• Friday, November 2nd: No School Staff Development  
• Wednesday, November, 7th: WSC- Michelle's Class
• Friday, November 9th: Junior High Dance 6:00-9:30 
• Wednesday, November 14th:WSC- Brianna and Jia's Class   
• Thursday, November 15th: Math Night for Parents @ 6:30pm  
• November 19th - November 23rd: No School Thanksgiving Break  

 NO SCHOOL TOMORROW FOR STAFF DEVELOPMENT  

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Thanks to so many amazing Anser Families, we have hit a big milestone for our Fall Fund Drive. We have now raised $30,000 of our $45,000 goal!  We are really making fast progress toward filling the gap in Anser's annual funding. Remember, it cost almost $500 more to educate a child at Anser than we receive from the state. Each year we make up this gap through the Fall Fund Drive and the Spring Auction. Your contribution to the Fall Fund Drive is fully tax deductible and goes toward supporting the programs you care about at Anser. If you haven't given to the Fall Fund Drive, please consider joining the many families who have helped us make it so far!  Imagine, for $50 per month, you could make a $600 donation toward your child's school! Remember now that we have hit the $30,000 mark we will be doing another drawing for great prizes at the next Whole School Community, so be sure to get your donation in by Tuesday to be entered to win!  

Thank you to the following families for their donation: Tony and Tina Garcia, Megan O'Neil, Anna and Kurt Myers, Katie and Kevin Scanlan, James and Diana Cryer, Matt Barnett and Emily Pedersen and Kary Reagan and Tim Robb.

SOS is beginning soon, and is in need of 6-7 parents to mentor 6th graders through their project. You do not have to be a 6th grade parent to be a mentor!  Parent mentors will need to be available during the CBC time slot November 7th,  14th, 28th, and December 5th. We can't do it without out you!  Please contact Sarah Wilcox at swilcox@ansercharterschool.org if you need more information or want to volunteer.

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Do you love to scrapbook and get excited about seeing student work come to life in a scrapbook page?  Then save the date for Wednesday, December 12th during CBC time for our first scrap booking day of the year!  If you have done CBC scrap booking before or never have, and are interested, please email hbanuelos@ansercharterschool.org  to sign up!

CBC Service Session begins on November 7th and lasts 4 weeks, ending on December 5th.  No CBC the week of Thanksgiving.  A special service introduction will occur on Wednesday the 31st of October in the gym from 2-3 pm.  This will give your child a brief introduction to the community partner/module they will be working with.  The module lists are posted on the CBC board in the main hallway.  This session is HIGHLY dependent on parents who are willing to drive and chaperone each week.  Be on the lookout for emails from module coordinators this week!

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Thank you so much to everyone who has donated books for our library. We have had such an amazing response. I would like to now move into the second phase...graphic novels!  The website for graphic novel donations is up and running. If you are interested in donating go to http://www.donorschoose.org/we-teach/1588861 you can donate as little or as much as you want toward the preselected graphic novels for our library. If you choose to donate make sure you enter INSPIRE in the coupon section during checkout. This is a promotion that donorschoose is doing for one week. By entering INSPIRE they will match each donation dollar for dollar. So if you donate $5, donorschoose will match it to make it a $10 donation. For now I am putting the library book donations on hold. I need to catch up on getting these books on our shelves. If you have any questions please contact Bekkie at bekkier@msn.com.

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Each year, the State Department of Education sponsors a Holiday Card contest to draw attention to art programs in Idaho's elementary schools. One drawing is selected for the Department's holiday greeting card. The child who submits the selected artwork receives cards for his or her own use. The winning entry for each grade also receives a certificate.

This art contest is a very special tradition here at the State Department of Education, and we all look forward to continuing the tradition this year and seeing examples of elementary school children's art on display. The following lists some considerations:

1.      The contest is open to public school students in grades K-6.

2.      Drawings should reflect winter scenes in Idaho appropriate for seasonal correspondence, and should not include copyrighted images such as Garfield the Cat, Bugs Bunny, Digimon characters, etc.

3.      Drawings should be on 8.5" by 11" paper in a landscape format.

4.      Drawings must be properly labeled. Write the name of the student, the student's grade, district, school, and the teacher's name on the back of the artwork. Please make sure this information is legible. (If you submit multiple grade levels, please keep the entries for each grade level separate.)

5.      Students may use as many colors as they wish in their drawings and may use watercolors, colored paper, magic markers, crayons, or some combination.  Students are encouraged to completely fill the page but keep the design simple. Too many details tend to get lost in the design. Bold colors work best for the printing process. Please note: Fabric designs and pencil drawings are not suitable to our printing process and will not be selected.

6.      Students must be advised that entry into this contest constitutes (1) a waiver of all copyrights students have in their entries, and (2) permission to republish entries without compensation.

7.      Drawings will not be returned.

8.      The winning entries from each grade level will be published on the Idaho State Department of Education Web site at www.sde.idaho.gov.

9.      Submissions must be postmarked by Friday, November 9, 2012. Results will be announced in December. Drawings may be mailed to:

State Department of Education

Attn: Portia Flynn
P.O. Box 83720

Boise, ID 83720-0027

If you have questions, please contact Portia Flynn at (208) 332-6812 or  pflynn@sde.idaho.gov.

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Parents are in for a treat the evening of November 15 beginning at 6:30.  Dr. Jonathan Brendefer, a Boise State University professor, who started the Developing Mathematical Thinking (DMT)  project will be our guest speaker.  The DMT Project was started in 2004. The project orginally partnered with three schools in the Boise, Caldwell, and Emmett communities of southwestern Idaho and is now an excepted way of teaching mathematics in the state of Idaho.  In fact, every teacher who becomes certified in Idaho must take the class for certification.  Dr. Brendefer worked with Anser teachers in 2003-2004 as well, when he had two daughters attending the school.   Dr. Brendefer has conducted research in the area of mathematics for many years and has seen proven results in the improvement in students' mathematical thinking and schools' test scores.  Parents will have an opportunity to listen to Dr. Brendefer, ask questions, then go into their child's classroom to learn about Anser's math program and to experience some of the ways in which we "do math" at Anser.  Plan early...this is something you do not want to miss!

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