a match, then there are four, etc. If a trout does not find a match in the environment, it then turns into the environment and the cycle begins again. We graphed our trout populations and learned that the more trout, the less resources for the environment. We must clean our tank once a week and make sure that we leave our water outside to cool before we add any to our tanks. This teaches them about the delicate balance between nature and civilization.The trout can only stay in our tank for a few weeks after they become fry. The day then comes when we get to release our trout back to its natural habitat. Lake Lagunitas is an exact replica of a trout&amp;rsquo;s natural breeding ground. Some students have never been to a place so beautiful. They get to see a canopy of trees and throw leaves in the water to provide food for the bugs, that become the food for the trout. Our mentor Chuck Schultz meets us there and we sings songs about the trout and he leads class by class to release. Each pair of students is given a cup with their class trout. The trout is gently released into the stream and we say farewell to them and begin our hike. We hike around the lake observing newts and discussing whether they are predators or prey for the trout. We see families of redwood trees and hold hands as we walk around this beautiful lake. We tiptoe up the spillway to see a family of turtles taking sun, and spot a bird that looks like an eagle. Some students think it&amp;rsquo;s an eagle, others think it is a falcon.... When we return from the hike some classrooms choose to picnic by the spillway and bring tablecloths for families, parents, and teachers to share a meal together. We kept our disposables in one bag and brought it back to school. We discussed how much trash just our class produced and sorted it out. We decide then that we need to bring zero waste lunch because the landfill may leak into our oceans, which may eventually end up in creeks and rivers, and affect our trout population and we certainly DO NOT want to endanger the trout! This project offered us many incredible opportunities to teach stewardship. It has been a truly magical experience from beginning to end. We were the very first 1 st grade team to participate 3 years ago in this project and it has since then spread to many classrooms all over Marin County. &amp;ldquo; Most if not all of our students would never have been able to have such an experience,&amp;rdquo; Principal Juan Rodriguez said, adding that projects like this help students &amp;ldquo;make such a connection between our science curriculum and the natural habitats that surround us without this real world extension of learning. I have spoken with the students and witnessed their excitement and investment in the well being of the trout from the day they received the eggs January 25th to the day they hatched January 30th and became to Alevin with yolk sacks to fry. I love the way teachers were able to discuss and observe scientific adaptations like the Alevin burrowing, how they could incorporate math - interpreting the calendar, reading the thermometer, graphing trout populations, and how they could incorporate language learning. The culminating release of the fry was a comprehensive study of the animals and plants that make up the complex food web that impacts the trout. The students were very moved by the release and were very quiet and contemplative afterward. Kudos to the whole first grade team!&amp;rdquo; Educaci&amp;oacute;n sobre el Medio Ambiente en VV &amp;iexcl;Los Estudiantes de Primer A&amp;ntilde;o liberan a las truchas! El 25 de enero los estudiantes de primer a&amp;ntilde;o de Venetia Valley recibieron huevos de trucha. Todos los maestros de primer a&amp;ntilde;o asistieron a un taller de capacitaci&amp;oacute;n de un d&amp;iacute;a completo y a cambio se les dio la oportunidad de tener un tanque de truchas en sus salones. Chuck Schultz un voluntario de Trout Unlimited entrego 30 huevos a cada uno de los cuatro salones de primer a&amp;ntilde;o. Chuck visito nuestras clases aproximadamente dos veces por semana, proporcionando lecciones integrales para hacer que el aprendizaje fuera m&amp;aacute;s significativo para nuestros estudiantes. Las truchas fueron fertilizadas el nueve de enero y 20 d&amp;iacute;as despu&amp;eacute;s de la fertilizaci&amp;oacute;n, empezaron a incubar. Completamos lecciones de matem&amp;aacute;ticas determinando la fecha exacta de incubaci&amp;oacute;n, e hicimos predicciones de cuantos huevos se incubar&amp;iacute;an. . Nuestras truchas salieron del cascaron el fin de semana del 30 de enero. Entre el 25 de enero y el 30 de enero los estudiantes estudiaron los primeros dos ciclos de vida de la trucha, de huevo a alevines. Aprendieron sobre la importancia que tiene el agua de manantial, limpia, fr&amp;iacute;a para las truchas. Los estudiantes practicaron el leer los term&amp;oacute;metros y revisar regularmente la temperatura del tanque para asegurarse que la temperatura permaneciera cerca de la temperatura de fertilizaci&amp;oacute;n (aproximadamente 56 grados Fahrenheit). Despu&amp;eacute;s de que salieron de su cascaron las primeras truchas, los estudiantes aprendieron acerca de la importancia de proteger el medio ambiente de la trucha. Aprendieron que tan importante son los &amp;aacute;rboles para la trucha porque: La b&amp;oacute;veda de follaje del &amp;aacute;rbol le mantiene fresca; y las hojas de los &amp;aacute;rboles caen a la corriente, se hunden en el fondo de la corriente, proporcionando comida para los insectos que la trucha comer&amp;aacute; despu&amp;eacute;s. Una vez que nuestras truchas se convirtieron en alevines y nadaron con sus sacos vitelinos, los estudiantes de primer a&amp;ntilde;o aprendieron sobre la siguiente etapa de la vida de la trucha. La trucha busca huecos para esconderse de los depredadores porque sus sacos vitelinos les impiden nadar r&amp;aacute;pidamente. Por lo que, el medio ambiente de una trucha necesita tener rocas para proporcionar protecci&amp;oacute;n a los alevines. En nuestro tanque, nos preocupo que no pod&amp;iacute;amos encontrar ninguna trucha, pero entonces nos dimos cuenta que se estaban escondiendo tal como lo har&amp;iacute;an en su medio ambiente natural. &amp;iexcl;Tomo siete d&amp;iacute;as para que los alevines se convirtieran en pececillos! Una vez que son pececillos nadan de arriba abajo en el tanque. Nuestro tanque fue de vac&amp;iacute;o a lleno con 18 truchas nadando alrededor. Aprendimos mas acerca de las truchas en nuestras lecciones de lectura, usando poemas y destacando las habilidades fon&amp;eacute;ticas importantes cuando cant&amp;aacute;bamos acerca de nuestras truchas y tomamos notas sobre su cuerpo y el ciclo de vida. A fin de sobrevivir la trucha necesita: alimento, protecci&amp;oacute;n, y agua. Jugamos un juego, llamado Oh Trucha, para aprender acerca de sus necesidades. Para el juego Oh Trucha, la clase formo un c&amp;iacute;rculo enorme con una &amp;ldquo;trucha&amp;rdquo; en el centro. La trucha decide que es lo que necesita &amp;ndash; alimento, protecci&amp;oacute;n o agua. El c&amp;iacute;rculo (representando el medio ambiente) decide si va a ser comida, protecci&amp;oacute;n o agua. La trucha debe encontrar a alguien del medio ambiente para que cubra sus necesidades. Una trucha encuentra una pareja, entonces hay dos truchas. Dos truchas encuentran una pareja, entonces ya hay cuatro, etc. Si una trucha no encuentra una pareja en el medio ambiente, entonces se convierte en el medio ambiente y el ciclo se inicia otra vez. Creamos una gr&amp;aacute;fica de la poblaci&amp;oacute;n de truchas y aprendimos que entre m&amp;aacute;s truchas hay, hay menos recursos para el medio ambiente. Tenemos que limpiar nuestro tanque una vez a la semana y asegurarnos que dejamos nuestra agua afuera a que se enfr&amp;iacute;e antes de agregarla a nuestros tanques. Esto les ense&amp;ntilde;a acerca del delicado balance entre la naturaleza y la civilizaci&amp;oacute;n. La trucha solo puede estar en nuestro tanque por pocas semanas antes de convertirse en pececillos. Entonce llego el d&amp;iacute;a cuando liberamos a nuestras truchas de regreso en su h&amp;aacute;bitat natural. El lago Lagunitas es una replica exacta de un criadero natural de la trucha. Algunos estudiantes nunca han estado en un lugar tan hermoso. Ellos tienen la oportunidad de ver las b&amp;oacute;vedas de los &amp;aacute;rboles y arrojar hojas en el agua para proporcionar alimento a los insectos, que se convierten en el alimento de las truchas. Nuestro mentor Chuck Schultz se reuni&amp;oacute; con nosotros ah&amp;iacute; y cantamos canciones acerca de la trucha y el gu&amp;iacute;o a cada clase para que les liberen. A cada pareja de estudiantes se le entrego un vaso con su trucha de la clase. La trucha se liber&amp;oacute; cuidadosamente en la corriente y nos despedimos de ella e iniciamos nuestra caminata. Caminamos alrededor del lago observando las salamandras acu&amp;aacute;ticas y discutimos acerca de si son depredadores o presa de las truchas. Vemos familias de &amp;aacute;rboles redwood y nos agarramos de las manos cuando caminamos alrededor de este hermoso lago. Subimos de puntitas hacia arriba del vertedero para ver a una familia de tortugas tomando el sol, y alcanzamos a ver a un p&amp;aacute;jaro que se ve como una &amp;aacute;guila. Algunos estudiantes piensan que es una &amp;aacute;guila, otros piensan que es una &amp;aacute;lcon&amp;hellip; Cuando regresamos de la caminata algunas clases eligieron hacer un d&amp;iacute;a de campo cerca del vertedero y traer un mantel para las familias, padres, y maestros para comer juntos. Mantuvimos nuestros art&amp;iacute;culos desechables en una bolsa y la trajimos a la escuela cuando regresamos. Hablamos sobre cuanta basura genero solo nuestra clase y la separamos. Decidimos entonces que necesitamos traer un almuerzo que no genere basura ya que el deposito de basura puede filtrarse a nuestros oc&amp;eacute;anos, lo que puede eventualmente terminar en riachuelos y r&amp;iacute;os, y afectar a nuestra poblaci&amp;oacute;n de truchas y &amp;iexcl;Nosotros ciertamente NO QUEREMOS poner en peligro a la trucha! Este proyecto nos ofrece muchas oportunidades incre&amp;iacute;bles para ense&amp;ntilde;ar administraci&amp;oacute;n. Ha sido una experiencia verdaderamente m&amp;aacute;gica de principio a fin. Fuimos el primer equipo de 1&amp;ordm; grado que participo hace tres a&amp;ntilde;os en este proyecto y desde entonces se ha extendido a muchos salones en todo el Condado de Marin. &amp;ldquo;La mayor&amp;iacute;a si no es que todos nuestros estudiantes nunca hubieran tenido una experiencia como esta,&amp;rdquo; dijo el director Juan Rodriguez, agregando que proyectos como este ayudan a los estudiantes &amp;ldquo;a establecer una conexi&amp;oacute;n tal entre el programa de estudios de ciencias naturales y el h&amp;aacute;bitat natural que nos rodea que no es posible sin esta extensi&amp;oacute;n del aprendizaje del mundo real. He hablado con los estudiantes y he sido testigo de su emoci&amp;oacute;n y su inter&amp;eacute;s en el bienestar de la trucha desde el d&amp;iacute;a en el que recibieron los huevos el 25 de enero a el d&amp;iacute;a en que salieron de su cascaron el 30 de enero y se convirtieron en alevines con los sacos vitelinos a pececillos. Me encanto la manera en que los maestros fueron capaces de discutir y observar las adaptaciones cient&amp;iacute;ficas como el que los alevines buscaran esconderse, como pudieron incorporar matem&amp;aacute;ticas &amp;ndash; interpretando el calendario, leyendo el term&amp;oacute;metro, haciendo una gr&amp;aacute;fica de la poblaci&amp;oacute;n de la trucha y como pudieron incorporar el aprendizaje del lenguaje. La culminante liberaci&amp;oacute;n de los pececillos fue un estudio comprensivo de los animales y plantas que forman la compleja red alimenticia que impacta a la trucha. Los estudiantes se conmovieron con la liberaci&amp;oacute;n y se quedaron muy callados y contemplativos despu&amp;eacute;s. &amp;iexcl;Felicitaciones a todo el equipo de primer a&amp;ntilde;o!&amp;rdquo; ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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                <title>&quot;The Best of Me&quot; Special Assembly / Asamblea Especial &#8220;Lo mejor de mi&#8221;</title>
                <description><![CDATA[The K- 5 th grade students recently had an opportunity to attend a special assembly. Kaiser Permanente&amp;#39;s in Northern California presented The Best Me, a performance that helps school-aged children understand why it is so important that they eat well and have an active lifestyle. The Best Me targets the issue of childhood obesity, which has reached epidemic levels in the United States. Over the past 20 years, the rate of childhood obesity nationwide has more than tripled among adolescents, and more than doubled among children ages 6 to 11, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The presentation included live music, dance, comedy, drama, and audience interaction. (Spanish) Los estudiantes de K- 5 th grado tuvo recientemente la oportunidad de asistir a una asamblea especial, del programa educativo de teatro de Kaiser Permanente del Norte de California, Presento &amp;ldquo;Lo mejor de mi&amp;rdquo; una actuaci&amp;oacute;n que ayuda ni&amp;ntilde;os en edad escolar a entender porque es tan importante el comer bien y tener un estilo de vida activa. &amp;ldquo;Lo mejor de mi&amp;rdquo; se enfoca en el problema de la obesidad infantil. Que ha alcanzado un nivel de epidemia en los Estados Unidos. En los &amp;uacute;ltimos 20 a&amp;ntilde;os, la obesidad infantil se ha triplicado entre los adolescentes en todo el pa&amp;iacute;s. Y m&amp;aacute;s del doble entre los ni&amp;ntilde;os de edad 6 a 11, de acuerdo con los centros para el control y prevenci&amp;oacute;n de enfermedades. La presentaci&amp;oacute;n incluyo m&amp;uacute;sica en vivo, baile, comedia, drama, e interacci&amp;oacute;n con el p&amp;uacute;blico. ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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                <title>Family Support / Apoyo a las Familias - Food Bank Open for VV / La despensa de comida est&#225; abierta</title>
                <description><![CDATA[Please contact the Venetia Valley Family Center if you would like to learn more about how you can support your child&amp;rsquo;s education or if you need any support for your family. The Family Center can connect families to local resources &amp;ndash; childcare and after school programs, health care, counseling, employment support, nutrition, housing, and more. Please call the Family Center Direct Line: 415-492-3574. Old Gallinas food pantry is open on Mondays 6:30-7:30am for VV and OG families only! Families can contact the FC for more information. Por favor p&amp;oacute;ngase en contacto con el Centro Familiar de Venetia Valley si usted quisiera saber m&amp;aacute;s de como apoyar a la educaci&amp;oacute;n de su hijo(a) o si usted necesita cualquier apoyo para su familia. El Centro Familiar puede conectar a las familias con los recursos locales &amp;ndash;cuidado de ni&amp;ntilde;os y programas despu&amp;eacute;s de la escuela, cuidado de la salud, consejer&amp;iacute;a y apoyo para el empleo, nutrici&amp;oacute;n, vivienda, y m&amp;aacute;s. Por favor llame a la l&amp;iacute;nea directa del Centro Familiar: 415-492-3574. La despensa de comida de Old Gallinas est&amp;aacute; abierta los lunes de 6:30-7:30a.m. para las familias de VV y OG &amp;uacute;nicamente! Si desean m&amp;aacute;s informaci&amp;oacute;n cont&amp;aacute;ctenos al centro familiar. ]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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