Weekly Blog 9/4

Dear Wines Families,

What a great start to the new school year! These first two days have been better than we could have even expected and we are not only up and running, we are in “midseason form”.

For our new families at Wines, welcome to Wines and welcome to my weekly blog post. Please look for a weekly “Wednesday Email” from me all year and this weekly blog. The information in the blog is the same as in the Wednesday Email—minus attachments. Some weeks there is a lot of information to include, and other weeks there is less. I will try to limit the emails to one a week, though often there are important other announcements that need to go out at a different time. This week, for instance, you will receive an email from me on Friday with our September edition of the Wines Times newsletter.

Looking ahead, please mark your calendars for next Tuesday, September 10th for Curriculum Night. Curriculum Night is will take place from 6:30-8:00 PM. At 6:30, parents are invited to your child’s classroom for a teacher presentation. At 7:00 PM I will be speaking to our community in the Multi-Purpose Room. At 7:30, teachers will present a second time in order to meet the needs of families with more than one child at Wines or for families that could not make the 6:30 session. Please note that Curriculum Night is for adults and, unfortunately, we will not have childcare available.

On Friday, your child will receive a red folder with all of the beginning of the year paperwork. Please take some time this weekend to go through the packet and return any necessary documents next week.

We had a tremendous amount of participation in our summer learning ThinkStretch program. Please note that ThinkStretch booklets are due next Friday, September 13th. Your child can turn in the booklet at any time to their classroom teacher.

Attached to today’s email was a form looking for volunteers in the Media Center. This is a great place for parents to volunteer and there are opportunities daily!

That’s it for now!

David