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Coming up Ohlone Events
Ohlone Family Orchestra Night -- 5/3 Ohlone family musicians are gathering for an evening of making music together. ♫♪ ♫ ♫♪ ♫ CALLING ALL MUSICIANS: Bring your instrument and join the ensemble! (Come and play, even if you didn't sign up yet.) Monday, from 5.30-6.45PM, MP Room Conducted by Jindong Cai, Director of Orchestral Studies, Stanford There will be a light snack from 5:30 to 5:45, with the music portion of the evening from 5:45 to 6:45. Questions? Contact bibianalee@earthlink.net 650 561-4183 CVC Meeting -- 5/4 All are welcome to the final working Core Values Committee meeting of the school year on Tuesday May 4th, 7:30 in the staff lounge. The agenda thus far is fairly quick:
Talent Show MCs needed -- Sat 5/8 Saturday May 8th, 4.30pm to 6.30pm, at the Ohlone Talent Show Looking for 5th Graders to MC the Talent Show (half hour slots). Please call or email leighrowe@gmail.com (494-2385) by Wednesday May 5th. Spring Fling Picnic & Talent Show -- Sat 5/8 - 4 pm Join us for our annual Spring Fling picnic and Talent Show. Bring a picnic dinner or purchase one here from All-Sports Catering. Enjoy the varied talents of the Ohlone student community, enjoy field games, and purchase ice cream sundaes to support the 5th Grades' Promotion celebration. Talent Show at the Spring Fling -- 4:30 pm Calling talent of all kinds! Individuals or groups! Any age! Entries must be received by Wednesday May 5th via: email leighrowe@gmail.com phone 494-2385 or complete form and leave in school office. Name(s).............................................................. Phone............................................................... email ................................................................. Age(s)...................... Room #.............................. Briefly describe your act............................................. ............................................................................ Please note: Acts limited to 2mins solo or 3mins group. Only one act per entrant, either solo or group. Are you providing background music burnt to CD? If so, bring it with you. Sign in backstage at 4pm on day of Spring Fling to receive your time slot. E(lectronic) waste collection : Sat 5/8 from 9am to 3 pm Start clearing out your garage and home of unwanted electronic waste. Items that can be recycled include:
Klutz Fundraiser -- Benefits Ohlone -- Sat 5/8 Mark your calendars for the Klutz 15th Annual School Benefit Day on Saturday, May 8th from 10:00am to 6:00pm. Since the Klutz retail site has closed, here's your chance to stock up on fun craft and activity books and gifts from the great Klutz collection and benefit Ohlone with 100% of your purchase! Klutz will give 100% of sales to the public school of your choice...it's practically like paying Ohlone directly! Fundraiser held at the Klutz office parking lot at 450 Lambert Avenue in Palo Alto (note location). Shop early for best selection, then head over to Spring Fling which starts at 4:00pm. Questions? evelyncox@att.net The "Drive Less Challenge" continues through May 6th Show your care for the planet---and our local piece of it---by walking, biking, riding the bus, or carpooling to school. The Drive Less Challenge is a social competition to reduce the amount of driving – the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and the only source of traffic congestion --- in the Bay Area . See the website drivelesschallenge.com to sign up for the game-like contest, to log your daily, non-car trips, to share stories about alternatives to driving, and to get inspiration from other people's stories. Farm Work Day -- Sun 5/16 All the rain has been wonderful for the plants AND weeds. We look forward to seeing you out on the farm in two weeks. Enjoy the Spring Fling and Mothers Day next weekend. -- Brian Simulation Days -- Calling All Patriotic Parents -- 5/18 On May 18, 19 and 20, our 4/5th grade classrooms will be participating in a Colonial Simulation. History really comes alive in the months leading up to the simulation. Students are taking part in many activities including a colonial go-around, storytelling from historical characters, learning trades, taking on a persona for the simulation and earning the cost of their passage to the New World. During the 3-day simulation, students will establish their settlements and work towards becoming a self-sufficient colony. We'd like to invite you to participate in our simulation. See our flyer (or the Arrow): http://ohloneweb.com/flyers/Calling%20All%20Patriotic%20Parents!.pdf Helpers needed:
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Summer Math Camp Open House -- 5/3 We would like to invite parents and students to our Open House which will be held on May 3rd, Monday, at 7:00 pm in JLS Middle School (480 I. Meadow Dr., Palo Alto) Room 730. This is a great opportunity to meet with our teachers, learn more about Classic Math School overall teaching principles and ideas as well as School-Year-Round programs. Your questions will be answered, your students will be offered a free Placement Test, mandatory for students in grades 4 and above, but recommended for all students. Light refreshment will be served. The Open House Night is also the time, when we expect you to complete your enrollment process to secure your child's space in the Summer Math Camp. Please be advised that we do not accept credit cards, only checks or cash. We are looking forward to meeting you and your child on May 3rd! Girls Leadership Institute Workshops -- Tues 5/4 (start) The Duveneck PTA is proud to sponsor a series of workshops to help support the social development of girls. Want to empower your daughter to make real friends, communicate honestly and directly, and be her real self? The Girls Leadership Institute will introduce her to the critical skills she needs to speak and listen with courage, improve parent-daughter communication patterns, and establish strong habits for her to take into her friendships. She'll receive personal attention in these small groups and will take home great memories and life-changing skills. When: Tuesdays, May 4, 11, 18, 25, 2010, 6:00pm to 7:30pm Where: Duveneck MP Room Who: 2nd/3rd Grade Girls/Parents Fee: $150 for one girl and one parent To register, go to GLI website - http://www.girlsleadershipinstitute.org/programs/sf-bay-area-programs CAC Parent Ed: Cognitive Therapies presented by a panel of therapists -- Wed 5/5 Wed. May 5, 7-9pm, Covington Elementary School Multipurpose Room, 205 Covington Road, Los Altos. Cognitive enhancement with programs such as PACE, Brainware Safari, Cogmed, Interactive Metronome, and Captain’s Log can provide many benefits to all students. These programs use brain-based learning and assist those that need extra boosts with their auditory and visual functions and short and long term memory. Sound therapy can also play an important role in cognitive enhancement. Come hear several speakers discuss the benefits of these alternative approaches for students with LD, ADHD, and ASD. Free, no registration necessary. Sponsored by the SELPA 1 CAC (www.selpa1cac.org) Po Bronson: NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children -- Thu, 5/6 Thurs. May 6, 7-9pm, Haymarket Theatre, Paly. Po Bronson is the author of six bestselling books, including the #1 NY Times bestseller, What Should I Do With My Life? His most recent book, co-written with Ashley Merryman, is NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, whose central premise is that many of our society’s strategies for nurturing children are backfiring because key twists in the science have been overlooked. Sponsored by Palo Alto PTA Council. Free, but seating is limited. Books will be available for purchase. Info: Sunny Dykwel, sdykwel@kwrpa.com, or Mandy Lowell, mndlowell@gmail.com. Flyer: info.paloaltopta.org/docs/100506PoBronsonFlyer.pdf How To Survive Middle School - From A Girls Point of View -- 5/7 or 5/8 Join us for an information night for moms and daughters entering middle school next year. Middle School is a big transition, and these girls know all about it. Learn what they wished they knew before they started at JLS this year. Ask your questions, and get some peace of mind from girls who have survived and thrived. Sponsored by Palo Alto Girl Scout Troop 60697. Who: Moms and Girls entering 6th Grade What: Question and answer seminar with 6th grade girls Where: Fairmeadow Elementary School library When: Friday May 7 from 7:00-8:30 p.m. or Saturday May 8 from 1:00-2:30 p.m. Why: to help girls and their parents with the transition to middle school Sponsored by Girl Scout Troop 60697 The Future of Public Education in California - A Candidate Forum for the Assembly District 21 Seat -- Sat 5/8 Sat. May 8, 10-11:30am (doors open at 9:30am), Board Room, 25 Churchil. Josh Becker, Founder of New Cycle Capital, Rich Gordon, Supervisor in San Mateo County, and Yoriko Kishimoto, former Mayor of Palo Alto, are in a hotly contested primary race for California's 21st Assembly District to replace Ira Ruskin, who will be termed out at the end of 2010. Come hear their thoughts as they respond to pertinent education issues of the day. Sponsors include The Midpeninsula Community Media Center, area PTAs, Community Advisory Committee for Special Education, and California Charter Schools Association. The Media Center will televise and stream the event. Cantabile Youth Singers May/June Sign Up for Fall 2010 -- Thu 5/13 Auditions and Demonstration Classes May 13, June 5, 7. Cantabile Youth Singers, an organization of five choirs serving children ages 4 to 18, is opening enrollment for the fall semester. Classes include age appropriate ear training, music theory, and vocal technique, as well as movement, performance, and fun. Contact Cantabile for more information about our classes, and to watch Cantabile students in action: 424-1410, info@cantabile.org, or www.cantabile.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Summer Camps ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Soccer Camps & Fall Program The Palo Alto AYSO soccer programs are on again this year. The parent volunteers of AYSO have organized summer camps and of course, the fall program that is visible all over Palo Alto parks and school fields every year. Early registration has started and offers significant savings. You can find out more at http://www.ayso26.org. - The Fall league runs from Sept to Nov, with 2 weeknight practices and 1 weekend game. Sign up now. - They also have multiple 1-week summer sessions at Hoover Park. You can choose 9-noon or 9-4 pm. Artistic Science Summer Camp July 5 - 9, 9am-3pm, Barrett Community Center, Room D, Quad Rooms 1835 Belburn Dr., Belmont. Grades 2-5. $450 per student per camp $390 per student per camp with early registration by May 1. Schmahl Science Workshops’ summer camps explode the myth that science is dull. Instructors are scientists and engineers who engage students’ curiosity, imagination and creativity using a fun, hand-on approach. In this unique summer camp, students explore the intersection of art and science in the Renaissance tradition. Flyer/registration: palylink.paloaltopta.org/enews/belmontcamp.pdf Science of Leonardo da Vinci Summer Camp June 21 – June 25, 9am-3pm, Barrett Community Center, Room D, Quad Rooms 1835 Belburn Dr., Belmont. Grades 2-5. $450 per student per camp $390 per student per camp with early registration by May 1. In this unique summer camp, students become engineers in the tradition of Leonardo da Vinci. They build clocks, take apart gadgets, design submarines, build rockets, learn about lenses and light, construct trebuchets, drop parachutes, make pinhole cameras, dissect squid and cow eyes and explore anamorphic art. Flyer/registration: palylink.paloaltopta.org/enews/belmontcamp2.pdf Cub Scout Day Camp -- 6/21 - 6/25 Calling all boys in Kindergarten through 4th grades – come to Cub Scout Day Camp June 21-25 and travel through time! Go to the Zulu Wars in Africa! Visit the North and South Poles. Build and sink your own Titanic and help us dig the Panama Canal. Assist the Wright brothers and Mr. Ford in making models of the latest modes of transportation. Also do archery and swimming. 9am to 3 pm daily. Cost: $200. For more information or to register, contact Elizabeth Thompson @650-327-5900 or elizabeth.thompson@scouting.org Summer Taiko at Stanford 2010 -- 7/5 - 7/9 Mon. July 5 - Fri. July 9, 9am-2:30pm, Braun Music Center, Stanford. For 9 to 14 year-olds who are beginners or who can play with "Beginner's Mind". The goal of the camp is to introduce beginners to North American taiko, a dynamic and relatively new Asian American art form with roots in Japan. The philosophy of the camp is to provide an environment for participants which creates a sense of community and a positive attitude towards diversity and creativity. $375, includes instruction by members of San Jose Taiko and Stanford Taiko, bachi (drumsticks), mid-morning snacks, and camp t-shirt. Registration/Info: Linda Uyechi, summertaiko@taiko.org or 494-1321. Info: http://taiko.org/summer-taiko-stanford/ Flyer: http://palylink.paloaltopta.org/enews/summertaiko.pdf 2010 Synchro Summer Camp; Synch into Summer! This summer, try out synchronized swimming in a fun, non-competitive environment. The Santa Clara Aquamaids are hosting beginning synchronized swimming camps at Terman Middle School pool. Classes meet daily Monday through Friday, July 5 -July 16, 1:45-5pm. Info: www.aquamaids.org Excel Swim School Summer Lessons Group and Private Swim Lessons for ages 4 and up. Palo Alto High School Aquatic Center, Sessions Run June 13-July 29. Excel Swim School is managed by Danny Dye, the head Boys and Girls Swimming Coach at Palo Alto High School; the teachers for Excel are members of the Palo Alto High School Swim Team. Info: www.excelswimschool.com or Coach Dye, 861-1093, dyedanny@hotmail.com CSMA Spring and Summer Camps Finn Center, 230 San Antonio Circle, Mountain View. The Community School of Music and Arts has a wide variety of creative classes, offered in the morning and afternoon, for Spring and Summer Art Camps 2010. Spring camp flyer: palylink.paloaltopta.org/enews/csmaspring2010.pdf Summer camp flyer (English): palylink.paloaltopta.org/enews/csmasummer2010.pdf Summer camp flyer (Spanish): palylink.paloaltopta.org/enews/csmaverano2010.pdf Info: 917.6813, mross@arts4all.org, www.arts4all.org MOAH’s 3 Day Summer Camp 2010 -- 6/21 - 6/23 June 21, 22, 23, 9am-4pm, Museum of American Heritage, 351 Homer, Palo Alto. Registration Deadline May 21 Travel back in time and be an old-fashioned American girl. Some of this year’s exciting lavender themed activities include: Quilting for Beginners, Paper Making and Printing, Soap Making and Candle Making, Old-Fashioned Games, Fun & Tea Party, and Hat decorating. Ages 9 and up. Members $300, Non-Members $350, includes all supplies needed for class. Info: 321-1004, www.moah.org India Community Center Summer Camps in Palo Alto Cultural Immersion Camp, June 21–25, K – 5th Grade Hindi Camp (Basic), June 28-July 2, K – 5th Grade Bollywood Dance Camp, July 12–16, K – 5th Grade Gandhi Camp, (Overnight camp in Olema, CA), Aug. 7-14, 5th – 12th Grade Info: www.IndiaCC.org/culturalcamps Lacrosse Summer Camps http://www.athertonlacrosse.com/SummerCamps.html PAUSD Summer School: Middle School Music Opportunities Registration begins April 19; Summer School June 21 - July 16, J.L.Stanford Middle School Music opportunities at PAUSD Summer School include Brass, Clarinet, and Flute Ensembles, Chorus, Band, Chamber String Workshop, and Intermediate String Orchestra. Registration information and forms may be obtained from the district web page at pausd.org. Click on the "Summer School" button and scroll down to "Middle School Program" for registration information and forms. Flyer: palylink.paloaltopta.org/enews/summerschoolmusic.pdf Palo Alto Summer Studio Camp Registration is Underway There is still room in great Summer Studio Camps for youth and teens. Info: 329-2366. To register: enjoyonline.cityofpaloalto.org, 329-2366. Sports Opportunities for Kids The PTA Council has a great summary here: http://info.paloaltopta.org/sports.shtml | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date and Time | 2010-05-02 22:21:16 |