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Valley View Newsletter: Spring Fling, Pie Eating, Cake Walking and More
Read about the upcoming exciting program, open to all.
April 22nd, 2012
Vol. 2011-12 No. 30
Your Parent-Teacher Association Newsletter from Valley Gateway Council, District 31 PTSA
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PRE-SALE TICKETS Tickets for the Spring Fling Festival are ON SALE NOW!
Tickets are good for food, drinks and games at the festival on Sunday April 29th noon to 4pm at North Weddington Park.
PRE-SALE TICKET PRICES$20 for 45 tickets$50 for 125 tickets
Order discounted pre-sale tickets by envelope (more envelopes in the office). Deadline to get your envelopes into the office is THIS WEDNESDAY.
OR you can buy them in person before school this week Monday 4/23 to Friday 4/27, where we can take cash, check or credit card.
Get your tickets now!
SPRING FLINGENTERTAINMENT
Times are approximate, but here is a listing of theFREE entertainment we have planned for you at this year's Spring Fling.
You and your family won't want to miss a minute of the fun! So be there from noon to 4pm on Sunday April 29th at North Weddington Park, with plenty of street parking!
ENTERTAINMENT LIST:
California Academy of Martial Arts
Kindergarten performances
CALL TIME 12PM
Capoeria Brasil Valley
Young Champions Cheerleaders
Upper Grade performances
CALL TIME 1:10PM
Swordplay
Rosa del Valle Folkloric Dance
DK Dance Factory
Pie-eating Contest
AT 3:30PM
PTA News SIGN MAKING PARTY!
Join us for a SIGN MAKING PARTYon this Monday 4/23 at 2pm in the Auditorium. There is a lot behind the scenes to make the Spring Fling work. If you have some time, pop by after school Monday and help us make some signs. It's actually a lot of fun!
Staff Appreciation Day is coming up next Friday 5/4. If you would like to participate, please contact Catherine catherineglandon@sbcglobal.net or 323-854-0855 orinfo@valleyviewelementary.org. We will need specialty items from home to supplement the lunch items we have planned... anything homemade or special you'd like to bring to show you care! And we'll need people to serve. Please take this opportunity to appreciate our faculty and staff by helping make this luncheon special.
We need more HOT WHEELS TRACKS, SETS AND CARSfor the 5th & 6th grade Hot Wheels booth at Spring Fling! Please email info@valleyviewelementary.org if you can loan us hot wheels and accessories, or just drop them off at the office or PTA room. Please mark them carefully and we will return them safe and sound
SPRING FLING
VOLUNTEERS!
SAVE US A PHONE CALL!
If you haven't already picked the 1 hour block you want to volunteer at Spring Fling, you WILL be getting a phone call! But don't wait! Sign up now online, or sign-up at the poster on the red wall or Room 12, but sign up TODAY
If you have any problems with the site, send your questions to info@valleyviewelementary.org.
Go to the link below to sign up for your classroom booth today!
Math Game
1st grade Rm10
Knock the Bottles
http://tinyurl.com/soccerbooth
3rd grade Rms12&14
Eyeball Toss
http://tinyurl.com/eyeballtoss
4th grade Rm7
Once the classroom booths timeslots have been filled (or if you'd like to do something different) you can sign up ONLINE for the other volunteer positions we need as well:
EXTRA BOOTHS: Hi-Striker, Obstacle Course, Slide, Crafts
FOOD SALE: Bake Sale, Popcorn, Food Sales, andSno-Cones
That's right! Sno-Cones! You too can be the hit of the party and make sno-cones! It's easy and fun, and we will teach you!
Choose your time slot and sign up now! We need you!
For each hour of volunteering, you will receive a panther buck to give your favorite Panther! And each volunteer will also get a fun button to proudly display your status as a Valley View Volunteer!
We need literally EVERY person to make our festival a success. SIGN UP TODAY!SPRING FLING: CAKE WALK!
New This Year!
It's a sweet mash-up of Musical Chairs and Bake Sale. It's a delicious game of chance. It's an old-timey, tasty way to support our school. It's a Cakewalk!
New to Spring Fling this year is the Cakewalk. Several players at a time walk through marked hoops on the ground as the music plays. When the music stops each player lands on a final numbered hoop. A number is then pulled from a hat and the player standing in that hoop wins an ENTIRE CAKE!
So save some tickets for the Cakewalk on Sunday. And if you live to bake - or have a favorite bakery - please donate a cake to our Cakewalk. The more treats to win, the more fun and the more money we make for Valley View.
Bring your donations to the Cakewalk when you arrive at the fair. See you there!
SPRING FLING: PIE EATING CONTEST! New This Year!
Topping off the fun at the Spring Fling this year will be an event you don't want to miss. A good old fashioned pie eating contest!
Watch as your friends, parents and teachers stuff their faces (without using their hands!) with delicious chocolate cream, cherry and apple pies donated from Marie Callendars.
The winning adult, child and teacher/faculty member in each category, goes home with a shiny trophy and bragging rights as the pie eating champion of Valley View!
Sure to be some sweet and messy fun.
First prize trophy awarded to first contestant in each division to complete their pie slice and stand up. Registration form and rules here or at Entry booth day-of festival... first come, first registered.
SPRING FLING Donations
These items will complement the rest of the food offerings of corn on the cob, hot dogs, veggie dogs, cole slaw, pulled pork sandwiches and pulled pork sandwiches. We really need these drinks and sides to complete a fun meal option for the festival. Your donations are critical to our success!
Kindergarten Rms1&2 300 bags of assorted single-serve chips
1st grade Rms10&11 200 cans of Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, and Orange
2nd grade Rms3&4 200 juice boxes or juice packs
3rd grades Rms12&14 200 juice boxes or juice packs
4th grade Rm7 200 cans of Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, and Orange
5th&6th Rms5&6 300 bags of assorted single-serve chips
BAKED FOOD DONATIONS:
We will need individual items like cookies, brownies, cupcakes, etc., as well as full cakes, full pies, etc. In addition to the Bake Sale, this year we will also have a Cake Walk to win special baked items! So we will need even more than ever before.
Sign-ups for baked goods donations will be posted on the red wall of Room 12 next to volunteer sign-ups.
Thank you so much for taking your time & energies and showing off your baking talents to support Valley View!
FIVE QUESTIONS Grigoryan Chant
RITA GRIGORYAN
This is Rita's sixth year at Valley View. She was on leave at the beginning of the school year because she had a baby girl. Rita's oldest daughter is eight years old, and the baby is 7 1/2 months.
Q1: What is your occupation?RG: As of now, I work as a School Administrative Assistant at Valley View. I have a masters in technological engineering. I design assembly lines for leather products, shoes, leather jackets, whatever is involved with leather. Q2: Where were you born?RG: I was born in Armenia. I came to the United States fourteen years ago without a word of English. I started going to ESL classes taking English. At first it was very hard, I thought I wouldn't be able to communicate. I worked in a bakery shop and was going to ESL classes every night. After going to Glendale College for two or three years, I began working in offices. I started with LAUSD nine years ago.
Q3: What do you do in your free time?RG: I don't really have free time now, because I have two different age children. If I have free time, I like to hang out with my family. Take my kids to places they enjoy. We live very close to Americana, so we walk there. My daughter likes to eat pretzels and ice cream and my little one likes to watch fountains.
Q4: What is your idea of perfect happiness?RG: To have a good family. To have good children. To be able to enjoy life.Q5: What is your greatest fear?RG: Earthquakes. I survived an earthquake in 1988 in Armenia, and I lost my family, my mother, my sister, my two grandmothers, my aunts, my cousins, they died in the earthquake, so I freak out at earthquakes. I was only 19 years old. I happened to be in my friends house when it started shaking, so we all ran out in the street. It was horrible. We ran to my house and half of my building wasn't there.
CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS
Upcoming important dates:
Mon Apr 23rd Spring Fling Sign Making Party 2pm to 4pm Tues Apr 24th SSC Meeting 7:30am CHESS CLUB Tuesdays 1:30 to 2:30pm
Wed Apr 25th ROCKET SCIENCE & ASTRONOMY
Weds 2:30pm to 3:30pm
Thurs Apr 19th SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE?! Thursdays 2:30pm to 3:30 Sun Apr 29th SPRING FLING! Valley View School FestivalTues May 1st FINAL Early Dismissal Tuesday (all other Tuesdays this school year will be 2:24pm)Wed May 2nd Mad Science workshop at VV (Kinders & 2nd grade)Thurs May 3rd Audobon Center at Deb's Park bus field trip (Kinders)Fri May 4th Staff Appreciation Day From your friends at Valley View Elementary PTA -- HOME OF THE PANTHERS!PTA will send a weekly printed copy of this newsletter home with your child if you have no access to email; please leave your info at the school office.
Valley View Elementary * 6921 Woodrow Wilson Dr * Los Angeles * 90068
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Principal: Susan Kim * PTA Co-Pres: Bonnie George & Kelly Cole * Newsletter Editor: Fracaswell Hyman
PTA Meetings each Wednesday 8am in Library * Voting Meetings 3rd Wednesdays of each month
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