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SCHOOL NEWS
New PTA Lunch Program
The PTA Lunch Program is excited to announce that we will be teaming with a full meal provider, Revolution Foods, to provide delicious, healthy, and organic meals this spring.
- All meals consist of an entrée, fresh vegetable, fresh organic fruit, and milk or soy milk. Each day, there is a choice of four entrees: meat-based, vegetarian, dairy-free, and sandwich.
- Organic and locally produced ingredients are used whenever possible; over 60 percent of ingredients are organic. All meat is hormone- and antibiotic-free and all milk is rbST- and hormone-free.
- Food is made fresh daily, and no fried, processed, or reheated food is served.
- Click here to read more about Revolution Foods and the homestyle, kid-friendly, healthy meals they provide.
Here’s how you order:
- Menus for the next session (March 25th through the last day of school) will be in the Wednesday folders on February 27th. Order forms are due March 7th.
- The order forms will resemble a calendar. Each day will have a choice of meat-based, vegetarian, dairy-free, and sandwich entrées. All lunches include a fresh vegetable, organic fruit, and milk. Order only the meals and days your child wants. All meals are $4.25.
- One Friday each month we will offer Stefano’s pizza as a lunch option with fruit and milk.
Want to try the food?
Revolution Foods will be at Edna Maguire on Wednesday, February 27th from 1:30 to 2:00 p.m. to present food for tasting. They will have a tables at the front of the school and in the back parking area. Please come and try their delicious food.
Lunch Help Needed ASAP! Subs and Fridays
Our current PTA hot lunch program is in need of extra volunteers as soon as possible. Here’s the status:
- More than 30 Kindergarten students order pizza on Fridays and we need a third volunteer from 11:15 to 11:50 a.m. to wrap and deliver the slices. You could come in every week or every other week depending on your availability.
- If you are not available Fridays, we could also use you as back-up help to come in other days as needed from 11:00 a.m. to noon-ish and help an experienced volunteer load crates.
- If you can help out, please contact me. I apologize if you have sent me your information in the past and I have misplaced it. This is a big program, and I appreciate all the wonderful people that make it happen!
Without volunteers, we will have to cut back on the days that hot lunch is available! The spring session should be a simplified after we implement the new lunch program. In the meantime, please consider helping out. Currently twenty volunteers work between one and four hours a month. The average is just two hours a month.
- Josie Viscardi, hot lunch volunteer coordinator (Jv64@sbcglobal.net or 686-0291)
K/1 Grade Play Structure Update
The play structure has been purchased and is in storage on our site. We hope to demolish the current structure and install the new one over Spring Break in April.
Here is where we stand financially:
- We currently have about $14,000 in our play structure donation fund.
- $8,000 has been promised by the MVSD.
- We have about $5,000 in promised donations.
- See's Candy sales raised approximately $2,700.
- We are now about $5,000 away from our total goal!
Thank you to those who have contributed. It has been a long year of fundraising, and we are so grateful to our Edna community for your help. If you have yet to make a donation and are interested in getting us to our finish line, please make a check payable to Edna Maguire PTA with memo: K/1 Play Structure and drop it off in the office.
Spirit Day This Friday
This Friday, February 15th, is Sports Day, when students and teachers can wear paraphernalia from their favorite sports team or teams. This may include hats, jerseys, shirts, sweatshirts, you name it! Last year we even had a few students come dressed in their baseball uniforms.
Edna Maguire Family Dance
Saturday, March 1st
6:30-9:00pm in the Multi Purpose Room
All Edna students and families encouraged to attend.
Performances by: Greek Wooden Buddha, chasing maya, Lisa Zimmer, Mari Allen, Katrina Kehl, Mrs. Harvey, Mr. Frierson, 5th Grade Teaching Team of Harr & Shern, and more...
Donations going to Common River to build a school in Ethiopia, so come have a great time for a great cause!
Book Fair Thanks and Totals
We finally have the Book Fair totals, and want to share them with our wonderful Edna Maguire Community that helped make this event a success! But first and foremost, a heartfelt thank you to all my book fairies: Janet Fox, our Decorating and Trinket Queen; Josie Viscardi, the Volunteer Coordinator Queen; Aniko Molnar; Deb Luster; Amy Sherman and Claudia von Welczeck, the Breakfast Queens; and all the many volunteers who helped make this a successful event from set-up, book picks, daily volunteers, Thursday night support, and break-down:
Ed Faubel, Karen Stromfeld, Anne Fretes, Lisa C, Susie Drysdale, Margaret Krivoruchko, Leslie Lewcyzk, Jennifer Hollander, Neysa Furey, Stacy, Heather Miller, Amy Lester, Dorothy, Julie McCrady, Julia Evans, Nancy Felder, Anne Marie Coen, Christine del Castillo, Beth Whalen, Georgia Pung, Katrina Kehl, Lisa Gilmore, Deb Huber, Julie Zener, Daria Painter, Lynne Henderson, Mari Allen, Kerstin Bastian, Meera Dolasia, and Edna’s Girl Scout troops.
We’d also like to thank Lisa Zimmer for her wonderful support and her beautiful bags, teachers for bringing the kids through on tours, first grade parent Stephanie Lisa Tara for her book contributions, Deb Luster for her Can Do Books and Bars, librarians Debra Wiley and Mary Silver for their “Book Talk” presentation, our maintenance guys for helping us set up and clean up, Leslie Fielder for her year-round help, and the Book Fair Café crew for helping bring in our customers on Thursday night! My apologies if I’ve forgotten anyone!
Our sales this year were over $22,000, and the contribution to our Edna Library will be about $4400. That’s a lot of books for our kids! Thank you again for your support.
- Jill Anderson, Retired Book Fair Chair
Art Show Thanks
We would like to send a heartfelt thank you to all of the Art Show volunteers: Shaila de Leede, Claudia von Welczeck, Courtney Wimmer, Jody Branham, Daria Painter, James Newman, Nicole Ferguson, Heather Miller, and Michelle Zimmerman. We could not have done it without you! Also we would like to thank our wonderful art teachers Jackie Lalanne, Katie Mostert, and Amy Faulkner, whose guidance and love of art brings out the artist in all of our children. A huge thank you to Committee Chairs Teresa Baradaran and Negissa Araghi for their incredible dedication to making this event such a success!
Pictures from the First Graders’ Science Unit
As part of their current weather unit, the first grade classes had science specialist Camilla Barry join them for an investigation into the power of wind. The first graders studied the Beaufort Wind Scale and discussed the various forces of wind. They made their own wind finders and measured the wind in various places on campus. Click here to see some great pictures from the day. They look like they are learning a lot and having a great time. Great job first graders!
Green Team Assembly
Our own Edna Maguire Green Team, a wonderful and motivated group of 4th and 5th graders, will be presenting an assembly on Tuesday, February 26th (grades 1-3 at 9:30 a.m., grades 4 and 5 at 10:15 a.m.). The focus of the assembly is bringing the 5Rs to Edna (Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot). Edna parent Saor Stetler is preparing a slide show to start the presentation, and the Green Team will perform an original skit.
They will demonstrate the new "5R Station," which will be used at the end of lunchtime each day. Edna is encouraging a Pack-In/Pack-out program coupled with recycling and composting, and each class will be receiving a compost bucket to use in the classroom.
Kiddo! Thanks You
Thank you to all Edna Maguire families who have donated to Kiddo! for the 2007-08 Annual Campaign. See the list of all Edna donors this year. We couldn’t do it without you!
REMINDERS
Lost and Found Sale This Week
It’s time to clear out all the unclaimed Lost and Found items! All this week there will be a separate rack out by the front office with the SALE merchandise clearly marked. All items are $3 each, payable to Edna PTA. Come find a long lost jacket, or find some terrific deals on 'new' things.
Seed Sale
Now is the time to order seeds! Please check out the Edna Garden seed ordering webpage and order terrific seeds from Botanical Interests. You can pass the information along to anyone you know who has a garden. Edna will receive 40 percent of seed sales through that link. So, spread the word and the seeds! |
