Slime! Print
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Tuesday, 08 June 2010

Mr. taranto rewarded those with perfect attendance during testing week with a chance to slime him.  One student from each class, plus four others who had Wildcat Wows from earlier in the semester. 

Since we did the sliming two years ago, you can now search for "Wildcat Slime" and in most cases you will find this article as the first result!

Watch the video for all the slimy fun!


 
Town Hall Meeting 6/3 Print
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Friday, 28 May 2010

RBEF is having a Town Hall Meeting 

Join us to discuss how to keep our schools great!

Thursday, June 3rd  --  6:30 p.m.

at Parras Middle School
 

The event is free.  Redondo Beach Educational Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation

run by volunteers who share your passion to ensure that all our children get a great education!

 
RBEF Drive Ends Friday Print
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Thursday, 01 April 2010

Active   ImageWe hit our goal of 100 families participating, but other schools have done better! Alta Vista is currently in 4th place and we could still lose ground.  Ask your neighbors, friends, family, and local businesses if they can help out.  Just $25 can earn us hundreds or thousands for Alta Vista, and really help out the RBEF which is the main fuindraising organization for education in Redondo Beach.

The final pick up of checks at the schools is FRIDAY morning, April 2nd! They do verify schools to credit!

PLEASE TELL YOUR ON-LINE DONORS after they click to donate, to then click the box where it says: Please indicate which school or schools you are donating for. and a box will open where they can designate their school of choice!!

 
Young Writers' Conference Friday! Print
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Monday, 22 March 2010

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Alta Vista Elementary School is Proud to Present

The Young Writers' Conference: Discover the Power of Words

A Community Service

Day Kicks off with two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Stephen Breen
March 26, 2010



The Young Writers' Conference (YWC) is proud to continue their tradition of community service at Alta Vista Elementary, where it was founded 12 years ago, on Friday, March 26th.  The YWC staff and workshop instructors donate their time and launch the theme for the following season, 2010-11.  The new theme is Discover the Power of Words. The Young Writers' Conference is a Los Angeles based organization dedicated to improving young people's writing skills by first instilling a passion for writing. logo  

"Our schools are suffering from so many cutbacks in programs and services, due to the budget shortfalls," comments YWC co-founder, Julie Moore. "We are proud that we have been able to continue to present this day long, professional conference as our gift to Alta Vista, our founding school. These specialized educational experiences are more important than ever."

"Everyone that is involved with the conference donates their time and talents for this one annual conference," continues Rena Svetic, co-founder.  "We are passionate in our belief that writing skills create opportunities that our students need in order to be competitive in today's marketplace.  Our thanks to everyone that donated their time to make this conference possible, in particular liaison Merri Weir and her core team Laura Bevan, Mary Ganis, Robyn Solimando, and Rosalinda Garcia."

  

"Since the beginning of the school year, we have been working with the Young Writers' Conference directors to make today  exceptional," explains Alta Vista principal, Anthony J. Taranto.  "Teachers, school staff, parents, volunteers, sponsors, Alta Vista Student Council, and PTA have worked hard to support this experience, which is designed to spark student's creativity and provide them with the opportunity to express themselves in new and exciting ways. We want to thank them, along with everyone in the Young Writers' Conference organization for donating their time, talents, and energies to our Alta Vista community."

studentThe Alta Vista YWC Student Committee (pictured) has been busy running a writing contest, an in-school public relations campaign, and working on the conference production.  Winners of the writing contest will have their worked featured on the school and the YWC websites.  All the contest entries will be published by Scribble Press in a special book and donated to the Alta Vista library.   

A special assembly for kindergarten through 2nd grade will be held at 10am with Dan Crow, popular childrens' songwriter and entertainer.

Keynote Speaker       

Opening up the day's conference for 3rd through 5th graders will be Stephen P. Breen, editorial cartoonist for The San Diego Union-Tribune since 2001. His work is nationally syndicated by Creators News Service and regularly appears in USA Today, The New York Times and Newsweek. Steve is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning (1998, 2009). He is also the recipient of the 2007 Berryman Award for editorial cartooning given by the National Press Foundation, The 2009 Thomas Nast Award given by The Overseas Press Club and the 2009 National Headliner Award. In his spare time, Steve writes and illustrates picture books for Penguin including Stick (2007) Violet The Pilot (2008) and The Secret of Santa's Island (2009).

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Conference

After the keynote address, the students will attend three different workshops that they selected and registered for online.  The students had a wide variety of sessions to choose from, ranging from poetry to cartooning, from historical fiction to play writing, and from songwriting to advertising copy-writing.  All are led by accomplished authors and educators and designed to create an environment where the joy of writing and self-expression is celebrated. 

 

New Workshops include:

Keynote Speaker, Stephen Breen will conduct a workshop entitled: The Power of Cartooning: How to Make Your Friends and Classmates Wet their Pants In this workshop students will learn the basics of editorial, gag, and comic strip cartooning. The art of caricature will also be discussed. Mr. Breen will show examples and draw live demonstrations of each topic. He'll also walk students though the process of writing and drawing their own works of satire and side splitting entertainment.

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Dennis Komick has developed a workshop entitled, Character Development and Storyline for your Favorite Pets!  Komick has written two children's books based on the real life stories of his actual dogs, Brodie & The Yeti.  The books are intended to give children fun, moral based stories to learn about adoption, acceptance, sharing, and friendship.  Dennis is the author/creator of the Brodie & The Yeti characters and owner of BATY Publishing.  In this workshop students will learn how to create characters and stories based on their favorite animal or pet.  www.brodieandtheyeti.com

 

balerinaCharlotte Kandel, is also new to the Young Writers' Conference.  She will present a workshop titled Enchanted Worlds:  Writing Magical Adventures.  Before becoming a published writer, Charlotte worked behind the scenes as a top publicist in the fascinating world of celebrity public relations.  Most recently she spent 15 years as Worldwide Head of Publicity for Warner Bros. Pictures where she worked on a daily basis with almost any superstar you could name.  But really what Charlotte wanted to do was to write books. She particularly wanted to write about MAGIC, dangerous, glittering, fantastic magic to stir the mind and the imagination.  The first book in Charlotte's magical realism trilogy, THE SCARLET STOCKINGS: The Enchanted Riddle, was published last year by Dutton's Children's Books and has since gone on to success and much praise from readers and critics alike.  (You can read Chapter l online).  Participants in her workshop will create their own "Enchanted Worlds" by writing a short story with magic in it. www.scarletstockings.com

 

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John Bogert, veteran Daily Breeze columnist and long time instructor with The Young Writers' Conference, has published a new book comprised of some of the 6000 columns he has written for the Daily Breeze in the past two decades.  He will lead his workshop at Alta Vista, How to Write a Newspaper Column.  His new book, Grounded, is available at bogert.donegalbooks.com.

 

Richard Schenkman, another Young Writers' Conference veteran, has a newly published book, The Girl from Atlantis, with an interactive website that is full of games and free entertainment: www.thegirlfromatlantis.com.   In Schenkman's workshop, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, students will learn to write snappy dialogue for their stories and film scripts.

 

girl from atlantisThe day concludes with a Writers' Wrap Up assembly.

 

Bookstore

Mrs. Nelson's Bookstore will be on campus and open during lunch and after the wrap-up session.  Books by the featured authors will be available, along with other popular children's books.  The authors will be on hand to autograph copies of their books, CDs and DVDs.


*Please note: all images are for informational purposes only, and are the property of their respective copyright holders.

 

Day at a Glance

8:30
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9:10
Keynote Speaker - Stephen Breen
9:10
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9:20
Check in & Pick up of writing packets
9:20
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10:15
Session 1
10:15
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10:25
Snack Break
10:25
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11:20
Session 2
11:25
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12:20
Session 3
12:20
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1:15
Lunch
1:15
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1:30
Writers' Wrap Up
10:00
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10:40
Assembly for K-2nd graders with Dan Crow

 

Conference Information

Date: March 26, 2010

Time: 8:30 - 1:30

Location:  Alta Vista Elementary School

815 Knob Hill Avenue, Redondo Beach, CA 90277

 

Young Writers' Conference Presents South Bay Summer Writing Camps
More information to follow

ssw3About Young Writers' Conference

 

In 1998, the National Writing Commission on Writing in America's Schools issued a call to launch a writing revolution in our country's schools; a call that was answered with the foundation of the Young Writers' Conference (YWC) in the Los Angeles area.  For nearly a decade, YWC continues to bring their program, which is organized like a university conference, to elementary and middle school students throughout the Los Angeles region.  Pairing students with professional writers from a wide variety of disciplines, the students participate in a series of workshops designed to fulfill the mission of improving their writing skills by first instilling a passion for writing.  For more information, please visit: www.youngwritersconference.org or call 310-880-9176.



 
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