Have a wonderful summer!

3rd Annual VCS Yearbook Signing Party 

Dates at a Glance                  

June 7, 1pm - Graduation Ceremony followed by Carnival

June 18, 5:45pm – Board Meeting (Budget/LCAP Public Hearing)

June 25, 5:45pm – Board Meeting (Budget/LCAP adoption)
 

Middle School Events

May 31, 7pm - Glow Night, REMINDER: NO CELL PHONES!

June 3 - Field Trip - Hidden Forest Nursery, Sebastopol

June 5 - Service Project Presentations, 12:15 - 1:00

Registration Reminders

Please return your registration packets by Friday, June 7. See previous emails regarding instruction and corrections sent on May 13 and May 14.

Extended Care Billing

The May/June E/C billing will be sent out the week of June 10th. Your final E/C payment is due at that time and should be made in a timely manner.  Books close June 30th.

VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL YEAR END CARNIVAL

Get up on stage... Share experiences... Win prizes...

Come celebrate the end of a great school year and the beginning of summer!

Friday, June 7, 2019

Here's just a sampling of all the fabulous reasons to spend this afternoon with your Village:

FOOD: Yummy BBQ, sno-cones, pop corn & sweets at our cake walk

GAMES: Go Fish, Bean Bag Toss, Spin the Wheel, Twister, sack race, leg tie race

AND MORE: photo booth, dunk tank bucket, pony rides, sheep petting, volleyball games & the "Moonracker " rides

1. We need LOTS OF LITTLE PRIZES.  Do you have party favors laying around (cluttering up your home? :-).  We'll take them off your hands and put them to good (recycled) use.  We're definitely not asking folks to purchase new ones, we're confident we can collect plenty for our carnival games just from re-using what families can gather around their homes.  Just toss 'em in a bag and drop 'em in the office NO LATER THAN TUESDAY, JUNE 4th.

2.  On the yummy side of things, WE NEED ITEMS FOR OUR CAKE WALK (everything sweet to eat is welcome--homemade or store bought, sugar-full, sugar-free, gluten-full, gluten-free, etc.).  The more the (much) merrier! Baked goods can be delivered anytime on Thursday, June 7, including just bringing it along when you arrive at the carnival.

3. AFTERCARE KIDDOS:  If you will be unable to attend the carnival, but your child will be in aftercare, they don't have to miss all the fun.   You will have an opportunity to pre purchase tickets that will be distributed on the day of the event when students are dismissed from aftercare to participate. More info to come.

3.  Last, but certainly not least, we are asking for volunteers for setup and cleanup, AND that EACH PARENT that's able to attend SIGN-UP FOR ONE 30-MINUTE SHIFT to actually make the fun happen! 

Please click on the following web link (or copy it into your web browser if clicking doesn't work) to go to the signup sheet. To sign up, just follow the instructions on the page. It only takes a few seconds to do.

Thank you for volunteering!

Volunteer Opportunity

Hello everyone,

Volunteer opportunities for "VILLAGE CHARTER SCHOOL YEAR END CARNIVAL AND TALENT SHOW" are now open.

Please click on the following web link (or copy it into your web browser if clicking doesn't work) to go to the signup sheet:

https://www.volunteersignup.org/HT83T

To sign up, just follow the instructions on the page. It only takes a few seconds to do.

Thank you for volunteering!

SCHOOLYARD HABITAT

We set some lofty goals at the beginning of the school year and by working together we accomplished almost all of what we set out to do! We created our schoolyard habitat complete with a lizard lounge/rock garden, wetland, living tee-pee, butterfly/bee forage with over 30 kinds of native plants throughout our newly created space. Our Fall and Spring workdays were hugely successful, full of fun times built around working hard to improve our school and our Earth. Woodshop middle school students built us 6 bird nest boxes. Ashley’s class put up the boxes and have been weekly monitoring the bird life that has taken up residence.

We’d like to thank all Village School teachers/classes and the many families who came to the work parties for being a major force in planting out the space and working to battle the weeds and dreaded Bermuda grass. Our project will stay well-watered this summer (and beyond) thanks to Josh Landis working his irrigation wizardry! Deep gratitude to the original team who made this project possible by applying for and receiving the grant to fund the project (Crisarlin and Hattie). Huge appreciations to the Nunley family/DryScape Materials and their generous donations of landscaping materials that helped our project come to life.

This year has seen a VCS dream come true and this is well deserving of our collective celebration and congratulations! Please look forward to another set of Fall and Spring workdays next school year so we can keep our dream alive. We also look forward to working with all the classes again next year, learning together about ourselves and our world by observing, tending and enjoying our thriving Schoolyard Habitat!

Your Happy Habitat Co-ordinators,

Hattie and Stephanie

Thank You - Yearbook Team

I have huge appreciation for the yearbook team: Avery, Kai, Thomas, Sarai, Ella, Bella, and Nate. You made an incredible yearbook, and you made so many great memories along the way. Dizzy drawing, arguing over control of the music, drum towers, waffles, the eternal debate over what to call yourselves on the staff page... So many jokes, so much fun, all poignantly enriched by Ella crying the whole time, and resulting in a beautiful yearbook which our community will treasure. I'm really, really proud of you goofballs.

Much love and admiration for you all!

Emma

 

Signups for VCS Summer Camp are OPEN

Keep your kids active and having fun this summer! Signups for VCS Summer Camp is OPEN!

Enrollment is open on a drop in or weekly basis, OR you can join us for the full eight week session of enriching activities, games, and learning!!

Summer Camp will be Open to all 2019/2020 enrolled* VCS K-8th students

Please see the attached VCS Summer Camp sign up sheet for more details and turn in your forms in the office ASAP to secure your spot! You don’t want to miss the fun!

Appreciations

Have an appreciation you wish to make? You can email it in by Friday morning to bulletin@villagecharterschool.com and it will get added to the next Bulletin.

Thank you Josh Landis for connecting the life giving drip irrigation system that is crucial for our schoolyard habitat to live through its first summer (and beyond)! - Stephanie

Thanks Shaina for organizing our bulletins this year, you have done an amazing and important job for us! - Stephanie

Huge thanks to Ms. Barnum for another amazing Pirate Island adventure, it is a special time and what fantastic fun it is! Thank you to all the families who helped to make the magic happen…. clearing the creek, contributing treasures, creating a fairy wonderland… we are so blessed to have the community that we do, this is real magic! - Stephanie

Thank you Ashley! for connecting your students and class to the wonders of nature and the deep care of our environment… raising steelhead in the classroom, adopting all of our nest boxes, taking field trips to working agricultural lands… you have helped to instill a deep sense of care that gives our kids a solid foundation as stewards of the Earth and this is exactly what the world needs! - Stephanie

Crisarlin, Viki, Claudia, Jeri, Hattie, Katie, Lauren, Michaela… you give so much of your time and attention to our school it is a beautiful thing that you do for our community. We have the amazing celebrations, Spanish in our classrooms, Girls on the Run, gardens, events, festivals and gatherings at our school because of you and you are an amazing example of community service in action, thank you! - Stephanie

Carolyn and Rebecca, Village School is truly blessed to have your on-going attention and care of our community. Thank you for ALL that you do, you take such wonderful care of us all!

Thanks to all of our morning drop-off greeters, it is so sweet to see your smiling and welcoming faces each day of the week this school year. Your dedication and help is much appreciated! - Stephanie

Village Charter School Board of Directors… your time and contributions to keeping our school going is imperative to our success. Thank you for all you do to keep our school going, we couldn’t/wouldn't be here without you! - Stephanie

Nice kicks, Merriam-Webster!
(Played by Leah F.) 

Dates at a Glance                  

May 27 - Memorial Day - No School

June 7, 1pm - Graduation Ceremony followed by Carnival

June 18, 5:45pm – Board Meeting (Budget/LCAP Public Hearing)

June 25, 5:45pm – Board Meeting (Budget/LCAP adoption)

VCS YEAR END CARNIVAL

Get up on stage... Share experiences... Win prizes...

Come celebrate the end of a great school year and the beginning of summer!

Friday, June 7, 2019

 

Here's just a sampling of all the fabulous reasons to spend this afternoon with your Village:

FOOD: Yummy BBQ, sno-cones, pop corn & sweets at our cake walk

GAMES: Go Fish, Bean Bag Toss, Spin the Wheel, Twister, sack race, leg tie race

AND MORE: photo booth, dunk tank bucket, pony rides, sheep petting, volleyball games & the "Moonracker " rides

1. We need LOTS OF LITTLE PRIZES.  Do you have party favors laying around (cluttering up your home? :-).  We'll take them off your hands and put them to good (recycled) use.  We're definitely not asking folks to purchase new ones, we're confident we can collect plenty for our carnival games just from re-using what families can gather around their homes.  Just toss 'em in a bag and drop 'em in the office NO LATER THAN TUESDAY, JUNE 4th.

2.  On the yummy side of things, WE NEED ITEMS FOR OUR CAKE WALK (everything sweet to eat is welcome--homemade or store bought, sugar-full, sugar-free, gluten-full, gluten-free, etc.).  The more the (much) merrier! Baked goods can be delivered anytime on Thursday, June 7, including just bringing it along when you arrive at the carnival.

3. AFTERCARE KIDDOS:  If you will be unable to attend the carnival, but your child will be in aftercare, they don't have to miss all the fun.   You will have an opportunity to pre purchase tickets that will be distributed on the day of the event when students are dismissed from aftercare to participate. More info to come.

3.  Last, but certainly not least, we are asking for volunteers for setup and cleanup, AND that EACH PARENT that's able to attend SIGN-UP FOR ONE 30-MINUTE SHIFT to actually make the fun happen! 

Please click on the following web link (or copy it into your web browser if clicking doesn't work) to go to the signup sheet. To sign up, just follow the instructions on the page. It only takes a few seconds to do.

Thank you for volunteering!

Talent Show

Thank you to all the kids who turned in the form with their interest on participating in the Talent Show.  The Talent Show Committee will interview all the participants NEXT WEDNESDAY, MAY 29TH FROM 1:00 PM TO 2:00 PM. This will be a short interview to make sure we have everything they need on the day of the talent show.

It's Yearbook Time!

Come to the quad at 1:00 on Wednesday, May 29th to pick up your yearbook! This is a great opportunity to sign yearbooks too, so don't forget your favorite pen.

Didn't preorder? That's okay! There are plenty of extra yearbooks available to purchase. Just bring $25 in cash or a check made out to Village Charter School.

Signups continue for VCS Summer Camp 

There is still time to sign up for the VCS summer camp program. Each camp week will be filled with creative team building activities and games help to build a fun-loving, connected and caring summer camp community of friends. Mr. Matt and Mr. Coco are excited to provide and lead activities that will keep your students mind and body active that include wood shop, arts and crafts, cooking, ceramics, and outings that will consist of exploring and volunteering in our local community on Wednesday's. Tuesday's and Thursday's will be our open drop off days for last minute childcare. Registration forms are attached can be found inside the office or in the extended care room during extended care hours.

Petaluma Adobe Living History Day

Discover 1840's Mexican California! 

Saturday May 25, 2019 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Meet the vaqueros, traders, cooks, and crafts people who lived in Alta California. Dip candles, make baskets, churn butter, rope with vaqueros and play historical games.

Bring a picnic and watch history come alive!

Admission includes activities: Adults $3.00

Children 6 to 17 $2.00, Children 5 and under free

Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park, 3325 Adobe Road, Petaluma

(707) 762-4871
 

Registration Packet - 2019-2020

If you have not completed the 2019/20 registration packet please be sure to follow the steps. You need to complete the 4 pages that were brought home. Printing and signing the other forms listed is optional and in addition to the 4 pages. There were two mistakes found on the registration form. 1) On page 1, top line: school year grade should be 19/20. 2) On page 2, Income Eligibility box; the house hold size number should be shift down one line. An email explaining this was sent on Tuesday, 5/14. ALL INFORMATION ON PAGE 2 is required for Federal and State statistics and funding. Completing it now will save from having to ask you for it later. Packets are due on the last day of school, Friday, June 7.

Appreciations

Have an appreciation you wish to make? You can email it in by Friday morning to bulletin@villagecharterschool.com and it will get added to the next Bulletin.

“Rebecca and Coco, thank you so much for affording me the opportunity to go and watch Jasmine’s presentation at Cardinal Newman. I really appreciated your help and support and am so thankful to be the recipient of your kindness! Thank you both for being your amazing selves. ~Ashley!”

“Dear Middle School~ You are awesome!!! I loved your musical and your creativity in action! Thank you for sharing your thoughts and talents with our community. ~Ashley!”