Lara Day, September 13 Bone Marrow Donor Drive
Please help Lara, a beautiful six-year-old girl who attended kindergarten at Edna Maguire Elementary last year. She was recently diagnosed with leukemia and needs your help. Read the letter that explains what you can do.
Important – PTA Needs Your One Stop Shopping Forms and Donations!
If you have not downloaded your One Stop Shopping Form (pdf), we urge you to do so. Hard copies are also available in the office. Through your membership in the PTA, support of the PTA Hot Lunch program, Emergency Preparedness, Birthday Books and Steeplechase, we are able to provide teacher and classroom supplies and many programs and events. Every penny of the $125,000 we hope to raise through Steeplechase will be spent at Edna this year to enhance your children's learning experience, including the purchase of 60 laptops to supplement the 30 we have now for our 423 students!
Please complete your One Stop Shopping Form, give as generously as you are able, and turn in the form as soon as you can. The students and teachers of Edna Maguire thank you!
Hot Lunch Starts Monday, September 8
Make your life a little easier by ordering a healthy, nutritious lunch for your kids provided by Revolution Foods. Place your order by going to the Revolution Foods website. Please contact Kathy Sonderby at ksonderby@yahoo.com to request the access code. The online ordering instructions are available on the Edna Maguire website. You can also access the Revolution Foods website by going to the ednamaguire.org homepage and clicking on the Revolution Foods logo.
The current lunch menu extends through the end of November. The ordering deadline is 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday for the following week, so you are able to make changes/additions on a weekly basis. Make checks payable to Edna PTA and drop them off in the office, with your child(ren)s name and room number in the memo field.Payment for lunch works like FasTrak: put money into your account and
debit it as you order meals. Please support our hot lunch program, one of the largest fundraisers for the school!
International Potluck Dinner
Thursday, September 11
The International Potluck is happening Thursday, September 11, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm in the interior courtyard. Please bring place settings, cutlery and your own non-alcoholic beverages for you and your family, as well as a potluck dish that will serve 6 to 8 people (no peanut products, please). There will be great music, henna tattoos ($5 suggested donation for PTA) and much more! Questions: Amy Sherman amyhsherman@gmail.com
Lice Volunteers Needed Friday, September 19
The semi-annual lice check will take place on Friday, September 19 during the hour before pick-up. We need at least two parent volunteers for each class for only an hour. A third parent could call names and mark the class list. Sign-up sheets will be posted on classroom doors next week. Room parents may be contacting you to volunteer. Training is available. Reminder: please send your children to school with clean, loose hair next Friday. Questions, contact Josie Viscardi at Jv64@sbcglobal.net or 686-0291.
Absences Information
Please read the District's policy on unexcused absences (pdf).
Garden Fresh Farmer's Market Every Thursday!
The Mill Valley Children’s Garden will be featuring a farmer’s market every Thursday at pick-up time (2:45 – 3:15 p.m.), weather and extra produce permitting. There will be market tables at the back parking lot and in front of the office with fresh, organic produce picked by the student gardeners at Edna. Some weeks we will feature gourmet treats made with produce from the garden. Please bring cash and support the garden.
Be sure to check out the garden blog for regular news and updates about the garden. Please email Saor Stetler at sstetler@earthlink.net if you would like to receive his regular garden email updates.
It Takes a Village, Special Education PTA
“Project Eye to Eye: Learning Outside the Lines”
Speaker: David Flink
Thursday, September 18 (new date), 6:15 p.m. meet Mr. Flink; 6:30-8:00 p.m. program
MVMS Library, 411 Sycamore
It Takes a Village is proud to present David Flink, executive director of the nationally known mentoring program, Project Eye-To-Eye. Mr. Flink will address how mentorship through art can empower students who learn differently to realize their full potential. In Project Eye-To-Eye, college and high school students with LD/ADHD use art as a medium and act as tutors, role models and mentors for elementary, middle and high school students with similar learning differences. The younger students learn to understand and articulate their individual assets and needs and become empowered to find success.
Parent Coffee
Friday, September 19, 9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
11 Hill Street
Parents of children with learning differences face many challenges. These coffees provide a chance for parents to share information and support each other. Please join us at the home of Marianne Shine. If you have questions, please contact Marianne at 389-0168 or marianne@bssp.com.
Play Group
Some children with learning differences have a hard time making friends. Our play group is a great chance for them to build relationships with coaching from parents. Join us Thursdays, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., at Kay Park, weather permitting. Contact Pam Sowerby at 380-9680 or psowerby@comcast.net for additional details or to check weather cancellations.
Shop Mill Valley Market and Support It Takes a Village
Mill Valley Market has offered to donate a portion of its proceeds from your grocery shopping to It Takes a Village. When you check out, give the market the number 7093. It couldn’t be easier to support our kids!
ITAV Website
Please check out our website to learn how we can help you and your child. Information about our speaker events (including speaker notes and handouts), parent coffees, and playgroups is posted.
Kiddo!
Kiddo! 2008 Annual Campaign Update
Welcome back to school! THANK YOU to the 905 families who have already donated to the 2008 Annual Campaign. Your generous contributions will help us preserve the following important programs for our students at Edna Maguire:
- Art with Jackie La Lanne, Amy Faulkner, Katie Mostert
- K-2nd grade music with Nora Thomas
- 3rd -5th grade music with Anna Stearns
- 3rd and 4th grade chorus with Nora Thomas
- 5th grade chorus with Jessica Stewart
- 5th grade band with Cayce Carnahan
- 4th and 5th grade orchestra with Phoebe Dong
- K, 4th and 5th grade dance with Alan Scofield
- Poetry Specialists in 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th grades
- Drama in 2nd grade
- Library aide Anne Fretes
- Classroom aides in multiple rooms
- School technology specialists
- Mobile laptop carts
- Art and music supplies
- Teacher mini-grants
Unfortunately, our family participation rate is only 52 percent, which means that over 800 families have not yet made their Kiddo! donation for this school year (check the updated donor list if you are not sure whether you’ve made your donation yet). Help us continue to preserve important programs for our students by making your donation now. The recommended donation is $750 or more per student. Contributions at all levels are appreciated and our goal is 100-percent family participation. Donate online at www.kiddo.org, mail your contribution to Kiddo!, 409 Sycamore Ave., Mill Valley, 94941, or call the Kiddo! office at 389-7789 to arrange for an installment plan that meets your family’s needs. Thank you for helping Mill Valley kids reach their full potential!
Mill Valley Community Block Party – September 18
Mark your calendars for Thursday, September 18 for the 11th Annual Mill Valley Community Block Party, produced by Famous4. This year’s party is from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. and includes clowns, face painting, kids games from Steve & Kate’s Camps, and food treats from Small Shed and Vasco. There will also be lots of great music and very special guests! The musical director will be Mill Valley’s own Austin Delone. Proceeds will benefit both the Bob Griffin Children fund and Kiddo!-funded art programs for children in Mill Valley schools. For more information, call Larry at Famous4, 415 388-2550.
We Want To Be Number One – It’s eScrip Renewal Time
Did you know that Kiddo! is the second-highest recipient of eScrip funds in the nation thanks to participating Mill Valley families? It’s because of your support and annual renewals with eScrip that we raise over $100,000 a year through eScrip and grocery rebate programs for the essential arts, music, poetry, dance and drama programs that enrich our children’s education at no cost to you.
Please take just a couple of minutes to earn $$$$$ all year long for our children. Fill out the bright green Shop-4-Kids Form (available in your school office) and return it to the Kiddo! office, or go to eScrip.com and enroll or update your information online.
Here’s how the shopping rebate programs work.
- Safeway Club Cards must be renewed with eScrip every year by October 31 in order to continue to generate valuable dollars for our schools.
- Register or update your Visa, MasterCard, ATM and Debit Cards and use them at Whole Foods, Mollie Stones, Delano Markets, Paradise Market and Molly Stones (and many others – go to eScrip.com for a complete list of participating merchants) to generate rebates. You can also register your Macy’s card and a percentage of your purchases will go to Kiddo!
- Shop at the Mill Valley Market and let the checker know that you’d like the contribution to go to Kiddo! before the end of the transaction, and 3 percent of your purchase will go directly to Kiddo!
- If you shop at United Markets and would like a Community Card just call the Kiddo! offices at 389-7789, ext. 3 and we'll mail you one.
- Shop online with Schoolpop.com. Whenever you shop online, go through Schoolpop.com to do your shopping and a percentage of your purchases will go to Kiddo! Over 250 merchants participate.
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