Funding for the "extras" that help make Vintage special come from PTA fundraising efforts. These extras include field trips, assembly presentations, library, computer, and science staffing, and more.  Please help out by making a purchase from the Charleston Wrap catalogs that are being sent home with your student(s).  Encourage friends, relatives, neighbors, and co-workers to help. Sale begins Thursday, Oct. 1, Orders are due Wednesday, Oct. 14, and delivery will be Wed., Nov. 18.   

 By registering your student first on the website (to ensure you and the school receive credit for the online sale), you and friends can shop online at http://www.charlestonwrap.com. Vintage's school online ID is: 8084.

Checks can be made out to: Vintage Magnet PTA (Do not add sales tax)
Fill out order form completely. Return top three copies of the order form in envelope with payment. (Gold copy is for your records).

Personalized and online only items must be ordered online at www.charlestonwrap.com.  

Prizes will be awarded.  See brochure being sent home for details.  Thank you for support!

Friday, Sept. 25th, 2015, Mrs. Mourao presented at Vintage's PTA meeting a PowerPoint slide show about last year's Smarter Balance Assessment (SBAC) tests taken by Vintage students in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade.  Assessment reports are being mailed home starting late September.  These reports replace the Star Student Reports from past years. The results will be help teachers identify area where they may need to review or re-teach and will be helpful to families to identify areas that they can  help support student learning at home.
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A copy of the presentation is below or you may click here to down load a PDF version.  (Note: the Scrib'd presentation may show overlapping of words and/or graphics.)

Saturday, September 19, 2015 was the first of our two school beautification days.  What an amazing group of volunteers we had show up ready to do whatever we asked of them. Their energy was amazing. They rolled up their sleeves, grabbed tools and cleaning products and set to work.  We had volunteers bring power washers and give the eating area a super power wash.  One parent arranged for the city to donate mulch and a team of helpers spread it out over campus.  We can't wait to see the campus turn lush with the help of the mulch.  Many classrooms and other spots around campus received a lot of TLC from volunteers.  Others grabbed trimmers, brooms, hoes, and rakes and made our parking areas, entrance areas, and other areas around campus look .   Thank you so much to everyone that came out (in the 90+ temperatures) and showed their school pride.  Your efforts made a big difference!  Check out some photos from that busy morning. We will be adding more as they are sent to us.

Thanks to the families ....
Levine
Genna
Crisanto
Ramirez
Cado
Young
Goldberg
Karapetian
Marical
Audreiovia
Salamanca
Laghaie
Rubalcava
Wickramasinghe
McNichols
Liamas
Tovmasyan
Reyes
Ramirez
Wilson
Osgood
Berrios
Darie
Lumlen
Magana
Kobus
Gomez
Jasso
Godinez
Rico
Andalon
Aguirre
Ulloa
Romas
Molina
Fletes
Larson
Jimenez
Luna
Parade
Koch
Berzunza
Kim
Sorry if we misspelled anyone's name or left any off.  Feel feel to send corrections/additions to: dstone02@lausd.net.

A big thanks to Vintage Staff that came out:
Beautification Committee members: Mrs. Jen Hall, Mrs. Debbie Hall, Mr. Goldberg
Others:  Mr and Mrs. Mourao, Mrs. Stone, Mr. Wingfield, Mr. Reinitz, 

5th Grade Vintage Parents and Guardian,  if you want  your child to attend a magnet school you will need to apply this fall.  Tours are being held at the middle school magnets to help you in selected the right school for your child.  As we hear of tours, we will let you know.  Click below to download a schedule of tour times for Porter, Patrick Henry, and Holmes.

Monday, Sept. 28th students will have their school photo taken.  They don't have to wear their uniform on picture day.   Please make sure the clothing they do wear is something  they can play in and is proper attire for a school. A percentage of the order cost will be donated back to our school.  So practice your smile and say, "cheese."  More information can be found at the photographers website: http://www.imagesbycornerstone.com

Event Code: vintagemagnet15

PTA invites you to join them as they plan Vintage's annual Fall Festival.  The Fall Festival is a fun-filled family event held in the evening. This is a great opportunity to participate and get to know other Vintage parents and families.  The success of the event depends on the participation of many people.  We hope you will be one of them this year.  If you haven't attended one before, click here to check out photos from s past event.  Anyone is invited to the meeting which will be held in the school library on Monday night, September 28th at 6PM.

The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium is one of two multistate consortia awarded funding from the U.S. Department of Education to develop an assessment system based on the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS). To achieve the goal that all students leave high school ready for college and career, Smarter Balanced is committed to ensuring that assessment and instruction embody the CCSS and that all students, regardless of disability, language or subgroup status, have the opportunity to learn this valued content and to show what they know and can do.

The core components of Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments are:

•  Mandatory comprehensive accountability measures that include computer adaptive assessments and performance tasks, administered in the last 12 weeks of the school year in grades 3–8 and 11 for English language arts(ELA)/literacy and mathematics;

•  Designed to provide valid, reliable and fair measures of students’ progress toward and attainment of the knowledge and skills required to be college- and career-ready;

•  Capitalize on the strengths of computer adaptive testing (e.g. efficient and precise measurement across the full range of achievement and quick turnaround of results); and,

•  Produce composite content area scores, based on the computer adaptive items and performance tasks.

LEARN MORE AND GET INVOLVED
Visit SmarterBalanced.org to learn more about the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and sign-up to receive our monthly eNewsletter. For more information, please contact Info@SmarterBalanced.org.

Check out the video below for more information:
Understanding Your Child's Core Report Video

On Sat., Sept. 19 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., Vintage families and community are invited to join us for 2 hours for some good clean fun at Vintage.  Help make our school beautiful for our students.  Come out and show school pride by cleaning rooms, raking, trimming, scrubbing, weeding, mulching, hosing down areas, and more around the campus.  If you can't come that day, you can help by donating cleaning supplies or funds to be used for school beautification.    (Make checks to Vintage Student Body.)

Special Request:  If you have a wheelbarrow that you can share with us that day to move mulch around campus, please let Mrs. Stone know at dstone02@lausd.net.  Below is a list of other items that we could use:

PLEASE BRING THAT DAY OR SEND ANY CLEANING SUPPLIES TO ROOM 29 or LEAVE THEM IN THE OFFICE FOR MRS. J HALL Rm. 29 by 9/17.

____ Lysol or Clorox Wipes          ____ rakes                                     
____ paper towels                        ____ shovels
____ swiffers with dusters            ____ leaf blowers                 
____ brooms                                ____ hedge trimmers   
____ Windex                                 ___ large bags of soil
-------Power Washer


Label your tools with a marker with your child’s name and room number especially if you will not be able to attend, so we can get them back to you.  

If you would like to clean the rug for the teacher your child is in, please ask and arrange it with the teacher first.  You will need to provide the shampooer and the cleaner.  Some teachers have a new rug and will not want their rug cleaned. 

If you, or someone you know, are interested in learning more about Vintage's magnet program and the campus, please attend one of our tours.  Click here for a downloadable copy of the schedule.