Attendance Line
 To report absences, please call 818-591-2428 and press 1.
Please use this number to report an absence each day your child will be out.
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Contact
Rosemarie Hibler, Principal
22601 Liberty Bell Road
Calabasas, CA 91302
818-591-2428
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Parents wishing to access the CST questions released by the state of California may find them here.
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We are in the home stretch with only a month and a half left in the school year! What an incredible month we have in store. Teachers and students are gearing up for all of our May events and activities.
One of te activities taking place this month is the California State test which will occur the week of May 6th for students in Grades 2-5. We ask for your support and assistance during this time. We request that parents please make any appointments for dentists or doctors for the afternoon, since testing will take place in the morning. Please help your child get plenty of sleep and eat a nutritious breakfast each day. It will also be critical during testing that students arrive on time to school.
In his article Standardized Testing: The Pros and Cons, author Derrick Meador highlights several arguments on both sides of the debate:
Pros:
- Standardized testing holds teachers and schools accountable
- Standardized testing allows various schools, districts and states to be compared.
- Standardized testing is accompanied by established standards or insturctional framework by grade level.
- Standardized testing is more objective, since it is scored by people outside the classroom.
- Standardized testing provides schools with data to develop programs and services aimed at improving scores.
Cons:
- Standardized testing evaluates student's performance on one day in time with no external factors taken into consideration like stress, anxiety, or focus.
- Standardized testing may cause teacher to only "teach to the test."
- Standardized testing only evaluates individual performance versus overall growth of that student over the school year.
- Standardized testing can create stress for students and educators.
- Standardized testing can be wrongfully used for political agendas, as an end-all for student and school success.
As we assess students during this time of year, let's work together in alleviating students' potential stress by using positive strategies such as: positive self talk; praise for good effort; time to have fun in the afternoon; plenty of sleep; and a healthy diet. Our students are ready and will do well!
Also coming in May is our annual Open House on Thursday, May 16. Students and staff are working diligently getting classrooms ready to show off the learning that takes place every day and we look forward to seeing all our student families here that night.
Finally, our highlighted "Six Pillars of Character" trait for May will be Respect. We will focus on behavioral examples such as: treating others with respect; following the Goldent Rule; being tolerant and accepting of differences; using good manners; not using bad language; being considerate of the feelings of others; not threatening, hitting or hurting anyone; and dealing peacefully with anger, insults, and disagreements. We want to instill in our students treating others the way that they want to be treated. Let's work together to make the lesson of respect become part of our everyday lives.
"Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing."
-Norman Ralph Augustine
Rosemarie Hibler
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Daily Schedule
Effective 1/7/13
Regular Day
| GRADES K-5 |
M, Tu, Th, & F
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Wednesday
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| School begins |
8:15 a.m.
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8:15 a.m.
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| Recess for Grades K-3 |
9:55-10:15 a.m.
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9:55-10:15 a.m.
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| Recess for Grades 4-5 |
10:20-10:40 a.m.
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10:20-10:40 a.m.
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| Lunch for Kindergarten |
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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11:15 - 11:30 a.m.
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| Lunch for Grades 1-3 |
11:45 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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12:30 - 1:00 p.m. (optional)
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| Lunch for Grades 4-5 |
12:15 - 1:00 p.m.
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12:30 - 1:00 p.m. (optional)
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| Dismissal for Kindergarten |
1:15 p.m.
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11:30 a.m.
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| Dismissal for Grades 1-3 |
2:20 p.m.
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12:30 p.m.
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| Dismissal for Grades 4-5 |
2:51 p.m.
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12:30 p.m.
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Minimum Day
| GRADES K-5 |
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| School begins |
8:15 a.m.
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| Recess for Grades K-3 |
9:55 - 10:15 a.m.
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| Recess for Grades 4-5 |
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| Dismissal for Kindergarten |
11:30 a.m.
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| Dismissal for Grades 1-5 |
12:15 p.m.
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Arrival
- Supervision on the upper playground is from 7:30 A.M. to 8:10 A.M.
- On rainy days, if you arrive before 8:00 A.M., report to the library. After 8:00 A.M., report directly to your classroom.
Dismissal
- Pick up children promptly at dismissal time.
- If you cannot pick up your child on time, please contact someone designated on your child's emergency card to pick them up.
- Children who are not picked up on time will be enrolled in the Boys & Girls Club after school program and parents will be charged the appropriate fee.
- If children are not eligible to attend the Boys & Girls Club program, they will wait in the office until the parent or emergency contact can pick them up.
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The state of California released the STAR score results for our school and Chaparral's API score is 915!
Well done everyone! 
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