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Star Newsletter, 8/31/2012
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Springer Star Newsletter
August 31st, 2012
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In This Issue |
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Calendar Dates
News and Announcements
Student Extracurricular Activities
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Quick Dates for your Calendar |
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Wednesday, September 5th, 7pm: PTA meeting
Thursday, September 6th: Family Dinner Night Out
Sunday, September 16th: Last day for BTS order forms
Friday, September 28th, 4-8pm: LAEF celebration at Covington school
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News and Announcements |
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PTA & LAEF are working together! As you come back to school this year, you are probably wondering why both the PTA and LAEF are raising money for our school. Here’s what each organization funds:
- The PTA raises money for school-specific expenses such as buying teaching supplies, playground equipment, computers, etc.
- LAEF raises money to avoid class size increases, keep library hours and still maintain LAEF-funded art, music, PE and science.
Both are mission-critical to our children’s education. LAEF representatives at Springer have established an Ambassador Program involving experts on both sources of funding, which is a great resource. If you don't know who your Ambassador is, or have any questions, ask your teacher or contact LAEF representatives: Nancy F, Sue Longyear (sue.longyear[at]gmail.com) and Brooke Schiller (bbwc[at]sbcglobal.net
Please also mark your calendar for Friday, September 28th, 4-8mp at Covington school - let's celebrate 30 years of community investment in our top-notch LASD schools. We'll have gourmet food trucks, kids’ activities, carnival games and more!
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First PTA Meeting of the Year: September 5, 2012 at 7:00 pm in the Staff Lounge!
This meeting will feature Wade’s presentation of Shifting to the Common Core, a move that will revolutionize learning for all LASD students and bring us into the 21st century! We will also present the 2012-2013 Goals & Programs, as well as the budget for this fiscal school year.
Please save the date. We hope to see you at the meeting!
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Back to School Order Forms
The Springer Back To School Order Form is a quick, easy, on-line tool that allows you to make donations, sign up for PTA memberships, order Birthday Books, Yearbooks, Auction Tickets, SpiritWear, and more.
This is a convenient way to make a single payment for your donations and orders! Please click on the link below to begin the process. This online form will close on Sunday, September 16 and payments are due by Friday, September 21.
The link to the form is: Springer 2012 BTS Order Form
Password is "stingers".
Thank you for your support of the Springer PTA!
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Have you ordered Hot Lunch?Hot Lunch service started on the first day of school, but you can order at any time! You can go to www.kidchow.com to order at any time. The menu has been updated with several tasty new entrees, plus a variety of entree size options. |
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What is a FUNVISOR??
Funvisors are parent volunteers who offer fun activities and play with students during lunch recess. Find out more about who a Funvisor is by clicking here! If you’re interested to find out about the specific Funvisor activities planned for Springer this year, click here.
Funvisors is part of Project Cornerstone, which allows adults to be role models and help children build a deeper connection to the school and to their peers. We’d love you to come and help.
If you’d like to know more, please contact the Funvisor Chair: Clare Delaney at clare_c_delaney[at]yahoo.com or call 650-625-1861.
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Don’t Cook Dinner!Join us for Springer’s Family Dinner Night Out!Thursday, September 6th, 201211:00 A.M - 9:00 P.M.The Pasta Market, 4546. El Camino Real, Los Altos 94022Pasta Market will donate 20% of food sales from this event to our school. Bring this flier! |
Living Classroom Informational MeetingsDo you like nature, gardening, hands-on education in science, history, and math? Love to help in the classroom or in the school gardens? Then come to the Informational Meeting offered by the Living Classroom Program to become a garden docent. The Living Classroom is LASD's garden-based education program that offered 630 lessons last year, K-8th grades at all LASD schools. We are always looking to add new volunteers who love to have fun with students and acquaint them with the wonders of nature.Come hear about our award-winning program on Wednesday, September 5th 9-10am in the Multi! No experience is necessary, just an interest in sharing the joy of learning and availability during the day.
For more information or if you cannot attend the training but are interested in becoming a docent, please email Mike Sanderson: msanderson@lasdschools.org, or phone him at 650-947-1103.
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WANTED: Springer Singer CoordinatorsThe popular Springer Singers choir group is still looking for 2-3 volunteer parents to assist the Springer Singers Director, Nick Patton, during rehearsals and performances. Springer Singers meet every Monday from 2.45pm-3.30pm in the Multi-purpose room, beginning in late September (date TBD). Volunteers are needed from 2.30pm to greet and organize the kids between the end of school and start of rehearsal, and then stay until the end of rehearsal (1 hour total).If you are planning to sign your child up for this fun activity, please consider joining together with other SS parents to volunteer for this important role! It would be a great opportunity to watch your child make beautiful music with their peers!
If we are unable to recruit volunteers, Springer Singers will be in danger of cancellation.
If interested, please contact Linda McCartney (LM28476@gmail.com) or Wen Crane (wenbk@aol.com). |
Student Extracurricular Activities |
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Calling Young Robot Builders
The annual Los Altos Robotics FIRST LEGO League program starts August 28th, 2012 with the worldwide announcement of the Senior Solutions challenge. FLL introduces students in grades 4 to age 14 to the wonders of engineering, science, math, and technology in a fun and engaging way. FLL pairs an academic challenge with a sports-like playing field where children create autonomous robots, and research & create solutions to a real-life problem.
Each fall, teams of 4-10 players have 8-10 weeks to design, construct, program, and test their robots. They compete in fun and exciting tournaments, running robots in time trials and demonstrating technology creativity.
Los Altos Robotics (LAR) hosts the Los Altos FLL Competition. Last year, 24 Los Altos area teams with over 140 local students participated. This year, LAR will have a scrimmage on 21st of October and a tournament on November 18th. We are hosting a parents’ welcome/invitation meeting at Mountain View High School Room 112 on September 4th from 7:30pm-9pm. Come join us to learn more about the program.
FLL is sponsored by FIRST Foundation and LEGO Corporation. For more information, seeLosAltosRobotics.org.
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GET Ready - Girls' Engineering EventSaturday September 8th at 9:30 am - 2:30 pmPalo Alto Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Rd, Palo AltoGET (Girls Engineering Tomorrow) Ready is designed to get young girls in 4th through 6th grade interested and excited about engineering. The activities in this event involve lots of creative thinking and hands-on fun. In addition, girls will learn about the different kinds of engineering and concepts important to each kind of engineering. Many of their creations can even be taken home! The volunteers, high school women engineers from robotics team The Space Cookies, will also demo their basketball-playing robot!Please contact Sharon at getreadyevent@gmail.com if you have questions about this event. |
Academic Chess Club, Thursdays after school, see flier for details |
Flag Football Grades 4-6, see flier for details |
How to submit an article to the Springer STAR |
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Please send your submission to the editor at springer_star@yahoo.com by noon on Monday for inclusion in the next edition. All flyers must be in either WORD or PDF format, accompanied by a brief summary of the activity in the email. Late arrivals will be included if possible but can’t be guaranteed!
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