Korematsu

KOREMATSU SPRING DANCE PERFORMANCE

May 22 and 23, 2019
7:00 p.m.
MPR

Did you know Korematsu has a thriving Dance program? Are you coming to Korematsu next year? Are you already enrolled?

Join us and support our students as they perform their work. This is the perfect performance for elementary school students!
Suggested contribution: $4.00. We’ll be in the MPR.
Hope to see you there!

poster2019.pdf

WE NEED YOU!

Both the Korematsu PTSA and Korematsu Music Parents Association are in need of board leadership and volunteers for the 2019-2020 school year. These are important positions, because we really do support the school with additional funds, programs and opportunities for students and teachers. Your involvement is really important. We really do make a better school!

Please look over these opportunities and seriously consider giving some of your time. These are not overwhelming time commitments. You make of it what you will. The community is wonderful. You will enjoy yourself, meet people and leave enriched. We promise!

As a reminder, if we do not have a PTSA President, both the music program and the programs PTA funds are in jeopardy. We’d be able to ride for a while, but it will catch up with us. This will mean no math tutoring, no teacher classroom grants, no etree, no funding for drama program, no money for sports and sports equipment, no money for field trips, no funding for 8th grade Field Day, No Celebrate Korematsu, and finally, no organized parent forum for community-building and information exchange. We’d also lose our insurance, as PTA provides insurance for all of our events. Please contact us! We’d love to talk to you. Contact: korematsuptsa@gmail.com

Here’s just a sampling of the opportunities available.

Korematsu PTSA President
Coordinate and oversee the unit’s activities. Plan the year’s calendar, approve the budget and along with the EVP, run five meetings a year.

Korematsu PTSA Vice President
Ideally be a 7th grade parent ready to be the president in 20/21. Along with the president, coordinate the unit’s activities – mainly Celebrate Korematsu. Plan the year’s calendar, approve the budget and along with the President, run five meetings a year.

Korematsu PTSA Membership Chair
Process PTSA memberships. Most of the work occurs in August and September. The work is largely online, and can be done from home.

Korematsu Teacher Treat Day Coordinator(s) – Coordinates monthly teacher luncheon. Use email to solicit donations of food and volunteers. Set up staffing schedule.

Celebrate Korematsu Chair – Head up a team that collects and processes donations for the Celebrate Korematsu auction. The majority of the work is December/January.

Incoming School Mixer/Ice Cream Social Chair – Welcome new and returning families to Korematsu by chairing the August Ice Cream Social. Ensure we have treats on hand, promote the event through the e tree.

Back-to-School Picnic – Welcome new and returning families to Korematsu by chairing the Back-to-School picnic. Order food, gather volunteers, promote the event through the e tree.

Korematsu Volunteer Coordinator – Find volunteers to staff events.

Korematsu E Tree Editor – Do you like to write? Work to write this weekly newsletter.

Golden Gate Fields Coordinator – Contact Golden Gate Fields to secure at Dollar Days Date, promote event to ensure enough volunteers are on hand, attend event and assure its smooth running.

Cookie Dough Coordinator – Run Fall Cookie Dough Fundraising Campaign. Contact Vendor, pass out and collect forms, organize the distribution of product when it arrives.

Restaurant Night Coordinator – Contact area restaurants and arrange “Restaurant Night” events. Promoted the events through the etree.

Science Fair Coordinators – Work with the science teachers to grade science projects and plan Korematsu’s science night. Order awards if necessary. Assist when projects move to District, County and State science fairs.

Yearbook – Work with Korematsu staff and teachers to produce the yearbook. Advertise various deadlines to the school community.

2019-2020 KMPA Open Board Positions

We are in need of 4 volunteers to fill the following band positions for the upcoming school year. Please consider volunteering your time to the KMPA Band Board. It doesn’t take a lot of time and most of the work can be done in the evenings from home. The following positions need to be filled:

Chair
Treasurer
Financial Secretary
Jazz Ensemble E-Tree

Now is a great time to shadow the current volunteer! If you know of an incoming 7th grade family that would be interested in volunteering, please send them my way. We cannot continue with the amazing work that we do without volunteers! Please contact nancykawase@hotmail.com for more information.

Korematsu Scientists – Place in Statewide Championship!

For the first time in many years, WCCUSD won medals in the California Science and Engineering Fair. Korematsu’s Eleanor Addison and Nora Thompson took home 3rd and 4th place medals respectively, competing against the top 800 student finalists from regional fairs across the state. Held at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on April 29-30th, the event opened with an inspiring lecture by the 2018 Nobel Laureate, Dr. Frances Arnold. The following morning our young scientists stood for 5 hours of grueling interviews by roving teams of judges.

Congratulations to our winners — we hope this inspires a new generation of Korematsu students to enter next year’s science fair.

END-OF-YEAR EVENTS

There is a lot going on!
The Calendar:
ONLINE HERE!

https://korematsumiddleschool.org/?page_id=13

• Dance Performance 5/22 – 23 @ 7:00 MPR
• Faculty Vs Student Volleyball 5/24 1:00 PM
• Memorial Day Holiday 5/27
• End of year band concert 5/29 @ 7:00 MPR
• Testing Pie-in-the-face Event May 22, 2019, 7th last period of the day – Gym
• Awards Night 5/30 @ 7:00 MPR
• Study Trip (Ms. Davis) “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” 5/31
• Art and Jazz Festival 6/3 @ 6:00PM Courtyard
• Promotion Rehearsal 6/5 Morning
• 8th grade Picnic and Softball game 6/5 Lunch – dismissal
• Promotion Ceremony 6/6 @ 6 Courtyard
• LDOS 6/7 – Noon Dismissal
• August 6,7,8 Registration

It is time to plan 8th grade activities!

In this link, you will find three tabs:

• Picnic
• Promotion Rehearsal
• Promotion Ceremony

Please sign up to volunteer if you are able!

We do ask that 7th Grade parents help with 8th grade rehearsal and promotion so that the 8th grade families can enjoy the events!

SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER INN

● Las escuelas en las cuales se realizará el programa de verano tendrán dispositivos. Los estudiantes de doceavo grado que realicen estudios independientes podrán llevar las computadoras a casa.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF JR.

TONIGHT AND FRIDAY!
Come see Fiddler on the Roof Jr.!
May 2nd, and 3rd
7:00 p.m. in the Korematsu MPR

Over 50 Korematsu drama students have been working hard to bring you our spring musical, Fiddler on the Roof Jr. Bring the whole family!

Fiddler on the Roof Jr.
May 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
7pm in the Korematsu MPR

Tickets are a recommended donation of $4 at the door.

CHINA APPLICATION IS NOW AVAILABLE!

PRIORITY DEADLINE MAY 3

The online application is available at https://www.pccedu.org/ambassadorprogram

The application due date for priority consideration is May 3.

SPRING (PRIMAVERA) DANCE! CANCELED

Due to scheduling conflicts, the Spring Dance is Canceled.

Thanks to all that volunteered!

SAVE THE DATE RESTAURANT NIGHT

Monday, May 6th
El Cerrito’s Los Moles
Cino de Mayo Mas Uno
(Cinco de Mayo Plus One)

Come and join us at this popular, delicious and local favorite!
You eat, we profit!!

Los Moles Flyer.pdf

Annual Speech and Debate Showcase

Wednesday, May 8, 2019
7:00 p.m.
El Cerrito High School Performing Arts Theater

Coming to El Cerrito High?

Interested in joining our award-winning Speech and Debate team? Come check us out!

You’ll see the best performances from this year’s students, and get a chance to meet team members and learn about the program.

No prior speech or debate experience is necessary.

See you there!

AFTER HIGH SCHOOL

EIGTH GRADE FAMILIES WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND

EL CERRITO HIGH SCHOOL
PERFORMING ARTS THEATER
NEW START TIME
7:00 p.m.

KOREMATSU PTSA NEEDS YOU!

Every PTA unit needs a president in order to be a complaint, functioning unit. We need a president.
We have a wonderful unit with over 300 members! We support the school in a lot of really important ways.
We provide very generous classroom grants to teachers, we pay for numerous field trips, the drama program,
we run the teacher luncheons and publish this e tree every week.

We need a leader! The secretary and treasurer positions are filled with competent and reliable people.
We need you to lead the way! Take a chance of leadership! You’ll have fun and we promise a rich and rewarding experience.

The vice president supports, with the objective of becoming a leader the following year.

We are also looking for a membership chair! We have over 300 members and we are very proud of this! We are #1 in membership in the entire Bayside Council of PTAs. The majority of the work occurs in August and September, and has been made much simpler due to new online software! This is a good position for someone who is detail-oriented and doesn’t mind using a computer to enter names and addresses.

Please contact us! korematsuptsa@gmail.com

MULTICULTURAL NIGHT

Tuesday May 14th 2019 is Multicultural Night at Korematsu.

Everyone is invited to join us in the MPR for a multicultural potluck. Bring a dish to share.

6:30 p.m. Dinner
7:00 PTSA business

7:30 p.m. Socialize, enjoy student art and projects and learn about all the cultures that make Korematsu amazing!

SPRING BAND / ORCHESTRA / CHOIR / THEATER / DANCE FESTIVALS

HILLSIDE FEST 2019

El Cerrito’s 6th Annual Hillside Festival, May 3-5, features a wide variety of activities for young and old throughout the 100-acre natural area: hikes and walks about geology, native plants, birds, insects, wildflowers, history, poetry-geocaching, wildland fire prevention, and more. There’s even meditation in nature, and Dog Scouts!

Hikes range from strenuous to easy. Download the full schedule and map to events at www.ectrailtrekkers.org.

Sponsored by El Cerrito Trail Trekkers and El Cerrito’s Environmental Quality Committee. FREE

SBAC Testing Starts Monday, April 22, 2019

The SBAC testing season is upon us. While the SBAC is not the only measure of student success, it is an important indicator for our students, our school and our school district. We encourage all to take it seriously.

Here are some important reminders:

• Please have students bring their tablets and chargers with tablets fully charged. The test is taken on the tablet.
• If, for some reason, students are not routinely bringing tablets to school, please have them bring the tablets because tablets might need software updates, and the updates can only be done at school.
• Please have students bring headphones if they have them.
• Students should bring home SBAC brochures, where they recorded the testing targets they hope to reach. Ask your student about it, and review it together.
• Please schedule all non-emergency appointments (Dr. dentist, etc.) after school hours so that all students can test.
• Please make an extra effort to have students show up on time.
• Students should eat a good breakfast prior to the test and get a good night’s sleep.
• These efforts will help to make the testing period smooth and orderly.
• Thank you for your help!

Practice Tests can be found here: https://sat170.cloud1.tds.airast.org/student/V728/Pages/LoginShell.aspx

SPRING (PRIMAVERA) DANCE!

Wednesday, May 15, 2019
1:30- 3:00 p.m.
Parent Volunteers/Contributions Requested!

The dance committee is planning a Primavera Dance with primarily Spanish language music for Wednesday, May 15th. We would like to get parent volunteers and food donations. We will need 3 volunteers for set up during 7th period (12:45-1:25 pm), 4 during the dance (1:30-3 pm), and 3 volunteers to cleanup (3 pm-3:30). Food for about 70 students can include cupcakes, rice crispy treats, fruit snacks, cookies, fruit, lemonade, orange juice, Capri Sun or anything else parents want to donate.

SIGN UP TO DONATE OR VOLUNTEER HERE!

Contact: mariela.alcocerruiz@wccusd.net

Only a Few Yearbooks Left!

We have nearly sold out of all our yearbooks. Online sales are now closed, but a very small number of yearbooks are still available for sale in the Korematsu office. Yearbooks will be distributed at the end of May.

Thank you to everyone who purchased books. And thank you to all of the people who helped with this year’s book, and without whom it would not have been possible: to the students from the DECA yearbook club (and beyond), who helped with the theme, cover art, and gathering of photos; to the parents who submitted photos; to the PTSA, who have sent out emails and spread the word about photos; to the KMS office staff, who have taken orders, helped with photos, and fielded questions throughout the year; and to Jackson Lee, who was the faculty advisor this year, and who provided so much support to the students. Thanks to a great team!

CHINA INFORMATION SESSION AT DEANZA!

Monday, April 22, 2019
DeAnza High School LIBRARY
5:00 – 6:00 PM
5000 Valley View Rd, Richmond, CA 94803

Habra Traducciones al Espanol
Flier Here
China! This Summer!

This summer, the WCCUSD will once again offer to District students the China Global Ambassador Program!

Program highlights:
The main program dates are July 12 – 27. The program for all groups will be approximately 16 days including travel.

The program fee per student is only $690 ($800 for applications received after May 3). Fee includes flight, lodging, food, and activities. Passport, if needed, and a China visa are additional. (Passport approximately $145; Visa $140 + processing fees. Your costs may vary. Please check).

High school & middle school students will again be able to earn 3 semester units of college credit which translates to approximately 10 high school credits.

At least 100 total students from District high schools and middle schools (for middle school applicants, 8th graders will be given preference). Each high school and middle school are allotted a minimum number of spaces in the program.

Student Ambassadors will engage in cultural exchange activities with Chinese students at a school or university campus and do sightseeing to key Chinese cultural sites (Great Wall, Forbidden Palace, etc.)

While there is no firm GPA requirement, PCC will look to select students that have the academic and social-emotional skills necessary to represent our District well as student ambassadors. Principals must also approve the application.

The online application will be available in mid-April at https://www.pccedu.org/ambassadorprogram, and the priority due date is May 3. Applicants will be notified of acceptance by May 15, 2019.

There is an in-person information sessions Monday, April 15, 2019 El Cerrito High School Cafeteria, 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m., 540 Ashbury Avenue, El Cerrito, CA 94530. Be there!

Habra traducciones professionales al Espanol!
Questions?: info@pccedu.org

SAVE THE DATE RESTAURANT NIGHT

Monday, May 6th
El Cerrito’s Los Moles
Cino de Mayo Mas Uno
(Cinco de Mayo Plus One)

Come and join us at this popular, delicious and local favorite!
You eat, we profit!!

Los Moles Flyer.pdf

AFTER HIGH SCHOOL

EIGTH GRADE FAMILIES WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND

The Path to College
for 8th, 9th, 10th Grade Parents, Guardians and Students
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
El Cerrito High School Theater
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Habra Traducciones al Espanol!

Plea from Ms. La Due:

We are now in our final month of rehearsals for Fiddler on the Roof Jr., and we are in dire need of help with something: there is a “cart” we need to pick up and rent from Hayward. The shop is only open weekdays from 10am-3pm, so obviously that is a difficult (impossible, unless I get a sub) time for me to pick it up. Is there anyone who has the ability to go get it for us? I’ve attached a picture so you can see the size. Thank you in advance — if I don’t find someone to get it for us, I will probably have to take a sick day in order to drive and get it myself, which is not great for me or my students!

If you can help with this, please e-mail me at sarah.ladue@wccusd.net and I will give you all of the necessary information! Thank you!

CHINA GLOBAL AMBASSADOR TRIP INFORMATION SESSION

There will be an in-person Information Session

Monday, April 15, 2019
5:00-6:00 p.m.

El CERRITO HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA
540 Ashbury Ave, El Cerrito, CA
OPEN TO ALL!

The WCCUSD is pleased to offer the China Global Ambassador Program again this summer.

• The main program dates will be July 12 to 27. The program for all groups will be approximately 16 days including travel.
• The program fee per student is only $690 ($800 for applications received after May 3). Fee includes flight, lodging, food, and activities. Passport, if needed, and a China visa are additional.
• The fee for chaperones is $275 (teachers preferred).
• Applicants will be notified of acceptance by May 15, 2019.
• High school & middle school students will again be able to earn 3 semester units of college credit which translates to approximately 10 high school credits.
• We will be taking at least 100 total students from District high schools and middle schools (for middle school applicants, 8th graders will be given preference). Each high school and middle school are allotted a minimum number of spaces in the program.
• We plan to take at least 20 chaperones.
• Student Ambassadors will engaged in cultural exchange activities with Chinese students at a school or university campus
• The groups will also do sightseeing to key Chinese cultural sites in the Beijing Area (Great Wall, Forbidden Palace, etc.). For the sightseeing portion of the trip, we are planning to be based in the same hotel as last year in the Beijing suburb of Langfang.
• This year, our main China location will change to the city of Anshan. We also will have a group of students/chaperones return to the same school in the city of Linfen where a group went last year.
• We will use an online application this year. PCC Education will make the final selection of applicants, but students will need the principal to sign off on them to be considered.
• While there is no firm GPA requirement, PCC will be looking to select students that have the academic and social-emotional skills necessary to represent our District well as student ambassadors.
• The online application will be available in mid-April at https://www.pccedu.org/ambassadorprogram. The application due date for priority consideration is May 3.
• Students are encouraged to fund raise to pay for the program fees. Scholarships are also available for qualified applicants based on financial need (there is also an option on the online application to donate to support scholarships).

Any questions that students or parents have about trip details should be directed to the contact email on the flyer: info@pccedu.org.

SAVE THE DATE RESTAURANT NIGHT

Monday, May 6th
El Cerrito’s Los Moles
Cino de Mayo Mas Uno
(Cinco de Mayo Plus One)

Come and join us at this popular, delicious and local favorite!
You eat, we profit!!

AFTER HIGH SCHOOL

EIGTH GRADE FAMILIES WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND

The Path to College
for 8th, 9th, 10th Grade Parents, Guardians and Students
Tuesday, May 7, 2019
El Cerrito High School Theater
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Habra Traducciones al Espanol!