Everyone A Reader
- Volunteers are needed to read with
students. Everyone a Reader is designed to
help struggling readers become literate.
Teachers identify the four students in
their class who struggle most with
reading. Volunteers go to the classroom
one hour a week and have each of the four
students read to them for 15 minutes. The
volunteer helps the child sound out the
word, look for context clues in the
picture, reread the previous sentence to
see if they can determine what the word
is, etc. The requirements to volunteer
include completing a volunteer
application, visiting the school nurse for
a health screening (answering a few
questions), and watching a short You Tube
video.
- If you can help
either as a substitute or be a weekly
reader please contact Sue Stone at pointlomaassemblyACCESS@gmail.com.
- Gently used or new early readers books
are needed for the children to read. Books
are often identified as Early Readers or
appropriate for Pre-Kindergarten to third
grade (Lexile level B-M).
- If you can give
books to the Everyone a Reader program
at Cabrillo Elementary School contact
Sue Stone at pointlomaassemblyACCESS@gmail.com
Classroom
Support
- Volunteers are needed to help students
during math class. In the 2025-2026 school
year San Diego Unified School District
adopted Eureka Math for elementary
schools. It focuses on deep conceptual
understanding of mathematical concepts
instead of rote memory. Teaching it
involves using manipulatives to help
students visualize, and presenting
multiple math strategies so students can
solve more kinds of problems most
efficiently. Research shows students gain
a deeper understanding of mathematics and
how to use it in daily life. This teaching
style is so different, teachers need help
supporting students as they try to solve
problems in a new way.
- If you can give an hour a week to be
in a math classroom and support the
teacher and students as they navigate
this way of problem solving please
contact Sue Stone at pointlomaassemblyACCESS@gmail.com.
- STEAM family night is a program provided
by San Diego Air and Space Museum for
families to spend a fun evening at Point
Loma Assembly Hall working together on
science experiments provided by the Air
and Space Museum. Pizza and drinks will be
served.
- Help will be needed to assist the
scientist from the Air and Space Museum
set up and take down the experiments.
Donations toward the food and volunteers
to help serve will make the evening a
success. The date will be April 7, 2026
4:30 to 6:30. If you can help please
contact Sue Stone at pointlomaassemblyACCESS@gmail.com.
- Chaperone for students working in an
outdoor garden are needed. During
reading time students who have earned a
special privilege can read outside in
the garden area if a chaperone is
present. Some students may choose to
work in the garden at this time.
- Gardening supplies for outdoor
learning space are needed. The fourth
grade teacher is planning the garden. If
you have supplies he might need his
contact information will be provided.
- If you are interested in sitting in
the outdoor garden area, for a set time
each week, while students read or garden
or if you can donate supplies please
contact Sue Stone at pointlomaassemblyACCESS@gmail.com.
- Help for select students. At times
one student in a class has a specific
need that a financial donation can
solve. An example of help that might be
needed is a child who consistently
forgets or loses their glasses, making
it difficult for him to access the
printed information presented. A pair of
glasses kept in the classroom solves the
problem.
- Health Supplies are included in the
school’s annual budget, but a
particularly bad cold and flu season can
deplete the school’s supply of tissues,
hand sanitizer and disinfectant wipes.
Also, there are children who have
accidents and need a change of clothes.
Shoes are destroyed or outgrown. The
nurse can use support to meet unexpected
needs.
- If you would like information on how
you can help, contact Sue Stone@ pointlomaassemblyACCESS@gmail.com.
Enrichment
- Liberty School Arts District Liberty
Station has a program for Cabrillo
students to learn from the professional
artists at their studios in Liberty
Station. Buses transport the children to
their classes where Martial Arts, Dance,
Cooking, Fabric Arts, Writing, Music
etc. are taught.Chaperones are needed to
meet the bus, walk the children to their
destination, and be available during the
lesson to help.
- If you can donate to support this
program or volunteer on a Thursday to
chaperone please contact Sue Stone at pointlomaassemblyACCESS@gmail.com
- Field trips provide learning
experiences that cannot be duplicated by
television or books. Cabrillo children
saw The
Grinch at the Old Globe, visited
Sea World, learned about symphony
instruments and heard a concert at
Classics for Kids. In January all
classes visited the Natural History
Museum, February - Birch Aquarium, and
in April the Junior Theater production Shrek
the Musical. Assembly members have
made these cultural and education
experiences possible, and expanded STEAM
(Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics) education.
- If you know of a museum or other
experience that would enrich the
learning of Cabrillo Elementary students
or would like to support the off-site
activities please pointlomaassemblyACCESS@gmail.com
contact Sue Stone at .
- On campus experiences are also
provided by ACCESS. The Air and Space
Museum’s Mobile Mission Control bus came
to the Cabrillo campus. It provided a
science laboratory and scientists to
teach about Robots and Rockets. Students
learned coding as they made robots.
Older students designed rockets and
launched them. The musicians who taught
students to compose and play music at
Arts District Liberty Station came on
campus to continue providing music
education to the students. An end of the
year concert entertained parents and
community members with songs written,
played and sung by the students. La
Jolla Playhouse came on campus and
taught about Live Theater, then
presented a fun, science based play in
the school auditorium. Before winter
break, a book was purchased for and
given to every student in the school.
One Point Loma Assembly member renovated
a bungalow, creating a reading area
teachers use for special classroom
activities.
- If you can support an enrichment
activity for students on campus please
contact Sue Stone at pointlomaassemblyACCESS@gmail.com.
- Sue Stone and Melanie Sherman, the
ACCESS Committee co-chairs, are
available to explain any of the programs
or to discuss other possible enrichment
experiences for the children of Cabrillo
Elementary school. They can be reached
at pointlomaassemblyACCESS@gmail.com.
- If you want more information and want
to help please contact Sue Stone or
Melanie Sherman at pointlomaassemblyACCESS@gmail.com
• Volunteer for ACCESS
o Each Volunteer must
complete both below forms. Thank
You!
o Point
Loma Assembly
Volunteer Form
o San
Diego City Schools Volunteer
Form
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