Picture Day is here! We look forward to seeing the beautiful smiles of our Snowy Owls on Monday, August 25th as our Snowy Owls take their yearbook and ID pictures in the MPR.
On Friday, August 29th, we will be having our first Student Award Assemblies for the 2025-26 school year. We will be issuing Stellar Snowy Owl and FUERZA Awards to our Snowy Owl students:
- TK-1st Grade – 8:15 AM
- 2nd-3rd Grade – 8:50 AM
- 4th-6th Grade – 9:25 AM
Classroom teachers will be notifying the families of students who will be recognized in our August Snowy Owl Award Assembly.
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Be sure to stay up to date on school expectations and guidelines, by checking out our 2025-26 Family Handbook.
Snowy Owl Expectation Focus
Our goal at Sonia Sotomayor Elementary School is to create and maintain a positive and safe learning environment for all and hold students accountable for being positive forces within our school community. The Snowy Owl Expectations are taught, modeled, and practiced throughout all grade levels and locations around campus. This week, we will continue to focus and reinforce the expected behaviors for assemblies. We appreciate your support in asking your Snowy Owls at home what specific behaviors allow them to be safe, respectful, responsible, and kind during assemblies.
Day with the Chef
Our district chef will be back to prepare a fresh, made from scratch lunch item to serve to our Snowy Owls during their regular lunch period on Friday, August 29th. He will be preparing a delicious chicken salad wrap and pasta salad for lunch.
We will still offer the other normal choices that are on our lunch menu. We look forward to this fun and delicious opportunity for our Snowy Owls!
Accessing Student Apps at Home
Please look at the document below for assistance on how to support your student at accessing supplemental programs like iReady and Achieve 3000 at home.
Online Safety
Parents and legal guardians, please monitor your child’s activity on cell phones, online games, and computers. Online safety includes any computers, cell phone, gaming consoles, e-readers, tablets, and other devices. It is important to discuss with ALL CHILDREN (even at an early age) the following topics:
- Netiquette
- Looking at inappropriate content
- Pop-ups/Passwords
- Not trusting everyone and everything you see online
In addition, older children (tweens and teens) need to hear from trusted adults on:
- Cyberbullying
- Sexting
- Posting personal/inappropriate information (pornography, violence, hate speech, illegal activities)
- Meeting offline with others
We recommend that parents stay calm and level-headed when speaking to children about these topics. Often well-intentioned parents threaten to take away items and punish children when they are found exploring online and that just creates other problems that could be potentially more serious down the line. Ask your child if they are aware of conflicts between students via social media, online gaming, and other apps. Build trust and answer questions they have in an age-appropriate way.
We encourage parents to check out additional resources for online safety at https://www.missingkids.org/netsmartz/videos#elementary.
Other helpful resources are Common Sense Media and Internet Matters. Those links are below:
We recommend that parents monitor carefully access to online websites, gaming, and social media. Seemingly innocent websites, such as YouTube, often link to videos geared for a more mature audience, including websites and videos. Please see this helpful resource: https://onlinemasteroflegalstudies.com/resources/how-parents-educators-protect-childrens-online-privacy/
Attendance Matters
We want to see our Snowy Owls at school everyday! Every week, we will continue to highlight and award those classes with the highest attendance through morning announcements. When students attend class regularly and on time, opportunities for successful learning increase. Consequently, the importance of regular on-time attendance cannot be overemphasized. Please make sure your child is here by 7:55 AM and lined up on the soccer field. School attendance is required by law. Parents/guardians of children between the ages of six and eighteen years of age are responsible for sending their children to school every day and on time. If your child must be out sick, please contact the office at sotomayor.school@cvesd.org to excuse the absence. Remember to bring a doctor’s note when going to the doctor or dentist.
YMCA
We’re excited to invite you and your family to two upcoming opportunities at the YMCA:
🏠 YMCA Child Youth Open House – Come See What’s New!
We’d love for you to stop by our upcoming Open House at our Southbay Family YMCA branch. This is a great time to check out all the programs and services the YMCA offers. There will be activities, info booths, and fun for the whole family!
🍁 Fall Break Camp Registration Is Now Open!
Our Fall Break Camp is the perfect place for your child to stay active, engaged, and safe while school is out. Registration is now open, flyers with full details on both events are attached to this email!
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