This Wednesday 11/19 6:30p | Multipurpose Room (MPR) | Refreshments & Childcare Provided

Please join us for our next General Meeting of the PTA and bring a friend and we look forward to seeing you there!

Wednesday 11/19 marks the 151st Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, PA | 11/19/1863 

• Anniversary of Gettysburg Address
  
• Gettysburg Address - Library of Congress
  
• Gettysburg Address (Primary Documents) - Library of Congress
  
• Gettysburg Address (High Res PDF and Transcript) - OurDocuments.gov
  
• Pamphlet of President Abraham Lincoln Speeches
  
• Today in History
  
• Guides: Gettysburg National Military Park
  
• Map: Gettysburg and Vicinity, Showing the Lines of Battle, July 1863
  

celebrate significant contributions of the First Americans #NAHeritageMonth

What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S., has resulted in the month of November being designated for that purpose.

• American History Relating to Native Americans - National Archives
  
• National American Indian Heritage Month - National Park Service
  
• National Museum of the American Indian - For Educators and Students
  
• Native American Heritage Month - National Endowment for the Humanities
  
• Native Americans - Library of Congress
  
• Native Voices: Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness
  
• Lesson Plans: Native American Heritage Month - TeachingHistory.org
  
• Lesson Plans: Native Voices
  

To our school community for your support during the 2014 Annual PTA #BOGO #Scholastic #BookFair!

#Fundraiser at #TheHabit | On Tuesday, Nov 11 from 4p-10p #EagleRockElem will receive 20% of sales

Your invited to our Dine Out Fundraiser for Eagle Rock Elementary this Tuesday, Nov. 11th at The Habit from 4pm-10pm. Feel free to dine out with Eagle Rock's familiar faces or pick up your dinner to go. 20% of your order goes back to our school! Hope to see you there.

The Habit
7307 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90041
(in the Vons Shopping Plaza)

School holiday when we honor all the men and women veterans of all wars-Thanks for your service!

There will be no school tomorrow, Tuesday, November 11 in observance of Veterans Day.

Veterans Day originated as “Armistice Day” on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. 

Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day–a common misunderstanding, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Memorial Day (the fourth Monday in May) honors American service members who died in service to their country or as a result of injuries incurred during battle, while Veterans Day pays tribute to all American veterans–living or dead–but especially gives thanks to living veterans who served their country honorably during war or peacetime.

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Our Annual Autumn PTA #Scholastic #BookFair is going on now through Friday 11/14. Buy One Get One Free!

Just in time for your early Christmas shopping, our annual Buy One Get One (BOGO) free event is going on now through Friday, November 14 from 8:30-2:30p in Room 3.

will take place all week at 12:45p. Regular YDP &Youth Services will be available at 12:45. Please make necessary adjustments to childcare. 

Midterm elections Tue, Nov 4 | Visit your polling place | Make your voice count! #lwvlosangeles 

• Voter Guide for LA County
  
• Find Your Polling Place
• Find Your Senator 
  
• Find Your Representative 
• First Day of Congress 
• What is Congress? 
  
• Poster: 3 Branches of Government

Ended Sun Nov 2 (2:00a) | If you haven't done so, please set your clocks back one hour!

Daylight Savings Time (DST) is also used to save energy and reduce artificial light needed during the evening hours - clocks are set one hour ahead in Spring and one hour back to Standard Time in the Autumn.

Benjamin Franklin first suggested Daylight Savings Time in 1784; however, modern DST was not proposed until 1895 when an entomologist from New Zealand, George Vernon Hudson, presented a proposal for a two-hour daylight saving shift to the Wellington Philosophical Society.

The conception of DST was mainly credited to an English builder, William Willett in 1905, when he presented the idea to advance the clock during the summer months. His proposal was published two years later and introduced to the House of Commons in February 1908. The first Daylight Saving Bill was examined by a select committee but was never made into a law. It was not until World War I, in 1916, that DST was adopted and implemented by several countries in Europe who initially rejected the idea. 

Currently, most of the US observes DST except for Hawaii and most of Arizona, and the US insular areas of Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam.

Learn more on the History of Daylight Savings Time