HAPPENINGS & HELP WANTEDS FOR WEEK OF: DECEMBER 12-16, 2011

Calling All Bakers! Please bring your favorite homemade baked goods to add to our bake sale table during the holiday programs! The bake sale opens at 8am on Wednesday, December 14. Bring items directly to the bake sale table on this day. You will find us outside the auditorium entrance. Questions? Contact: Kathy Smith (kathysmith@xiola.com).

Walgrove Talent Show 2012 Reminder! You should have received in your child's folder a notice for the upcoming talent show auditions, open to first - fifth graders. Auditions will be held on January 13 and the show will be performed twice on January 27. Please read the flyer and send in the slip by January 13 if your child would like to audition. You can contact me, Brooke Wirtschafter (brookewirt@yahoo.com) or Melissa Ross (melissaross23@yahoo.com) if you need another flyer, have any questions or if you would like to help.

HAPPENINGS THIS WEEK

Tuesday, December 13: ZJ Boarding House ‘Give Back Tuesdays’ Holiday School Fundraiser, 3:00-7:00pm, 2619 Main St., Santa Monica. ZJ Boarding House has decided to donate 15% of sales every Tuesday from Nov. 29th - Dec. 20th. Just mention Walgrove at check-out and they will apply the donation to our school. Rock out with your kids and buy some last minute gifts to support our school. Walgrove bands The BadBoyz and The Ghouls will be playing in the store on the last night of the promotion, Dec 20. Contact: Lynn Jones (lynnjones310@gmail.com).

Wednesday, December 14:

• WINTER SING Holiday Performance, 8:45am and 1:15pm, Auditorium. The Winter Sing is being professionally filmed! Pre-order your DVD by calling 310-706-5368 or emailing statchecka1@yahoo.com. Pre-order price is $10 and day of will be $12. StatChecka will be donating $2 of every sale back to Walgrove. When pre-ordering, please specify which performance you would like. They will be filming both the 8:45am and the 1:15pm performances. You will receive your DVD right after the performance, so please see Joseph after the show.
• HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE! 8:00am-3:00pm, Walgrove Campus. Save your shopping for this amazing event where we will have over 17 vendors selling their crafts, arts and amazing merchandise all to benefit the 4th grade trip to Sacramento!
• Farmers' Market, 2:00pm-4:00pm, Morningside Gate. $25/bag with $2 of every bag sold going to Walgrove. Orders must be placed by Sunday night at: info@csacalifornia.org or check out the website to find out what's in this week's bag at: www.csacalifornia.org. For questions about food or to get more involved, contact: Kali (info@csacalifornia.org).

Thursday, December 15: School Site Council (SSC) Meeting, 2:45pm, Library. Childcare will be available. The cost is $3 per child. All parents are welcome and encouraged to attend. Contact: John Fischer (jfischer@serve.net).

Friday, December 16: Last Day of School before Winter Break!!! School will dismiss at 12:29pm.

HELP WANTEDS

See’s Candies Volunteers Needed! We need your help delivering the See's Candies to all the classrooms! Deliveries will take place TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, from ROOM 19 (next to the Cafeteria area). Please contact me if you are able to lend a hand. Julie Dair (juliedair@yahoo.com).

Spanish Translator Needed! We are looking for someone who can help us translate our flyers and newsletters into Spanish and also be available to translate at the monthly FOW meetings. You must read, speak and write English and write Spanish fluently. This is a “Community Representative” position with a flexible and limited number of paid hours. The person will be an LAUSD employee and will need to get processed by the district. Questions? Contact: Olivia Adams, Principal (oadams@lausd.net).

Valet Drop-Off Program Volunteers Needed! We are ready to start our Valet Drop-off program at the front of school as soon as we can gather a group of parent volunteers (3-4 needed each day of the week) to set-up, run, and put away the supplies each day (a commitment from about 7:30am-8:10am). People can commit to a single day, or multiple days depending on what their schedules allow. I need interested people to contact me ASAP to let me know what days they are available, and then I can move forward with getting school police out here to train us all. This program has been such a success the last two times I implemented it at schools, I really hope we can get the parent support to get it up and running! Contact: Olivia Adams, Principal (oadams@lausd.net).

Studio Lab Donations Wanted! Studio Lab is looking for donations of recycled materials such as bottle caps, plastic caps, spools, corks, toilet paper tubes, paper towel tubes, empty tape rolls, lids from jars, any kind of wire, etc. (Nothing too large.) Contact: Ariel Park (arielpark@verizon.net) or Julia Gonzales (juliag@gmail.com).

Blocks and Legos Donations Needed for Kinder Yard! Do you have blocks/legos that your children have outgrown? Please donate them to the Kinder Yard! We would also love crayons and drawing paper. Please bring donations to the Main Office. Questions? Contact: Olivia Adams, Principal (oadams@lausd.net).

LOOKING AHEAD

Monday, December 19 – Friday, January 6: WINTER BREAK – SCHOOL CLOSED. Happy Holidays, Everyone!

Monday, January 9: First Day of School After Winter Break

Tuesday, January 10:

• EARLY Dismissal, 1:30pm.
• FOW Meeting, 6:30pm-8:00pm, Library. Childcare will be provided as usual in Room 5, $3/child or $5/family. Contact: Sarah Reimers, FOW President (walgrovesarah@gmail.com).

Friday, January 13: Talent Show Auditions, during lunch/recess, Auditorium.

Monday, January 16: Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday -- NO SCHOOL

If you want something posted in our weekly “Happenings and Help Wanteds,” please e-mail the event with date, times, place, and contact information to Caroline Diaz (caroline.diaz@gmail.com).