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- 1/20 - MLK Day (No School)
- 1/22 - Kindergarten Registration Opens
- 1/24 - TK Registration Opens
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- 1/22 - Incoming Kinder Parent Tour, 8:30-9:30am
- 1/22 - Super Staff Lunch
- 1/23 - Incoming TK Parent Tour, 8:30-9:30am
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- 1/10 - Middle School Dance, 7-9pm
1/16 - Winter Art Show & Concert, 5:30 Art Show, 6pm Concert 1/17 - Cocoa Breakfast, 4th/5th graders, 7:15am | |
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happy new year from the pto
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save the date amici's fundraiser Monday, january 13th
Present the flyer to the right or mention "Portola Valley Schools" on Monday, January 13th, and Amici's will donate 25% of your purchase to our schools!
Dine in or Take-out only (no deliveries).
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| Portola Valley Schools Amici's Flyer - Google Docs.pdf | |
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PTO THANK YOU'S
THANK YOU!
Thanks to Jessie McEvoy for organizing all of the PTO's affiliate and community fundraising activities, including our Amazon Smile program, Honeybear Trees and Minted/ Shutterfly fundraisers. We really appreciate all you do!
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TK & K Registration
Have a child entering TK or Kindergarten at Ormondale next year? Attend the Kinder Tour on Wednesday 1/22 at 8:30am or TK Tour on Friday 1/24 at 8:30am and learn all about Ormondale's Kinder and TK programs.
Principal Hovland and parents will be available to answer questions.
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USED BOOKFAIR IS ALMOST HERE
The third grade classes at Ormondale are happily sponsoring a Used Book Fair to help a needy charity. We would like the community to use one of the 4 “r”s of waste management, reuse, in order to help the charity and save our environment as well.
Beginning the first week in January and continuing through February 28th, you will be able to drop off your books, CDs, DVDs. There will be kids out front collecting your kind donations in the morning drop off line at Ormondale. For Corte Madera families, there will be a collection box in the library.
We will be accepting: All children’s books, All tween books, CD’s, DVD’s, Vinyl Albums
Adult Categories: Cookbooks, coffee table books, travel books, self help books
We hope that the entire community can join us as we celebrate reusing and sharing, from March 2nd to March 6th in the Ormondale MUR.
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Second Grades Super Food of the Month of January: Citrus!
Citrus fruits are oranges, grapefruits, lemons, limes and citron. Citrus not only helps to keep us healthy, but it helps keep our sugar levels (glucose) stay steady longer and not spike.
Oranges have a score of 45 for sugar and grapefruit has a score of 25. Raisins have a score of 64 and Gatorade has a score of 89.
Candy, sugar cereal, ice cream, soda and junk food have high glucose levels and scores. These foods spike our sugar levels up high and make us hyper. Then, we get a sugar crash and are tired and grumpy.
Vitamin C is healthy and very good for us. Citrus is high in Vitamin C. It helps us to have a strong immune system, which helps keep us from getting sick with a cold or the flu.
Citrus is also high in fiber. An orange has 2.3 grams of fiber and a tangerine has 1.6 grams of fiber. A grown woman needs 25 grams of fiber a day, so eat lots of citrus!
Do you want to keep looking young and have soft, full skin? Then eat lots of citrus, because it raises collagen levels. Collagen builds new, healthy cells, like the ones that build new skin.
Bad “LDL” cholesterol and triglycerides block our arteries, which can cause a heart attack. Oranges and red grapefruit lower these bad levels.
Now that you know how good citrus is for you, be sure to add it to your healthy diet. And don't forget a healthy treat every now and then. Click below for our Easy Lemon Sugar Cookies recipe.
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| Easy Lemon Sugar Cookies.docx | |
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Shout out to our AWESOME volunteers
A huge thank you to all of the parent volunteers this year! From cocoa breakfasts and campus beautification to cultural assemblies and Enchanted Dances, parent volunteers help bring the magic to our school community. KUDOS to you!
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Spring Musical
The cast lists have been announced and everyone is looking forward to the show on March 25th & 26th at PVTC!
Congratulations to everyone involved in the play this year. We can't wait to see you shine!
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Your Foundation Dollars at Work
Week 12: Robotics
Robotics has become such a popular program at Corte Madera School that Science Teacher Teresa Richard is expanding the offerings.
CMS traditionally sent one team per year to the region-wide VEX Robotics Competition, but demand for the after-school club is large enough now that the school can send two teams of four 6th, 7th and 8th graders apiece to two separate tournaments, and offer a non-competitive club in addition.
With a grant from the Portola Valley Schools Foundation, Richard wants to build separate junior varsity and varsity teams so that new students can gain experience before joining the more seasoned and competitive group, and so that the two levels can do practice runs against one another before entering the competition ring.
“Watching students struggle with a problem and watching them solve it is priceless,” Richard wrote in her grant. “This program is designed to give students open-ended challenges, which are only limited to the power of their minds. Robotics provides students an opportunity to solve problems, troubleshoot them, and learn the basics of project management, which are all essential parts of the engineering process.”
As an added plus, the program gives students who aren’t athletically inclined a way to compete in a team environment and to use their hands in building.
“It’s important that students have an opportunity to work together on a goal, in this case to build the best robot they can,” she wrote, adding, “working with their hands with mechanical devices is a missing part of the standard in-school curriculum these days. This after school program will help fill that need.”
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Community NEWS AND OPPORTUNITIES | |
Community NEWS HEADLINES - click button for details
- NEW FITNESS CLASSES AT ALPINE
- REGISTER TODAY FOR GIRLS SOFTBALL 2020 SPRING SEASON!
- WAIT UNTIL 8TH
- KIDS & ADULTS HIP HOP CLASSES WITH SANGINI
- WINDMILL SCHOOL LAUREL EDUCATION CENTER WINTER LINEUP
- PORTOLA VALLEY COMMUNITY CLASSES
- ALPINE LITTLE LEAGUE SPRING 2020
- CHESS KING WINTER/SPRING 2020 SESSION
- REDWOOD CITY GIRLS SOFTBALL REGISTRATION
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YES! I ENDORSE PORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS
Community postings will now be on their own page of the PTO website - please click the button to see all of the community news details. Guidelines for submission remain the same.
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