First meeting of the school year | Wed, 09/18 (6:30p) MPR | Refreshments and Childcare provided!

Please join us for our First General Association Meeting of the 2013-2014 School Year.  Come meet our great parents and teachers, learn about volunteer opportunities and consider taking on a role as a PTA Board Member as we'll be voting to fill the following vacancies: President, Historian, Hospitality Chair and Auditor. 

Learn about our planned activities and goals for the 2013-2014 school year and Fundraising Targets. 

Refreshments and Childcare provided.  See you there!

21MM U.S. kids get free/reduced-priced lunch | Only 1/2 get breakfast, even though eligible

Please join Mrs. Stephanie Leach, Principal as she leads a conversation regarding Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC), later this morning, September 11th in the Multi-Purpose Room at 8:15a. Please come for answers to your many questions!

Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC) will begin for everyone at Eagle Rock Elementary on September 23rd. Our school or any other school for that matter cannot opt-out; however, participation is not mandatory as no student is ever required to take any meal offered by LAUSD Food Services Division (breakfast or lunch). 

LAUSD has a total K-12 enrollment of 664,233 students (as of Oct 2011), second to NYC of whom there are:

• Low-Income Students: 450,394
• School Breakfast Participation: Low-Income Students: 124,426
• School Lunch Participation: Low-Income Students: 238,173
• % of Low-Income Students Who Participate in School Breakfast: 28%
• % of Low-Income Students Who Participate in School Lunch: 53%
• Source: BreakfastFirst.org
  

This leaves over 300,000 students (up to 400,000 depending on the data sources) throughout our school community (Eagle Rock and beyond) that are potentially not having breakfast...which is the target audience.  Additionally, this is district wide, K-12 so even our older students can get access to nutrition if they can't at home, whatever the reason.

According to the LAUSD, many teachers are using this "breakfast time" for business as usual, like collecting homework and taking attendance while others use it to teach students about health/nutrition, sustainability and recycling or simply having the kids read or do other school work.

Whether these are the most nutritionally valuable foods to eat depends on our views as parents; however, LAUSD adopted the USDA Healthier US Challenge nutrition standards – the program promoted by First Lady Michelle Obama in Let’s Move campaign to reduce childhood obesity.  Interested to know what's being served? You can always access the school menu here. 

Lastly, food waste can be minimized once the program is implemented at ERE, considering that the number of meals served will be adjusted as student participation is assessed.

Please click the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) to learn more...

1781, El Pueblo de la Reina de Los Angeles (The Town of the Queen of the Angels) is founded

Today, September 4, 2013 marks the 232nd birthday of the founding of our great city.

The story of Los Angeles' founding begins with a Russian expedition to North America in the 1730s and 1740s. Although Spain had laid claim to Alta California for nearly two centuries, it had never settled the land, which lay along the northwestern reaches of its vast American empire. But when a Russian expedition, led by the Danish explorer Vitus Bering, reached Alaska in 1741, it became clear that the Russian empire, expanding eastward over the Eurasian landmass and across the soon-to-be-named Bering Strait, might harbor territorial ambitions toward Spanish California... Learn More

Image credit: Pre-1869 view of the Los Angeles Plaza. Courtesy of the California Historical Society Collection, USC Libraries.

No School tomorrow Thursday, September 5 | Happy New Year to members of our Jewish Community!

School will reconvene on Friday, September 6th. Tomorrow, September 5th is also "Rosh Hashanah" which is the Jewish New Year. It is the first of the High Holy Days or Yamim Nora'im ("Days of Awe") which usually occur in the early autumn of the Northern Hemisphere and is a two-day celebration, which begins on the first day of Tishrei. Rosh Hashanah customs include sounding the shofar (a hollowed-out ram's horn) and eating symbolic foods such as apples dipped in honey to evoke a "sweet new year".

Today, 9/3 is the start of Early Dismissal Tuesdays | All
students will be dismissed at 1:35p

Early dismissal Tuesdays allow our teachers and staff to participate in Professional Development (PD).