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Adobe Bluffs Elementary

Volume XVIII, Issue VIII          December 4, 2009

 

In this issue:

President's Message - Student Council - AB 5th Grade Band & Orchestra Winter Concert - Giving Tree -The Treasure Box - BMMS Blood Drive - Winter Jamboree - Scholastic Book Fair - AB Library - Sun Safety 

Upcoming Events

this week Dec 5-11

Saturday (12/5)

Sunday (12/6)

Monday (12/7)

- Mileage Club

- Toys for Tots  collection begins

Tuesday (12/8)

- AB Foundation mtg 6pm, Michelle's house

Wednesday (12/9)

- Mileage Club 

Thursday (12/10)

- College shirt day

- Student store open, first recess

- Early release 12:25

Friday (12/11)

- Spirit Day

- 5th grade Band & Orchestra Winter Concert 9am

- Mileage Club 

 

next week Dec 12-18

Saturday (12/12)

Sunday (12/13)

Monday (12/14)

- Mileage Club

Tuesday (12/15)

Wednesday (12/16)

- Mileage Club

Thursday (12/17)

- College shirt day

- Student store open, first recess

- Early release 12:25

Friday (12/18)

- Spirit Day

- Mileage Club

- Toys for Tots collection ends

- BMMS blood drive 1-6:30pm

Dec 21- Jan 1

school closed

 

Winter Break

   

For future events click here
 

Adobe Bluffs Elementary
Mark Atkins, Principal
8707 Adobe Bluffs Drive
San Diego, CA 92129
(858) 538-8403
Adobe Bluffs PTA 
Ron Cole, President
Palomar Council,
Ninth District, Inc. CCPTS
Jennifer Good, Aztec News Editor

President's Message 

 

With the month of December upon us, it seems like the school year is flying by.  And as we just celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday, I am sure we were all thinking about and sharing what we are thankful for.  I want to take this opportunity to tell you what I’m thankful for and give thanks to those who have contributed to enhancing and enriching our students’ school experience:

 

  • Adobe Bluffs Student Council

  • All teachers and school staff

  • All classroom volunteers

  • All PTA Executive Board Members

  • All Educational Foundation Board Members

  • Darlene Hart & Jennifer Wright for Arts Attack

  • The Adopt-A-Family Giving Tree Committee

  • Nicole Sanseverino for Mileage Club

  • Yennie Garnica for Staff Back to School Breakfast & Hospitality

  • Jaime Kaesbauer for Ballroom

  • Shari Le Favour for Book Fair

  • Jackie Rierdan for Box Tops
  •  
    Pam Blumenthal for Communications Board
  • Heather Robert for Directory (coming soon)
  • Ron Cole for Spirit Wear
  • April MacKinnon for Good Search
  • Kevin Elliott for Traffic Circle
  • Jennifer Good for Red Ribbon Week & Newsletter
  • Gabi Pantfoerder for Library Helpers
  • Jennifer Wright for Reflections
  • Darlene Hart for School Pictures
  • Stephanie Gragg for Science Room L
  • Krissa Jensen & Corrinne Cousar for Welcome Back to School Picnic
  • Marlene Perez for AB PTA Website
  • Nicole Sanseverino & Kelly Smith for Summer Book Club
  • Krissa Jensen & Aileen Marquez for Hassle Free Fundraising
  • ALL VOLUNTEERS

 

We’ve been able to accomplish many great things at our school during the first three months due, in part, to the efforts of those listed above.  In addition, I want to say THANK YOU to the many people who have volunteered to help with any of the programs/events/services.  As a parent at Adobe Bluffs, I take great satisfaction in knowing that there are many people at Adobe Bluffs who are passionate and committed to making our school the wonderful learning environment that it is!  

 

Thank you for all you do for our children!

 

Ron Cole

PTA President

rcole4@san.rr.com

 

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Student Council News  - Toys for Tots, Dec 7-18

  

Student Council will be participating in "Toys for Tots" this December. This program delivers new toys to less fortunate children. Please donate a new, unwrapped gift in our collection box near the school office. Our program will run from Monday, December 7th to Friday, December 18th.

 

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Adobe Bluffs 5th Grade Band & Orchestra Winter Music Concert  -

9 a.m., Friday, December 11

 

Reminder for parents of 5th grade band and orchestra students:  You are invited to the winter music concert on Friday, December 11 at 9:00 a.m. in the Adobe Bluffs multi-purpose room.  Doors for audience seating will open 5 minutes prior to concert time.  Please remind your musician to wear nice school clothes on the day of the performance. Looking forward to seeing you at the concert! 

 

Sincerely,

Lisa Posteraro

Itinerant Elementary Music Specialist

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The AB Giving Tree - Caring for the Community  

 

Thank you, AB families for all the generous gifts and gift card donations that you gave over the past few weeks.

As a result AB was able to adopt 5 families within the PUSD district.  Your generosity provided for 30 individuals and granted many items from their wish lists.  Your giving hearts have ensured that these families have been taken care of for the holidays and shows AB’s true community spirit and character trait of caring.

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The Treasure Box  – a week of food. a world of savings. – Sunday December 6, order deadline

 

The Treasure Box mission statement:  To partner with faith-based and community-action
organizations to provide families with affordable food and bring communities together, one box at a time.

 

From The Treasure Box website:

 “The Treasure Box provides families and individuals with a substantial box of grocery store quality food retailing between $65-100 for just $30 each. The Treasure Box cultivates relationships with more than 500 major food manufacturers across the country to purchase and provide top quality, nutritious food at sizeable volume discounts to the general public.

Each Treasure Box contains between 21-25 pounds of high quality, frozen foods, including chicken, pork, beef, or seafood, as well as vegetables, fruit, a side dish and a dessert. One Treasure Box is enough food to nutritiously feed a family of four lunch and dinner for almost a week or a senior citizen for nearly a month.”

 

How to order a box:

Pre-order your box online by the monthly deadline and choose your pick-up location.  There are several pick-up locations within 5 miles of AB:  Turtleback Elementary, Christ Community Church (Mira Mesa), Maranatha Chapel, RB Community Presbyterian Church.

 

December Order Deadline: Sunday, December 6, 2009
Pick Up Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009

See the December food menu. 

 

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Black Mountain Blood Drive - 1-6:30pm, Friday, December 18 

 

Black Mountain Middle School is hosting a blood drive through the American Red Cross on December 18 from 1-6:30pm in the BMMS parking lot.  Donors can go online to make an appointment at www.givelife.org, our code is BlackMtn or contact BMMS teacher, Susan Bledsoe, 484-1300, ext. 3075 to schedule a time to donate.  Walk-in donors will also be accepted.  All donors will receive a free Coldstone Creamery Creation Card. 


 

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Winter Jamboree – Saturday, January 30

 

Polar Bears, Penguins, Snowmen and More!!!  Be sure to put the Winter Jamboree on your calendars for Saturday, January 30th!  Pre-sales flyers will go home in early January.  Currently, we are looking for additional volunteers.  Please contact Bill Forster or K.C. Hellenkamp if you are interested in helping at this fun family event!

 

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Scholastic Book Fair - THANK YOU   THANK YOU   THANK YOU!!!!!

 

The PTA sponsored Fall Book Fair was a huge success!  We raised over $3,500 for new books for our library.  I want to personally thank all of our families and staff for coming out all week to buy books and support this worthy cause. In addition, this couldn’t have happened without the support of so many volunteer parents and staff…you know who you are!  Volunteers helped run the actual book fair, sold goodies on Thursday night, helped with photos of Clifford, helped set up and clean up… you name it there were volunteers ready and willing to help. Many of you volunteered above and beyond, so thank you!

 

We are excited to announce that there will be another great book fair coming to our school in the spring!  Watch the newsletter for specific dates.

 

Shari Le Favour

Book Fair Chair


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AB Library News - Overdue and Lost or Damaged Books

 

Reminder notices will be sent home with your student for library books that are very overdue.

Parents:  If a book is temporarily misplaced, please send a note with your child or email me, Susan Lingner  slingner@powayusd.com and I will continue to check books out to your child. (I don’t always have time to check my email first thing in the morning!)

 

Bills will be sent home for books (Library and Textbooks) that are considered lost or damaged.  These books do need to be paid for.  Many of our books have special bindings and cannot be purchased through local bookstores. Bills will be sent home with your student for books that have been lost or damaged.  If you are paying by check, please make the check out to Adobe Bluffs Elementary School.

 

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Sun Safety 

 

The Adobe Bluffs Foundation is coming closer to solving some of the problems regarding sun exposure during recess.  We are working toward the planting of mulberry trees as an environmentally friendly means of creating shade for our children. 

 

This is the third of our series of tips outlined by the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD), to protect against the potentially damaging effects of the sun. 

 

Tip #3:  WEAR PROTECTIVE CLOTHING

Wear protective clothing, such as a long-sleeved shirt, pants, a wide-brimmed hat, and sunglasses, where possible.

* Advising students to wear hats at recess is always advisable.  Be sure to write your child’s name inside the hat.

 

This tip and others are located at the AAD’s website.

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