| May 18 |
Gold Rush Day |
| May 18 |
Volunteer Tea |
| May 25 |
All School Awards Assembly |
May 26
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Discovery Day |
| June 1 |
Field Day |
| June 2 |
5th Grade Grad
Last Day of School
Minimum Day |
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In the news this week:
- Please check the overflowing lost and found for precious items that your child may have left at school.
Hard to believe the end of the school year is around the corner! Please continue to check out the Fairmeadow
calendar for upcoming events. Thanks!
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| Fairmeadow Discovery Day: Sign up to help! |
We still need helpers for Discovery Day
, May 26. Activities run fro
m 9-10 AM an
d 10:30-11:30 AM. We have more than 70 activities for kids and will need as many extra adults to help out as we can! Sign up here:
http://tinyurl.com/fmdiscoveryday.
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| This is our Lost and Found! |
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Please retrieve your lost items some time in the next few weeks, before donation day!
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| Book your summer camps and raise money for Fairmeadow! |
The countdown is on till summer... Have you booked your summer camps yet? If you're still looking for camps, check out ActivityHero for some of the best camps in the Bay Area. Purchase through
this page --
https://www.activityhero.com/go/Fairmeadow
-- and 3% will be donated to Fairmeadow!
Use Promo Code camplist5 to save $25 off your registration of $250 or more befor
e May 31st, 20
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| Survey of PAUSD Support Services |
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Dear PAUSD Parents and Guardians,
We want to make you aware that you should be receiving a notification asking you to participate in a survey through which you can provide important feedback on PAUSD's support services for students. The Harvard Systems Review Survey of our Supports for students with disabilities launched today and will remain open until May 24. Teachers and administrators also are being asked to participate. We are hopeful to bring back to the Board recommendations in mid-late June, and hold several open town hall meetings to review the results. Please be on the lookout for the e-mail that was sent through our PAUSD research department and came from Dr. Tom Hehir, a senior faculty member at Harvard University who is leading this research. If you have any questions regarding this survey, please contact Monica Ng, the study director, at monica.alice.ng@gmail.com
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Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback.
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Calling all Parents of JLS 6th Grade-Bound students!
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Come volunteer with next year's JLS PTA!
There are just as many opportunities to be a part of your child's JLS experience as there were at Fairmeadow, and the JLS PTA welcomes whatever level of time and talents you can contribute.
Volunteering on the PTA will accelerate your familiarity with the campus, staff, and fellow parents; there's no better or faster way to become a part of the JLS community. And we have a lot of fun!
Current "hot" jobs still open:
Jump Start Day and First Day assistance (forms, PE uniforms, etc)
6th Grade Parent Networks co-chairs
6th Grade Panther Camp co-chairs
Dance Chaperones
Community Service Day chaperones
Science Fair, Book Fair helpers
Co-chairs for Back-To-School Pizza Dinner (September 2016)
Co-chairs for Many Faces Potluck (May 2017)
Special Education Inclusion Rep
Health and Wellness Rep
Advocacy Chair
Ways and Means chair
Click
here to see a full list of the open positions on the JLS PTA committees and events, and fill out the form to indicate any interests you may have. This is not a commitment! We will contact you with more information which will help you decide if you would like to join us.
Click
here for job descriptions of most of the PTA jobs.
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To Incoming 6th Grade Jordan Parents and/or Guardians
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Jordan's Jaguar Journey is a great orientation program for 6th grade students held on August 16th and 17th. The teachers and staff of Jordan use these first two days of school to orient the new 6th graders to life at Jordan. It's fun and festive and allows the students to get to know each other, their teachers and their new space at school. The teachers have developed a terrific program but they need parent volunteers help to make it happen. If you are interested in volunteering, please sign up here https://www.uptous.com/communities/JJ . Questions? Please email JaguarJourney2016@gmail.com.
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| Kick for Charity Summer School |
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Hi!
Kick for Charity, a summer soccer camp run entirely by high school students from Paly and Gunn high schools, is a non-profit organization aimed towards providing a great summer soccer camp for elementary school aged children(7-11 loosely) as well as giving back to the community through charitable donations. All proceeds go to East Palo Alto Kids Foundation who funds classrooms in our local Ravenswood School District in East Palo Alto. The camp is held in the first two weeks of summer break
, June 6-
10 an
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17, and we would love to see your child at camp for this 2016 Kick for Charity session!
Regards,
The Kick for Charity Team,
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Help Kids in Grades K-4 with Reading or Math - You Could Change a Life
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Please join other parents volunteering with All Students Matter in grades K-4 in east Menlo Park and East Palo Alto schools. You'll work in the same classroom once a week, building a relationship with the teacher and students, and be able to see the progress achieved. The students are always eager to work with you and you'll have real impact in a community where over 80% of students are performing below grade level in reading and math. Sign up now to start in September - we provide training and coordinate everything. To learn more or to sign up, please visit our web site at
www.allstudentsmatter.org
or contact Keri Tully at
keritully@gmail.com
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| UC Berkeley BELL Lab Study |
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The BELL lab at UC Berkeley has fun and engaging studies for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) aged 6 to 12 years old at the UC Berkeley Campus. These studies will help researchers to better understand how children with ASD engage in inference and generalization, with the end goal of informing education for the ASD population. For more information:
babylab.berkeley.edu.
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| PAUSD Annual Youth Art Show - April 30 - May 22 |
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Palo Alto Art Center, 1313, Newell Rd. Palo Alto CA 94303
K-12
student artwork exhibit at the Palo Alto Art Center. Friends, family and members of the public welcome. Additional Youth Art is on display from May 2 to May 20, at the Palo Alto Unified School District Office (Mon - Fri, 8am-4:30pm).
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| Events at Palo Alto Libraries |
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Coding for Kids
Sun, Jun 12, 10 AM - 12 PM, Mitchell Park Library, 3700 Middlefield Rd.
, Palo Alto
An introduction to coding using visual programming languages. Sundays through July 3. Open to kids in grades 2-6.
Python Programming
Sat, Jun 18, 2 - 4 PM, Mitchell Park Library, 3700 Middlefield Rd.
, Palo Alto
This programming course covers all the basics. Grades 5 to 8 only.
Wacky Wednesday: Magician Pete G.
Wed, Jun 15, 3:30 PM, Rinconada Library, 1213 Newell Rd., Palo Alto
Magician Pete G. will be performing amazing magic tricks.
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| Courage and Compassion: A conversation with Andrea Gundmundsson |
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Thursday, May 17, 7 pm, Rinconada Library
Free event at Rinconada library on
May 17 at 7pm
, a conversation with Andrea Gudmundsson,
about empathy and connection. Andrea will share her journey and insights of living with a terminal illness."
For more info and registration:
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WHOOOO: A Celebration of Owls
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Sun, May 22nd, Palo Alto Junior Museum, 1451 Middlefield Rd., CA 94301
Go to the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo for an event in celebration of owls! Free and open to Club JMZ members only 10:30am - 12:30pm, and to the public 1 - 2pm. Meet the JMZ's resident Western screech owls, Olive and Scooter and see owls from the San Francisco Zoo, Wildlife Associates, and more. Club JMZ members: Join us10:30am-12:30pm for extra-special fun, including owl pellet dissection and coffee and breakfast in the zoo.
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| Palo Alto Philharmonic Family Concert -This Means War |
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Sun, May 22, 3 PM, Cubberley Theatre, 4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto
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| National River Clean Up Day |
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Sat, May 21, 9 AM - 12 PM, Baylands (Matadero or Adobe Creek)
The City of Palo Alto is hosting one Clean Up site (Matadero: site 16) and Acterra is hosting site 17 (Adobe) to clean up litter in the Baylands. Please go to www.cleanacreek.org to sign up and be sure to bring your waivers. Three hours of community service will be available.
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League of Women Voters Meetings about Pros and Cons on June 7 Spring Election Ballot
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Volunteers from the League of Women Voters of Palo Alto will present pros and cons for all the ballot measures on the spring election ballot in four free public meetings during May. In addition to giving the arguments for and against the ballot measures, speakers will provide information on how the primary process works in California. The program is part of the league's non-partisan Voter Education Service to the community Times and location in Palo Alto are:
May 16, 2 PM
. Avenidas, 450 Bryant Street, Garden Room; May 17, 7 PM, Channing House, 850 Webster Street;
May 21, 2 PM
, Downtown Library, 270 Forest Avenue; and
May 24, 7 PM
, Mitchell Park Library, 3700 Middlefield Road, Midtown Room.
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Paly Robotics Summer Camp 2016 (for middle school students, incoming 6th - incoming 9th)
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Jul 18-22, Jul 25-29, Aug 1-5, The Paly Robotics Lab (Room 903 at Palo Alto High School)
Do you want your child to experience what it is like to design and build robots? Or how about learning how to program and create 3D animations? What about creating a business plan and promoting it with a website? This year, Paly Robotics will be hosting our annual summer camp for incoming middle school students (incoming 6th - 9th). We are offering three sessions to choose from - Robot Design and Hardware; Programming and 3D Animation; and Entrepreneurship and Website Design. For more information about our camp and the different sessions, visit our website at palyrobotics.com/summercamp.
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| Summer Of Service (SOS) - YCS |
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Want to make a difference in the community? Join Summer of Service (SOS) and develop leadership skills, meet new friends and have fun while helping out in the community - with Youth Community Service. Each day students will go out in teams to local schools, senior centers, food pantries and parks for service. At SOS you will have fun while learning how to tackle community issues. We also enjoy one fun BBQ day each session and an end of program celebration. SOS has four 2 week sessions that run from June 13th through August 5th for students who will be entering 6th - 8th grade in the Fall of 2016. For more information, visit the Enjoy Online or contact YCS at (650) 858-8019.
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The City of Palo Alto has declared Sunday June 19 as World Music Day. World Music Day is a free music festival that takes place in cities around the world every year around the Summer Solstice. 50 professional and amateur musical groups will perform a wide variety of musical genres: jazz, pop, rock, classical, world music, choral, etc. All performances are FREE and open to the public. This is a fun and unique family event not to be missed. The organizers are also looking for musicians and event volunteers from our community, including students from our schools. Info:
www.pamusicday.org
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| eNews Publication Guidelines and Archive |
| For old versions of eNews, go to the eNews archive . Fairmeadow eNews Publication Guidelines:
- Fairmeadow eNews is a publication of the Fairmeadow PTA. It is sent out each Monday morning, with special editions sent out as required.
- If you want to publish an announcement relevant to Fairmeadow, send an email to fairmeadow.enews@gmail.com. Include the following information: title, date, time and location of the event, a brief description and who to contact. Information submitted by Sunday 2 pm will appear in the Monday Edition.
- Announcements relevant to other schools in the PAUSD district can be send to enews@paloaltopta.org
- Our PTA has a noncommercial policy, which states that we do not associate with any commercial activities of other organizations including, but not limited to, the promotion of their goods and services. Only information from non profit organizations will be considered for placement, if submitted to eNews.
- Announcements will generally be published in two consecutive issues. To have further announcements made after that, please submit your announcement again.
If you have any questions or suggestions, e-mail Susan Leech, Fairmeadow's eNews editor.
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