A big THANK YOU goes out to the whole GAIS Community for all your auction item contributions! We have now a wide variety of favorite annual events and offerings and exciting new ones, all due to your generosity and creativity. Stay tuned for a special auction preview, coming soon! The auction will start on Friday, November 29. Get ready to bid! More info on our website.

3. Announcing the Reserved Parking Spot Raffle

Reserved Parking Spot GAIS

This is your chance to win the coveted space in the GAIS Parking Spot Raffle! All raffle proceeds directly benefit GAIS students in the current school year. Raffle tickets cost $50 each or $200 for five tickets. Click here to order your raffle tickets today.

4. Lice - Please check your children!

Unfortunately, we have had again reported cases of lice at our school. Please refer to our special communication about Head Lice. Please check all of your children and notify us immediately, if any lice or nits have been found. Thank you.

5. Conference Days 2013 - Sign-up Deadline

Please consider signing-up for the Conference Days 2013 (November 25 & 26). Click here: Conference Days 2013. Deadline for sign-ups will be this upcoming Friday, November 22. Information for Hort during Conference Days: Preschool Hort is Full - School Hort has a few spots left.

6. Emergency Notification System - OneCallNow

OnceCallNow

You should have received a test email from OneCallNow recently. Please read the email carefully as it contains important information and instructions in how to set up your mobile phone No. for SMS Text Alerts. You will need to opt-in with your own mobile phone in order to receive SMS Text Alerts in case of an emergency.

7. Donation to GAIS by Cafe Zoë, Menlo Park

Cafe Zoe

Kathleen Delay and her team at Cafe Zoë have decided to donate back 10% to the school of all GAIS family, parent and staff purchases at the cafe during the upcoming GAIS Conference Days on November 25 & 26! This is a great contribution of our favorite & beloved neighborhood café and we would like to thank Kathleen Delay and her whole team for supporting us! So please enjoy your morning or afternoon coffee, lunch break at Cafe Zoë during Conference Days and support GAIS!

8. Volunteering - Morning-Drop Off

We are looking for volunteers to help regulate the drop-off in the morning. There are a lot of younger students who need more help getting safely out of the car and onto the sidewalk. Please consider to help our students and sign-up as 'Parking Attendant' on our website. Thank you!

9. Winterfest 2013 - Volunteers needed

Snow Flakes

Thank you to all of you, who have already signed up to help with our Winterfest 2013. Everything comes together nicely! We are still looking for helpers for several days and times (see chart below). Furthermore; does anybody have a Santa up their sleeve? He will get a really nice chair to sit on and as much cake as he can ask for...

Friday, December 6, 3pm-5pm set up decoration and tables
Saturday, December 7, 9am-2pm set up lighting, decoration, prepare food
Saturday, December 7, 1pm-3pm supervise parking
Saturday, December 7, 2pm-5pm sell food, beverages, supervise arts & crafts,...
Saturday, December 7, later clean up
Immediately someone to run errands for Lisa & Melanie

If you would like to volunteer, please sign-up on our Volunteering Website or send an email to Lisa at lisa.baust@abbvie.com or Melanie at melanie.schallehn@gmail.com.

10. Shop on Amazon and contribute to GAIS!

Amazon.com

Shopping on Amazon and supporting GAIS at once - how does that work? It is very easy! Just go to our website http://www.gais.org/support-gais-support-through-services/ and click on one of the Amazon icons. Every time you shop via this link, a small amount of your purchase will be donated directly to GAIS. You can bookmark the link and use it for future shopping and support GAIS in a very easy yet efficient way. Happy Shopping!

11. GAIS Food Drive - last call!

food drive

We have collected a total of 293 items so far - thank you for those who contributed to the food drive. The goal of the student leadership team is to collect 500 items. Please support us and the Student Leadership in their efforts! All donations will be taken to the Second Harvest Food Bank to feed the hungry. Donations which are canned or sealed would be best. Thank you for your support!

UPCOMING EVENTS

12. Conference Days: November 25 & 26, 2013

The Conference Days take place on Monday, November 25 and Tuesday, November 26. There will be no school that day! See more information here.

13. Thanksgiving Break: November 27 - 29, 2013

We wish you all a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving Break 2013. School will be closed during Thanksgiving Break.

14. Winterfest 2013: December 7, 2013

Snow Flakes

Winterfest 2013 is approaching fast! Please mark your calendar and bring your family and friends to celebrate a wonderful afternoon full of holiday activities! Please click here to see our GAIS Winterfest 2013 Flyer.

We wish you all a great and successful week!

Yours sincerely,

Roman Bruegger

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Roman Bruegger

Communications Specialist

German American International School

275 Elliott Drive

Menlo Park, CA, 94025

Phone: +1 650 324 8617

rbruegger@gais.org