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Help us reach 100% PTA Participation and help your class win $100!
From curriculum support to computers, paper to playground equipment, the Meadows PTA funds educational essentials--everyday. We need your donation to provide the excellent education our kids deserve! So if you haven't already, please Join & Donate today at the amount that is right for your family. Every donation helps. Our goal is 100% PTA Participation by October 31st! As of today, we are at 63%. Please help us close the gap...and help your class win $100 to spend in the classroom! HUGE THANKS to the families who've already Joined & Donated! You guys rock! See the list of our medal-level donors at the bottom of this email. Questions? Email Carrie Gilmer & Jeanne Mayer at meadowsmembership@gmail.com.
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Parent donations to MBEF will fund over 70 educators' jobs in Grades K-12 this year.
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Thank you for your generosity. One in five elementary school teachers is funded through your donations to MBEF. Add to that your librarian, science specialist, reading specialist, music teachers, and much more, and you have the third best school district in the state. We hope we can count on you again. Mbef.org/Givetoday
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| Family Portraits - It's not too late! | |  Don't pass up the opportunity to have the photo of a lifetime! There are still many appointments available to get your family portrait taken on the beach or at the park. For $45 you can have a fabulous photo taken by a professional photographer (8x10 included in price). A portion of your sitting fee and portrait order goes to our PTA. Call JW Photography at 310-640-7212 and book your appointment (last appointment day is 11/10). For any questions you can email JJCorr1@yahoo.com. Fliers are avilable in the Meadows office. |
| Halloween Haunt, Friday 10/25, 5:30-9:00 | | |
 Bring your ghouls, ghosts and goblins down to Meadows for the Halloween Haunt. The cafeteria is transformed into a Haunted House (5:30-7:00 for the lighted, not-so-haunted house and 7:00-9:00 for the haunted house) and the lower field will have an assortment of activities, including a hair and nail booth, a giant slide, a sports complex, a bungee jumper, and did we mention a mechanical bull? Bracelets, that include all activities, will be on sale for $15. Presale bracelets will be available at Friday ice cream sales October 11, 18, 25 from 2:00-3:00.
Hennessy's will be onsite selling hamburger, hot dog and chicken plates. Popcorn and cotton candy will also be on sale and we will have a raffle that you won't believe! Please join us for an evening of spooky fun! Please contact Yuri Chien yyamad2000@yahoo.com or Madeleine Court mad_mccormack@hotmail.com with any questions.
This event is in need of volunteers who can help with construction, decorating, set up and tear down. Please look for a volunteer request signup to follow shortly
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| Order Your Meadows Yearbook Today! | | |
Hey Mustangs! The 'Meadows School of Rock' is coming to our school in June! This year's book will be a hardcover (think a Shutterfly book)!! Basic presale price is $34 before December 2nd. But....get your book personalized with a name or phrase - so it won't get lost!! - and order by November 1st and you will get 4 FREE ICONS! After November 1st, you can still personalize, but the icons will be an extra cost. If you place your order after December 2nd, the price will be $40, personalization and icons are extra. Order directly from Jostens here. Questions? Email meadowsyearbook12@gmail.com
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| First Student Store Day of the Year - Thursday! | | |
 Get out those gold cards! Or those spare dollar bills! The Student Store is back. The first Student Store of the year is this Thursday, October 10th during your child's lunch recess. What is Student Store? Check out the flyer for all the details here.
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| 2014 Meadows Parent Party | | |
 Now you know the date (1/25/14 and the theme (80's Prom!) for the Meadows Parent Party. We really hope to have a great turn out this year so please be sure to put it on your calendar if you have not already. It will be a fun night with friends + all for a good cause = Meadows! Online tickets sales will be coming soon.
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| Running Club | | |
Did you run the Manhattan Beach 10k this weekend? We saw some of you out there on the course looking fierce! Runners get credit for any community races. All you have to do is bring in your bib, and we'll give you credit for those miles. Great job, runners!
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| Meadows Gear - Order by October 31st! | | |
 Still need to get your 2013-2014 Meadows t-shirt? And other Meadows gear, including the new sweatshirts? They will be on sale this Friday at the cafeteria from 2-3pm. Check the flyer here to see what awesome items we have for sale!! Or go to the Meadows website to order online.
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| Meals for Meadows - Rubio's on October 16th | | |
 Join your fellow Mustangs at Rubio's for our next Meals for Meadows event - October 16th from 2pm to close. Dine at Rubio's, take food to go, or pick up a Rubio's a-Go-GoŽ Catering order*, and Rubio's will donate 20% of your transactions to this cause. See the flyer for more info!
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It's easy to earn money for Meadows! All you have to do is clip out Box Tops for Education!
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 The Box Tops are located on many of the products that you already buy. When you see Box Tops, clip them out and return them to school. There is a large collection box in the front office and also in your child's classroom. Every Box Top counts! If we all get in the habit of clipping out the Box Tops, we could literally earn thousands of dollars for our school! If you have any questions, please call Teresa Hymowitz 310-990-7665
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| 2013 Reflections Art Contest | |
 Celebrate your talents... Do you express your creativity through dance, music, film, photography, art or literature? Participate in the PTA's Reflections program...2013-2014 Theme "Believe, Dream, Inspire" Due Friday, November 8th, in the Meadows front office. For more information contact Charu Badhwar at cbadhwar@yahoo.com. See the flyer for more information. |
| Rowell Drop Off Zone | | |
 As you may know from last year, we made some changes to our procedure for morning drop off in the Rowell drop off area. We have consulted with the Manhattan Beach Police Department and also checked what is working well at the other elementary schools. We are confident that the new plan will make the drop off zone safer, all we need now is your help to make it happen! Each class has been assigned one or two weeks over the remaining weeks of the year. We need two parents each day to volunteer and take a shift (7:45 - 8:15) during the assigned week for your class.
The link to sign up is http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0448AEAD22A02-rowell3 - Password meadows. Click on the link and find the assigned week for your class, then choose the morning that works best for your schedule. The procedure and rules are listed on the sign up genius site.
Thank you for your support and for your help to make the Meadows drop off zone safer for all!
For more information, click here. |
| Skechers Pier to Pier Friendship Walk - Oct. 27th | | |
We are looking forward to your support for Team 'Meadows' for the Skechers Friendship Walk on October 27th. It will be so much fun to walk with your classmates and neighbors as a group.
We hope that you divide your registration fee to both the Friendship circle as well as MBEF. Last year MBEF received $71,000 from SKECHERS for our participation in this event! Spread the word, and get your friends and other families to sign up for the walk too!
Please follow these instructions to register:
- Locate Register on top of page: Click!
- Select "Create a Friendship Walk Account" or log in if you are already registered in previous years.
- Fill in form and click "Continue"
- Click on box labeled "Join a Team"
- Type in "Meadows" A drop box will appear; select "Meadows"
- Then continue as instructed
We hope to see you on October 27th!
Shwetha Reddy
Friendship Walk coordinator for Meadows
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Your PTA Dollars at Work! | | |
 On Tuesday morning, October 8th, all Meadows students will see an assembly that will spark their imagination and inspire their creative writing!The Imagination Machine is a group of talented and funny improv actors who will act out story ideas from the students. The younger classes will learn about the basics of writing, while the older students will see how a first draft can be re-written many different ways. This assembly is a perfect compliment to our Writing Workshop program.
Assemblies like this could not happen without your support because they are entirely funded by PTA dollars. Thanks to your generosity, this will be the first of three assemblies in the 2013-2014 school year! Thank you and be sure to ask your children about the show! |
| Educational Opportunity for Parents of 4th and 5th Graders | | |
 The MBMS PTA is happy to offer an educational opportunity for parents of 4th and 5th graders, as well as middle schoolers, as we kick off the school year. For this event, we have partnered with Diana Lipson-Burge, Registered Dietician. Diana is a local dietician and is the founder of The Energy Resource and co-author of the book, Un-Dieting, Undoing the Diet Mentality and Staying Fit Forever. Diana is recognized in Southern California as a leading expert in weight management, disordered eating and sports nutrition. In addition to being a local expert and dynamic speaker, Diana is also a parent of 2 children within the Manhattan Beach Schools.
Come join us on Wednesday, October 16th at 7:00 p.m. in the MBMS multi-purpose room to learn how to start the school year right. Diana will present how to "Avoid The 5 Most Common Mistakes Well-Intended Parents Make Regarding Their Family's Nutrition". If you have ever wondered how to support your sons and daughters (or yourself) with self-esteem and self-image, focus and concentration during school and homework time, internal motivation to eat mindfully and be active in addition to ways to enhance endurance and strength in sports, this presentation is for you. |
| 2013 COLA Public Library Bookmark Contest | | |
 County of Los Angeles Public Library
and Pentel Arts presents the 2013 Bookmark Contest!
Create your bookmark design about books or reading and compete in these categories:
Compete in these Categories!:
- Kindergarten through Grade 2
- Grades 6 through 8
- Grades 9 through 12
Deadline to enter is October 19th. For more information, please see the entry form. Grades 3 through 5 |
| Hooray for our Medal-Level PTA Donors! | | |
Platinum
Alonso, Blackman, Cochran, Damborg, Gerken, Hory, Hunter, Hymowitz, Kim, Kraus, Macias, Shamaly, Stone
Gold
Aita, Bayiz, Becker, Berman, Boyer, Carey, Chien, Cohen, Corzine, Dickinson, El Faye, Frankel, Gilmer. Halkias, Hankus-Biggs, Helmers, Hurok, Inoue, Kamachee, Kaplan, Kleinberg, Kouwenhoven, Kupiec, Lam, Lowenberg, Mayer, McCalla, O'Hara, Park, Pennino, Robin, Rokosky, Salles-Spar, Schlehuber, Skolarus, Spencer, Stuart, Tucker, Vena, Yokoyama
Silver
Allen, Arora, Berkes, Cigoianu, Crowley, Cruz, Friedlander, Galins, Gordon, Graham, Hall, Halvorsen, Herrera, James, Kalra, Khoddam, Kingston, Kubitz, Lerman, Lewin, Lin, Marcu, Matsuoka, McCraken, Melnick, Milstein, Miner, Ottinger, Prince, Stewartson, Watts, Winckler, Yakubik, Yip, Zainul-Rizam
Bronze
Aboutanos, Alexander, Alexander-Zitske, Ames, Anderson, Baca, Baldocchi, Barile, Benz, Blanchard, Boll, Brennan, Brockmiller, Bynon, Cardenas, Chang, Cho, Chow, Contesini, Corelli, Corr, Court, Crawford, Cutler, De Baets, DeFrance, Dhillon, Doyle, Driscoll, Eastman, Fang, Ferguson, Flynn, Ganny, Garvey, Gentry, Gerrans, Hageman, Hedges, Hertlein, Hilliard, Horiguchi, Hunter, Hwang, Ip, Jackson, Johnson, Juo, Jutabha, Keskinel, Khaleghian, Kim, Kiznis, Komatinsky, Kuhr, Lane, Launsbach, Laurita, Lee, Leventhal, Levine, Liu, Lizarde, Luis, Manabe, Martinez, McCarty, Merino, Miller, Molter, Morphew, Mullins, Nakawatase, Nelson, O'Brien, Owen, Pecorini, Peetz, Pell, Penczar, Popov, Riethmiller, Rosenfeld, Saypack, Schmidt, Shannon, Shintaku, Succari, Summers, Sweet, Tarnapolsky, Torres, Truong, Walsh, Weihermuller, Yasuda, Young, Zheng
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