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| Subject | Ohlone eNews: October 19-26 | ID :174 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Message | 5th Grade Parents Sign up ASAP for middle school tours. Space is limited! To reserve a space, e-mail PiE at info@papie.org with your name and the school you'd like to visit. This filled up quickly last year. Details below. There is also a "Connections" meeting on Thursday. This Week Ohlone Events
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Beach Bingo -- Tuesday 10/20 Time: 6 pm Place: Ohlone MP Room Pull out those shades and shorts!! Bring the family and come ready to sing, play and have fun. Questions? ask Erica @ erica.pelavin@gmail.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Middle School Tours for 5th grade parents -- Sign up ASAP Partners in Education Offers Middle School Tours Fifth-grade parents are invited to visit the district's middle schools in a private tour offered by Partners in Education (PiE). Adults only, space is limited, advanced reservations are required. Please e-mail PiE at info@papie.org with your name and the one school you'd like to visit. All tours will last about 2 hours and start about 8:30 a.m. Tour Dates:
Vision Screening -- Tuesday 10/20 The kinders, 2nd graders, and 5th graders will have their vision tested during the school day. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Learn About the Connections Program at JLS Middle School -- Thurs 10/22 When: 6:30 pm Where: Ohlone MP room Are you a 5th grader or the parent of a 5th grader? Come find out if JLS Connections is right for you! The JLS Connections Program is open to all PAUSD 2010 Incoming 6th graders. Connections is a learning community of students, teachers, and parents where hearts and minds are inspired through challenging, innovative, and relevant teaching practices - including project-based and hands-on learning, differentiated instruction, and leadership development. http://www.jlsconnections.org/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PiE Newsletter Online Read it at http://papie.org/newsletters/sept2009.html Superintendent Kevin Skelly discusses the impending budget shortfall in our District and the ever increasing importance of PiE in the September PiE newsletter! Will your employer match your PiE donation doubling its impact? Check at http://www.matchinggift.com/papie. Join the 1,340 families who have already given their support and donate today at http://papie.org/donPers.shtml Your donations to PiE support programs and staff deemed essential by our school principal. Thank you! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Community ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Parent Ed Program: I Think My Child Needs Help - Now What Do I Do? -- Wed 10/21 Wed. Oct. 21, 7-9pm, Covington Elementary School Multi, 205 Covington Rd, Los Altos A presentation for Special Ed. parents just getting started. The first hour will be a panel presentation by a developmental psychologist, a physical therapist, an occupational therapist, and a speech pathologist who will cover how they assist families who are seeking initial help. Dr. Steve Newton, a Los Altos-based developmental psychologist will discuss private testing and evaluation as well as psychological therapies. During the second hour, the floor will be open for questions and concerns. Sponsored by the SELPA 1 CAC (www.selpa1cac.org) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PTA Reflections Art Show -- submissions due 10/23 All Ohlone artists are encouraged to submit their art to annual PTA Reflections Art Show! Submissions are due Friday, October 23. Enter in either the K-2 or the 3-5 division in the following categories: Visual Art, Literature, Photography, Dance Choreography, Musical Composition or Video Production. Entry forms are in the office. Rules are online at www.capta6.org/reflections/parents.html. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Fairmeadow Elementary School’s 16th Annual Harvest Fair & Haunted House -- Fri & Sat When: Fri. Oct 23 and Sat. Oct. 24 Where: Fairmeadow School, 500 E. Meadow Dr., Palo Alto The 16th annual Fairmeadow Elementary School Harvest Fair features an array of family fun activities, a scrumptious barbeque cooked by seven award-winning chefs from Facebook’s CaféX, and a bone-rattling new graveyard attraction in the ever-shape-shifting, always hair-raising Scaremeadow Haunted House. The Harvest Fair and Facebook Chef Barbeque is on Sat., Oct. 24, 12-4pm. The Scaremeadow Haunted House is open on Fri. Oct. 23 6-10pm, and during the Harvest Fair on Sat. Oct. 24 12-4pm and then later that night 6-10pm. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Community Service Make A Difference Day -- Sat 10/24 Time: Sat. Oct. 24, 8:30am-4pm, Place 1: Ravenswood District Administrative Building, 2120 Euclid Ave, East Palo Alto, and Place 2: James Flood Elementary School, 2033 Pulgas Ave, East Palo Alto Join the national movement of Make A Difference Day hosted by Youth Community Service (YCS). Make A Difference Day is a chance to give back to your community in a tangible way. Youth and families are invited to help paint and garden the Ravenswood District Administrative Building and Flood Elementary School. To sign up for volunteer shifts: www.youthcommunityservice.org Questions: sandra@youthcommunityservice.org or leif@youthcommunityservice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Emergency Prepareness Fair -- Sat 10/24 Sat. Oct. 24, 10am-1pm The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3865 Middlefield, Palo Alto Come to this free, informative Emergency Preparedness Fair to educate yourself on home storage, evacuation planning, water storage, first aid and many other aspects of preparedness. The Red Cross, Fire Department and PANDA associations will all be at the fair with demonstrations and important information. You'll feel good leaving the fair knowing how to keep your family safe. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra 44th Season First Concert -- Sat 10/24 Time: Sat., Oct. 24, 8pm, Place: Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Hall on the Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto The Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra will perform their first concert of the 2009-2010 season, featuring the founder and first violinist of Quartet San Francisco, Jeremy Cohen. PACO will present the world premiere of Cohen's new jazz violin concerto, with Respighi’s lovely Ancient Airs and Dances and the dark, powerful Chamber Symphony based on Shostakovich’s famous String Quartet No. 8. Also on the program will be chamber music featuring the young musicians of the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra. $15 adults, $10 seniors, $5 students. info: 856-3848, www.pacomusic.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gunn High School Fall Choral Concert -- Sun 10/25 Time: Sun. Oct. 25, 7pm, Place: Grace Lutheran Church, 3149 Waverly Street, Palo Alto This annual Fall Concert, presented by the Gunn Choral Department features three excellent Choirs: Concert Choir, Treble Choir and the Chamber Singers, under the direction of William Liberatore. They will perform a program of culturally rich and diverse choral music from around the world. Tickets will be available at the door: $7 adults, $5 students. Info: contact Mr. Liberatore, gunnchoir@aol.com, 354-8287 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Palo Alto High School Fall Choral Concert -- Sun 10/25 Time: Sunday, Oct 25, 7pm, Place: St Mark's Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave, Palo Alto The Fall Concert of the Palo Alto High School Choral Department features the school's award-winning choirs, under the direction of Michael Najar. The program includes Mozart's "Coronation Mass," Lauridsen's "O Magnum Mysterium," and other rich choral music. Tickets available at the door: $7 adults, students free. Get December Madrigal Dinner and Tea tickets before they sell out! Advance ticket sales and other holiday items will be offered by Friends of Palo Alto Choirs. For more info, contact palychoirs@mac.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ La Boheme in Palo Alto -- Sat 10/24 and Sun 10/25 Place: Lucie Stern Theatre, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto If your child enjoyed Ohlone’s performances of La Boheme last year, they (or you!) may be ready for the full opera being performed by Palo Alto’s own opera company, the West Bay Opera, starting this weekend. This is a great company for accessible performances, and has received rave reviews for an opera company its size. La Boheme, by Puccini, is perhaps the most popular opera in the world. This is a fully staged production, with orchestra and chorus, beautiful sets and costumes. Come enjoy some of the most romantic music ever written, as you follow this story of bohemian love, set in turn-of-the-century Paris, to its inevitable ending. Sung in Italian, with English titles. Bryan Nies, conductor. Jimmy Smith, director. Tickets online at www.WBOpera.org or call the box office at 650-424-9999. Production dates are 10/24- 8pm and 10/25 – 2 p.m. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Town Hall -- Live & Online -- "Everything You Wanted to Know & Now Can Ask School Board Members Barb Mitchell and Dana Tom." -- Mon 10/26 Time: Mon., Oct. 26, 7-8:30pm, Place: PAUSD Boardroom, 25 Churchill Ave., Palo Alto. Join as Moderator PTA Council President Terry Godfrey asks School Board members Barb Mitchell and Dana Tom audience questions about education matters that matter before election day. Can't leave home? Watch live over the internet; plug in your speakers or headphones and go to https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/intercalldemo/join?id=TQ3K44&role=attend&pw=InterCall to download Microsoft Office Live (free) and view. Candidate questions can be emailed in before to TownHall@paloaltopta.org or posed during the meeting live or via InterCall's "Q&A" tab. This event is open to the entire community and hosted by the Palo Alto Council of PTAs. 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