• Friday, September 21st: The Create Common Good Produce truck will be here after school!  
• Friday, September 21st: Lunch Orders Close at 9:00 AM  
• Wednesday, September 26th: New Parent Orientation, 6:30pm @ Anser    
• Wednesday, September 26th: WSC- Sara G's. Class
•  Friday, September 28th: Pictures!  
• Saturday, September 29th: New Parent Orientation, 10:00am @ Anser
• Wednesday, October 3rd: WSC- Nicole's Class
• Thursday, October 4th: Monday, October 8th- NO SCHOOL-Staff Development  
• Wednesday, October 10th: WSC- Fawn's Class
• Wednesday, October 17th: WSC- Alyssa Munch-Red Ribbon Week  
• Saturday, October 20th: Harvest Festival  

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Hopefully this past weekend you received a letter from Anser regarding this year's Fall Fund Drive and our goal to raise $45,000. We hope you will read the materials, as they explain the budget cuts Anser has endured and how you can help restore our funding. You can track the progress toward the goal by checking out the tree on the bulletin board in the main hallway. As we meet fundraising milestones we will be giving away prizes as a thank you to our donors, so be sure to get your donation, or your monthly pledge in today!  This week Julie and Bladimir Bu and Gregg Burrington and Alice Antonioli won $25 gift cards, donated by Flying M! Thank you to the following families for their donations to the Fall Fund Drive this week: Teresa and Tom Schmalz, Nancy and Erin Brennan, Brent Pitts and Andi Saucerman-Pitts, Mary Kallmeyer, and Evan and Kelly Lee.

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Anser follows the same air quality procedures that the Boise School District follows.  You may link to that information here at   Boise Schools Air Quality Procedures  We also adhere to school closures of the Boise School District in regards to weather, such as snow days.

Junior High Electives begin this coming Thursday, September 27th. We are still in need of parents to chaperone and drive. Please sign up to drive or chaperone at the following link:

 http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0B45AEAB2AA20-junior  

We are piloting the use of this sign-up genius to coordinate drivers and parent chaperones for the elective sessions.  If you are available to help out or drive, please sign up in the space provided.  If you are planning to drive, please list the number of students you can transport in your vehicle.  *students must all use a shoulder and lap belt when riding in a vehicle, no-one under the age of 13 may ride in the front seat*  If your child's elective is not in need of a parent because it is filled, you can see the other electives that are in need of drivers or chaperones and sign up.  This also gives a view of the whole track.  If you would like to see what elective your child is in, please click on http://www.ansercharterschool.org/curriculum/junior-high-electives/jh-elective-forms/   This is a password protected portion of the school website, if you do not know your password or cannot access this part of the site, please contact Abby McLean or Heather Dennis.

Thank you for all you do to keep Electives great!

Do you have brightly colored latex paint hanging around your garage? Junior high electives is in need of some colorful latex paint for a junior high hallway mural project. If you have some brightly colored paint, please bring it to Heather Banuelos' office.

Thanks!

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 CBC was a success this week. You should have received an email from the module coordinators for your child's group detailing any needs for CBC, including need for drivers or chaperones. Click on the link below to sign up for a CBC session.

  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0B45AEAB2AA20-cbchaving In the sections provided, you can add your module drivers and volunteers or parents you can add yourself if you see an area that is in need, even if the module does not include your child.  This is a new tool and I am hoping it will help us to cover all of our bases for drivers and parent chaperones each week.  Thank you again for making CBC great!   Heather

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Have your child dress for the weather and the classroom!  Now that it is getting chillier in the mornings we are finding students coming to school with no jacket, etc.  They want to come in the building in the morning because they are "cold."  It is our expectations students will stay outside in the mornings unless their parents are with them. Staff uses this important time getting ready for the day in order to deliver a high quality program for your child.  We appreciate your support in this endeavor.  This is also a reminder to make sure you are sending students to school in the appropriate attire for the classroom.  Please read this section in the handbook to refresh dress code expectations.  A couple of areas in which we have spoken to students about is: 1) shorts should be no shorter than their longest finger when arms are placed at their sides and 2) no 'spaghetti 'strap tops. 

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The Anser Garden will get underway this coming week with a great donation of pumpkins and winter squash, corn and straw all donated by the Peaceful Belly Farm.  We will be identifying all the different types and then creating a display, where we can later place our annual scare crows.  Pumpkins will be available to buy again, this year at the Harvest Ball on October 20th.  All the funds generated for this will go to the school, so THANK YOU Peaceful Belly Farm. 

The Garden is in need of some TLC this fall to get it revived for next spring.  The beds need some new soil added to them and the Butterfly garden needs to be neatened up.  If you are interested in coming to help with these two tasks, please contact Melissa Frazier at  gardenseasonings@cableone.net   Also, if you are interested in coming to volunteer to garden with the kids during their lunch recess, please let me know.  Happy Fall!

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 We currently have an opening in Junior High. If you know any families with 7th or 8th grade students, be sure to let them know to put in a lottery application right away! Full enrollment is Anser's best tool for financial success, so we greatly appreciate you spreading the word about this opening to anyone you think might be interested.

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Anser will hold it's School Pool drawing at the next Whole School Community, on Wednesday September 26th.  If you carpool to school with another Anser family send an e-mail to atemple@ansercharterschool.org with the names of the families who carpool. You could win a parking spot that is yours for the month. 

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The menu will remain open until 9:00am on Friday September 21st.  

You can find the Anser lunch ordering website by using this link  http://ansercharter.schoollunchchoice.com or the link on the homepage of the Anser website at www.ansercharterschool.org If you have any trouble with placing your order please contact Abby McLean at amclean@ansercharterschool.org

We are so excited about our new partnership with Create Common Good, the organization providing our lunches. Each day our students are receiving healthy, delicious food prepared with fresh, local ingredients, many times raised on the Create Common Good organic farm. And through preparing and serving our meals, refugees who are new to Boise are receiving culinary arts training that will allow them to get jobs and support their families.

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The ECS Crew would like to give a HUGE THANK YOU to Joe and his crew at CURTIS CLEAN SWEEP for donating their time and equipment this summer to paint our new PEACEWHEEL!  ANSER's playground is brighter now with this new addition! If you need anything painted on blacktop, parking lots, or what not, please call CURTIS CLEAN SWEEP, as they are phenomenal at what they do!

Thank you!!!

ECS Crew

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New parent orientation is for the parents of all new Anser students. Please join us on one of two dates, Wednesday, Sept., 26 at 6:30 pm or on the following Saturday, Sept., 29 at 10:00 AM here at Anser.  

New parent orientation will be a time for you to learn about how Anser approaches educating your children. We will also spend some time talking about how Anser is different than other schools and take time to answer your questions. This is a parent only event.  

If you would like to attend please RSVP to Mike Denney at 571-6274

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The Idaho Council on Developmental Disabilities is currently working on an inclusive education initiative. As part of this work we are conducting statewide surveys of parents who have school-age children with and without disabilities. Parents may remain anonymous or provide their contact information to receive future information.

Thank you very much.

Please take a moment to complete a survey for parents of school-aged children regarding perceptions about students with disabilities.  We want to hear from as many parents as possible, not just parents of children with disabilities.

 https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/icdd

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Harvest Festival hosted by Family Council
Saturday, October 20, 2012
3:00-6:00 PM
More Info to Follow!   

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  You should see a picture packet come home with your children this week. Picture rotations will start first thing in the morning so make sure your student is on-time. Completed picture order forms need to be turned in to your child's teacher no later then September 28th, the day of pictures! 

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The US Department of Education has begun a contest for youth age 13-18 to submit their own original Public Service Announcement (PSA) video, 30 to 60 seconds in length, that showcase ways they are taking action against bullying and promoting a culture of kindness and respect in their communities. The contest seeks informative and entertaining videos that a send positive message to youth about the importance of being "more than a bystander" to bullying in their schools and communities. The deadline is October 14 and the top prize is $2,000.

 http://stopbullying.challenge.gov/

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