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6-3-2016 Buzz Newsletter
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The Springer Buzz June 3, 2016 |
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Principal’s Message |
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Staffing for Next Year! While we lose Kathy Panec and Kathy Hartley to retirement, the Springer staff remains outstanding, with a couple of new additions. As of today, the staff includes: Principal- Ms. Lynn Boskie Transitional Kindergarten- Ms. Bence Kindergarten- Mrs. Crew, Ms. Hancock, Mrs. Mooers 1st Grade- Ms. Becking, Ms. Fulcher, Mrs. Goldner 2nd Grade- Ms. Bain, Mrs. de Monet, Mrs. Farwell 3rd Grade- Mrs.Lammay/Mrs. Hayden, Mrs. Jones, Ms. Williams 4th Grade- Ms. Hultberg, Ms. McLean, Ms. Mitchell 5th Grade- Mrs. Buck, Mrs. Kuypers, Mrs. Van Dyken 6th Grade- Ms. Mort, Mrs. Robb, Ms. Rubinstein SDC- Mrs. Morris (1st-3rd), Mrs. Sen (4th-6th) Resource- Ms. Sasaki We welcome Ms. Jill Williams to our 3rd grade team. Ms. Williams is an LASD graduate and has been teaching at Almond for 20 years. She is very eager to join our staff and is looking forward to her new Springer environment. Ms. Williams spent the day with us on Wednesday and thoroughly enjoyed her time. She met many of our 2nd graders. We say a fond farewell to Ms. Julie Presant who will be teaching at a junior high in Santa Cruz. Ms. Presant is truly a gifted teacher who will be a blessing to her new school. She is, simply, one of the best. We welcome Mrs. Lauren Robb to our 6th grade team. Mrs. Robb grew up in Boise, Idaho and moved to southern California to attend Claremont McKenna College. She graduated with a degree in psychology and worked in Chicago and Washington, DC before returning to the West Coast. Lauren went back to school last fall to get her Masters Degree in Education and Teaching Credential from UC Santa Cruz. When she's not teaching or writing papers, Lauren enjoys hiking in the hills with her husband and their golden retriever, painting, and listening to a good audiobook. Finally, as this is the last Buzz message I will write as Springer’s principal, I want to say THANK YOU to the entire community. Seven years ago, as a brand new principal, the Springer community welcomed me with warmth and love. It has been an absolute pleasure getting to know your children and your family. Together, we have done some fantastic things- all for the betterment of our students. I will always look back at my years at Springer with a view that it was 7 of the best years of my career. All the best, Wade Spenader- Principal |
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Important Announcements For The Last Day of School |
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The Sixth Grade Promotion Ceremony is at 9:00am. School is dismissed at 11:15am. |
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School Supplies Collection |
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Hello Springer parents! Since the end of the school year is fast approaching, most of your children will be cleaning out their desks and backpacks of their school supplies. Instead of throwing these away, it would be greatly appreciated if you would drop them in the cardboard box in the office labeled, "Supplying Schools." Supplying Schools is a club at Mountain View high school that collects gently used school supplies from LASD schools and donates them to schools in East Palo Alto whose teachers are taking money out of their own paychecks to buy supplies for their students. Please drop off pencils, pens, markers, colored pencils, crayons, binders, folders, pencil boxes, sharpeners, scissors, backpacks, and any other supplies that are in decent condition. We really appreciate all that you have to offer. The supplies will be collected on June 9. Thank you! |
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Springer Scribes Available Online! |
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The Springer Scribes literary journal was released to great enthusiasm this Wednesday. The authors spent their lunch hour signing autographs for their admiring fans and fellow writers. The students demonstrated both amazing creativity as well as support for each other. If you would like to read the stories and poems yourself, a PDF version is available on the Springer website. |
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Tween & Teen Talks This Summer |
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CHAC is excited to offer this new Tween/Teen Talk curriculum free this summer to any students in 5th- 10th grade. We have two groups scheduled to start the last week of June, one at the Sunnyvale School District Office and another at our CHAC office in Mountain View. For more information click here. For Spanish version click here. |
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Attention 6th Grade Parents: Hot Lunch Volunteers at Blach |
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Congratulations to all of your graduating 6th graders. For those of you with children entering Blach next year that would like to help out at the school, please consider volunteering to serve lunch. This is a fun way to see the kids in action and one of the very few opportunities for volunteering at Blach. In the past, sign ups happen at the back to school coffee, but now we start serving lunch on the first day of school. Because of this, crews are being set up now. It is a great way to stay connected to other parents from your elementary school and also to meet new parents. There is plenty of room to organize a small group that wants to work together. Please contact me at srkhuntia@yahoo.com if you'd like to volunteer or if you have any questions. Please let me know what days work for you and if you would like to volunteer every week or every other week or would like to be put on the substitute list. Please also let me know if you want to be scheduled with specific people. |
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Year End Reminder From Our Nurse |
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Students With Medications on Campus Medications will be available for pick up from June 8th 2016 (last day of school) to June 14th 2016. We cannot store medications over the summer. If you are leaving before school ends, please pick up medications early. An Adult must pick up the medication. |
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LAEF |
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Tick-tock: One Week to Go! Special thanks to the 20 families who contributed $22,657 last week in donations and corporate matches! We’re getting closer to our $3.5M goal and it’s not too late to donate or request a match from your company to pay for the enrichment programs and teachers your child has enjoyed THIS current year. Every gift makes a big difference! Please donate at LAEFOnline.org or drop a check in our school’s office this week. Thanks! LAEF 2016 Annual Parent Survey Results Are In This year, 1,725 parents responded to our annual survey in English, Spanish, and Chinese. And our LAEF Survey Committee read every one of the 4,000 comments shared! Your voices have helped LAEF determine our funding priorities for the 2016/17 school year. Thank you for sharing your input! We will be announcing our 2016/17 Annual Grant shortly. In the meantime, please take a moment to review the survey results by going to LAEFOnline.org |
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Auction Parties Are Still Available! |
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Awesome Community Parties see our online party list. Please contact the host listed to sign-up. Upcoming Open Parties:
And more, for details go to party list. Questions? Contact springerauction@gmail.com |
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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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