A flyer for Box Tops for Education will be going home with your child before Winter Break, please be sure to pull it out of their backpack and post it in a spot that will remind you to collect them. 

Through your contributions of Box Tops, Vintage Magnet earned over $600.00, that puts us at more than half way towards our goal of $1,100. Yay, us!!   All money received from Box Tops, helps Vintage Magnet continue to provide our students with important programs and services that are vital to further the quality of their education. Let's continue to work towards this program's success!

The deadline date to turn in Box Tops for this new season is February 19th, 2016. You can tape/glue the UNEXPIRED Box Tops to the flyer, DO NOT staple, and simply return the flyer with your child. You may print as many of the attached flyers needed or you can submit Box Tops in an envelope with your child's Room number printed on the outside. There is also a drop off box in the main office for your convenience.  

There is a contest for the classes with the most Box Tops submitted, so let's get busy and help our child's class be among the winners!!! 

Box Tops For Education Flyer

Dec. 16 through Jan 10th, Vintage Magnet and Menchie's at 17840 Chatsworth Street, Granada Hills are helping to raise money for Vintage Magnets Class of 2016.  Please support our 5th graders by stopping buy and treating the family to a Menchie's frozen yogurt.  Twenty percent of your purchase will be donated back to Vintage.  

DON'T FORGET TO MENTION YOU ARE FROM VINTAGE!  Thank you so much.

Vintage Student, Fernanda P. was the winner of the FOCAL essay contest for the second year in a row! Writing an essay response to the book, Separate is Never Equal by Duncan Tonotiuh, Fernanda was chosen as the winner of the 3rd-4th grade category. She won last year, as well, after writing about The Tree Lady, by H. Joseph Hopkins. Winners are chosen in 3rd-4th, 5th-6th and 7th-8th grades.

FOCAL (Friends of Children And Literature) chooses a book to honor each year and schools all over are given the opportunity to have their students enter. Our librarian, Mrs. Forbes, reads the book to as many classes as she is able to and offers the students the opportunity to enter. Essays are written and re-written to perfection and are then submitted.

As part of her award, Fernanda, along with Mrs. Forbes, her teacher, Mr. Goldberg, and her mother, Heidy Reyes, attended a luncheon on Saturday in downtown Los Angeles. Fernanda was invited to read her essay in front of everyone and received a signed book from the author.

The story was about a woman named Sylvia Mendez, whose parents fought for the rights of Mexican children to attend any school they chose during a time of segregation. Mrs. Mendez attended the luncheon and Fernanda had the privilege of being able to sit with her and talk about her story.

Students will be invited to enter the next year's essay contest some time the end of October.

Sepulveda Middle School will host on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015, from 8AM to 2PM in Room 4 prescreening and application assistance for free or low-cost health insurance will be provided (Evaluación y asistencia con la solicitud de seguro médico gratuito o de bajo costo.) Download or read the flyer below for important details for what you will need to bring to the meeting.  

English Flyer
Spanish Flyer

Vintage Magnet’s Monster Book Fair just ended with a bang! To date, this was the most successful book fair at Vintage bringing in record profits and donations! Profits from our book fair will support our library program and bring in hundreds of new books for our students to read!

Thank you to our teachers and students for “Feeding the Monster” in our All for Books Campaign. Classes fed a plastic milk jug monster for about 10 days and brought in at total of $1458.44 in donations. The top winning classes were
K-1 – Ms. Rodgers
2-3 – Mrs. Kamberian
4-5 – Mrs. Maar
These classes will receive a Monsterrific Popcicle Party and books for their classroom library. In addition, Scholastic will donate 1,458 books to children in need!

A huge thank you to all the parent volunteers who helped in so many different ways. Your help is so appreciated. A special thank you to the Monster Mom Committee (listed below) who spearheaded this whole event alongside Mrs. Forbes, our librarian.
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Tammy Larsen Heidy Reyes
Lorena Hernandez Carol Mena
Gayane Gofman Violeta Alarcon
Linda Carlin Audra Murillo
Sandra Kenig Lizette Castro
Laura Godoy Suzie Vicuna
Cindy Valles Nancy Alderete
Kim Potter

Our spring book fair will be held in May of 2016! We look forward to seeing everyone there!

As the first half of the school year is coming to an end there are still many things to be excited for other than Vintage famous Holiday show that will be December 17 & 18.

GIRLS BASKETBALL
Vintage has been playing in the annual after school tournament that has over 200 school entries from the San Fernando Valley. Both teams entered the final round of the Valley Regional Finals with a 5-0 record respectively.
This past Saturday (December 5) the girls basketball team needed 3 wins to be called champions. After 2 wins, they knew that they were 1 win away from becoming the only girl’s team to ever win a championship in Vintage History!  The game began, it looked like it was not going to be easy. As the game started to run out of time, Vintage managed to take care of their lead and win by 2 points! The girls ran to their coach with excitement and joy as they were happy to say “We are the champions!”
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BOYS BASKETBALL
Right after the girl’s game, the boys’ basketball team congratulated the girls as they too had a goal in mind to win first place as well. They too had very dramatic games to get to the final championship game.
Lemay Vs Vintage was a classic game like the Lakers/Celtics as both teams wanted to win and were playing really well. The game goes to over time and Vintage is losing by 4 points when Christian M. hits a 3 pointer to keep it close and Gavin M finds a way to steal the ball and score again. Vintage was now winning by 1 point as the time ran out and they too ran to their coach in disbelief to see that they won the championship game!
All the hard work that the boys and girls had put paid off, and they showed the world that Vintage is the Best! All the support from the parents and staff helped and are very fortunate to say they are the Boys & Girls Valley Champions of Basketball.
 
What’s Next?
The Boys and Girls Basketball team will have a school bus take them to the District-Wide Finals.
Where: Sotomayor High School  (2050 N. San Fernando Rd. Los Angeles, CA 90065)
Time: 9:00 am 
When: December 12, 2015.
 
Hope you all can make it and help Vintage claim the City Championship!
LETS GO VINTAGE!!!!
 
-Coach Walter

Get your "I Support Vintage" t-shirts for $10.  For a Limited Time, Vintage Magnet PTA will be selling Navy Blue T-shirts with our Vinty Bear mascot on the front and the caption “I Support Vintage Magnet PTA”. The T-shirts will sell for $10.00 each and are available in Youth and Adult sizes. Students will be allowed to wear these t-shirts as part of the school uniform. A limited amount of T-shirts will be available for purchase on Tuesday, December 8th during our Monster Book Fair / In-N-Out event.  Proceeds from our T-shirt sale will be utilized to continue funding and improving various programs for our Vintage Students. We look forward to your support!
 
- Vintage Magnet PTA
 

 Hour of Code is coming Dec. 7-13.  World wide students are learning about computer coding and creating lines of code themselves. The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics.  There are activities for all ages.  The Hour of Code group have done an awesome job breaking down coding into fun, easy to complete, game-like lessons.  

Students, get your parents and family members to join in on the fun.  Check out the new Star Wars and Minecraft coding activities.  Tynker.com has also added more Hour of Code free coding challenges. There are also apps for your tablet.   Click here for to link to Vintage's Coding Links page.