Holiday Baskets.....“Helping Our Own”

Stevenson’s PTA has proudly participated in assembling Holiday Baskets for Burbank families in need. This year, Stevenson has specifically asked the Burbank Coordinating Council the families we adopt to receive Holiday Baskets be chosen from Stevenson. We felt it was important to reach out to our own Stevenson families in these trying times of economic hardships. We also felt that knowing the donations we are asking for were going to our very own students and their families would be very fulfilling and rewarding to all of us at Stevenson.

The Holiday Basket Coordinator from the Burbank Coordinating Council made it very clear we would not be given the names of the families we have adopted. No one at Stevenson will know the identities of the adopted families. There will be a preset drop off point and pick up time and place off campus. The Stevenson families chosen won't even know they are the recipients of Holiday Basket created by Stevenson until the day of the pick up.

The goal of the Holiday Basket program is to provide holiday meals for one full day, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and gifts for each member of the adopted families. Through a food drive and Giving Tree we hope to collect all the necessary items to create each family a Stevenson Holiday Basket unique to that family’s needs.

Food Drive: We ask that you start sending in your non-perishable food donations with your children on Monday, November 23rd. Volunteers will collect donations each day from classrooms until Friday, December 4th. Suggestions for food items are soups, tuna, can vegetables and fruits, dry cereals, pancake mix, pastas, crackers and peanut butter. Additional items needed are paper goods, and toiletries.

Giving Tree: There will be a poster of a Giving Tree set up at Stevenson. The tree will have paper leaves with the gender, age, and clothing sizes written on each leaf for the 25 adopted family members. The Giving Tree will also be on display during the Holiday Boutique from November 30 to December 3rd. We ask that you drop by and a pick a leaf of your choice. Please return your Holiday Basket donations by December 11th.

Additional information is available on our school website http://stevensonpirates.net/home/current-needs/holiday-baskets/ , classroom blogs and flyers will be sent home with your children. If you would like to get involved with the Holiday Baskets, please contact us at abugnut@aol.com or call 818-522-7218. If you have any connections to clothes, grocery or toy store freebies by all means give us a call.

Hullo from India.....

Hello Room 13....
Yes it's me...Adi Rallapalli's mom writing to u ALL the way from India.I believe most of u would be aware by now that v have moved back to India.Though it feels great to be back on home turf...one misses the days spend in a place one called home for almost 4yrs.
Adi and I are missing Burbank and more so Stevenson Elementary.Hope to be back someday.
Adi remembers all of his classmates and would like to say individual hellos but that would mean a lot of typing so a collective HI from him to everyone in Room 13...especially Dear Ms.Anderson and lovely Ms.Foy...
We miss you all....
Hope Room#13 ROCKS!!!
Lots of love,
Kavita and Adi....

Sorry....

Hullo everyone,
Sorry for the delay in posting this week's newsletter...was caught up in this n that.....anyway here it is....
Also here's an update about our Time For Kids magazine subscription....
THANKS to Zaina Hayath and David Contreas and their families v have $60.00.....

Vote for Stevenson....

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Please visit our contest page at http://www.care2.com/schoolcontest/601567 and vote for us – it’s free, it’s easy and every vote helps rally support for our school! The last day to vote is November 8, 2009. Once you vote, please ask your friends and family to vote for us, too. With your help we can help our school win $20,000 which will help our children!

Look out for.....

Please look out for these flyers which have gone home with your child in the Monday folder...they contain important information....

Class news...Oct12th - Oct 16th

A big Thankyou to Ms.Anderson for the informative and helpful newletter!!!

Time for kids.....

First I wanna THANK.....Ms.Foye for all the help she extends in sending home the flyers and in keeping track of the stuff that comes back...Thanks Ms.Foye u make my work a lot easier!!!

Thanks to students...
Daniel Cho,Phoenix,Jackson and Kasi
and their families....
we already have $40.00 for the subscription....
Yeah we are getting there!