What's Happening at Walnut Acres: December 16, 2025
Mark Your Calendars!
12/16: PFC Meeting on Zoom TONIGHT - 7pm
12/22-1/2: Winter Break - NO SCHOOL
1/12-26: Read-a-thon
1/19: MLK Jr Holiday - NO SCHOOL
For the entire calendar, please see: PFC Key Dates 2025-2026
To add PFC events to personal calendar: Go to the Konstella calendar and click "Sync to My Calendar" (web) or "Sync" (mobile app).
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To Do List:
- Donate to the Jag Fund
- Save your CRV-eligible cans and plastic bottles for collection by our 4th graders every Thursday before school - raising funds for 5th Grade Camp
- Sign up to help remove Art Walk install at the Orchards on Tues Jan 6th - sign up coming tomorrow!
- Volunteer to help us reimagine P.E.
- Order your yearbook, 5th grade dedication, and submit photos
- Purchase a birthday marquee message for your child
- Follow our social media accounts (Instagram and Facebook)
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Read-a-thon Coming Soon!
Our annual Read-a-thon fundraiser is coming early this year - Jan 12th - 26th.
More information to come after Winter Break. Envelopes will go home with your students the week of January 5th.
Students can collect donations via 99pledges (email with link to be sent out prior to event starting) or collect cash/check donations for minutes/hours read during the 2 week time frame.
Check out our Read-A-Thon website for more details:
Read-A-Thon 2026: Wild About Reading
If any questions, please email us: readathon@walnutacrespfc.net
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Auction Donation Items Needed!
Auction season is kicking off and our amazing night (March 27th!) will be here before we know it. In order to make both our online, silent and live auction events successful, we need DONATIONS from our amazing community.
Remember - the money we raise funds critical programs like Reading and Math Intervention Specialists. Can you help us secure some great auction items?
Here’s what we are looking for: Gift cards, tickets to events, vacation home stays, goods, services, hosting a buy-in party, or a unique experience like a behind-the-scenes tour or other event. Can you help or can you ask your favorite restaurant, stylist, designer, etc for support?
All donors are recognized in our online auction website, and Auction Sponsors receive advertising space in the event program and at the gala. Donations are fully tax deductible.
Reach out to auctiondonations@walnutacrespfc.net to contribute!
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Fall Library Update!
Read the Fall Library Update from Mrs. Sperske
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Donate Now to the Jag Fund!
Get a Wild About Learning Jaguar car magnet to show your support for Walnut Acres Elementary!
Our goal this year was to boost our participation rate in order to help reach our fundraising target - funds that directly support the high-quality education and enriching programs made possible by the Jaguar Fund.
Don’t wait - please continue to support the Jaguar Fund today!
What Does the Jaguar Fund Support?
👩🏫 Full & Part Time Instructional Aides
📚 Math & Reading Programs
👥 Intervention Specialists for Math & Reading
🧪 Science Fair
🎨 Art Fair
📖 New Library Books
🌍 International Fair
🖨️ Classroom Printing & Materials
🍎 Teacher Appreciation Events
🛝 Playground Supplies
The suggested donation for the 2025-2026 school year is $65 per month or a one-time donation of $650, per child.
Every family’s contributions matter. Whether it's $20, $200, or $2,000, your gift helps keep essential programs running for all students. No amount is too small - our goal is 100% participation.
Walnut Acres PFC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Tax ID # 94-2398637 — your donation is tax-deductible!
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Support Your Student(s) & Our School!
Sign up for Mathnasium, The Math Learning Center. 
Mathnasium will donate $10 EVERY MONTH to our PFC for each and every WAE student enrolled in their program. (This is not only for newly enrolled students. It’s for ALL enrolled students from WAE every single month.)
Anyone and everyone can be a great math student, and expert help is right up the road at our local Mathnasium in The Orchards plaza.
SIGN UP HERE
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Say it in Lights!
Support the PFC and put a smile on your child's face! For $25.00, the greeting "Happy Birthday (Your Child’s Name)” will be on display on the Walnut Acres electronic Marquee from 7am-9pm on your date of choice. Click HERE to purchase.
Is your child’s birthday during the summer? Consider a “half-birthday” greeting 6 months after their birthday.
The deadline for submitting an order is one week prior to your child's birthday.
Questions? Email Justin Pickering at marquee@walnutacrespfc.net.
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Buy your 2025-2026 Walnut Acres Yearbook NOW for $37! Yearbooks always sell out and we do not order extras.
Additional Option: Purchase an “Angel Book” to be donated to a Walnut Acres student in need.
Go to: www.yearbookordercenter.com and enter school code: 10053
Want to share your amazing pictures for the yearbook?
- Go to: www.hjeshare.com; Enter school code walnutacres
- Click "select images for upload". Click "Browse for Images".
- Locate our images, click on them, then click "Open".
- Enter the information for each image. Please include "grade(s) of students" and provide the teacher's name if known. For "student(s) shown", type N/A (You do NOT need to include student’s name).
- Click "upload images"
*Note: The yearbook crew builds pages as events happen throughout the year. Please upload photos within 1 month of an event.
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5th Grade Dedication & Yearbook Cover Contest
5th grade parents: Congratulate your 5th grader and celebrate this milestone with a dedication ad in the yearbook. Please see the attached flier for information and an example of an ad. You can create and purchase the ad at the same site as the yearbook HERE.
We also need our 5th grade artists to submit their artwork for the yearbook cover contest. Artwork must be on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper in vertical (portrait) format, and include the school name (Walnut Acres) and school theme (Wild About Learning). The deadline to submit artwork is 12/19. Submit entries to Yvonne in the office, and make sure the artist's name and teacher is written on the back. Emailed entries are also accepted. Contact Susan Heffran or Michelle Lederman with any questions at yearbook@walnutacrespfc.net.
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Follow Our Social Media Accounts!
Follow us on IG and/or Facebook for another way to stay informed about the happenings at school, and see some behind the scenes of the amazing projects our kiddos get to work on.
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Managing your Konstella Notifications
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