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Published by the Foothill PFA December 19
, 2018
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Important Dates
Dec 21
- End of 2nd Quarter
Dec 24 - Jan 7 - Winter Break No School
Jan 8 - School begins with 1st period
Jan 11 - 1st semester report cards mailed home
Jan 11 - Last day to order a 2018-19 yearbook (only available for purchase online)
Jan 16 - PFA meeting at 7 pm in the library
For the complete Foothill calendar, click here.
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From the Foothill Office
2nd Semester/ 3rd Quarter Classes:
The Foothill Office is unable to print out schedules when we return from winter break. Please have your child check HomeLink over winter break for their 2nd Semester or 3rd Quarter class(es), if applicable. We return on Tuesday, January 8 and start with period 1.
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MDUSD Lunch Accounts:
Here is
the link
to add money to your child's lunch account. Additionally, here is
the link
to check for the menu selection.
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Ed Fund and Tech Fund Update
Payroll deductions, monthly contributions and matching donations are continuing to help us i
n
important ways! Our totals now stand at $81,753 for Ed Fund (short of our budget by almost $14,000) and $10,266 in Matching Donations. We met our Tech Fund budget of $22,000 and that money has already been spent on sparkling new chromebooks that are in student hands right now.
Can you imagine what we could do for our Foothill students if everyone that donated got it matched by their employer?? Companies generally LOVE to tout their charitable giving, so think about how you are doing them a favor by Asking for the Match (ha!). If your donation receipt is nowhere to be found (because let's be honest, who can keep track of all that beginning of school year paperwork?), please email me at
edfundfmspfa@gmail.com
and I will send you a copy of your receipt - whether you paid
online or at Walk Through.
And if you haven't made your donation yet there's still time! No penalty for late arrivals :-) We welcome and appreciate your donation of any size. Click
here to donate now!!
Anne Foley
Ed Fund/Tech Fund Chair
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Happy
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| HAPPY HOLIDAYS |
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Holidays from the PFA!
On behalf of the PFA, I'd like to wish all our Foothill families,
teachers and administrators a very happy, healthy and fun-filled holiday season. I would also like to thank all the members of the PFA who are giving back to the school by volunteering their time and talents to lead efforts in fundraising, campus clean-up, beautification and safety, organizing special activities and events, providing lunches for teachers, and so much more!
Your efforts are truly helping improve and enrich our student's experiences while at Foothill.
See you next year!
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Save the Date - January 16 for special presentation from BeSMART prior to the January PFA Meeting
There is no PFA meeting in December. The next meeting will be Wednesday, January
16
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From 6:30 - 7 pm, prior to the general meeting, BeSMART, a non-profit, non-partisan organization that works to promote gun safety for kids will be presenting. Their presentation is
for adu
lt parents/ guardians, not kids. All are welcome to come, listen, learn and ask questions. For more information about this organization, visit their website http://besmartforkids.org
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Save the Dates - 8th Grade Information Night at Northgate & Northgate Open House
Northgate will be hosting an Information Night for incoming 8th grade students and parents. More details to follow, but mark your calendars, 7 pm on Monday, January 28, 2019.
Northgate Open House is scheduled for Thursday, February 21 at 6 pm. While this is primarily an event for current families to see what their students are doing in the different classes, it can also be an opportunity for 8th grade students to see the classrooms and project displays.
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Donors Choose Projects
We appreciate all of the financial support our community donates to all of our programs. Providing a list of our teacher's Donors Choose projects is not intended to keep hitting the same people up financially. However, we are sharing this list since our community members were asking for local funding opportunities. Donors Choose is designed to reach contributors beyond the parents and guardians at Foothill Middle School.
The holidays are about giving towards worthy causes, why not donate towards your childs teacher through Donors Choose! If you would like to donate towards a project we have some really great Donors Choose Projects.
Mr. Davis from wood shop has a project request for a
MIG welder for the welding class.
Ms. Wesser-Singh has a project request "
Keep Calm and Picnic On!" She is requesting a picnic table for outside the classroom to be used for collaborative learning while being outdoors.
All of these projects are terrific and maybe you know someone who would like to donate this holiday season, if so, pass it on! All of these projects need to be funded by the middle of March.
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For Your Planning - 8th Grade Families
Friday, May 31
- 8th Grade Activity Day 8:15 am to 4:30 pm
Monday, June 03
- 8th Grade Party 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm MU
Wednesday, June 05
- 8th Grade Promotion 10:00 am - 11:00 am Foothill Sports Field
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Buy Your 2019 Yearbook Now!
The 2018 yearbook sold out! If you wait, your child may not get a yearbook.
Yearbooks will only be sold online via Herff Jones' Yearbook order center.
LAST DAY TO ORDER IS JANUARY 11!
 Go to www.yearbookordercenter.com and enter school code 6047.
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Volunteer for Events and Activities at Foothill
Foothill needs parent volunteers throughout the year to help with various events and activities such as Teacher Appreciation Lunch, Change Wars, Open House, etc. These events usually require only a few hours of time. Pl
ease click the link below to sign up
. You will then be contacted by the PFA chair of the event at a later date.
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After School Sports
Interested in any upcoming sports?
Some upcoming important dates for Fall/ Spring 2018-19 Sports!
Coed Intramural Beach Volleyball 2.0 @ HF (6 & 7 & 8)
Season: T & TH, 3:30 - 5 pm
Dates: 2/19 - 3/28
Registration Deadline: 2/14
Location: Heather Farms Park
Coed Competitive Golf (6 & 7 & 8)
Tryouts: 2/26 & 2/28
Season: T - TH, 3:30 - 5 pm
Dates 3/4 - 5/22
Registration Deadline: 2/21
Location: Boundary Oaks Golf Course
Coed Intramural Indoor Soccer (Session 2)
After School Sports is proud to be partnering with local gym Functional Muscle Fitness (FMF) to offer an Intramural Indoor Soccer program inside of FMF's very own soccer arena!
Season: M & W, 3:45 - 5 pm
Dates: 1/8 - 1/24
Registration Deadline: 12/20
Location: Functional Muscle Fitness
Boys Intramural Basketball (6 & 7 & 8)
Coaches will work on the fundamentals of playing basketball in their beginner friendly drills. After a week of trainings, coaches will begin matches against each other to put training into games!
Season: T - Th, 3:30 - 4:30 pm
Dates: 1/15 - 2/21
Registration Deadline: 1/10
Registration is online! Register
here.
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Student Directory Goes Online - Konstella at Foothill 
New this year, Foothill PFA will be moving to an online directory using Konstella.
Enter your email address to receive an invitation and then follow the link to register. You will be prompted to enter a password as well as add a child. If you have multiple children at Foothill, you can add each one to their grade. You will be able to set your privacy preferences to select what information is shared in the directory.
You may also download the Konstella app for your phone so that you can have directory and calendar information on the go. Konstella also allows you to sync our calendar with your Google, iPhone, or other online calendars.
Besides the directory feature, we plan to use Konstella's calendar feature to keep parents informed of important events. Consider joining now to be ready for back to school in August.
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Shop at Amazon to Earn for Foothill
 Remember, you can support Foothill every time you shop Amazon. Foothill's special link earns up to
5% for Foothill each time you shop!
Take a minute,
click this link
and then bookmark it to the top of your browser. Ask your student to help you :)
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LCAP SPEAKER SERIES - "SOCIAL MEDIA'S IMPACT ON YOUNG PEOPLE'S SELF IMAGE"
Experts say young people view social media through the lens of their own lives. If they're struggling to stay on top of things or suffering from low self-esteem, they're more likely to interpret images of peers having fun as confirmation that they're doing badly compared to their friends.
Please join us on Tuesday, January 22, starting at 6 pm at Mt. Diablo High School, as we welcome back Speaker Series favorite, Thomas Dodson with
Above
the
Above the Fray to give families the tools they need to begin meaningful dialogues about the
digital lives of young people, the pitfalls and the positives. Spanish translation will be provided!
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Youth Ambassador Exhange
Walnut Creek Sister Cities International (WCSCI) organizes a Youth Ambassador Exchange (YAE!!) for 8th grade students with our two sister cities: Noceto, Italy and Siofok, Hungary.
For ten days in the Fall, the students and chaperones experience life and culture in one of our sister cities. In the Spring, the Walnut Creek students host their exchange students in Walnut Creek.
If you are a seventh-grader residing in Walnut Creek and interested in applying to be a YAE!! Ambassador for the 2019/2020 exchange, you must attend a mandatory informational meeting on Sunday January 6th, 7-8:30 p.m. in the Oak View Room at the Walnut Creek Library. Click here for an informational flyer.
For more information about WCSCI and YAE!!, please visit our website at www.wcsci.org
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Walnut Creek Little League
Registration for the Spring Season of Walnut Creek Little League opens October 1, 2018.
- Registration late fees begin 12/18/18
- Registration closes on 1/2/19 and waitlists begin
- Baseball tryouts are 1/12, 1/13, 1/19, 1/20
- Softball tryouts are 1/26
The link to registration is on our website. Please click on the link below.
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Thanks to all the Turkey Trot Runners and Volunteers!
On behalf of PEAK Education Foundation, we would like to thank all the families who helped support the schools by running or volunteering in the Walnut Creek Turkey Trot. It turned out to be a sunny glorious morning for a run, walk or jog. We won't know the total proceeds for another few months but based on the morning crowds at the event, we're sure it was a great success.
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If you know of an interesting community event or activity that you think the Foothill Community would benefit from knowing about, please send the information to
foothill.enews@gmail.com
so we can pass it along. Community Announcements will be included in the regular e-Gazette that is published the first and third Wednesdays of each month.
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Online Parent Community
Need to ask a question, get reminders about upcoming PFA activities or connect with other parents at Foothill? Join the
Foothill Middle School Parents group on Facebook. Once logged in, request to join the group.
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