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Dec 5-9 Inclusive Schools Week (ISW) Thu - Dec 8 AXIS Dance Assembly 10:05-10:50am, Auditorium Early Release Day SCHOOL IS OUT AT 11:20am Fri - Dec 9 Family Feast 5:30-8pm, cafeteria & gym Fri - Dec 16 School Spirit Day Wear a mustache to school! Dec 19 - Jan 2 Winter Break NO SCHOOL View complete School Calendar |
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Coming Up
Happy Inclusive Schools Week! - Dec 5-9
AXIS Dance at Miraloma! - Dec 8
Miraloma Family Feast - Dec 9
Dollar for Dollar MATCH on DonorsChoose - until Dec 12
Staff Holiday Gift Collection - by Dec 14
School Spirit Day: Grand Finale of the Stache Fundraiser! - Dec 16
Toy Drive - until Dec 16
Ms. Kirman Named Symetra Hero in the Classroom
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer for Inclusive School Week
Help Care for Our Chickens over the Break
Help during School Tours - through Jan
Take Action!
Explore Miraloma's Middle School Feeder
Flyers
Discounted Tickets for Cirque Du Soleil TOTEM - save up to 30%
Legarza Basketball Winter Camp
Pink Eye Info
PPS: Middle School Enrollment Presentation
Reminders
Shop & Earn for Miraloma
Chinese New Year Parade Application - by Dec 30
Warm Coats Needed
Miraloma Winter Food Drive - until Dec 14
Pledge Online - Fun RUN
Afterschool
MEEP: Website | Forms | FAQ | Film Festivals | Tutors R Us
YMCA: Website | Newsletter
SF Recreation & Parks (former LatchKey)
Happy Inclusive Schools Week!
What's happening?
- Installation of our ISW school project - the Rainbow Puzzle - has started on the wall outside the office. Read students' amazing, articulate responses to "When I'm included I feel..."
- Read about famous people with disabilities who have made a difference in our world on the office window...inspiration guaranteed!
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Help students participate in fun P.E. games 12/6-7 - there's still time to volunteer!
- Choose your shifts on our awesome ISW PE SignUpGenius schedule
- Or email Catherine Dauer
- Celebrate the cultural diversity of our community's background at Friday's Family Feast!
AXIS Dance at Miraloma!
"Prepare to leave all your preconceptions at the door...
AXIS Dance Company will change the way you think about dance and the possibilities of the human body forever. Founded in 1987, AXIS has become a jewel of contemporary dance and disability culture. They have paved the way for a powerful contemporary dance form called physically integrated dance. They’ve performed in over sixty cities nationwide, as well as in Europe and Siberia.
AXIS has been honored with many awards including seven Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and an additional eight nominations. They’re also known for their education/outreach program Dance Access and its youth component Dance Access/KIDS! that offers a kaleidoscope of events for adults and youth of all abilities.
On Dec 8 at 10:05am, AXIS dancers with and without disabilities will come to our school to perform innovative choreography that demonstrates how people with differences can work together. The assembly includes interactive participation by the students, plus candid discussion and Q&A with AXIS Dancers. Visit website to learn more about AXIS Dance Company.
Feast? That's right! It's time to mark your calendars for our annual evening of feasting and pre-winter holiday socializing, and of appreciating the cultural diversity of Miraloma's awesome, inclusive school community:
Friday Dec 9, 5:30-8pm in the cafeteria & gym
Bring a dish representing your family's cultural heritage to share
Volunteers needed! Sign-up online, or contact Lee Fisher and Anne Flatte.
Dollar for Dollar Match - until Dec 12!
We've already completed 4 class room projects, and some new ones are lined up under Mr. Machado's Mustache for Kids Page!DonorsChoose are now matching DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR when you enter the code "SPARK" at check-out. Help spread the word, so donors can take advantage of this great opportunity to double their donations!
School Spirit Day - Friday Dec 16
Grand finale of the stache fundraiser! Everyone is encouraged to wear mustaches to school!
Staff Holiday Gift Collection
This year we will again be collecting money to thank the staff members who we don't normally get to thank. These folks interact with our kids every day just as the teachers do, and their support means a lot to our community. They are the librarian, the custodial staff, the lunchroom staff, the counselors, the adviser, the secretary, the coach etc. In all we have over 20 staff members to thank.If you would like to make a donation, please use the safe and secure online donation option. You can also write a check to Miraloma PTA and label it 'Staff Holiday Gift' and put it in the locked PTA mailbox in the main office.
Thank you!
Meryl Bennan - PTA President
Ms. Kirman Named Symetra Hero in the Classroom
Ms. Kirman has been selected as a Symetra Hero in the Classroom. This program honors 16 teachers across the Bay Area during the San Francisco 49ers season, and honors them for making a difference in the classroom.
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Help with Inclusive Schools Week
Please help us make this a succesful and fun week by signing up online for one or more of the following tasks (you can also sign-up on the ISW bulletin board by the office, or by contacting Catherine Dauer):
- Family Feast - Help with set-up, serving and clean-up for our annual school community potluck.
- Inclusive Schools Week Photographers - Your help is needed to capture the community events and moments during this Week, 12/5-9.
- Any other task
Help Care for Our Chickens over the Break!
Please sign up for a day or weekend in December/January.
Weekend coverage begins Saturday AM and is finished with chores Sunday AM. The basics of chicken chores are letting the chickens out in the morning and putting them back into the house in the evening. Also, making sure that they have water, adequate food and a clean house/pen.
Questions? Contact us at chickens@miralomasf.com
Volunteer for School Tours!!
You do not need to know everything about Miraloma or the admissions process in order to be a guide! Please signup and tell folks why you love Miraloma School and our wonderful community!
Take Action!
Explore Miraloma's Middle School Feeder
Attend a James Denman SSC meeting, meet some teachers, the interim Principal, and find out about their plans and priorities. Meetings are the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 5pm in 183 D: Dec 13, Jan 17, Feb 21, Mar 20, Apr 17, May 15
Please call to confirm.
Shop & Earn for Miraloma!
Online- Earn 6% or more with online shopping at Amazon.com when you start by clicking any Amazon button on our website/newsletter.
- If you can't find it at Amazon, go to the eScrip Online Mall with over 700 merchants.
- Sign Up for eScrip, register your credit/store cards and earn $$ for Miraloma while doing your groceries at participating stores.
- Shop at Sports Basement, mention Miraloma and earn 5% for our school throughout the schoolyear!
Chinese New Year Parade
Miraloma has once again been invited to participate in the Chinese New Year parade with the Chung Ngai Dance Troupe. The parade, celebrating the Year of the Dragon, will be held on Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 5:30pm. If your child(ren) would like to participate, please read the information sheet and turn in this application by Dec 30.
It might be early to think about an event in February, but I wanted to get the rehearsal dates out there for those who are interested in participating: Jan 8, 15, 29 and Feb 5 from 3-4pm.
Carol Lei (Danielle 5th and Miraloma alum Nikki 6th)
Miraloma Winter Food Drive
The Miraloma Community Service Committee is holding our annual Food Drive. Please bring in some canned or boxed goods! There are large green barrels around the Miraloma hallways. They will be picked up on Wednesday, December 14th, by the SF Food Bank. [more info]
Or donate directly at our Team page Miraloma Elementary School | Winter Food Drive and find updates and more information.
Toy Drive - until Dec 16
Please bring unwrapped toys for ages 0-12 (biggest need is for girls 8-12), e.g. sports equipment, balls, art & crafts, age-appropriate board games, action figures or dolls. There is a bin near the main office.
Toys will benefit the San Francisco Fire Fighters' Toy Drive and the ECS's Canon Barcus House, which provides long-term, stable housing for homeless families.
Anything you can do will make a huge difference in the life of a child who otherwise will go without a toy this holiday season.
Thanks, and happy holidays!
Greg (Ryder - K2)
Warm Coats Needed
It's getting colder outside so check your closets for extra or outgrown coats, someone else will love them!The 3rd grade Brownie Troop (61600) is running a coat drive through "One Warm Coat" that will support an Agency called Threefold. Please bring your used ad coats to school and drop them into the big and decorated boxes provided at the top and bottom of each stairwell at the school.
Please submit your news item
by Monday 7pm to
Newsletter@miralomasf.com
Thank you!
Ottilie Cools