Welcome to Spring!

Back in the saddle again!

Welcome to spring everyone! Madhunika went to the last parent meeting, and I am finally getting around to posting the FYI items from that meeting.

Safety First:

• Police Traffic Division 203-622-8015, Sergeant Barry.

• Dept. of Traffic in Public Works Division 203-622-6487, Melissa Evans

These are the Police-Traffic Department and Public Works names and numbers for parents to call and raise concerns regarding the crosswalk. If you've been nearly run over like me, put these on your speed dial.

April items:

• possible potluck on the 5th? Details will hopefully come soon.
• 28th: Save the date for a Christ Church parent workshop – Dr. David Elkind, PhD who authored The Hurried Child will speak. Look for flyers and more details when it's closer.
  

Teacher Appreciation week is May 5th-9th. We are responsible for:

• Coffee on Monday morning for the teacher breakfast. A couple of those big boxes from Dunkin Donuts are just the ticket. We can use the "extra" contributions from the fall if we need to here. Other classes are handling other breakfast items, but feel free to bring in something special for the teachers if you're inclined to go the extra mile!
  
• A spa-themed gift basket for the raffles (value of about $50), for which we will need donations of manicure/pedicure certificates or other spa-theme items to make it fun for the teachers.
  
• Three to-be-determined gifts for our teachers for that week (one each), preferably something that the kids made or had something to do with. Ideas anyone? We have several weeks to get this together.

The Parent Fund is taking care of a nice Wed. lunch for the teachers, and there will be about 10 gift baskets for the raffle. If there is anything else you would like to contribute for the raffle, talk to Maryann, or let me, Madhunika, or Cui know ahead of time and we'll figure out what to do.

June:

• 6/8 There will be a planned picnic at the beach. More details on that to come!
• End of year teacher gifts: If you would like to contribute to a group gift for the teachers again like we did in December, Madhunika and I will do the collecting and organizing, and I'll send out early reminders in late April so we can have plenty of time. Just as before, if this makes it easy for you, great! If you would prefer to handle personal teacher gifts yourself and not contribute, that's fine too.

There is a school yearbook in the works!