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Sunflower's EIN Number

In case you're still working on your taxes, and find it helpful:

Sunflower's EIN Number:

261293189

-Brooke

Association Meeting - NOTES

We had a fun, productive Association meeting tonight. In case you've never been to one, they're real barnstormers, featuring ear-splitting music, wild dancing, glow sticks, and questionable morality.

No, wait. That's a rave. I get those confused.

But seriously, many fun things were discussed, such as:

1) THE ST PATRICK'S DAY PARTY - Which is actually not held on St Patrick's Day, but on Thursday, March 14th. To help make the event a success, it would be great if parents could volunteer for small, manageable tasks like decorating the elementary school or loaning out your oven for bread baking. We'll post a virtual volunteer sign-up sheet here next week. As a special fundraising element for the party, we will once again be holding a raffle. If you own or work at a business that would like to donate a prize, let us know. We'd be most appreciative. 

2) KID-FREE FIRST FRIDAYS - Starting April 5th, on the first Friday night of each month, Sunflower will offer a special kids' night out childcare service. For $20 for the first child and $15 for each additional child, you can bring your kiddo to Sunflower on First Friday nights for a healthy dinner, games and fun from 6:30p - 9p. There will be a sign-up sheet available on the week before each First Friday, so you can sign up. Advance sign-ups will be required so Katie/Correy can plan how many teachers will need to be on staff. We know that April 5th is in the week of Spring Break, but we anticipate that many families will still be in town and will want to take advantage of the service. 

3) THE DIRECTORY - Everyone should have gotten a hard copy by now. Let us know if you haven't. Also, if you'd prefer a copy to be e-mailed to you, let me know, and I'll send you a pdf. I'm not going to do a mass e-mailing, because the attachment (at 13MB, compressed) is obnoxiously large.

There will be another Association meeting in March. I hope to see you there. I'll be the confused one in glittery spandex.

-Brooke

Valentine's Day

Fellow parents,

Boy, if you ever wanted to know where bad puns go to die, do a Google image search for "vintage valentine."

Melodie just posted this info about Valentine's Day on the Sunflower facebook page, but for those who might check here first:

Children should bring Valentine cards to share with classmates next Thursday, February 14th.

Here's how many to bring:

MS LINDSAY'S CLASS - 20

MS INDIMA'S CLASS - 24

MS SAM'S CLASS - 9

ELEMENTARY - See the class list of names at the check-out table.

Do NOT send candy (non-edible treats like pencils and stickers are ok, but plain ol' valentines are just fine).

They'll be making their own Valentine mailboxes as a craft project, so you don't need to provide one. 

Encourage your child to wear red or pink. 

I choo-choo choose you,

Brooke

School Closures

Please note the days that school will be closed for the 2013 Academic year - 

February 18: President's Day Holiday. NO SCHOOL

April 1-5: Spring Break. NO SCHOOL

April 29: Conference Day. NO SCHOOL

May 24: Graduation, carnival, and last day of school.

June 3: School reopens for summer programming.

July 4-5: Independence Day Holiday. NO SCHOOL

Directory

Fellow parents -

Was it just our house, or was January a doozy for everyone? Colds, ear infections, rashes - if it's in a pediatric textbook, we had it. A thousand apologies for the lapse in blog posting over the past month (unless your child is Patient Zero and gave my young'uns these ailments, in which case, we are no longer friends).

The directory is being printed this weekend and hard copies should be available on Monday, so this is your last last last (I mean it this time) chance to make any additions or changes. Note that I've added a school birthday calendar to the directory, so if you didn't include your child's birthdate (month and day) when you e-mailed me, I'm going to assume you don't want it made public. If you'd like to be sure it's added, let me know. I know, this project has been going on so long, some of you could have had all new children by now.

Happy February, everybody.

-Brooke

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