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Next Week
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Monday, 2/25
- Project Read Book Drive Continues
Tuesday, 2/26
- Pizza My Heart Dinner Night
Wednesday, 2/27
- Pizza My Heart Dinner Night
Thursday, 2/28
- No Events Scheduled
Friday, 2/29
- Project Read Book Drive Ends
- End of Kindergarten Priority Registration Period |
| Upcoming Events |
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3/7 PTO District Council Meeting, 8:30 a.m.
3/10-14 Staff Appreciation Week
3/12 PTO Board Meeting, 8:45 a.m.
3/17-21 No School, Spring Break
3/26 PTO Council Speaker Event: Madeline Levine, 7 p.m.
4/3 Laurel Kindergarten Orientation
4/4 PTO District Council Meeting, 8:30 a.m.
4/9 PTO Board Meeting, 8:45 a.m.
4/16 Day of the Reader
4/16 Laurel Site Council Meeting, 3:00 p.m.
4/18 No School, Staff Development Day
4/21 No School, Staff Development Day | |
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| Pizza My Heart Dinner Night |
- February 26 and 27
- Pizza My Heart, 220 University, Palo Alto
- 650-327-9400.
Order pizza and support our schools! We'll get 30% when you mention Laurel or Encinal when you order - WOW 30%!!! Pick up, dine in or delivery. Details to follow in Monday's flyer.
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| Project Read |
Project Read, a new initiative of Youth That Care, Inc., a student run non-profit organization, will be sending Stanford students to India this summer to build libraries in underprivileged schools and communities. They would appreciate our school community's assistance in making this a successful endeavor, by donating books from your very own family libraries. The book drive will be held at Laurel School from Monday, February 11, through Friday, February 29. The books can be any children's literature that is in fairly good condition or new, and that is appropriate for a child between the ages of five and twelve years old - Dr. Seuss to Nancy Drew. A book bin will be outside our school office, and you may drop your books off at anytime during the school day. What a wonderful way for our children to partner with another school in India, and to share our love of learning!
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| MPAEF |
 The MPAEF Auction Needs Your Great Donations!
Do you have Good Times to share? Or a Little House on the Prairie to lend? This is not Mission Impossible! The MPAEF Auction, "Step into TV Land," needs your great donations. Please donate vacations, parties, tickets to sporting or entertainment events, cash, health and beauty items, and more! Donation forms are available in the school office or online at www.mpaef.org/tvland.
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Community News
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Menlo Park El Camino Real/Downtown Vision Plan
Menlo Park is conducting a "Downtown & El Camino visioning" process
in order to help us as a city develop some consensus about what we all
want the downtown and El Camino corridor to become over the next
several years. This process includes walking tours, speaker series,
and community workshops and is meant to engage all residents and other
stakeholders (land owners, businesses, developers, schools, etc.) to
take part in this process. For event information, please see project
page at www.menlopark.org/projects/comdev_ecrdowntown.htm.
Downtown Walking Tour
- Saturday, February 23
- 10 am to noon
- Beginning at the Menlo Park Caltrain Station on Merrill Street
Community Workshops
- Thursday, March 6
- 7 to 9 pm
- Recreation Center (701 Laurel Street)
Look for more details and additional workshops soon, but please get this
date on your calendar, as the three Community Workshops are key parts
of the visioning process.
Peter Pan - Peninsula Youth Theater
- March 8-16
- Mountain View Center for Performing Arts
Come experience the thrill of watching Peter and Tinkerbell soar through the air during Peninsula Youth Theater's upcoming musical production of Peter Pan. Tickets can be purchased by phone at 903-6000 or online at www.pytnet.org.
Stanford Soccer Spring Academy
Soccernastics
(ages 3-6) and Academy (ages 6-10). This clinic is held on six
consecutive Monday evenings (4/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12 & 5/19)
from 6:15 - 7:30 p.m. on the Stanford Soccer Fields. We encourage
players from all backgrounds and abilities to attend. All curriculums
will be age and ability specific. The "Soccernastics" clinic is a
fun-filled session of basic soccer skills and body movements to teach
coordination, agility, and help children feel comfortable with the
ball. The "Academy" session is aimed at improving technical skills,
basic mechanics and helping the children to become more and more
comfortable with the ball. Contact: Sheryl Kanzaki at camps(at)stanfordsoccer.com or (408) 261-1982.
Ladera Oaks Summer Swim Program
The
Ladera Oaks Swim and Tennis Club invites you to join our USA Swim
Team's 2008 Summer Swim Program. The Summer Program is designed to
introduce swimmers to USA Swimming. The focus of this four-month (April
7th - July 27th) program is stroke instruction/development, preparing
for swim meets and having fun in the water. We offer an age group level
and senior level programs (for children 6 to 18) and a masters program
for adults. Please call Head Swim Coach Andy Clifford at 650-854-3101,
ext. 124, for more information and/or to sign-up for an evaluation.
Kepler's Family Story Time
- Hugs and Kisses Storytime
- Sunday, February 24, 2008
- 11:30 a.m.
- Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park
Valentine's Day may be over, but that is no reason to stop showing how
much you care about those you love. Touching favorites Hug Time, The
Kissing Hand, and I Love You the Purplest will help to remind you the
EVERY day is the perfect day to smother each other with hugs and kisses.
**Remember to mention Laurel School at the register and 10% of your Kepler's purchases comes back to our PTO.**
Speaker: Dr. Jane Nelsen
- March 13 and 14, 2008
- 7 to 9 p.m.
- 701 Laurel Street (Council Chambers), Menlo Park, CA 94025
Dr.
Jane Nelsen is a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor. She is
the author of the popular Positive Discipline series. Reservations
required. Please call 330-2530. For more information: www.menloparklibrary.org. |
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