Head of School Update
Please Plan Properly for Spring Break
Dear Clairbourn Families,
This week continues to add joy to our campus. We have Grades K and 1 students back on campus and have Grades 2 and 3 scheduled for next week! Grades JPK-5 will all have on-campus options following our Spring Break!
Currently, the Health Department has issued a travel advisory for LA County, stating any travel outside of the LA area (more than 120 miles) requires a 10-day quarantine period upon return. We are mirroring this policy. If you plan to travel over Spring Break, please plan to remain off-campus for 10 days following your return. If you stay within 120 miles, we can allow your child on campus following our Spring Break. This applies to all Grades JPK-5 students and the Middle School conditioning groups. (If the county policy changes, as numbers continue to improve, we will continue to mirror the county and will adjust our request as well.)
In addition to the return of students this week, we also are watching the Kindergarten chicken eggs hatching. Students have been watching the incubating eggs for a few weeks and Tuesday one started pipping and hatched on Wednesday! It is so exciting to watch the chicks making their way out of the egg. Each of the Kindergarten Roomies had a chance to go to the incubator and “cheep” at them. When the chick heard the cheeping, it moved and pecked at the egg. Each of our Roomies was part of the support crew for the chick, and the Zoomies all got to see it happening live on their iPads! Both groups were there to cheer it on, encouraging it all the way.
There is lots to be learned from this process. The chicks are cared for and protected by the parents while in the shell, but once they start their work to crack it open and make their way into the world, the chicks have to do the work themselves. The work of breaking through the shell is actually what makes them strong enough to survive. It is just like struggles the students go through in learning new skills. The struggle is what makes them stronger and ready to learn the next thing.
Our job is to cheer them on and keep them safe during the hard work, not to make the work easy. If we remove all struggle and only allow the students to have an easy path, they don’t gain strength. Be sure to catch the video below of the first chick hatching. If you want to watch the rest of the chicks hatch, you can watch the Kindergarten classroom's live video feed.
Amy Patzlaff, Ed.D.
Head of School
Arriving On Campus
Health Screening Demonstration Video
Prep For Campus Arrival
Use the Magnus App for Health Screening
Getting Ready to Come to Campus: For any parent who would like to get ready for their child to come to campus, you can follow these directions:
- Log into Cougarnet at clairbourn.myschoolapp.com with your own (parent) account. This will not work if you log in as a student.
- Under the "Resources" tab look for a tile with a link to Magnus.
- Click on the Magnus tile. It should log you right into your Magnus account without having to re-enter credentials to log on.
- Click or hover over your name within Magnus (top left of screen).
- Choose "Change Credentials."
- Create a Username & Password that only you know and will remember. This username/password combination will be used as your PHR mobile app login only.
- On your phone, download the "Magnus Mobile V2" app from the Apple Store or the Google Play store, and log in using your newly created username and password.
- Select the button that says COVID-19 and fill out the form. (You will only see this button if your child is SCHEDULED to be on campus.)
- This is the screen you will show the school-official before your child exits the car. The green "GO" at the top signals that the health form has been completed. (You will only be able to generate this screen using the app if your child is SCHEDULED to be on campus.)
- If you have any questions on the Magnus App, please contact Mr. Jubilado, Clairbourn's Health Officer at njubilado@clairbourn.org.
Last Chance to Enter the Final Contest
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You have until Wednesday March 10 to post a College Day Theme Photo in Vidigami: Upload your photo to this Vidigami Album to enter the contest.
About The Contests:
The Student Council started Operation Picture Project to help generate photos for the yearbook while in remote learning mode. Students and parents can take pictures related to "Theme Days" and submit them on Vidigami. Students will receive one point for submitting a picture.
Extra Points: Every theme day, judges will pick three winners who will receive extra points!
Get Prizes: Students can get prizes with their points (details will be shared later on). The more you post photos, the more fun you'll have!
Grade K Cheers For New Chicks
Kindergarten has set up a live camera feed over their classroom egg incubator so students and families can watch chicks as they hatch. To Watch the Live Feed Click Here.
Smile Boosters
Internet Videos Worth Watching
Growing up, Dr. Howard was obsessed with creating robots. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and by the time she was 27 she landed her dream job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Howard describes an experience early on in her career at JPL and how courage is a necessary part of the invention process. Read More: Being Different Helped A NASA Roboticist Achieve Her Dream Source: npr.org
Morning Assembly
Catch up On Morning Assembly Messages
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Watch The Blue Ribbon Children's Festival
Brought to you by The Music Center and designed to inspire students in Grades 3-12, these performers from Dorrance Dance highlight what is most thrilling, brilliant and beautiful about tap dancing—movement and music.
This show is available to watch on demand for a limited time through June 30, 2021. |
Scholarship:
Got 20 Minutes?
“Success is a function of persistence and the willingness to try hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.” — Malcolm Gladwell
Would you be able to fill out a tedious, 120 question form without getting impatient and skimming through it? If you answered yes, then research shows you are more likely to be a better test-taker.
University of Pennsylvania professor Erling Boe's research shows that, "...the ability to sit still and focus on a task for an extended period of time is crucial to master a topic.”
What also counts is a longer tolerance for mental discomfort while trying to solve a problem. Alan Schoenfeld, a UC Berkeley professor and learning expert says, “Learning complex and challenging things is not a matter of innate ability but instead of attitude. Those who don’t give up quickly learn best, and struggling with a problem for at least 20 minutes (before seeking help) is optimal.”
To boost learning, Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman says you should "...spend seven to thirty minutes a day making errors. Use this time to push your limits....The key is to try really hard and make mistakes. Because when you make mistakes, the brain signals that something isn’t quite right and seek to create new neural patterns and accelerates learning. Whenever you’re feeling frustrated or struggling with a problem, tell yourself, ‘I am growing. This is good for me.’”
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Staying Healthy: Practice Kindness
We already know that kindness sustains relationships, builds trust, and promotes and cooperation. But new research based on 200,000 participants shows we are healthier and happier when we are kind to others. Some key findings include:
"People who performed random, informal acts of kindness, like bringing a meal to a grieving friend, tended to be happier than people who performed more formal acts of kindness, like volunteering in a soup kitchen. People who were kind tended to be higher in ‘eudaimonic happiness’ (a sense of meaning and purpose in life) more than ‘hedonic happiness’ (a sense of pleasure and comfort)."
Being kind also leads to better health because it can, "...distract us from our own troubles and stressors, give us a warm-glow feeling, or help us be more socially connected with others."
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Are You Kind?
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Altruism is a form a kindness. It means you are willing to help another person with no expectation of reward, despite the personal cost or scarcity of resources.
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