Please join fellow MPS parents and community members to learn about the 2008 Referendum Campaign.
Wednesday, May 14
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Burroughs School
1601 W. 50th Street
Guest speakers will include:
Courtney Cushing Kiernat, Referendum Volunteer Co-Chair and Kenwood School parent
Hussein Samatar, Referendum Volunteer Co-Chair and future Seward School parent
Paul Rohlfing, Referendum Campaign Manager
Dan Loewenson, MPS Board and Community Liason
Don't forget that your plants are available for pick-up at Barton on Friday, May 9, 2:00 - 7:00 PM and Saturday, May 10, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM. Please wait until 2:00 on Friday to pick up your plants to make sure to allow bus traffic to go smoothly.
VOLUNTEERS are still needed to help during the pick-up times. Please call Nancy Polacek if you are available for a shift on Friday or Saturday (612-823-3640).
WAGONS are needed to assist customers in filling their orders. If you are have a wagon to loan us, please drop it off in the front hallway in school before Friday. Please label your wagon with your family name and phone number.
Thank you!
Fellow parents,
Please consider joining us for an Area C meeting on May 8 at Windom Dual Spanish Immersion School. We will have presentations on gang awareness and bus/transportation issues. Our speaker is William Vominguez, who is from El Salvador and was a gang member himself, and comes highly recommended from La Oportunidad, one of the MPS Community Partners. In an attempt to provide more outreach to our Latino families, he will be doing the presentation in Spanish with interpretation services provided to our English speaking parents. The bus portion of the agenda, including safety and concerns about drivers, will be conducted in English by Roy Hallenger. Marianne Norris, our Area C Superintendent, is available at the end of the program for Q & A regarding general district issues.
Interpretation services for Somali and Hmong are also provided, as well as bilingual child care.
Windom Spanish Dual Immersion & Open School
5821 Wentworth Avenue South
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Media Center
The Minnesota Parent Center/MN PIRC, is offering "Welcoming, Honoring, and Connecting," a free event for parents of Minnesota children. On May 1, a free dinner celebrates parents' dedication to helping their children succeed in school. On May 2, a free conference explores ways parents can support their children's education. Both days feature an exciting speaker; the conference includes helpful workshops that will inspire parents to help their children learn in new ways. Advance registration and application are required. Limited stipends are available for child care and travel, if requested.
Minnesota Parent Center is Minnesota's Parental Information and Resource Center (MN PIRC), a federally funded project that works statewide to build effective parental involvement in Title I schools. For more information, visit http://www.pacer.org/mpc/index.asp, or call 952.838.9000.
Minutes from the April 10 Leadership Council meeting have been posted to the site. The 2008/2009 budget and a new after school Minneapolis Kids program at Barton were topics discussed. Our next council meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, April 24 from 6:00 - 8:00 pm in room 216. You can read about the details from this meeting and previous meetings in the right hand column of this page. Just scroll down to the heading COUNCIL MINUTES.
The deadline for the annual Barton plant sale has been extended. Thursday, April 24 is the VERY LAST DAY to turn in plant sale order forms.
Our students' "hopes and dreams" are in bloom on the south side of the school!
Here are just some of the life experiences and great memories the middles students can claim after their three day trip to Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in Finland, Minnesota:
Click here to see more photos from the trip.
Seven 6th grade "mathletes" spent an entire Saturday morning back in March competing in the annual Minneapolis Public Schools district math competition. The very happy smiles in the photo show the student's enthusiasm for this event and their pride at winning third place in the team competition! Congratulations 6th graders on your success in the competition and your hard work during and after school preparing for the event! Thanks to parent coaches Jeanne Arp and Karen Fassett-Carman.
Don't forget that Spring Break begins with no school on Friday, March 28th. Classes resume Monday, April 7th.
Have a restful and safe Spring Break! And, if you can, sell a few GREEN PLANTS!
Maybe Sue's buckets on the maple trees will have some sap in them by then!
