A huge Jaguar THANK YOU, WAE community, for showing up at the Art Walk earlier this month in support of our school and The Orchards shopping plaza! We hope you all had great holiday fun and enjoyed some local fame with pride!

It took a village to pull it all together, and we're so appreciative. Special thanks to our incredible art teacher Kristin Kyono (shown attached collecting a student autograph at our big event), our dedicated TK teachers, and our now famous artists --our  kids!!! Heartfelt thanks to all the volunteers who mounted, labeled, hung, applied extra tape to our art, and more! (Actually, it's not over yet... we still have to take it all down right after winter break on Tues. am, 1/6! Can you help? Please sign up here!)

And thank you to our fantastic families for showing up! Check out our social FB and Insta pages over break for more fun photos from our big night out!

The Orchards will be generously donating $2,000 to our school simply for our participation in this event. Then we raised an additional $966.33 in givebacks from participating vendors at our grand event night --SO proud of our Jaguar community! So please do show your thanks to The Orchards for their help coordinating our exhibit, hosting our grand event night, and for their generous donations by continuing to eat and shop at all of their stores. (And when you do, be sure to mention that you're from Walnut Acres!)

And finally, we are most grateful to The Orchards merchants listed below who proudly displayed our art, gave us free goodies, and especially those marked with an asterisk below for donating back to our school from sales on 12/3. We appreciate you!:

*Burger Lounge
*California Fish Grill
*Chip Cookies
*Devil & Angel Desserts
*Elements Massage
Jack's Urban Eats
Lash Lounge
*Mathnasium
Mike Hess Brewing
One Medical
Primrose School
Radiant Waxing
Sky Zone (Coming Soon!)
*Sourdough & Co.
*Thai Thani
*The Kebab Shop

 We love our neighborhood merchants! Thank you, Orchards plaza!