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| Foothill e-Gazette
Published by the Foothill PFA December 5
, 2018
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Important Dates
Dec 7 -
6th Grade Dance 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Dec 7 - 7th & 8th Grade Dance 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Dec 21 - End of 2nd Quarter
Dec 24- Jan 7 - Winter Break No School
For the complete Foothill calendar, click here.
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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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Support Foothill - Shop at Sports Basement December 6 - 8
Shop at Sport Basement December 6 - 8 and receive 20% off your entire purchase.
A portion of the sales w
ill benefit Foothill.
Click here for the flyer.
Must present a copy of the flyer or have the special Foothill code #2050008436552 (located at the bottom of the flyer) in order to receive 20% discount and to benefit Foothill.
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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.
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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.
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 adult 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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Looking for Volunteer to Coach Foothill's Girls Basketball Team
MDUSD offers a free program for basketball. The season starts in January with the first game on January 14th.
Here is the link
for the schedule. At this time we need a girls team basketball coach.
Please contact Foothill's Sports Site Coordinator Maya Whitehead
whiteheadm@mdusd.org with any questions.
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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.
 Go to www.yearbookordercenter.com and enter school code 6047.
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8th Grade Yearbook Ads
C
ongratulate your 8th grade student and express your pride and love with an ad in the 2019 yearbook!
*8th grade ads will be accepted on a space available basis, so be sure to get your ad in early!
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No ads will be accepted after DECEMBER 9
Thank you!
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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 signing up for a winter sport?
Check out our sports list here!
Upcoming Sports and Deadlines
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Boys Competitive Basketball (7A and 8A)
Come try out for After School Sports Competitive Basketball team! Trainings focus around improving skills and prepping players for the next level. Competitive Basketball plays against some of the best teams in the East Bay and we even host the 8th grade tournament, here at Foothill!
Try Outs: 12/10 - 12/12
Season: M - Th, 4:30 - 6 PM
Dates: 12/17 - 3/15
Registration Deadline: 12/6
Coed Intramural Indoor Soccer (Session 2)
After School Sports is proud to be partnering up with local gym Functional Muscle Fitness (FMF) to offer an Intramural Indoor Soccer program inside of FMF's very own soccer arena! If you're interested in getting some quality training from the Bay Area's newest UPSL team, Contra Costa FC, come out and join this program as their players are helping coach!
Season: M & W, 3:45 - 5 PM
Dates: 1/8 - 1/24
Registration Deadline: 12/20
Location: Functional Muscle Fitness
Boys Intramural Basketball
Trying to learn the sport of basketball in a skill focused and fun environment? Then come out to After School Sports Intramural Basketball program! 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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 Odyssey of the Mind
If your student has a talent for or interest in technical endeavors and/ or enjoys thinking outside the box, please consider encouraging him/ her to participate on an Odyssey of the Mind team that is working to solve the problem, Hide In Plain Sight. See the synopsis, below.
The team has coaches.
Hide In Plain Sight
Teams will create and build a mechanical creature that hides in plain sight. The creature will change its appearance three times to avoid being detected by a Searcher Character trying to find it. The way the creature changes will be different each time! The team will create and present a performance where its creature gets into - or out of - various situations using this resourceful skill. In the end the creature will surprise everyone by changing its appearance a final time and reveal its true self.
Call Leslie Satin at 270-5497 if you are interested in more details.
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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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