This Week (and Next) at AMS
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Look for your Wednesday Envelope Today!
Home Tour Tickets are inside!
Thurs, April 28 - Student Council Speeches & Election
- Curriculum Night 7PM (St Kateri)
May 1st - 6th (Sun-Fri) AMS Library Book Fair
Fri, May 6th - AMS Grandparents' Day
Sat, May 7 - First Communion
May 13, 14 & 15 - Sophisticated Snoop Tour
$5 Lunch at the gym hamburgers, cheese burgers and hot dogs.
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Mon, May 30 - Memorial Day (no school)
Thurs, June 2 - 8th Grade Graduation
Summer Vacation starts on June 10th with dismissal after our 8am School Mass School starts (Summer ends) on Wed, Aug 24th for grades 1-8 . Pony(pre-K) and Kindergarten start on Thurs, Aug 25.
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2016 Home Tour Happenings
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Sophisticated Snoop Home Tour - May 13th-15th
Tickets
- There are 4 tickets in your family envelope this week. Although you are only responsible for 2 tickets, we sent 2 extra hoping you'll sell them. If each family sold the extra 2, we'd make an additional $25,000 profit with very little effort on anyone's part. Just read the descriptions of the homes and you'll see what an easy task it is to make this extra profit possible.
If you are selling 10 additional tickets, they are also in the envelope.
Staffing - You should have been contacted as to which fabulous home you'll have the pleasure of spending three hours enjoying peace and quiet away from your precious "Little Darlings". If not, don't think you've fallen through the cracks and have a reprieve. You're not that lucky!
Hospitality - details will be sent home in next week's envelope
Publicity - Please pick up a poster to put in window or break room at work and a stack of small flyers to leave on the counter at your doctor, dentist, yoga studio or any service industry business.
This is a condensed version of my "love note". Click here to see entire one.
Sell. . . . . Sell. . . . .Sell. . . . Sell
Please contact me if you have any questions regarding any of the above
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Have You Donated to the 2015 AMS Annual Giving Campaign??
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Our goal this year is 100% participation from all AMS families. We will be publishing the participation levels each week in the Bulletin. As of today, the participation levels are as follows:  Updates:
2nd grade continues to lead with 53%, but the race for 2nd place is getting close Kindergarten - 48%, 3rd - 47% 4th - 46%, 6th - 45%, 7th - 44%, 1st - 43%, Pony - 42%, 5th - 41%, 8th - 37%
Please remember, your gift, at whatever level is comfortable for you and your family, will provide immediate, unrestricted support to AMS and help us to contain tuition costs as well as fund strategic initiatives.
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Curriculum Night - Thurs, April 28
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To meet the growing needs, talents, and interests of our students while creating an environment that encourages balance in their lives among their competing activities we evaluated and enhanced our school schedule. Please join us on Thursday, April 28th at 7pm in the St. Kateri Room to learn about the new and exciting changes for the 2016-2017 school year.
We look forward to seeing you this Thursday!
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Room Parents Needed for 2016-17
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We are looking for amazing people for the role of room parent next year. Please use this link to volunteer or nominate someone who would be great at the role.
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AMPA Board Elections 2016-2017 Form
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The American Martyrs Parents Association (AMPA) is seeking candidates for the Members at Large (MAL) positions for the upcoming 2016-2017 school year. MAL's represent their respective grades at the AMPA Board and General meetings. Being an MAL is a great way to help the school and to get to know other parents. Please complete this application form if you are interested - newcomers are welcome!
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2nd Annual AMS Grandparents' Day
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American Martyrs School is celebrating it's 2nd Annual Grandparents' and Special Friends' Day on Friday May 6th from 8am to 11am. If your Grandparent attended last year, they have most likely already received an invitation in the mail. If not Click Here to RSVP. Any questions? Please contact Kerrie Thompson.
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The AMS Library Book Fair is Almost Here!
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 Come support our library's biggest fundraiser of the year. From May 1-6, we will be hosting a book fair in partnership with Pages, our local MB book store. We'll have a wonderful selection of books to meet all your reading needs, including ALL of the upper school summer required reading books. We look forward to seeing you in the library!
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Cinco de Mayo Fiesta at AMS
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 We will be celebrating Cinco de Mayo at AMS on Thursday May 5, 2016. The 8th graders will run the stations as part of their culture grade in Spanish class. We do not need any parent volunteers. The stations will be face painting, games, making tortillas and bean estimation jar. At the end of the day, we will break pi�atas. Remember we are still in need of candy donations.
Please send your Easter candy leftovers. DRESS CODE - Optional for Cinco de Mayo IT'S NOT A FREE DRESS DAY Girls can simply wear braids with colorful ribbons and/or wear traditional Mexican attire: embroidered shirts, skirts or dresses. Boys can wear ponchos and/or sombreros (Add on the uniform) Sra. Lizcano and Sra. Usandizaga |
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Are you a Sound Engineer/Producer/Wizard?
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Do you know your way around a soundboard, can mic up performers and like to turn it up to 11? If so, (or even close), The American Martyrs Parish Fair needs you!
American Martyrs Parish Fair is the biggest fundraiser of the year. And a big part of this FUN fundraising effort is the Daily Entertainment Schedule and Saturday Night Live Auction Dinner. The Fair Sound Genius oversees and manages the sounds for the Fair, from cueing music for Dancers to running levels for Bands.
So if you like to work with sound, and like the thought of helping your Parish, please contact Chris Brown.
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Girls Soccer
Congratulations to the Girls Soccer Team finishing 1st place in CYO - 3 years in a row!
Boys Volleyball
Varsity: Mon. May 2nd Home (3:45) vs St. John Fisher
JV: Tues. May 3rd Home (3:45) vs St. James Last Game
6th: Thurs. April 28th (3:50) Blue vs St. Raphael, (4:40) White vs St. Paul @ St. Jerome, Tues. May 3rd (4:40) White vs St. Raphael, (6:20) Blue vs St. Catherine @ St. Jerome
5th: Thurs. April 28th (5:30) Blue vs St. Paul, (6:20) White vs Corpus @ St. Jerome, (3:50) Blue vs St. Paul, (5:30) White vs St. Paul
Softball:
Thurs. April 28th Home (3:45) vs MBMS, Tues. May 3rd Home (3:45) vs St. Lawrence Martyr
Boys Soccer: Fri. May 6th Home (5pm) vs St. Catherine
Track: Sun. May 1st Preliminaries @ Santa Fe Springs and Finals Wed. May 4th at Santa Fe Springs
Go Mustangs
Lou Ann Selsky
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 Summer at American Martyrs 2016
American Martyrs School is pleased to announce a partnership with Galileo Innovations Camps for Kids. Beginning this summer, American Martyrs will be home to Galileo summer programming. Galileo delivers a broad array of exceptional educational offerings for grades by offering programming for K-5th grades (Camp Galileo) and 5th - 8th grades (Galileo Summer Quest). Wrapped in four fresh themes for 2016, every week is an imagination-sparking adventure. Open to the Manhattan Beach community, AMS is happy to welcome Galileo to the South Bay. Registration is available at www.galileo-camps.com or call 1-800-854-3684.
*Sign up for Galileo Summer Quest and save $100. Enter code URDESIGN at checkout. Offers expires on May 7, 2016. Redeemable for your first week of Galileo Summer Quest and is valid per family only. One-time use. Combinable with our Refer-a-Friend and Multi-Session. Not combinable with any other marketing discounts.
SPOTS ARE LIMITED!
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The Fun starts June 13 and lasts until August 12. Returning for its ninth year, this year's camp Fun Directors will be Andrew Zahn and Scott McGarry. Early sign-up discount! (click here!). For more information call Lou Ann Selsky @ 424 327-9578.
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Circle of Friends invites you to join us on Friday, May 13th at 7pm in the Holy Family House. We are a small community made up of persons with intellectual disability, their family and friends, particularly young friends, who meet regularly in a Christian spirit to share friendship, pray together, sing, play, share a meal, and celebrate life. We look forward to seeing you there.
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