Principal’s Message 

Dear Bubb Families,

I hope you had a wonderful long weekend.  January is slowly coming to an end, and our 100th Day of school is on Tuesday (01/28), it will also be the 1000th day of school for our 5th graders!  As we press forward into our school year, we are also planning for next year.  Open enrollment will be 01/21- 02/7.  Log into Powerschool to register.  For in-person support, sign up here  for appointments.   

Please join me Friday at 8:15am for Principal Coffee to discuss our iReady #2, CA Dashboard, and Prop 28.  I am excited to update our community on the progress Bubb is making this year, and in SPSA achievement.  We have an amazing staff and their hard work is evident.  

Finally, the PTA will be back on campus to facilitate Lunar New Year activities.  Please join us in welcoming the Year of the Snake at lunch on 01/31.  If your child would like to present or perform, please see the information below.  

In Community,

Principal Jung

Important Dates 

School News 

The Great Kindness Challenge

Next week will be another opportunity in helping our students build empathy, feel supported, and thrive, and the GKC is one of these. The GKC is a global campaign that promotes kindness, social–emotional health, and bullying prevention in prekindergarten through grade twelve. The GKC provides many free resources to support students and educators, and we will be having some great activities next week at Bubb!

PTA Lunar New Year Celebration

We are so excited to have students performing a Taekwondo demonstration and Ballet performance (infused with Korean culture!) at our Bubb Lunar New Year lunchtime celebration on Friday, January 31st from 11:45am-1:00pm! Do you have a Bubb Cub who would also like to show off their art form at our celebration? Let us know! Please reach out to Miss Erika ([email protected]) if your Bubb Cub is interested in performing and/or you are interested in helping. Thanks!

Bubb Talent Show

Attention Bubb Cubs, from kinder to 5th grade: Do you have a talent you'd love to share? Whether you're a performer or a culinary genius, we want YOU to join us for an evening of fun, confidence-building, and community spirit at the Bubb 2025 Talent Show!

🎭 Performance Showcase: Sing, dance, act, or showcase any talent on stage!

🍽️ Culinary Showcase: Share your favorite dish for everyone to taste and enjoy!

The show will take place on Friday, March 14, 2025, 6:30-8:30PM at Bubb School MUR. 

 

How to be Part of the Show

Please carefully review all the important details and guidelines below for crafting your act or dish. Signup forms must be submitted by February 1, 2025.  

🎭  Performance Showcase Signup Form

🍽️  Culinary Showcase Signup Form

🎤 Emcee Signup Form

 

Bubb Elementary Tree Planting Day

The urban forestry nonprofit Canopy has partnered with the Mountain View Whisman School District to add up to 50 trees to the Bubb Elementary School campus. Their mission is to engage our community in growing our urban forest and encourage participation in not only the planting, but in the design. Canopy and the District will be hosting a community meeting on Zoom to share our plans and collect your input, including identifying a planting date in March when the school and surrounding community can come help plant.

Details
Topic: Community Listening Session -- Bubb Elementary Tree Planting Day
Time: Jan 28, 2025 04:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85115037759

Meeting ID: 851 1503 7759
Passcode: Tree

Bubb Parent Workshop:  Digital TAT2

We will have two online sessions for our families about helping your student develop a healthy relationship with technology.  We will have a Spanish session on Monday January 27, 2025 from 6:00-7:30 pm and an English session on Tuesday January 28, 2025 from 6:00-7:30 pm.  More information can be found in the flyers below.

District News 

Grades 5-7: Middle School Elective Student Interest Survey coming on Friday, 1/24 

Our middle schools are beginning to develop a list of student elective offerings that are a great complement to our core academics.  Our goal is to align electives with students’ interests and teachers’ credentials. 

 

In order to gauge students’ interests, and inform the development of the elective catalog for the next school year, students in grades 5-7 will be asked to complete a survey in class on January 24th.  This survey will list some possible elective choice areas for 2025-26 and ask students to indicate their level of interest for each of the choice areas.  The purpose of this survey is to gauge student interests. Incoming and current middle school students will not formally request electives until March/April 2025. Please note that students will not be committed to taking the electives they express an interest in. All elective offerings are subject to student enrollment, interest, staffing, and teacher credentialing at the school site. 

 

For more information on the process, and to view last year’s electives catalogs, please click on www.mvwsd.org/MSelectives.

 

LCAP survey opening on January 27

The District is updating the LCAP (Local Control Accountability Plan). Your responses to the survey will guide the update of our District plan for the 2025-26 school year.

 

Parents, please click on your unique survey link that will be sent to your email address on Jan. 27. Your survey link is unique to your household and only one parent/guardian can complete it.

 

Your responses are confidential. Students in grades 4-8 will also be taking the LCAP survey. More information found here: mvwsd.org/LCAP

 

 

Open Enrollment for 2025-26 starts January 21

The Mountain View Whisman School District will be opening student enrollment for next fall on January 21.

 

For CURRENT students in transitional kindergarten-7th grade: Parents will be asked by email to confirm enrollment from January 21 to February 7.

 

For families enrolling NEW students: Please check www.mvwsd.org/register for how to locate your neighborhood school, how to explore school options and the four steps to register during the enrollment period held January 21 to February 7. 

 

Transitional Kindergarten Info Meeting: Jan. 22, 6:30 p.m.
Meeting link: http://mvw.sd/TK122. Click here to watch a video about TK and learn about our programs for young learners: mvwsd.org/kinderready 

 

For Fifth-Grade Families: Middle School Info Night on January 22, 2025

Please join us at this fun and informative virtual event. It is an opportunity for you and your fifth-grader to learn about middle school life next year as sixth-graders. You will have the opportunity to hear from our principals, learn about classes, hear tips on how to be successful at middle school and ask any questions you may have. Students are encouraged to attend!

 

Crittenden at 5:30 p.m. Meeting link: http://mvw.sd/CR0122

Graham at 6:30 p.m. Meeting link: http://mvw.sd/GR022

 

 

MVWSD Student Film Festival

K-8 students are invited to participate in the upcoming District Film Festival! The theme is Spotlight on Solutions: explore a problem and highlight a thoughtful solution that inspires change or brings hope. Films should be created on WeVideo, a video editing platform in Clever. Your child may be doing an in-class project, but they are also welcome to complete one at home. Films are due March 7th, check out this flyer for more info!

 

 

MVEF SURVEY 2024-25 - DON’T FORGET TO TAKE OUR SURVEY UNTIL JANUARY 21ST!

Take just 5 minutes to complete the survey here and share your thoughts! 

Do your students benefit from programs like CSMA Art & Music, Living Classroom, environmental science field trips, or middle school clubs and sports? How important are smaller class sizes in middle school to you? How connected do you feel to our community?

Please complete the survey by January 21st to help us plan resources for the 2025-26 school year. The survey is available in both English and Spanish and can only be submitted once per recipient. Thank you for your valuable input!

Your feedback is essential in shaping our MVEF programs and priorities!

 

SAVE THE DATE: VIRTUAL “MEET & GREETS” WITH MVEF

Want to learn more about MVEF? Join our Board members and School Representatives to learn about MVEF’s role, how it differs from PTAs, Prop 28, and more. Bring your questions!

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | 12:00-12:45 pm | Please register here.

Monday, January 27, 2025 | 07:00-07:45 pm | Please register here.

MVEF IS SEEKING NEW BOARD MEMBERS AND SCHOOL REPRESENTATIVES

Are you passionate about public education, our local community and want to make an impact in our community? Or do you have any recommendations for board members from your community or the district community? 

MVEF is actively recruiting new Board members or School Representatives! Learn more here or email [email protected] for any interest! If you recommend anyone, our recruiting committee will follow up with candidates directly.

PTA News 

Dive into creativity and learning with new and ongoing AFTERSCHOOL programs! 

Sample classes: 

• In Math Culture, students tackle fun problems and puzzles while honing their problem-solving skills. 

• Success Chess School welcomes players of all levels, from beginners to tournament enthusiasts. 

• With Brick Tech LEGO® STEM, explore robotics, Pokémon adventures, and even Mars colonization using the latest LEGO® technology. 

• Join Nibble n’ Gobble Cooking Classes, where kids create delicious, nut-free vegetarian dishes while learning about healthy eating. 

Each program is hands-on, educational, and fun, designed for grades 1-5. Plus a Coding Design class.—learn more about all of these and sign up here!

The Bubb PTA is sharing these programs with sessions starting in January or February to help build community awareness but has not vetted and is not sponsoring the programs. Please review their websites to ensure it is a good option for your child and for more information about the program, timing, and registration.

Did you help out with Walkathon or a Cultural celebration? Have you volunteered in your child's classroom lately? Don't forget to report your hours!

Each year we need to prove the Bubb PTA is a volunteer-based non-profit. To do this we need you to report the hours you have volunteered at Bubb.

As a reminder, you can consider all phone calls, meetings, emails, events (including set-up and clean up), any preparation work at home, travel time, etc. If your child's teacher or the PTA asked you to do it, include your time!!

Thank you! You can log your hours here

Call for Participants: Bubb Talent Show 2025 

Do you have a talent you'd love to share? Whether you're a performer or a culinary genius, we want YOU to join us for an evening of fun, confidence-building, and community spirit at the Bubb Talent Show 2024 on Friday, March 14, 2025, 6:30-8:30PM at Bubb School MUR! 

How to Participate: Check out the Bubb Talent Show 2025 page for all the details! Sign ups are due by February 1. 

Questions: Contact [email protected].

Community Partners 

City of MV Lunar New Year Celebration Celebrate the rich traditions of the Lunar New Year on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Mountain View Community Center! This multicultural event will showcase traditional performances, hands-on crafts, engaging games, community booths, and a diverse array of delicious offerings from food trucks. Join us for a day of cultural celebration and connection with the community!

 

The View Teen Center: January

The View Teen Center is a free facility in Mountain View (263 Escuela Ave) for all Mountain View and Los Altos 6th - 12th grade students. Drop-in hours are Monday - Friday, 3:15 - 7 p.m. and Saturdays, 1 - 6 p.m. (Adjusted hours: Jan. 24: 3:15-6 p.m.), and the center features a game room, makerspace, kitchen, computer/study room, and outdoor area. January events include an MLK Day of Service, a book club, cooking classes, crafts, and much more. For more information, click here.

 

MVLA Speaker Series: Accountable with Dashka Slater 

Join the next MVLA Speaker Series presentation, “Accountable: The True Story of a Local Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives it Changed,” with Dashka Slater on Tuesday, February 4 at 7PM at the Mountain View High School Theater. Join the author for a discussion of the propulsive and thought-provoking true story about the revelation of a racist social media account that changes everything for a group of high school students and begs the question: What does it mean to be held accountable for harm that takes place behind a screen? Register for this free event here.

Silicon Valley Reads 2025 Program

Silicon Valley Reads is a community engagement program that features books and an annual theme to bring people together by providing more than 150 free, public events each year in February and March. The 2025 theme is "Empowering Humanity: Technology for a Better World."  We will learn from those on the forefront of the AI movement, explore ways in which technology impacts our daily lives and future, address questions related to ethics, and discuss how we can create a positive impact using the tools that are rapidly becoming accessible to each of us. For the featured books for adults and children and 2025 calendar of events, visit https://www.siliconvalleyreads.org/.

SCCOE Tobacco Use Prevention Education 

Join the SCCOE Tobacco Use Prevention Education (TUPE) program for a bilingual event on the harmful effects of vaping and cannabis on adolescent health. This session will provide you with essential knowledge and resources to guide and support your children in making informed decisions. Learn strategies for starting conversations about these issues and connect with other parents dedicated to fostering a healthier environment for our youth. Sessions will be held at 5:30pm on January 28, February 6, April 2, and April 9. See flyer for more details or contact Alison Medeiros at [email protected].

Flyers

SCCOE Tobacco Use Prevention Education

City of MV Lunar New Year Celebration

Bubb Parent U: Parenting in the Digital Era 

Bubb Parent U: Crianza de los hijos en la era digital

January Lunch menu

2024-2025 School Calendar

2025-2026 School Calendar