CERT Training

Hi Everyone!

Mrs. Herdell would like to invite anyone who is interested to join her for very extensive training by the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). This training is being paid for by a grant and is completely free for participants. It will be held in the MPR at West Park on Wednesdays from 2:00-4:00pm starting Jan. 7th. The dates for the training will be Jan 7, Jan 14, Jan 28, Feb 25, Mar 4 and Mar 11th.

If you are interested in being trained and gaining some very valuable knowledge, please contact Mrs. Herdell by Dec. 12th. She can also answer any questions that you might have about the classes. There is space for only 40 participants, so don't wait.

Dine & Donate at Roundtable

Hope everyone had a fabulous Thanksgiving and are enjoying a little break from school. Starting Monday, December 1st (can you believe it's December already?) We are having a Dine and Donate at Roundtable Pizza. It is going to be from the 1st through the 4th. You can eat there, take it home or have it delivered. Flyers will be going home on Monday so remember to have that with you when you go in. We will also have extras in the office if you need one. It is only good at the Roundtable on Solano at Redwood. The address is 3331 Solano Ave. Let's face it, nobody wants to cook after Thanksgiving, so get out and eat some pizza!

Space is still Available for Winter Camp

Guess what everybody? There's still space available to sign up for Winter Camp with Ms. Mattei and Mrs. Kobylka. They are going to be making Christmas crafts, decorating cookies, making ornaments, playing games, movies, snacks, hot chocolate and much, much, more!!! Ms. Mattei and Mrs. Kobylka put on one incredible camp. The kids who attended their summer camp had an awesome time! So, consider this your official invitation...

Who: West Park Students K-5

When: December 15-19

Where: West Park MPR

Time: 9-12

Camp Cost: $150 for the week

Way to Go West Park Families

This quarter, we collected approximately $10,000 in Lucky's receipts! That is awesome. Keep up the great work. Also, for families who shop at Safeway, remember that you can register your Safeway cards with Escrip to help earn money for West Park. Click here to register your card.

West Park's Got Talent

This Friday, October 7th, is West Park's fall program. This year's theme is West Park's Got Talent. The kids are doing an AWESOME job practicing and it is going to be an amazing evening. The program starts at 7pm, but all students need to be at the autitormium by 6:30pm. Also, ifyou want a seat, I suggest getting in line EARLY. The seats go quickly.

Finally, please be respectful of the reserved seating for our great volunteers who are helping get everything ready for the performance. They don't have the opportunity to stand in line and are doing a great service for all of us, so please do not take their seats! Thank you. See you on Friday night.

Election Day!

Just a reminder...Tuesday, November 4th is election day. Don't forget to get out and vote!

Jog-A-Thon

Here are some more pictures of the Jog-a-Thon. I did not take these. You can tell because they are so great! Thanks Karen.

Family Club Meeting

Reminder...This coming Tuesday, October 28th is the West Park Family Club Meeting at 6pm in the multipurpose room at school. We hope that you all can come and join us! The more the better.

Great Job Eaglets

The Jog-a-Thon was a huge success. All of the kids, teachers and even some of the parents did a great job jogging for a WHOLE hour. We have to give a great big West Park thank yout to Kristin Birdsall and Margaret Pratt for all of their efforts in getthing the event organized. They did an awesome job!

I took lots of pictures to put on the blog, unfortunately, I somehow lost my camera at the end of the jog-a-thon (not smart, I know). If anyone found a camera, would you please turn it into the office? I would love to have it so I can post lots of pictures of all of the wonderful runners and volunteers. If anyone has pictures of the Jog-a-Thon that they would like to email me to put on the blog, I would love to post them. Please send them to lmhiserman@hotmail.com.

We will be sure to keep everyone posted on how much money was raised. And remember, you can keep raising money until the money is due.

Thanks again for everyone's hard work!

Thanks Applebee's

We want to give a big shout out to Applebee's for letting us have a Dine and Donate event at their restaurant. Thanks also to the many generous West Park families, we were able to raise $366.61! Great job West Park community.

Mrs. Herdell and the Family Club will make sure that the money is put to good use for our school. Hope everyone will be able to join us for the next Dine and Donate. We will keep you posted when that will be!

The Countdown is On!

There is less than one week left until the Jog-a-Thon. It is this Friday morning. Keep getting those pledges and help make lots of money for our school. Also, don't forget that you can get your Jog-a-Thon t-shirt after school on Wednesday if your parents fill our your form that you have $25 in pledges. We would love it if you would bring in your pledge sheets on Thursday. Money will be due later.

We are still looking for volunteers for the day of the event to help set up at 8am and also during the Jog-a-Thon. (please contact Kristin Birdsall at kbirdsall@birdsallandassociates.com if you're interested in volunteering).

And remember kids...get lots of rest this week, eat healthy food, wear your Jog-a-Thon t-shirts on Friday, bring your water bottles and stretch your muscles so you're ready to run, run, run!

Prizes

$10 or More Turned In Fantastic Giant Pencil
$25 or More Turned In West Park JAT 2008 T-SHIRT
Every $50 Turned In RAFFLE TICKET for PRIZE DRAWING
STUDENT with Most $ Turned In 2 GRABS from PRIZE BOX
CLASSROOM with Most $ Turned In $50 CHECK – Use as You Wish!

EXAMPLE OF PRIZES
MONEY, FROZEN TREAT CARDS, MONEY, GIFT CARDS (TARGET, WALMART & COPPERFIELD’S), MONEY, BOOKS, MONEY, WEST PARK T-SHIRTS, MONEY, DIGITAL CAMERA, MONEY, PORTABLE CD PLAYER, MONEY, BICYCLE, MONEY AND MUCH MORE.

DON’T FORGET THE 500 CLUB – ANY STUDENT THAT GETS $500 OR MORE IN PLEDGE MONEY

Dine and Donate at Applebee's

Don't forget to come hungry Tuesday night to Applebee's! Mrs. Herdell will be there serving and entertaining the crowd. She is even going to wear her boa. Bring your friends and family, enjoy a great meal and help raise money for West Park. It will be a great night. Hope to see everyone there. (Don't forget to bring your Applebee's fliers. Extras are available in the WP office.)

Movie Night!

Don't forget that Movie Night is this Friday from 6-8pm. It will be a really fun night and we hope that everyone can make it! Mrs. Herdell is really looking forward to it.

Canned Food Drive

West Park is starting their Annual Canned Food Drive October 1st. We know that the less fortunate families of Napa will really appreciate any donations. Please remember to bring as many items to donate as possible. There are barrels around school to put the items in. Thank you for all of your support and help!

Notes from the West Park Family Club Meeting

West Park Parent Family Club September 23, 2008
In Attendance: Julie Herdel, Didi Chrisco, Pam Taylor (Chelsea), Heather Gupten, Kelli Willard, Lisa Hiserman, Heather Savage, Stacie Patrick, Terri Lynne Ricetti, Margaret Pratt
Welcome – Julie – Introduces Didi Chrisco with Napa City County Library to talk about “Homework Helper.” Covers:
· Live homework help thanks to a four year grant
· Already have 119 hits directly from the Library, and 295 from the community
· Log on to Napa City County Library and link to the homework helper
· Have to have a library card from Napa City County Library
· Fill in the appropriate fields
· Get live help for you student from trained professional tutors
· Uses white board technology to work through problems with your student
· IM technology
· Can download worksheets
· Can ask for resource help
· Can print out all conversations and will have the links mentioned, resources sited, etc.
· Didi is our contact for West Park : Contact info – Dolores Chrisco, 253-4243

Julie – Calendar – 2 weeks to conferences. Been encouraging kids for the Jog-a-Thon. Today the Nurse O’Hare did eyes and ears for 2nd and 5th graders, next month eyes and ears for 3rd graders.
Next month we will be raising food for the Napa Food Collection. Kids collect food for the food banks. The food banks are VERY LOW at this time.
Street Closure flyer will be coming home. West Pueblo will be closed for the month of October.
JAT is moving along.
End of October is Halloween – school wide parade is at 11:00. Usual rules apply.
Book-it is sponsored by Pizza Hut, and encourages kids to read and get a free personal pizza.
Taste for Knowledge is coming up. Great fundraiser October 11, at Silverado Country Club, $125 per person.

Fall program “West Parks got Talent” Limit immediate family to bring. November 7 at 7:00pm in the district auditorium.

Kelli has the names of people who are interested.
Julie – Pass them to Mrs. Imrie
Kelli – Regarding the costs associated with the show. We need to get an idea of how much will be spent.
Pam – All expenditure goes to Mrs. Kiesling who is keeping track of it.
Question – Will Trish do the decorations again?

Jill Durffy is getting the garden back on track.
Gordon Hoother – will work with us to make something for the garden. Will donate wine barrel rings so we can create art for the garden. We can budget this into school improvement.

Anyone who is interested in SITE council please let Julie know. School SITE council will be helping put together the art for the garden.
Working for community involvement for the garden, this has been proven to cut down vandalism.
Friday is Sport Day!

Teachers Report – Pam Taylor – Teachers have been working on learning the new electronic report cards. Matay and Swazo took the classes to learn and have been teaching the other teachers. It is in the same format, but there is more space to write.
District has been training in IDMS (Instructional Data Management System) Bench Mark testing can be scanned into the system and the system organizes it. You can compare different variable therefore learning how to maximize your teaching by pinpointing teaching points that are most effective. Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Zinzer are learning the program.

Ways & Means – Lisa Heiserman and Heather Savage – E-script ideas:
Totes (grocery bags, lunch bags) Get your name and logo put on the bag and sell them. (Very cute)

Shutterfly – Make calendars. Log on as WPFC and make calendars from our photos around the school and order it online for $19.99, 40% goes to school. Parents can alter dates. Once you are signed up every purchase 40% goes to school.

Portraits – Have Parent volunteers do the school photos and download and print them, we get 50% of picture orders.

Lucky receipts – Have your child bring them in the day you get them. They can give them to their teacher. Do not hoard them.

Cartridge recycling is full, will gather it so we can get more.

JAT – Proposed to gather the pledge sheets the day before the JAT. Consider giving the children their t-shirts before the JAT so they can wear them around. Will have a flyer go home stating that the child should have raised $25 and have both child and parent sign it so they can get their t-shirts.
Flyer to go out Mon 29th will set up t-shirt hand out for Wed. in the MPR Oct. 1, Oct. 8, and Oct. 15.
Need parents to help hand out shirts.

Sipping and Supporting – April 25th at the Napa Valley Opera House. Need $1750.00 to hold it. Tickets will be $35 per person. Wine glasses need to be tallied.

Julie – Meeting with Tawni and Cynthia to discuss the raffle items.
Note that Kristin ROCKS and got us two tickets to Disneyland!!!! To raffle off.

Heather Gupton – has coworkers that can help close the auctions.

No Treasurer report tonight – We need a new treasurer.
Heather Gupton volunteers to be the new treasurer! Many Huzzahs!!!

Staci – From the scrappers group – suggests we have a sponsored directory, will put together a flyer to gather sponsors. $15 gets your business card in the directory.

Julie requests funds for:
$20 – mock voting for children with stickers to remind everyone to get out and vote.
$634.00 Lori Moore requests new scanners for the library, one portable and one stationary.
Both items passed

Next meeting October 28 6:00 MPR.

Lucky's Apples for the Students

Don't forget bring in your Lucky receipts for Lucky's Apples for Students. It's one of the easiest ways for you to help raise money for our school.

Welcome to West Park's New Blog

We are creating a new blog for West Park Families to stay in touch and find out upcoming events at West Park. We want to make sure that all families are connected and have the most up to date information of what is going on. Feel free to add comments and leave any questions that you may have. We hope that this will be informative and helpful for you all.