Used Computer for Mr. Horton

First off--please don't get stuck by this photo.   It does not have to be an HP pavilion.

Mr. Horton, history teacher, is in need of a gently used computer.
He needs this second computer to use with the promethean board.  Right now if he uses the board it ties up his main computer while he tries to show something on the screen.
Can you  help?
What do you have lying around?    Especially you dads who are addicted to Frys--can you bring Mr. Horton that computer you replaced six months ago or the one you replaced six months before that one?


Tracy
trabot@ca.rr.com

Microwave for Teachers

The teachers' microwave died a sad death last week.   Do you have a gently used microwave you can donate to the staff?

Would you be willing to purchase one? 

Most of the staff and faculty bring their lunch and a working microwave is essential to heat their meal in their very limited time they have for their lunch. 

This will be a very well received gift to our hardworking faculty. 

If you can cover it either with a new purchase or with a gently used microwave please email Tracy at trabot@ca.rr.com

Yearning for an Urn

The coffee urn in the parent center is morte.  

Do you have a coffee urn that you don't use?  

How about a member of your family, do they have one they aren't using?  

Or could you pick one up?  

There are a lot of choices on Amazon and of course if you swing by CostCo, Target, etc, you can find one there. 

Your urn will be put to mighty good work here at LACES.    It will be front and center for the Coffee Stop and Drops.  Please help.

Paper Paper Paper

You guys did a stellar job back in December and early January bringing in a whole bunch of white paper.  It was great.

And now….We are now out of paper.  

Can you help?

There are a variety of ways you can help:

1. The next time you are at the market like Ralphs, Vons or CVS (etc) you can go to the office section and you will see reams of paper.  Pick up a couple and send them to the front office with your child.

2. You can make a special trip to Staples or Office Depot and pick up a ream or a case and drop it off at school.  

3. You can go online and order and have it shipped to school (in some cases FREE shipping)  Ship to:

LACES

Front Office

5931 W. 18^th Street

Los Angeles CA 90035

(323) 549-5900

Here are the links:

STAPLES

OFFICE DEPOT

4. Elizabeth in the front office has been ordering paper from a new company and they will give 10 percent back to the school.   You can call them and order paper and they will deliver.

THIS WEEK’S WISH LIST IS DEDICATED TO ONE WISH----

GALA FLYERS IN FOLLOWING POST 

SPRING GALA

The Gala is one of the main fundraisers for LACES, we need to double down our efforts this year because we are at a new venue with new costs.    We CAN do it.

But we need your help---

Have you asked your favorite restaurant to donate?    How about your favorite spa?  Or nail place?    Or do you already have a gift card to something fantastic that you will donate?      If you need the letter with our Tax ID number go to the post below. 

And what about your White Elephant items?  What gift did you get during the holidays that is just not ‘you’…but might be someone else?   Even if you opened the box, that is okay….donate it to the White Elephant Boutique.    By the way, if you don’t know the expression “White Elephant”  --Go HERE.

Have you bought your ticket to the event?   Have you bought a table for you and your friends?    It is $60 a person unless you buy a table and then it is $55 a person.

If you can’t go to the event, you can still buy a ticket and donate it back to the fund.   

Also you can pay for a teacher to attend the event. 

You have two weeks to get your items in (March 21) however if you are really stuck and need to get it in by March 28…please let Katherine know. 

The  Gala will be held on Saturday April 5.   6pm  at Luminarias.   For more information go to flyers below. 

And for some musical inspiration--- Vivaldi's Spring Concerto 

GALA FLYERS:

How To Make the Wish List Doubly Effective

Hi, Parents and welcome to March.

We are three months into 2014 and you deserve a big thank you.

The LACES Wish List has been a great success because of you....
..thank you to everyone who has dropped off Kleenex, ordered paper, shipped boxes of envelopes, bought extra rounds of antibacterial gel and opened your wallets and donated cash to our various wishes.  

You all are doing real help which the staff, faculty and parent center are grateful.

We have more items listed below that need your help.  It would be great if you could step up with jars  for Ms Phillips or donated to Mr. Solomon and Ms Drake's Donors Choose wishes.

But besides your help---will you please consider asking your neighbor to help out?
How about your family?   How about the gal at work?
The bottom line is that there are people in your child's world who want to help your child's school.
They love your kid, they love you and they really want to help your world.  Even if it is not exactly your child's class.

Now would be a great time to reach out into your world and send them a link to any of the wishes. And when they say "yes" you will feel great and when you share the story with your child you will be reminding them the value of giving and community and how asking for help can do a world of good.

Consider reaching out and thank you for reading WishList every week.

Ms Phillips and YOUR jars!

Ms Phillips, LACES culinary teacher, is in need of clean empty jars for a project she has scheduled this spring.   You can help.

Take your half empty jars sitting in your refrigerator right now behind the milk.  Take those jars and empty them out, then put them in your dishwasher (with the cap) and run them through a cycle.  Or if you don't have a diswasher, hand wash will work.
Put those clean jars in a bag, marked "Ms Phillips" and either you or your child takes it to the front office.  

Ms Phillips will thank you.
Her students will thank you.
And your refrigerator will thank you.

Ms Duke's DONORS CHOOSE

UPDATE:
I AM HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT MS DUKE'S DONORS CHOOSE PROJECT IS COMPLETED.   PHEW!   I WAS A BIT NERVOUSE BUT ONCE AGAIN PARENTS STEPPED UP AND IN THE CASE OF BOTH MS DUKE AND MR. SOLOMON WE HAD SOME SPECIAL ANGELS TAKE THE BALL ACROSS THE FINAL LINE.
THANK YOU, EVERYONE FOR HELPING.


Is your child a student in Ms Duke's class?
Did your child have Ms Duke last year?

If you don't know Ms Duke and your child never had her--Do you appreciate science?

Ms Duke is working hards to make science "live and breathe" for her  8th Grade Science & 10th Grade Chemistry students and she needs our help.

She needs basic items to help her classes.  Seriously basic--like pens and bright paper and colored pencils.  She has posted her needs on DONOR's Choose.

One of the greatest skills our students are lacking are study skills. A science interactive notebook is a great tool to use. Interactive notebooks help with students' organization, but they are also a creative way to engage students to process information and demonstrate critical thinking. At the end of the year, the students will have a working portfolio that can be assessed to show what they have learned throughout the school year.

In our list we have added different colored pens, papers, colored pencils so that students can use them to show their creative side. By having these resources students can demonstrate what they know and organize their information in a creative way. We have also asked for pencils, glue sticks, and scissors because a lot of class time is lost when we have to share our materials. Our students have procedures to make the class run smoothly while working on their notebooks. Unfortunately, a lot of class time is lost and limits our learning time.

In order to get her needs fulfilled we need people to donate whatever they can.  If you can donate $10 great.  If you can donate $30, great.   If you can donate $100,  great.   If all of us step up we can help Ms Duke realize this great cause--engaging LACES students in Science.  

Mr. Solomon's DONORS CHOOSE

UPDATE:  THIS DONORS CHOOSE PROJECT IS COMPLETED.
THANK YOU, SETH FOR CARRYING THE BALL OVER THE LINE AND THANKS TO EVERYONE  FOR STEPPING UP FOR THIS VERY WORTHWHILE CAUSE.

PLEASE---THOSE WHO WANT TO HELP CAN YOU GO TO MS DUKE'S DONOR'S CHOOSE AND HELP HER....WE ARE STILL SLOGGING THROUGH.
THANK YOU!



Mr. Solomon, LACES resource specialist, needs our assistance on his Donor's Choose Project.
He is in need of earmuffs for testing.  The point of his class is to offer testing in smaller settings with less distractions.   The earmuffs will help because not everyone is taking the same test or doing the same work.

On any given school day, various students may come to my classroom (the Resource Room) to either work or test in a small group setting, or make up a test due to absence. While this is part of the purpose of my classroom, another of its simultaneous purposes is for students of various grade levels enrolled in my class to gain assistance in the academic areas in which they struggle. This often causes distractions, particularly as many of the students who utilize the Resource Room do so largely because they are so easily distracted.

Mr. Solomon serves students in all grades.   Even if you don't have a child who benefits directly by Mr. Solomon,  his work is benefiting the whole school.  And for that we are grateful.

Please read what Mr. Solomon has written up and then step up and make a donation to his Donor's Choose.


We are down to $197 left so that he can get a whole set of noise reducing earmuffs.

Let's try to get this project done in the next week so he can have these muffs for testing way before CSTs.