Whale Pod

Update - April 2025

As you may recall, our whales ran this year's Jogathon to help support funding for a wellness room, aka the “Whale Pod”. Thank you for all of your generous donations. We’re excited to share that progress is underway! The Orange County Department of Education will support the design process and help us finalize a list of items to purchase. The PTA aims to complete all purchases by June, with installation planned for this summer. Stay tuned—we’ll be looking for parent volunteers, likely over the summer, to help bring the Whale Pod to life!

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What is the Whale Pod? 

It is going to be a special space for our Whales, big and small. Room 117 will be transformed into the Whale Pod and will become a space for unlimited use. Along with fresh paint, we will add comfortable furniture that is easy to move and make into different private areas or one big meeting space. Art supplies and music will be a part of the space as well. Many schools throughout CUSD have similar spaces available to their school community. We want to join them! The Whale Pod will be open to students at recess for quiet activities, a place to meet with Ms. Fischer for social-emotional health lessons, open for classes or groups of students for art activities and be available for parent meetings.

How you can help

The proceeds from this year's Jogathon will help fund this project. (Thank you!) We always accept direct donations as well. Also, once supplies come in, we may need parent volunteers to help us make the room come to life. 

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Examples of similar rooms