Friends of Language Academy, Inc. (FOLA)

Come out to support the Middle School Athletics teams this Saturday for their first games and track meet!
Boys and girls basketball teams play at Morse High School
Girls: 8am and10am
Boys: 11am and 1pm

Boys and girls track events will be at Madison HS between 9am-1pm.

📣 Language Academy families, did you know our 8th graders have the opportunity to travel to Europe together after graduating 8th grade? ✈️ We have amazing teachers who chaperone, and parents can chaperone as well! Paris, Barcelona, and Madrid! 🇫🇷🇪🇸 These kids will make lifelong memories with their peers while using their language skills to navigate and see the world!

7th graders! Don’t miss this info meeting about the summer 2026 Europe Trip! 🇫🇷 🇪🇸

Spread the word! 📣 We still have openings in our internationally recognized French immersion program- in kindergarten and higher grades as well! 📚 🌟

Language Academy is the ONLY public (yes, tuition-free!) school in San Diego that offers French immersion! 🇫🇷 Did you know French is the 5th most widely spoken language in the world? 🌎 Give your child the gift of a second language at a young age, when studies show true proficiency is much easier to acquire! Reach out to our front office today to schedule a school tour! 🎉📚💫

Call 619-860-5150, opt 4 for more info! 💫

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Back to School Night! Save the Date!

Language Academy K-5 Cheer & Dance after school program begins next week! Presented by Kidz Edition.

https://kidzedition.com/ols/products/language-academy

Hooray for an amazing first day! ❤️Mark your calendars! 📆 📚 We have lots of fantastic events to look forward to this year!

Tryouts for Middle School boys basketball, girls basketball, boys track&field and girl track&field are next week. PM me with any questions. Link to register with SDUSD Athletics is in the comments.

We can’t wait to welcome everybody back to school this Monday! If you have a kindergartner starting school on Monday, please drop by the auditorium for coffee, pastries and a shoulder to cry on (or fellow parents to high five). Whether you are celebrating or crying or a little of both, we’re here for you! 🫶🏼❤️

Are you new to Language Academy? We welcome you to the new student orientation where you can meet our new principal, our wonderful Kindergarten teachers and find out about our wonderful organizations (FOLA and PTSA) run by parents and teachers to support the school, our students, and their families. 😁 🌎

FOLA will be fully stocked with school swag and has a gift for all new students. Our wonderful librarian Ms. Rodgers will also be having a Dual Langauge book fair. Hope to see you there! 🤗❤️

**see update regarding parking in photo**

Are you new to Language Academy? We welcome you to the new student orientation where you can meet our new principal, our wonderful Kindergarten teachers and find out about our wonderful organizations (FOLA and PTSA) run by parents and teachers to support the school, our students, and their families. FOLA will be fully stocked with school swag and has a gift for all new students. Our wonderful librarian Ms. Rodgers will also be having a Dual Langauge book fair. Hope to see you there!

Registration is now open for all 6th-8th graders for Middle School Boys Basketball, Girls Basketball, Boys Track and Girls Track teams. We didn't have enough participants for boys track last year so hoping for a good turnout this Fall! Tryouts will be in late August. Use the google doc link to be added to the tryout list and ensure we get a count. PM with any questions.

Middle School Athletics 2024 Fall Sports Registration Is Now Open Online Home For The San Diego Unified School District

French program families!! 🇫🇷 Mark your calendars! July 14 @ the Intercontinental San Diego! 5-9pm. Celebrate Bastille Day at the first annual French Market in San Diego ❤️. Enjoy some delicious French foods and practice your conversation skills with vendors! 🤩

French Language Community Members,

Please join us for a fantastic event for the community which opens the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) Annual National Convention in San Diego the first week of July. The screening is open to the public at a minimal fee of $5 at the Wyndham Bayside Hotel in Downtown San Diego. July 8 @ 7pm!

For event description and registration:
https://www.frenchteachers.org/events/film-—noirs-en-france

Reminder for our last FOLA Zoom meeting tonight!

After such an extraordinary successful Jogathon, FOLA needs your help to discuss goals for next year and talk about how we can best serve our school community. If you think you have a skill that would help, please consider joining the board. We will elect our new board for next year.

Join PTSA on Saturday, June 1st as we cheer on the San Diego Growlers at Language Academy Family Night! Game starts at 6:30pm at Mission Bay High School.

Lots of fun activities for the kids, including: face painting, balloon artist, photo booth, and frisbee games!

Tickets are FREE for kids under 12, $12 for students, and $15 for adults. A portion of the ticket sales will go directly to Language Academy PTSA programs.

Tickets available for pre-purchase at https://sdgrowlersstore.com (use code LanguageAcademy) and at the gate.

See you there!!

Look for the FOLA table at Multicultural Festival this Thursday. You can get information for how to join FOLA to support the school and its enrichment programs and pick up some school merch while you are at it (we take cash or Venmo). Here's an order form to preview.

Post-Jogathon sponsor shout out! We are so stoked for our newest sponsor - Language Academy family-owned San Diego Blenders- just steps from Language Academy at 6663 El Cajon Blvd. Offering locally sourced fruit smoothies, fresh squeezed juices and delicious wraps and sandwiches, this place is the BOMB. If you love fresh healthy food that tastes AMAZING and makes you FEEL GOOD, look no further!

https://sdblenders.com

Happy Jogaton Day! You didn't think we were done shouting out our amazing sponsors did you? We would like to thank Native West Nursery for their support of our school and this year's Dreamland Jogathon. Native West is a 130-acre nursery, located in south San Diego County, specializing in custom seed collection and growing species native to the western United States.
Over the past two decades, Native West has been perfecting their growing process to produce a hardy plant that is best adapted to survive once planted. They are passionate about your success with native plants. Their team of native plant specialists is here to help you navigate the process of creating a thriving native landscape.
Some of their services include contract growing, plant, mulch and seed delivery, seed farming, collecting, seed cleaning and seed storage and management. They are conveniently located a 20 minute drive from campus in Southwest San Diego. Give them a call or better yet go visit them for all your planting needs! Also see the flyer for their Pollinator Festival coming up next week.

We are so grateful to Woodstocks Pizza for sponsoring Language Academy Jogathon and providing delicious meals for our hardworking teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week! Thank you for supporting our school and helping us thrive. 🍕📚

Do you need a great gift for graduates, teachers or coaches? How about a Woodstocks Gift Card? Buy one using this link or QR code and 15% will go to Language Academy! 🍕📚

https://onelink.quickgifts.com/merchant/woodstocks-pizza-fundraiser/

Friday is Jog-A-Thon! Which means SPLASH TOWER TIME! Bring your cash and get your throwing arm ready!! $1 per throw or $10 for a SURE SHOT!!!! BRING CASH! 💵 💵💵

It’s Jogathon week and you know what that means! It’s time to shout out one of our amazing sponsors. Today we invite you to visit Rise Southern Biscuits & Righteous Chicken San Diego - SDSU at 6364 El Cajon Blvd. They have a simple vision…serve great food made with premium quality ingredients by people who care.

In doing so, they pushed boundaries with flavor combinations and made breakfast fun again. Since then, they’ve expanded to 23 locations in North Carolina, Kansas, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, and California, and just opened here in College Area of San Diego in April!

Rise serves Southern Breakfast Biscuits, Righteous Chicken Sandwiches, and Best Dang Boxes, waitstaff-free and with a swift service line. Our fluffy, buttermilk, Cheddar, and Blueberry biscuits are made from scratch and filled with savory ingredients ranging from crispy bacon and country sausage to fried green tomatoes and our famous Righteous Chicken.

What makes our chicken Righteous? It’s tenderized, brined in buttermilk, fried to golden-brown perfection and then served on a biscuit, bun or as strips with your choice of toppings and sauces. No meal is complete without an order of Cheddar Tots, our signature cheesy, Idaho potato treats. Top off your Rise adventure with Counter Culture Coffee and one of our sweet treats, like the Cinnamon Biscuit Roll or Glazed Blueberry Biscuit.

Rise is about more than just crave-worthy food. They’re indebted and committed to their customers, employees, and community. They are proud of their company culture and care deeply about the community that has grown up around their food. They love involving customers in the process, and hearing about what you like and don’t like. Go try RISE today!

Check out our new wall ball art! A Jog-A-Thon tradition! ⭐️ Huge thanks to our FOLA parent volunteer & gifted artist for the dreamy art for all of Language Academy to enjoy! 💕

We are at $52k and hope to reach our goal of $65K in 6 days! Set up your Pledgestar account today and help reach our goal! Together we can do great things to help our amazing school! 💜💙🖤

We are so grateful for our incredible parent volunteers! If you haven’t signed up for a shift for Jogathon day-of volunteering- sign up today!

We are very fortunate to have Learning for All as a Dreamland Dash Jogathon sponsor this year. Learning for All are passionate about helping learners of all ages who struggle academically with topics such as spelling, reading, writing, and math and cognitively with topics such as attention, memory, reasoning, and critical thinking skills. They specialize in working with clients who are challenged by learning differences using a personalized, multi-sensory approach that helps students develop new neural pathways for learning. They teach thinking so everyone can learn.

Their methods include a variety of evidence-based practices. Research shows that evidence-based, multi-sensory, systematic instruction helps students with learning challenges master concepts according to the ways their unique brains process information. Their methods are research-driven, fully integrated, and explicit, tailored for the specific needs of each individual learner and administered by their highly trained Licensed Educational Therapists and Therapeutic Tutors. All of the therapies they offer integrate cognitive skill building with targeted academic or functional remediation. They don't just teach students WHAT to learn, they teach them HOW to learn. They attain mastery so that their students gain confidence and experience success in the classroom and in life. They have convenient offices in Point Loma and in Scripps Ranch. Give them a call today for a consultation.
https://www.learningforallsd.com/

Shoutout to another one of our wonderful sponsors Smashburger! They are located at 6061 El Cajon Blvd next to Big 5 and are supporting our Dreamland Dash Jogathon.

Smashburger is an innovative restaurant concept that is redefining its category by providing a burger experience that combines the superior product, service and atmosphere associated with sit-down casual dining and the speed and convenience associated with quick-service restaurants.

With its handcrafted menu items ranging from smashed-to-order burgers, handspun Haagen-Dazs milkshakes, chicken sandwiches, salads, and sides made with fresh, premium ingredients and served in less than six minutes, Smashburger is putting the burger back at the center of the consumer dining experience.

As the fastest restaurant company to reach the 100-unit milestone, Smashburger is well on its way to becoming a leading international brand. Order ahead online and enjoy the best burger in San Diego.

With district-wide cuts to school funding next year, it has never been more important for us to have a successful fundraiser and boost our school’s budget. Cuts to teacher training, supplies, and resource teachers are imminent next year. Our goal of $65,000 will help our school fund essential programs that our school needs. 🙏🏽⭐️

If you did not receive a Jogathon info packet, you can go directly to FOLA’s website and download a packet: https://www.folasd.org/jog-a-thon

If you haven’t signed up your kid(s) in Pledgestar yet, please go directly to: https://pledgestar.com/languageacademy (Link in bio!) 🎉

Together we can accomplish great things! Let’s reach our goal and help our school reach its full potential!
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FOLA is proud to have Cage & Miles as this year’s Dreamland Dash Jogathon sponsor. Cage and Miles specialize in California family law and their mission is to help you find clarity and peace of mind so you can focus forward. At Cage & Miles, their team of competitive, highly competent and skilled attorneys focus exclusively on family law and family-related issues.

With over 145 combined years of practice, their incredible team of California-based family lawyers has championed the interests of thousands of individuals and families, establishing an enviable track record of success and achievement.

Each family law case is unique and that’s why their award-winning team of attorneys takes a methodical, systematic approach to each case. You can count on their ability to navigate the complexities of your case with integrity, honesty and privacy. Their team of experienced attorneys will advocate for you every step of the way. Some of the areas they specialize in are: bankruptcy, trusts and estate planning, family law, appeals, and high net worth services. If you are need of good representation from a qualified team of attorneys, click on the link on their website to request a free 30-minute consultation: https://www.cageandmiles.com/

FOLA is happy to once again have Pesto Italian Craft Kitchen as part of our family of sponsors! Pesto is one of our favorite restaurants!!! Located in Mission Valley, it's the perfect place to take the family or that special person on a date night. Pesto puts a hearty, healthy new spin on traditional Italian fare. Did I mention Kids Eat Free every Wednesday? And they even get to make their own pizza!
Whether you’re dining in, taking out, or catering an event all of their ingredients are locally sourced and made to order. http://www.pestocraft.com

THANK YOU PESTO ITALIAN CRAFT KITCHEN.

We did it! Mission “Montezuma Language Academy Sign” is complete! Many thanks to FOLA, PTSA and our trusty volunteers for making this happen! 🎉🙏🏽 Finally we have a beautiful sign on Montezuma to showcase what an amazing school we have! I hope to never hear again from neighbors and passersby… “I didn’t even know this was a school!” Our school is a gem and we are proud of it! It’s time to let the world know how proud we are! 🐯🩵💙🩵💙🩵💙🐯 LION PRIDE!

Also, special thanks to for taking the time to help us! They saved the day removing old rusty bolts to help pave the way for our amazing new sign of PRIDE. 🎉😁💙🐯