May 20th from 4:00-7:00 pm!! More information to come.
We will be collecting donations for our auction. Each classroom has picked a theme. Your child’s teacher will be communicating with you about donating to the classroom auction baskets. If any of you have a talent for making baskets after we have received the donations, let me or your teacher know. cynthia.orr@cvesd.org
Testing Starts this Week
6th Grade will be the only grade level testing this week.
Monday and Tuesday: ELA
Wednesday and Thursday: Math
End Of Year Testing
Our students will be participating in End-of-Year testing starting this week and continuing throughout the quarter. Below is the most current schedule which contains all grade levels and the assessments that they will be taking. Most assessments will be given in the morning on the days listed. Local Measures are district-level assessments to show growth (TK-6th) and CAASPP (Grades 3-6) are state-wide assessments.
Local Measures consist of Smarty Ants (Grades TK-2), Level Set (Grades 2-6), and iReady Diagnostic (Grades TK-6). These are similar to what students have taken this year at both the beginning and mid-year.
CAASPP was last administered in the 2018-2019 school year, as they have been canceled the last two years due to COVID closures. This year, it is our understanding the CAASPP will be about half of the length that it was previously. If you would like to see the types of questions that might be asked, you can visit www.caaspp.org and view the practice tests per grade level. Grades 3-6 will be tested in Language Arts and Math. Fifth grade will also be assessed in Science.
If you have any questions, please reach out to your child’s teacher or to me at cynthia.orr@cvesd.org.
Important Dates
Wednesday, April 27th – McMillin School Site Council (3:00-4:00) *SSC Agenda 04_27_2022
Monday, May 30th – Memorial Day – No School
Thursday, June 2nd – 6th Grade Promotion (9:00 am-10:00 am)
What an amazing turnout for our Family Military Picnic to celebrate our Military children. Did you know we have over 180 active Military families? Thank you for making this day special for our children that serve our country.
Spring Carnival Planning
Come one Come all!!
Please join us Tuesday, April 18, at 6pm on Zoom to help plan this year’s SPRING CARNIVAL. We will like this event to be a huge success so please come out and help make this event a very special one!!!
If you cannot make this meeting but wish to help, please email me at Ebonycummings90@gmail.com or text/call me at (619) 410-2719. Thank you, everyone
April is Month of the Military Child and we have some fun activities planned for our students.
Spring Carnival Planning Committee
Please join us Tuesday, April 12 at 5pm at McMillin’s lunch table to help plan this year’s SPRING CARNIVAL. We will like this event to be a huge success so please come out and help make this event a very special one!!! If you can not make this meeting but wish to help can you please email me at Ebonycummings90@gmail.com or text/call me at (619) 410-2719. Thank you, everyone
Beyond Awareness Assembly
We had a wonderful Beyond Awareness Virtual Assembly last Wednesday. Talk to your child about the wonderful experience of getting to talk to people who are more than their disabilities. This year students were able to experience:
How to Talk About Disability with Students
Disability History – Ed Roberts: Champion of Disability Rights, Lessons 1-3
Sign Language ABC’s
Let’s Go Beyond Awareness Poster
Thank you, Ms. Galang and Mrs. Carson for a wonderful learning experience.
Important Dates
Tuesday, April 12th – Spring Carnival Planning Meeting (5:00 pm)
Wednesday, April 13th –
McMillin Safety Committee (3:00-4:00)
District Board Meeting (6:00 pm) See District Website for Virtual link cvesd.org
Tuesday, April 19th – DAC/DELAC – 12:00 – 2:00 *Virtual Meeting, link to follow
Thursday, April 21st – McMillin ELAC meeting (3:00-4:00) *Virtual Meeting, link to follow
Friday, April 15th – PURPLE UP for the Military Child
Wednesday, April 27th – McMillin School Site Council (3:00-4:00) *Virtual Meeting, link to follow
Monday, May 30th – Memorial Day – No School
Thursday, June 2nd – 6th Grade Promotion (9:00 am-10:00 am)
We are so excited to see everyone on Monday. This is going to be a fun and exciting 4th quarter.
****Remember that Monday, April 4th is a minimum day.
New Mask Rules at McMillin
Wearing a mask at school is no longer mandated but it is strongly recommended. See this video made by our wonderful school counselor. Here is the link
Please share with your child.
Last Call for McMillin’s 2021-2022 School Yearbooks
This is the last week that McMillin Yearbooks will be on sale!!! There will not be any for sale at the end of the year. The yearbook has to be preordered. So don’t miss out, order today.
To Purchase & Customize Your Yearbook Must be a parent or student 13 years or older. Add photos from your computer, Facebook. Instagram, Google Drive & more.
Answer fun Memory Questions to help remember the year.
Enter your school’s passcode: 1016340634114249
The 2 Custom Pages are FREE and are printed ONLY in your book. Want more pages? Each additional 2 pages is just $0.99,
Regular Price: $30.23
Deadline: Apr 8
School Volunteers
Here is a new volunteer checklist for our volunteers. Make sure you check with your child’s teacher to see what the volunteer needs for that classroom.
Our PTA is excited to announce that we are planning our Spring Carnival. It has been a couple of years and we would love to see our families all on campus again for some fun. We need your help to plan. If you would like to get involved and help us plan for this big outdoor event tentatively scheduled for May 20th, please join us at the outside lunch area behind the office at 5:30 pm on Tuesday, April 5th.
State and Local Measures Testing
Here is McMillin’s calendar for our state and Local Measures testing.
Local Measures (LM) assessments are for all of our district students.
Kinder – 6th grade will take an iReady assessment for math.
3rd – 6th grade will take an Achieve 3000 Level Set assessment for Reading.
CAASPP-California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress is for all students in the state of California.
3rd – 6th grade will take English Language Arts (ELA) and Math.
COVID test kits were distributed the last week of quarter 3. We ask that you please use this test Sunday, April 3 before returning to school.
While there is no statewide testing mandate for students returning to school, we highly encourage you to use the kits to test your children for COVID-19 before returning from the spring break on April 4, 2022, to help keep in-person school safe for everyone.
Testing will occur every Tuesday. If you have consented to test at a COVID kiosk at Eastlake Elementary, it is also giving consent to testing at school. If you have registered your child and they have not been tested, it means there was either a mistake with the birth date, or you put a parent’s name where the child’s name must be in the form. Simply re-register using the link below.
Please use the blacktop after school to pick up students. This was created to get cars off of Santa Cora Ave. Yes, it will take around 10-15 minutes to pick up your child, so plan on that.
The condo complex across the street from McMillin has called me to complain about parents going into their complex to pick up students. They will start ticketing and using security to stop the traffic into their complex. Please be kind to our neighbors.
Our parking lot is for parents/guardians picking up their kinder, TK, and SDC students only. These students need to be picked up at the classroom door so please let them park.
CLICK HERE to register your TK, Kinder or NEW student for the 2022-23 school year
Thank you to those who donated to the South Bay YMCA fundraiser! We met our goal!!
Important Dates
Monday, April 4th – Minimum Day
Tuesday, April 5th – Spring Carnival Planning Meeting (5:50 pm)
Tuesday, April 19th – DAC/DELAC – 12:00 – 2:00 *Virtual Meeting, link to follow
Thursday, April 21st – McMillin ELAC meeting (3:00-4:00) *Virtual Meeting, link to follow
Wednesday, April 27th – McMillin School Site Council (3:00-4:00) *Virtual Meeting, link to follow
Last Call for McMillin’s 2021-2022 School Yearbooks
Spring Carnival
Parking
