Cat Tracks Happy Holidays! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break and are looking forward to

spending more family time as the Christmas holiday approaches. There are many activities for

students and parents at Mt. Vista during the month of December.

Our annual Science Fair will be on December 3rd. The viewing of projects begins at 5:00 in the

gym and then there will be a BBQ dinner (hotdogs or hamburgers) and the awarding of the prizes

at 6:00 pm in the cafeteria. There is no charge for student meals and adults can purchase a meal

for $2.50. A big thank you to Mrs. Verdean Smith for doing such a great job planning and coor-

dinating the Science Fair.

Basketball season is here. The first boy’s exhibition game was played on November 24th. Please

see that attached schedule of games for both boys and girls. The cheerleaders will be at all the

home games to pump up that Cougar Spirit.

We are so excited that music has returned to Mt. Vista. The Christmas program, under the lead-

ership of Miss Kaitlyn Miller, will be on December 17th. The kindergarten through third grade

chorus will perform at 9:00 am in the cafeteria. The fourth through eighth grades will perform at

6:30 pm in the cafeteria. The fourth graders will play recorders, the fifth graders will play hand

bells, and the orchestra, which includes students from fourth through eighth grades, will perform.

The pre-school will present their Christmas program on December 16th at 9:00 am in the gym.

The last day for the Connections tutoring program before the break will be December 10th. Con-

nections will resume January 4th at 5:30 pm in the library.

There will be early release on December 18th. Kindergarten through sixth grades will be released

at 12:45 and seventh and eighth grade students will be released at 1:45.

Wishing you a wonderful Holiday Season.

Nannette Soulé, Principal

December 2015 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 11th Annual Science Fair

View Projects 5:00 pm BBQ and Awards to follow

Afterschool classes

end

4 5

6 7 8 9 Last day for

Connections for this semester

Will resume in Jan.

10 11 12

13 14 Santa’s

Workshop K-3

15 Board Meeting SaddleBrooke

Ranch 6:00 pm

16 Pre-K

Christmas Program 9:00

am

17 4-8

Grade Christmas Program

6:30-8:00 pm

18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30 31 Have a wonderful break! See you back

on Jan. 4th

EARLY RELEASE

EARLY RELEASE

EARLY RELEASE EARLY RELEASE

Christmas Break No School

Christmas Break No School

Mountain Vista School

Holiday Program December 17, 2015

K-3 @ 9:00am in the cafeteria 4-5 and Orchestra @ 6:30pm in

the cafeteria

The music classes of Mountain Vista have been working hard to put

together a festive holiday concert for our family and friends. Please

join us for a day/evening of fun holiday music!

Please feel free to email Ms. Miller with any questions regarding the program at kmil-

ler@osd2.org

SOAR Sense what’s around you

Open your hands to help others

Act with kindness

Respect other people

Mrs. Messing’s Kindergarten

Jocelyn Hudson, Seth Miles, and Aubryella

Denogean

Miss Sloan’s Kindergarten

Juanito Medina

Jon Thompson, Gabriella Henneman, and

Garret Nehrmeyer.

Mrs. Telles’s Second Grade Class

Mrs. Formo’s First Grade Class

Ayden Wyatt, Ava Huntington, and Edwin

Sharpe

Mrs. McDonald’s First Grade Class

Kadyn Husted, Antonio Chavez, Kristina

Casssarino, Santiago Pinedo, and

Kaydence Loya

ATTENTION:

LOST AND FOUND :

There are several items in our lost and found. If your child is missing a jacket, sweater,

beanie, hat, backpack, etc. Please stop by! All items will be displayed in front of the MVS

office December 14th - December 17th.

All unclaimed items will be donated to a local charity on December 18th .

This year we will be doing Box Top collections in your child’s class-

room.

What do YOU need to do to help Mountain Vista earn classroom dollars? Simply

cut those Box Tops and turn them in! That’s it!

Please clip Box Tops around the dotted lines and put in a ZipLock.

THANK YOU for all your help J

BOX TOPS

BULLETIN

PULL FOR THE HOUSE

Every day, the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern Arizona provides a

“Home Away from Home” for families of children facing serious illness and injury.

Our recycling program serves as a significant fundraising effort, enabling us to

fulfill our mission of serving families in need.

We collect and recycle aluminum can tabs, using the funds raised to support the op-

erations of our House.

Drop off your tabs at Mountain Vista School on 2618 W. El Paseo, Oracle AZ,

Monday through Friday between 7:30am-4:00pm. We ask that you bring only the

tabs, as we are unable to accept the full cans due to storage and sanitary

considerations.

Remember, Every Tab Counts!

HOME CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE

DISEASES

The control of communicable (catching) disease during the school year is a difficult problem and an important responsibility. The first responsibility must fall upon the home because parents know the normal appearance of their children and should be the first to detect signs of ill-ness. Frequent hand washing is the best prevention!

The following rules will help control communicable diseas-

es in the community.

1. Your child should remain at home if exhibiting any signs of ill-ness. 2. When questioning illness, your family physician is the ap-propriate person to contact to determine whether or not your child should be in school.

2. Some signs of illness:

Fever

Diarrhea

Severe Sore Throat

Draining Wound

Vomiting

All students with a fever need to remain at home until they are fever free for 24 hours without the aid of fever reducing

medication (Tylenol, Ibuprofen etc).

DON’T LET THE FLU GET YOU !!

Get your flu shot today!

Effective Immediately , flu vaccines will be

available at the Pinal County Health Dept

Adults—$18

Children under 18

Free for most with VFC guidelines

Shots available Th &Fri

8:00 am to 6:00 pm

* Walk-Ins Welcome

Mammoth

110 Main St.

(866-960-0633 for additional information

EARLY DISMISSALS

As you know students are dismissed

early on Wednesdays. Students in

grades 1-6 are dismissed at 12:45

p.m. and students in grades 7-8 are

dismissed at 1:45 p.m.. Lunch is

served prior to dismissal.

SCHOOL NEWS

NEW AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION

In order for absences relating to illness, doctor

appointment, bereavement, family emergencies,

or district approved family vacation to be count-

ed as excused absences, the school must be noti-

fied of the absence prior to the absence or when

the absence occurs by the parent or legal guardi-

an who has custody of the student. This can be

done by a phone call to the front office at 896-

3000. Upon returning to school from an ex-

cused absence, the student shall submit a note

stating the date and reason for the absence

signed by the parent/guardian.

CONNECTIONS LEARNING CEN-

TER

The Connections Learning Center will be

open on every Monday, Tuesday and

Thursday evenings from 5:30-7:30 pm in

the Library when school is in session .

This is open to students in grades 3

through 12. High school tutors will be

available to assist in Reading, Writing,

Math and Science. Please note that Con-

nections Learning Center is not open when

school is not in session. For more infor-

mation you may contact: Connections

Learning Center director: Rick Benavidez

@ 520-591-5941.

Monday thru Friday- The computer labs will be open from 7:30 to 8:30am for students to come in and work on assignments, check e-mail or just have some fun before school starts. This is for all grades 1

st thru 8

th grades.

COUGAR DAY

Don’t forget that every Friday will be

COUGAR DAY! We ask that all students

and staff wear their Cougar T-shirts or blue

T-shirts to school. Let’s show our school

spirit!!

BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION

Mountain Vista students are doing a great job of

collecting box tops, but we can never have too

many box tops. Please remind friends and family

to collect for our school. Check out the General

Mills website @ www.boxtops4education.com

for participating products. Thank you for your

participation!

BABY PICTURES

Mrs. Damron is collecting baby pic-

tures of 8th graders for the slide

show at the promotion ceremony.

Please send 3-5 pictures of your 8th

grader to Mrs. Damron as soon as

possible. These pictures will be re-

turned to you. If you have any ques-

tions, please call Mrs. Damron @ 896

-3000 or e-mail at cdam-

ron@osd2.org

BUS PASSES AND YOUR CHILD’S SAFETY

A reminder to parents, students are required to

bring a note to the office if they need a bus pass.

For your child’s safety, phone calls will not be

accepted.

It is extremely difficult and disrupting to the

classroom when parents call with last minute

changes. Please send a note with your child if

he/she has any change in their regular drop off.

CHILD PICK UP

Parents, if you need to pick up your child before

the end of the day you always need to sign them

out in the office. After you have signed them

out one of the ladies in the office will call the

classroom and request the child be sent to the

office. This is for the safety of the child.

CHILD FIND

Child Find is a process to “find” children

who may have a delay in development or a

disability. Oracle School District can help

children with disabilities from birth

through 21 years of age. We provide spe-

cial education services for eligible chil-

dren. If you have concerns about your

child’s development or progress in school,

contact the Oracle School District Special

Education Department @ 896-3052

LOST AND FOUND

A reminder to parents/students; there are many

articles of clothing in the lost and found. Nu-

merous jackets, sweaters, shirts, etc. have been

turned in and are waiting to be claimed. Please

feel free to come and look through it. Anything

not claimed at the end of the school year will be

donated to Goodwill.

ATTENTION PARENTS

Check out Mountain Vista’s Website! You will find all kinds of great information, such as: Breakfast and lunch menus, calendars, special events,

Sports information, game times, directions to the games. Go to www.osd2.org to see more!