WINES TIMES. A Note From Dr DeYoung: WINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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1 WINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SEPT 2015 WINES TIMES A Note From Dr DeYoung: Dear Wines Families, Welcome to a new school year! As you know by now, we have new staff members, new staff placements, and lots of new kids and families!! This is going to be a great year at Wines and I look forward to our year together. For our new families, this Wines Times newsletter will come out monthly. The newsletter contains lots of important information from our PTO and from the school in general. I encourage everyone to take time each month to read through the Wines Times. In addition to the Wines Times, you will receive weekly communication from me and from your child s teacher. My weekly communication will come in the form of my Wednesday and via my blog that can be found at t.com. The blog contains the same information from the Wednesday . Please let me know if you are not receiving my Wednesday messages. I use an system called SchoolMessenger for the mass s. Although the looks like it comes directly from me, it goes through that system and some accounts have been known to block my mass s. Make sure your preferences allow s from the Ann Arbor Public Schools and SchoolMessenger. If you ve been receiving my s over the past couple of weeks, then you should be fine. I also encourage folks to follow me on Twitter this year. I can be The Twitter feed will hopefully contain unique information from Wines that can keep everyone connected even more! This is going to be a great year! As always, please contact me with any questions or concerns. David 1

2 WINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SEPT 2015 WELCOME BACK FROM THE PTO Now that we re all back together we d like to offer an enthusiastic invitation to any and all who would like to get involved with the Wines PTO! We put on some amazing activities and events at Wines beyond the academic day, and we need volunteers to make them happen. Whether you are interested in putting in time at home, volunteering for an event at the school or taking on a board position, we would love to have you! Volunteer sign up sheets will be out on a table at the Back To School Picnic on Thursday, September 10 as well as at Curriculum Night on Monday, September 21. Please take a look at the various committees and find out what interests you. Alternatively, donation forms and envelopes will be coming home either this week or next. Donations can also be made on the PTO website at: We appreciate anything you can donate, whether it be time, funds or participation! Our first PTO meeting of the year will be held on Thursday, October 1st in the Media Center. New families are invited from 6:00 pm until 7:00 pm to learn about PTO events and activities throughout the school year. All families are welcome to join for the general PTO meeting from 7:00 pm until 8:00 pm. Food and childcare will be provided. We will have two additional general PTO meetings this school year on January 21st and May 12th. We will have a speaker at the meeting in January (topic to be announce at a later date) and will hold elections for the executive board at the meeting in May. We are looking forward to another great year working with the families and staff at Wines! -The Wines PTO FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!! 2

3 CALENDAR Sept 9th Setp 21 st Oct 1 st Oct 1 st Oct 2 nd Oct 6 th Oct7 th 6:30pm Back to School Picnic 6:30pm Curriculum Night 6:00pm Kindergarten & New Family Orientation 7:00pm PTO Meeting Walktober (Every Friday in Oct) School Picture Day International Walk to School Day! Check out the the PTO website for event details: NEWS FROM THE MEDIA ROOM We're looking forward to a wonderful year in the Media Center. Our volunteers make it all happen! I will send home schedule information as soon as it is available and hope to begin check out the second week of school. If you haven't volunteered in the library before, maybe this is the year to make it happen. Great things happen during ILT (Information, Literacy, and Technology) at Wines School! Sally Evaldson NEWS FROM THE MUSIC ROOM Welcome new and returning Wines families to the school year! I hope you had a wonderful and restful summer. The year is just getting under way, filled with all the fun songs, games, movement and instruments that we enjoy so much. Parents, please know that you re always welcome to join us for a music class here in room #112. Let me know in advance or just pop in at your convenience. You re sure to have a great time. Watch in the Wines Times for information about grade level shows, 5th grade chorus, 4th grade recorders, and more. Also, the new 3

4 WINES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SEPT 2015 Wines Music website goes live soon: expect more links, information, fun interactive music games and news than ever. Feel free to me at if you have any questions. I m delighted to work with your children - it s going to be a fantastic year of learning music! Ms. Beth McNally THE RUN/WALK-A-THON IS COMING! Our annual Run-a-Thon is on Friday, October 16th two major fundraising opportunities this year. It is also a great day for kids and families! There is more information about the Run-a-Thon in this newsletter. We hope to have 100% participation from our students. GREAT IDEAS GRANTS Do you have a great idea? The Great ideas Grant program is an opportunity for Wines students, parents, and staff to turn a great idea into a funded program to benefit the Wines community! The grant approval committee meets three times each year to vote on applications. In line with Wines effort to go paperless and utilize online applications, we will be using Google Forms app for submissions this year. The deadline is November 1st. The links for the Adult and Child application can be found on the Wines PTO website. Don t let a great idea go to waste! Submit now! Submit several! Contact: Sarah Ball sjcball@yahoo.com 4

5 NEWSLETTER AND WEBSITE NEWS If you would like to submit some news for the Wines Times or the PTO website, please send the details (pictures are always great too!) to We look forward to hearing from you. MYSTERY PICTURE Win a cool prize by identifying these image from Wines. Write what the picture is, your name, and your teacher s name on a piece of paper and submit your guess to answer jar near the Media Center next week. Look for clues at winespto.org. Where is this at Wines??? THE PTO BOARD The PTO Board Members are made up of parents just like you. We have Wines students ranging from K 5 th grade. Please join them at the PTO general meetings or just in the hallways. Co-Presidents: Annemarie Dolan & Nicole Brittis Co-Vice-presidents: Jen Haft and Robin Hescheles Co-Treasurers: Rhonda McCammon & Kirsti Hilbert Communications Secretaries: Colleen van Lent & Kelly Collins Recording Secretary: Kerianne Tupac 5

6 RUN-A-THON IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER! 2015 WINES RUN-A-THON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 9AM-12PM DO YOU OWN OR WORK FOR A LOCAL BUSINESS THAT WOULD LIKE TO HELP SPONSOR RUN-A-THON? ARE YOU INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN THE PLANNING COMMITTEE? THIS IS ONE OF OUR SCHOOL S BIGGEST COMMUNITY-BUILDING FUNDRAISERS. PLEASE CONSIDER HELPING BY PARTICIPATING IN THE PLANNING, VOLUNTEERING ON THE DAY OF THE EVENT OR BEING A BUSINESS SPONSOR. PLEASE CONTACT: MOLLY BAZZANI AT MOLLYBAZZANI@HOTMAIL.COM 6

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