Update your child's Health and Enrollment Card periodically with current information or changes such as: phone number, address, emergency contacts, etc. as they occur.

If your child needs to take medication during the school day, please pick up a Medication Authorization form from the school office for your physician to complete. Bring the signed form along with the medication (in the original prescription bottle) to the office.

We need two parent volunteers who can assist with hearing screening on Monday, February 8th from 8am-2:30 pm. If you can help out, please contact the office at (408)736-2180.

If you wish to order a class portrait, please complete the order envelope and return it with your payment to your student's teacher. We are in need of two parents to help with pictures. If you are available, please call the office at 736-2180.

The whole school will be walking to raise funds for Nimitz. Sponsor forms will go home next week, but for one week only get your Healthy Heart Walk t-shirt, exclusively designed by Mr. Morwood. Look for the order form in this week's blue folder. We will need help with counting laps, so please email pta@mrjim.com for more information.

Fifth grade parents are invited to attend a meeting on Tuesday, February 2nd from 7:00-8:00pm in the Hyde multi-purpose room. Counselors will present information regarding the programs being offered to incoming sixth graders at Hyde. You will also have an opportunity to ask any questions you may have regarding middle school. This will be an information meeting only; therefore, we ask that only parents attend.

Family sing-along to your favorite songs from "Teaching Peace" to "I Think You're Wonderful" with Red Grammer at 3 p.m. at Carrington Hall, Sequoia High School, 1201 Brewster Ave., Redwood City.

Buy your $14 tickets by calling Music For Minors at 650-237-9130, online at www.mfm.org or at Artsopolis at www.artsopolis.com. Group discounts are available. Proceeds of the concerts will go to Music For Minors and benefit music education in local elementary schools, such as Nimitz school. If you would like to know more about the program at Nimtiz, or get involved in music in your own child's class, please contact Kathleen Virmani at kvirmani@aol.com.

Here are some ideas to consider:

Make reading a part of everyday life. Set aside time when everyone in the house reads. (Reading instant messages doesn't count.) In addition to helping your child improve his reading, it will give you some much-needed quiet time!

Keep reading aloud to your child. Bedtime is a natural time for read-alouds, but families find other ways to fit it into their schedule. You can read aloud while your child eats breakfast. Or have one person read while everyone else cleans up after dinner.

Give reading presents. Instead of one of those plastic toys that will probably break in 20 minutes, give a gift that will last forever. Buy your child books or bookstore gift cards.

Keep lots of reading material handy. The kid who won't read a novel might pick up a magazine about a favorite hobby.

Now that you have your resolutions, here are some tips on making sure you can keep them. First, make a plan. Without a plan, you may want a daily reading time, but you may not find a way to fit it in. Next, track your progress. Mark the calendar for every day you read aloud. Then reward yourselves. Rent a video based on a favorite book. Or plan a trip to a bookstore café.

     -Reprinted with permission from the January 2008 issue of Parents make the difference! ®

Kindergarten registration: February 1 - 11, 2010 at the neighborhood school. Parents may pick up a registration packet at their neighborhood school beginning January 25, 2010. Registration packets are numbered sequentially. The registration number on the packet is valid for packets returned between February 1 - February 11, 2010. Students must be residing in the district at the time of registration and be available for any necessary testing.

Open enrollment requests: February 5 - 11, 2010 at the school of desired attendance.

Alternative education program requests (Faria and Murdock-Portal grades K-5, McAuliffe, Mandarin Immersion and Home Study grades K-8) February 5 - 11, 2010 at the alternative program of your choice.

Registration for new students in grades 1 - 8 begins March 1, 201.

Parents may only apply to one school or program other than their neighborhood school.

Detailed registration and open enrollment information is available on the district website www.cupertino.k12.ca.us, by contacting the staff in your neighborhood school office or by contacting the Student Assignment Office, (408) 252-3000, extension 110.