Please join us onThursday, January 28th when your Park PTA will be hosting Mill Valley counselor Claudia Trinklein-Engman. She will be speaking in the auditorium at 9am. As a further incentive, the coffee cart will be in the auditorium as well on that morning!
Claudia is an amazing resource and will be covering a variety of parenting topics such as boundary-setting, creating family rituals, developing a self-motivated child, and much much more! For more info, please click here.
This presentation is FREE and all Park School families are invited and encouraged to attend! Hope to see you there!

Your Park PTA is the organizing body for all of the volunteers that make so many of our Park School activities and events possible!!  We can’t do it without you!  We are looking to fill these remaining positions. Take a look and see if you might join the wonderful volunteers that make a difference at our school!
*Safe Routes to School Co-Chair
-attend monthly meetings and report to Site Council
-recruit volunteers to organize possible weekly or monthly  Walk (or take a green way) to School Days
 *Green Team Co-Chair
-recruit volunteers to cover Monday lunch with weekly green team crew
-work with Teacher volunteer and Hilary Jeffris (previous chairperson)
-organize possible Green Team activities (like Coastal Cleanup day, Cool the Earth program, work with Next Generation on Green School program)
*Crossing Guard – Monday Morning at East Blithedale
-arrive 8:05am  to cross children until 8:30am
*White Zone Greeters – Mon, Tues or  Friday mornings
 -8:10 – 8:30am – unload kids and keep traffic moving in white zone
*Lunch Room Servers any day!
 -contact Jane Todd (mark_jane@hotmail.com) if you can help serve lunch from 11:30am – 12:15pm. ) no experience needed – training provided!
If interested or have questions please contact your PTA Co-Presidents: Lisa Baldwin (lisalisab@earthlink.net) or Jocelyn Connolly (jocelyn@kidsplaceofmarin.com)
 
Remember your “one thing” can make a big difference!

You still have several more days to come up with a Variety Show idea and get your forms in by Friday, December 18th!

Can’t think of an idea but know you want to be in it? Turn in a form in by Friday anyway!

OR
Join the Group Act (Just put Group Act on your form!) and let Alan Schofield lead you on a merry dance.

Any questions please email thats-entertainment@live.com

THE PARK SCHOOL BOOK FAIR WILL BE OPEN THIS TUESDAY DECEMBER 1st - FRIDAY DECEMBER 4th! 

Our next PTA meeting will be on Wednesday, December 2nd in the auditorium. Our librarian Jane Ritter will be giving a children’s book talk, followed by an adult book talk courtesy of Dave Simpson of Lafayette Books. Coffee cart will be held on Wednesday that week, so grab a cup and join us for this special opportunity!

Thursday December 3rd starting at 5:30 we will have award winning author Robert San Souci and illustrator Daniel San Souci signing books at the Book Fair. The San Souci’s have wonderful children’s books for all ages - come and get autographed copies for your children and special holiday gifts.

Don’t forget about our delicious chili dinner which is also on Thursday December 3rd, prepared by Park School parent Mary Pult. Dinners are available for pre-order only. Sign up forms are due Monday, November 30th! Click here to download an order form.

All book fair proceeds are used to fund PTA programs including purchasing books for our Park School Library! Please come shop and support our school!

CALLING ALL PARK SCHOOL PARENTS:
The Park School Annual Holiday Book Fair opens in two weeks!  Come browse the wonderful selection of books and get a jump on your holiday shopping.  The Book Fair runs from Tuesday, December 1 through Friday, December 4.  Click here for a flyer detailing our many exciting events.

VOLUNTEER:  We could really use some more volunteers to work at the Fair AND to help with the move in (Friday, November 20), set-up (Monday, December 1) and tear down (Saturday, December 5).  Please contact Lainey Altvater at lainey_altvater@hotmail.com or Karen Sakanashi at kjem@sbcglobal.net if you can volunteer!

DONATE:  This year at the Book Fair we are going to have a silent auction of “Book Bundles” — items and/or services donated by wonderful Park School parents and a related book.  Donations include wonderful items such as: a beautiful Sarah Oliver handbag,  a super workout hike with Staci Nicolas and Diane Weisman, a birthday cake by Leigh Ann Townsend and a necklace by our extraordinary not-just-a-librarian Jane Ritter.   If you have an item or service that you could donate to support Park School, please contact Lisa Frisch at lfrisch@hotmail.com.

EAT:  The annual Thursday night dinner at the Book Fair is being prepared this year by Mary Pult and Friends from the 4th Grade Class.  Since Mary’s team is making all the food for the dinner, we kindly ask that you please pre-purchase you dinners.  Order forms for the dinner will come home in children’s backpacks this week and will also be available online.

Dear Families,

Here is a wonderful opportunity for Mill Valley elementary school families to learn about or try Revolution Foods.  This promotion is sanctioned by the district and we hope that you will give it a try. Our lunch program benefits our school community and is a volunteer effort of our PTA!

Revolution Foods Simple Ordering Instructions

To place your order online, please go to https://order.revfoods.com/

Returning Parents: Enter Login Information

New Parents: Click on Parents: register online. Enter contact information, choose a user name and password, and click on Register. Enter Child’s name and School’s Access Code: SN55ST. Click on your child’s class room number and grade. Add another child or click continue.

To order Meals, click on your child’s name. Click on a date from the calendar below to place an order for that day. Ordering closes at 5pm Wednesday evening for the following week’s menu.

Your account balance will be noted at the top of the calendar. The account balance system is similar to FasTrack. For your convenience, we recommend keeping sufficient funds in your account to draw down over several months.

Want the latest info on what is happening at Park School?  Come find out at the “State of the School” general PTA meeting this Thursday, October 15th at 8:30am in the library.  Reports will be given on all the committees and activities happening at Park school, as well as a report from our principal Jim Derich.  Grab a cup of coffee and a treat at the PTA coffee cart then come listen, ask questions and find out what is going on at our school!

Lunch Program Update:  We are in a short term volunteer crisis and we need everyone’s help!!!!  All California schools are mandated to provide a student lunch program, and we are currently locked into Revolution Foods this year.  Our PTA provides this support to the district so that they do not have to make further budget cuts to administer the program.  Our PTA and the district are actively working on finding a solution to the lunch program issue and we are certain we will have some improvements soon.  However, in the short term WE NEED YOU!!!  Please consider supporting our school community and offer to serve lunch, even if you do not order lunch for your child. Our lunch administrator, Jane Todd, is single handedly doing the job that should be done by many and she would love to hear from you! Contact Jane Todd at mark_jane@hotmail.com to volunteer.

If you missed out on painting your tile(s) on Sunday:
Tile-Painting Make-up Day will be on Wednesday, October 21 from 1:45 pm - 3:45 pm in Room 12 ( Kim Kirley’s classroom).

Additional tiles are available.  To ensure we have enough supplies, orders must be in by October 19th.  For people that can not make it next week - Doodlebug in San Anselmo will be delighted to help them.

Finally, we recently heard of a car break-in less than a block from Park School. As a reminder, when parked at school or anywhere else, be sure to lock your car and store valuables out of sight!

Playground Fundraising Update

We are almost half way there!!!! We currently have raised $23,000 and still need to raise $27,000 to reach our goal of $50,000 to replace the lower playground structure that was removed. To ensure we meet our goal we are extending our priority deadline to Monday, October 5th. If we make this goal, then we can order our new playground equipment in time to install it over the December holiday break and make our plan a reality! Flyers for donations and ordering handpainted tiles are available in the school office or by clicking here. Questions? Contact Jenifer Hartwell or Amy Curtis. Thank you for your support!

Fabulous author Jon Agee coming to Park School on November 6th!

Please pre-order your Jon Agee books by October 2nd so that they can be signed by the author. Order forms are available in the office or contact Barb Sobel

Calling Park School Alumni

If you know any Park School alums, please extend an invitation to the 100 year celebration! A flyer with all the information is available here.

Please join us on October 11th to celebrate Park School’s Centennial! We are also selling commemorative tiles as a fundraiser to replace our play structure which was removed by the district. Click here for more information. Donations may be dropped off in the school office. Click here for a donation form.

For more information about the centennial celebration, please contact Jenifer Hartwell.