🚨 ACTION ITEMS 🚨

• Get ready for Walk & Roll to School on October 8th!
• Buy things off the Autumn Carnival Amazon Wishlist
• Donate your gently-used stuffies to the Autumn Carnival for prizes
• Please label your student's things! (The Lost & Found overfloweth) 


📌 VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES 📌

• Sign up to volunteer at the Autumn Carnival!
• Help the Spirit Wear team pack up pre-orders and deliver to classrooms
• Ms. Young still needs help breaking down and recycling the empty Chromebook Boxes
• We need 3 parent volunteers for the Enrollment Fair on Oct 18
• Seeking Lunar New Year Parade Volunteers

🎉 CELEBRATIONS 🎉

• Donut Dash results
• Hardly Strictly Bluegrass parking fundraiser is off to a great start!
• Autumn Carnival / Halloween game reconstruction underwear

This Wednesday at 7:30 come to one of the following intersections to join a group of students as they walk + roll to school! The goal of this event is to promote road safety, as well as the environmental and health benefits of walking and cycling to school. 

• 40th and Anza (lead by Ms. Jessica)
• 30th and Balboa (lead by Ms. Carpenter) 
• 36th and Fulton (lead by Ms. Brook) 

Buy things for the Autumn Carnival from the Amazon Wishlist 

The Autumn Carnival is right around the corner and we need your help! We are working on replacing the items lost in the fire. Unfortunately all was lost and we have to start from scratch. We are asking if you are able to help replace some items shown here on this Amazon Wishlist. Every little bit helps.

Donate gently-used stuffies for game prizes!

We will be in the yard at drop off on: 

• Wednesday, October 8
• Friday, October 10
• Wednesday, October 15
• Friday, October 17

Stop by our table with your gently used stuffed animal (etc) donations and enjoy some hot cider!

The Autumn Carnival Committee

The Lost & Found has become a shopping mall. Please ensure everything your student comes to school with (Water bottles! Lunchboxes! Backpacks! Jackets!) is labeled with their name (first and last if space permits, or whatever will help us identify the appropriate owner). Everything that has been labeled has a higher chance of making its way back to the proper owner, while everything not labeled is currently gathering dust in our Lost and Found outside the music room.

📌 Volunteer at this year's Autumn Carnival by signing up via Konstella.

📌 Help the Spirit Wear team pack up Spirit Wear pre-orders (on either October 15 or October 16) and/or help them deliver orders to classrooms (on October 17).

📌 Ms. Young still needs help breaking down Chrome Book boxes in the STEAM room and recycling them. To volunteer, click here.

📌 We need 3 parent volunteers to represent Lafayette at the SFUSD Enrollment Fair @ Balboa High School on October 18th. Sign up here.

📌 The Richmond Neighborhood Center has asked Lafayette to have a float at the next Lunar New Year parade. We need a parent or two to lead the float! If you'd like to volunteer, reply to this newsletter and let me know ❤️ 🐉

Thank you to everyone who came out for this year's Donut Dash.  It was a HUGE success; we had a record turnout, we raised money for the school and had a fun community event in the process. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

Before we put a final bow on this year's Donut Dash, we wanted to share a few additional pieces of information:

THE WINNERS

Please join us in congratulating the following people:

5K - Overall winners (adults: female and male)

• Pia Kitto
• Clint Slone

5K - Overall winners (kids: female and male)

• Addie Turner Winn
• Rylan Mooney

Kid winners in each age group will receive a small prize as well. I'll be getting in touch with those families this coming week.

1 Mile - Overall winners

• Rylan Mooney
• Cass Bud

Fundraising
Don't stop fundraising! Even though the race is over, you can continue to fundraise until Friday, Oct 10th.  We are also excited to announce that the winner of the fundraiser gets two awesome prizes: A Popsicle Party for their class AND the opportunity to pick the color of next year's Donut Dash t-shirt.  

Volunteers
Last but not least THANK YOU to all the people who volunteered in the weeks leading up to the event as well as on race day. We truly could not have done it without you. 

Until next year...

❤️ The Donut Dash Committee
(Kate Scott, Julia Johnston, Regina Baldwin, Diana Freeburg,  Alex Blasdel)

The parking fundraiser for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is underway. Word on the street from this volunteer shift is it's a huge success! Thanks team ❤️

Having lost so many things in the fire that destroyed the PTA shed, we are excited to share that Sean Spillane, husband of our esteemed PTA President (which technically makes Sean the First Gentleman I guess?) is hard at work rebuilding Halloween games for the Autumn Carnival. Here he is, hard at work! Is it the werewolf rat toss? Is it the witches wheel? Stay tuned to find out! Thanks Sean!

There's no better way to make an impact than to become an active advocate for this community. Join now and make your voice heard!

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