Weekly Blog 3/13

Dear Wines Families.

This is one of those weeks where we have a lot of important information. I apologize in advance for this long message!

Surveys

Below are links to two important surveys. The first is a survey about next year. We are already looking ahead to the fall and as always, your input is helpful as we move ahead. The parent input form allows parents to give us information about your child that we can use to help with class placement. As always, we do not accept requests for individual teachers. The survey is optional. However, if your child is not returning to Wines next year, please fill out the survey so we have that important information.

Parent Input Survey

The second survey is a survey being sent to all Ann Arbor Public Schools parents. This is an opportunity to provide feedback about your experiences at Wines this year and will be very helpful as we continually strive to meet the needs of our kids and families at Wines. You will be receiving a district email tomorrow with a link to the same survey. I’m hopeful that all of our families fill out this survey.

Family School Improvement Survey

PTO Meeting

Our next PTO meeting is next Tuesday evening, March 19th at 7:00 PM. As always, free childcare is available. At the meeting we will have a speaker from Champions for Charity (proceeds from Ann Arbor Marathon go to Ann Arbor Public School Foundation). In addition, the PTO will be discussing the upcoming PTO Executive Board elections. The PTO is still looking for new members for the Executive Board.

Food Drive

Yesterday we began our annual Rotary/Food Gatherers Food Drive. Bins are located at our main entrance, our Kindergarten entrance, and the student bus entrance. Let’s fill up all of our bins!

Report Cards

School was not in session this past Monday as it was a day for teachers to finish writing report cards. Report cards will be sent home in backpacks on Monday, March 18th.

March is Reading Month

By now I hope everyone knows about our March is Reading Month activities. Your child should be filling out a reading log nightly and returning it to school each Wednesday. Last week we just missed our weekly goal. Hopefully this week we will exceed it and get on track!

Raffle Help

The Country Fair and Raffle is right around the corner! We need your help!  Planning for the Wines Raffle has already started.  If you are interested in lending a hand please contact Kerianne Tupac  - kmtupac@umich.edu, or Margaret Compton - bagladycompton@yahoo.com.  You can help leading up to the raffle and/or the evening of the raffle.

Thanks!

David