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Monday, 1/12
- No Events Scheduled
- Menlo Park City School Board Meeting, 7:00 p.m.
- PTO Executive Board Meeting, 8:45 a.m.
- No Events Scheduled
Friday, 1/16 - No Events Scheduled |
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1/19 NO SCHOOL, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
1/21 Site Council Meeting, 3:00 p.m.
1/27 Celebrate Chinese New Year and support PTO with dinner at Su Hong in Menlo Park
1/28 Traffic
Safety Panel Discussion,
6:45
p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
1/29 Parent Information Night - Spanish Immersion Kindergarten, 7:00 p.m.
1/30 Head Room Parent Meeting, 8:30 a.m. in the library (Please note the date change)
2/2 Kindergarten Priority Registration Begins
2/6 PTO Council Meeting, 8:30 a.m.
2/11 PTO Executive Board Meeting, 8:45 a.m.
2/17 Menlo Park City School Board Meeting, 7:00 p.m.
2/13-16 NO SCHOOL, President's Holiday
2/25 Site Council Meeting, 3:00 p.m.
2/27 Kindergarten Priority Registration Ends
3/6 PTO Council Meeting, 8:30 a.m.
3/11 PTO Executive Board Meeting, 8:30 a.m.
3/11-15 Staff Appreciation Week
3/18 Site Council Meeting, 3:00 p.m. |
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| Nancy Hendry's Retirement |
After 19 years of devoted service to Laurel School, Principal Nancy
Hendry has announced her plans to retire at the end of this school
year. (Click here to read the announcement from Ken Ranella.) While
we still have several months to celebrate Nancy's contributions to
Laurel School, please mark your calendars now for our official
celebration thanking Nancy for her dedication, leadership and
commitment to excellence at Laurel's annual Spring Fling on Friday, May
29, 2009. All Laurel families, past and present, are invited to attend.
Details to come.
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| Traffic
Safety Panel Discussion |
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Wednesday,
January 28, 2009
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6:45
p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Whether
you DRIVE, CARPOOL, BIKE or WALK your children to school, this discussion is
for you! We are all concerned about traffic safety around our schools,
and there are a number of factors that can make the area around Laurel School
particularly hazardous. The Laurel PTO has assembled an expert panel of
traffic safety professionals from the local community to share with us the latest
news and answer your questions regarding car and bike safety laws, right of
way, hands-free cell phone laws, booster seat laws, and the Safe Routes to
School Initiative. Please join us in the
Laurel School Multi on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 6:45 p.m. to have these
questions and many others answered.
The
Traffic Safety Panel will include:
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Jerry
Gruber, City Manager, Atherton
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Duncan
Jones, Director of Public Works, Atherton
- Rene
Baile, Transportation Engineer, Menlo Park
- Representatives
from the Atherton Police Department, Menlo Park Police Department and
California Highway Patrol
Babysitting
will be provided free of charge. RSVP with the names and ages of
your child(ren) to becjackson( at )comcast.net by Friday, January 24, 2009.
Transporting
our children safely to and from school is a top priority for all of us.
Please join us for this important discussion.
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| Kindergarten Priority Registration |
Kindergarten Priority Registration is scheduled from February 2 to February 27, 2009. Sign up for the magnet Spanish Immersion Program will also occur at that time. A mandatory Parent Information Night for the Spanish Immersion Kindergarten is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on January 29, 2009 at the District Office. For more information please go to the District web site at http://www.mpcsd.org/Kindergarten_reg.html
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| 2009-2010 School District Calendar |
| The Menlo Park City School District Calendar for the 2009-10 school year has been approved. Two Staff Development Days (non-student attendance days) will be scheduled at a later date. Click here to view the calendar. |
| Business Alliances |
Celebrate Chinese New Year at Su Hong
Celebrate Chinese New Year and support the
Laurel / Encinal PTO with dinner at Su Hong in Menlo
Park! Su Hong Fine Dining and Su Hong To Go will donate 20% of your bill
when you join us for dinner on Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Watch for the
flyer. See you there! |
| MPAEF News |
Bonus Pool and Phone-a-Thon
Our annual campaign has raised $1.26 million to date, from 752
families. If we were to grant this to our schools now, this would
represent a grant of $500 per child, half of the $1,000 goal. To
strengthen our efforts, several generous families have initiated a bonus
pool.
Any new gift made after January 1, 2009 regardless of size, will trigger a
corresponding gift of $100 from the bonus pool. Therefore, a gift of $150
will automatically become a $250 gift, thanks to the bonus pool. This
applies to first-time donations from families in the 2008-2009 school
year.
The next phase of the campaign will be to phone families who have not yet
contributed, and this will happen next week. If you prefer to give
online, please donate at
www.mpaef.org/donate. No gift is too large or too small and all gifts
are put to productive use as we strive to continue the tradition of
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| Afterschool Sports & Fun |
Sports & Fun is still looking for a few good sports to have fun afterschool on Tuesdays! Currently the 1st/2nd grade class needs two (2) more participants or else it will be cancelled! The session runs January 20 to March 17, 2009. Click here for more information.
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- Story Time with Christine Gardner - A Moment of Quiet is Nothing to Fear
- Sunday, January 11, 2009
- 11:30 a.m.
- Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino, Menlo Park
Register Now for Menlo Atherton Little League Baseball 2009!
Boys and girls between the ages of 5½ and 16 (by April 30, 2009) are eligible to participate. Registration deadline is January 25, 2009. Visit the league's web site at http://www.m-all.org/site3.aspx to enroll your child for the 2009 season. Play begins late February
and extends through the end of the school year. (Registrations after
January 25, 2009 are subject to a waiting list and a late fee of $25.)
Menlo-Atherton
Little League boundaries are west of HWY 101 and east of El Camino in
Menlo Park (incorporated area only) and all of Atherton. There are
other Little Leagues available for those living outside these
boundaries. For information on the other leagues: www.cadistrict52.org .
Alpine-Menlo-Atherton Girls Softball Registration
AMA
(Alpine-Menlo-Atherton) Girls Softball sign-ups are online and run through the
end of January. Please go to www.eteamz.com/amasoftball to
register. AMA is a recreational softball league for girls ages 5-14 that
runs from mid-March through the end of May. Games are on Saturdays with
1-2 practices per week. Please invite friends that you think might be
interested in playing this spring. Also, we need coaching and volunteer
help with the league, so please email fredwang( at )pobox.com if you're interested in
helping!
An Evening with Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Benefit for Trust In Education (www.trustineducation.org)
- January 23, 2009
- 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (reception at 6:00 p.m.)
- Smithwick Theater at Foothill College
12345 El Monte Road
Los Altos, California 94022
For more information please click here.
Acterra's Green( at )Home Program
Walk to Take Action on Climate Change
- Saturday, January 24, 2009
- 1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
- Trinity Parish, Trinity Hall, 330 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo Park
Acterra's Green( at )Home program, in partnership with the City of Menlo Park, is distributing flyers announcing its free HouseCall home energy savings program for residents of Menlo Park. Join us to pick up flyers and maps to distribute. For more information, visit www.acterra.org or contact Twana Karney at (650) 962-9876, ext 316 or twanak( at )acterra.org.
Green( at )Home HouseCalls
Trained volunteers will meet with residents in their homes to install simple energy-saving devices and create home energy conservation plans. HouseCalls are available to all residents of Menlo Park whether you rent or own and are available only through June 30, 2009. To schedule a free HouseCall in Menlo Park, call Liz Muir at (650) 962-9876, ext. 350 or email greenathome( at )acterra.org. Menlo Park Library Story Time
- Saturday, January 31, 2009
- 11:30 a.m.
- Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma Street, Menlo Park
Mark Reibstein shares his talent for relaying complicated
ideas through artful storytelling during this special weekend story
time. Written in a unique format that uses haiku to explain the
Japanese world view known as //wabi sabi//, this simply beautiful story
of a cat in search of the meaning of her name will enrich younger and
older minds alike. Please contact Michelle Barrese (650) 330-2530 for more information. | |
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