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Star Newsletter, 9/7/12
Los Altos School District Weekly Newsletter
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Springer Star Newsletter September 7th, 2012 |
In This Issue |
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Calendar Dates News and Announcements Student Extracurricular Activities |
Quick Dates for your Calendar |
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Sunday, September 16th: Last day for BTS order forms Friday, September 28th, 4-8pm: LAEF celebration at Covington school Saturday, October 13th: Springer Walkathon |
News and Announcements |
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LAEF: 30 years ago, 4 parents founded LAEF and raised $61,250 to fund maps, globes, and textbooks for classrooms. Last year, our community raised over $3 million to ensure our Los Altos School District schools provide all our students with a world-class, well-rounded education. Learn More : Make your tax-deductible donation online today - Donate Now! : www.laefonline.org |
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LAEF celebrates 30-year anniversary with a Community Festival Friday, September 28th, 4-8pm at Covington School! Join us for an evening of food, music, carnival games, face painting, and more. Come see what crazy bugs crawl around in compost piles with the Living Classroom! Test your chess skills with challenge puzzles or just learn how to play with the Chess Club. Create some great art with CSMA and the Art Docents. Many of our LAEF-funded programs have thought up fun activities to show you how your donation dollars get spent! This is the only time all year you'll get to see these folks in action, so don't miss it. Bring a blanket and spend the evening with us! |
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Los Altos Individualized Education PTA Los Altos IEPTA was introduced in the 2011-2012 school year. Formerly known as LASEPTA, it was renamed to more accurately reflect the diverse set of special educational concerns of its member community. The original LASEPTA was formed on June 5, 2007, as the first district-wide special education PTA in the Los Altos School District. Los Altos IEPTA works to support the special education needs of children in the Los Altos (Calif.) School District. We strive to foster communication, share information, and help our children become active and successful participants in our community. We welcome all parents, educators, and community members who are interested in our work. For more information or to join the IEPTA, please visit our website: http://www.losaltosiepta.org/about.html |
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Back to School Order Forms The Springer Back To School Order Form is a quick, easy, on-line tool that allows you to make donations, sign up for PTA memberships, order Birthday Books, Yearbooks, Auction Tickets, SpiritWear, and more. This is a convenient way to make a single payment for your donations and orders! Please click on the link below to begin the process. This online form will close on Sunday, September 16 and payments are due by Friday, September 21. The link to the form is: Springer 2012 BTS Order Form Password is "stingers". Thank you for your support of the Springer PTA! |
Springer Walkathon – Supersonic Space Walk – Saturday October 13th, 2012Don’t miss out! Attend this exciting Springer fundraiser with your family and Springer friends and be a part of one of the most memorable school-spirit events of the year!Students will Blast Off and orbit around the Springer Galaxy (field) while earning money for much-needed programs. It’s sure to be a Space Odyssey filled with fun for the whole family!Use this link to sign up for much needed volunteer shifts! Walkathon Volunteer SheetParticipating students will receive a free t-shirt after completing 10 laps. T-shirts for the 2012 Walkathon include designs by our own Springer students! This year’s winners are:§ 1st-Matthew Diederich, Will Bettinger§ 2nd- Katie Chatow, Oliver Bjorkman§ 3rd –Tanner Thompson, Connor Yee§ 4th – Lauren Fazzolari, Gabriel Rosenburg§ 5th – Tessa Cowley, Julie Sheridan§ 6th – Kaylyn Ho, Camille Vivian |
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EARNING MONEY FOR SPRINGER IS EASY WITH ESCRIP! Last year, Springer made almost $10,000 through Escrip! You can help to support our school every time you go grocery shopping, by registering today. See attached flier for details. |
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Springer is now on Facebook! Have you joined the Springer Facebook page? This year, we'll be focusing on getting "behind the scenes" on some of the things that make Springer such a delight. So Like us now to be sure you don't miss out on the fun! |
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Funvisor Activities Springo Starting Thursday, Sept. 13 Springo is a lunchtime FunVisor opportunity for children of all grades to have fun playing BINGO. Winners receive great prizes! Questions: please contact Rita Estrada (Rosenfeld) Springer's LEGO Club Starting Monday, Sept. 17 LEGO Club will be held in the Science Room on Mondays at lunch and is free and open to all students. Our theme this month follows that of Springer's Space Walkathon. This program is always popular with both girls and boys. Parent volunteers are welcome to help at lunch! LEGO Club accepts donations of new and used LEGO on an ongoing basis and deliveries can be placed in the office or brought to LEGO Club. Questions: please contact Laurie Pasmooij, Kimiyo Straw or Jenni Tellefsen Springer's Lunchtime Art Club Starting Wednesday, Sept. 19 We are excited about fun projects ahead, making use of as many recycled materials as possible. Our first theme is space in honor of the upcoming Springer Walkathon. Students will be making R2D2 out of egg cartons. As with all Springer Lunchtime Funvisor Programs, Art Club is free and open to any student after they eat lunch. Art Club will be held in the quad or in the Multi again this year. Springer Art Club can use unwanted art materials as well as recycled material donations. And of course we welcome parent Volunteers to help at lunch! Thank you! Questions: please contact Laurie Pasmooij, or Kimiyo Straw |
Springer SingersSpringer Singers is a great way to get your kids singing and dancing with their Springer friends! This year-long chorus is open to Springer kids in grades 1-6 and will practice on Mondays Grades 1-3: 2:30-3:30pmGrades 4-6: 2:45-3:30pmThe first practice will be Monday, September 17. Applications are in your Friday Folders or available in the office.WANTED: Springer Singer ChaperonesThe popular Springer Singers choir group will need to 2 parent chaperones weekly to assist the Springer Singers Director, Nick Patton, during rehearsals.Actual start time would be 2:20pm as volunteers would need to greet and organize the kids between the end of school and start of rehearsals and stay until the end of rehearsals.If you are planning to sign your child up for this fun activity, please consider joining together with other SS parents to volunteer for this important role! It would be a great opportunity to watch your child make beautiful music with their peers! |
Student Extracurricular Activities |
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Calling Young Robot Builders The annual Los Altos Robotics FIRST LEGO League program starts August 28th, 2012 with the worldwide announcement of the Senior Solutions challenge. FLL introduces students in grades 4 to age 14 to the wonders of engineering, science, math, and technology in a fun and engaging way. FLL pairs an academic challenge with a sports-like playing field where children create autonomous robots, and research & create solutions to a real-life problem. Each fall, teams of 4-10 players have 8-10 weeks to design, construct, program, and test their robots. They compete in fun and exciting tournaments, running robots in time trials and demonstrating technology creativity. Los Altos Robotics (LAR) hosts the Los Altos FLL Competition. Last year, 24 Los Altos area teams with over 140 local students participated. This year, LAR will have a scrimmage on 21st of October and a tournament on November 18th. FLL is sponsored by FIRST Foundation and LEGO Corporation. For more information, see LosAltosRobotics.org. |
GET Ready - Girls' Engineering EventDate: September 8th, 2012Time: 9:30 am to 2:30 pmLocation: Palo Alto Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Rd, Palo AltoGET (Girls Engineering Tomorrow) Ready is designed to get young girls in 4th through 6th grade interested and excited about engineering. The activities in this event involve lots of creative thinking and hands-on fun. In addition, girls will learn about the different kinds of engineering and concepts important to each kind of engineering. Many of their creations can even be taken home! The volunteers, high school women engineers from robotics team The Space Cookies, will also demo their basketball-playing robot!Please contact Sharon at getreadyevent@gmail.com if you have questions about this event. |
After School Art ClubSee attached fliers for more information: Grades K-3 and Grades 4-6 |
Academic Chess Club, Thursdays after school, see flier for details |
Flag Football Grades 4-6, see flier for details |
How to submit an article to the Springer STAR |
| Please send your submission to the editor at springer_star@yahoo.com by noon on Monday for inclusion in the next edition. All flyers must be in either WORD or PDF format, accompanied by a brief summary of the activity in the email. Late arrivals will be included if possible but can’t be guaranteed! |