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Hi Mustangs! Take a minute to find out what's happening at Meadows Elementary!
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Week at a Glance
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March 10th - 13th - Running Club
March 13th - Last Day of Valiente Charter School Book Drive
March 13th - Mother/Son Event tickets sold at Ice Cream Friday
March 16th - Staff Development (No School)
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Upcoming Events
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March 16th - Staff Development (No School)
March 19th - PTA Meeting, 8:15am
March 20th - Mother Son Event @ Adventureplex, 4-7pm
March 21st - Spring Pride Day
March 26th - Meadows' Open House (Minimum Day schedule)
March 27th - Meet Your Lawmakers, Education Roundtable 2015, 9:30am
April 6th-10th - Spring Break
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Meadows Summer Camp Expo - Saturday!
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Check out the annual Meadows Summer Camp EXPO on Saturday, March 14th from 9am-1pm at MBMS. You can browse through over 40 camps to plan a really fun summer for your kids, bid on camps at the Silent Auction and enjoy El Gringo, Fresh Brothers, and a refreshing Kona Ice snow cone or lemonade!See the flyer for more information.
Please sign up below to help out with this event. It takes a village!
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C45ADA62DA1F49-camp/4457846
New this year:
Bike Safety Course : Licensed instructors from Beach Cities Cycling Club and the South Bay Bicycle Coalition prepared a drop-in, free bike safety course. The course features multiple stations including: helmet fitting, rules of the road and a skills course. Drop in any time during Camp Expo with your bike and helmet. Parent Signature on Waiver required for children to participate. Email Roger Spencer to volunteer or ask a question: roger90266@yahoo.com.
Maker Space Demonstration of Air Powered Rockets: MakerSpaces from each elementary school are building air- powered rocket launchers. Kids can go to Camp Expo and build their own rocket. We'll have 3-4 launchers to send the rockets into the sky. Here's a quick video intro: http://youtu.be/Tp4tgirdUE4Â. Email Roger Spencer to volunteer or ask a question: roger90266@yahoo.com or sign up to help here!
New or Used Book Drive: Girl Scout Troop 8895 is holding a book drive and lemonade stand fundraiser to benefit Valiente College Prep School in South Gate.
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Meals for Meadows - The Counter
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Remember to visit The Counter in El Segundo on Wednesday, March 11 and support Meals for Meadows. Please present the attached flyer, which will also be in your child's Tuesday folder, and 20% will go back to Meadows. Please note that unfortunately, Sweet XO is going out of business and will no longer be able to host a fundraiser for us this week. See you at The Counter, and remember to sign the Guest Book to earn a SKORR card!
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Mustang Socials Event - Guided Wine Tasting
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Join Fourth Grade Parents Jhoanna Torres, Lynda Galins and Anne Stuart on Friday, March 27th at 7:30pm. We'll enjoy a flight of five wines during a guided wine tasting. We'll have simple food pairings of cheeses, fruits, nuts and chocolates. Nancie Hemminger of Boisset Wine Living will share with us the stories behind these small production vineyards and their delicious varietals. A taste of Napa, right here at home!
Buy your ticket by Thursday, March 19th to be a part of this great evening!!
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Young at Art Fundraiser at Johnny Rockets
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Come see Meadows' student artwork displayed at Johnny Rockets: 1550 Rosecrans Avenue, Manhattan Beach.
The "Up Close" Project is currently on display for the following classes: Jones, Cubillos, Nishida and Mascari. Enjoy lunch or dinner at Johnny Rockets and 15% of your receipt will be donated to the Young at Art parent organization. Just mention Young At Art, no flyer necessary. In addition, if you write your name, email address and phone number on your receipt, you will be entered in a drawing to win a birthday party for 10 children at Johnny Rockets. One drawing per month.
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Yee-Haw - The Meadows Parent Party was a HUGE Success!
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Thanks to all who came to the 2015 Meadows Western Hoe-Down. It was a wild night with all y'all - we had a fantastic DJ, some crazy bull riding, and a fun time with friends - all to raise money for our kids. With ticket sales, raffle sales and the live auction, we raised over $22,000!!!!
Live Auction results:
Braces (Summer Orthodontics): Becker Family
Braces (Gimlen Orthodontics): Stuart Family
Manhattan Beach Staycation: Pennino Family
Maui Condo: Reyes Family
El Gringo GUAC truck: Trout Family
LA Sports Team package: Stuart Family
Parking Space: Tucker Family
Hermosa Beach Staycation: Pazzia Family
Year of Date Nights: Sawlsville Family
A big shout out to our Live Auction MC Jack Martin - you were amazing! Thank you!
Raffle results:
Disneyland Park Hopper tickets: Schlehuber Family
M Street Artwork Mermaid: Saypack Family
Dancing With The Stars Tickets: Tarnapolsky Family
Pete Halverson Photo: Tucker Family
School of Dance Gift Certificate: Frankel Family
Skate Dogs Week of Camp: Carey Family
Camp Awesome Week of Camp: Sawlsville Family
Elsa Doll: Succari Family
We will touch base with all the Live Auction and Raffle winners regarding details. Thank you to all our amazing sponsors and donors!! We will send out a separate note to highlight all the various local businesses who helped make this event a success.
Again, a HUGE thank you to everyone who supported the event!!!
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Mother Son Event on March 20th
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The 2015 Annual Meadows Mother-Son Event will be Fri day, March 20th from 4pm-7pm at Adventure Plex. We've got the whole place to ourselves for 3 full hours. Activities include play structure, rock wall, and games on the sports court. The sign up form will be in the next two Tuesday envelopes. There will also be a table sale on 3/13 during the ice cream social. $15 per person/$40 max per family. Price includes dinner and drinks. Please contact Dana Bagdasarian if you can donate a raffle prize or can volunteer at the event at danabag@gmail.com. We can always use dads to help sign in!
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Help Celebrate the LAUNCH of MakerSpace
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Build and launch your own air powered rocket at Summer Camp Expo 9am-1pm March 14th at MBMS. Click Here to build your own rocket. Click here to volunteer (IT'S EASY & FUN). Children of volunteers get priority access to the next MakerSpace session (children are not allowed to repeat MakerSpace until the wait list clears). Contact Roger Spencer with questions roger90266@yahoo.com or 310-293-5188
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Young at Art Gallery During Open House
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While you are on campus for Open House, visit the Young at Art Gallery, Bake Sale and Dinner. Salads, hamburgers, hot dogs, grilled cheese and shakes from Johnny Rockets will be available for sale from $6-$8 with a portion of proceeds benefiting Young at Art. There will also be homemade treats for sale brought to you by our Young at Art docents. Tour the gallery in the cafeteria to see incredible artworks representing all classrooms and all grades. And, take a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork home through our annual auction. Look for more details in your Tuesday envelope. For more information, contact Lisa Becker lisawbecker@gmail.com.
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Friday Ice Cream Coupons
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Are you worried about your children carrying cash around school or forgetting to bring money for Friday ice-cream social ? For convenience and peace of mind, we are now selling ice cream coupons during Friday ice-cream sales from 2pm-3pm outside the cafeteria. Buy 10 coupon tix for $10 and get 2 extra tix for free!!!! Each coupon ticket good for one ice-cream. Should you wish to purchase them at any other time, please contact Jane DeFrance at (310) 210-4103 or email at jwk54321@yahoo.com
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Reflections District Winner - Zachary Chien
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Congratulations to Zachary Chien for his Award of Excellence in the PTA
 33rd District Reflections Contest (Film Production)! He now moves on to the State level! He is pictured here, as he receives his award at the Reflections Tea Awards Ceremony on February 22nd. This year's Reflections theme was "The world would be a better place if ..." Thank you also to all the Meadows Mustangs who participated in the PTA Reflections art contest! |
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Now Accepting Donations!
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This year's Online Auction is now accepting donations. The auction runs from April 17-24. Donations can be made directly through the website or by contacting Roger Spencer at roger90266@yahoo.com or (310) 293-5188.
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So many educational funding decisions for our district are made at the state or federal level. Take an hour and come hear more from your CA
 Lawmakers on this critical topic. Please join Superintendent Michael Matthews, MBUSD School Board, Manhattan Beach City Council and Moderator Paul Silva in welcoming U.S. Congressman Ted Lieu, California Senator Ben Allen, and California Assembly Member and MBUSD parent David Hadley to discuss the impact of federal and state legislation on our schools. For more information, please see the attached flyer and letter. |
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Valiente Charter School Book Drive
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Meadows 5th Grade Girl Scouts are working towards earning their Bronze Award. They are excited about their project, which is helping to build a library for a new charter school in an underprivileged part of Los Angeles. It is their goal to collect as many new or gently used books as they can, and need your help to do so! They would appreciate your donations very much and will be placing collection bins at the Rowell drop off zone and at the front office. The book drive at Meadows will begin March 2nd and end March 13th. The girls will also be collecting books at Camp Expo on March 14th. Along with the book drive, the girls will have a lemonade stand at Camp Expo from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The kids at Valiente College Preparatory Charter School would love it if you could donate books! If you think about it, books are the reason we are smart so please donate your used and new books for kids and teens. Please contact ronda.ferguson@verizon.net if you need more information.
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FUN-Raising
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Amazon Smile is a program through Amazon where they donate 0.5% of the purchase price of all items to the charity of your choice (Meadows Elementary!).
If you are a prime member your purchases are still eligible for prime just like before and you can use your existing Amazon account. Sounds easy! How do I sign up?......  - To shop you go to smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com (and not the app).
- The first time you visit Amazon Smile you will need to select Meadows Elementary as your chosen charity (find us by searching Meadows Elementary and then select "Meadows Elementary PTA").
- Every time you shop remember to use smile.amazon.com NOT amazon.com.
Send this on to friends and family!
Box Tops - Box Tops are each worth 10¢ each and Earn Money for Meadows!
So far this school year we've raised $740 for Meadows in the Box Tops for Education™ program. Our goal is $1,000 so please continue to look for the pink Box Tops on select products, clip them, and send them to school. Box Tops can be turned in by either simply dropping them in the front office collection box or by completing a Box Top submission form (your child will earn a SKORR card for each completed form). Forms can be returned anytime in a Tuesday envelope or to the front office collection box. Extra Box Top submission forms are in the front office. Thank you for helping!
SHOPPING 4 STUDENTS  Shop and log receipts from Manhattan Village between May 1, 2014 and April 30, 2015 to support our school. Bring your original cash register receipts to the Concierge Booth, located near Macy's Men's and Home Store, to earn at least five points per dollar spent. Receipts will be noted for your school and returned to you. Or simply drop them in the Shopping for Students box in the Meadows front office. Don't forget to please check out the website and sign up to receive bonus points for our school. |
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Volunteer Opportunities
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Summer Camp Expo - This Saturday, March 14th. Please sign up here to help out with this event. Thank you!
Help Celebrate the LAUNCH of MakerSpace
We need volunteers to help at our MakerSpace LAUNCH celebration. We're hosting an Air Powered Rockets demo at Camp Expo this year. It's really fun and easy. Volunteers get priority access for their children to the next MakerSpace session - remember that we need to give everyone a 1st chance before we give anyone a 2nd chance at MakerSpace. Volunteers will:
- help kids pump air into the launcher with a bike pump
- help kids make rockets HERE'S HOW
- Keep the kids from hurting themselves
Rowell Drop Off Zone Procedures - Click on the link here 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.
Trash Free Lunch - More parent volunteers are needed to help: Mon, Wed, Fri @ 11:40 - 1:00. We need 2 adults per shift each day. Contact Heather Kim at heathergothitched@yahoo.com for more information.
For more information about how to get involved, please contact the Meadows Volunteer Coordinators - JJ Corr or Stephanie Molter. |
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Community Corner
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March 15th - Mini Mustang Relays - 1st Annual Mini-Mustangs Youth Track Meet Fundraiser
SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 2015, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Grades: K - 8th ONLY
Location: Waller Stadium, Mira Costa High School
Cost: $15 entry (includes free T-shirt)
** Registration closes on Thursday, March 12 **
This is an "All Comers" meet open to one and all! All you need is a pair of shoes and a desire to compete. Kids can enter up to 3 events - for one low price. This a great way to introduce your child to Track and Field, and just have some fun. Compete with and against your school mates. Form your own relay teams. Show us what you've got!
Info flyer is attached. Registration can be found here:
Spring Break Youth Tennis Camp, April 6-10, 2015, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Campers: Boys & Girls, Ages 8-14 
Location: Mira Costa High School Tennis Courts (corner of Artesia & Meadows)
Camp Director: Head Coach, Joe Ciasulli
Camp Counselors: Members of the Mira Costa Boys & Girls Tennis Team The deadline is March 27, 2015! Checks must be received by this date. Download and fill out the registration form, and mail in with your payment.
2015 Mira Costa High School Aquatics - Junior Lifeguard Conditioning Program
This is a training program held at the Mira Costa High School pool that is specifically designed to help participants pass the required LA County Junior Lifeguard (JG) swim test. There will be 3 Sessions at the Mira Costa High School Pool - Space is limited. Sign up by March 1.
Session 1 (3 week, excluding Spring Break April 6, 7, 9): March 23 - April 16 (Mon/Tues/Thurs) 5:30-6:30 pm - $140
Session 2 (3 week): April 20 - May 7 (Mon/Tues/Thurs) 5:30-6:30 pm - $140
Session 3 (2 week Conditioning - Designed for returning JG's): May 11 - May 21 (Mon/Tues/Thurs) 5:30-6:30 pm - $90
Saturday, April 18, 2015 - Culver City Plunge
Saturday, May 9, 2015 - Mira Costa High School Pool
Sunday May 31, 2015 - Palisades Charter High School Pool
Please make check payable to MBX Foundation, mail check and application form to: Joe Anderson American Capitol 2121 Rosecrans Ave.,6th Floor El Segundo, CA 90245
All participants must be at least 9 years old by July 1, 2015, and are expected to have mastered basic swimming skills. The program is designed to refine basic skills, condition, and improve swimming times. All classes are taught by Mira Costa High School Aquatics Athletes under the supervision of Coach Jon Reichardt. This is a fundraiser for the Mustang Aquatics Boosters. Go to mustangaquatics.org or email Joe Anderson at joe@54joe.com or call 310-252-7236 for more information.
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