ALMOND THURSDAY WORD
June 8, 2017

UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER

• Thursday, 6/8
  • Last Day of School
  • 6th Grade Promotion (multi doors open @ 8:45am, ceremony @ 9am)
  • MINIMUM DAY (school starts *8:30am* and ends at *11:30am*)

SCHOOL MESSAGE

Have a wonderful summer!  

PTA & SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS - NEW

SCHOOL SUPPLIES FOR 2017-2018

• Last chance to order for FREE school delivery!   You can quickly and easily order your supplies for next year!  
• Order by June 10th for DISCOUNTED PRICE and FREE school delivery, OR order by July 12th for home delivery (shipping charges apply).
• School-Pak is the simple way to shop for school supplies.  You'll enjoy brand name products you know and trust, pre-packaged kits that meet teacher approved lists, and easy payment options.
• Please email Deidre Caldbeck at dhollars@gmail.com if you have any questions.

BE AN ALMOND NEW FAMILY AMBASSADOR
Joining Almond with children who are older than kindergarten can be intimidating, especially coming from another part of the US or another country, and we would like to help make it less so. Our community is becoming more and more diverse, in large part because so many people are moving here from the other parts of the globe, but that makes understanding and integration even more challenging. As part of my PTA New Families role, I am hoping to recruit some families who are willing to be resources for families who are new to Almond this coming fall, with children in grades 1 to 6. We will provide the new folks with a "frequently asked questions" guide, and I will offer to answer questions along with the amazing Almond office team, but it would be great to match them up with a family they can email or call with extra questions, ideally in their native language and/or with children in the same sort of grades. If you are willing to be an Almond New Family Ambassador, please email me on zsofip@hotmail.com. Please include your name, the grades of your children in 2017-18, and -- if applicable -- which other language(s) you speak/where you are originally from. Thanks in advance! Zsofia Puszta-McIntyre

PTA HOT LUNCH
Dear Hot Lunch Recipient Parents,
Your PTA is in need of two parents to volunteer to help coordinate hot lunch for the 2017-2018 school year. The positions and descriptions are as follows:

• Hot Lunch Volunteer Coordinator - schedules the daily parent volunteers for hot lunch service, puts out the volunteer schedule before each semester, inputs automated reminder for workers shifts, educates new parents on the hot lunch process and rules, recruits parent volunteers as needed.
• Hot Lunch Liaison - communicates with our vendor Pasta Market on all issues including menu,  stocks the lunch rooms supplies and puts up weekly menu signs.

In addition we need parents to volunteer to serve hot lunch.  

• Hot Lunch Volunteers - oversee hot lunch delivery, serve hot lunch with Pasta Market staff, record refrigerator temperature, help 6th grade students should any issues arise, can do bi-monthly, monthly, 2x/week, weekly.

Hot lunch at Almond School is run by the PTA and is an elective program that is dependent on parent volunteers.  It is a program that will be discontinued if we do not have enough volunteer support.  During the last year we have negotiated 2 staff from Pasta Market to help which has cut our volunteer needs in half but we still need to fill these positions or we are in danger of losing the program.
Thank you for considering,
Rachel Harnish
PTA Executive Vice President
rachelharnish@yahoo.com

S.O.A.R. CELEBRATIONS
(listed alphabetically by last name)

• Ruthann Bruzelius, 6/1/17, Respecting self and others
• Grace Chen, 6/1/17, Owning learning
• Sofia Colace, 6/1/17, Owning learning, Always making good choices
• Jon Leonard, 6/1/17, Always making good choices
• Conor McIntyre, 6/6/17, Always making good choices
• Ava Sabharwal, 6/6/17, Solving problems, Owning learning, Always making good choices, Respecting self and others
• Daniel Sopapunta, 6/1/17, Solving problems
• Niki Tan, 6/1, Always making good choices
• Roman Steciw, 6/1/17, Always making good choices, Respecting self and others
• Yuta Watanabe, 6/6/17, Owning learning - Wow!  Yuta has learned so much English!
• Alex Winey, 6/1/17, Always making good choices
• Stephanie Yen-ko, 6/6/17, Solving problems, Owning learning, Always making good choices, Respecting self and others

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