- 3/26-3/30 Used Book Fair
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- 4/4 & 4/5 at 6:30 Shrek the Musical
- 4/4 - 4th Grade Transition Meeting
- 4/24 - Founder's Day
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Used Book Fair this week!
This week is the biannual Used Book Fair coordinated by our industrious third grade students and their equally industrious teachers. The children have been collecting used books of all genres, movies and games and will be working hard on Sunday to set it all up in order to open doors for business on Monday morning.
The Used Book Fair will be held all next week with different shifts throughout the day. 7:45-8:15 a.m.; 10:05 to 10:45 a.m.; 11:55 a.m. to 12:55 p.m. and 2:50 to 4:00 p.m. (Basically before school, at recess, at lunch and after school). On Wednesday the fair will be open after school until 2:00 p.m.
Most items cost 25 cents - a major bargain, but there are a few higher priced items (not more than $5). All of the money that the third grade raises will go to a local charity.
This is a Service Learning Project for our third graders. They have been working hard so please come by and pick up a few books for your library or coffee table. Tell your friends - everyone is welcome!
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Good Eggs!
This March and April, Good Eggs will donate 10% back to Ormondale Elementary School and Corte Madera School every time you shop.
Good Eggs is an online market that delivers good groceries to customers' homes throughout the Bay Area, seven days a week.
Enroll in the fundraiser by visiting schools.goodeggs.com and entering the code pvpto.
Never tried Good Eggs? You’ll get $15 off your first order when you enroll!
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ORM Staff Appreciation Week (SAW)
What an amazing week at Ormondale celebrating and appreciating our awesome teachers and staff!!
Huge thanks to our fearless SAW leadership team - Brooke Day, Julie Harding and Erin Murarka - plus all of the dedicated Home Room Parents (HPRs) who organized lunches and gifts for our amazing staff. Thank you for a wonderful team effort!! When you see any of these parents, please thank them for their efforts! Ormondale staff really appreciate this week and these volunteers made SAW happen in a BIG way.
The week began with a delicious coffee cart caffeine boost and breakfast treats on Monday! Thank you to Shani Lewis, Catherine Lynch, Marjel Scheuer and Camilla Eckstein.
On Tuesday, all of our staff received a custom lunch delivery from each class, coordinated and organized by the HRPs.
Wednesday, the PTO hosted a Tuscan themed lunch. Thank you to our volunteers: Eva Diez, Lorena Pineda, Daphne Melendez, Natanella Wolfson, Karyn Ellis, Leeza Eren, Tricia Christensen, Catherine Lynch, Lalanie Robins, Sangini Bedner, Serena Hanes, Josh Moser, Kelly Richardson, Angel Roeding, Linda Kamran and Anngi Strick.
Thursday, all our staff members received gifts, flowers and other treats thanks again to this years’ awesome HRPs.
And the week ended with a Friday Soup and Salad lunch. Many thanks to: Scott Warren, Leeza Eren, Leslie Skanberg, Brook Coffee, Camilla Lynch, Serena Hanes, Josh Moser, Shefali Talwar, Natanella Wolfson, Heather Cunningham, Teri Wolf, Kim Cashin, Sangini Bedner, Ali Cooper and Eva Diez.
To all those involved, thank you for all the hard work and coordination of such an amazing week! The staff loved this week and thanks each and every one of you!
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ormondale family disco blingo
(formerly known as Family Bingo Night) IS THURSDAY, APRIL 26TH, 5PM-7:30PM IN THE MUR!
You should have received the video invite and Eventbrite ticket link from Lynette Hovland on Friday, March 23rd (but just in case they are below)—
THIS EVENT IS PRE-PURCHASE TICKETS ONLY—WE WILL SELL OUT, SO YOU MUST GO ONLINE TO BUY!*
*Please note one ticket per person, big or small; waitlist kicks in once we reach capacity...
1. Click here for the video invite.
2. Click here to immediately buy your tickets after watching the video.
SPECIAL REQUEST: If you have any unused toys/board games/possible items to donate as prizes (for both kids and adults), hugely appreciated if you bring them to the office! There is a “Blingo Prize Box” in the office that will happily and gratefully accept whatever prize offerings you have. Think of all the things you have in your home, sitting unopened and idle, begging to be of use. Bring those to us, please! For any questions on this, please contact Sangini Majmudar Bedner at [email protected]
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CULTURAL ASSEMBLY Thank you
Thank you to Sally Aalfs and Anne Fazioli-Khiari for organizing another amazing PTO funded assembly! Thanks to their efforts, Ormondale students (and all the teachers) rocked out to Realize Anything is Possible, a hip hop/rap group that focused on kindness, respect and other core Ormondale values. One student told her mom that evening: "it was the best assembly we have ever had!" Ask your student who won the student-teacher dance off!
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Summer Tennis camp at alpine hills
This summer, Alpine Hills is offering six weeks of Junior Summer Tennis Camp. All ages and levels are welcome! We will have both a half day camp (for beginner and intermediate players) and a full day camp (for competitive and advanced players). Camps will be offered June 11-15, June 18-22, June 25-29, July 9-13, July 16-20and July 23-27. Sign up before spaces are filled! For more information and to register CLICK HERE. Club membership is not required.
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Mid-pen water polo club spring 2018 skills clinics
Saturday, March 24th and Saturday, April 21st
10am-12pm @ Menlo-Atherton High School
Open to ALL skill levels and ALL positions
Cost: $40/player
Whether you are a first time player or a skilled varsity player, these camps are for you! The two camps will focus on:
Individual skill development
Improving passing and shooting technique Building leg strength and body balance Position specific drills Gameplay activities
To register for the camp, please visit our website.
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Act onstage or get behind the scenes this summer!
PVTC still has space in summer camp! Performance students take classes in acting, singing, dancing, design, and attend special workshops with master teaching artists. Tech campers have the chance to explore lights, sound, set building, painting, and costumes. All the hard work culminates in fully-staged performances at the end of the camp session. Join us for Honk JR (entering grades 5-8), Seussical KIDS (entering grades 1-6), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (high school), or tech camp (entering grades 6-8). Register online today at www.pvtc-ca.org!
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PROGRAMMING JAVA WITH MINECRAFT: 6/25 - 6/29 in PV
Now in its sixth season in Portola Valley, this camp is a great way for kids who love games to learn to programme. We use real programming with a real programming language - Java - on a real-world server that your child will setup and configure. Kids enjoy seeing the immediate results of their learnings and are highly motivated to understand the capabilities and techniques of Java.
The camp also draws on their imaginative abilities, creating new Minecraft mods that they’ve dreamed up but never thought they could actually build, like an arena generator or spawn an Ender Dragon or a TNT block that explodes when the timer reaches zero!
At the end of the camp, your child will have learned:
- How to setup and use their own Minecraft server
- How to install customized mods on their server using Spigot
- How to set up a software development environment
- How to build a mod using Java
- Programming basics
- Java basic
All camps are run here in Portola Valley by the Youstra brothers, students at Woodside Priory.
To learn more about the camps and register for one of the sessions, CLICK HERE.
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PANTHER CAMP
Sessions are filling up quickly.
Here is the link: Registration
Dates:
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Session 1: June 11-15 (Sold-Out)
- Session 2: June 18-22
- Session 3: June 25-29
All sessions include optional extended care from 3:00-5:30 Monday –Thursday
All sessions include optional fun Friday camp from 9:00-3:00.
We look forward to another great summer at Panthers Camp building confident movers that inspire others. Please let me know if you have any questions at ([email protected]).
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Help Kids in Grades K-5 with Reading, Writing, Math Next Year
You Could Change a Life
Have you enjoyed helping in your child's classroom? Consider volunteering in a classroom in eastern Menlo Park or East Palo Alto where your help is especially needed. You’ll have a real impact tutoring kids in grades K-5 where about 90% are low income and over 80% are performing below grade level in reading and math. Work once a week in the same classroom for about an hour with students eager to see you.
All Students Matter provides training and coordinates everything. Sign up now to start in September. For more details or to sign up, visit www.allstudentsmatter.org or contact Keri Tully at [email protected].
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help Redwood city 6-8th graders with literacy today!
You can make a difference in the lives of kids in the Redwood City School District when you volunteer for Los Ayudantes.
We're an award-winning non-profit dedicated to helping Redwood City English learners improve literacy and critical thinking skills necessary to succeed in high school and beyond. Our dedicated volunteers help in the same classroom one hour a week and work one-on-one or in small groups helping students as they read out loud: decoding, explaining vocabulary and delving deeper into reading subject matter. No special training is needed to be a volunteer, and the only requirement is the desire to make a difference. We work primarily at Kennedy Middle School and McKinley Middle School (just 10-20 minute drive away).
Start immediately or learn more information to volunteer next school year. For more information, visit our website, www.losayudantes.org or contact Program Director, Jenni Farrell at [email protected].
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MATH quest SUMMER CAMP
Learning math feels like play in this engaging summer camp that will help your child improve skills, build confidence, and head into the new school year feeling excited about math!
Math Quest Camp is a joy-filled week of math mysteries, number challenges, real-world projects, and games that make math fun and easy to understand.
By the end of camp, all the kids have their favorite ways to “play” with math. They'll head to the school year with a boost in confidence, improved math skills, and the belief that math is fun.
• July 9-13: Portola Valley, grades 1-4
• July 16-20: Santa Clara, grades 1-4
• July 23-27: Portola Valley, grades 3-6
• Aug 6-10: Santa Clara, grades 3-6
Hours: 9am – 3pm, M-F (extra care available 8:00am-5:00pm)
More Info click HERE
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Calling all dancers and dance-lovers!
In our 70th year of operation, the San Francisco Boys Chorus is hoping that you will look into our program if your son is between the ages of 4 ½ and 14 years old and likes to sing.
We teach boys with unchanged voices how to sing, read music and perform. We teach classes on Mondays and Wednesdays from 4:00-6:30PM at the Congregational Church of San Mateo located at 225 Tilton Avenue in San Mateo. We run 2 summer music camps a year and sponsor an international and national tour every other year. Our boys perform with the San Francisco Symphony, the San Jose Opera, and San Francisco Opera. The boys perform also at sports games with the Oakland Raiders and San Francisco Giants.
If you would like to learn more about our program, please visit our website
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Calling all dancers and dance-lovers!
Come see the M-A High School Dance Team in their annual Dance Show and Fundraiser
Thursday, April 5th at 6:30 pm at the M-A Performing Arts Center
- Favorite dances from football and basketball seasons
- Senior captains dance
- Delicious home-baked treats for sale
- Deals on local restaurants and retailers in the Silent Auction
Tickets available online.
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