What's Happening at Walnut Acres: October 1, 2024

Mark Your Calendars!  

10/7-11    Fall Break - No School

10/22      Morning Parent Coffee 8-9 am

10/22      PFC Meeting on ZOOM 7 pm

10/24      Dine & Donate: The Kebab Shop

10/28      Make-up Pictures and 5th Grade Pano

10/31      Halloween Costume Parade

For the entire calendar, please see: PFC Key Dates 2024-2025

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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Math Kangaroo at Walnut Acres

Parents of Grades 1-5: 

For seven years now, Walnut Acres has hosted Math Kangaroo contest for our students. Math Kangaroo (www.mathkangaroo.org) is a global nonprofit on a mission of helping students love math. The program focuses on improving kids' math skills, teaching them new strategies for solving problems, helping with critical thinking and gaining confidence in the classroom.

This year, the event will take place on March 20th, and we plan on offering free after-school practice sessions for interested students starting in late fall/winter. If you would like to join the Walnut Acres Math Kangaroo community or learn more, please join Math Kangaroo channel in Social Groups on Konstella. This is where all updates, practice session schedules and materials will be posted.

Registration for students is now open. For questions, feel free to PM program coordinator Oksana Sobol on Konstella. 

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DONATE TO THE JAGUAR FUND!

Our Goal is 100% Participation. Understanding that every family situation is different, the goal of the Jaguar Fund is 100% Participation, regardless of the dollar amount. No amount is too small, and every dollar will make a difference for our school.   

The suggested donation for the 2024-2025 school year is $65 per month or a one-time donation of $650, per child.

Please donate on Konstella by clicking HERE!

Walnut Acres PFC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization / Donations are Tax Deductible (Tax ID # 94-2398637)

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Makers Market

The First Annual Walnut Acres 4th/5th Grade Makers Market is coming this December and it is your 4th or 5th grader's chance to start their own business and sell their items to the Walnut Acres community.

 It’s not too early to start planning, making, creating and building. You’ll need at least 20 items to pop up your shop. Remember, all items need to be kid-made. 

If you have questions, email makersmarket@walnutacrespfc.net or talk to Michelle Lederman or Susan Heffran

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4TH GRADE! October is your month to help with Morning Drive Thru!

Parents, Guardians and Grandparents! Please help us in the Drive Thru line as we open doors and greet students while they are arriving at school. We would appreciate 2-4 helpers each day. Can you help for 25 minutes in the morning, 7:45 - 8:00 am? If so, please sign up!  All grade levels are more than welcome to sign up for this much needed job!

Please sign up using the link here!

Important Message! Please make sure to drive SLOWLY in our Walnut Acres School Zone, PLEASE do NOT use the driveway as a crossing to the school either by bike or foot.  Your students’ safety is our utmost concern and do not want their safety endangered. Lastly, please observe all “No Parking” signs and have your students exit the car by the passengers side only.  It’s crucial for the safety of students!

Thank you, Families, for all of your help! 

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The City of Walnut Creek’s Community Service Day (CSD) falls on the last weekend of Fall Recess (October 12) this year. So we’ve proposed limiting Walnut Acres’ participation in CSD to large junk/debris removal, with the tentative plan to have 3-5 volunteers with trucks pick up large items designated by teachers/staff for disposal from designated points at the school, load it into their trucks and bring it to the dumpsters provided by the City at Heather Farm.

Please sign up here if you’re available to help on the morning of Saturday, October 12 and have access to a truck.

We’re identifying alternative dates to hold a separate Walnut Acres Service Day(s) and will inform parents soon. In the meanwhile, we’d like to know if you have ideas about potential projects that parents can work together to execute in a roughly 4 hour timeframe. If you have ideas, feel free to note them in this brief survey (you can submit multiple entries).

Questions or suggestions? Feel free to reach out to Dareyn Stilwell at dareyn@gmail.com.

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Buy your 2024-2025 Walnut Acres Yearbook NOW for $27!  Price goes up to $37 after October 31st (Yearbooks sold out the past 3 years, and we will NOT be ordering extras this year.) 

NEW this year: 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?

1. Go to: www.hjeshare.com; Enter school code walnutacres
2. Click "select images for upload". Click "Browse for Images".
3. Locate our images, click on them, then click "Open".
4. 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). 
5. Click "upload images"
6. *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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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? Please email Justin Pickering at marquee@walnutacrespfc.net.

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