Dates to Put on Your Calendar
Monday, April 1 – PA Meeting after morning circle
Friday, April 12 – No School
Saturday, April 20 – Creek Clean-a-thon
Friday, April 26 – No School (unused emergency closure day)
Friday, May 3 – May Day 1:15 Dismissal/5:30 Start
Friday, May 3 – PA Meeting
Friday, May 10 – No School
Monday, May 27 – No School Memorial Day
Monday, June 3 – PA Meeting
Friday, June 7 – 8th Grade Graduation/Carnival
Creek Clean-a-thon
Link to donate and share:
http://creekcleanathon.villagecharterschool.com
Our 10th annual Creek Clean-a-Thon is soon upon us! Keep Saturday 4/20 9-11:30am open for a time to tend to our earth. This is a wonderful day of cleaning up our local watershed and beautifying our community. Keep an eye out for more information on this special event. We can use some help organizing and on the day of this event. If you can help, please sign up below.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E48ADAA2CA7F4C07-47725480-creek
We are also fundraising for this event. Please feel free to share this link with friends and family. We are also seeking local business sponsors. If are a business owner or know any who would like to support our school, please have them contact Airmanpatrick@gmail.com
Community Outreach
Hello Village community!
On April 7th, from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, Oliver’s Market on Stony Point Road has offered us space to set up a table to tell folks about all our hard work cleaning up the creek over the years and this year on April 20th!
The plan is to set up a small table and have families meet and help for an hour talking with people about our efforts. If we get a few families, we can each take a block and next thing you know, the day will be past.
We have been asked to keep it small, so we were thinking of 2 adults and 3-4 kids. Olders and youngers matched up would be great! Big buddies in the wild anyone?
Reach out to Bryan Much, via phone/text at 707-332-1117 if you have any questions.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E48ADAA2CA7F4C07-48563126-creek
April is a month of Challenges, Service, and Spirit!
Our students have planned a month of challenges, service and spirit for the VCS community and anyone else you might know who would like to participate. Details are listed at the end of this bulletin and will also be posted on the website. We encourage you to make your best effort to meet our weekly challenges and give us your feedback on how it goes!
Meatless Monday–Give up eating meat (or something else that is a high contributor of greenhouse gas emissions–rice, soy, dairy, etc.) Bring to consciousness how our choices impact the earth.
Tech Free Tuesday and Thursday–If it is not required for work or school, try to stay off all screens. Need to communicate? Call instead (not facetime). TV is your evening ritual? Take a family walk, read, play a game. We know this might be a hard one but challenge yourself and see what happens!
Water Wednesday–Drink only water on this day. Ditch the coffee, juice, milk, soda, etc. and hydrate with water only. How does it feel?
Friendship Friday–Make a new connection, sit with someone new at lunch, write a letter to a grandparent…be creative and share your smile and kindness with others.
CREEK CLEAN-A-THON: SATURDAY, APRIL 20th 9:00-11:00 at The Youth Community Park across from Piner HS. This is a day our community gathers to take care of our local creek (and it is a ton of FUN). Boots and work clothes are strongly recommended! Everything else is provided.
Start saving your coins! We will start collecting MONDAY as part of our Creek Clean Up fundraising. We will be collecting coins the entire month of April!
CREEK CLEAN-A-THON T-SHIRT ORDERS
https://forms.gle/ZcQ29XWK1tdrFpjz9
- T-shirts for participating VCS students are free.
- T-shirts for friends, family, and alumni are $10 each. You can pay in advance in the office, or on the day of the event when you collect your shirt.
- Please be sure to fill out the form for every member of your family who wants a shirt so we can order the right amount.
Summer Camp 2024—DEADLINE FOR FORMS 4/1/24
VCS Summer camp will be offered from July 1st to August 2nd and is open to all current and new students grades TK-8. Forms can be found here or in the office.
Needed for Miss Malika
Empty and clean 16 oz size sour cream or cottage cheese containers. (We need lots!) Please bring to Malika’s classroom
Volunteers Wanted
The middle school is working on a sewing project where they are secretly making stuffed animals for their buddies. Shhh, don’t tell Miss Malika’s students! It would be helpful to have a couple more adults in the room to help with planning patterns, attaching limbs, etc. Please tell Emma erobbins@villagecharterschool.com if you’re available from 9:00 to 10:00 AM any day(s) of the week and want to come help! Thank you!
The All-In-One Enrichment Club is back!
April 2nd to April 30th
We ask that students who want to participate sign up and fill out the form https://forms.gle/y1nKT9EgcEegtirN8 Our intention is to offer fun movement and building activities for kids TK-3rd grades. Each week we will bring guests and together lead activities to awaken participants’ interest and explore new activities. The All In One! Enrichment Club will run for 5 weeks starting the week of April 2nd and ending the week of April 30th. We will meet each Tuesday from 3:30-4:30pm. Each week students will report to after care and will be picked up at 3:30 to start the activity.
Thanks!
Amy (Reed’s mom), Amy (Lane and Sydney’s mom), Carolina (Noa and Soli’s mom) carolingia31@gmail.com and Claudia (Lucia’s mom) pulgaito@aol.com