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This week we celebrated an important annual rite of fall at Burgundy, the International Day of Peace. The school came together Monday for lunch in the Amphitheater. Buddy classes shared a picnic lunch outdoors and took in the program together. A bell was rung shortly after noon, and the United Nations proclamation establishing Peace Day was read as Burgundy joined people around the world honoring the importance of peace to the sustainability and thriving of all humankind.
Cindy Woodruff, the new Burgundy librarian joining Barbara Krainik, is Co-Founder and President of the Peace Study Center, a nonprofit that offers a summer camp for youth and provides resources and training for educators. Accordingly, Cindy led our Peace Day celebration and provided resources for teachers and their classes. We thank her!
Cindy says: "It was a pleasure to help plan the International Day of Peace gathering on Monday. Bringing the Burgundy community together in the woods was a great way to start our event. I loved watching the JK children share their peace birds. The Spanish classes shared famous quotes about peace. French students sang Enfant de Paix... We rang the peace with groups around the world as we recognized the United Nations proclamation for this annual day of peace and nonviolence."
In my brief remarks after the program I reminded students that school, beyond the purely academic skills and habits learned, is also very much about preparing for life. Peace and peacefulness in the world arise from our habits learned and practiced at home and at school. We will make our families and communities stronger and the world a better place if we embrace principles such as non-violence, respect and collaboration that promote peace.
Jeff Sindler
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Coming Up at Burgundy ...
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Garden Work Day Tomorrow
Join us in the Burgundy garden tomorrow, Saturday September 26! Come for an hour or the whole day, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Children welcome. Our agenda includes weeding the existing garden beds, building new raised bed boxes and hauling soil. We'll need weed pullers, haulers and carpenters. There is a lot of work to do to prepare the beds for fall planting! Please RSVP via SignUp Genius. If you have questions, contact Dori Gonzalez-Acevedo.
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Pizza Fridays will start soon! Pre-order now to help the 8th grade class
attend Wilderness Adventure.
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8th Grade Pizza Sales The 8th grade class will be selling pizza on select Fridays throughout the year to support the class tradition of going to Wilderness Adventure at the end of the school year. Wilderness Adventure is an adventure-based camp with group physical activites and teambuilding; a great opportunity for 8th graders to work together one more time before graduation. The students worked hard to find the best Fridays for pizza and to get a good deal. This year pizza (cheese only) will be ordered from Paisano's. Juice will not be served this year; please plan accordingly. Find dates, other details, and our pre-order form online (PDF). We encourage families to pre-order their pizza for the entire year as this gets you a discount and makes it easier for our 8th grade planners. Return the form (linked above) and payment (checks made out to BFCDS) to your child's homeroom teacher by Friday, October 2. Pizza is also available on a week-by-week basis; orders and payments must be received by Wednesday of the pizza sale week. Please contact Steve LeBoo with any questions. The Class of 2016 thanks you for your support and we look forward to delivering pizza! Help Us Prepare for the Fall Fair  The Fall Fair -- this year on Saturday, October 17, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. -- is one of Burgundy's signature events, and it attracts hundreds of people to campus each year. We're happy to announce the fan favorite Haunted House will be back this year! More details to come on that. To make sure everyone has lot of fun at all our activities, we count on parents to participate in volunteer shifts, and hope that you may also have donations for our sales. Remember, proceeds from the event benefit student financial aid, so we want to have a successful Fair! Call for Volunteers Thanks to these parents who have recently volunteered to help lead several Fair activities: Used Books: Dori Gonzalez-Acevedo joins the team of Jane Hanson and Jan Foster Kids' Closet: Julianna Lindsey joins the team of Wes Callender and Tovah Ravitz-Meehan
Games and Prizes: Marnie Jones joins Nicole Thorpe We rely on support from all of our community members, particularly parent volunteers, to make this event a success. We ask each of our current parents to donate at least one hour of time at the Fall Fair to ensure it is fun and successful for everyone. To help "divide and conquer," we assign each class an area to manage and support with guidance from that class's Fall Fair Coordinator and the event chairperson. Parent volunteers are asked to help in their assigned class area.  Parent Volunteer Class Assignments JK: Bake Sale
K: Games and Prizes
1st: Pumpkin Painting and Barnyard Visits
2/3: Kids' Closet* and Lemonade Stand
4/5: Burgundy Mart, Face Painting, and Food Tent
6th: Used Book Sale* and Games and Prizes
7th: Haunted House
8th: Moonbounce and Haunted House We also ask our Middle School students to volunteer and support Games and Prizes (6th Grade), and the Haunted House (7th and 8th Grades). You'll get class-specific information from your classroom's Fall Fair Coordinator soon. If you have any immediate questions, please contact Fall Fair Volunteer Coordinator Laura Davis. *Keep in mind that Used Book Sale and Kids' Closet set up volunteers during the week of the Fair get first dibs on donated items. Volunteers for these events are allowed to shop in their respective areas the week prior to the Fair as a token of our appreciation. Call for Donations We depend on Burgundy parents and friends to donate materials for the Kids' Closet, Used Book Sale and Bake Sale. It's a great excuse to clean out your closets and straighten up your bookshelves! We'd also welcome a loan of Halloween decorations for our Haunted House. Kids' Closet and Used Book Sale -
Please gather gently used kids' clothes, toys, adult & children's books and media (including DVDs), and shopping bags in good condition.
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Start bringing these items Friday, October 9. Please drop off donations at the trailer that will be in the Middle School parking lot. Donation slips available at the trailer.
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Collections end Thursday, October 15 for Kids' Closet donations and Friday, October 16 for Used Books donations.
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Please note that we cannot accept electronics, car seats, helmets, pajamas, bathing suits, or underwear.
 Bake Sale We'd love to add your homemade goodies to the Bake Sale. Looking for a family activity? Kids love to bake and decorate. Many baked goods freeze well, so it's not too soon to get started. Questions? Contact Bake Sale Chair Audrey Dreibelbis. -
The Fall Fair strives to be a NUT-FREE event. Please ensure your donated baked goods do not contain nuts.
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Wrap your goodies for individual sale with clear plastic wrap and decorate with ribbons, stickers and more to add "kid appeal."
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Label and identify your sweets. People like to know what they are buying! Don't worry about price tags--we will add those.
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Please bring baked goods to the Admission Office or drop off at morning carpool on Thursday and Friday, October 15 and 16. You can also bring to the Bake Sale table next to the Admission Office by 10 a.m. Saturday, October 17, the morning of the Fair.
Haunted House Consider loaning Halloween decorations from your collection to the Fall Fair Haunted House. Email Fall Fair Coordinator Allison Niedbala if you're interested. Label any loaned items, so that we can return them before October 31! Box Tops for Burgundy  Burgundy has many partnerships with organizations that help bring in more revenue for the school, and by doing a few very small (easy!) things, you can make a huge difference. This year's affinity program coordinator, Jenny Friedl, parent of Porter (2nd grade Viceroy), Lindy (Kindergarten Penguin) and Tyler (Kindergarten Polar Bear) welcomes questions, comments, or suggestions at jnfriedl@gmail.com. Jenny will be sharing information about ways to help; today's focus is Box Tops for Education. We really win with this one! We send them trash, and they send us money. Each Box Top is worth 10 cents, and they really add up fast. Box Tops can be found on hundreds of products and all you need to do is cut (or rip) the Box Top symbol off and send them in to school. Box Tops can be turned in at the main office, individual classrooms, and the Middle School atrium. We will be doing a monthly tally of the Box Tops collected at each location so start adding to your class's numbers now! Bring them loose, in bags or envelopes, or you can tape or glue them (no staples please) to a collection sheet -- a quick Google search turns up gazillions of links and examples. Please don't throw out (or recycle) money that can be used in our classrooms! Sign up for Box Tops emails by September 30 to earn 5 bonus Box Tops for Burgundy! Use Burgundy's school ID 385163 and you'll get coupons and other promotions while we get 5 extra Box Tops.
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Don't Forget!
Saturday, September 26: Campus Garden Work Day, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Please RSVP.
September 28-30: 8th Grade at the Cove
Through September: Buy a Book for Burgundy continues. A $20 donation offsets the cost of one of our Library's new books--your child can select which book to 'buy' and leave in the Library with a special nameplate. More details in a previous Constant Comment.
Friday, October 2: Professional development day; dismissal at 12:30 p.m. Middle School Dance, 7 p.m., Loft.
October 5-7: 2/3 Viceroys at the Cove
Monday, October 5: JV Soccer Home Game, 3:30 p.m., Field
Tuesday, October 6: Varsity Soccer Home Game, 3:30 p.m., Field
October 7-9: 2/3 Buckeyes at the Cove
Monday, October 12: Columbus Day, School Closed
Continuing: Dori Gonzalez-Acevedo (parent of Alessandra, 2nd grade Buckeye) offers a weekly "Morning Mindfulness" with meditation and yoga, 7:30-8 a.m. Wednesdays on the Early Childhood deck (rain location: Loft).
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Remembering Ann Van Deusen Members of the Burgundy community past and present -- students, alumni, families, faculty, and staff -- came together last weekend to celebrate Ann Van Deusen's life and many contributions to Burgundy. Photos, a video, and the program from the event are available online. Memories of Ann, to be shared with her family, are still welcome at memories@burgundyfarm.org. Students are also welcome to share memories on a display in the Library.
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| The Faculty Singers sing "Amazing Grace" at the memorial for
Ann Van Deusen last Saturday.
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Burgundy Bulletin Groundworks Farm, owned by Burgundy alumni Margaret Evans Brown '02 and Kevin Brown '01, is accepting new members for their winter-spring shares of their community supported agriculture program (CSA). Through the CSA, Groundworks provides organically and sustainably grown produce, meat, and eggs year-round. Visit www.groundworksfarm.com for more information. |
Parting Photos|
| | This week, the Discovery Playground became an obstacle course for Middle School students in PE, including these 7th graders. |
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| | The Blazers varsity soccer team won at Green Hedges Tuesday but lost to Capitol Hill Day School at home yesterday. The next game is at Gesher this coming Thursday. |
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