“It’s a recession when your neighbour loses his job: it’s a depression when you lose yours.”
February Dates:
19- TONIGHT Parent’s Night Out 6pm-9pm
23- Roots & Shoots Plant Giveaway
25- Variety Show at the North Park Theatre-$5 at the door
28- Max and Jake’s Big Race
March Dates:
4- PTC Meeting 6:15pm
4- Education March @ 3pm in Balboa Park
17-19 Parent/Teacher Conferences- Minimum Days
25- Frisbee Golf Tournament
3/29 thru 4/2- Spring Break…week of fun!
Parent’s Night Out February 19th TONIGHT 6to9pm: Drop off the kids at the school, and head for a night out with friends or a significant other! We’ll provide the day care by trained adult staff, the pizza, and the movies for the kids. Cost: $25/1st child, $10 for each additional child. Sign up sheet is located in the office. We need at least 30 kids signed up. Any questions contact mckinleyptc@yahoo.com.
Roots and Shoots Plant Giveaway: Meet us in front of the school on 2/23 for our big plant giveaway! We have been working on planting succulants in old containers and want our community to have access to this jewel! Small donations are appreciated, all proceeds will go toward our next project: feeding animals in shelters.
Pasta for Pennies: The program encourages students to collect spare change to support the mission to cure leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and Hodgkin’s disease and to improve the quality of life of patientsand their families . Our Campaign at McKinley will be from Monday, March 1 through March 12. At the end of the Campaign the top fundraising class will receive an Olive Garden lunch! If you would like more information please contact Maria Soto msoto1@sandi.net.
Gala in Honor of McKinley: The Mission Hills United Church of Christ gala fundraiser was a huge success! They raised close to $20,000 for McKinley. We can never thank Pat Taylor enough for connecting us with her church. We also owe a huge debt of gratitude to the kids who made presentations to the church. Thank you Sophia Leon and Lizzy Marquez for speaking about music and arts programs in our school and thanks to Karina Peaslee-Guerro, Kenna Shaw, Marc Van Thillo and David Dill for playing your recorders so beautifully. Thanks to Kouta for speaking so eloquently about the need for arts in the schools, and thanks to Maggie Pinon, Jon Rogers, and Kouta for donating services/items to the silent auction.
Variety Show, Thursday, February 25th at 6:15: This year’s theme is “FAME” and is a must see for the entire McKinley Community, even if your child is not participating this year. Come watch our amazing home-grown talent put on some wonderful acts. This year show features our very own Bollywood production, “Who’s on First”, teacher’s (and Julie) performing flamenco dancing, and of course some fantastic singing and dancing. Tickets are $5 ($3 for the kids) and are sold at the door (North Park Theater).
Grant Writing Committee: We’re forming a grant writing committee to help us secure grants for our music and arts programs and also try to secure funding for other programs we’d like to see at our school. If you feel you could help us research potential donors and/or help write the grants, all from the comfort of your home, please join us on Monday, March 1st at 2:30 in the teacher’s lounge. If you can’t make the meeting but would like to help out or if you’re unable to help out, but might now of some potential sources, please contact us at mckinleyptc@yahoo.com
Mentorship Training: We’re hosting another mentor/tutor training on Friday, February 19th at 1:00. If you know of someone who might be interested in volunteering one hour per week to help a child, please have them contact mckinleyptc@yahoo.com or call Sandy at 619-640-6781.
March for Education: Joinn us in Balboa Park on March 4th at 3pm to make a statement about your feelings towards saving education. For more info contact Kelly at kellysm99@earthlink.net
Newsletter entries go to: Amy Miller amy.miller1@cox.net and mckinleyptc@yahoo.com.
