As the school year comes to a close, we on the Meadows PTA wanted to thank everyone who joined & donated to our PTA, volunteered their precious time, and participated in our many fun-raisers. We and our Meadows students are so lucky to have such committed and involved families!
Congratulations on all of the amazing things that we achieved together this year, including...
Teacher Support
- Professional development for staff
- Classroom materials support
- Substitutes for teacher planning time
- Teacher Appreciation Week
- Teachers' Lounge improvements
- Electronic library catalog
- 85 new books for the library including Caldecott, Newberry, California Young Reader award-winners and new releases
- Science Lab supplies
Curriculum Support
- New Writers Workshop mentor texts for all grades
- 4th and 5th grade Science Fair
- Principal curriculum fund for grade level support
- Classroom and office supplies: paper, paperclips, pencils, crayons, ink, folders, toner, etc.
Technology Support
- iPads for 4th grade
- Smart Board maintenance & bulbs
- Keyboards for 3rd and 5th grades
- 13 HP printers
- New cafeteria projector
- 4 iMacs for the office and library
- 26 MacBook Pros for teachers
Program Support
- Young at Art
- Growing Great Nutrition / Garden
- Awards assemblies
- Safety presentation for parents
- Movie Night
- Winter Music Program
- Assemblies: Writing, Poetry, African Drum
- FatHer/Daughter & Mother/Son Socials
Student Support
- Cultural Arts for all grades: Kinder Three Piggy Opera; 1st gr. Mime; 2nd gr. Irish Dancing; 3rd gr. Folk Dance; 4th gr. Dance Traditions of the CA settlers; 5th gr. Hip-hop/Contemporary Dance
- PE equipment: 198 rubber and soccer balls, dodge balls, frisbees
- Running Club
- Science Night
- 5th grade Talent Show
- Student Council
Campus Support
- Renovation and planting of gardens
- New Electronic Meadows Marquee
- New sandboxes and basketball half-court for the kinder playground
- New murals coming this summer
- 3 new tables for the lower playground
An extra special thanks to our Medal Level PTA Donor families (listed below), and to our awesome Super Stang families (bolded below) who went above and beyond this year. Please remember to join & donate to our PTA this coming fall so we can make more magic happen at Meadows next year!
Platinum Donors
Billerey, Blackman, Cochran, Damborg, Freelin, Gerken, Hory, Hunter, Hymowitz, Kim, Kraus, Leo, Macias, Saffon-Wilkinson, Shamaly
Gold Donors
Aita, Bayiz, Becker, Berman, Boyer, Brown, Carey, Chien, Cohen, Cortez, Corzine, DeMartino, Dickinson, El Faye, Frankel, Gilmer, Glidden, Gold, Halkias, Hankus-Biggs, Helmers, Hurok, Inoue, Kamachee, Kaplan, Kleinberg, Kouwenhoven, Kramer, Kubler, Kupiec, Lam, Lowenberg, Martin, Mayer, McCalla, Murray, O'Hara, Park, Pennino, Robin, Rokosky, Salles-Spar, Schlehuber, Serene, Skolarus, Snyder, Spencer, Stone, Stuart, Trout, Tucker, Vena, Yokoyama
Silver Donors
Allen, Arora, Beller, Berkes, Choi, Chuang, Cigoianu, Crawford, Crowley, Cruz, Friedlander, Galins, Gordon, Graham, Hall, Halvorsen, Herrera, Ibarra, Jackson, James, Kalra, Khoddam, Kingston, Kubitz, Lerman, Lewin, Lin, Marcu, Matsuoka, McCraken, Melnick, Milstein, Miner, Ostrick, Ottinger, Prince, Shapiro, Stewartson, Turman, Warrier-Reddy, Watts, Winckler, Yakubik, Yip, Zainul-Rizam
Bronze Donors
Aboutanos, Akau, Alexander, Alexander-Zitske, Ames, Anderson, Andrade, Anthony, Atallah, Baca, Baldocchi, Barile, Bauer, Bellasarian, Benz, Blanchard,Block, Boll, Brennan, Brockmiller, Bynon, Cardenas, Chang, Cho, Chow, Contesini, Cook, Corelli, Corr, Court, Cutler, Dayton, De Baets, DeFrance, Dhillon, Doyle, Doyle, Driscoll, Eastman, Fang, Ferguson, Flynn, Fujioka, Ganny, Garvey, Gentry, Gerrans, Hageman, Hecht, Hedges, Hennies, Hertlein, Hilliard, Horiguchi, Hwang, Iida, Ip, Jackson, Johnson, Juo, Jutabha, Kawai, Kelley, Keskinel, Khaleghian, Kim, King, Kiznis, Komatinsky, Kuhr, Lane, Larsen, Launsbach, Laurita, Le, Lee, Leventhal, Levine, Little, Liu, Lizarde, Lundy, Luis, Manabe, Marcoulier, Martinez, McCarty, Meidl, Merino, Miller, Molter, Moneymaker, Morphew, Mullins, Nakawatase, Nelson, Nelson, Nguyen, O'Brien, O'Gorman, Okamoto, Owen, Paden, Palu, Patil, Pecorini-Krueger, Peetz, Pell, Penczar, Popov, Quevedo, Radut, Riethmiller, Rosenfeld, Rowley, Sandblom, Sawlsville, Saypack, Schmidt, Shannon, Shea, Shintaku, Succari, Summers, Swartzlander, Sweet, Tanigawa, Tarnapolsky, Torres, Towsley, Truitt, Truong, Ty, van Doornewaard, Wakefield, Walsh, West, Yasuda, Young, Zheng
Donors
Ahmed, Baker, Barks, Beezhold, Bhola, Bridwell, Budoff, Carlock, Chen, Clark, Cooney-Cordero, Cronk, Crow, Cunningham, da Silva, Davidson, Denton, Galbreath, Griffiths, Guerreo, Guillory, Harker, Hiatt, Jimenez, Johoske, Kalle, Kerker, Lemoine, Lindberg, Llorin, Lowry, Marmolejo, Martinez, Martinez, Miller, Morris, Murphy, Nelson, Nwoke, Okida, Panaro, Pavlick, Peel, Pesis, Peterman, Reyes, Roberts, Rochelson, Sabbe, Saieh, Sewell, Sibley, Soof, Spanos, Stevens, Sun, Szkolnik, Torres, Toyooka, Trpin, Watts, Weihermuller, Woodburn, Wrye, Zwicki