Waldo’s Halloween Festival

Waldo’s Halloween Festival

October 30, 2009  

Volunteers needed!

Please contact Patti Medina

dija2027@yahoo.com

if you are able to help in any way.

 Help needed for:  

• Set up (tents/tables, etc.)
• Haunted House/Decorations
• Games/Contests
• PTA Booth
• Class Basket Coordinator
• Silent Auction Coordinator
• Clean up

Getting Healthier is A Walk in The Park

Saturday September 19 McCambridge Park 9:30am Registration & T-Shirt pickup 10:30am One-mile Walk through McCambridge Park 11:30am Picnic & Entertainment America On the Move Week with the YMCA is a nationwide event to inspire individuals and families to incorporate healthy activities into their daily routines. The Burbank Community YMCA is inviting everyone- individuals of all ages, families, kids (dogs too!) to enjoy a mile walk with us, followed by a healthy lunch, music, games and family entertainment in McCambridge park. Bring a healthy lunch from home and get healthy with us. For more information call 818.845.8551 or go to www.burbankymca.org for more information.

Fall Festival

Help needed to put together a great Fall Festival. 

• Two volunteers who would solicit items from businesses (ask Trader Joes, etc., for gift certificates) – I have the list of numbers and faxes all you would need to do is make the phone call
• A volunteer to look for parent/student volunteers to work the event
• A volunteer to be in charge of gathering donated items
• Extra miscellaneous (do a little of everything) volunteer

 If you are interested.  Please either email Patti Medina (Jacob Perez’s Mom- Mrs. Gisel’s 4th Grade) at dija2027@yahoo.com or call her at  818-288-6780.
  
  

Emerson Time Travelers and Talent Show

Please read the attached file from Emily Wiese. She is the chairperson for both Time Travelers and Talent Show this year.

 

Please email her with any questions or comments at emily@thewieses.com.

 

Greetings Emerson Parents!

For those of you who may not know me. I’m Emily Wiese. This will be my first year taking over the Talent Show and Time Traveler program, and I know that I’m going to need you to heip me make the transition so seamless that the kids don’t even notice it! So, if you’re receiving this (even if you’ve already expressed Interest to-PTA), please contact me directly with your response. I’ve listed below the areas with which I believe I’ll need help. And, if you’ve helped in previous years/ please, also contact me to let me know as I don’t have the luxury of knowing who did what for last year’s coordinator.

TIME TRAVELERS:  for these of you who aren’t familiar with,  it is-a-living history program in which actors will visit the classrooms in character and share their life stories with the children. This is one of my favorite programs because it debunks the image that history is boring. Instead, it makes history come alive, especially, for the little ones. They’ll go home and excitedly tell their parents that Sacagawea came to see them in class and that they got to talk with her!  

For the Time Travelers program I’ll need:  docents for grade levels 1 through 5.

The docent is responsible for guiding the Time Traveler to his/her classroom schedule; introducing the Traveler to the class; and saving his/her patootie if the class starts to get rambunctious by moving on to the next class. You basically need to be a gracious host/hostess as Emerson is our home. You would need to be available three separate times during the school year (October, February, and April) with more specific dates to come. And if any of you know talented actors, talk to them about volunteering their time. Trust me, if they can survive a classroom full of some of the toughest critics, they can do anything.  Feel free to pass on my contact info to them with Time Travelers in the subject line.

THE TALENT SHOW will be a bit different this year.  It’ll be at Emerson (specific dates to follow) and broken up into two [2) nights, one for Act I and the other for Act 11.  My goal is to kind of have an. assembly line from the green room to the stage- You’ll see below.

For Talent Show, I’ll need:

1. Assistant – someone to help me stay organized and help with procuring whatever might be needed, i.e. a spotlight

2. Sound technician

3. Lighting technician

4. Stage manager – I’ll try to get the middle schoolers again this year to be your crew.

5. Room parents – you’ll help keep children in the green room from getting too crazy; two (2) – three (3) would be good (you would work the night your child is NOT performing) for each night- -

6. Wranglers – you’ll help guide each art to their backstage area; again, two (2) – three (3) would be good for each night [again, NOT on the night your child is performing)

7. Volunteer coordinator – you’ll need to recruit someone for treat sales (parents should be encouraged to donate items); ushers to help audience get into the auditorium without getting trampled as well as prevent some from “saving” seats; and an optional “gram” booth (last few years it was flowers; but we can deliver star-shaped personal messages instead). Any ideas are welcome.

Please let me know if I’ve missed anything, especially those of you who are returning!  Also, I am VERY open to accepting help from anyone with performing experience (particularly, dancing; but I’m not going to quibble).

That’s all for now, folks! And thank you in advance for your help.

 

STUDENTS SAVING PROGRAM:

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As you are well aware, Washington Mutual is no longer doing business in California. We have been working diligently to find another bank to continue our Students Saving Program. We are pleased to announce that California National Bank will be doing our student savings program. First day of Students Saving Program will start on Tuesday, September 22, 2009. It will be at our school on the first and third Tuesdays of each month.

If you need any additional information or have any questions, please email Jodi at hjasg2002@yahoo.com.

Stuff Wanted

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue… it’s good luck for any event so check the items we need for the

Friday April 17th Spring Art Fair.

Something Old…

• ___ Used Cell Phones –next week bring in any old phones you have to be recycled. Donate in the office or at the Fair and Emerson gets cash back!

• ___ Recycled Art Materials – bring small things to auditorium, bring boxes & potting soil the day of the fair only!
• Appliance boxes (all sizes), Colored Markers, Craft Glue, Feathers, Sequins, Stickers, Colored hair gel, Bubble wands, 16oz water bottles (Clean w/lids), 20lb bag of potting soil, Clear Packaging tape, Colored Masking tape.

• ___ Bring your clean T-shirts, socks or other cotton dyeable goods to the fair if you would like to tye-dye your own stuff.

• ___ Toys and books for prizes, put in donation box in work room:
  - New & gently used kid & pre teen books
  - Small toys such as party favors or kids meal give aways. – must look new, but doesn’t have to be in original packaging.

• ___ Big Baskets for the Silent auction Baskets – drop off in workroom

Something New…

• ___ Silent Auction Baskets – to donate materials or cash to the basket send things in to your child’s teacher who will give it to the parent representative.

Adkins – Art Supplies
Chung – Movie Night
Vosper -Eco-Friendly Cleaning Supplies
Pearson – Weekend Breakfast
Hanson – Lego My Lego’s
Iffrig – Fitness
O’Brien – Baking Fun (anything used to bake-cookbook, aprons, rolling pins, cookie cutters, etc.)
Swartz – “S” Basket – things starting with the letter S
Mehta – Sleepover Supplies (sleeping bag, flashlight, small tote, etc.)
Byrd – Magic Tree House book set
Cotrel – Science fun
Keim – Around the house -Wolfgang Puck Double Burner Buffet Set and various kitchen utensils/tools included
Keim – I Scream for Ice Cream Krups ice cream maker and coupons for burbank ice cream and yogurt
Andrews – Beach Fun
Dobbin – Dinner In (anything used to cook-cookbooks, utensils, aprons, etc.)
Engel – Picnic Fun
Blalock – Personal Time
Hartman – Space
Gisel – pet pampering
Fox – Harry Potter
Jankiewicz – Toy’s for Boys & Girl’s Just Want to Have Fun
D’Andrea – Family Games
Bravo – Getting Ready for Middle school
McNutt/Carr - Twilight

• ___ Sodas and water for the Drink Sale – bring to auditorium any time

• ___ Baked goods for the Bake Sale – bring the day of the fair.

• ___Latex exterior paint in pints or gallons in Orange, Pink, Medium Blue, Dark Blue, Yellow, Lavender and Emerald Green

Something Borrowed…

• ___ Easy Up Tents, please bring easy ups labeled clearly with your name to the fair that Friday – or contact Karen Broderick or Pam Paterra (info below) for a pick up and return of your Easy-up.

• ___ 6ft folding tables – make sure your name is clearly marked

Something Blue –

• ___ Blue tickets earn prizes, Red tickets are for the Silent Auction($1.00 each), and Orange tickets (.50 cents) are for food and to do all the cool things.

Questions? Contact Karen Broderick at BroderickKaren@g-mail.com or
Pam Paterra at sallypupet@aol.com

Upcoming Dine Outs

Ben and Jerry:  9/9/09

 

Class of 2008 Promotion

Here are 2 clips from the Promotion of the Class of 2008. Double click on the video below to visit YouTube and select “watch in high quality” at bottom right of video.

Stand By Me

The 5th grade choir girls

Palm Tree Wall redux on Thursday after school

Did you miss getting your child’s handprint on the wall at the Spring
Fair? We doing it again after school on Thursday from 2:25 – 3:30
down by the lower San Jose Gate. It’s still $5.00 donation for a
print – or we’ll take Spring Fair tickets if you still have them. Get
your child’s handprint on the wall while those hands are still little!
Also – last chance for you graduating 5th graders!

Also – We will have the Talent Show DVD’s there for $10.00 each so
plan to pick up your copy Thursday!

The Green Bags and Canvas bags we have left from the fair will also be
out there so if you missed the chance to get one of these great
reusable grocery bags here is your chance. Proceeds from all of these
items go directly to programs for your children via the PTA.

PTA Volunteer Directory – updated

Below are links to the updated directory of volunteers at Emerson. You can find out phone #’s and e-mail addresses of other parents listed by their child’s classroom. It is available as a web page to view or a downloadable pdf. If you are not on this list and would like to be, or if there is a mistake with your listing please email BroderickKaren@gmail.com with corrections. This list is only for the use of Emerson parents.

View the list

Download the list

The pdf version is also available in the “etc.” area of the site – lower right pane