Dear Wines Families,
I can’t tell you how nice it is to be back at Wines this week after my week away last week for COVID. While I was thankful to have minimal symptoms, it was a loooonng week away! The kids have been great this week—it feels good to hear from so many kids that they missed me! I’m feeling good, just a little tired.
Next week is a big week here at Wines as we host our largest fundraiser and, in my opinion, the most fun day of the year here at school with our annual Run-a-Thon. While most of this week’s message is related to Run-a-Thon, there are a couple of other important items so please read through the whole message.
Run-a-Thon Pledges
As I indicated, Run-a-Thon is our largest fundraiser of the year. We are encouraging all students to collect pledges—any amount helps! We will have special incentives to classes that have 100% participation and a schoolwide incentive if we reach our fundraising goal. I will be announcing these fun incentives at our Pep Rally on Friday this week. We need everyone to help to meet our goals! Pledge packets are going home in today’s Wednesday Take Home Folder. In addition, online pledges can be made now. Online pledges are a great way to contact out of town friends and families. Online pledges can be made at: https://www.ptowines.org/wines-runathon.
Run-a-Thon Volunteers
We are still in need of volunteers on Friday. This is a very easy and very fun opportunity to volunteer at Wines. No experience necessary! Please go to https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050f48a9a823a3f49-wines1 to volunteer.
Run-a-Thon Schedule
If you want to come and join us to cheer on the kids, the schedule for the morning can be found HERE.
Run-a-Thon Spirit Week 10/10-10/14
On Friday we will be announcing our annual Spirit Week days next week as we prepare for Run-a-Thon. I want to give families a heads up on what the days are next week, but try to keep this a secret as we will be announcing this at the Pep Rally on Friday as well.
Monday: Pajama Day
Tuesday: Wacky Hair or Hat Day
Wednesday: Mismatch with a Moustache Day
Thursday: Favorite Team Day
Friday: Run-a-Thon Spirit Day (all students receive a Run-a-Thon t-shirt that morning).
Walk to School for Walktober
My apologies to our bus riders this morning as I was a week ahead of myself and our bus service was anticipating us participating in International Walk to School Day next Wednesday, not today! At any rate, we will still celebrate Walktober and will be walking to school each Friday this month starting this week. Busses will drop off at Forsythe on Friday.
Upcoming Author Visit!
We are beyond excited to share that award-winning illustrator and author, Supriya Kelkar, is visiting our school to celebrate the release of her newest picture book, Brown is Beautiful! She will read the book and answer student questions in person at Wines on Wednesday, November 2nd. Supriya will also sign copies of the book for families who have pre-ordered them. If you would like to pre-order a book to have it signed by the author, please complete the order form I sent in today's email and send in your check (made out to Schuler Books) and drop it off to Mrs. Goldberg by October 14. If you have any questions, please contact Rachel Goldberg (goldbergr@aaps.k12.mi.us).
Thanks for reading!
David
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