If you wish to order a portrait, please complete the order envelope and return it with your payment to your student's teacher.

After the students finish their lunch period (around 12:45), students' families are invited to come and share the remaining food.

If you are interested in volunteering to help setup, serve, or clean up at the Thanksgiving Feast, you can let us know through the flyer or online at http://www.nimitzpta.org/feast/. If you have questions, please email diversity@mrjim.com.

     -Nimitz Diversity Committee

Last Wednesday Cupertino Union School District Board Members Anjali Kausar and Phyllis Vogel visited Nimitz. They toured our classrooms and campus. We appreciate that they took the time to visit our school.

Family admission cost is a box of disinfecting wipes, tissues or hand sanitizer. Popcorn and candy will be sold by our student council. All children must be accompanied by an adult. The doors will open at 6:45pm and the movie will start at 7:00pm.

We are in need of the following items:

• Egg cartons! We need soooo many (for painting)
• Paper plates (for painting)
• Old wrapping paper from parties, birthdays, weddings, baby showers (collage)
• Scraps of cloth (collage)
• Old buttons (collage)
• Sponges

Please drop them by the art room any time and leave them on the table. Thanks!

     -Angela Hansen, Nimitz Art Teacher

This presentation will address five ways you can encourage your child to grow wings, so they will be ready to take flight as adults. These are:

• Helping your child confront challenges
• Encouraging your child to take responsibility for mistakes and to fix them
• Enabling your child to do what they are capable of
• Seeing your child pursue their own talents
• Supporting your child to make decisions with confidence

Maria Klein is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She is committed to helping families work together through difficult times. We hope you will attend this special presentation.

Our lost and found bags are overflowing with shirts, jackets, lunchboxes and backpacks. Please remember to check the bags located near the restrooms. Any unclaimed items will be donated to charity. Please write your child's name on their backpacks, lunch boxes and on the labels of their jackets, so that items can be returned if they are lost and then found.

Please make sure all information between you and your child is taken care of before school. The school office cannot call into your child's classroom to give a message during school hours If needed, a message will be sent to the teacher; however, there is no guarantee that the teacher will check their messages until the end of the school day.

Saturday, January 30, 2010 starting at 5:30 p.m.
Fairmont Hotel, San Jose

Save the date and plan now to join friends in celebrating our children's dreams for the future at the Cupertino Educational Endowment Foundation's (CEEF) annual Gala on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. Proceeds from our 2010 "Dreams are made of..." themed Gala will benefit arts and innovative technology programs at each of our district schools.

For more information or to add your name to the invitation list, please email CEEF at gala@ceefcares.org.

The Santa Clara County Public Health Department guidance recommends that, based on current flu conditions, students and staff with flu-like illness stay home until at least 24 hours after they no longer have a fever or signs of a fever without the use of fever-reducing medications (any medicine that contains ibuprofen or acetaminophen).

You can help keep our schools healthy by adhering to the following guidelines:

• Continue to enforce proper hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette - The recommendations continue to emphasize the importance of the basic foundations of disease prevention: stay home when sick, wash hands frequently with soap and water when possible or alcohol based hand sanitizer, and cover noses and mouths with a tissue when coughing or sneezing (or a shirt sleeve or elbow if no tissue is available).
• Leave accurate information as requested on the school's absence line if your child is sick. This will help the school identify any potential issues as soon as possible.
• Promptly pick up your child from school if they are sent home for being ill. The school will keep ill students separated from others until they can be sent home. Please make sure that the school office has your updated contact information.
• Any returning students after an illness with a fever will need to have their temperature taken in the school office before returning to class. Teachers will be sending returning students back to the office to have their temperatures taken if they arrive directly to the classroom without being cleared.