Parent Meetings Coming Up Soon
The Claire Fontaine Parent Meeting on the Abbot Kinney campus (“the big school”) will be this Thursday, January 29th, from 5:30 – 7: 00 PM. On the Westminster Campus (“the little school”) the meeting will be Thursday, February 5th, 5:30 – 7:00 PM.
Claire Fontaine Winter Celebration – Dec. 19th, 2008
Ecole Claire Winter Celebration
Ocean Charter Open Enrollment
Ocean Charter School-Open Enrollment/Lottery for 2009-2010
OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR 2009-2010
OCS serves its students at two locations. Our South Campus, serving
grades K-3, is at 12606 Culver Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90066. Our
North Campus, located at 13151 Appleton Way, Los Angeles, CA 90066
is the home of our grades 4-8th.
Applications for 2009-2010 will be available in our offices beginning
February 2nd, 2009 and at all of our enrollment events. (See
schedules below)
To help prospective parents learn mo re about Ocean Charter School we
are inviting the public to several informational enrollment events.
*Classroom Tours will be offered at both campuses. This will be an
opportunity to observe brief moments of instruction across many
grades. A walking tour of classes in session will be led by our
administrators and a question and answer period will follow.
Classroom Tours at South Campus (Kinder-3rd grade) – Thurs. Jan. 29th
2009, 9am to 10am
Classroom Tours at North Campus (4th-8th grades) – Fri. Jan. 30th
2009, 9am to 10am
*Enrollment Open Houses will be held at both campuses. This will be a
presentation by our administrators that reviews our school’s
curriculum, philosophy and history. It will be followed by an
opportunity to visit our classrooms. This will take place when school
is not in session so you will not observe any student instruction.
Enrollment Open House, North Campus (4th-8th grades) – Sat. Feb. 7
2009, 10am to 11:30am
Enrollment Open House, South Campus (Kinder-3rd grade) – Thurs. Feb.
12th 2009, 6pm to 7:30pm
Enrollment Open House, South Campus (Kinder-3rd grade) – Sat. Feb.
21st 2009, 10am to 11:30am
You may submit your application to an administrative staff person at
any of these events or at our Applicant Submission Day which is Wed.
Feb. 25th 2009 1pm to 5:30pm at South Campus.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS ELIGIB LE FOR THE ENROLLMENT
LOTTERY IS FRIDAY, FEB.27TH 2009 BY 3:00PM
The Enrollment Lottery will be held on Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 at
4:30pm at our South Campus. All applications received by the deadline
will be included in the drawing. The Enrollment Lottery is conducted
to determine applicants’ waitlist placement. You do not need to be
present at the Lottery.
We will offer (20) “K2″ spots for 2009-2010 and (20) “K3″ spots
which, if enrolled, will be reserved until September 2010. Wait-
listed applicants must re-apply to the Enrollment Lottery during our
open enrollment each year. In our 4th grades, we expand from 20 to 24
students and therefore have (8) spots to offer. All other grades will
have available spots only if an enrolled student does not return for
the 2009-2010 school year. Preference is given to siblings of current
students and the children of faculty, staff or board members only.
Siblings are defined as any two students who share a legal
parent/guardian. (Legal documentation is required.) Your application
will be valid for one year, until we open Enrollment for the
following school year. If we are unable to offer you Enrollment for
the current school year, you must re-apply annually for the
Enrollment Lottery. Parents who were unable to attend our Classroom
Tours or Enrollment Open Houses and are interested in learning more
about Ocean Charter School may visit our website, read ou r Charter,
attend our public Board of Trustees meetings (1st Thursday of each
month), and join our Community Yahoo group to receive school-related
news and announcements.
KINDERGARTEN ONLY: Ocean Charter has a two-year, play-based, mixed-
age Kindergarten program. Because of the State-mandated cutoff (you
must be five years old by Dec 2nd of the year you start Kindergarten)
and Ocean Charter’s first grade cutoff (You must be six years old by
June 1st of the year in which you start first grade), not every child
will enjoy two years of Kindergarten. In order to make the
application process as fair as possible, children born between Dec
3rd and June 1st will be offered placement 18 months in advance of
enrollment.
Birthday ranges for Ocean Charter School Kindergarten, 2009-2010 are:
6/1/2003 – 5/31/2004: “K1″ (attend one year of kindergarten) for 2009-
2010
6/1/2004 – 12/2/2004 “K2″ (attend two years of kindergarten) for 2009-
2010
12/3/2004 – 5/31/2005: “K3″ (18 months in advance, attend one year of
kindergarten) for 2009-2010*
* K3: You may participate in the Lottery 18 months in advance to
determine placement for September of 2010. Your child will be
identified as “K3″ for the 2009-2010 school year. Siblings of K3 pre-
enrolled students are not eligible for the sibling preference until
the first day of the K3 students attendance and Ocean Charter School.
Any questions regarding O cean Charter Enrollment may be directed to
ocsenrollment@ gmail.com, or you may call the school office at 310-827-
5511 or 310-313-1230.
OCS Admission Policy:
Ocean Charter School shall be nonsectarian in its programs, admission
policies, employment practices, and all other operations, and shall
not charge tuition. Ocean Charter School shall not discriminate
against any pupil on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin,
gender, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or any other
characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes set
forth in Section 422.55 of the Penal Code in any program or activity
conducted by an educational institution that receives, or benefits
from, state financial assistance or enrolls pupils who receive state
student financial aid, nor discriminate against any person based upon
the perception that the person has any of those characteristics or
that the person is associated with a person who has, or is perceived
to have, any of those characteristics. Ocean Charter School will
admit any student in the state of California who wishes to attend.
Admission to Ocean Charter School shall not be determined according
to the place of residence of the pupil, or of his or her parent or
guardian, within this state. Ocean Charter School will not enroll
pupils over 19 years of age unless continuously enrolled in a public
school and making satisf actory progress toward high school diploma
requirements.
Ocean Charter School will actively recruit a diverse student
population. Open Enrollment, admission requirements, and lottery
information are posted physically on campus in a publicly accessible
location, on the school’s website and announced via the Yahoo email
groups. Ocean Charter School will continue to inform the community,
including schools identified as Title I and/or Program Improvement,
about our educational philosophy. This will be done by several
methods, including but not limited to: distributing informational,
multi-lingual brochures to local preschool and elementary schools as
well as submitting Open Enrollment announcements to local newspapers.
Open Enrollment Process
Families must fill out an application and submit a current IEP or 504
Plan, if applicable.
Admission Requirements
In keeping with our goal to provide a developmentally appropriate
arts-integrated education, OCS maintains the following age
requirements.
The minimum age of children applying to the school will be:
§ Kindergarten: age 5 on or before December 2 of the year they enter
Kindergarten
§ First Grade: age 6 before June 1 of the year they enter 1st grade.
The First Grade age policy continues in this manner through all
grades. This requirement helps ensure school readiness specific to
the OCS Whole Child Curriculum and is consistent with non-
discrimination statutes.
Upon admission to Ocean Charter School, parents are asked to read the
OCS Parent Handbook to become familiar with school policies and gain
understanding of our Whole Child Curriculum. Ocean Charter School
requests:
- Active support of the school through volunteering time and/or other resources.
- Commitment to provide a home environment that is conducive to learning. In particular, this means agreeing to limit children’s exposure to electronic media influences such as television, movies, video games, etc.
- Adherence to the OCS dress code.
- The willingness of the parent to gain understanding of our Whole
- Child Curriculum to support their child’s education in the home.
Enrollment Lottery Process
If the number of pupils who wish to attend the charter school exceeds
the school’s capacity, attendance, except for existing pupils of the
charter school, shall be determined by a public random drawing.
Lottery rules, deadline, and lottery date and time are communicated
via the Ocean Charter School website, the Yahoo email group and the
Enrollment application.
The Ocean Charter School Director and at least one other school
employee conduct the Enrollment lottery as a public event to ensure
that lottery procedures are fairly executed. Procedures include
announcing each applicant’s name and lottery number, recording the
number on paper and entering the number in the school’s database.
Ocean Charter School’s O pen Enrollment period and lottery typically
occur in the spring of the year of enrollment, when most interested
parties will be able to attend. The lottery takes place on campus.
The lottery is open to the public and announced on the Ocean Charter
School website, the Yahoo email group and the Enrollment application.
The following shall be given preference for admission to the school:
Siblings of students currently enrolled in the school, children of
school faculty and staff, and children of OCS Board of Trustees.
Siblings are defined as any two students who share a legal
parent/guardian. (Legal documentation is required.) The OCS Board of
Trustees may review and revise this preference policy as necessary
for the well-being of the school.
The random public lottery determines applicants’ waitlist status.
Those who apply after the lottery deadline are added to the end of
the lottery waitlist in the order they are received. Offers for
openings are made in waitlist number order until the spots are filled
or the waitlist is exhausted.
Initial rounds of offers are made by mail, while any subsequent
offers are made through contacting applicants by phone. When an offer
is made, Ocean Charter School typically requests that applicants
notify the school within 2 days to indicate whether or not they will
accept; if offers are declined or applicants do not respond, the spot
is then offered to the next applicant on the wait list. The waitlist
for the current school year remains active until Ocean Carter
School’s Open Enrollment period commences. Applications are only
valid for the current year. Applicants must reapply for the lottery
annually if we are unable to offer them admission for the current
year.
Holidays in Our Community
Andy Layman, President of the Venice Chamber of Commerce, asks us to please support your fellow Venetians by doing your holiday shopping in Venice:
“By supporting each other we will survive this downturn and also get to know our fellow merchants. There are many fine shops and restaurants that are there to be discovered. Get to know your Venice by looking around and exploring new places.”
Also, there is a need for volunteers for the Venice and Marina del Rey holiday boat parades on December 13th and 14th. The Venice Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with the Venice Marina Rotary are co-sponsoring a boat in the Marina del Rey Boat Parade. They are in need of help on Friday, December 12th to decorate a 42-foot Catalina. Please email Andy or call 310-396-4559 if you would like to help.
Westminster Kindergarten Yard Greening Meeting
(From Coby Dahlstrom, head of the PTA at Westminster Elementary School.)
Coby invited you to “Kindergarten Yard Greening Meeting” on Monday, December 8 at 2:45pm.
Event: Kindergarten Yard Greening Meeting – “Join us as we talk about expansion, greening, and community multi-use!”
What: Rally
Host: Westminster Elementary PTA
Start Time: Monday, December 8 at 2:45pm
End Time: Monday, December 8 at 3:45pm
Where: Westminster Elementary Kinderyard
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=52765665802
Recipe: Madeleines à l’ancienne
Patricia one of the teachers at the Abbot Kinney campus promised to share with me some of the recipes they have prepared with the children at school. Here’s one to get us started!
Madeleines à l’Ancienne
Préparation : 15 minutes. Cuisson : 8 minutes. Attente : 20 minutes. Difficulté : Très facile. Coût : Bon marché
Des madeleines moelleuses et parfumées au bon goût d’antan.Un recette d’une internaute !
Voir les recettes de Bottero Françoise
Madeleines : les meilleures recettes
Ces petits gâteaux « de littérature » sont toujours les bienvenus sur une table ! Pour un résultat encore meilleur, faîtes les cuire au der…
Idée recette : Madeleines au miel
Consultez le dossier recettes : madeleines
Autres bonnes idées : traditionnelles, oeufs, gourmandises, petits gateaux, madeleines a l ancienne, desserts
INGREDIENTS
Pour 8 personne(s)
225 g de farine,
175 g de sucre,
100 g de beurre,
1 paquet de levure en poudre,
4 oeufs,
1 citron,
1 pincée de sel.
PREPARATION
Dans une terrine, battez ensemble les oeufs entiers et le sucre jusqu’à ce que ce dernier soit entièrement fondu.Ajoutez la farine et la levure tamisée ensemble, le zeste râpé du citron puis le beurre fondu.
Beurrez avec un pinceau les plaques de moules à madelaine, saupoudrez-les de farine et secouez-les pour faire tomber l’excédent.A la poche a douille de 10 millimètres, remplissez chaque moule.Laissez reposer 20 minutes.pendant ce temps, faites chauffer le four à 240°C(8-9 au thermostat). Enfournez, laissez cuire 8 minutes environ.
SUGGESTIONS ET CONSEILS
Les madeleines refroidies et à l’air pendant 2 heures se conservent en boîte hermétique.Si vous devez vous servir plusieurs fois de la même plaque, refroidissez-la chaque fois.
Conseil de Chef Damien :
- Je vous conseille de laisser reposer la pâte au moins 2 heures avant de les cuire. Vous aurez un meilleur résultat !
Here’s also a recipe in English…
