Dear Cool Cat Families,
This morning our community convened together for the final Wednesday Wave of the school year. It was exceptionally sweet as TK and Kindergarten students helped Cool Cats of all ages to gain a better understanding of what empathy means. The Student Council, Green Team, and K-Kids were also highlighted for their contributions and desire to help improve our school and community. Students of all ages added character cards to our community bucket which is about to overflow. Please continue to encourage your child to show their “PAWS” as it will help to increase their chances to reach into the PAWS Club treasure chest in future assemblies or possibly a surprise “PAWS Draw” (hint, hint). Congratulations to the PAWS Club recipients today: Austin Edwards, Ford Spencer, Babila Mfonfu, Alyshia LaPlante, and Ethan Habib. You are all PAWSitively awesome!
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At Daves Avenue, we appreciate the power of families and many of our students are lucky to have siblings on campus. While we understand the desire to have siblings support and celebrate each other during the instructional day for events such as birthday celebrations and/or classroom performances, we are respectfully asking parents to be mindful of requesting siblings to participate in each other’s events during the instructional day. All Cool Cat Staff members strive to make the most of every instructional minute and state testing has commenced. Thank you in advance for support and understanding.
Wishing you a PAWSitively wonderful week.
Kind regards,
Principal, Daves Avenue Elementary
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Clothing Needed! 👚
The Health Office is in need of girl’s clothes. We are in need of skirts and leggings in various sizes for girls to use when they come to the health office and need to change their clothing. Thank you!
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DAVES AVENUE CARNIVAL & TALENT SHOW
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AT DAVES AVENUE BLACKTOP & FIELD
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This is our annual school-wide end-of-the-year event where families enjoy our Daves Avenue Student Talent Show, DJ, cake walk, inflatables, carnival games and prizes, photo booths and more! $15 wristbands for kids ages 5 and older give unlimited access to all carnival activities. Adults are admitted free of charge. Food is available for purchase during the carnival...enjoy fresh-from-the-oven pizzas, delicious sliders, hot dogs, popcorn, cotton candy, and shaved ice.
TALENT SHOW
Casting Call! - Calling all dancers, singers, musicians, and other amazing acts...Show off your talent at the Daves Avenue Talent Show during the Carnival! Registration coming next week.
VOLUNTEERS!
This event needs volunteers to be a success! We are looking for several
parent
volunteers to assist with various Carnival duties at the event. Most shifts are only one hour in length so you may enjoy the Carnival with your kids! If you can help out by taking a shift or two, please sign up at
HERE
.
If you have
Fisher or Los Gatos High School students
who would like to volunteer at the event and earn community service hours, please sign up Fisher students at
Fisher Sign Up
,
and LG High students at
LG High Sign Up
.
CAKE WALK
The cake walk is a very fun and popular event at the Carnival! If you have a love and talent for baking, please consider donating some of your baked goods. Sign up coming soon.....
PRE-PURCHASE WRISTBANDS
Save some time and pre-purchase wristbands for your student(s) at
davesavehsc.org/carnival
. Wristbands can be picked up at the will call booth at the Carnival. They will also be available for sale the day of the event.
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Thank you to our event sponsor:
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2019-2020 HSC Open Chair Positions
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to learn more about each of these opportunities to support our kids!
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Never Miss an Important Date!
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H&SC Meeting Postponed!
We are postponing this meeting until May 24th so we can vote on a full board slate in accordance with our Bylaws. Stay tuned for details. Thank you for your flexibility, and we hope to see you on the 24th.
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Margarita Mayhem! - Laser Tag 4.0 (Auction Party)
6:00 pm
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We are excited about Bike to School Day on Thursday May 9th. We encourage students and families who can ride their bikes to school. Otherwise, Walk & Roll - walk from your house or just a block away from the school, carpool with a neighbor or friend, or scooter to school. Safe Routes is hosting a Raffle for students who Bike to School AND students who Walk or Roll (walk, scooter, or carpool).
We are also thrilled to welcome to campus Monte Sereno’s Mayor, Rowena Turner and newly appointed Council Member Daniel LaBouve. Let’s show them how committed to safety and the environment our Daves Avenue Cool Cats are!
To find your Safe Route to School - check out the
Daves’s Safe Routes
page with more information
Here are some fun resources to get ready for Bike to School Day:
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Open House - MINIMUM DAY
6:00 pm, Classrooms
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Staff Appreciation Luncheon
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Last H&SC Meeting of the Year
8:30 am, MPR
Come to the final H&SC meeting of the year to vote to approve next year’s budget and next year’s officers and directors.
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Budget
Please click
HERE
to view the proposed budget for the 2019-2020 school year.
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Daves Avenue Carnival and Talent Show
4:00 pm - 8:00 pm, Daves Blacktop and Field
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5th Grade Party
Saratoga Springs
More Information Coming Soon
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Earth Week at Daves was a Success!
Students got rubber blue and green bracelets on
Make a Difference Monday
, and signed pledges on a green poster on the playground.
Tuesday
there was strong participation on #TFT at our raffle, and we introduced table-side trash sorting. The Santa Clara Library brought materials to make paper hearts and West Valley Collections came to the playground to do trash sorting games. Sodexo provided seed packets as special random gifts under some lucky students’ lunch trays, and the tray liners are now 100% compostable. There was a Walk/Ride/Roll Raffle on
Walk to School Wednesday
, with two winners. Teachers announced important Earth Facts in the classrooms
all 5 days
.
The Silicon Valley Serve volunteer organization (7th-10th graders) came to Daves on
Earth Day (Monday 4/22)
and helped us clean up the Daves Garden of Wisdom, plant ceramic totem poles and install our bottle cap garden in front of the 2-story building. Watch for sculptures of Captain Green to be installed there too.
WHAT A WEEK!
All students got to enjoy the Daves Green Team Crayon Initiative 3-minute video in the Wednesday Wave on May 1st. You can enjoy it here:
https://vimeo.com/andrewishak/crayons
.
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...AND IN THE LATEST EDITION OF THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN GREEN...
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LGS Recreation’s
Summer Enrichment School
is back with new class offerings and the ones participants already love! Our program, designed and facilitated by credentialed teachers from local school districts, provides young people the opportunity to keep learning during summer months through a wide-range of challenging, engaging, and fun classes!
Visit our link for registration
.
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Mulch Madness continues at Art Docents! Visit
www.artdocents.com
for more information and to place an order.
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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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