Notes are posted here for all parents, and also specific to each class. If you have any questions you can always send email to your child's teacher.
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Tools & Services for Parents

Look forward to the tools shown below in the coming weeks. In the meantime, take advantage of this site's new additions. We're now using blogs to communicate IMABO (Ile Omode Mama And Baba's Organized) news from the family meetings, as well as general annoucements. Use the links at the top of the page to navigate to your child's class or just scroll down. Email the web master if you have suggestions for other services you would like to have from the website.

COMING SOON

  • Register for Service Tasks
  • Uniform Orders
  • Online Tuition Payment (coming soon)

 
 
IMABO (Parent's Group)
Coordinator: Mama Taffany Davis
IMABO is the family group at Ile Omode. The general family meetings are scheduled on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 5:30 pm, and there are other subgroups that may meet periodically throughout the year. You can email the group's coordinator.

 
 
 
 Mama Jasiri Preschool Mama Oyin Kambon, Mama Francine Trisby

Announcements/Updates

Notes

  • Children should be dropped off in the preschool room in the morning, unless you plan to eat breakfast with your child. If so then you may eat with them in the cafeteria, and then drop them off in the preschool classroom.
 
 Marcus Garvey (K)
Mama Ashanti Hunter

Announcements/Updates

Notes

  • Children have a spelling test each Friday. Please work with them during the week.
 
 Malcolm X (1st/2nd)
Mama Zuwena Omari (Teacher)

Announcements/Updates

Notes

  • Children have a spelling test each Friday. Please work with them during the week.
 
 John Coltrane (3rd)
Mama Tyanne Moore

Announcements/Updates

Notes

  • Math examinations are every Friday, Spelling quiz every Wednesday
  • Make sure you review your children's homework, and sign their homework sheet each evening
 
 Ngola Nzingha (4th/5th)
Baba Jahi Awakoaiye

Announcements/Updates

Examination Schedule (regularly scheduled)

  • Math and spelling examinations are every Friday
  • History exams are not weekly, but generally occur on Thursdays
  • Make sure you review your children's homework, and sign their homework sheet each evening
Assigned Books
  • Students are in various math classes, including 4th, 5th, 6th, and Pre-Algebra. Students in 4th and 5th have Scott Foresman, California Mathematics books.
  • Fourth grade students have spelling book "E" (Working Words), and 5th grade students have "F".
  • We're presently reading "The 40 Acre Swindle", and each student has an assigned book.
 
 Harriet Tubman (6th)
Baba Abubakar Omari

Announcements/Updates

Notes

  • Children have a spelling test each Friday. Please work with them during the week.
 
 Zoral Neale Hurston (7th/8th)
Mama Jamila Levine

Announcements/Updates

Notes

  • Children have a spelling test each Friday. Please work with them during the week.
 

 

 
PAST THE SAND Amira and Indigo enjoying the sand box.
MACEXPO : Abdeena, Ejahye, and KaRa interviewing for a Google video at the MacExpo in San Francisco.
 
 
Calendar 6248-49 (2008-09)

The calendar is subject to change. Please confer with the school’s announcement board, family meeting, email updates, and our newsletter for changes or updates. The annual field trips are listed below, these however do not include field trips which are scheduled throughout the year. A PDF version of the calendar is available.

August
F 8/15 Last day of summer school
September
M 9/1 Labor Day Holiday – SCHOOL CLOSED
T 9/2 First day of school
F 9/5 New Family Orientation (5:00 pm)
R 9/11 Family Meeting (5:30 pm)
SA 9/27 Beautification Day (Service Hours makeup)
Jazz & Arts Fundraiser
October
W 10/1 Monthly tuition is due
F 10/3 Open House (5:30 pm)
R 10/9 Family Meeting (5:30 pm)
November
M 11/3 Monthly tuition is due
F 11/7 END 1st Report Period (ELEMENTARY)
R 11/13 Family Meeting (5:30 pm)
R-F 11/27-28 Thanksgiving Holiday – SCHOOL CLOSED
December
M 12/1 Monthly tuition is due
F 12/5 "2nd Annual Bowlathon" Fundraiser (6:00 pm)
R 12/11 Family Meeting (5:30 pm)
F 12/19 SCHOOL CLOSED (Winter Vacation)
f 12/26 Kwanzaa (UMOJA) performance
SA 12/27 Beautification Day (Service Hours makeup)
January
f 1/2 Monthly tuition is due
M 1/5 SCHOOL REOPENS
R 1/8 Family Meeting (5:30 pm)
M 1/19 DR. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Observance – SCHOOL CLOSED
F 1/23 Staff Development (SCHOOL CLOSED)
END 2nd Report Period (ELEMENTARY)
END 1st Report Period (PRESCHOOL)
February
F 2/2 Monthly tuition is due
R 2/12 Family Meeting (5:30 pm)
M 2/16 Presidents Day– SCHOOL CLOSED
SU 2/22 Ancestor’s Day Celebration (2:00 PM)
T 2/24 Picture Day (9:00 am)
March
M 3/2 Monthly tuition is due
R 3/12 Family Meeting (5:30 pm)
F 3/20 Snow Trip (Field Trip) (ALL DAY)
F 3/27 END 3rd Report Period (ELEMENTARY)
SA 3/29 Beautification Day (Service Hours makeup)
April
W 4/1 Monthly tuition is due
M-F 4/6-10 Spring Break – SCHOOL CLOSED
R 4/16 Family Meeting (5:30 pm)
May
F 5/1 Monthly tuition is due
R 5/14 Family Meeting (5:30 pm)
SA 5/16 Spring Brunch Fundraiser (10-4 pm)
M 5/18 Malcolm X Birthday – SCHOOL CLOSED
M 5/25 Memorial Day Holiday – SCHOOL CLOSED
SU 5/31 Rhythm Recital (2:00 pm)
June
M 6/1 Monthly tuition is due
R 6/4 Family Meeting (5:30 pm)
F 6/5 Santa Cruz Boardwalk – FIELD TRIP
END 4th Report Period (ELEMENTARY)
END 2nd Report Period (PRESCHOOL)
R-T 6/4-9 End of the Year Exams (K-6)
R 6/11 LAST SCHOOL DAY – Closed until summer session begins
F 6/12 Graduation and Promotion
PRESCHOOL (9:00 am)
ELEMENTARY (11:00 am)
MIDDLE SCHOOL (TBA)
M 6/22 Summer program begins – SCHOOL REOPENS
M 6/29 Summer tuition is due
July & August
F 7/3 Holiday – SCHOOL CLOSED
M 8/3 Monthly tuition is due
F 8/14 Summer School ends – SCHOOL CLOSED until new year begins
M-W 8/24-26 Staff Development
T 9/1 First day of school