Weekly Blog 5/18

Dear Wines Families,

If you can believe it, we have just four weeks of school left after this week! As many of you know, at this time of year we begin sending out more information weekly about the Country Fair and Raffle. This week starts those messages. Please expect an additional email tomorrow with all of the Country Fair information. I will also be sending out grade level specific emails with volunteer sign ups. So please look for those items tomorrow. On to the “regular” weekly news:  

Wines Science Olympiad: GREAT JOB!!

Our Olympians had a great day at the WESO competition this past Saturday. I am so proud of all of our teams. Wines had 39 teams, 24 of which received placement or honorable mention medals. Here is an AAPS article and slideshow that features some Wines students. http://news.a2schools.org/massive-washtenaw-elementary-science-olympiad-sparks-students-interest-in-science-at-critical-time/. Big thanks to all of our incredible parent volunteer coaches and to Rhonda McCammon who has again this year done an OUTSTANDING job organizing our Science Olympiad program. Thank you Rhonda for all your years as you now “graduate” to Forsythe.

Annual All School Picnic

Last year we began a new tradition of an all school picnic rather than grade level picnics all over town. We will again host this at school on June 14^th. We need some help in organizing each grade level’s activities. If you are able to help organize, please contact your child’s teacher or Annemarie Dolan at akilburndolan@comcast.net. The picnic will take place at approximately 1:30 and at about 2:45 that same day we will hold our Teachers/Student kickball game featuring the class who wins that raffle prize.

Medication at School

If your child has medication at school, please plan on making arrangements to pick up the medication by the last day of school, June 17^th. Before closing our office for the summer, we must dispose of left medication per state law.

Children’s Business Fair

You are invited to Ann Arbor’s first annual Children’s Business Fair – showcasing kids’ entrepreneurial enthusiasm – this Saturday from 10am-noon! This fun family event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Kids create a product or service, decorate their booth, set their pricing, and then sell to real customers at this one-day public marketplace at 424 Little Lake Dr. Ann Arbor. Plan to join us this Saturday, May 21, to support these young entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.ChildBusinessFair.org.

Boxtop Winners!

Finally, I’m pleased to announce the winners of the Boxtops contest. The winning classes were Ms. Milanowski’s and Ms. Caruso’s? Great job!!

That’s all for this week. Again, look for Country Fair and Raffle emails tomorrow.

David