Principal: Jana Davenport

Vice Principal: Kristen LoVerme

Magnet Coordinator: Christine Chun

Beat Editor: Carla Cross

17020 Labrador St. Northridge, CA 91325 (818).349.4801

Volume 4 Issue 3

BALBOA BEAT

Balboa Gifted/High Abi l i ty Magnet

November 2011

TABLE OF CONTENTS MAGAZINE DRIVE UPDATE…......PG 1 REFLECTIONS…..…….….….…....PG 1

INSIDE THIS EDITON YEAR BOOK PHOTOS…………....PG 2 ANNOUNCEMENTS.…………...... PG 2 WEBSITE INFORMATION……...PG 2 DIRECT APPEAL…….………..….PG 3

.BACK PAGE

CALENDAR ……………...………...PG 4 THE GREEN BEAT… …….……....PG 4 ORCHESTRA …………….…….....PG 4

REFLECTIONS ENTRIES DUE NOVEMBER 7TH!!!

It’s that time of year again- the PTA sponsored Reflections program!

Students can enter in the following categories:

Visual Arts Literature Photography

Video Dance Musical Composition

You can enter as many times as you want and in as many categories as you are inspired to.

The theme this year is “Diversity means…..”

If you would like to participate, you can either download all of the forms at www.capta.org/sections/programs/reflections.cfm or request a packet from school and a packet will be

sent home with your child. NEW SUBMISSION Rules this year! Please look at California PTA

website. The deadline to enter at Balboa Magnet is November 7, 2011.

Thank you, Balboa PTA. Contact Holly or Spike 818.458.9708 Holly@PrepareAndCare.net

818.224.9091 Spike@aieac.org

BPA Kicks Off the Year with the Magazine Drive!

In October we completed our first major fundraiser of

the year and would like to thank all of the students, fac-

ulty, staff, and families that participated in this year's

magazine drive to make it a success! Over 47% of the

student body participated in the drive, which is a tre-

mendous accomplishment! Way to go!!! Together, we

raised nearly $19k to help pay for class field trips and

other school programs and resources.

Congratulations to the following classes for having the highest class participa-

tion level and winning an ice cream social for their class and a $50 gift card for

their teacher: Grades 1-3, Mrs. Bierman's class with 79% participation and

Grades 4-5, Mrs. Klein's class with 88% participation. Honorable mention

goes out to Mrs. Woods' and Ms. Convirs' classes for having the second highest

participation levels.

We would also like to congratulate our top sellers: Sarah Schneider (Room 9 -

with 62 magazines sold). Sydney Shiotani (Room 12 - with 42 magazines sold),

and Sarah Frederickson (Room 6 - with 37 magazines sold). Finally, we'd like

to thank all of the parents who volunteered their time

to help out with processing sales orders and manning

the prize store. You're awesome and we couldn't have

done it without you! THANK YOU!!!

Diane Lawhorn & Sandra Gibson, Magazine Drive Co-Chairs

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HOLIDAY POTLUCK LUNCHEON

FOR TEACHERS AND STAFF

COMING FRIDAY, DECEMBER

16th. PLEASE LOOK FOR

FLYERS IN NOVEMBER!

Balboa Parent Association

Parent Education – Special Guest Speakers

When: Friday, November 4th @ 8:30 am

Where: Parent Center – Room 33

Bagels and Coffee Provided

Join us for a special Parent Presentation with the coaches of Social

Coaching Club, Samantha Blank, M.S., MFT and Kathy Zotnowski,

M.S., MFT. They will provide insight, tools and techniques to help

parents implement increased impulse control and frustration toler-

ance for your children. They will also discuss and demonstrate ef-

fective anger and stress management techniques that will work for

parents and children alike.

Please RSVP ASAP – we need to know for materials and

refreshments. Or email Judy Groode at Judy@Groode.net

or contact at (818) 988-2646.

The following volunteer opportunities are available!!!!

Collection, log in and set up of show: November 7,8,9,10, 8:30-230

Judging, ribbon placement and programs days: November 14,15

Host for the show: November 16, 17, 18, 8:30-2:20

Take down and return entries: November 18, 12:30-2:00

Master DVD maker

Driver for delivery of judge packets

Refreshment coordinator Volunteers will begin after drop off in the morning, and each day we will continue until all work is completed. Entries

must be collected and logged in so the entries can be judged and the show can be set up for a school wide Art Show.

Time required depends on quantity of entries received.

Also accepting suggestions for judges that are professionals within the specific categories. Must be sensitive to chil-

dren and appreciate their art. Please send name and email and category of specialty; Judges needed: 2 for film, 2 for

visual art, 3 for dance, 2 for literature, 2 for music, 1 for photography.

Announcing New Balboa Websites: balboamagnet.com & balboaparents.org

Balboa Magnet Elementary School is happy to announce the

launching of two new websites. The official school site

www.balboamagnet.com will contain important information on

the school and its policies. As it continues to develop, families

will also be able to access important updates from their chil-

dren's teachers.

The new parent website www. balboaparents.org has also been

completely redesigned and will focus primarily on how families

can support Balboa Magnet. We intend to post important school-

wide event information, volunteer opportunities and information

on how to help raise funds for the school.

The success of these two websites will depend on you! If you

would like information posted on either site, please send docu-

ments in formats that can be edited (e.g., word, publisher. DO

NOT send pdfs). Include any deadlines in the subject line and

email to Jocelyn Guihama jocelyn.guihama@gmail.com. who will

forward to the administrators for approval and posting.

BALBOA NEEDS YOU! - VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP WITH REFLECTIONS

Opportunity knocks... Yearbook Photos and Committee Members Needed!

The Yearbook Committee needs your photos to capture

Balboa’s special, fun, school days. This includes field

trips, classroom activities, , Fall Picnic, Pumpkin Math,

Crazy Hair Day, Red Ribbon Week, Halloween etc.

We want to include every classroom and a photo of each student! Submit

photos to the office on a CD (label with event info, child’s name, teacher,

your name/contact info). They may also be emailed to Balboamag-

net.yearbook@gmail.com. please contact Jocelyn Guihama if you are

interested in helping with the yearbook. (jocelyn.guihama@gmail.com)

Next BPA Meeting

Wednesday, 11/16 at 7:00 pm

Childcare provided!

This is the ONLY evening

meeting of the school year, and

we encourage parents who cannot normally

attend the morning meetings to come get in-

volved.

The BPA will provide child care during the meeting.

Please RSVP with your name, number of adults

attending and number of children attending to Aya

Katzaroff email: aosawakatzaroff@yahoo.com

Nov. 1 - 4: CANDY SPLIT

Donate half of your Halloween candy for the Frontline

Foundation and Operation Gratitude - just send candy

to school with your child! c/o Ms. Bronson, Room 19

Direct Appeal - Thank you for your support!!!!

Below is the list of names of those who have so generously given to the Direct Appeal campaign so far. If you don’t see your name please look for it in the next issue!!!! It’s not too late to make your Direct Appeal Donation

WWW.BALBOAPARENTS.ORG YOU CAN DONATE USING VISA or MC.

Jose & Leticia Avalos

Jared Taylor

Edmund & Deborah Wong

Margaret McNally & Geoff Greenberg

David & Jana Davenport

Ilene Sutter-Rosenberg

Tom & Masae Yasuda

Cindy Malone

Preston Lee

Jason Hughes

Elina Baron

Indra Setiadi

Rachel & Melvin Reiter

Rosina Chavez

Laura & Douglas Shewfelt

Greg & Kim Milman

John Lamprea

Gina Arzumanyan

Russell & Christine Coons

Artemis Javanshir

Wanda Yung

Kerry & Nan O'Donnell

Joo Young Yoo

Eun Ju Jeong

Patricia Pacheco

Tony & Carmen Sands

Sebastian & Paula Kupiec

Steve & Judy Block

Marie Salcedo

Rebecca & Mark Frederickson

Holly Stuczynski

Susanna Eldib

Vanesa Lara Schmoisman

John & Charlene Ishikawa

Kristen Lazarian & Richard Horvitz

Jason Li

Todd & Kelly Mitchell

Rauf & Tamilla Shalumova

Sally & Ed Protiva

Tricia DeGeeter

E. Bart Plange

Jennifer & Kipp Shiotani

Paul & Bernadette Hanson

Caroline & Philippe Marecaux

Easter & Jodie Xua

Dan & Arcy Gesshel

Erica & Jose Arrendondo

Rary Khamlue

Sanjay Kulkarni & Supriya Belpathak

Itoko Deitrick

Lee & Sara Bradford

David Harte & Kathleen Wilhoite

Larry Vad

John & Cathy Gabriel

Ivan Trinh

Alan Mendelsohn

Courtney & Ron Robart

Justin & Hanna Ryu

Veronica & Robert Lee

Lissette & Marcelo Maccarone

Jocelyn Guihama & David Olson

John & Evangeline Equina

Daniel & Beth Lobl

Chong Lee

Mieyeun Park

Eva & Steven Cohen

Bhavik & Ami Shah

Mark & Sharon Chang

Kim Tran

Mohammadi Fidaali

Yuko Sano

Tasnim Hussain

Kevin & Sandra DeHaeseleer

Bradley & Maria Smith

Hargunvir & Harjinder Singh

Buck McGaffee

Mike Tran

Ken and Tammy Robinson

Jeff & Jen Endler

Mona Contreras-Valenzuela

Efren & Eunice Miguel

Lynn Deng

Jae Lee

Gary & Jan Baer

Zhanna Rubinova

Darryl & Leanna Hendrix

Scott & Sandra Gibson

Paula & John Tillotson

Sharon Bai

Helen Ioffe

Laurie & Michael Carter

Wendy Liu

Stacy Soendker

John & Christina Yu

Zhilbert Melekyan & Karmella Grigoryan

Norma & Hector Valle

Damian Coleman

Jeffrey and Maggie Yong

Imelda Abalos Porter

Alain & Alice Dalva

Sushil Madhogarhia

Wayne & Jill Basinger

Scott & Dotty Calvin

Christopher Rabina & Rhoda Acosta

David & Ina Labowitz

Bassam Bunny

Huan Chu

Jienming & Sylvia Jou

Joseph & Catherine Kim

Lisa Poggi

Aram Guyumjian

Matt & Carla Reeves

Han & Laura Park

Jennie & Rob Gappinger

Eric & Yvette Vink

Hongying Chen

Walter & Milbet Del Cid

Coco Cheng

Alla & Val Chernyak

Eric Taylor

John Katzaroff

Eugene & Anna Kocis

Renee Brendel-Konrad

Lourdes Guerrero

Erdenetsetseg Ganbaatar

Lisa & Aaron Labowitz

Randi & Xinna Severino

Jinhee Martinez

David & Laura Silverman

Matt & Miho Blumkin

Agnes Chun

Inna & Michael Kaplan

Stephanie & Reza Laleh

David & Frances Scott

Raquel Matsubayashi

Martha Lin

Dana Adelstein

Ilona Merrit

Maryam Abed

Andre Senasac

Satty & Gary Gill

Keiko Yetter

Tony & Carla Georgian

Judit Pitarresi

Stephanie Le

Vishal & Smriti Garg

Jeffrey & Grace Won Stone

John Hua & Aichun Yang

Jeffrey & Jill Horowitz

Kathy Lee

Rick & Lori Teraji

John & Alyson Rocha

Maritza Zamora

Kirk Bodyfelt

Ana Perez

Dalet Brady

Harvey & Renee Rose

Alan & Denise Drut

Tom & Ashley Dupont

Eugene George

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4 5

Bank Time Tuesday 1:34 Dismissal

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Bank Time Tuesday 1:34 Dismissal

School Picture

Make up day ——

Spirit Day: Wear

RED, WHITE &

BLUE to honor

our Veterans

NO SCHOOL

Veteran's

Day Holiday

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

14th—18th

Crazy Week

details will be

sent home with

students

Bank Time Tuesday

1:34 Dismissal

BPA Meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the auditorium

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

Regular Day 2:34 Dismissal

27 28 29 30

Bank Time Tuesday 1:34 Dismissal

November 2011

The Green Beat What happens to those little

plastic baggies once you’ve finished eating your sand-

wich? If you throw them in the trash, they either

make it to the local landfill where they will likely re-

main for hundreds of years or end up in our water-

ways and oceans. Sadly, up to one million sea birds

and one hundred thousand marine mammals are

killed each year by plastic trash. However, there is

some GOOD NEWS… Plastic sandwich bags and

wrappers can be recycled! Our friends at TerraCycle

upcycle plastic baggies into composite lumber, which

is used for outdoor decking, furniture and more. Last

year, Balboa Magnet students collected over 2,000

plastic baggies and, they have already collected nearly 1,000 baggies since school began this year! The news gets even better…

TerraCycle will donate 2 cents to Balboa Magnet for every baggie we collect!

Don’t forget… The next “Stop, Drop and Recycle” event is Friday morning, November 4th. Just drive up and drop off your

empty water bottles, printer ink cartridges, old cell phones, plastic Ziploc baggies, and empty glue sticks.

For more information, please contact Kelly Mitchell at kelly@juicyplants.com

FEELING MUSICAL?

Come help The Balboa Orchestra!

This year we have 135 students total in the or-

chestra, and only one teacher. This is 40 stu-

dents more than the district's recommended

number! In order to meet the needs of each student and

keep lessons moving forward smoothly we are looking for a

few helpers:

help with tuning violins

assistance during class time (especially

those with knowledge about playing flute,

clarinet, trumpet, or violin)

a piano accompanist (for the spring concert)

Contact Mio Hirako at mailto:mio.hirako@gmail.com

Stop Drop & Roll: Mrs. Klein’s Class 10/28 - 11/04

Stop Drop & Roll:

Mrs. Mussack’ s

class 11/07 - 11/15

Stop Drop & Roll: Mrs. Canas’ class 11/16 - 11/23

Coming up in December: Stop

Drop & Roll: Mrs. Honigberg’s

class 12/06 - 12/13

Stop Drop & Roll:

Ms. Donson’s class

11/28 - 12/05

Reflections Art Show 16th-18th

NO SCHOOL Thanksgiving

Day Holiday

Stop Drop & Roll: Mrs. Canas’ class 11/16 - 11/23