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What is Happening at Balboa?

Current Events:

2/26               Family Game Night
3/1 - 5            See's Candy Drive
3/8 - 10          5th Grade CIMI Camp
3/14               Festival of the Arts
3/16 - 26        Original Works Fundraiser
3/19               Report Cards go home
 3/25               Spring Picture Fundraiser
3/29 - 4/2       Spring Break
 4/26               Smilestones (5th grade culmination picture)
4/27               Last Bank Tuesday
5/7                 Teacher Appreciation Luncheon
5/10 - 21        CST/CAT6 Testing
5/21 - 27        Book Fair
5/27               Open House (minimum day)
6/1                 Awards Assembly
6/3                 Volunteer Appreciation Tea @ 2:45 (changed)
6/4                 Sports Night
6/8                 Minimum Day (CUMS & Report Cards)
6/23               5th Grade Culmination
6/24               Minimum Day, Last Day of School (Report Cards go home)
6/25               Pupil Free Day

About Balboa

      Magnet:    Since 1978
      District:    LAUSD,1
      Grades:    First through Fifth
Enrollment:   748
    Address:   17020 Labrador St.
                        Northridge, CA 91325
       Phone:    (818) 349-4801
            Fax:    (818) 993-3470
Contact Us:    info@balboamagnet.com

Contact Info

                    Principal:    Raj Schindl
Magnet Coordinator:    Jana Davenport

Balboa Orchestra

Balboa Magnet Website

Website Design and Administration:  Miriam Bogler
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Technology Resources

Learn to Type Resources

Students are encouraged to use a typing application to practice typing daily for about ten minutes. There are both fee-based and free web-based typing applications that students can use.

Free web-based Typing Applications:

Fee-based Typing Applications:



Scratch

Scratch is a programming language that helps students create their own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art. Students working with Scratch develop 21st century learning skills, mathematical and computational ideas, and a deep understanding of the process of design.

Scratch is available Free of Charge. You can Download Scratch by clicking on this link.


MicroWorlds EX

MicroWorlds EX(c), is an application that helps students explore and test their ideas as they create science simulations, mathematical experiments, interactive multimedia stories, and anything they can only imagine. MicroWorlds is not free.