Dear Lafayette Community,

Welcome to Winter Break! I hope you're all enjoying this holiday season and making special memories with your children. The Dolphin Digest will be on hiatus for the rest of the break, but we'll look forward to seeing everyone back at school on January 6th, 2025! 

In this week's Dolphin Digest:

🏀 After-School Enrichment Corner: Sign Up for Winter/Spring Classes
🤖 Family STEAM Day - January 22, 2025
📷 Lately at Lafayette (photos)
📅 Calendar at a Glance 
👋 Community (Non-PTA) Corner: Two Disneyland CA Tickets for Sale, In Search of a Spare Donut Dash T-Shirt, L or XL

Label Your Items!

If your child is receiving something new to wear over the winter holidays, please make sure to write their name on it! Our hardworking volunteers and school staff check lost items for names, so this is the best way to make sure your child's stuff makes its way back home.

It's time to sign up for winter/spring after school enrichment classes!

Our winter and spring after-school enrichment programs are posted on Homeroom.com and it's time to sign up. The next session starts the week of January 13th and runs through May 30th. We have some great programs including sports, yoga, music, engineering, drama, gymnastics, capoeira, dance, and biking to name a few.

Check out the options on Homeroom.com and sign up now to reserve your spot.

If you have any questions, reach out to Kristen Coleman, the Lafayette After School Enrichment Coordinator, at kjkrieger@gmail.com.

Join us at Lafayette on Wednesday, January 22nd at 1:15 for an afternoon of fun and interactive activities involving Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math!

The school day will end at the typical Wednesday time: 12:50pm. 

• Students who are not in after-school programs must be picked up as usual at 12:50pm, and families are invited to attend the event with their students. Until the event starts, you are welcome to spend time in the schoolyard (grownups are responsible for supervising their kids).
• Students in after-school programs will also have the opportunity to attend the event with their program staff.

Grown-ups are needed to VOLUNTEER as "explainers" at the stations. This is a fun volunteer gig where you get to help kids interact with the activity at your station. No special skills required! Please sign up right here.

Questions? Please contact Ms. Tong (tongr@sfusd.edu), Lafayette's STEAM teacher. Thank you for organizing this, Ms. Tong!

Thank you to Meghan Butler, MacKenzie Foreman, and all of the volunteers for running Spirit Wear sales the last two days of school! Look at those cool new styles!

Thank you to to our Stop, Drop and Go volunteers for keeping mornings safe and bringing sunny smiles to these rainy days!

DECEMBER 23-JANUARY 3

- NO SCHOOL - Winter Break

JANUARY 20

- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - NO SCHOOL

JANUARY 22

- Family STEAM Day at Lafayette @ 1:15pm

JANUARY 29

- Lunar New Year - NO SCHOOL

JANUARY 31

- End of Annual Giving Campaign

MAY 17

- Party & Auction to Benefit Lafayette <--Date changed from Feb 8 to May 18

Community announcements are shared as a service to our members and are not from the PTA. Do you have events, resources, or other info to share with the community? Email lafayetteschoolpta@gmail.com to request a spot in the Dolphin Digest.

Lafayette teacher Ms. Baba has 2 Disneyland California tickets she would like to sell. Please contact her at hatar1@sfusd.edu if interested.

A Lafayette parent is looking for a size L or XL Donut Dash shirt from this year's event. If you have one to pass on, please reply to this email. Thank you for helping complete their collection! 

Thanks for reading this week.

Go Dolphins! 🐬

Patricia Wada

VP, Communications 2023–25

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Lafayette Elementary PTA

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