The Presentation School e-News
 
November 10, 2013

 

 

 

KEY DATES

 

 

 

NOV. 11

Veteran's Day, No School 

 

NOV. 13

Outgrown uniform sale

 

Boys basketball home 4pm

 

NOV. 15

Trimester ends 

 

NOV. 18

Boys basketball home 4pm

 

NOV. 20

Wildlife Associates assemblies

 

Boys basketball home 4pm

 

NOV. 26

Grandparent/Special Friends Day - RSVP today 

 

NOV 27-DEC. 1

Thanksgiving holiday

 

DEC. 6 

Holiday Home Tour

 

DEC. 20

Minimum day

Christmas holiday begins

                        

JAN. 7

Classes resume

 

 

 

 

GLEE Club Starts This Week

The Presentation School is relaunching its Middle School GLEE Club. Practices will be held on Tuesday afternoons from 3:30 to 4:30pm in the Activity Center. This club will start Tuesday, 11/12/13 and will end 5/27/14. Permission slips are due into the office by Monday. For additional information, please contact Vanessa Ronglien at vanessagr3@yahoo.com. Thank you Vanessa for leading our GLEE Club!
Grandparent's Day RSVP Needed This Week

 Don't forgot to RSVP here today for this fun-filled day planned for your guests. This is the last week to RSVP.
8th Graders Sport New Class Sweatshirts 
In an beloved annual tradition at Presentation, each year the 8th grade class designs and produces a special sweatshirt that only their class may wear.  On the back are the names of all the students in the class.  The 8th grade sweatshirts arrived last week!   
Kindergarten Sneak Peeks "Sell Out"

Have you noticed these cheerful neon yellow shirts around campus?  Our admissions office has hosted two recent Kindergarten Sneak Peeks in recent weeks and a third Sneak Peek has been added for Thursday, December 5 because the first two were over-subscribed!

Each prospective student was given one of the shirts and our kinders wear them on those days as well.  If you have a friend who might be interested in visiting our kinder program or touring the school, please email Tracy Walthard at admissions@presentationschool.com.
Dad's Club Primed for Second Annual
 "Prime Rib Dinner"!
 
The Presentation School Dad's Club will hold its Second Annual Prime Rib Dinner at the Wine Shack THIS Friday, November 15 at 7:30 pm.  Three course Prime Rib dinner will be prepared by Chef Rob Larman of Cochon Volant BBQ. The cost is $63.00 ($38.00 for food, $25.00 for the beer/wine slush fund), both paid at the door.  Please RSVP to Robert Raney (robertraney@gmail.com) by MONDAY to secure a spot (max 25). 
Volunteers Needed for Holiday Home Tour 
Friday, December 6
We need hostesses and drivers as well as set up and take down for our upcoming Holiday Home Tour, Lunch & Boutique.  Please email Nancy Bei at nbei@comcast.net if you can help out.
First Showcase is November 14
Slight Changes in Format/Logistics
Showcase
We are pleased to announce that the first Showcase of the 2013-2014 school year will be on Thursday, November 14. Yes, this year Showcases will be on Thursday mornings at
8:30 a.m.
 
This first showcase will center around athletics and will honor our athletes who competed in fall sports and we will introduce our boys basketball team.
Kinders Enjoy Action Packed Halloween Week

Blog by Audrey -- 

We did candy corn math with our buddies. It was a lot of fun. We measured the candy corn and used it to count. We carved our class pumpkin. We counted the seeds in groups of ten. There were 877 seeds! Mrs. Miller took the seeds home and made pumpkin pie and baked the seeds. It was very good. 

On Halloween day we got to dress up in our costumes. All of them were GREAT IDEAS! We had a parade around the school in all our great costumes! We came back to class we had games in the classroom and played musical chairs. Then we had a class party. Then we had a Big carnival. My favorite game was were you put a gummy and cover it with whip cream and have to get the gummy but only using your face and you get to eat the left over whip cream. We got to do a jumpy house. It was a super fun day.
Honoring Veteran's Day

Our 8th grade students recently spent a few hours making poppies to honor the veterans who have served our country in the nation's past wars.  
St. Leo's Food Drive Begins This Week

As in past years, The Presentation School will be participating in the Thanksgiving Food Drive sponsored by St. Vincent DePaul Society of St. Leo's Parish.  Each class will be asked to donate items that would provide a complete Thanksgiving meal for a family in need.  Items include: gift card for a turkey, potatoes, onions, stuffing mix, cranberry sauce, canned vegetables, coffee/tea, rolls, canned fruit and cookies.  We are collecting items starting Monday, please sign up in your classrooms.  All items will be picked up on Friday, Nov. 22.
Renew Your Safeway Card Today &
Consider eScrip for Holiday Purchases   
Please take a moment today to register or renew your Safeway card at  www.escrip.com. Group ID - 137107396. Club card members must  renew EVERY November.
 
Our other Shop & Support programs: 
  • You can easily benefit Presentation School by doing your online shopping through the eScrip portal here.  
  • Sonoma Market offers a Community card that provides Presentation with a donation every time you shop.  Stop by the store to pick one up.
  • Interested in getting a Target red card which saves you 5% on every purchase?  If you do, assign Presentation when you apply for the card.
  • There is a Box Tops collection box in the office at all times.
  • There is a box where we collect old cells phones in the office, please drop unwanted phones there for recycling.
  • Interested in helping out with these programs? It is a great way for working parents to help out, from home.  Please let Mrs. Wallace know if you are interested. 
"You're A Good Man Charlie Brown"
Update from Flo Galvez

Dear Presentation School Community,

It was a great two days of auditions for our upcoming Spring Musical, "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown." Students in grades 6, 7 and 8 came out to either sing and/or read for the roles of Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Patty, Schroeder and Snoopy, plus many other characters in the Peanuts' universe.  It was an excellent chance for me to see some of the great student talent of The Presentation School.  I hope to more students will try their hand at Drama in the near future.  Some of our students have signed up to perform backstage duties as well.  

The Spring Musical will be part of a new Elective simply entitled: The Musical.  Students will not only prepare for the Spring Musical, but they will learn various aspects of musical theater and performance.  

I am honored to join the wonderful Presentation School community in teaching and directing You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown.  It is my hope that the entire community will enjoy our production and the simple, humorous, yet thoughtful life lessons that the musical's writer and composer Clark Gesner, gained inspiration from the genius of Charles M. Shultz.

Work on the musical begins Tuesday, Nov. 19.  The dates of performance are March 13 & 14, 2014. Music Teacher Lynn McArthur is our wonderful Musical Director for the production.  We look forward to seeing everyone at the show!

Sincerely,
Flo Galvez, Drama Teacher/Director

Click HERE to donate to the Annual Fund! 

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Presentation Students Perform in Local Ballet 

Presentation students Laura Couchman, Morgan Taylor Dalcamo, & Mia and Sara McDermott  are performing in Sonoma Conservatory of Dance's winter ballet at The Sebastiani Theatre.  There will be two matinee performances of The Snow Maiden: A Russian Wonder Tale of Love and Magic on Saturday and Sunday, December 7 and 8, at 1:00 p.m. Bring the whole family for an enchanting afternoon of dance.  

 

Tickets are on sale now at www.SonomaDanceStudio.com, $22 for adults, $17 for students and seniors (62+). Call 707.938.1424 or 707.996.9756 for more information. 

THE PRESENTATION WISH LIST

8 ft ladder
Tools/drill
Soccer and basketballs in good condition
Old climbing rope (for jump ropes)
Books!   (Thanksgiving  or Christmas books;
books by Eric Carle or by Stan/Jan Berenstein;
graphic novels, Spanish children's books )

If you can donate something, please mark it as a donation and drop them with Mrs. Wallace in the school office.
SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS

See's Candy Fundraiser:  Thank you very much to Kirsten Flaherty for organizing the recent See's Candy Fundraiser and to all the parents who purchased items.   The money raised supports our school and the 8th grade trip to Washington, DC.

Hot Lunch: You can check or revise your lunch orders at any time at: http://sonomalunchbox.com/

High school visits: 
Wed. Nov 13 - San Domenico High School
Thurs. Nov 21 - Sonoma Valley High School
Tues. Dec 3 - The Marin School

Aftercare: If you would like your child to attend after school care, please inform the office, so that we can be prepared and know for whom we are responsible.

Yearbooks:  While we are still early in the school year, now is the time to order your school yearbook if you want to take advantage of a discounted price.  Click here to place your order.

Barn or Storage Space?  If you have some extra space in a barn, shed, garage or warehouse, we are looking for a place to store our art display boards, as well as some set pieces for theater.  These boards currently live on the stage and they are preventing us from using the space for drama and music.  Please contact Laura Wallace if you can help us out with storage.  

 

COMMUNITY NEWS
 
Wizard of Oz: Presentation has students in every starring role of BBK's upcoming production of The Wizard of Oz. You can buy tickets at Reader's Books or Pharmaca for the shows Nov. 14-17.

Holiday Crafts:  Sonoma Valley Museum of Art is hosting a kids craft day on Sunday, Nov. 17 from 11am-4pm. 
Multiple making stations, hosted by local artists, feature a wide range of hands-on projects to spice up and warm your home for the Thanksgiving and winter holidays-DIY Style! Kids free, parents $5. 
 
Much Ado About Nothing:  Sonoma Academy is staging Much Ado About Nothing Thursday, November 21 at 7 pm, Friday, November 22 at 4:30 and 8 pm, Saturday, November 23 at 2 and 7 pm and Sunday, November 24 at 2 pm.  The production is set on a war base on the island of Sicily during World War II and features wartime and USO songs of the era made popular by Benny Goodman, The Andrew Sisters, and Glen Miller. Click HERE to buy tickets. Presentation grads Cristian Isbrandsten and Devin Salmonsen are both involved in the show!

 

Circus at Cornerstone:  You can buy tickets now for a 1920's style Circus, based on the French tradition (a magician, sword thrower, slack rope walker, contortionist) at Cornerstone Gardens.  Le Cirque de Bohème is November 29 through Dec. 2 at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Click here to order tickets $25 adults / $15 kids (15 or younger). A portion of all ticket sales to benefit The Sonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance.

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