Help Solicit Items for the Auction! - donation deadline is March 12th -  Print a Donor Letter & Donor Form to give to your favorite merchants.  Fill one out with your own donations for the auction (parties, services, etc).  Drop forms off in the Auction Box located at the office. You can drop off your tangible auction donations at the "Fan Room" on Monday mornings after drop off and Thursday afternoons at kid pick up.

1. Miraloma Book Fair - March 1 - 6
2. Auction Information - donation deadline March 12
3. Save Our Schools SF Mission March - March 4
4. School Clean-up Day & Garden Work Party - March 6
   
5. Miraloma Parent/Guardian and Student Survey - by March 10
6. PTA Board Nominations 2010-2011 - March 9
   
7. Shoe Drive to Benefit Haiti – March 4 – 20
8. PTA Meeting: Positive Discipline at Home - March 9
   
9. Order Your Tickets for the Warriors Game - by March 3!
10. Order Your Scrip Gift Cards Online - by March 10
    
11. Fundraiser at The Buddy Club - March 7
12. Parent/Teacher Conference: Sign Up! - March 22 - 26
13. No Request Policy
    
14. MealpayPlus: Prepay School Lunches Online
15. MEEP News

• Thur 3/4 from 8 am - 6:00 pm (extended hours for afterschool programs)
• Fri 3/5 from 8 am - 3 pm
  (First Friday will be held in the book fair after drop off - come for coffee and to browse ALL the great deals on scrip, etc!)
• Sat 3/6 from 9 am - 1 pm (during the garden work party & clean-up day)

Special thanks to Miraloma's own Oliver Chin, author of Year of the Tiger and many other beloved titles, who's donating a portion of sales of his books featured at the fair to the Miraloma PTA.

• your personal wine collections
• businesses from which you buy wine

Can you please help by donating one or two bottles - or more if you are able?
We are seeking bottles that retail for at least $25. Both reds and whites. All varietals, all countries.
If you are a member of any wine clubs, be sure to hit them up for a donation!
Email Sharon Gillenwater or call 415-643-5327 if you can contribute.

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What is March 4th?  March 4 is a day of action to defend public education.  Events are happening all over the state and are including education advocates at all levels - parents, teachers, students etc. from all institutions community colleges, universities, elementary schools etc.

Miraloma is supporting March 4th by:

March 3 - Parents and teachers are having a sign/poster making party at 2:1 in Kelly Lehman's room (105) right after school.  Supplies have been provided by parents.  Slogans/images/ideas welcome!

March 4 -

• 7:50 Student Council students are writing a song about keeping schools funded; they will sing at morning circle
• 2:15 Families and teachers will march from Miraloma to Portola and O"Shaughnesy where they will sing/chant for 15 minutes.  We may be meeting students from School of the Arts.  The group wil then return to Miraloma.  Teachers will leave for the rally from Miraloma (in groups or individually).
• 4:00 There is a UESF (united educators of San Francisco) rally at the State building which will then move across the street to civic center for the rally at Civic Center
• 5:00 main rally at Civic Center - (the later start is for people from other districts and Community Colleges that are coming into SF).  Miraloma people can look for each other at the State Building near Polk and McAllister between 4:00 and 5:00.

Come and bring the family to school on Saturday March 6!
It's the last day of the Book Fair, it's the Garden Work Party
and the School Clean-up Day!

Please join us this Saturday for our bi-annual School Clean Up Day. Any amount of time you can volunteer between 10 AM and 1 PM is greatly appreciated. It's been noted that a good disinfection of each room may help to quell the outbreak of strep throat that's been going through the school.
If you'd like to sign up to clean your child's classroom, go to the Miraloma Yahoo Group, click on the Database link and enter your name on the sign up list. Otherwise, just show up and sign in near the library. Light snacks and drinks will be available.  Kids are welcome.

Safeway, Starbucks, Lands End, Century Theaters, Home Depot and much more.  All you do is: 

1. Go to www.shopwithscrip.com
2. Go to FAMILY SIGN UP and click “Create Account”
3. Miraloma’s enrollment code is: 9922B77C19791
4. Select the cards you want and “check out”
5. Put a check to Miraloma PTA (or pay cash) in the GREEN SCRIP BOX in the office, or give it to Heidi Kilgore
6. Orders will be given to you or put in your child’s backpack aprox. 3 weeks after we receive your check.

Deadline is extended to March 10! Contact Heidi Kilgore if you have any questions!!

Open Registration for 2010-2011
MEEP open registration for 2010-2011 begins on March 15th.

For more information please call 415-584-7080, email us, or visit our website.

Book Fair at the Miraloma Library

Warrior Tickets
Auction Tickets
Yearbook 1020
(yearbook back orders only)

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