- 3/26-3/30 Used Book Fair
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- 3/19 - 3/23 Staff Appreciation Week
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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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The Used Book Fair Returns!
Save Your Used Books, CDs, DVDs, Vinyl Records, and Video Games
The third grade classes at Ormondale are sponsoring a Used Book Fair to help a needy global charity that will be decided upon by the 3rd grade students. They 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.
Through March 23rd, you will be able to drop off your children’s books, CDs, DVDs, vinyl records, and video games. We will accept adult books in limited categories: cookbooks, self help, parenting, coffee table, and travel only, as well as CD’s and DVDs. Due to e-readers, it is difficult to sell novels.
There will be kids out front collecting your donations in the morning drop off line at Ormondale. For Corte Madera families, there will be a collection box in the library.
We hope that the entire community can join in the bargains, from March 26th to March 30th in the Ormondale MUR.
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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)
This week is Staff Appreciation Week at ORM! You should have received communications from your Head Room Parents (HRPs) on how you can help show our amazing staff your appreciation. Here is the schedule of events:
- Monday: Ormondale staff will enjoy a PTO-sponsored morning coffee cart along with breakfast treats and fruit.
- Tuesday: Each class will bring in lunch for their room teacher and one or more (previously assigned) staff members.
- Wednesday: The PTO will supply a catered Tuscan luncheon for the staff. Ormondale parents have volunteered to bring in sides & drinks and to handle pick-up duty, set up & clean up.
- Thursday: Each class will give their room teacher and one or more (assigned) staff members a gift inspired by staff entries in the Favorite Things binder.
- Friday: Ormondale parents will thank the staff with a Soup & Salad lunch. Parents will provide all of the food, and will set up and clean up.
Thank you parents for all you do to thank our extraordinary staff! The staff is always so appreciative of SAW every year and all you do as parents to show your thanks to them!
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UPCOMING CULTURAL ASSEMBLY
Thanks to the support of the PV-PTO, Ormondale students will experience Realize Anything is Possible, a musical group that uses humor and hip-hop to help kids realize anything is possible with the right perspective, during assembly on Wednesday 3/21.
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Pi Day celebration!
Thank you to Susan McLaughlin and her team of volunteers, including Haley Leinfelder, Sarah Dorahy, Kristin Brew, Lisa Freccia, Karyn Bechtel, Bob Boyle, Jenni Farrell, Rosario Camacho, Mary Henry, Veronica Jerng, Karen Horn and Erin Ross, for supporting the math department's annual 8th grade Pi Day celebration!
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Last chance for track!
Track and Field is open to all 4th-8th grade boys and girls. Track will take place on Monday and Wednesday evening from 6:00-7:30 at M-A High School. Track will run from April 16th to May 23rd. Athletes will have an opportunity to participate in sprints, distance, hurdles, discus, shot put, high jump and long jump.
The program is very low key, and focuses on having fun while trying to achieve personal bests in the events they choose to participate in.
Last chance to register is Friday, March 23rd. Click here to register.
Please contact Kate Cox at [email protected] with any questions.
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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 basics
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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ARTFUL MATH SUMMER CAMPS AT CREEKSIDE SCHOOL
Bring math to life with a fun-packed week of fascinating number challenges, math mysteries, and investigations that get kids’ whole bodies moving!
We have all kinds of campers at Math Quest Discovery camps. Some LOVE math and are looking for even more fun ways to satisfy their love of numbers. Others are anxious or confused about math, and want to understand and like it more.
By the end of camp, all the kids have their favorite ways to “play” with math. Even better, they feel confident and excited to try out big kid’s math from higher grades!
What kind of math will my child learn?
Because camps are so highly individualized, every child’s experience of the math is different. Here are some examples of math our campers have learned through play:
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calculating the height of a tree using shadows (fifth grader, Shadow Math)
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square roots, factorials, and order of operations (second grader, Four Fours activity)
- how to solve algebra equations (third grader, Hands On Equations)
- how to find circumference and diameter (first grader, Bubble Geometry)
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proportion and ratio, converting measurements (fourth grader, If I Were A Giant)
- finding the Fibonacci sequence in nature (kindergartener, Nature Math)
Summer Math Camp Details
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July 9-13: Portola Valley, grades 1-4
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July 16-20: Santa Clara, grades 1-4
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July 23-27: Portola Valley, grades 3-6 NEW!
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July 30-Aug 3: Portola Valley, grades 3-6 JUST 1 SPOT LEFT
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Aug 6-10: Santa Clara, grades 3-6
Hours: 9am – 3pm, M-F (extra care available from 8:00am-5:00pm)
**Santa Clara location: Fulton Court, Santa Clara, CA
**Portola Valley location: Creekside Learning Lab, 884 Portola Road, Portola Valley
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Camp Fee: EARLY BIRD RATE $395 until March 5; $420 after March 5
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Discounted Sibling Fee: EARLY BIRD RATE $375 until March 5; $400 after March 5
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Before Care 8-9am: $75
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After Care 3-5pm: $150
REGISTER HERE
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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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