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Next Week
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Monday, 3/10
- Staff Appreciation Week
Tuesday, 3/11
- Flower Day - Bring flowers for your teachers and aides
- Lost and Found removal deadline
Wednesday, 3/12
- PTO Board Meeting, 8:45 a.m.
- Walk-Through, Distinguished School Award Committee
Thursday, 3/13
- Notes and Cards Day - Bring notes for your teachers/aides
Friday, 3/14
- Staff Appreciation Luncheon
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| Upcoming Events |
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3/9 Laurel Spring Clean-Up Day, 1 p.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
4/24 Art & Science Fair
4/25 PTO General Meeting, 8:30 a.m.
5/1 Laurel Kindergarten Orientation
5/2 PTO District Council Meeting, 8:30 a.m.
5/8 Laurel Open House/Fine Arts Festival, 6:30 p.m.
5/10 Laurel/Encinal Pancake Breakfast
5/14 PTO Board Meeting, 8:45 a.m.
5/16 Spring Fling, 5:30 p.m.
5/17 MPAEF Auction | |
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| Staff Appreciation Week |
Staff Appreciation Week is March 10 to March 14. Our staff and teachers do so much for our kids, and this is our chance to thank them. Here is the Staff Appreciation Week schedule:
Monday - The PTO provides breakfast for our teachers and staff.
Tuesday - Flower day. Bring flowers for your teachers and aides.
Wednesday - Check with your Head Room Parent to find out what your class has planned for today.
Thursday - Notes and Cards Day - Bring homemade notes for your teachers and aides.
Friday - The PTO hosts a Hawaiian Luau luncheon for teachers and staff!
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Spring Clean-Up Day
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- Sunday, March 9
- 1 p.m.
- Laurel Campus
Laurel School is being considered for a Distinguished School Award! The Beautification Committee needs your help to clean up the school before the Award Committee's walk-thru next week. Join us Sunday to pick up trash, tidy up and possibly do some planting.
Please rsvp to Kristi Waldron at swaldron(at)yahoo.com.
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Lost and Found
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Please look through the Lost and Found in the multi for missing sweaters, jackets, lunch boxes, etc. by Tuesday, March 11. We need to clean these items out before our walk-through for the Distinguished School Award committee.
As always, make sure you label any new sweaters/jackets with your child's name so we can help these items find their way home.
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| Laurel-Encinal Pancake Breakfast Date Change |
- Saturday, May 10
- 8 to 10 a.m.
- Encinal School
The date has changed for the 3rd Annual Laurel Encinal Pancake Breakfast. Remember to save the new date for your Gourmet Bacon and Pancakes!
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| Dogs on Campus |
For the comfort and safety of our children, the school encourages parents not to bring dogs on campus when children are present (at drop off, during school, and at pick-up). At other times, the law requires that all dogs on the school campus be on leash.
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Newsletter Schedule
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There will be no newsletter on Friday, March 14, due to Spring Break the following week. The deadline for articel submissions to the March 21 newsletter will be Tuesday, March 11.
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Kindergarten Registration
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Clarification: Kindergarten Registration does NOT end on February 29.
The month of February is considered a Priority Registration
Period - all applications for student enrollment received during this
period will be considered equally and ahead of applications received after February. Registration will continue from March until school begins in August. Children who will be age 5 by December 2, 2008, and live within the
established school boundaries are eligible to enroll at their assigned
school.
For more information, call Laurel School at 324-0186 or Encinal School at 326-5164.
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| Speaker: Madeline Levine |
- The Price of Privilege
- Wednesday, March 26
- 7 to 9 p.m.
- Hillview Middle School
- Event Flyer
Your PTO Council and the MPAEF present New York Times bestselling author Madeline Levine, Ph.D. speaking on "The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids." The PTO Council and Menlo Park-Atherton Education Foundation have funded this educational event so all may attend. Please register, so we can prepare adequate seating, by e-mailing the number and names of attendees to yesdr.levine(at)yahoo.com.
This is an adult-only event. Onsite childcare for preschoolers (must be toilet-trained) through 6th graders is available from 6:50 to 9:15 pm by reservation only - deadline March 21 (see attached flyer for details). |
Afterschool Programs - Spring Session
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Engineering FUNdamentals with Legos
- Fridays, March 28 - May 16 (no class April 18)
- 2:45 to 4:00 p.m.
- $160
- Location: The Multi (except May 2 and May 9: classes held in the Art Room/D2).
- Program Flyer
- For more information and registration info please contact: Jesse Gestal jesse(at)play-well.org 415/519-2785 or visit our website, www.play-well.org.
Sports 4 Kids
F4ED After School Math
- Mondays, April 7 - June 2 (no class April 21 and May 26)
- 2:45 to 4:15 p.m.
- Location: The Multi (on May 5, class will meet in the Art Room/D2)
- Information and Online Registration: www.f4ed.com/laurel.htm
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Art & Science Fair Volunteers Needed
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This wonderful annual event features more than 50 unique workshops; each child gets to experience four workshops of their choice. The Fair is run entirely by parent volunteers, and we need you to lead or assist with workshops! We have lots of workshops with prepared instructions, or get creative if you want. If you are interested in helping out with this exciting and popular event, please contact Carolee Hazard at carolee1(at)yahoo.com or fill out the volunteer form.
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| MPAEF |
 The MPAEF Auction Needs Your Great Donations!
Are you a pro at tennis? A Julia Child in the kitchen? The June Cleaver of organization? MPAEF needs your special skills for the May 17th auction! Please donate cooking and knitting classes, sports and music lessons, birthday parties, scrapbooking, photography sessions, and much more! Make your donation at www.mpaef.org/tvland and help make this year's auction our best yet!
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Community News
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Menlo Park Easter Egg Hunt
- Saturday, March 22
- 10 a.m. to noon
- Burgess Park
- Free admission
- Event flyer
City of Menlo Park is hosting its annual Egg Hunt. Activities will include an egg hunt for ages 8 and under, a visit from the Bunny, rides on the "Old Tom" fire truck, bounce houses, and other springtime festivities. Parents remember to bring your cameras. We'll see you there! Please click here for more information.
Holbrook-Palmer Easter Egg Hunt
- Saturday, March 22
- 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
- Holbrook-Palmer Park, 150 Watkins Avenue, Atherton
- $5 per person
- Reserve with Veronica at vkogler(at)yahoo.com or 853-0503.
Bring your own Easter baskets and collect candy and goodie-filled eggs. Gerald the Magician will perform after the hunt. The Menlo Park Fire Department's truck and Atherton Police's vintage Mustang will be there, too! Your children will get to take home a photo of them with the Easter bunny. Come enjoy delicious breakfast foods and specialty coffee drinks for the adults.
Children's Health Council
Children's Health Council offers a wide variety of resources to parents and their children, many of which are free. Here is just one example of a large number of courses:
Toughing It Out--Siblings of Challenged Children (Emotional, Medical, Behavioral and/or Educational). March 26, 7-9:00 p.m. No fee, but registration is required.
See the Children's Health Council Website for a detailed schedule of current classes for Parent Education held at Children's Health Council in Palo Alto.
Atherton GreenSTART Program
The Environmental Programs Committee of the Town of Atherton has officially launched the GreenSTART program! This program engages everyone in a collaborative community competition to reduce carbon in our homes, at our schools and around town! Check out the GreenSTART website at www.athertongreen.net and come join the fun closing the loop on carbon! All ten Atherton schools and their existing green teams have been invited, all area residents are urged to participate (you don't have to be an Atherton resident!) and all school-aged students from Kindergarten through college can qualify for exciting prizes that will be awarded at the GreenSTART Fair on April 12!
San Francisco Bay Area Autism Film Festival
- March 28, 29, and 30
- Spangenberg Auditorium, Gunn High School, 780 Arastradero Rd, Palo Alto
- Event Schedule
The first Annual San Francisco Bay Area Autsim Film Festival will be held March 28-30. The films will be shown on Friday evening, Saturday Evening, and Sunday afternoon. This unique film festival is part of Brain Awareness Week (BAW), a series of events held around the world in collaboration with the Society for Neuroscience to increase public awareness about the brain and the importance of basic neuroscience research.
Kepler's Family Story Time
- Story Time with Cynthia Chin-Lee: Amelia to Zora: 26 Women Who Changed the World
- Sunday, March 9
- 11:30 a.m.
- Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park
March
is Women's History Month and we are celebrating it Story Time Style.
Cynthia Chin-Lee, local author of the acclaimed Amelia to Zora, will
teach us a thing or two about history's most fascinating and fearless
females. **Remember to mention Laurel School at the register and 10% of your Kepler's purchases comes back to our PTO.**
Menlo Park Library Program
- Dr. Jane Nelson, author of Positive Discipline series
- March 13 and 14, 2008
- 7 to 9 p.m.
- 701 Laurel St. (Council Chambers), Menlo Park, 94025
Registration required: call 330-2530.
www.menloparklibrary.org
Jeff Arons' Spring Tennis Clinics at Sacred Heart Schools
Jeff's coaching experiences include founding and directing the East
Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring Program and coaching a Wimbledon doubles
champion. He is currently the director of tennis at Sacred Heart Schools. Clinics for ages 4 to 18.
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Submit newsletter items by Wednesday at noon or attachments by Tuesday at noon to newsletter(at)laurelpto.org
or phone: 473-1299
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