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Joan D. Ziff Educational Therapy for your child

If your child is having difficulties with his/her learning, I am available as an educational therapist in my home. I have worked in this capacity for the last 25 years. I received my Master's Degree from Harvard University in 1985 and have a great deal of experience working with children. My husband, Mr.Yossie Ziff, and I have raised our children as well as a few generations of children in the Los Angeles Unified… Continue

Added by Joan D. Ziff on March 9, 2011 at 9:11pm — No Comments

Joan D. Ziff Educational Therapy for your child

If your child is having difficulties with his/her learning, I am available as an educational therapist in my home. I have worked in this capacity for the last 25 years. I received my Master's Degree from Harvard University in 1985 and have a great deal of experience working with children. My husband, Mr.Yossie Ziff, and I have raised our children as well as a few generations of children in the Los Angeles Unified… Continue

Added by Joan D. Ziff on March 9, 2011 at 9:11pm — No Comments

Dan Lackey My commitment to you!

Dear FOW,

I have met many of you in our community and at our school. I am the father of Viggo and Magnus Christensen and husband to Vanessa Christensen. I am a local Realor and a stakeholder in our great area. I am doing a fair amount of business in the neighbuorhood already. I am commiting to donate 7% of my net commsions earned or refered from the Walgorve School Zone to the FOW . I currently have a house in escrow on Cabrillo and a new listing on Stanwood . My first…

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Added by Dan Lackey on October 25, 2010 at 6:00am — No Comments

michelle boudreaux Free Community Lunch Program at Short Elementary

They are trying to get enough community children to support the Free Lunch program at Short Elementary. It's open to all children and it's free. If you can, please take advantage of this program. If they don't have enough children they will lose the program altogether! =(

For now through July 2, lunch takes place from 12:20 - 1:20.

From July 6 - July 30, lunch will be from 11 - 12.

If you can't take advantage but know of someone who can, please…

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Added by michelle boudreaux on June 23, 2010 at 7:48pm — No Comments

Mark Sim Final reimbursements

Hey all,

I'm going to be stopping by school on Friday afternoon to pick up any last reimbursement requests. Please have all your forms completely filled out, include receipts, and your mailing address. I've received a receipt for Teacher's appreciation day without any reimbursement information, so if you haven't received reimbursements, please contact me.

Thanks,

Mark Sim
Treasurer

Added by Mark Sim on June 17, 2010 at 4:44pm — No Comments

Lisa Tauscher Thanks for a great Walgroovy Hip Hop Party!

Hi all,
Many thanks to all who participated in the Walgroovy Hip Hop party this past Saturday - 52 kids! Cruise on over to Facebook and check out the pix! Stay posted for more Walgroovy Gathering Fundraiser parties for the 2010 / 2011 School year and find out how you can get involved!
Cheers,
Lisa Tauscher & Danielle Seidenglanz
Co Chairs - Fundraising 2010 / 2011

Added by Lisa Tauscher on June 8, 2010 at 2:40pm — No Comments

amy johnson Join us at Westwood Charter to experience Council. Wed 6/9 6:30pm

Joe Provisor from LAUSD Council in Schools program has invited us to attend a Community Council evening at

Westwood Charter on Wednesday night, June 9 6:30 pm This evening will be Westwood's final parent/student/staff council evening for the year. Joe suggested the following: "It would be great to have a group of parents (and staff if they are willing) to see how this event works to bring the whole school community together." Please… Continue

Added by amy johnson on June 7, 2010 at 11:22am — No Comments

Michelle Dean Career Day KUDOS

We

wanted to send a very heartfelt THANK YOU to Ms. Burr, Barbara Pace,

John Fisher, Tamicia and Warner Takaki for an inspirational and

memorable Career Day.



They spent a lot of time planning and organizing and this event was well

worth their efforts. The students were engaged, enthralled and could

not stop talking about the "cool" people who came to talk about their

careers.… Continue

Added by Michelle Dean on June 6, 2010 at 10:01pm — No Comments

Lisa Laichtman Shakespeare Club

Congratulations to Mel Ryane on the huge success of Macbeth! As I sat in the auditorium this afternoon, I could not help but smile as I watched Walgrove families and friends gathering to celebrate the students' work.


Lisa Laichtman…
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Added by Lisa Laichtman on May 27, 2010 at 9:43pm — No Comments

Mel Ryane THE MERRY MONTH OF MACBETH

It is soon upon us, mark your calendars.

The Shakespeare Club's performance of Macbeth.

May 27th
Ambrose Auditorium
Walgrove Elementary

10:30: Dress Rehearsal
1:00: Performance
3:00 Performance
6:00: Performance

Each performance is about 45 minutes in length.

Added by Mel Ryane on May 3, 2010 at 1:52pm — 1 Comment

francine nellis Community Day Success#2

and Troy and Mia Takaki! who forgot to sign in because they were so busy scrubbing Mr. Merick's room. Great job!

Added by francine nellis on March 15, 2010 at 1:34pm — No Comments

francine nellis Community Day Success

Thanks to all who participated in this weekend's Community Day! Congratulate yourselves on a job well done. Classrooms looked and smelled LOADS better and the overall atmosphere was pretty darn joyous. It's not how we'd LIKE to plan our Saturday but people really seemed happy to be there.


It would be great if we could get this thing calendared for next year on a regular monthly basis, for example every 3rd Saturday of the month. That way it would not be quite so…
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Added by francine nellis on March 14, 2010 at 9:32pm — No Comments

Michelle Dean Volunteer Sign Up Sheets...

We hope everyone had a fantastic weekend. I just wanted to send out a friendly reminder...
Please, don't forget to return your green committee sign up sheets this week. Each family is expected to be represented on one school committee and we still haven't heard from many of you. Want to e-mail your sign up of have questions? Contact one of our Volunteer Coordinators -…
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Added by Michelle Dean on March 7, 2010 at 10:28pm — No Comments

Betsy Carver Paperwork for Silent Auction Donations

Could we have the paperwork for the silent auction donations posted to this sight so we can download them to email to potential donors.

Thanks, Betsy

Added by Betsy Carver on February 19, 2010 at 4:42pm — 1 Comment

amy johnson That's a lot of EWASTE!

Hey everyone,



So I want to report that we collected over 25,000 lbs of e-waste on our January 30th event! That's a lot of electronic stuff we unloaded!



In terms of proceeds to the school, Walgrove made:



$850.00 for all the Tvs, Monitors, Flat screens (from the state of California)



$ 60.00 for all the cartridges that were taken to Staples for… Continue

Added by amy johnson on February 16, 2010 at 1:53pm — No Comments

laura groppe Inspiring show - Santa Monica - REGGIO EXHIBIT open for all to come and be amazed.

www.ReggioExhibitLA.xom

This is an awesome and unique opportunity for parents. Come be inspired.

Open Thursday afternoons and Saturday and Sundays.

Check the website for more times and tours.

www.ReggioExhibitLA.com

Added by laura groppe on February 13, 2010 at 5:00am — No Comments

Yu Mei Compton Thank you for a sucessful Artwork for education Fundraiser!

Dear Parents,

Thank YOU all so much for your orders and support of the Artwork for

Education Fundraiser.



We had a total of 230 orders. We raised $1576 and its all going

toward the school and the children will benefit directly from all your

extraordinary efforts in making this happen.

Your orders will be in on February 12.

Also if you forgot to order or want to reorder your child's greeting

cards, you may do so online starting next week at…

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Added by Yu Mei Compton on February 2, 2010 at 2:01pm — No Comments

grace w. thank you for donating your shoes!!

the last minute shoe drive/donation/collection for haiti was fruitful. eight bags of shoes were dropped off at the sport chalet in marina del rey to be collected by soles4souls. :)

Added by grace w. on February 1, 2010 at 11:05am — No Comments

Yu Mei Compton Thank You so much for the E-Waste Event and Bake Sale for Haiti

Just want to give a huge thank you to Amy Johnson for organizing and bringing such a great event to Walgrove and the community. Thank you so much for all your hardwork in making this event a reality and hope this becomes a regular event.
On top of that, thank you to Michelle Dean for making the Bake Sale for Haiti happen. There were so much tasty bake goods to be had.
Kudos to you both!
Yu Mei

Added by Yu Mei Compton on January 31, 2010 at 8:24pm — No Comments

amy johnson Thank you Walgrove! E-waste Event a success!

Thank you Walgrove Community!



Yesterday, we loaded and filled 2 semi trucks full of electronic waste that will be recycled. It was an unbelievable amount of stuff! Our community has a lot more space in our garages today..



We had a steady flow of drop offs all day from 9am till well past 3pm. Our last TV drop was at 5pm! We had families drop off from neighboring schools as well: Beethoven, Ocean Charter, Canyon Charter and beyond. It felt great to be providing this service… Continue

Added by amy johnson on January 31, 2010 at 10:12am — No Comments

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