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11/13/2015 - Buzz Newsletter
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November 13, 2015 |
The Springer Buzz
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In This Issue:
Quick Dates for your Calendar:
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The Springer Book Fair is Coming! |
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November 16-20, 2015 8:00am – 3:30pm
Grand Opening Monday, November 16, 8:30am - 10:00am
Bring your friends and come in for coffee, pastries and books!
Come to our Book Fair Family Night Thursday, November 19, 5:00–7:30pm Join us for food trucks and shopping Volunteers needed: We are looking for help with set up on Friday, November 13, pack up on Friday, November 20, and helping shoppers throughout the Book Fair. If you have some time to help us during our Monster Book Fair, please sign up at Volunteer Spot. If this will be your first time volunteering at the Book Fair, please join us in the Staff Lounge after assembly on Friday November 13 for a 30 minute training and information session.
Help us support the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford. And if we make it to $250 you’ll earn an extra 5 min of recess on Friday Nov 20!
Shop Onlinefrom Springer’s website November 14 - 20 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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November 16--20 is Springer Spirit Week! |
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The Springer Student Council is sponsoring Spirit Week beginning Monday, November 16 through Friday, November 20. Each day is something different and fun, and it’s completely optional.
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Crayon Collection |
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Girl Scout Troop 61170 Crayon Collection Drive! Springer 5th grade girl scout troop 61170 will be collecting used crayons for The Crayon Initiative for their community project this year. Collection box will be at the front office starting Monday, 11/16/15 through Thursday, 12/3/15. Your unwanted crayons will be collected, sorted and Crayon Initiative will melt them and make them into new crayons to be used by pediatric patients. Please contact Wen Crane - wenbk[at]aol.com for any questions. |
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Shop Springer! |
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Dear friends of Springer: Are you aware that we have a ShopSpringer (www.shopspringer.com) website where 4-12% of your purchases are paid directly to our PTA, just for directing traffic to their sites?!? On this site you will find active links to a variety of online vendors, including Amazon, iTunes and Walmart.com. Rest assured that using this site will have no impact on pricing, discounts, special shipping offers, etc.. So by simply stopping first at ShopSpringer.com, on your way to Amazon, you make $$$ for our kids!!! Thank you for your support! Springer PTA |
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Project Cornerstone |
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This month’s theme is to “Be an Upstander”. This message is not only for our students. It applies to all parents, teachers, staff, and community members. When an adult sees or hears someone dipping other’s buckets, breaking school rules, playing unsafely, etc., it is expected that EVERYONE step up and say something. Below is the Project Cornerstone suggested “10 Second Intervention for Negative behaviors: The escalator of bullying behavior, harassment and intimidation begins with language. It continues to escalate until the adults draw a clear line for the students about what is and isn’t appropriate with language or inappropriate behavior. · Stop when you hear or see misbehavior or something inappropriate being said · Turn calmly to whoever said the inappropriate statement · Name the specific words or action . Say something like: o “We don’t talk like that at Springer. Please don’t say it again.” o “That’s inappropriate language for school. Please don’t say it again.” Then move on. No lecture or full “teachable Moment Don’t leave it up to another person on campus. As Springer parents, teachers, and students, let’s make school a more caring place for ALL kids. We hope you will join us in this effort. Take a couple minutes each day to make a difference in the lives of the students at school.IF YOU SEE SOMEONE DOING SOMETHING POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE, NOTICE IT, NAME IT, and MOVE ON. Frequent use of the 10-second intervention sends a consistent and strong message to youth about what adults will permit at our school. It is up to ALL of us to make Springer the best school it can be! Remember the wisdom of, “What we permit, we promote.” |
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Blach School Holiday Faire |
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Blach School invites you to its annual Holiday Faire on Friday, December 4th, 2015, from 1:00-4:00 pm. More than 100 7th and 8th grade students will host over 60 booths to sell their own creations: treats, crafts, clothing, jewelry, holiday decorations and much more. Come stop by and shop for the holidays! For more information, please email blachholidayfair@gmail.com, and click here for the flyer. |
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Living Classroom |
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Become a LIVING CLASSROOM docent... share your love of nature with kids! It's time to build bird nests, harvest veggies from our gardens to make soup, look for symmetry inside fruit, make natural dyes from plants and learn about nitrogen fixing bacteria by dissecting the root nodules of fava beans! If you like all those things and more, please consider becoming a Living Classroom docent! LIving Classroom is looking for docents to help deliver hands-on garden-based lessons to the students of the Los Altos School District. No experience necessary as we provide all the training needed! Our Winter Docent Training will take place Monday mornings from 9 - Noon on 12/7, 12/14, 1/11 and 1/25. Please click HERE to view our Winter Training Flyer which lists the locations of each of our trainings. Apprentice-style training is also available to those who can’t make our Monday morning trainings. Questions? Email us at livingclassroom@lasdschools.org or call (650) 947-1103. For more information about Living Classroom, please visit our website at www.living-classroom.org. |
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Science & Technology Championship |
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Information Session Sponsored by Synopsys, the Championship is a regional science and engineering fair competition for students in Santa Clara County held on March 17, 2016. LASD 6th, 7th and 8th graders are invited to enter!! LASD students may compete in the middle school (grades 6-8) division for awards and prizes in multiple areas of study. LASD students have won prizes in prior years, and gained valuable experience with science, engineering and project management. Winners of the Synopsys Championship compete in the California State Science Fair and may advance to the prestigious Intel International Science & Engineering Fair, which presents nearly $4 million in prizes and scholarships each year. Students and parents are invited to attend the Synopsys Championship Information Session to learn more about this opportunity and how to enter:
Sunday, November 15 For more information, see the 2016 Synopsys Championship website at Questions? Contact parent volunteer Ann Hepenstal at annhep@yahoo.com or LASD STEM Coach Karen Wilson at kwilson@lasdschools.org |
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Tech Challenge |
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Information Session Come to the informational meeting for all LASD 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade students and their parents interested in participating in The Tech Challenge, hosted by the Tech Museum. You'll form a team to compete to solve a real-world problem in this annual design challenge. This year's challenge is "Taking Flight: "Your team will build a glider to deliver supplies to a remote location, and this year, you tell the story! What is your glider carrying? Where are you going? Why? New this year, there will be an award for the Top Tech Challenge story. Tech Challenge projects build skills in problem solving, time management, creativity, and teamwork, while working through the engineering design cycle as you build and test your design. Most importantly--it's great fun!!! Students and parents are invited to attend the Tech Challenge Information Session to learn more about this opportunity and how to enter:
Sunday, November 15 The event day will be April 23, 2016 for grades 4 to 6, and April 24 for grades 7 and 8. (No conflict with Junior Olympics this year!) For more information on the Tech Challenge, visit the website at http://thetechchallenge.thetech.org/ Questions? Contact parent volunteer Ann Hepenstal at annhep@yahoo.com or LASD STEM Coach Karen Wilson at kwilson@lasdschools.org |
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