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In this Issue
* This week at The Grove
* PTA Nominating Committee
* National Geographic Bee
* Scholastic Book Fair
* Save the Dates
* Science Fair
* Spring Fundraising
* Six Flags Read to Succeed
* Bears that Care
* HP Noodles & Notes
* Benefit Concert
* PPIE Survey
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This week at The Grove...
Principal's Coffee and Book and a Blether:
- Join Mr. Connor this Wednesday, January 24th for Principal's Coffee from 9:15-9:35 and a Book and a Blether from 9:35-10:00 in room 411. For more information on this weeks book, click here.
Orange Day in the Garden:
- Students are invited to visit the Walnut Grove garden on Tuesday, January 23rd to celebrate citrus season during their lunch recess to taste different types of oranges and vote for their favorite variety. Helpers are needed to slice oranges and direct the flow of students through the tasting and voting stations. If you can help from 11:15 - 1:15 this Tuesday, please contact Kim McCoy or Candee Banman.
Recycling Day:
- Recycling Day is this Friday, January 26th. Please separate your cans and plastic bottles (no glass) and label them with the grade level and leave them in the front of the school by 8:15am.
5th Grade Baby Pictures:
- If you haven't already turned in your child's baby picture, please do so by Friday, January 26th. High resolution pictures can be emailed to [email protected] or actual photos can be turned into the classroom (they will be returned). Please ensure your child's name and teacher are noted with the picture.
Abilities Awareness:
- Walnut Grove is excited to Celebrate All Abilities this week. The Ability Awareness Program is designed to promote understanding, acceptance and appreciation of individual learning and ability differences through fun, experiential activities. By having students experience the challenges of others, we hope to foster better understanding and empathy throughout our schools.
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PTA Nominating Committee
Do you care about the future of Walnut Grove? Would you like to make sure that all of our programs and events continue and improve next year? Now is the time to join the PTA's Nominating Committee.
This fantastic short-term volunteer opportunity is vitally important to our school: these are the people who will help find our Executive Board members for the 2018-19 school year.
The Nominating Committee members will meet only once in late January and work on this project for a month, mostly communicating over email.
Please contact PTA Parliamentarian Samantha Carella at [email protected] if you are interested in joining the committee or have any questions.
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National Geographic Bee
The National Geographic Bee is going to be held at Walnut Grove for the very first time! We are also the first elementary school in our district to host this fabulous competition.
This annual event is designed to inspire and reward students' curiosity about the world around us - its people and cultures, flora and fauna, its history and economies, and to learn more about maps, places and landscapes. National Geographic provides resources to prepare for the Bee by
clicking here
. Sample questions and further information will be emailed to all registered students.
We are also in need of some volunteers to help with this event. If you would like to help out, please contact Deepta Rao at
[email protected]
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Scholastic Book Fair
 The Scholastic Book Fair is coming to Walnut Grove first week of February.
At the book fair, you will find hundreds of books from new and favorite authors, popular series, cool posters and school supplies. The Scholastic Book Fair will be held in the MPR from
February 5th through February 9th
and everyone is invited!
Please come and volunteer at our fair. We need your help to share the love of reading with our WG families! If you'd like to help out, please click here.
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Save the Dates!
Walnut Grove has a couple great events coming up that you won't want to miss, so mark your calendars now!!
Donut Fun for Everyone!
will be on Wednesday, February 7th! This all-inclusive event, for all of the special caregivers in our kids lives will take place before school. If you are interested in helping out, please contact Christina Mantha.
Walnut Grove's Parent & Staff Night Out 50th Birthday Bash
will be on
Saturday, April 14th.
In honor of Walnut Grove's 50th Birthday, we will be celebrating on the evening of April 14th, at Handles Gastropub.
Further details for both of these events will be provided in the near future, as well as information on how to purchase tickets to the 50th Birthday Bash.
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Science Fair
THANK YOU to Parent Volunteers, 5th grade volunteers, and Sandia for Wednesday's ScienceFair Kick Off Assembly and Sandia Family Science Night.
Thank you to 2018 Science Fair Committee for putting together the Science Fair Kick Off Assembly on this past Wednesday for all grades!
Thank you also to SANDIA for bringing Sandia Family Science Night to Walnut Grove this year again! Your outreach to the community is greatly appreciated.
Thank you also to our 5th grade junior scientist who volunteered their time to help run the experiments at Sandia's Family Science Night!
Here's to a wonderful Science Fair at Walnut Grove!
Science Fair is 7 weeks away:
Help your WG student get cranking on a project for our 18th Annual Science Fair! For your convenience, poster boards are available for a $7 donation in the office, while supplies last.
SCIENCE
FAIR
PROJECT REGISTRATION:
MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2018!
We are looking for members of the community who would like to interview WG junior scientists on Tuesday, March 13 or Wednesday, March 14, in the mornings. Each participant gets interviewed and also gets a printout of the interview. Be a source of inspiration to our kids! Volunteer and interview.
Please contact Anita Iyer ASAP at
ani.chase@@gmail.com
if you are able to help.
Science Fair T-shirts:
Order our unique "Walnutgrovium" t-shirts - orders will be taken till the end of February with t-shirts ready for pick up on March 12! Science Fair T-shirt Online Order
For more information on the Science Fair, check out it's newly updated
website.
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Spring Fundraising
Winter is here, but we'll find ourselves welcoming the Spring before we know it! Along with the New Year arrives Walnut Grove PTA's Spring Fundraiser. 2018's Spring plans include a silent auction - and we need you!
If you have anything to donate (items, experiences, talents) or are interested in participating in the incredibly fun auction committee, please contact Erin Arena at
[email protected]
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Six Flags Read to Succeed
With the winter break behind us, dust off your Six Flags Reading Log, make sure it's updated and turn it in! To earn one free ticket to Six Flags all you have to do is read a total of 6 (six) hours.
Reading books, magazines, newspapers and eBooks count!
Reading logs are due February 1st. If you have any questions, please see Mrs. Sodergren.
Happy Reading!
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Bears that Care
Is it time to clean out your child's closet? Do you have gifts waiting to be re-gifted? Bears That Care can help!
Bears That Care (organized by Walnut Grove students Colin and Jaedyn Lambert, and their sister Taryn) is hosting their fifth annual toy drive.
Children can bring unwrapped toys or books to their classrooms through Friday of this week!
Toys must be new or in excellent (like-new) condition.
The class with the most donations will win a PIZZA PARTY and a $25 GIFT CARD FOR THEIR TEACHER!!!
With your help, we hope to once again make this toy drive a huge success!
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Harvest Park Noodles & Notes Fundraiser
The 21st Annual Noodles & Notes Fundraiser will be
Friday, February 2nd from 6:00 to 8:00 pm in the Harvest Park MPR.
Enjoy a delicious spaghetti dinner while listening to student performances by strings, choir, and jazz band students.
Fun door prizes will be given out, and they will be offering some fantastic silent-auction items! You can bid on Segway tours; gift certificates for hotel stays, restaurants, stores, salons, and spas; private wine tastings; tickets to the theater, symphony, ballet, museum, and theme parks; and more!
They will also have a bake sale and will be selling gently used books, DVDs, and video games. Donations for our sale or auction are welcome and appreciated. Email
Mike Wen if you would like to make a donation.
Presale tickets can be ordered now online at
hpmusic.org. Or fill out the
ticket order form, and turn it in with your payment by Thursday, February 1st to the HP Music Boosters mailbox in the band room or the Harvest Park school office. Tickets at the door will cost $5 extra per person.
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Benefit Concert for Arts in the Schools
Internationally Acclaimed Musicians in Concert Are Donating 100% of Proceeds to Pleasanton Schools to fund music and art
.
There's nothing like live music. Our whole self responds, body mind and soul. We're just not the same afterwards. Come enrich your life and the lives of your family at this concert on January 27th at 8:00pm in the Amador Theatre, featuring world class musicians Tamriko Siprashvili on piano, and Ian Row on guitar. A special opportunity to experience the finest music, and an expression of generosity from these fine musicians towards their community, all sponsored by the Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council.
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PPIE Survey
PPIE
wants your opinion! If you haven't already done so, please complete this short 8-question survey and tell us what you think PPIE should fund at your school for next year.
This year, they're funding extra hours for librarians and site tech specialists at all elementary and middle schools, as well as extra class sections in high school to reduce class size. Next year, with your support, they can do more! So tell them what you want!
PPIE will then confer with your principal's office and with District (PUSD) leadership to fund supplemental staff to best support your students. AND REMEMBER, particularly for new donors, PLEASE DONATE TO OUR SUPER MATCH CAMPAIGN, which runs NOW through Super Bowl Sunday on February 4. If more people donate, we can reach the levels of other school districts that have almost 80% participation rates and raise $millions for great school staff and programs!
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Walnut Grove Office
(925) 426-4250
Walnut Grove Attendance
(925) 484-3031
Principal:
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What's coming up?
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JANUARY:
22-26 - Abilities Awareness Week
24 - Principal Coffee
25 - General Association Meeting
26 - Recycling Day
30 - Geographic Bee
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Your PTA money sponsored the
Sandia Family Science Night on Wednesday, January 17th.
Thanks to the generosity of our PTA community we were able to host this event in preparation for our upcoming Science Night.
In addition to hosting Sandia, your generous donations have also purchased Science Fair brochures, lab coats and the design of the
THANK YOU!!
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Walnut Grove PTA would like to express our gratitude to
Soojin Hwang
for her continued dedication to our school
.
Soojin has already spent countless hours coordinating the Sandia Family Science Night and will continue to do so in preparation for the March Science Fair.
Soojin, your dedication and support are much appreciated!
Thank you!!
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