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Buzz Newsletter, 11/07/2014
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November 7, 2014 |
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The Rock ‘N Read Book Fair is Coming! |
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November 17-21, 2014 8:00am – 3:30pm Grand Opening Monday, November 17, 8:30am - 10:00am Bring your friends and come in for coffee, pastries and books! Get ready to sing a song at our Book Fair Family Night Thursday, November 20, 5:00–7:30pm Join us for food trucks, rock and shopping and a special performance by the Springer Singers We will also be accepting monetary donations for the All for Books organization; which supports the school program of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and allows hospitalized children to continue their education. Shop Online from Springer’s website November 17-December 05 If you can’t find it in the multi, you’ll likely find it on the online fair, with 65% more books than we can fit in the Multi. All orders are shipped to Springer free of charge. Please discuss your family’s purchasing guidelines before the event to help children make good choices. A hold area will be available daily if you prefer to make purchase decisions together after school. As this is a fundraiser, all sales are final. |
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What is Peachjar? |
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Los Altos School District cooperates with community groups and organizations that sponsor activities of an educational/enrichment nature for students by distributing materials electronically via Peachjar. All requests for flyer distribution by outside community organizations must first be approved by the District Office. To request flyer approval, follow the steps listed at the link on the LASD Website. Once approved, your flyer will be emailed to all parents and posted online. Our Springer website also has a Peachjar link so that you may view the e-flyers anytime. Click here to check it out. |
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Toy Drive |
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Brownie Troop 61166 is collecting new unwrapped toys, books, and stuffed animals to donate to the Los Altos Fire Departments Annual Toy Drive. Toys are distributed to local families in need for the holidays. We will be collecting in a box near the office through Wednesday, November 12th. Any questions? Contact Gail Roosakos gail@roosakos.com |
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Candy For the Troops |
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Cadette Troop 60875 is collecting candy for the troops through Operation Comfort and Care. The candy must be wrapped in the original wrappers. Friday, November 7 is the last day to drop off candy. It will be picked up from the Springer Office after school. |
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Coat Drive |
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Girl Scout Junior Troop 61170 will be hosting a coat drive for One Warm Coat, benefiting Ecumenical Hunger Program located in E. Palo Alto. Coat drive will start Monday, 11/10/14 through Friday, 11/21/14. Collection box will be located in the Springer Office. Questions, please contact Wen Crane at wenbk[at]aol.com. |
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Springer Gives Back |
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Donate Your Travel Size Toiletries to Springer Gives Back Have a collection of hotel shampoo and conditioner filling up your bathroom drawer? Travel often and need something to do with all those airline travel kits? Just like the travel aisle? Springer Gives Back is collecting travel size toiletries as part of this year’s community service project. Please bring new and unused travel size toiletries to the bin in the Springer Office. Thanks! Contact Renee Johnsen chefskate[at]gmail.com with questions. |
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Campus Beautification Work Day on November 22 |
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The Springer Teaching Garden is in dire need of some TLC, and many hands make light work. If you are in town for the Thanksgiving break, please join us on Saturday, Nov 22, between 9am-3pm (for any amount of time you are able) to work in the garden. We will be repairing the fencing, installing new native plants and shrubs (which are used in the Living Classroom garden lessons), spreading mulch, etc. Bring a refillable water bottle, gardening gloves, and any gardening tools you have (such as a shovel, trowel, pick axe, wheelbarrow, mulch shovel or rake, etc.). Please contact Donna Murphy (jcdrm[at]yahoo[dot]com) if you are available to help us out that (or any other) day, or have any questions. |
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LASD Looking For Volunteer Interpreters |
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Los Altos School District is looking for volunteer interpreters to assist us during parent/teacher conferences, student meetings and district events. We are seeking assistance with all languages but the most needed are: Spanish, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese and Korean. Please contact Ann Haigh at 650-947-1180 or at ahaigh@lasdschools.org if you are interested. |
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Vision Screening - Monday, November 10 |
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On Monday, November 10, the Los Altos School District Nurse Staff will conduct vision screening for Grades K, 3rd, 6th and SDC Students. If your child is in these grades and they wear glasses, please make sure that they wear their glasses to school that day. |
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LAEF: Order Cards from Tiny Prints - 25% Donated to LAEF |
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This holiday season, order your cards from LAEF's Tiny Prints storefront to benefit our schools. Thanks to Tiny Prints and an anonymous donor, 25% or your order will be donated to LAEF. Choose from a variety of traditional and contemporary cards. Browse cards and order at: http://www.tinyprints.com/storefront/laef Or you can make a tax-deductible LAEF donation today at www.laefonline.net Make your tax-deductible LAEF donation today at www.laefonline.net (or bring a check to the school office) LAEF Questions? Web: www.laefonline.net … Phone: 650.559.0445 ... Email: admin@laefonline.org Thanks in advance for your support of LAEF! The LAEF parent-volunteers |
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Dodgeball with Mr. Heeb Friday, November 14! |
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For 4th, 5th and 6th Graders |
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The Springer Juggling Club |
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The Juggling Club is a club that meets every Wednesday from 7:30 AM to 8:25 AM in the multi. Anyone in grades four and above can join for free, any time of the year. It's actually not that hard to start juggling, and should you encounter any problems, the juggling teachers and some helpful jugglers can get you through the bumps on the road. It can take only one year of being in this club for you to be able to learn several techniques, and even a few fancy tricks. Once you get juggling three balls down (and it's actually not that hard) you can spend the last 5 to 10 minutes of the class juggling with some cool objects including chinese yo-yos, rings, clubs... The Juggling Club is a really fun club to at least try, and before you know it, you'll be juggling 3-4 balls at a time! |
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Fun!visor on Fridays |
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Every other Friday students have a choice of three fabulous parent-run Fun!visor programs at lunch: Run4YourLife, Volleyball, and GardenZone. Last Friday in GardenZone students were introduced to something very special: the Art of Beekeeping with everything you need but the bees. Jeff Fixler, 4th grade parent and lead for GardenZone, brought his beekeeping equipment, which included a suit for students to try on and an empty hive box, as well as empty honeycomb, filled honeycomb, and honey to sample! How appropriate a theme for our students as the Bee is our mascot! Thank you Jeff! |
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Student Extracurricular Activities: |
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There are after-school activities at Springer for all grade levels. For a list of all of the activities and more information, please go to Springer’s website by clicking here. |
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Parent Education Opportunities |
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Through enriching presentations from local and national experts on topics of interest to parents, faculty and staff, the MVLA Parent Education Speaker Series seeks to contribute to the academic, physical, and emotional health of our students. All events are free of charge and are for parents, faculty and staff in Los Altos and Mountain View public schools. For a schedule of upcoming presentations, please click here. |
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How to Submit an Article to the Springer Buzz |
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If you have an article to submit to the Springer Buzz, please send it to the editor at springer.buzz@gmail.com by noon on Monday for inclusion in the next edition. Late arrivals will be included if possible but can’t be guaranteed! All flyers must be in either WORD or PDF format, accompanied by a brief summary of the activity in the email. |
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