In this issue:

School Announcements

• Ms. Walters’ Class raising funds for Haiti: January 29
• Grange Kitchen and Bar Fundraiser for Burns Park: Tuesdays in February
• Ice Cream Social Volunteer Wine and Cheese: February 15
• Special Interest Fair: March 16

Community Announcements

• Burns Park Players: Guys and Dolls: February 5, 6, 11, 12, 13
• March of Dimes Valentine’s Ice Skating: February 13
• University Study on Car Seat Use

Missed the meeting? Look here first!

In an effort to include more parents and teachers in the workings of the PTO, we are posting minutes of the meetings here so that you can catch up on PTO news even if you couldn't be at the meeting. Sometimes the minutes will be preliminary, and subject to change before they are approved at the next meeting. Check the list below for the latest meeting minutes.

Burns Park Elementary PTO Weekly Notes - Week of September 21, 2009

In this issue:
School Announcements

• Fall Festival!!, Wednesday, September 23, 5:30 pm
  
• Fifth Grade Fundraiser at Fall Festival
  
• PTO Meeting, Thursday, September 24th, 7:00pm
  
• School Garden planning meeting, Tuesday, September 22, 4:00 pm
  
• Multicultural Committee meeting, Tuesday, September 29, 7:00 pm
  
• Sally Foster Gift Wrap Fundraiser, begins September 28
  

Community Announcements

• Burns Park Players meeting, Tuesday, September 22, 7:30 pm
  
• Girls on the Run, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:00-5:30
  
• Community Clothing Drive, September 23, 24, 25
  

Welcome!!! If you have a student who is attending Burns Park for the first time, and if you have any questions at all about our school or processes, please contact Greta Krapohl [krapohlg at umich.edu or 998-1102] or Julie Lawson Timmer [julielawsontimmer at gmail.com or 761-5214] and we’ll get an answer for you!

Look for the New Family Packet in the office if you did not attend the New Family Orientation.

On behalf of the students, staff, teachers and parents, we are so pleased that your family is joining the Burns Park community. You will find Burns Park to be a friendly school, where families work and play together to create a safe and comfortable environment for our children.

In this issue:

School Announcements

• School Vacation begins April 9
• Eyeglass donations
• Burns Park Bucks Orders picked up and delivered on April 8
• Burns Park Run volunteers needed
• Assembly performed by “Two of a Kind”
• 5th Grade Graduation photos needed

Community Announcements

• Village Fund Initiative
• Burns Park Green Energy Association meeting, April 9
• Fundraiser for A2A3: Pennies for Pounds
• Pennies for Darfur
• Thanks a Staff Member Today
• Ann Arbor Babysitting Company

In this issue:

School Announcements

• Math and Science Night: April 1st
• Movie Night: April 3rd, “Ratatouille”
• Eyeglass donations
• Burns Park Bucks Orders Due, April 1
• Burns Park Run volunteers needed
• 5th Grade Graduation photos needed

Community Announcements

• Village Fund Initiative
• Burns Park Green Energy Association meeting, April 9

Your chance to learn about the school budget and have a voice!

Ann Arbor Public Schools Budget Forums
Superintendent Todd Roberts and Deputy Superintendent Robert Allen will be hosting two sessions to give staff, parents, students and community members an overview of the district’s budget planning for the 2009/2010 school year.

Thursday, March 5
7:00-9:00pm
Forsythe Middle School
1655 Newport

Tuesday’s meeting at Scarlett was very lightly attended: let’s see if we can get more concerned parents to this last meeting!

Mark your calendars! The Special Interest Fair is Tuesday, March 24, 2009.
Registration form attached below.

For those of you not familiar with the fair, it is similar to a science fair, but almost anything goes. The purpose of the fair is to encourage students to pursue a topic of their interest and provide a showcase for their efforts. This year, we are encouraging students to make projects that relate to our multicultural focus on Treasures and Wonders of the Arab World (Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Syria).

School Announcements

Science Olympiad – Science Olympiad Team Sign Up time is now!! If your child is in 2nd grade through 5th grade, you should have found the sign up sheet for Burns Park’s Science Olympiad Team in their backpack this past Friday (or today)! Please return completed sign up forms to the Burns Park office by Friday (Jan. 30th). We’d like to thank those parents who came forward to work as Event Supervisors this year to so that B.P. could participate in this year’s Science Olympiad. They are Meg Wallace, Abigail Hohner, and Mary Anne Purtill. If you haven’t received the sign up form, or need a new one, you can download it from the PTO website, here: http://www.burnsparkpto.org/node/203 I hope to see many of you and your children at our practice sessions!

Starting this fall, we’ll be posting minutes of our monthly PTO meetings, along with short summaries of what went on, when possible. Summaries will appear below; minutes (in PDF format) will be listed at the bottom of the page.

• Prior to the start of this month’s meeting, we had a presentation by Stacey Lundgren of Bucketfillers for Life, which gave background, detail and advice about the program that the students are experiencing at school.

• We received several updates on the following:  Burns Park Foreign Language Initiative, construction project and the PTO Council.