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- 12/10: Wildfire Preparedness lecture @ CMS MUR, 6pm
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12/13: Movie Night: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 / 6:15-8pm
- 12/23-1/3: Winter Break
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- 12/11: Winter Concert - 8:30am MUR
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12/16-12/20: Spirit Week
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12/20: Early Dismissal 12:05pm
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12/9: Spring musical auditions (cast & tech crew), 2:30-4:30 (Music Room & Room 503)
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12/9 - 12/13: Hour of Code Week
- 12/16: Spring musical callbacks & tech crew auditions, 3-4:30pm
- 12/20: Early Dismissal (12:15pm)
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cms movie night for pvsd students
Friday, December 13th
Grades: TK-8th grade.
6:00 - 8:00 pm in the CMS MUR
Movie is "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs". Students will need $10 and a signed permission slip for entry and there will be pizza and snacks for sale while supplies last.
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Wildfire preparedness
Join us for an educational presentation with the Woodside Fire Protection District designed to help our community prepare for wildfire on Tuesday, December 10th at 6pm in the CMS MUR.
Topics will include:
- PVSD Wildfire Evacuation Plan
- Facilities & Wildfire Risk Reduction
- Emergency Communications
- Wildfire Evacuation
- Considerations for Closing Schools in PSPS
- Air Quality Recommendations
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MINTED FUNDRAISER PROGRAM
Create your holiday cards through Minted this holiday season, and .... you'll get 20% off your purchase and Minted will donate 15% of the sale amount back to Our Schools! Promotion valid Nov 1st - Dec 31st.
Use code: FUNDRAISEPORTOLA
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shutterfly fundraiser
Share your holiday cheer! Create thoughtful personalized cards and gifts that give back. Shop through our custom storefront and Shutterfly will donate 8% of all purchases to Our Schools! CLICK HERE TO GO TO SHUTTERFLY
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SHOP AT HONEY BEAR TREES TO RAISE MONEY FOR OUR SCHOOLS
If you are buying a tree or wreath for the holidays, HONEY BEAR TREES will donate 15% of the sale to our schools!
HONEY BEAR TREES - REDWOOD CITY
955 Woodside Rd
Open 11/16 - 12/24
9:00 am - 9:00 pm - 7 Days a week
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We are looking forward to Ormondale's Winter Celebration this coming Wednesday, December 11th at 8:30am on the blacktop and in the MUR. The children will be performing dances and singing. Come take a stroll to view the magical Gratitude Forest created by the Ormondale class families. See you there!
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Annual Second Grade Holiday Plant Sale
Wednesday, December 11th
Bring your friends and let’s start the holiday season off with the cozy feeling of the holidays! You can shop before our Winter Concert to get those special seasonal plants and flowers that are guaranteed to spread yuletide cheer all year long. All proceeds will go to our school garden fund. Cash and checks are accepted. Look for our friendly second graders and our festive plants outside the MUR. We can't wait to see you there!
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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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auditions!
The final day to audition for this year's Spring Musical is tomorrow, Monday, December 9th, from 2:30-4:30. Actor callbacks will be held on Monday, Dec. 16th from 3-6pm. Not all students are required to attend callbacks, however, actors should keep this date open. Tech crew interviews will be Monday, December 9th and Monday, December 16th. Please sign up here: https://www.pvtc-ca.org/cms-mermaid
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second harvest food drive
Thank you to everyone who has already donated to both our virtual and traditional food drives. However, we still need your support. Our food drive will end on December 18th and we are hoping for more donations before then. Please make sure to send healthy canned foods to CMS, or to donate online, please Click Here.
Our sincerest thanks,
CMS Seventh Grade Service Learning
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Your foundation dollars at work: serenity garden
While the 2nd grade garden at Ormondale has been an integral part of the curriculum for years and a memorable part of our children’s time there, the garden at Corte Madera has had its ups and downs. With a grant from the Portola Valley Schools Foundation and many helpful hands during last month’s PTO campus cleanup day, Brook Coffee of Coffee Grounds Edible Gardens is bringing CMS’s garden back to life, both literally and figuratively speaking.
Using PVSF funding, Coffee created a lunchtime garden club that meets twice weekly for students who want to learn about cultivating seeds, weeding and watering, using compost to nourish soil, and mulching to keep it moist. The kids will hang bird boxes, create an environment where important pollinating species can thrive, and take part in citizen science projects like the Great Sunflower Project.
“The garden provides a calming space for students who like to be outside but not surrounded by the noise and physical play that we see on the yard,” Kristen Shima wrote in the grant application. “Many students need a quiet place to relax and have down time during the school day.”
Or as 5th grade student Jack Day told Coffee the other day, “I’m so glad the garden is open because I get really tired of playing tag.”
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Community NEWS AND OPPORTUNITIES | |
Community NEWS HEADLINES - click button for details
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CHESS KING Winter/Spring 2020 Session
- REDWOOD CITY GIRLS SOFTBALL REGISTRATION
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NEW FITNESS CLASSES AT ALPINE HILLS
- TEDDY BEAR PICNIC
- YES! I ENDORSE PORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS
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HOLIDAY HEROES FAMILY PARTY AT ORACLE PARK, DEC. 10TH.
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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