What's Happening at Walnut Acres: September 17, 2024
Mark Your Calendars!
9/17 PFC Meeting on ZOOM 7 pm
9/16-9/25: Parent Teacher Conferences
9/24 Dine and Donate: Jack's Urban Eats
9/28 Fall Carnival
10/1 Walk/Bike to School Day
10/7-11 Fall Break - No School
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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To Do List:
- Buy Fall Carnival Tickets
- Sign up here to help with Community Service Day junk removal
- Fill out this brief survey to contribute Community Service project ideas for the school
- Sign up for Lunch Duty Volunteer
- Volunteer for September Drive-thru line
- Donate to the Jag Fund
- Order your yearbook by 10/31 before price goes up and submit photos
- Purchase a birthday marquee message for your child
- Follow our social media accounts (Instagram and Facebook)
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Dine & Donate Next Tuesday!
Next Tuesday, September 24th is our next Dine & Donate night!
Let’s head out to support Jack’s Urban Eats in the Orchards Shopping Center. Stop in to grab a meal AND support our kids. They are donating 20% back to our school!
Stop by or order online between 4pm-close. Mention you’re with Walnut Acres or use promo code JACKSFUN to send 20% of your order back to our school and to our kids!
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Jaguar Fund
We have raised almost 35% of our total goal ($175,000) for the Jaguar Fund - thanks for your continued support!
For those that donated by the end of August, you were entered into a raffle to win Two (2) Tickets to the Walnut Acres Auction on March 14th.
And the winner is…Ranen Lardent!!! CONGRATS!
Please help continue the momentum by making your donation on Konstella here.
Anyone that donates will receive a Walnut Acres Adventures Awaits car magnet showing their support!
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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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Fall Carnival
Fall Carnival is coming Saturday, September 28th, 4-7pm to the Walnut Acres blacktop. 
Get your tickets on Konstella, click here to buy now.
Please help us make this event a success, sign up for a volunteer shift here.
Sign up to bring cookies or a cake for the beloved Cake Walk here.
You won’t want to miss this family-friendly fun event with games, music, food, prizes, and so much fun.
Questions? Email carnival@walnutacrespfc.net
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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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