FRiday Note - May-15-2009

From The Head of School

Dear Saklan Community:

ERB testing ends today; I know the students will be happy. It’s been a long haul for the kids. If your child missed one of the tests, we have scheduled make-up tests for Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday, I will send the tests back to the Educational Records Bureau for scoring and analysis. We should have the results by October next year.

Wednesday, May 27th, is a noon dismissal/Professional Development Day. The teachers and I will be finishing the rough draft of the CAIS/WASC self-evaluation. Our hope is to have it completed before summer vacation so I can assemble each section for review in the fall.

Next Friday, I invite you to attend the Middle School’s presentation of “Into the Woods”. If you enjoyed the concert, you’ll love this play. Tickets are available in the office.

Amy Sullivan will be out early next week. She is returning to New York to attend her graduation from Columbia University. MS. Sullivan will receive her second Master’s Degree.

Below please allow me to briefly outline the end of the year events. For more detailed information, please contact your room parent, teacher, or Karen Lane.

May

• 16 Carnival
• 22 7:30 Middle School musical “Into the Woods”
• 25 NO SCHOOL-Memorial Day
• 27 12:00 NOON DISMISSAL-Professional Development Day
• 29 9:30 AM ECE Spring Concert

June

• 8 5:30 Scott’s Dinner (8th grade)
• 9 Class parties (locations below)
• 10 9:00 Graduation

Class Party Locations:

• ECE Programs: Rancho Laguna in Moraga
• Kindergarten: Stays at school and rules the roost
• Grades 1-4: Moraga Commons
• Grades 5-8: The Thimeschs’ house

Have a great weekend; I’ll see you on Saturday.

David Hague
Head of School

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Scholastic Book Fair Results

A huge thank you to all the parent volunteers and to the Saklan community for supporting the book fair! Record sales with a total of $2,634.40. Saklan will receive book profit which is 50% of net sales and pays for the books that the teachers and specialists have selected for their classrooms.

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Into the Woods Jr. - Friday 22nd at JM Auditorium

Into the Woods Jr. will be performed on Friday the 22nd at JM Auditorium. Tickets are available from Karen in the office for $5.00. The show will sell out, get your tickets ASAP!

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Saklan Carnival- Thursday, Saturday May 16

Please save the date for our annual Saklan Carnival, May 16th! If you would like to help out at carnival, there are many ways you can do this. You can bake a cake for the cake walk, work at a game booth, or bring your children to have a fun time!

Please downoad there reservation forms here.
Please return all forms and money to the Front Office by Wednesday, May 13th.
The volunteer sign-up sheet for carnival is between the Kindergarten and Preschool classroom

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Please update your information in the School Database

To update your information please access RenWeb - the online school database as follows:

• Open any Internet browser (there are some limitations with Safari so please use Firefox instead if you have a mac at home).
• Go to our website: saklan.org and find the link under COMMUNITY/SCHOOL DATABASE or click on this link
• Log in as follows:

Once you have logged in we would like to ask you to visit the Web Forms section (see the link on the left side) - then click on Family Demographic Form link and verify or update your information in case the information we transferred is not accurate.

Here you will have the option to decide what kind of information you would like to list in the online School Directory for the entire community to see. You could block your name, your address, your phone, your email or all ofthe above according to your preferences.

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