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Monday, 1/19
- NO SCHOOL, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Tuesday, 1/20
- No Events Scheduled
Wednesday, 1/21
- Site Council Meeting, 3:00 p.m.
Thursday, 1/22
- No Events Scheduled
Friday, 1/23
- School Spirit Day - wear blue and white! |
| Upcoming Events |
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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. to 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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| 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 ups 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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| Business Alliances |
Celebrate Chinese New Year with Su Hong support the PTO!
Bring your friends and family to celebrate the Year of the Ox with dinner at Su Hong in Menlo Park on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 from 5 p.m - 9 p.m.!
Su Hong Fine Dining and Su Hong To Go have generously offered to
donate 20% of your bill to the Laurel / Encinal PTO!!! See the flyer for more details. Hard copies will go home with your
student and a few will be at each restaurant the night of the event.
Remember to present or ask for a flyer to make sure the schools get
credit! Guo Nian Hao! See you there!
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| MPAEF News |
Thanks to the generosity of several families, we've initiated a Bonus
Pool to help strengthen our yearly campaign. Any new donation, regardless
of size and made by first-time donors after January 1st, will trigger a
corresponding gift of $100 from our Bonus Pool. Therefore, a gift of $150
will automatically become a $250 gift, thanks to the bonus pool. A $50
gift will automatically become a $150 gift.
We've completed our Phone-a-thon and will share results as soon as
they're tabulated. In the meantime, if you want to donate, go to 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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Thank You!
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| Once again, the Laurel Winter Craft and Bake Sale was a big success.
Thanks to all our Laurel parents, teachers and staff who donated
and/or bought items at the sale, we were able to make over $1,500. An
additional thank you goes out to the following local businesses who
donated plants, crafts, gift items, and delicious goodies to the sale:
Hobees Restaurant (Town & Country Village), The Milk Pail, Anne
Vollen & Sheryl Cohen of Green Zebra, Roger Reynolds Nursery,
Summerwind Nursery (Palo Alto), Le Boulanger (Menlo Park), Sprinkles
Cupcakes (Palo Alto), Peet's Coffee (Menlo Park), Redwood City Nursery,
Bagel Street Cafe (Menlo Park), Deanna Schroer of babybearshop.com, Laurel Brownie Troops #30221 & #31369. Thank you!
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Afterschool Programs are still accepting enrollments
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It's not too late to sign up your kids for some really fun afterschool acitivities. The following afterschool programs are still accepting enrollments:
Mondays: 1 on 1 Basketball Hoops (January 12 to June 1, 2009), please see the flyer
Tuesday: Sports & Fun (January 20 to March 17, 2009), please see the flyer
Wednesday: Fencing (February 4 to June 3, 2009), please see the flyer
Thursday: Chess (Januaty 8 to May 28, 2009) sign up online: http://www.bayareachess.com/enrich/school/Laurel.php
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- Story Time with Oliver Chin - The Year of the Ox: Tales from the Chinese Zodiac
- Sunday, January 18, 2009
- 11:30 a.m.
- Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino, Menlo Park
Chinese New Year Spectacular
Kepler's is partnering with Divine Performing Arts to sell tickets to its brilliant, inspiring and glorious production of Chinese dance and music
- January 7 - 11, 2009 at The War Memorial Opera House, SF
- January 13 - 15, 2009 at Flint Center for the Performing Arts, Cupertino
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.
Bob Crabb's Hillview Players Present: The Aliens Are Coming!!!
- January 22 - 24 at 7 p.m. and January 25 at 2:30 p.m.
- Doors open half hour before each show
Tickets are $8 for adults, $5
for children, and $3 fro block H students (past and present) and can be purchased at the door or email bcrabb( at )mpcsd.org. Please click here for more information. Have a couple hours to fight climate change?
Do you have one to two hours to walk a neighborhood in Menlo Park on Saturday, January 24 from 1:30 p.m. -.4:30 p.m.
to take action on climate change? 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 at 1:30pm to pick up flyers and maps to
distribute at Trinity Parish, Trinity Hall, 330 Ravenswood Ave., Menlo
Park. For more information about volunteering to walk call Twana Karney at 650-962-9876, ext. 316 or email at twanak( at )acterra.org.
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. 2008-09 Menlo-Atherton Parent Education Series
- Lloyd Thacker, Founder of The Education Conservancy and Author of College Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy
- Wednesday, February 4, 2009
- 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
- Menlo-Atherton High School, New Gym
All Parent Education Series offerings are FREE and open to the community, sponsored by the Menlo-Atherton PTA. Please click here for more information. | |
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