Laguna Hills Ca Schools

Emergency cancellations have forced a student exchange program to scramble to find temporary homes in South County for two visiting students from Thailand. The students are among 17 youths visiting the Southland for three weeks. International Education Forum organizers had homes lined up for all of the students until two host families were forced to cancel their participation.

Members of the Laguna Hills High School academic decathlon team will compete for the eighth time in the statewide "battle of the brains" next month, after winning over 60 Orange County teams last week. The nine-member team will compete for the school's third state title. Laguna Hills team members are Cindy Chang, Nelson Lai, David Lutz, Jeff Malinen, Laura Van Nostrand, Matt Stebbins, David Troxell, Margaret Vo and Elizabeth Weinberg. Team coaches are teachers Roger Gunderson and Kathy Lane.

The City Council has approved spending $8,500 each year for an additional crossing guard near Valencia Elementary School. The guard will help cross children at La Paz Road and Paseo de Valencia. "Numerous kids use that intersection and we have a concern that one crossing guard is not able to handle the volume of traffic there," Valencia Principal Don Snyder told the council at its meeting last week.

The story was about a lazy man who made a monster do his chores. The tale captivated the imaginations of nine youngsters in the city's Create A Story summer recreation class, and they set to work dramatizing it. With cardboard masks and handfuls of multicolored tissue paper, they created their own versions of the monster. Joanna Stapleton, 5, used balled-up newspaper to form cheeks on her mask. Tommy Grandy, 8, drew square eyes, making his monster resemble a robot.

They live in neighborhoods with decidedly different images, but the 150 fidgeting, giggling elementary school children gathered from South-Central Los Angeles and Laguna Hills found no problem communicating Thursday as members of the computer generation. After uniting their efforts in campus recycling drives, the students of Lenicia B.

The story was about a lazy man who made a monster do his chores. The tale captivated the imaginations of nine youngsters in the city's Create A Story summer recreation class, and they set to work dramatizing it. With cardboard masks and handfuls of multicolored tissue paper, they created their own versions of the monster. Joanna Stapleton, 5, used balled-up newspaper to form cheeks on her mask. Tommy Grandy, 8, drew square eyes, making his monster resemble a robot.

Hoping to alleviate congestion at the entrance to Laguna Hills High School, the City Council has approved making two passenger loading zones on Paseo de Valencia. Mayor Joel T. Lautenschleger and Councilmen R. Craig Scott and Randal J. Bressette voted in favor of the zones, saying the city has an obligation to improve traffic flow around the school.

A team of fourth-grade students from Valencia Elementary School took several awards during a recent countywide mathematics competition. Competing against 23 other fourth-grade classes at the Orange County Mathematics Field Day held in Fountain Valley, the Valencia students won first place in mental math computation, along with second and third places in other categories.

At Valencia Elementary School, kindergarten teacher Socorro Aclaro and her aide do not speak English--at least not in front of their students. The no-English rule is even spelled out in a flyer tacked to the classroom door for parents and other visitors. Aclaro teaches in a pilot program in the Saddleback Valley Unified School District called Two-Way Language Immersion, in which students learn all their subjects in Spanish. They not only read Dr.

Members of the Laguna Hills High School academic decathlon team will compete for the eighth time in the statewide "battle of the brains" next month, after winning over 60 Orange County teams last week. The nine-member team will compete for the school's third state title. Laguna Hills team members are Cindy Chang, Nelson Lai, David Lutz, Jeff Malinen, Laura Van Nostrand, Matt Stebbins, David Troxell, Margaret Vo and Elizabeth Weinberg. Team coaches are teachers Roger Gunderson and Kathy Lane.

Hoping to alleviate congestion at the entrance to Laguna Hills High School, the City Council has approved making two passenger loading zones on Paseo de Valencia. Mayor Joel T. Lautenschleger and Councilmen R. Craig Scott and Randal J. Bressette voted in favor of the zones, saying the city has an obligation to improve traffic flow around the school.

The City Council has approved spending $8,500 each year for an additional crossing guard near Valencia Elementary School. The guard will help cross children at La Paz Road and Paseo de Valencia. "Numerous kids use that intersection and we have a concern that one crossing guard is not able to handle the volume of traffic there," Valencia Principal Don Snyder told the council at its meeting last week.

A team of fourth-grade students from Valencia Elementary School took several awards during a recent countywide mathematics competition. Competing against 23 other fourth-grade classes at the Orange County Mathematics Field Day held in Fountain Valley, the Valencia students won first place in mental math computation, along with second and third places in other categories.

Emergency cancellations have forced a student exchange program to scramble to find temporary homes in South County for two visiting students from Thailand. The students are among 17 youths visiting the Southland for three weeks. International Education Forum organizers had homes lined up for all of the students until two host families were forced to cancel their participation.

They live in neighborhoods with decidedly different images, but the 150 fidgeting, giggling elementary school children gathered from South-Central Los Angeles and Laguna Hills found no problem communicating Thursday as members of the computer generation. After uniting their efforts in campus recycling drives, the students of Lenicia B.

At Valencia Elementary School, kindergarten teacher Socorro Aclaro and her aide do not speak English--at least not in front of their students. The no-English rule is even spelled out in a flyer tacked to the classroom door for parents and other visitors. Aclaro teaches in a pilot program in the Saddleback Valley Unified School District called Two-Way Language Immersion, in which students learn all their subjects in Spanish. They not only read Dr.