Holiday Wish Drive - Family Giving Tree....Gifts are due in the office by Friday, December 8.
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Our Mission At Springer Elementary School, we will provide a safe and supportive environment that engages, inspires, and nurtures all students’ emotional and academic needs in order to become empathetic, productive global citizens and lifelong learners. |
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In This Issue: December 1, 2017:
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Principal’s Message |
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Dear Springer Families, Yesterday was my father’s birthday, he would have been 81. Twenty-one years ago he and his group of friends, once called From the Heart Gang, put on their last giving back event. I didn’t understand over the ten years they were together the magnitude of their giving until the events stopped. The giving of others was one thing, but what they gave to each other during the events, the preparation and their time spent together was priceless to their children. Through their examples we (the children) have continued to give with humility, empathy, joy and passion to others in whatever big or small way we can. We learned that together with others can do so much more, that there is a world beyond ours and that our actions of love can pierce the hearts of all. My father taught me that volunteering and giving of our time = love. I miss him everyday and feel so blessed to have been his daughter. Springer Gives Back My hope for this years Springer Gives Back is that our students will find this event more meaningful to them by becoming connected with the organization and the process in their specific grade levels giving back. The older grade students will be sharing information about the organization and the people they are helping through their giving. Below is a list of the organizations and the grade levels assigned to each organization.
The coin drive is our school wide event binding us all together. To our Springer Families thank you for spreading the “Springer Way!” A special thank you to all the parents who have organized this event and have spent the time connecting with the above organizations. This week as we celebrated Ability Awareness, the parents who volunteered for the event and for all the parents who are volunteering or will be volunteering in current and future events...you are our From the Heart Gang! The Ability awareness was a great success. Students learned about the different abilities we each have and that some of our abilities come with ease and others are more challenging. Empathy for others was the theme throughout the week. Be sure to ask your child about the week and have them share what was important to them. Thank you for being examples to your children and thank you for being part of the Springer Ohana. Lynn Boskie
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Springer Gives Back! |
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Next Thursday Dec 7th, is our big day for giving to our community! This year we have added a school-wide coin drive that will start Monday, along with all of our class focused projects! Connect with your room parent or teacher to find out more of what’s going on and how you can participate in a broader way. Come help your kids with projects, supplies, time, or whatever you can give that fits in with your class focal project. Click here for the flyer on the coin drive. |
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Holiday Wish Drive |
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Dear Springer Families,
Are you ready to "Bee Generous" and make a difference this holiday season? Springer School and our Girl Scout Cadettes Troop #61166 are excited to announce that we will be hosting a Family Giving Tree Holiday Wish Drive again this year!
For the past 27 years, the Family Giving Tree has fulfilled gift wishes for over 1.3 million San Francisco Bay Area children, families and seniors from low-income households. In 2016 alone – with the help of nonprofits, schools, groups and business that helped lead drives – they fulfilled over 76,000 holiday wishes. This year, the Family Giving Tree goal is to fulfill the holiday wishes of 80,000 local children, and our school can help them achieve this!
Here's how you can help: Choose a wish card in the Springer office and fulfill a child’s wish. Cards will be hanging on our "Bee Generous Giving Tree", starting Monday, November 27. All gift donations should be unwrapped with the wish card and a toothbrush securely taped to the package. Gifts are due in the office by Friday, December 8.
Please contact Diana Rudolph (drudolph@lasdschools.org) or Gail Roosakos (gail@roosakos.com) if you have any questions. You may also visitwww.FamilyGivingTree.org for more information about the program. Thank you for helping us bring hope and joy to those in need! |
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Thank You For A Successful Book Fair! |
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Dear Springer Families,
Thank you for another successful Book Fair! We raised over $3000 for Springer and the PTA was able to place over 330 books into the classrooms. Also, with your generous donations, over 130 new books will be used for our Springer Gives Back event.
Our Book Fair would not have been successful without the help of our many volunteers who did setting up, cashiering, helping students and packing up. We would like to thank Nicole Bassett, Christy Flahaven, Emily Fuller, Ann Kanodia, Christina Keech, Holly Jacobs Khazam, Elodie Laplace-Grangier, Jaimie Lee, Fei Li, Candice Lin, Stephanie Liva, Sue Longyear, Brooke Lopez, Donna Murphy, Cathy Pedersen, Gail Roosakos, Lilly Shieh, Igna Speiss, Sharon Tan, Kathy Thompson and Jian-Qing Zhao for their help. Our next Book Fair will be held in March. If you love books and would like to help us plan our next Book Fair, please contact Anita at amleo73@yahoo.com. Book Fair Chairs, Anita Leo, Hilary Burcell and Sandy Moon |
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Lost And Found |
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Lost and Found is beginning to bust! Please stop by the Lost and Found near the multi if you are on campus or remind your children to stop by and take a look. You may find a long lost treasure. Is there a parent that is willing to organize the Lost & Found a couple of times a year? This would require going through the clothing and putting it out so that the parents and students can see it and retrieve their lost items. If you’re interested, please contact the Springer School Office at 650-943-4200. |
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When To Keep Your Child Home From School |
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Sometimes it is difficult, especially early in the morning, to know whether or not to send your child to school. The following guidelines are indications that you should keep him/her home. In this way, you are helping to control the spread of colds, flu, and other contagious illnesses. Keep your child at home when he/she has any of the following symptoms:
You need to keep your child home until he/she has been symptom free without medication for 24 hours. Also, NOTIFY THE OFFICE IMMEDIATELY if your child is exposed to or contracts chicken pox, mumps or measles or whooping cough (pertussis). These conditions can be life threatening to students who are undergoing therapies that suppress their immune systems. The following information is only a guide to common childhood health concerns. Call our District Nurses (650-444-9702 or 650-537-8119) or personal health care provider for more information. Always bring a copy of a physician’s note to school and/or notify the school if your child will have an extended absence due to a health condition for 10 days or longer. If you would like more information on how to spot flu symptoms, you may go to the LASD Health website by clicking here. |
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Looking for Noon Duty & Crossing Guard Volunteers |
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Noon lunch duty is still short 1-2 parent volunteers in the lower (1st-3rd) grades area one Thursday per month, 11:45 - 12:45. If you are also volunteering for hot lunch, we could still use your help starting after hot lunch through 12:45! Please contact Clover Huang at: cloverh[at]yahoo.com to sign up. Crossing Guards needed for the area near the kindergarten area. Please sign up using this link. |
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Synopsis Tech Challenge |
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Attention 6th Grade Students and Parents! All LASD 6th Graders are invited to submit an application for the 2017 Synopsis Silicon Valley Science & Technology Challenge What: Synopsis Silicon Valley Science & Technology Championship Science and Engineering competition for middle school and high school students Who: Students in Grade 6 only-no exceptions Where: San Jose Convention Center When: Thursday, March 15, 2018 Please click here for more information. Join us for the Tech Challenge! What: Tech Challenge Team Design Challenge for students that introduces and reinforces the scientific process with a hands-on project geared to solving a real world problem. Who: Students in Grades 4-12 only-no exceptions Where: The Tech Museum, San Jose When: April 28, 2018 – Please note that this is the same day as Junior Olympics. Please click here for more information. |
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Junior Olympics |
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Junior Olympics Every year in April our students participate in the LASD Junior Olympics. It is a spectacular event involving all the students across the district. This year we looking for volunteers who are interested in learning the ropes from Sharon Tan and Jen Miley. This is a perfect way to get more involved, understand all the details that go into planning and running the event, and have a direct impact on hundreds of students. If you are interested please contact Sharon Tan sharontantan@yahoo.com or Jen Miley jenmiley@me.com . |
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Living Classroom |
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Become a LIVING CLASSROOM docent... share your love of nature with kids! It's time to build bird nests, make yummy soup from the veggies we harvest from our school gardens, discover symmetry inside fruit, and make natural dyes from plants! If you like all those things and more, please consider becoming a Living Classroom docent! LIving Classroom is looking for docents to help deliver hands-on garden-based lessons to the students of the Los Altos School District. No experience necessary as we provide all the training needed! Our Winter Docent Training will take place at the LASD iLearn Studio on Monday mornings from 9-Noon on 12/4, 12/11, 1/8 and 1/22. Please click HERE to view our Winter Training Flyer. Apprentice-style training also available to those who can’t make our Monday morning trainings. Questions? Email us at livingclassroom@lasdschools.org or call (650) 947-1103. For more information about Living Classroom, please visit our website at www.living-classroom.org. |
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LAEF |
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Shop Art Pop, a fabulous (but temporary) artisan market on Saturday, Dec 2, 11am-8pm. 15% of all proceeds will benefit local schools! Locally-made gifts for everyone on your list! 1939 West El Camino Real, Mountain View.
Coming up … LASD Winter Music Concerts & Computer Science Ed Week We hope you enjoy the sounds of the season coming from our 4th, 5th and 6th grade LASD Winter Music Concerts in addition to hearing inspiring stories of our K-8 students participating in “Hour of Code” during Computer Science Education Week. Parent donations to LAEF have made these enriching educational experiences possible. That’s why we are requesting your support by donating at LAEFonline.org by 12/31. |
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Selpa Events |
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Selpa, an all-volunteer group of parents of children with special needs, are sponsoring several upcoming events: Parent Chat: The Second Tuesday of every month. Click here for flyer. Click here for Spanish Parent Chat flyer. |
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Parent Education Opportunities |
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Through an enriching presentations from local and national experts on topics of interests to parents, faculty and staff, the MVLA Parent Education Speaker Series seeks to contribute to the academic, physical, and emotional health of our students. All events are free of charge and are for parents, faculty and staff in Los Altos and Mountain View public schools. For a schedule of upcoming presentations, please click here. |
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How Submit an Article to the Springer Buzz |
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If you have an article to submit to the Springer Buzz, please send it to the editor atspringer.buzz@gmail.com by noon on Monday for inclusion in the next edition. Late arrivals will be included if possible but can’t be guaranteed! All flyers must be in either WORD or PDF format, accompanied by a brief summary of the activity in the email. |