Wines Weekly Update 1/29

 Dear Wines Families, 

It’s nice to have a full week this week! It is hard to believe we are heading into February. Our nurse, Mary Delis, continues to remind me that the days are getting longer and we are inching closer to spring. I’ll try to remember that over the next couple months as winter likely takes hold…Here is the news for the week: 

Reminder: Early Release Today

Dismissal is at 1:00

Wines Wahoo Feb. 7

The Wines Wahoo is back again this year! Join us Friday, February 7th at Forsythe Middle School from 6-8pm. This is a Wines favorite and we are so excited it's back for another year! Join your friends for music, pizza, open gym, crafts, a silent disco and more. Younger siblings and parents are welcome. Suggested $5 donation per family at the door with pizza, drink, and snack tickets available for purchase. This event is cash only, Venmo will be available but an extra fee will be attached. This event will need LOTS of volunteers, so we need your help! Please sign up at the link below 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C44AEAA22A2F8CE9-54560999-wines

Wines Wahoo Spirit Week

As we prepare for the Wahoo, we will have our annual Wines Wahoo Spirit Week with the Friday culminating Beach Day. Here are the Spirit Week days next week:

Monday: Pajama Day

Tuesday: Favorite Team Day

Wednesday: Wacky Wednesday

Thursday: Decades Day

Friday: Beach Day/Wahoo Day

NAAPID Feb. 10: Please RSVP

We are excited to once again invite all parents and caregivers to our annual Parent Involvement Day on Feb. 10th. If you haven’t already, you will be receiving a paper invitation in your child’s take home folder. It is always helpful for us to have a sense of how many people we are expecting so please take a moment to fill out the RSVP form linked below. Most importantly, we will be providing lunch for our adult guests so if you are staying for lunch, please be sure to fill out the RSVP. 

Feb. 10 RSVP

New Date for International Night

Due to International Night being canceled due to schools being closed last week, we have rescheduled the event for Thursday, Feb. 27th. We’ll send out more information again as we get closer. 

Kindergarten/Young 5’s Round Up Feb. 11

Please save the date for our annual Kindergarten/Young 5’s Round Up. We will host families and incoming students on February 11th from 6:30-7:30 PM. If you have a child who will be in Young 5’s or Kindergarten for the 2025-26 school year, please plan on attending with your child. If you have friends and neighbors with students entering our programs next year, please share this information. If you have a child entering Wines next year, it is helpful for us to begin to compile a list even before Round Up. Please contact Robin Moore at moorero@aaps.k12.mi.us and alert her. 

Note: Current Wines Young 5’s students and families do not need to attend Round Up. 

Show Your Support Saturday February 15th at The Ann Arbor PTO Thrift Shop

Mark your calendars for February 15th for Wines Elementary's "Show Your Support" at the Ann Arbor PTO Thrift Shop! The Wines Elementary PTO will receive 10% of every purchase made on Saturday, so head over and spread the word to your friends and family to stock up on great finds! 

Ann Arbor PTO Thrift Shop 2280 S. Industrial Hwy. 10am-5pm 

The more you shop, the more we earn!

Save the Date: Wines Parents Night Out & Auction

Book the sitter for our annual Parents Night Out & Auction. This year’s event will be held April 4th from 6-10PM at Circ in downtown Ann Arbor.  This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with parents and teachers outside of school in a low key, casual environment.  Interested in helping? Email Jane.Lardo@gmail.com for volunteer opportunities.

Troop 40927 is Selling Girl Scout Cookies!

The 3rd and 4th grade Girl Scouts of Troop 40927 are selling Girl Scout Cookies in February and March. They will be selling cookies at three different booths, and all Wines families and community members are invited to purchase the treats!

The first cookie booth will be right in front of Wines Elementary, on Saturday, February 15th, from 10am to 2pm. We can accept credit cards, cash, checks, PayPal, and Venmo. Come cheer on your Wines Girl Scouts!

Don't want to eat cookies? Consider dropping by to donate a box to Hometown Heros!

Can't make it on February 15th? There will be 2 more booths this season!

o Sunday, February 23rd from 9am to 12pm, in front of Kroger on South Maple

o Sunday, March 2nd from 9:30am to 1:30pm, at Dozer Coffee on Jackson Road

David

PTO Thrift JPEG HERE

Wines Weekly Update 1/22

 Dear Wines Families, 

I hope everyone has been staying warm during this extended time away from school. It looks like things are warming up today and so we’ll start a short week together tomorrow. I’m always game for a snow day, but I’m also looking forward to getting back into our routines tomorrow. Here is the news for the week!

Wines Wahoo Feb. 7

The Wines Wahoo is back again this year! Join us Friday, February 7th at Forsythe Middle School from 6-8pm. This is a Wines favorite and we are so excited it's back for another year! Join your friends for music, pizza, open gym, crafts and more. Younger siblings and parents are welcome. Suggested $5 donation per family at the door with pizza, drink, and snack tickets available for purchase. This event will need LOTS of volunteers, so we need your help! 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C44AEAA22A2F8CE9-54560999-wines

PTO Donation Campaign Update

We are incredibly grateful for your generosity and support during our recent PTO donation campaign. Thanks to the kindness of our community, we’ve raised an amazing $8,000 toward our goal of $10,000!

Your contribution is helping us make a meaningful difference for our students, teachers, and school programs. Every dollar brings us closer to enriching the educational experience and creating opportunities that benefit everyone. We couldn’t do this without you, and we’re so thankful for this community!

Looking for Extra Specials Volunteers

It's that time of year again! Extra Specials are an optional lunch recess program where students can sign up for a weekly indoor enrichment activity. Past Extra Specials have included: Paper Airplane Folding, Magic Tricks, Math Games, Logic Puzzles, Lego, Arts and Crafts, Yoga, and Read Aloud. But we need volunteers to lead these fun programs! Here's what we're looking for:

- Commit to leading an activity during lunch recess, once a week

- You create and prep the activity, or we can provide you with one

- Offer your activity for Session I, Session II, or both Sessions

- Sessions are three weeks long

- Session I runs Jan. 27-Feb. 14

- Session II runs Feb. 24-Mar. 14

Interested? Email Michael Newberry at mnewberry88@gmail.com

Kindergarten/Young 5’s Round Up Feb. 11

Please save the date for our annual Kindergarten/Young 5’s Round Up. We will host families and incoming students on February 11th from 6:30-7:30 PM. If you have a child who will be in Young 5’s or Kindergarten for the 2025-26 school year, please plan on attending with your child. If you have friends and neighbors with students entering our programs next year, please share this information. If you have a child entering Wines next year, it is helpful for us to begin to compile a list even before Round Up. Please contact Robin Moore at moorero@aaps.k12.mi.us and alert her. 

Note: Current Wines Young 5’s students and families do not need to attend Round Up. 

NAAPID Feb. 10th

With our snow days this week, I’m not sure if we will get our paper invitations out for our annual Parent Involvement Day at Wines. The event takes place on Monday, February 10th. We are looking forward to another great day where we invite all parents and caregivers to spend part or all of your day at Wines with your student(s). Look for the paper invitation as well as an electronic RSVP in the days to come. 

Save the Date: Wines Parents Night Out & Auction

Book the sitter for our annual Parents Night Out & Auction. This year’s event will be held April 4th from 6-10PM at Circ in downtown Ann Arbor.  This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with parents and teachers outside of school in a low key, casual environment.  Interested in helping? Email Jane.Lardo@gmail.com for volunteer opportunities.

TRAILS Newsletter

Below is this month's TRAILS newsletter. TRAILS is our schoolwide Social/Emotional Learning curriculum. Please take a moment to learn more about TRAILS.

David

Wines Weekly Update 1/15

 Dear Wines Families, 

I hope this message finds you well and keeping warm as winter seems to have decided to stick around for a while. As the weather will likely be cold for the foreseeable future, please be sure to send your child prepared to go outside daily. We will go outside as long as the temperature is zero degrees windchill or above. With all of our winter gear, please try to label items as our lost and found is filling up with gloves and hats! 

We kicked off our week on Monday with an all school read aloud of the book We are the Builders by Deepa Iyer. The book focuses on the many roles we can have in our community to make it a better place. Every student at Wines has subsequently chosen a role (Builder, Caregiver, Frontline Responder, Disrupter, Experimenter, Visionary, Weaver, Healer, Storyteller) and written or drawn something to represent their role. These will be displayed in school starting this week and will be the anchor for our celebration of MLK Day on Friday. We will have an all school assembly Friday that will include students sharing their roles and Ms. Sinta will lead an all school song of Happy Birthday by Stevie Wonder. Stevie wrote the song in order to raise awareness of the need to have a national holiday honoring Dr. King. Deepa Iyer will be joining our school virtually next week as well to discuss the book we shared. 

Below is the news for the week. 

No School Monday

In honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, there is no school on Monday next week. 

PTO Meeting Tonight!

The PTO Meeting will take place in the Wines Library or via Zoom (zoom info was sent in today's email)

Please find the agenda here

International Night NEXT WEEK, Wednesday, January 22 from 6:30-8:00 PM

NEXT WEDNESDAY is our annual International Night. In order to have a successful evening, we need volunteers! If you can help out, please go to https://bit.ly/internationalnightsignupgenius. If you are interested in signing your child(ren) up to table or parade for a country, there is still time! We ask that you complete this form by the end of this week to ensure that we have the appropriate number of tables set up in the gym - https://bit.ly/winesinternationalnight2025. We look forward to an eventful evening! 

Looking for Extra Specials Volunteers

It's that time of year again! Extra Specials are an optional lunch recess program where students can sign up for a weekly indoor enrichment activity. Past Extra Specials have included: Paper Airplane Folding, Magic Tricks, Math Games, Logic Puzzles, Lego, Arts and Crafts, Yoga, and Read Aloud. But we need volunteers to lead these fun programs! Here's what we're looking for:

- Commit to leading an activity during lunch recess, once a week

- You create and prep the activity, or we can provide you with one

- Offer your activity for Session I, Session II, or both Sessions

- Sessions are three weeks long

- Session I runs Jan. 27-Feb. 14

- Session II runs Feb. 24-Mar. 14

Interested? Email Michael Newberry at mnewberry88@gmail.com

Kindergarten/Young 5’s Round Up Feb. 11

Please save the date for our annual Kindergarten/Young 5’s Round Up. We will host families and incoming students on February 11th from 6:30-7:30 PM. If you have a child who will be in Young 5’s or Kindergarten for the 2025-26 school year, please plan on attending with your child. If you have friends and neighbors with students entering our programs next year, please share this information. If you have a child entering Wines next year, it is helpful for us to begin to compile a list even before Round Up. Please contact Robin Moore at moorero@aaps.k12.mi.us and alert her. 

Note: Current Wines Young 5’s students and families do not need to attend Round Up. 

Congratulations Ms. Goldberg and the Wines Library!

Ms. Goldberg recently applied for our library to be receive the 21st Century Library Certification. Over the past few years Ms. Goldberg has worked diligently to cull and update our library collection as well as implement best practices in her library instruction. This certification is a product of her hard work as well as the profound support we receive from our community for our library!

Save the Date: Wines Parents Night Out & Auction

Book the sitter for our annual Parents Night Out & Auction. This year’s event will be held April 4th from 6-10PM at Circ in downtown Ann Arbor.  This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with parents and teachers outside of school in a low key, casual environment.  Interested in helping? Email Jane.Lardo@gmail.com for volunteer opportunities.

Friends of the AAPS Libraries Update

Please join us for the next "Friends of the AAPS Libraries" meeting!  We will meet in person at the Huron High School library on Wednesday, January 22 from 6pm to 7pm. In our meeting, we will:

• Learn more about our current library programs and the challenges they face

• Focus on filling open volunteer opportunities

• Celebrate the $15,000 Sora grant recently awarded by the James A. & Faith Knight Foundation!

There is no need to RSVP.  Please join us if you are able.  There is no Zoom option. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, January 22!  Please follow us on social media and spread the word!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61569276384877

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/friendsoftheaapslibraries/

David

Wines Weekly Update 1/8

 Dear Wines Families, 

I hope everyone had a nice winter break. For our family, we had friends from Spain in town and we first hosted them here in Ann Arbor and then in Northport (with about 10 other people). While that sounds “busy,” we actually spent most of the time just relaxing together, eating too much, and enjoying some much needed downtime. It was great to be back at school this week and while many of our kids and staff were a bit groggy on Monday following two weeks away from school and a late Lions game Sunday night, by Tuesday we were back to normal!

As we enter the new year, we have lots of things coming up so this note is a bit long this week. But I’m hopeful everyone takes a few minutes to read through this week’s news. 

Wines PTO News

Friday Floor Hockey is Back! 

Beginning this Friday, we will start our weekly Friday floor hockey game before school. Any student is welcome to join us. We start at 8:00 AM in the gym. The only requirement is dry shoes. Parents are welcome to join and play or you can drop your child off. 

Looking for Extra Specials Volunteers

It's that time of year again! Extra Specials are an optional lunch recess program where students can sign up for a weekly indoor enrichment activity. Past Extra Specials have included: Paper Airplane Folding, Magic Tricks, Math Games, Logic Puzzles, Lego, Arts and Crafts, Yoga, and Read Aloud. But we need volunteers to lead these fun programs! Here's what we're looking for:

- Commit to leading an activity during lunch recess, once a week

- You create and prep the activity, or we can provide you with one

- Offer your activity for Session I, Session II, or both Sessions

- Sessions are three weeks long

- Session I runs Jan. 27-Feb. 14

- Session II runs Feb. 24-Mar. 14

Interested? Email Michael Newberry at mnewberry88@gmail.com

Time to Sign Up for Science Olympiad! (Grades 2-5)

Next Washtenaw Elementary Science Olympiad (WESO) will take place on May 10th, 2025 at Pioneer High School. This tournament provides an opportunity for students in grades 2-5 to meet and interact with peers and adults of similar interests and talents. Events are interactive, hands-on, and are mainly fun!! Please click the link to sign up and for more information: 

WESO Student Sign Up

We are still looking for parent volunteers for coaching. Teams will not be formed without coaches. Please contact head coach via scienceowines@gmail.com

International Night on Wednesday, January 22 at 6:30 PM:

Sign up online to host a country for International Night at:

https://bit.ly/winesinternationalnight2025

Feel free to choose a country you and your child are from, have spent time in, or are simply interested in learning about and sharing with others. Teach others about the country with food, information, an activity, game, craft, or anything else that's representative. Students are also invited to march in the Parade of Nations wearing a traditional outfit from their chosen country, whether or not your family is hosting a table.

Please also help us ensure the night is a success by volunteering your time! We need folks to help at the registration table, put temporary tattoos on kids, corral kids for the parade, and of course help us set up and tear down! Sign up here. 

Kindergarten/Young 5’s Round Up Feb. 11

Please save the date for our annual Kindergarten/Young 5’s Round Up. We will host families and incoming students on February 11th from 6:30-7:30 PM. If you have a child who will be in Young 5’s or Kindergarten for the 2025-26 school year, please plan on attending with your child. If you have friends and neighbors with students entering our programs next year, please share this information. If you have a child entering Wines next year, it is helpful for us to begin to compile a list even before Round Up. Please contact Robin Moore at moorero@aaps.k12.mi.us and alert her. 

Note: Current Wines Young 5’s students and families do not need to attend Round Up. 

Save the Date: Wines Parents Night Out & Auction

Book the sitter for our annual Parents Night Out & Auction. This year’s event will be held April 4th from 6-10PM at Circ in downtown Ann Arbor.  This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with parents and teachers outside of school in a low key, casual environment.  Interested in helping? Email Jane.Lardo@gmail.com for volunteer opportunities.

David