From Head of School
Campus Safety is Our Top Priority
Dear Clairbourn Families:
Safety for our students and the Clairbourn campus is our top priority, and we need your help in keeping our campus safe, especially during the morning drop off and afternoon pick up times.
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Please DO NOT park on Huntington east of the exit to avoid collision while cars try to exit the parking lot.
DO NOT LET STUDENTS OUT
IN THE DRIVING LANE ON HUNTINGTON!
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All traffic coming from the east on Huntington Dr. should do the U-turn at San Gabriel Blvd to join the line. Please DO NOT drive through the neighborhood on Sunnyslope or Vista. We hear honking from Huntington when people make
U-turns to cut in the line or block the street on Sunnyslope.
DO NOT LET STUDENTS OUT IN THE DRIVING LANE ON HUNTINGTON! If everyone does their part, we can keep our students safe.
PLEASE REMEMBER:
1. To be on time: Have your students on campus by 8:00 a.m. so they can avoid being tardy.
2. Safety: Please be courteous and follow all traffic rules during drop off and pick up. These are busy times, but safety is most important.
3. Parking space: Do not park in a reserved spot. These are reserved at all times. Park within the white lines to avoid taking two parking spaces.
4. Patience: If you are dropping your children off at transportation, PLEASE DO NOT LET THEM OUT ANYWHERE OTHER THAN THE DESIGNATED SPOTS!
Please help us keep our students and campus safe!
Amy Patzlaff, Ed.D.
Head of School
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Re-Enrollment Agreement and Deposit are DUE TOMORROW!
 Re-Enrollment Agreement for 2024-2025 are available in your parent portal.
For the new school year, we are raising tuition by 4% to cover the increasing costs related to school management, especially ensuring we can increase teacher salaries. It is vital to maintain competitive salaries to retain and attract the best teachers in the area.
Please log in to your CougarNet online portal ASAP to renew the re-enrollment agreement for the 2024-2025 school year. ALL parents connected to the child/ren must sign the agreement using their own Blackbaud account login, or the agreement will not be submitted.
DO NOT LOG IN AS YOUR CHILD.
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Questions? For tuition payment questions, please contact Nicole Wang in the Business Office and for other enrollment questions, please contact Marianne Ryan.
We look forward to another
great year in 2024-2025!
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Clairbourn Families Association (CFA)
Auction Item form DUE TOMORROW!
Big ticket items are especially welcome and can include box seats, vacations, event tickets, autographed merchandise, special VIP dinners, luxury items and more.
Save the Date: Next CFA Meeting is 2/13
Please join us for the first CFA parent meeting in 2024! Come to the Manor House right after Morning Assembly on Tuesday, February 13 to learn more about our exciting spring events including our auction, spring fair and CFA nominations. We are raffling a gift card from Chanos restaurant for the lucky winner! We look forward to connecting with you while enjoying light refreshments!
Shop the CFA
used uniform sales!
Friday, February 9
Tuesday, February 13
8:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
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Learning Through Play and Hands-On Activities
Expanding Curiosity & Nourishing Creativity
In our JPK classroom, a food-themed learning unit sparked students' curiosity and creativity through a series of engaging activities! Beginning with food as art, bok choy and apples became unconventional canvases, inspiring young artists to experiment with stamping, rubbing, and even using their hands to create unique masterpieces. Surprisingly, celery proved to be a great medium producing many beautiful flower prints!
Students learned the distinction between "always" and "sometimes" foods, creating a class food collage from grocery ads. A playful "What Food am I?" game challenged their food knowledge. Special thanks to our dedicated parents for adding a special touch of fun to learning about healthy eating with "fruit cars" which students used their mathematical skills to prepare. The creative food learning unit ended with a dramatic play and sensory exploration enriched by a fun granola snack-making session!
This experience nurtured both creativity and a deeper appreciation for the foods we consume daily, combining art, discovery and nutrition into a memorable educational journey for the children!
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Celebrating Diversity
Dr. Carter G. Woodson - the “Father of Black History” - launched Black History Week in February of 1926. Black History Week later became a month-long celebration. He chose February to coincide with the birthdays of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and President Abraham Lincoln.
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A Day of Appreciation
We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all the special guests for taking the time to visit our school and their children and grandchildren on Mothers and Grands Visiting Day. Your presence made a lasting impact on our students, and they appreciated the opportunity to share their school experience with you. Thank you for being an important part of their education and for helping to shape their future!
Thank you for being a part of
our Clairbourn Life on this memorable
Mothers and Grands Visiting Day!
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Clairbourn Insights
First Graders Shine in Public Speaking!
 At Clairbourn, public speaking begins at a young age. Students not only attend Morning Assembly, but they also demonstrate their abilities in their classrooms on a daily basis. This week, first graders shared their favorite book with their classmates. Each student wrote a review, illustrated artwork for the book, delivered a presentation in front of the class, and answered questions from their peers. Students gain confidence through this experience while learning how to form and share opinions! |
February Drop
Everything and Build
On Mothers and Grands Visiting Day, the Middle School students and their visitors were challenged to build paper airplanes with the least mass that could travel the farthest distance.
The mass of the plane in grams was subtracted from the flight distance in centimeters. Many different designs were attempted by the students and the visitors, with some groups focusing on wing size, others focusing on weight distribution, and others focusing on launch angle and thrust.
In the end, the sixth grade runners-up were Hins and Kevin. The sixth grade winners, with the second-highest total score in the middle school, were Ricky and Alan. The runners up in seventh grade were Fiona and Jerry, and the winners were Sima and Darren. The runners up in eighth grade were Jerry Z. and Asal, and the winners, with the highest score in the entire middle school, were Simon and Isabelle.
Well done, Cougar Engineers!
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Write us a review!
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NO SCHOOL 2/16 — 2/20 due to Presidents Day and Teacher In-Service Day |
Important Dates
2/9 Free Dress
2/13 New Panda Lunch Day (formerly New Fusion)
2/14 Valentine's Special Free Dress
2/15 Taco Lunch Day
2/16 - 2/20 NO SCHOOL
2/22 KFC Lunch Day
2/23 All School Morning Assembly & Clairbourn T-Shirt Day & Community Coffee
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February 14 is a Valentine's Day theme dress day!
Please come to school with clothes and accessories for Valentine's Day or wear your regular uniform!
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National Periodic Table Day
While National Periodic Table Day might not be the most obvious February holiday, it too has some chemistry — but it’s the kind you find in a lab! National Periodic Table Day recognizes the publication of the first table of elements. Here are some facts to spark your curiosity as we celebrate this scientific day on February 7.
• Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was the first to arrange elements in the structure we know as the periodic table.
• Elements found on Earth and Mars are exactly the same.
• There are about 94 elements on the periodic table that occur in nature. All of the other elements are man-made.
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Cougar Corner
Cougar Corner needs volunteers every Friday and also on special sporting event days. Sign up now!
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Clairbourn Life
Thank you to our parent volunteers!
February was third grade's turn to serve hot lunch and parent volunteers braved the rain this week to ensure our students received and enjoyed their meal. It truly takes a village to make special lunch work in the rain. Many thanks to all of our parent volunteers!
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Join CFA Today!
If you're passionate about contributing to a positive learning environment and creating memorable experiences for our students, we'd love to have you on board. Your time and commitment make a real difference. Let's work together to make this Clairbourn community extraordinary! Please email Ting Sung, CFA Parliamentarian.
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Happy Lunar New Year!
Lunar New Year, for many cultures across Asia, is the most important festival of the year. The year 2024 is the year of the dragon. The Chinese calendar corresponds to the zodiac cycle of 12 animals. The sequence of animals is: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. This system for naming years has been in use for about the last 2000 years!
May the new lunar year bring in joys that never fade, hopes that never die and strength that never weakens. Wishing everyone a very happy Lunar New Year.
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