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| Coming to Your Inbox Next Week! |
The District will send an email titled "Menlo Park School District Bulk Mailing"
next week. This email will contain all the links you need to get
prepared for school, including many important District documents, PTO
membership (high priority), and flyer links for Laurel activities, e.g.
Carpool, Hot Lunch, After School Programs, Sponsor-A-Book, etc.
Signature pages for the District will come home with your student on
the first day of school. |
| Upcoming Events |
8/21 Class Lists Posted, 4:00 p.m. at Laurel
8/24 Teacher "Meet and Greets". Times TBD.
8/25 First Day of School and Back to School Coffee, 8:15 a.m. and 10:20 a.m.
8/28 Head Room Parent Orientation, 12:45 p.m.
9/3 Back to School Night, Time TBD.
9/9 PTO Executive Board Meeting, 8:40 a.m.
9/11 Fall Family Potluck, 5:30 p.m.
9/23 General PTO Meeting, 7:00 p.m. |
| Support Your PTO! "Come Soar With Me" Says Super Dog! |
Be Your Kids' Hero! The Annual Combined
Laurel/Encinal MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN DRIVE has begun! Our PTO offers a
variety of enrichment programs that make Laurel a terrific place to
learn, work and come together as a community. Please download and print
the 2009-2010 Membership form or join online to make your contribution! We look forward to soaring through
another great year together! |
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Need Back-to-School Information? Go to the NEW Laurel Online Arena! |
Check out the Laurel Online Arena for Laurel-specific items you need, plus more: PTO
Membership, Carpool, Hot Lunch, Newsletter sign-ups, After School
Programs, Sponsor-A-Book, escrip sign-ups for the MPAEF and more! Click around, play with the new drop-down navigation and find the information you need. Have fun, and go online! | |
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| Back-to-School Coffee |
- August 25, 2009
- 8:15 a.m. and 10:20 a.m.
- 2nd Grade Arbor
Stop
by the Back-to-School Coffee after drop off on the first day of
school. This is chance to socialize, have some bagels and coffee
cake, and sign up for many wonderful opportunities to volunteer in
your child's school experience this year. If you have
any questions, please contact Bita Arabian bitasue( at )yahoo.com or April Buhl aprilpete( at )comcast.net.
Committee chairs, please bring sign up sheets for your corresponding volunteer activities. Thank you! |
| Step Up to the Head of the Class! |
What
better way to be involved in your child's classroom than to be a HEAD
ROOM PARENT? You will have a wonderful opportunity to interact/support
your child's teacher in numerous ways along with his/her classroom
families. Energetic, organized, clear communicators.....Laurel School
Teachers want YOU!
Contact HRP Coordinator, Jeanne Simonian at j-design( at )earthlink.com or sign up at the Back-to-School Coffee on August 25th. I look forward to seeing you at the HEAD of the line then! |
| Hot Lunch at Laurel |
Children's Choice
The Laurel PTO has contracted with Children's Choice to provide hot lunch five days per week for all students, including AM Kinders. Service will begin Tuesday, September 8th.
However, we highly encourage you to create your family's account as
soon as possible. This is the same vendor providing hot lunch at
Encinal and Hillview, which we hope will streamline the lunch ordering
process for many families. Orders and payments are made on the Children's Choice website.
Be sure to use the "Laurel" passcode when registering your Laurel
student in your account. Families with an existing account can add a
Laurel student by using the "Add School" feature in the "Manage
Students" window in "My Account".
Volunteer Servers
In
order to offer this service to parents and students, three (3)
volunteer servers are needed each day (11:45am-12:45pm). This is
a fun way to get a peek of your student during the day! As an
added bonus, each volunteer will receive credit for a free lunch for
his/her child(ren) in your Children's Choice account. The more
you volunteer, the more free lunches will be credited to your
account! To volunteer for your choice of dates, click here. Please contact Pam Fernandes at pam_ann_fernandes( at )yahoo.com with any questions about volunteering. Questions regarding the program? Contact Rebecca Wang at rebs1( at )aol.com or (650) 888-8085. |
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Eco-Friendly Lunch Kits Available for Purchase |
Need
a lunch bag for your child? Eco-friendly lunch kits for purchase
- buy them for your kids and help Laurel/Encinal reduce
waste! Munchgear reusable lunch kits from citizenpip promote
a wastefree lunch. No more brown bags, plastic water bottles,
plastic baggies, plastic wrap, aluminum foil, plastic utensils or other
disposable materials you use to pack lunch. They are
also made from eco-friendly and labtested materials thatare
lead-free, PVC-free, phthalate-free, and BPA-free. Best yet, citizenpip
will donate 15% of sales to Encinal/Laurel!
For more information and to place orders, vist www.citizenpip.com. During online checkout, enter school code: iloveLAUREL (or iloveENCINAL). |
| Save the Date: Fall Family Potluck |
- September 11, 2009
- 5:30 p.m.
- Laurel 2nd Grade Field
Volunteers needed for cashier, set-up and clean-up. Please contact Betsy Baum at 650-283-0351 or b_baum( at )pacbell.net. |
| The Art & Science Fair Needs You |
The
Art & Science Fair (ASF) is looking for 3 more people who want to
help organize this half-day event in April, where kids attend
parent-lead workshops on many exciting topics. Volunteers are
needed for a variety of tasks including coordinating the parents who
are running workshops. We have a very well organized event and
have lots of fun each year! Expect to volunteer about 15-20 hours
from mid-January through April. Contact Carolee Hazard, ASF
Chair, at carolee1( at )yahoo.com or 324-8019 if you are interested. Join the ASF Team! |
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Scoot - Door-to-Door Child Shuttle Service
A new, door-to-door kid shuttle service to and from Laurel School
launching this Fall. For more information, visit our website at www.scootshuttle.com or email Sally Williams at sally( at )scootshuttle.com and we will add you to our mailing list. Kepler's Family Events
- Bottom's Up Story Time, The Tushy Book and Chicken Cheeks
- Sunday, August 9, 2009
- 11:30 a.m.
- Kepler's Books, 1010 El Camino, Menlo Park
**Remember to mention Laurel School at the register and 10% of your Kepler's purchases comes back to our PTO.**
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