Our annual Autumn @Scholastic #BOGO Book Fair is back (Nov 16-Nov 20 8:30a-2:30p in Rm 3) @EagleRockElem

PTA’s 2015-2016 Eagle Rock Elementary Fall Book Fair returns Monday, November 16th - Friday, November 20th from 8:30a - 2:30p in Room 3 (across from Main Office)

Have you been wondering how you might get a little more involved with the school community?  The Book Fair is a great opportunity; please take a minute to sign up for a two hour volunteer slot.  It is the amazing help of all of our parent volunteers taking time out of their busy schedules that makes our Book Fair so successful year after year.  Classrooms visit all day, but the busiest time is after school from 12:30-2:30.  Please note the book fair runs during our parent teacher conference week when school is dismissed early.  

Sign up for a volunteer time slot and thank you in advance!

Enjoy your Tricks and Treats | Follow these links for more info regarding Halloween facts and safety.

Halloween, which dates back to Celtic rituals thousands of years ago, has long been associated with images of witches, ghosts and vampires. Today, Halloween has evolved into a celebration characterized by child-friendly activities, such as costumes, trick-or-treating and carving pumpkins into jack-o’-lanterns.

The origin of our Western holiday known as Halloween is found in the ancient Celtic festival, Samhain (pronounced SOW-in). From present-day Ireland to the United Kingdom to Bretagne (Brittany), France, the ancient Celts marked this as one of their four most important festival quarter days of the year. Samhain commenced on the eve of October 31st, and ushered in the Celtic New Year on November 1st. The Celts experienced this as a liminal (threshold) period when the normally strict boundaries between the worlds of the living and the dead became mutable. On the eve of Samhain, they believed the veil between the two realms was the most transparent, allowing the spirits of those who have died to return to visit earth...

• Five Tips to Keep Your Halloween Safe (for Kids)
  
• Five Tips to Keep Your Halloween Safe (for Parents)
  
• Halloween Facts (2014) - Census
  
• Halloween Health and Safety Tips
  
• Novelty Makeup (Face Paint)
  
• Origins of Halloween and the Day of the Dead
  
• Today in History
  

Annual festival Fri, October 30 (3:00p - 5:00p) on the playground | $1 Tickets @EagleRockElem

Annual festival will take place on the school playground. Tickets are $1 and will be on sale during the festival.  Food and games are $1-$5. 

Our annual Eagle Rock Elementary Fall Festival needs lots of helping hands to make it run smoothly. Please consider signing up for one or more slots to continue our fun, effective, and traditional fundraising event!  

Go behind the scenes of our great city's great arts centers Sat 10/24 (10a-5p) FREE @musiccenterla

LA's home for world-class arts and culture turns inside out with open rehearsals, architecture tours, museum exhibitions, performances, food and drink, and kids film screenings. Grab the whole crew to take a peek behind-the-scenes for the ultimate Los Angeles field trip. Click the image below for more information.

Friday 10/30 3:00p-5:00p on the playground | Tickets for sale before school and @ festival

Eagle Rock Elementary Annual Halloween Festival is coming! Next Friday, October 30 from 3:00p - 5:00p in the school playground. Tickets are $1 and will be on sale before school Friday, October 23 -Thursday, October 29  and during the festival.  Food and games are $1-$5. 

Please do not wear masks, scary or gory costumes, or bring toy weapons. Thank you!

returns Sun 10/18 (9a-4p) with their 6 mile Heart of LA Route! #bikeLA @LACBC @cicLAvia 

CicLAvia - Heart of LA will celebrate what has become a Los Angeles institution on October 18 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. with a fifth-year anniversary route. CicLAvia began as an idea with an uncertain outcome when it first removed cars from the streets of downtown Los Angeles on October 10, 2010. Now, five years, fourteen events and hundreds of thousands of participants later, CicLAvia is the largest open streets event in North America.

Heart of LA will have six miles for participants to explore by bike, foot, skateboard, wheelchair and other non-motorized traffic. The route will take people through Boyle Heights, the Arts District, Little Tokyo, Civic Center, Chinatown, Historic Core and as far west as Macarthur Park. 

New to CicLAvia? Here are four things you need to know for October 18:

• It's FREE!
  
• It's not a race and you don't need a bike to participate. You can walk or skate to your heart's content.
  
• There's no beginning or end. You can start anywhere and go as far or as short as you want.
  
• The flow of participants goes both ways, just like regular traffic.

Visit @NasaJPL this weekend October 10-11 from 9:00a-4:00p for the 2015 Annual Open House @NASAJPL_Edu

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, invites the public to its annual Open House on October 10-11, 2015. The event is free of charge and takes visitors on a “ride” through the wonders of space. Highlights include a life-size model of Mars Science Laboratory, demonstrations from numerous space missions; JPL’s machine shop, where robotic spacecraft parts are built; and the Microdevices Lab, where engineers and scientists use tiny technology to revolutionize space exploration.

JPL is located at: 4800 Oak Grove Drive, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 91011

• Download the 2015 Open House Map Guide
  

Thanks to all of our #EagleRockElem school community for participating this past Wednesday!

We hope you enjoyed walking and biking to school with your Eagle Rock Elementary friends and parents and encourage you to continue to explore your neighborhood and beyond…on foot!

Join other #EagleRockElem families & families worldwide on Wed 10/7 at 7:40a #LASchools #LADOT

On Wednesday, October 7, Eagle Rock Elementary will participate in National Walk to School Day to celebrate the benefits of walking and biking. Walk to school with your family, or join with other families at one of the following meeting spots at 7:40am and walk to school together:

• Women’s 20th Century Club (Colorado Blvd & Hermosa Ave)
  
• Yosemite Rec Center (in front, 1840 Yosemite Drive)
  
• Senor Fish (Eagle Rock Blvd & Norwalk Ave)
  
• Christian Assembly Church (Colorado Blvd & College View Ave)

Remember to stop by the Lunch Pavilion and receive a sticker for participating!

Learn more at walkbiketoschool.org

 #LunarEclipse set to peak at 7:47p on Sun 9/27 | 1st in more than 3 decades #NASA #GriffithObservatory

Sunday’s supermoon eclipse will last 1 hour and 11 minutes, and will be visible to North and South America, Europe, Africa, and parts of West Asia and the eastern Pacific. Weather permitting, you can see the supermoon after nightfall, and the eclipse will cast it into shadow beginning at 5:11 p.m. PDT. The total eclipse starts at 7:11 p.m. PDT, peaking at 7:47 p.m. PDT. It will be the first supermoon eclipse since 1982, and the last until 2033.

Watch NASA’s live stream from 5:00 p.m. until at least 8:30 p.m. PDT broadcast from Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., with a live feed from the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, Calif. Mitzi Adams, a NASA solar physicist at Marshall will discuss the eclipse and answer questions from Twitter. To ask a question, use #askNASA.

"Supermoons" occur because the moon's orbit around Earth is elliptical rather than circular. While the moon's average distance from our planet is about 239,000 miles (384,600 kilometers), the natural satellite roams as far away as 252,000 miles (405,600 km) at "apogee" and gets as close as 226,000 miles (363,700 km) at "perigee."

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