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| Next Week |
| Monday, 9/7
Labor Day / No School
Tuesday, 9/8
Berlitz and Chinese Language Begins
Hot Lunch Program Begins
Wednesday, 9/9
PTO Executive Board Meeting, 8:40 a.m.
Berlitz and Fencing Begins
Menlo Park City School Board Meeting, 6:00 p.m.
Thursday, 9/10
Berlitz, Sports and Fun,and Chess Begins
Friday, 9/11
School Spirit Day - Wear White and Blue!
Engineering FUNdamentals with Legos Begins
Art Coordinator Meeting, 2:30 p.m.
Fall Family Potluck, 5:30 p.m.
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| Upcoming Events |
9/14 1 on 1 Basketball Begins
9/23 General PTO Meeting, 7:00 p.m.
9/25 PTO Membership Drive Ends
9/28 Kid Art Fundraiser- Order Week
10/4 Sunday Launch of the Book Fair
10/5-9 Book Fair in the Laurel Multi
10/13 Menlo Park City School Board Meeting, 6:00 p.m.
10/14 PTO Executive Board Meeting, 8:40 a.m.
10/15 Minimum Day
10/16 Staff Development Day/ No School
10/20 Picture Day
10/30 Halloween Parade
11/2 Make-Up Picture Day
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| 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 by clicking the link on the Laurel PTO website to make your contribution! We look forward to soaring through another great year together! | |
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| Extra/Mini Directory Orders |
| Every family in the school district receives a student DISTRICT WIDE directory. If you would like additional directories, or a half-sized version, you may order them for $5.00 each. Use the Order Form to order by Friday, September 26. | |
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Morning Supervision Starts At 7:55 a.m.
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Please plan to drop off children at Laurel School after 7:55 a.m. Morning supervision is from 7:55 to 8:25 a.m. on all three grade level playgrounds for the children riding the District buses and those finding it hard to manage the length of time between the Encinal and Laurel start times.
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New Absence/Tardy Procedures
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The Menlo Park City School District is implementing a new attendance taking system. Teachers are marking attendance on their computers right after the tardy bell (8:25). Therefore, if your child is at all tardy, s/he must go through the office to pick up a tardy form so Chris Silva can verify his/her presence and can centrally make changes in the attendance.
Absences: All absence reporting must go through the office. If you child is absent, or will be absent for sickness, vacation, etc, please call Chris Silva at x3001 to notify her of your child's absence. It is fine (and helpful!) to notify the classroom teacher as well, but you must notify the front office.
Thank you for your cooperation to help us boost accuracy and efficiency in our attendance taking procedures!
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PTO General Meeting
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- Wednesday, September 23
- 6:15 p.m. Refreshments
- 7 p.m. General PTO Meeting
- In the Laurel Multi
All Laurel parents are encouraged to attend this year's first General Meeting of the Laurel PTO. Toni Barone, the District's Instructional Technology Coordinator, will speak about 21st Century Learning and its application at Laurel and more!
Come early and enjoy appetizers before the meeting while chatting with our new Principal Linda Creighton and other parents.
The PTO will provide free babysitting from 6:00 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. in the Laurel library. The deadline for reserving babysitting is Friday, September 18. To reserve, send the names and ages of your children to Alisa Francis at pto_vicepresident@laurelpto.org.
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MPAEF News
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 The MPAEF Ambassador Program is made up of a group of fantastic volunteers dedicated to raising awareness of the MPAEF and the programs it supports in our schools. Thanks to the Ambassadors' support, the MPAEF will provide vital funds to the district to maintain the high quality of instruction for the children in our schools.
Interested in becoming an MPAEF Ambassador this year? Join an award winning team of volunteers and help the MPAEF increase participation in our Foundation. If interested, please contact the Laurel Ambassador Liaison Joan Solari at mrssolari@yahoo.com or email the MPAEF Ambassador Coordinator, Katie Angioletti, at katieangioletti@hotmail.com.
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| Fall Family Potluck |
- September 11, 2009
- 5:30 p.m.
- Laurel 2nd Grade Field
Bring a blanket, a dish to share (K: Dessert; 1st: Salad/Side Dish; 2nd: Main Dish) and dine with your Laurel community! This is the first event-oriented fundraiser of the year, with a suggested donation of $5/plate or $20/family, but a donation of any size is appreciated. For your donation you will receive a raffle ticket for the chance to win a Laurel Cookbook or a Laurel Stadium Blanket! Come one, come all! Would you like to volunteer? Please contact Betsy Baum at 650-283-0351 or b_baum@pacbell.net. Please see flyer for more details. |
Art Coordinator Meeting - New Time
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If you are the Art Coordinator for your child's classroom, please attend the Art Coordinator Meeting to go over the year's schedule and answer any questions you may have.
- Friday, September 11th
- 2:30-3:00 p.m.
- Laurel's Art Room (F4)
Help Needed - If you have not yet signed up to participate in assisting our talented art teachers and would like to, please contact Jan Penagos at jan_penagos@intuit.com .
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Library Volunteering- It's Not Too Late!
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Library
volunteers help check in books, check out books, reshelve, and more
during their children's weekly library time. To sign up, please
contact Kristen Brosamer at kcbrosamer@yahoo.com.
Please indicate whether you are flexible enough to be an alternate, and
whether you might be interested in being your teacher's Class Library
Liaison. All volunteers will receive training info via email this
weekend, and are asked to arrive ten minutes early to their first session to review the library procedures. Thank you for making your children's library time extra special!
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| After-School Programs Begin Next Week |
The following After-School Programs begin next week:
Tuesday, Sept. 8: Berlitz and Chinese Language
Wednesday, Sept. 9: Berlitz and Fencing
Thursday, Sept. 10: Berlitz, Sports and Fun, and Chess
Friday, Sept. 11th: Engineering FUNdamentals with LEGO
Monday, Sept. 14th: 1 on 1 Basketball
Please see the After-School Program Overview for program descriptions and detailed schedules. |
Hot Lunch at Laurel Begins Next Tuesday!
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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 next Tuesday, September 8th. 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".
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Laurel School Site Council Member Needed
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The Site Council is an advisory board consisting of parents, teachers, and the principal whose purpose is to assess school needs and help implement the school improvement plan for the school. The Council allocates school improvement funds received from the State to enrich the basic curriculum.
Are you interested in sitting on the School Site Council? It is a two-year commitment. We meet the third Wednesday of the month from 3:10-4:10 in the Laurel conference room. Please email Linda Creighton if you are interested in sitting on this very important committee. |
Book Fair- Volunteers Needed!
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Do you love to read? We do too! Join us as we celebrate books and the love of reading at the Encinal/Laurel Book Fair in the Laurel School Multipurpose Room, October 4-9, 2009. Parent volunteers are needed to staff the registers, help students find books, and replenish the bookshelves. Learn what books have replaced Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Harry Potter as the must have books this fall while helping us raise money for our schools! Volunteer shifts are available all week! No separate training meeting is required this year. Just arrive 15 minutes before your shift for a quick training. Find a shift that fits your busy schedule by contacting Mary Sapountzis at marysapountzis@stanfordalumni.org. If you love numbers even more than good books, we need you to be our book fair treasurer. Don't let your accounting skills go to waste! We need a marvelous, mathematical mom (or dad) like you! Please contact Elizabeth Katz at el_katz@yahool.com to volunteer. |
Donate Used Books!
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Do you have unwanted adult fiction and children's books that you've been meaning to get rid of? Well, look no further! Now is the time to rid your house of those unwanted books. We will be collecting used books for the 2009 Laurel/Encinal Book Fair and are looking for used books that are gently used and in good shape. Please no board books, magazines, coloring books, text books, or books in really bad shape.
Drop off your book donations in the Donation Bin outside the Encinal and Laurel school offices the weeks of September 14, 21, and 28, 2009. For more information regarding donating used books, please contact Susan Tanner at mstanner@bluetopazsolutions.com.
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| Start Saving Box Tops! |
 It's time to start saving BOX TOPS, if you haven't already! In addition to finding them on products you may already buy at the grocery store, you can also find them on school supplies when buying your children's school supplies for the new year. Keep your eyes open for BOX TOPS on products you already buy, save them, and submit them to Laurel and Encinal later in the year - it is a great way to support our schools at no extra cost to your family. For more information and for more ways to support our schools, please visit www.boxtops4education.com. |
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- Story Time with Jim LaMarche, Doggone Dog
- Sunday, September 6, 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.**
Laurel Girl Scouts Information SessionDo you have a daughter that's interested in the Girl Scouts? If so, join us on September 9th at 8:30 a.m. at Robbie Baxter's home, 410 Ringwood (walk from Laurel). If you can't attend but would like to learn more, please call/email Robbie Baxter, Laurel School Coordinator, at robbiebax@yahoo.com or 321-1199. Cub Scouts Open House (Pack 565)
Are you and your son looking for a fun activity that strengthens the bonds of family, builds self esteem, forges friendships and reinforces lifelong values? The Cub Scouts offer all this and more! Any boy entering grades 1-5 is invited to join Cub Scouts. Find out more at the Pack 565 Open House and Informational Meeting.
- Tuesday, September 15th
- 6:30 p.m.
- Laurel Multipurpose Room
We'll have a general information session, slide show, demonstration of Water Rockets, and the opportunity to meet Cub Scout Families. For more information visit www.pack565.org, email info@pack565.org, or contact Cubmaster Dave at 650.722.0306.
Menlo Park Library Event
- Ellen Klages, The Green Glass Sea
- Friday, September 18th
- 7:00PM
- Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma Street
Free Stanford Football Tickets
Local teachers, administrators, students,and their families are invited to come out and be recognized for their commitment to education on September 26th game (Stanford vs. Washington). People in the Palo Alto, Mountain View, Menlo Park and Redwood City School districts can request up to 4 tickets per family that will be mailed directly to them. Click here for more information. | |
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