Weekly Blog 2/29

Dear Wines Families, 

First off, I want to send out a quick leap year intellectual exercise. Please notice that the title of this week's blog is "Weekly Blog 2/29." The exercise question is, when will be the next time I will ever be able to post something with that subject line? 

Now on to more important things. I hope everyone had a nice week away from Wines last week. Now that we are back, we are hard at work and as I visit classrooms, the kids look like they were never away. I don't have a lot of news this week. However, next week our 4th graders will be taking part in our annual Disability Awareness Day Workshop. I want to thank Kelly Van Singel for organizing this outstanding experience and for the many volunteers we have lined up. We could still use a few more volunteers. Still needed are folks willing to bring in some fruit, bottled water, granola bars, etc. for our parent volunteers and our participants from the Center for Independent Living. Workshop volunteers and food donation contacts can be made on the volunteerspot link from winespto.org or by via email: kellyvansingel@yahoo.com or click directly on http://www.volunteerspot.com/login/entry/1162345645418412084. Attached to this email is a flyer about the day. 

 

That's all for now. 

 

David

Weekly Blog 2/7/11

Dear Wines Families,

I’m posting today's blog a day early because there is some time dependent information for this week. I want to first thank our community for again coming through for our school and our community. Last weekend we participated in the Ann Arbor PTO Thrift Shop “Show Your Support” effort. I’m pleased to announce that Wines had the highest participation of any school. We earned 714 tokens, which accounted for 32% of all tokens and we raised $320 dollars that will go directly to support our Lunches with Love program at Wines. Thank you to everyone who visited the PTO Thrift Shop! Thanks to Holly Derry for organizing our effort.

Attached to today's email is a flyer announcing our annual Disability Awareness Day for 4th graders. The date of this wonderful event is March 8th from 9:00 AM until noon. If you are interested in volunteering on this day (no experience necessary and you don’t need to have a 4th grader at Wines), please click on the volunteer sign up link below.
http://www.volunteerspot.com/login/entry/1162345645418412084

We have had a tremendous amount of RSVP’s for Parent Involvement Day coming up on Monday, February 13th. If you are planning on coming to school to visit on Monday, please click on the RSVP link so we can have a good idea of how many folks to expect. Most importantly, if you are staying for lunch that day, please RSVP so we can be sure to have enough food for everyone (lunch is provided for adults only).
NAAPID RSVP

Tomorrow evening, (Wednesday February 8th) there is a PTO meeting in the Media Center. The meeting begins at 7:00 and will last one hour. This is an informational meeting, so if you’ve not been to a PTO meeting before, this would be a great opportunity! I attached the agenda to today's email. As always, childcare will be available.

Attached to today's email is a flyer outlining our Student Council’s efforts to provide gift cards to veterans at our local VA Hospital. Please check out the flyer to learn about this great community service opportunity.

David

Weekly Blog 2/1/12

Dear Wines Families,

 

Attached to today’s email you will find the Wines Times. Please spend a few minutes reading through it. In addition, I have just a couple of announcements.

 

First, your child will be coming home today with a paper invitation to our NAAPID celebration on February 13^th. I hope to see all Wines families, spend at least part of your day at school on the 13^th. I will be sending out an electronic RSVP within the next few days. Like last year, we will be serving lunch to parents. We want to make sure we order enough food, so if you are staying for lunch, please make sure you respond to the RSVP.

 

Kindergarten Round Up is tonight at 6:30.

 

Show Your Support for Lunches with Love. Shop at the PTO Thrift Shop through THIS SATURDAY (February 4) to help Wines earn money for Lunches with Love. Spend $5 and earn a token to put in the Wines jar.

 

Girls on the Run Update:

We have had a great showing for Girls on the Run at Wines this year so far!  We filled a first, and opened a second team.  This is a reminder that this is the last week for routine registration, though there will be "late" registration through Feb 11.  Please note:  due to the participation of Ann Arbor Rec and Ed there was a duplicate registration process this year - meaning each participant is required to register through both Ann Arbor Rec and Ed AND Girls on the Run of Southeastern Michigan.  Please make sure if you registered only through AA Rec and Ed to also register with Girls on the Run - as this is the official roster.   Registration is at www.girlsontherunsemi.org  If there are questions, please email Holly at holly.a.murphy@gmail.com or call Girls on the Run at 734 712 1049.

 

 

David