Dear Daves Avenue Parents and Guardians,
With conferences completed and holidays on the horizon, itβs still a busy time here at Daves Avenue! If you are still seeking an opportunity to become more involved, Daves Avenue will be holding elections for its School Site Council (SSC) over the next few weeks. The Daves Avenue School Site Council is composed of the school principal, teachers, parents, and a Student Council member. Ultimately, the SSC focuses on the common goal of supporting student success. Elected members will serve a two-year term, however, if you are only able to serve for one year, please still consider serving on this council. There are five parent positions available! The scheduled meetings for this school year are from 3:00-4:00 P.M. on December 12, January 16, February 27, March 20, and April 24.
Election Schedule
- November 14: SSC Declaration to Run application announcement made through The Avenue and Constant Contact. Electronic applications are available with this link https://goo.gl/forms/oTxO3JwEqMRFQmkp1 in addition to hard copies in the Daves Avenue front office.
- November 27: SSC Declaration To Run applications are due no later than 10:00 A.M.
- November 28: SSC Election ballots will be published electronically in The Avenue. There will be a computer available in the front office for voting for your convenience.
- December 4: The electronic voting ends at 10:00 A.M.
- December 5: The elected SSC members will be announced in The Avenue.
Also, our wonderful Fun Visor Committee is looking for additional parent volunteers. Currently, we are struggling to ensure sufficient coverage on Thursdays and Fridays. In an effort to continue offering activities on these days, please consider signing-up to contribute to this amazing program
http://signup.com/go/QWPcvaO
It takes a village!
On behalf of the Daves Avenue staff, we are thankful for your support and for the opportunity to help your children blossom daily. Our collective seeds of gratitude produce a harvest of hope for our youth to make wise choices and help those in our state and beyond who are less fortunate.
Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday with your loved ones.
Kind regards,
Daves Avenue Elementary
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IMPORTANT HOME & SCHOOL CLUB MESSAGES
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ATTENTION: Carnival
Co-Chair
Needed!
Hi Daves Avenue Families,
We now have one Carnival Co-Chair and are looking for an additional Co-Chair to help get our 43rd Daves Avenue Carnival underway. The Carnival is set for Friday, May 31st.
Our awesome Carnival is a community building event to bring our families together. Our families will enjoy games, prizes, bouncy houses, face painting, food, a talent show (chaired by Ali Olivo), and more. The Carnival Chairs will have a committee of helpers to manage all the volunteers, games, inflatables, food, concessions, and all of the logistics of ensuring a fun and safe carnival. The responsibilities begin in the late autumn with bookings and payments, and then activities ramp up in the spring.
Our previous fabulous Chair has passed down all of the information you will need. Save the Dates have been sent to previous vendors. We just need a Co-Chair to help oversee it all to run smoothly. You will have a partner to work with! If you think you might be interested, please
email us
!
We appreciate you considering it.
Thank you!
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Never Miss an Important Date!
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Bubbles & Baubles Event
(Auction Party)
7:00 pm, David Yurman at Valley Fair Mall
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Enjoy cocktails and apps with your fabulous Daves Friends! Get a head start on your holiday shopping at David Yurman
(20% of all proceeds go to the Home & School Club!) or just enjoy a relaxing evening getting pampered with your friends!
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Not completely satisfied with your child's school picture? Just bring your child's picture package to school today and they can be retaken.
We are also requesting
volunteers
to help out. If you're available, please talk to Amy or Sue in the front office. Thank you!
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Thanksgiving Recess - NO SCHOOL
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Los Gatos
Holiday
Parade
!
11am, Downtown Los Gatos
Come cheer on the Daves Avenue students who are participating in the parade!
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ο»ΏDid you know that some of our teachers have a wish list for needed classroom items? You can access their lists either on their individual
Staff Directory pages
or the
Teacher's Wish List page
on our Home & School Club website. Thanks so much for supporting our teachers!
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TRASH FREE TUESDAY RAFFLE WINNERS!
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Congratulations to our TFT (Trash Free Tuesday)
winners for October 30th & November 13th:
- 3rd Grader Ethan Sul in Mrs. Bonner's class
- 5th grader Margot Maloves in Mrs. Holman's class
- 2nd grader Michael Duan in Mrs. Spencer/ Valouch's class
- 5th grader Josie Hanson in Mrs. Holman's class
Our first raffle had 33% of 1st-5th graders bring a #TFT lunch, and the one yesterday had lower participation at 18%.
Lets get that higher!!
Be Green
!
There will be more random Tuesday raffles with fun prizes to come.
Parents, please help your children bring trash free lunches every Tuesday (or even better, every day!)
As a reminder, trash free means
- reusable food containers, instead of ziploc bags
- washable utensils, instead of plastic forks and spoons
- cloth napkins, instead of paper towels
- a thermos or reusable water bottle, instead of plastic water bottles and juice pouches
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Free2Me features Benefit Mobile!
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The Free2Me program keeps you informed on businesses that offer
FREE
money that comes right back to Daves Avenue Elementary! Each month we will feature a participating business and have some special raffles and prizes.
Free2Me is featuring
Benefit Mobile
for the months of November and December! Did you know that many of the purchases you are already making could be earning our school
FREE
money if you paid through
Benefit Mobile
?! That's right, by adding just one simple step into your routine you could earn Daves Avenue up to 20% back. Simply download the
Benefit Mobile app
and purchase the amount needed through the retailer listed and use that to pay for your purchase. By
downloading the Benefit Mobile app
and joining the Daves Avenue Team this month and next you are eligible to win one of two $50 Target gift cards that have been generously donated to us by
Benefit Mobile
. You will receive 1 entry just for signing up and 5 entries for every purchase made through
Benefit Mobile
. Our first drawing will be
Dec. 1st
and the second drawing on
Jan. 1st
.
Thank you to all the families that turned in
Box Tops
!!! Our very first submission was
$75.40
in
FREE
money! Due to the awesome success we will have another raffle in the near future so please keep sending in those trimmed
Box Tops
.
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The 2018-2019
Cornerstone focus is:
Growing UPstanders!
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In November, ABC Readers are reading
Say Something
by Peggy Moss.
The narrator sees and hears teasing, put-downs, pushing, excluding and other forms of bullying. As a bystander, at first she thinks she does not have a role in the situation and does nothing to help. After personally experiencing being a target of bucket dipping behaviors, she gains empathy, learns there are things she can say and do, and becomes an UPstander. In doing so, she also gains a new friend.
At Daves Ave, students are learning about the UPstander Triangle and ways we can be UPstanders. We are practicing speaking up, reaching out, and being a friend. We are learning how our bucket filling behaviors can influence others to do the right thing.
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Please continue to speak with your children about ways they can intentionally fill buckets and influence their peers to do the right thing. Daves Ave students are proud UPstanders!
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Questions? Please contact
Jessie Geis
and
Michele Grancell
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LOS GATOS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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Daves Avenue Elementary School
17770 Daves Avenue, Monte Sereno, CA 95030
Phone: 408-335-2200 | Fax: 408-395-6314 | Attendance Line: 408-335-2245
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Daves Avenue Home & School Club
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THE AVENUE is approved by Principal Jenna Mittleman and the HSC Board to provide pertinent information weekly to the Daves Avenue community.
*The Avenue newsletter is written exclusively to provide the Daves Avenue community with school information. Articles, information, calendars, etc. may not be duplicated or re-printed in any manner without the permission of the Home and School Club or the Daves Avenue school administration.
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STAY CONNECTED, visit the Daves HSC Facebook page!
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