When: Friday, February 10 from 1:00-3:00 pm
Where: Cedar Grove Park. 11385 Pioneer Road, Tustin 92782
Info: Contact EF Lorie Taylor to RSVP

What to bring:

1. When you RSVP, give the number of children that will participate and a food item you would like to bring (cookies, chips/dip, cupcakes, vegie plate, drinks, etc.)
2. Valentines – once we know how many children will participate, an email will go out with the number of Valentines to plan on bringing.

Hope you can make it!!

4th Grade Writing
STAR Writing Preparation Tutorial
February 15, 2012
10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Instructor: Melissa Webb

Help your child be better prepared for this year’s state writing test. In this tutorial eclass, your child will learn tips and insights on how to raise his or her writing score. We will explore what style or genre may be asked of them, how they will be scored, and ways to ensure a successful experience.

Register today

7th Grade Writing
STAR Writing Preparation Tutorial
February 15, 2012
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Instructor: Christy Hartman, English Department Co-chair

Come join us for a one hour session focused on preparing for the 7^th grade Star Writing test. During this session you will learn what to expect on the test as well as strategies for success. Also, you will gain an understanding of how your test will be scored. You will leave the session with a few practice writing prompts.

Register today

Your visit to the Challenger Learning Center is not just a field trip — it’s a unique hands-on learning experience, transforming you into a scientist, engineer, or researcher on a simulated space mission, complete with mission control and spacecraft. From the moment of lift-off to the completion of the mission, you become a critical member of one of eight mission teams. Participants will have the opportunity to become both mission controller and spacecraft astronaut.

Inside the center, groups of 16 to 36 students in grades 7 and up become crew members on a simulated space mission to Mars.

Crew members must solve real-life problems in math, science and technology to successfully complete their mission. Each team is critical, and the success of the mission is dependent upon the work of all teams. The two-hour simulation takes place in a realistic mock-up of a spacecraft and mission control room.

This field trip will take place on Friday, March 16 from 12:00-2:00. Sign up by going to www.juliancharterschool.org and clicking on the Field Trips tab. Earth Science students will receive credit for two second-semester labs for their attendance.

January 11th, 2012 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.

Our marketing students have worked very hard on their projects, and are looking forward to sharing them with the school.  We hope you will be able to stop by to see the great work of our high school students.

February 7: First Flight: Anaheim Ducks
February 10: Alexander, Who’s Not Going To Move!
February 23: New Children Museum

Registration will open Wednesday, Dec 14, 2011 8:00am

Recommend Grades: 2^nd grade only

Where: San Diego Zoo

When: Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Time: 9:30-11:00

Cost: Free for JCS 2nd graders/$10.00 per Adult and Non-JCS students (Due to the limited number of adults allowed to participate. Register 1 adult per family) No siblings(babies, toddlers), and/or students in other grade levels will be admitted.

Please Note: To receive confirmation to attend this field trip, field trip registration must be complete. Each student must be register separately and all activity fees must be pre-paid online or received by the field trip office no later than Jan 2, 2012.

Will be held on Friday, December 9, 2012

Closed Session
9:00 a.m.
Open Session:
10:00 a.m.
Closed Session
12:00 p.m.

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14791 Myford Road
Tustin, CA 92780
Telephone: 714-508-2300

Governing Board Meeting Agenda 12.09.2011 (PDF)

The Time Warner Cable Southern California Region Qualifying Tournament was held at the UCR Graduate Center in Palm Desert on November 5. There were 21 teams competing in the First Lego League robotics competition organized by Smart Education. Teams were judged in four categories: the robot game, robot design, research project presentation and core values.

Competing as part of Team Electrolights were: Judaea Bufford, 11, Celine Cavanaugh, 12, Spencer Mack, 11, Emily Sizemore, 11, and Michael Sizemore, 9. One additional team member, Jack Pine-Rusk, 10, was unable to compete Saturday.

The Electrolights are a rookie team and are excited to advance to the championship rounds. The team was organized during fall semester and has been meeting weekly to practice their programming skills. The team picked the name to be the Electrolights because electrolytes give people energy and balance. The team is an energetic team that works together like electrolytes work together to give your body energy and balance. The team motto is “We are programming rocket scientists who have fun and conquer robots on our way to Alpha Centauri.” The team picked this motto because it incorporated all of the team members’ ideas for the team name.

FIRST LEGO League (FLL) introduces young people, ages 9 to 14, to the fun and excitement of science and technology while building self-confidence, knowledge, and valuable employment and life skills. FLL challenges kids to think like scientists and engineers. Alongside adult mentors, FLL teams solve problems using engineering concepts, presentation techniques, and robots.

Each year, teams are given new challenges around a theme. This year, during the 2011 FOOD FACTOR Challenge, students explored the topic of food safety and examined the possible points of contamination food encounters–from exposure to insects and creatures, to unsterile processing and transportation, to unsanitary preparation and storage. Students then proposed ways to prevent or combat contaminates.

Our Amazon fundraiser is back in place now that Amazon has reinstated affiliate programs for the state of California. This is one fundraiser that is easy and adds up all year long. The next time you shop amazon.com, please go to www.juliancharterschool.org website first. From there you click the link on the right that says:

That’s it. It will take you right to Amazon.com and when you buy something, the school will get up to 7% back. This might not sound like much, but if we all do it, it will add up fast.

This year, the exams will be held January 9-12, 2012 at 4 different locations–the Murrieta Center, the San Diego Learning Center, the Julian Charter main office in Julian, and a desert location (TBD).

The listed end times are when the students should be finishing up their exams for the day. There are no set days for subjects – students are able to come at any time (as long as they are finished by the end time listed) during any day that the exams are offered at a certain location for any exam.

Some important reminders for students taking exams – PLEASE READ!

• No cell phones allowed at all during testing.  Please have cell phone ringers silenced (or phones turned off) and put in the student’s pocket, purse, backpack.  If a proctor sees a cell phone for any reason it will be taken away and the student can get it back when they leave for the day.
• No ear phones, ear buds, music device of any kind.
• No talking during exams.  We assume that students are not talking about the exams, but talking is disturbing to those around the talkers, so please don’t do it.  If a student is talking there will be no warnings – a proctor will move the students so they are no longer together.
• Exams need to be taken in 1 sitting.  If a student is taking an exam they need to finish it before leaving for the day or taking a break.
• Students are able to take exams all in 1 day, spread out over the entire week, or a few days – whatever is best for the student.
• Students are to sit 1 person to a table until the tables are filled and then they can start doubling up.

If there are any questions please call/email your EF or MSS.  Thank you and good luck!

Registration will open on Monday, December 5, 2011 at 9:00 AM and will close on January 27, 2012. If a course fills up and we have enough students on the wait list, then we will try to offer additional sections.

• Core courses meet twice per week for 1 hour and start the week of January 17-20, 2012
• Supplemental/enrichment courses meet once per week for 1.25 hours and start the week of January 30-February 3, 2012

Class Descriptions

A full list of course descriptions and schedule is located at this link or you can download the flyer.

Class Requirements & Prerequisites

• Excellent attendance. There will be weekly reading and writing assignments.
• Students need good keyboarding skills and access to a computer and the Internet.
• A headset with microphone. JCS provides these for students participating in the eClasses so be sure to check one out when you register.

How to Register

Parents will register their students using our online enrollment system.

Microsoft Windows OS

• XP (32 bit), or
• Vista (32 or 64 bit), or
• Windows 7 (32 or 64 bit)

Apple OS

• Mac OS 10.5, and
• G5 or Intel Processor

Questions? Please contact Chris Bell at cbell@juliancharterschool.org.

The 8^th grade class recently completed their competition to create the best Glogster poster on the American Revolution in history class and elements of the periodic table in science class. Each Glogster is an interdisciplinary project, providing the student with an English score, as well. Glogster is a computer-based website that allows students to create on-line posters using graphics, videos, sounds, music, and text.

Students were provided a grading rubric and topics on the American Revolution to complete their project. They were also provided rubrics outlining expectations for their Glogster on the Group A elements of the periodic table.

The class reviewed the history Glogsters to determine semi-finalists in the competition. The class voted and selected the top ten Glogster creators: Hannah Soule, Lexi Lockett, Kyley Inman, Joey Goodrich, Stephany Nolazco, Caitlin Butts, Alana Custer, Matt Aragon, Sherie Bullock, and Briana Black.

The Glogsters of these semi-finalists were forwarded on to the San Diego Academy Middle School of Julian Charter where 8^th grade students used the scoring rubric to determine the top three places in two categories – Style/Personality and Overall Scoring. The top three winners for Style/Personality were: 1^st place – Lexi Lockett, 2^nd Place, Joey Goodrich, 3^rd Place – Stephany Nolazco. Winners for Overall scoring were: 1^st Place – Joey Goodrich, 2^nd Place – Sherie Bullock, and 3^rd Place – Lexi Lockett. Please join us in congratulating our Pine Valley Academy on their excellent work creating Glogster posters!

Lexi Lockett & Joey Goodrich

Sheri Bullock and Stephanie Nolazco