Upcoming Transition and Info meetings:

4th Grade Parent Transition Meeting: Current 3rd grade parents interested in touring classrooms during Reader's & Writer's Workshop classes are invited to the Corte Madera School on May 15 at 1:30-2:30pm. There will be a chance to hear more about next year and what we have planned. 

4th Grade Cocoa Breakfast and School Tour at CMS - Thursday, May 17 - 7:30 am
drop off at CMS for current 3rd graders (parents invited from 7:30-8:00)

6th Grade Parent Transition Meeting: Current 5th grade parents interested in touring middle school classrooms are invited to the 6th Grade Parent Transition Meeting on May 17 at 12:00-1:00pm. There will be a chance to hear more about next year and what we have planned. 

DC 2018 Parent/Student Info Meeting: May 14 at 8-9am is the time for parents to sit side by side their current 8th grader and hear about the DC trip. Please be sure to attend as you want to know details about the trip and what to expect. 

ORM Super Staff Lunch Thank You!

Thank you so much to Kiran Kamboj and the TK/Kinder parents for the lovely Mediterranean Super Staff Lunch at Ormondale on Wednesday, May 9th.  

Thank you to everyone who brought delicious food, helped to set up, clean up, and monitored the office/pick-up line so our staff could have a well-deserved break!  We so appreciate you!! 

Thank you Tracy Hogan, Emily Melton, Camilla Eckstein, Cori Moesta, Sean Sullivan, Dawn Axelrad, Melenaite Tuitanekai, Erin Murarka, Serena Hanes, Laura Symon, Teri Wolf, Laura Mather, Alexis Robertson, Johanna Street, Angel Roeding, Ginger Scheer Oros, Michelle Walker, Amy Okarma, Julie Lautner, Kim Cashin, Sheryl Ehrlich, Julie Harding, Natcharat Juelsgaard and Mandy Facchino.

Special thanks to Kiran Kamboj for leading this effort and to Lalanie Robins for assisting Kiran!

2nd grade famers market May 18th!

To market, to market, to buy a few things

Come and you’ll find what our second graders will bring

Be it bath soap or paper bowls,

Perhaps a dream catcher too

We’ll have plant starts and fruits

and even liquid worm poo (that’s worm tea)

Red Sauce Meatball

and Swifty Sweets will be there

Make rosemary bread

that we hope we can share (uh...we’re trying)

Tie dye and ice packs

Suncatchers and garden hats

Pom-poms or birdhouses

Are you looking forward to that?

Would you like to have a table there?

To sell your own stuff?

Just let us know

Because there’s never enough.

Friday, May 18th

From four to six

At Ormondale Elementary

For your Farm-Fresh fix!

IMPORTANT UPCOMING INFORMATION MEETINGS

6th Grade Parent Transition Meeting: Current 5th grade parents interested in touring middle school classrooms are invited to the 6th Grade Parent Transition Meeting on May 17 at 12:00-1:00pm. There will be a chance to hear more about next year and what we have planned. 

DC 2018 Parent/Student Info Meeting: May 14 at 8-9am is the time for parents to sit side by side their current 8th grader and hear about the DC trip. Please be sure to attend as you want to know details about the trip and what to expect. 

PANACHE 8 WINS 2018 DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE STUDENT MUSIC AWARD!

Congratulations to the 8th grade"Panache" jazz choir group for winning the 2018 Downbeat Magazine Student Music Award for Large Vocal Ensemble at the junior high school level. Gigi Pistilli was also awarded "Outstanding Soloist."

Established in 1976, the DownBeat Student Music Awards are considered the most prestigious awards in jazz education. Hundreds of musicians, music educators and music industry professionals received their first international recognition as DownBeat Student Music Award winners.

The process of submitting their application included a recording session at a local studio which introduced the students to the recording aspect of the music world.  (And according to the rules, no pitch corrections were allowed during the recording process!)

Click HERE to go to this month's Downbeats Magazine and then go to page 20 to see their listing as the winner of the "Large Vocal Group Ensemble." 

Thanks to Juliet Green, Panache's amazing jazz choral director, for all that you do for CMS's talented singers!

CMS Flag football registration open 5/7 - 5/16

The 2018 CMS After School Sports Flag Football Program is open to all 5th-8th graders. The
5th/6th grade team and the 7th/8th grade team will focus on building individual skills, fostering
teamwork and will represent Corte Madera in our League.
We will have 2 teams this year:

•  5/6th Grade Team
• 7/8th Grade Team

Both Teams will be capped at 20 players.  After each team is full, a waitlist will be
formed.

smartphone pledge 

A group of PVSD parents have created a smartphone pledge letter and would like to share it with community families. 

This pledge is gaining a lot of momentum in neighboring communities as well as nationwide (your child can still have a phone and be part of this pledge). 

English Letter click here 

Spanish Letter click here 

register now for fall ayso!

This year we proudly celebrate 50 years of AYSO Region 25’s youth soccer program for kids from Portola Valley, Ladera, Woodside, Emerald Hills and La Honda, providing quality soccer skills training in a supportive, player friendly environment.  

We’ll have pre-announced practice days and times for the younger age groups so parents can plan ahead for Fall activities, separate U9 and U10 age groups interlinked with Menlo Park for more varied game-day competition, drop-in skills'n drills clinics with professional UK International soccer coaches, group trips to Stanford soccer games, and more!

 Join in the fun and register NOW HERE. The first 150 kids registered will receive a free bungee soccer ball net kicker - a perfect solo training tool to improve juggling and ball control for kids (and adults)!

 QUESTIONS?

[email protected]

alpine strikers tryouts for fall soccer - end of may

Is your child excited to play soccer and wants to try out for club soccer and receive coaching from our professional soccer coaches? Consider our local club serving our Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Woodside communities. Making new friends with like-minded soccer enthusiasts, training and working on soccer skills within a high energy team environment. Tryouts are different for each age group toward the end of May. For details and registration, please visit www.alpinestrikers.org​

If you have any questions about the tryouts process, age group development or soccer curriculum for our 7v7 or 9v9 teams, please join our Technical Director Gino Pucillo for our Elementary School Parent Education Night on Thursday, May 17th, 2018 at 7:30pm at La Entrada School's MUR. 

mid-pen summer co-ed water polo program for middle schoolers

The sign-ups for the Mid-Pen Water Polo Club Summer Session are now open here.

The 2018 summer session is from May 14 to July 20, 2018, with practices in the afternoon from 4 to 5:30 PM.

Not sure if water polo is for you? We offer a free trial on May 14 and 16 --offer valid for first-time players only! Participants need to sign up on the Mid-Pen website and have USAWP Membership for insurance purposes: 14-day Trial Athlete Membership (available only once in a lifetime and as first-time membership) is free. Mid-Pen Water Polo Club ID is 24253.

Mid-Pen Water Polo Club is coached by Bruno Antonino, Boy Water Polo Head Coach at Woodside High School and Travis Wyckoff, Girl Water Polo Head Coach at Menlo-Atherton High School.

Kidizens summer camps: Young Mayors - Build and Run Your Own LEGO City

Would you like to build and be the Mayor of an entire city of LEGOs?

Would you like to leverage your child’s love of LEGOs to help them learn critical real-life, 21st-century skills and strategies?

Kidizens inspires students to become good citizens and future leaders, one LEGO brick at a time. During our excitement-packed Bay Area LEGO Summer Camps, kids plan and create their own small civilization, thereby developing real-life skills and strategies.The Kidizens Summer Program includ es intensive action and excitement-packed sessions, where children partner as Young Mayors to build, inhabit, manage and govern their own LEGO cities. In a highly immersive and collaborative environment, children learn critical 21st century and leadership skills while role-playing and having fun in a universe built of LEGOs and dealing with natural disasters, resident problems and financial crises. 

Summer Camps offered in Belmont, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Los Gatos, and Saratoga from June 4th - August 11th, Mon - Fri, 9am - 3pm, with after-care available at additional cost. Visit Kidizens Website for more information or contact us. ​

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.

PANTHERs CAMP

Sessions are filling up quickly.  

Here is the link: Registration

Dates: 

• 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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