February 1, 2010

New Announcements:

 

·         WOW Winners:  Congratulations to this week’s WOW winners who were “caught being good” by showing their “mega-skills.”

 

Riane A. from Mr. Blair’s class

Isabella C. from Ms. Faber’s class

Jared J. from Ms. Koby’s class

Alyssa G. from Ms. Fagerbourg’s class

Anjali K. from Ms. Costa’s class

Kolton V. from Ms. Hughes’ class

Kendra H. from Ms. Siskind/ Ms. Vanasupa’s class

Haley R. from Ms. Drain/Fissore’s class

Marlon A. from Ms. Rodriguez’s class

Andrew R. from Ms. Macias’ class

Owen T. from Ms. Frank/Windham’s class

Atticus M. from Ms. Biven’s class

Amy V. from Ms. Parkhurst’s class

Madison Q. from Ms. Garrahan’s class

Hanna C. from Ms. Tayeb’s class

Morgan C. from Ms. Schaeffer’s class

·         DESEF Auction is Here! The Disney  Education Foundation’s online auction is NOW OPEN and runs through February 9. Additionally, the live auction / dinner / casino night gala is scheduled for Saturday, February 27. Tickets are still for sale to this fabulous event. You can purchase tickets to the live auction event online at the auction site.

I am truly looking forward to my first auction event here at Disney. I want to especially thank DESEF and especially Michelle Cordoba for her leadership in organizing this fundraising effort. The prizes that will be auctioned off are incredible. With the continued cuts that we anticipate coming from the recently released Governor’s budget, we know that our operating budget for the 2010-2011 school year will be a challenge, to say the least. With funds from the state decreasing, the local fundraising efforts of schools become increasingly important to ensure that our children have the high quality education that they deserve. The funds raised from events like the upcoming auctions will fund critical programs here at Disney Elementary such as our library, technology, art program, and classroom / intervention aides.

 

·         DESEF Auction Poster Contest: Congratulations to our student winners! Thank you to all our student artists who participated. I’d like to especially thank Sherry Rosso who organized this contest.

 

Online Auction Poster Winners
 
Kindergarten – 2nd Grade
 
1st Place: Matthew H – Thelan
2nd Place: Chris H – Drain/Fissore
3rd Place: Ian D - Drain/Fissore
Honorable Mention: Siddharth K – Drain/Fissore
 
 3rd Grade – 5th Grade
 
1st Place: Juliette M - Rodriguez
2nd Place: Rohith K - Schaeffer
3rd Place: Simrin S - Biven
 
Certificates for Largest Class Participation go to Ms. Drain/Ms. Fissore (K-2nd) and Ms. Biven (3rd – 5th)!
 
Posters will be displayed in the halls, near the library. Please come in to see our students' display!

 

·         SRVEF 1^st Annual Read-a-thon: The San Ramon Education Foundation is holding their first every read-a-thon to raise funds and, at the same time, promote the critical skill of reading. At Disney, we will promote and encourage students to participate in the read-a-thon, however, we will promote the read-a-thon part without the fundraising aspect for this year. We strongly support SRVEF, however, we have our DESEF auction event currently running and our WDPTA spell-a-thon event coming in the near future. I feel strongly that we cannot go to our community one more time for additional fundraising. If you and your child would like to obtain pledges and participate in the fundraising portion, you can visit the SRVEF Read-a-thon website. There are prizes and incentives for students who participate in just the reading aspect as well. Our wonderful librarian, Dianna Rom, will give students information about the read-a-thon during their library time.

·         Parking in Front of Kids Country: We have observed an increasing number of cars illegally parked in front of Kids Country both before school and at the 9:30 drop off time for our late readers. When cars are parked in the loading zone curb, other cars cannot safely drop off children at the curb. Some cars are resorting to dropping off their children in the middle of the lane. Please find parking in our parking lot or on Pine Valley Road and walk your child into Kids Country to create a safer parking lot for our children and community.

 

 

Recurring Announcements:
         

·         Escrip – Did you know you can sign up for E-Scrip, register your Safeway card and/or your credit cards to the secure service, and earn money for Disney Elementary by just doing your normal and holiday shopping? This is the simplest thing to do. We would love to see 100% participation in this program. It is  quick and painless and as a result each time you shop you  know you are supporting our school. The link is http://www.escrip.comand I promise it only takes a few minutes but can yields thousands of dollars for us.  You can link to your Safeway Card as well as several different credit cards. Take your pick ..all will help out our school.