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Spring Fling Celebration, Saturday>>

**A special eBlast will be sent out this week with a list of all our silent auction items.  You'll be surprised to see all the goodies that have been collected.**

Time to dust off your favorite Star Wars costume, strap on your Mork suspenders or break out that trusty transporter - better yet, all three... it's time to Space Out (ie: dress up) for Holmes 49^th birthday party Spring Fling!

Holmes will be hosting their community event which includes live music and dance performances, our 3rd annual cake show - Outer Space, a-shop-in-a-black-light-and-laser room silent auction, theme basket raffle, free family games and activities, book exchange, pet adoption & care, small car show, fresh food vendors including grass-fed beef burgers, arts and crafts booths and e-recycling. This year we are working with the Madison and Clairemont clusters by inviting all our Clairemont schools to attend the event with the hope of igniting a relationship of communication and celebrating our schools together in our future community events.

May the force be with you, live long and prosper, nanu-nanu, to infinity... and beyond!

Jennifer Lonack, jlonack@gmail.com

Spring Fling Chair

Holmes Elementary

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

CAKE SHOW (Entries due May 11th):

Chair: Jennifer Mattoon

Cake show entries are due this Wednesday. Please deliver your entry to the cafeteria on Friday, May 13th between 5:00 PM and 8:00 PM or on Saturday, May 14th between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM. Judging will begin at 9:30 AM on Saturday, May 14th and awards will be presented at 11:00 AM.

Cakes will need to remain on display until 4:00 PM. Please pick up

"display" only cakes at this time. All other cakes will be eaten at

3:30 PM when we sing Happy Birthday to our school. For more

information, please go to www.HolmesCakeShow.com.

SILENT AUCTION (Items due by May 9th):

Chair - Hollie Karl

All silent auction donation items must be turned into Hollie Karl by Tuesday. 

RAFFLE BASKETS:

Chair - Michelle Cruz

Spring Fling Raffle Baskets are coming!!! Grade level themes have been passed out and donations will be accepted through Monday. Contact your Grade Level Coordinator with questions, or Michelle Cruz, 858-715-0064. Raffle tickets will go on sale before and after school on May 9th.

Mark your calendars for our "Music Class Open House", which will be held May 31^st and June 2^nd in the Holmes auditorium.  The Vocal Music Program at Holmes is funded by the PTA and provides weekly instruction for all students grades K-4 in singing, rhythm instrument playing, movement, listening, and music reading skills. 

Tuesday, May 31st

9:30AM      Kinder program 

1:15PM      3rd Grade program

Thursday, June 2nd

9:15AM      1st Grade program 

1:15PM      4th Grade program

2:30PM      2nd Grade program

Dear Schools Supporter,

You have heard the constant news about our drastic budget problems.  Unfortunately, we spend too much time arguing over how we should spend the crumbs that we are offered. We really need to focus on those who have the power to provide the funding we need.  The Democrats and Republicans are in a stalemate.  A change in two votes in both houses of the legislature could save K-12 education in California. 

We have already cut into the fat in the past few years.  For next year we are cutting into the flesh if we have to follow our tentative budget by increasing class sizes to the maximum, reducing arts, music, GATE, library services, counseling, central office support for schools, magnet programs, and textbooks, as well as complete elimination of important academic programs.  We already have employee concessions and now 1,500 layoffs.  Read More>>

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HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL PLANNING COMMITTEE

WE ARE ALREADY LOOKING FOR EAGER PARENTS TO HELP PLAN OUR 2011 HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL!  WE MUST FORM A PLANNING COMMITTEE BEFORE THIS SCHOOL YEAR ENDS! 

If you love Halloween, carnivals, sharing good times with fun people or just seeing smiles on all our Holmes kids' faces, then this will be an event that you'd like to take part in.  Putting on this large event takes lots of planning and lots of help.  It truly cannot take place with only one or two volunteers, nor is that fair to the volunteers who are helping.  Volunteers on the planning committee will help with planning games, designing game booths, scheduling volunteers, finding prizes, making signs and banners, selling tickets, finding food vendors, acquiring donations and SO MUCH MORE!  If you can donate a few hours of your time next September and/or October, we'd truly appreciate it!  DAD'S ARE NEEDED TOO!  This event requires a lot of work from our Dads.  Contact Stacy Coulter if you can help make our 2011 Halloween Carnival the best ever.