Weekly Blog 1/25

Dear Wines Families,

This is certainly a busy time of year and so I have lots of announcements today! Pardon the long email.

• Reminder: There is no school on Tuesday, January 31^st. All Ann Arbor Public Schools staff will be participating in staff development that day.

• Kindergarten Round Up is next Wednesday, February 1^st at 6:30 PM. If you have a child who will be 5 years old by Dec. 1, 2011 and is ready for kindergarten, please join us that evening with your child. Please help spread the word to your friends and neighbors.

• Our Great Ideas grant deadline is quickly approaching. We are accepting applications until February 1^st. Don’t let a great idea go to waste!! There are adult and student grant forms available on the Wines website (www.wines.a2schools.org) and hard copies are available in the office.

• Girls on the Run: Registration is now open for Girls on the Run.  In order to register, go to http://www.girlsontherunsemi.org/. For any questions, please email Holly Murphy at holly.a.murphy@gmail.com.

• Our next PTO meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, February 8^th at 7:00 PM.

• Science Olympiad registrations are due TODAY. Teams will not be formed until after Friday so we will accept late applications until Friday.

• Wines is participating in a fundraiser with the PTO Thrift Shop, called Show Your Support. Please help us spread the word so people shop at the Thrift Shop between Sunday, January 29 - Saturday, February 4.

How it works:

For every $5 people spend at the Thrift Shop, they get a token. They can choose to put their tokens in any of 4 schools' buckets in the lobby. The four schools split $1,000 based on their proportion of collected tokens. 

Our cause for this fundraiser:

Lunches with Love - students make lunches for needy families. Proceeds will help buy food and supplies.

For more information about the PTO Thrift Shop, visit www.a2ptothriftshop.org.

• Finally, attached to today's emails you will find a flyer from our Student Council. Our Student Council is collecting gift cards for veterans at our local VA Hospital. The flyer has all the information you need to support this great cause.

Sincerely,

David

Weekly Blog 1/18

Dear Wines Families,

A few important announcements this week:

First, I regret to inform everyone that due to limited family participation, our PTO has reluctantly decided to cancel our International Night that was originally scheduled for January 26^th. I want to thank those families that did express interest, but we want this event to be BIG and we feared this would not be the case. Our PTO is already at work ensuring that we get word out early enough next year to have a really special event.

Believe it or not, we are ready to begin registering Kindergarteners for next fall! Our annual Kindergarten Round Up is scheduled for Wednesday, February 1^st at 6:30 PM. If you have a child who will be 5 years old by Dec. 1, 2012 and is ready for Kindergarten, please join us with your child on February 1^st. Please alert your friends and neighbors of this date as well.

It is time for 2^nd-5^th graders to register for Science Olympiad!  Attached to today's email was an information packet. In addition, all 2^nd graders will be coming home with a paper copy of this packet and all students will be coming home with a paper copy of the registration form for your convenience. The registration forms are due back by next Wednesday so we may begin practices.

Finally, I want to thank Beth McNally for putting on an outstanding performance last Friday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Every student at Wines participated and it was a special event. Thank you Beth!!

Sincerely,

David

Weekly Blog 1/11/12

Dear Wines Families.

Attached to today’s email was the January Wines Times. Those of you who follow the blog will need to check your email or go to the Wines website for the newsletter.  I do have a couple of quick announcements that are not in the Times, however. There is also a blurb at the bottom of this about our International Night on January 26^th.

I want to remind everyone that there is no school on Monday in observance of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. There are some great opportunities for kids at the University of Michigan that day. The annual Children and Youth Event as part of the larger MLK Symposium has many offerings for kids K-12. Please visit http://mlksymposium.umich.edu/2011/11/18/annual-children-youth-event/ for more information.

Science Olympiad registration will begin next week.  If you are interested in coaching, a quick informational meeting is scheduled for this Thursday, January 12^th, at 7:00 PM at Wines.

As we end the holiday season, I want to thank the Wines community for your donations to our coat drive. In total, we collected 19 Adult Coats, 37 Children's Coats, 22 Snow pants/Bibs, 8 Sweatshirts/Windbreakers, 4 Pairs of Boots, and 9 Sets of Hats/Mittens/Scarves. Thanks to Lisa Ridha for organizing the drive.

Wines International Night 2012

Please mark your calendars & join us on Thursday, January 26 at 6:30 p.m.

We hope you will share your family background, culture or heritage

OR

join us for an evening rich with the cultures and traditions of our Wines community

We are very excited about this event.

Ideas of ways to share: (not limited to these)

Food, Crafts, Traditions, Music, Dance, Readings, Fashion

We are encouraging all Wines families to participate.

Please contact Lisa Dempsey if you will be sharing something special about your background!

lisadempsey5@sbcglobal.net or 734-645-1369

Happy New Year, and please take some time to read the Wines Times.

David