Lydiksen PFC Weekly Newsletter 2/18/2013

Lydiksen PFC

Weekly Newsletter

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Main Office: 426-4420

Quick Calendar

2/18 - Pres. Day - No School

2/20, Wed -

3:00 - 4:00 and 6:00 - 7:00 PM

Science Fair Workshops in Library

3:30 - 4:30 SSC Meeting - Annual review of the Comprehensive Safety Plan

2/21, Thurs -

1st Grade Chinese New Year Parade

Lost and Found donated

Lydiksen Parent Faculty Club

PRESIDENT 2012/2013

Jennifer Bernhard

jenniferanneb@me.com

Quick Links

Lydiksen Elementary School

Pleasanton Unified School District

School Lunch Online Payments

Lunch Menu

Character Trait of the Month

Self-Discipline:

Training and control of oneself and one's conduct

Facebook

Check out Lydiksen's Facebook page at:

http://www.facebook.com/LydiksenPFC

No-Cost-to-You Fundraising

Many employers will match donations to our school. Contact the Human Resource department at your workplace to find out if they will match your tax-deductible donation

(tax ID #23-7116178)

Target Take Charge of Education

1% of your total to our school each time you use your Redcard! Click Target Education to register your RedCard today!

Boxtops for Education

Keep saving those boxtops!

Safeway Card on escrip.com

$ for Lydiksen each time you shop! Go to escrip.com and register your Safeway card!

Lucky SHARES Card

Use your Lucky SHARES card every time you shop- Lydiksen will get a percentage!

The Lydiksen Yearbook Committee is looking for photos of every student.

Step 1: Go to community.lifetouch.com

and create your account. The Access Code is: NXJLWJ

Step 2: Check your e-mail & click to confirm your account.

Step 3: Log in and start uploading photos!

Quality is very important. Please submit photos with appropriate content that are 300 dpi (high resolution) in .jpg format. Also please include the class/grade and/ or full name of the students in the photos if possible. Any questions, contact the editors: amyf_johnson@yahoo.com

jennbyrne@comcast.net

Any questions, comments, concerns, additions to the

Lydiksen PFC Weekly Newsletter??

Contact Editor Cheryl Brasil @ msmylin2@gmail.com

EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF Feb. 18 - 22, 2013

Mon.

Presidents' Day - No School

Tues.

11:10 - 12:00 FHS Buddies/ Mentoring in B-6

3:05 - 4:05 Speak Debate in B-6

3:05 - 4:05 One on One Basketball

3:05 - 4:05 Good News Club in Staff Lounge

Wed.

8:20 - 9:20 Breakfast Book Club in MPR

8:50 - 2:50/FT-Vernon Lake Del Valle

DARE Schedule for 5th grade

Science Fair Workshops in the Library from 3:00 - 4:00

and 6:00 - 7:00 PM

3:00 - 4:00 Spanish class in B-6\Mandarin class in Staff Lounge

3:00 - 4:00 MannersClass in Library (last class)

3:30 - 4:30 SSC Meeting - Annual review of the Comprehensive Safety Plan

Thurs.

Lost and Found will be picked up today

11:30 - 11:45 1st grade Chinese New Year Parade

1:55 - 2:55 Band in MPR/ Strings in Music Room

3:05 - 4:05 Spectrum of Science in B-6

3:05 - 4:05 One on One Soccer at the field

4:30 - 5:30 PM California State Assemblymember Joan Buchanan (Chair of the State of California Education Committee) will be speaking in the Board Room at the District Office. All are welcome to attend...

Fri.

8:30 - 3:00 /FT-All 5th grade to the Tech Museum

UPCOMING EVENTS

Feb. 25 - Box top collection deadline

Feb. 18 - March 18 Report Card Window Open

March 1 -Read Across America and Book Character Book Day

March 12 /9 AM Special Needs Committee Meeting in the Bernal Room.

March 14 and 15 - Minimum Day at Risk conf.

March 15 - Science Fair Projects are due

March 15 - Report Cards go home

March 18- Science Fair project interviews

March 19 - Science Fair class tours

March 20 Breakfast Book Club

March 20 Book Fair class previews in the Library

March 20 Family Science Night

March 20 Kindergarten Round up at AVHS

March 21 - 26 Book Fair in the Library

March 26 - PFC Meeting
March 29

No School Good Friday

April 1 - 5 No School Spring Break

Box Top Collection Deadline!!!

Turn in your box tops no later than Monday February 25^th.

BoxTops

The second and final collection for the year for Box Tops has begun. There will be THREE classroom winners for the most box tops collected! K/1, 2/3, and 4/5. The winning classrooms will get Popcorn and Friday Ice Cream Tickets. The top classroom in the school will get two new playground balls to use at recess!
Box Tops can be dropped off in the classrooms
or in the box top collection box in the main office.
Room parents should collect all box tops and
turn them into the office collection box
no later than Monday February 25th.
Friendly Reminder to Room Parents -
Please have the box tops trimmed and counted in groups of 50.

Questions - email: Alyson Atkinson at alysona@sbcglobal.net

SCIENCE FAIR !!!!

WED., 2/20, Science Fair Workshops in the Library

from 3:00 - 4:00

and 6:00 - 7:00 PM

Please click on the following link for Science Fair information:

Science Fair

Lost and Found

The lost and found is overflowing once again, so please remind students and families to look for and retrieve lost items during the next two weeks.

Anything not claimed from the lost and found

will be donated on Thursday, Feb. 21.

Grant Application Volunteers Needed!

We are looking for volunteers with grant writing experience, or whom are interested in grant writing to assist in researching and completing grant proposals for Lydiksen's technology fund.

Contact Christine Catura at caturafamily@gmail.com.

This request is also open to high school students or college students who are looking for community hours....

PPIE RUN FOR EDUCATION and other Information

PPIE is proud to announce the 1^st Annual Pleasanton Run for Education presented by ClubSport Pleasanton to benefit PPIE on April 14, 2013. This event will include a half marathon, 5K and 1-mile kids' challenge. 100% of the proceeds will benefit PPIE. To register for the event, sign-up to volunteer on race day or for sponsorship information,please go to www.ppierun.com

Please click on the following link for other PPIE information:

Click on this PPIE link

Kindergarten Round-up

Parents of incoming Kindergarteners:

It is time to start planning for the next school year!

Please click on this link for the information meetings in February:

Info Meeting for Parents

Please click on this link for the Round-ups in March:

Kindergarten Round-up

Upcoming Forums

Grades K-5 Parent Forum on Literacy with a focus on Staggered Reading: Wednesday, February 27th 6:30 to 8:00 pm in the Multipurpose Room at Alisal Elementary School.

Alisal School is at 1454 Santa Rita Road.

Grades K-5 Community Forum on Common Core State Standards: Tuesday, March 19th 6:30 to 8:00 pm in the Multipurpose Room at Hearst Elementary School. Hearst School is located at 5301 Case Avenue.

Pleasanton Middle is located at 5001 Case Avenue.

Grades 6-12 Community Forum on Common Core State Standards: Thursday, April 18th 6:30 to 8:00 pm in the Multipurpose Room at Pleasanton Middle School.

Grades 9-12 Community Forum on Common Core State Standards: Tuesday, April 30th 6:30 to 8:00 pm in the Multipurpose Room at Village High School. Village is located at 4645 Bernal Avenue.

Sincerely,

Lydiksen Parent Faculty Club