A New Automated Library - Easy to Search & Easy to Find
Flash: Barnes and Noble Book Fair All Day Saturday -
Students who are performing are asked to wear Saklan uniforms!
Flash: Parent Association Meeting Thursday morning, 8:30 AM: Come one, Come All!
Special presentation by child psychologist Katie Fahrner, Ph.D.: “Enhancing the emotional and social development of your child,”
Flash: Click here to RSVP to Katie Fahrner's Presentation on Thursday, December 8th at 8:40am - Church accross the street
Book Fair Saturday-- Walnut Creek Barnes & Noble
1149 South Main Street, Walnut Creek
Store hours: 9:00a.m. – 11:00 p.m
Just in time for your holiday shopping…Present the attached coupon when you check out and Saklan Valley School will receive 20% of your book and music purchases. Grade level recommended reading lists combined with a library wish list will be available.
Special Events include:
· Saklan Valley student poetry readings from 3-4 p.m.*
· Student art on display.*
· Free gift wrapping*
*Poetry readers and volunteers, please make sure you allow time for parking; we ask student presenters to come in uniform.
Click here to download the coupon
Library Automation
On Monday, the library opened using the computer automated system. The on-line book search is now working and will soon be available in all the classrooms. Please be sure to ask your child(ren) about their library experience this week as it was new and exciting! Many thanks to Mrs. Reichow for overseeing the library during its interim and to parent extraordinare, Clare Barr for her dedication and continued volunteer service. Come to the Library to see for yourself!-- Kim Moebius, Librarian
Picture Galleries
Check out the 2005-06 Classroom Pictures
Third Grade Science - Discovering where energy comes from
Third Grade - Field Trip to Mocha
Student Council Canned Food Drive
In keeping with our annual tradition, the Saklan student council has launched a holiday season canned food drive for two regional charities, the county Food Bank and the STAND against Domestic Violence. The drive runs through Friday the 16th.
For more information, please contact Mr. LaBonte via the school office.
Parent Association Meeting Thursday, December 8th:
Willow Springs Church, 8:40 am
All parents are invited and encouraged to attend our December Parent Association meeting Thursday right after drop-off. Free child care is provided. Please Rsvp for this event at www.saklan.org
Our featured speaker Katie Fahrner will speak on “Enhancing the Social and Emotional lives of your children”. Dr. Fahrner is a practicing clinical child psychologist in San Francisco.
Agenda
8:40 -8:45am Welcome
8:45-8:55am Auction Update
8:55-9: 30am Featured Speaker: Katie Fahrner
9:30-9:50am Head of School Update
Please join us—refreshments are provided.
Caroling for Cans
Middle School Students will gather at Mr. Martin’s home next Wednesday night for their annual Caroling for Cans event. This tradition, now ten years old, entails students in grades six through eight, and often recent Saklan alumni now in high school or college, singing holiday tunes around the Head of School’s neighborhood and collecting canned foods in return for the Food Drive. Students also enjoy pizza, cookies and hot chocolate at Mr. Martin’s home; middle school students are all heartily encouraged to attend.
Grandparents Day
We will happily celebrate Wednesday Feburary 1 our third annual Grandparents Day, on the day following the Annual Concert. Grandparents are also invited to the concert itself.
On this special day grandparents will have the chance to tour the campus and visit briefly in the classrooms of their grandchildren, and then enjoy a pleasant lunch and presentation about the school by the Head of School and members of the Board of Trustees. This is a free event; we will mail out invitations soon to those grandparents we have on our mailing list. If you think we do not have your child’s grandparents on our list, please drop us a line with their addresses.
From the Annual Giving Campaign Committee
After another two weeks of campaigning, we have made great progress going forward with our vitally important Annual Giving Campaign. We have now crossed the 50% participation mark (on a goal of 100%), and our receipts now total nearly $142,000 (on a goal of $160,000).
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Baker Barattolo Barendregt Barr Beard/Saft Beaubelle Beisner Binder Brandt Brisbo Carrasco Chen Field (Rossiter) Cole Cook Deane Grundmann Demers/Conlon DeSilva Dey Eckstein |
Estorge (Stratford) Felton Fenske Filter Firstenberg Fong Franklin Freda Gordon Griessel Guinon (Markeley) Heutmaker Hill Hill Johnson/Jolivet Jump Lawicki Liepmann Lumley Macauley |
Manning Marseilles Martin Oeth Orpilla Rice Richards Robinson Rokas Salem Schioldager Skwarecki SooHoo Sorrentino Stevenson Thimesch Toudic Trinkus Vaughn Wilcox Williams Yares |
This is the high phase of our campaign—we are very determined to conclude it by early in the New Year—but we need your pledges to help us finish this effort. We are very eager both to secure the highest participation rate possible, and to meet our financial goal of $160,000. Exceeding our goal is a great thing too—it provides us more opportunities to invest more in improving our facilities, grounds, and classroom equipment. Join us soon with your completed pledge card—your pledge itself does not need to be fulfilled until school year’s end! Make your pledge and join the list!
Extended Day News
We are happy to welcome a new member to our Extended day staff, Alyson Stout. Alyson is herself a former Saklan student who spent many an afternoon here in the Extended Day program from Kindergarten through Third Grade. She now joins our team as an Elementary Extended day teacher. Alyson is replacing David Eric, for whom we wish the best in all his future endeavors.
Alyson is a graduate of Campolindo High School and Loyola University in Chicago where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. She has worked at Camp Arroyo as an art director, as a day care provider, as well as an art teacher. We are excited to have such a talented, caring person working with our Saklan students.
REMINDERS
I have two important reminders about the next two weeks in Extended Day. The first reminder is that Wednesday, December 14th Extended Day will be closing at 4 p.m. This is the evening of our faculty holiday party, and we would like all our staff members to attend the party. The second reminder is that school is dismissed at noon on Friday, December 16th. Extended Day will be open until 6 p.m.
Winter Enrichment
We are accepting winter enrichment registration forms now. All new forms are available in the Extended Day foyer. We are offering our usual Gymnastics, Science, Dance, Chess, Voice, Spanish, and Kid’s Kuisine. We have added Cartooning class for elementary students in grades 1 through 5. All forms and payments should be turned in to Kim Carlock or Karen Lane. Please check out our new bulletin boards and fantastic art work also!
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