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Order Your Adobe Bluffs Yearbook Early – save $5
$20 if ordered by Friday, December 16, 2011
click here for an oder form
Winter Break is approaching fast, and so is the first yearbook order deadline--order by December 16th, 2011 for the early-bird discount. Yearbooks are $20 if ordered by Friday, December 16 and $25 after Winter Break and before February 17, 2012.
Look for a special yearbook package at the Silent Auction on December 9th! Bid on a package that includes a yearbook with foil personalization, love line, and your own half page in this year's book. Feature (for example): your scout troop, your volunteer group, or a year in the life of your favorite AB Aztec kid! It's like one super-gigantic, picture-filled love line, and it's only available at the Auction!
5th grade families: Don't forget that baby pictures are due by the day after Winter Break. Here is the flier with more details.
You can find the yearbook and love lines order forms on the AB website: LINK. You can also request a copy in email. Send questions and requests to Abby at adobebluffsyearbook@gmail.com.
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Adobe Bluffs Winter Jamboree - Saturday, January 21, 2012
Polar Bears, Penguins, Snowmen and More!!! Be sure to put the Winter Jamboree on your calendars for Saturday, January 21st!
Pre-sales flyers will go home in early January. Currently, we are looking for additional volunteers. Please contact Bill Forster, bill.forster@earthlink.net or K.C. Hellenkamp, helly15@aol.com if you are intersested in helping at this fun family event!
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Life Lesson’s/Character Counts! Returning to Adobe Bluffs in February 2012!!
Are you looking for fun classes that help build great character and strong bodies for your children? The time is coming to sign up! These classes focus on how your child can be stronger on the inside by making good choices and stronger on the outside with exercise and karate techniques.
The following four classes will be taught from 2:15-3:00 beginning February 6, for only $69.00. Adobe Bluffs Educational Foundation receives 100% of these finds. These classes will be taught in the Adobe Bluffs’ MPR by nationally certified karate instructor and Poway Unified School District substitute teacher, Lori Calabrese.
Your child will bring home a registration form on January 17. Please return it no later than Monday, January 30. There is limited space, so don’t miss out! These PUSD character building classes are only offered one time every other year!
For more information on the program check out this April 2009 Union Tribune Article: “Getting her kicks: Poway teacher's after-school program combines karate, character education and fundraising”
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Holiday Shop Online to Raise Funds for Adobe Bluffs
Did you know that we earned $300 for Adobe Bluffs last year simply by using GoodShop to shop online and GoodSearch to search the internet?
Here’s how:
GoodShop.com works with more than 2,500 stores (including Target, Apple, Petsmart, etc.) and every time you purchase something, a percentage is donated to us! And, GoodShop also offers over 100,000 of the most up-to-date coupons and free shipping offers so you can save money at the same time.
GoodSearch.com is a Yahoo-powered search engine which makes a donation to us each time you do a search.
Get started by clicking the “Become a Supporter” button on our profile page here!
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Feed Your Family and Support AB at fresh & easy - now through December 31
Adobe Bluffs can earn $1 for every $20 fresh & easy receipt collected now through December 31. The more receipts you turn in the more money Adobe Bluffs earns! So if you happen to shop at fresh & easy please turn in your receipts to your teacher or drop them in the fresh & easy drop box in the office and help Adobe Bluffs earn. Last year, Arizona, California and Nevada schools raised over $1.3 million.
Click here to learn more about the fresh and easy Shop for Schools program.
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Doodle 4 Google
Doodle 4 Google is a competition open to K-12 students of U.S. schools to create their own Google doodle inspired by a given theme. The 2011 theme was "What I’d like to do someday…" The 2012 theme will be announced in January. Last year more than 107,000 doodles from K-12 students across the country were submitted.
Previously, because of submissions rules, AB students participated in a school-wide Doodle 4 Google competition and the winning grade level entries were submitted to Google. The submission rules have changed. Two significant changes are that there is no limit to the number of submissions from each school and now parents can submit entries on their child’s behalf. Because of these changes AB is not running a Doodle 4 Google competition but we still encourage your child to submit an entry. Last year’s winning submission (see picture at right) was drawn by a 7 year old from San Francisco. He won a $15,000 college scholarship and $25,000 technology grant for his school.
Learn more about the competition at the Doodle 4 Google website.
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A Healthy Tip to Grow On...
Tis’ the season for giving! Whether your holiday list is completed or you are still deciding on an ideal gift for your child here’s an interesting article about children, play and toys - What the Research Says: Gender-Typed Toys from the National Association for the Education of Young Children. A professor in the article states, "If you want to develop children's physical, cognitive, academic, musical, and artistic skills, toys that are not strongly gender-typed are more likely to do this."
Click here to read the whole article and learn more about what makes a good toy for children.
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Mileage Club
Congratulations to the classes of Mrs. Belong and Mrs. Baird & Mrs. Shank for winning the October Mileage Club Trophy for most laps.
The winners of the November Mileage Club Trophy are:
All Mileage Club participants should be proud for completing 4,295 laps in the month of November. We will be drawing for prizes at Thursday Sing in December for prizes like lunch with Mr. Atkins, Jamba Juice gift cards, and t-shirts.
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AB Benefits from Halloween Candy Buy Back
Dr. Noel Moser offered schools a way to raise money and at the same time save the students from excess sugar by giving participating schools cash for candy.
Dr. Moser paid a dollar for each pound of candy surrendered between November 1 and 2nd. In those two days, Moser Orthodontics received over 2,500 pounds of candy from participating schools which was donated to the “troops” and San Diego Rescue Mission. Adobe Bluffs students and parents also participated in this program and AB received a check for $66.50 from Moser Orthodontics.
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Legislation News
The California State PTA is supporting a bold initiative that will raise much-needed funds for our schools.
Some highlights include:
- approximately $1,300 per student in new funds each year that must be spent directly at the school sites with local parent and educator input
- Governor and the legislature are prohibited from using the money or directing how it may be spent
For more information, click
here.
Adobe Bluffs “AZTECHS” compete at Legoland FIRST LEGO LEAGUE Cup
Adobe Bluffs sent its new FIRST Lego League (FLL) Team, the “AZTECHS” to compete at Legoland this past Sunday, December 4th. The six member team consisting of 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students worked very hard this fall developing a research project and designing, building and programming their Lego robot “Frank” to run numerous missions in competition. After a long and grueling 10-hour competition our inaugural AZTECHS team placed 14th out of 52 southern California teams! Congratulations AZTECHS!
Some Background on FLL: FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology). In 1998, FIRST Founder Dean Kamen and the LEGO Group’s Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen joined forces to create FIRST LEGO League (FLL), a powerful program that engages children in playful and meaningful learning while helping them discover the fun in science and technology through the FIRST experience. Dean and Kjeld have a shared belief that FLL inspires teams to research, build, and experiment, and by doing so, they live the entire process of creating ideas, solving problems, and overcoming obstacles, while gaining confidence in their abilities to positively use technology. The FLL Core Values are the fundamental elements that distinguish FLL from other programs of its kind. Participants learn that friendly competition and mutual gain are not separate goals, and that helping one another is the foundation of teamwork.
Adobe Bluffs PTA is proud to be able to bring this program to our school but we could not have done it without the dedication and support of our coaches, Russell Deich, Jack Silberman and Alex Szeto, our Principal Mark Atkins, the financial support of our sponsors, BAE Systems and QuoteZoom and last but not least the support of our team parents.
For more information:
http://www.usfirst.org/aboutus/vision
http://firstlegoleague.org
If you think your child would be interested in joining next year’s Jr. FLL (grades 2-3) or FLL (Grades 3-5) teams please contact Krissa Jensen, krissa.jensen@sbcglobal.net.