Hello Penguin Families,
Thank you to everyone who voted. We are excited that the Washtenaw Intermediate School District Special Education Millage Renewal Proposal passed! Congratulations to AAPS School Board President Torchio Feaster and his re-election and welcome to new members Leslie Wilkins, Glynda Wilks and Don Wilkerson. Our next PTO meeting is this Tuesday, November 12 at 7 p.m. on Zoom. The agenda is available here.
PTO MEETING
We hope to see everyone at our PTO meeting on Tuesday, November 12 at 7 p.m. on Zoom. The agenda (available here), includes a vote on a new Golden Apple Grant for PE Night in December. We will also have a discussion on replacing the Halloween Parade with a Fall Harvest Festival for 2025, consider changes to the December meeting and hear a presentation on Gift Crowd - a new offering to help with holiday staff and teacher gifts.
CALL FOR YEARBOOK PHOTOS
It is time to start putting together some of our favorite memories to the Burns Park Yearbook and we need your help to make it AWESOME! Please share any photos you may have of your Penguins in action during Burns Park activities using this link.
To upload photos: click on the down arrow to find your child’s grade folder. No identifiers are needed, but please tag your photos with the classroom’s “Teacher name – event.” For example: “Hane – Lansing Field trip.” Please do not include Rec & Ed sport photos.
Here are just some of the activities we'd love to capture in the yearbook:
Have questions? Contact us at yearbook@bpepto.org.
LOST & FOUND
The Lost & Found is currently overflowing with coats, shoes, rain boots, water bottles, books, and more. Our wonderful volunteer took photos that you can view here. Please come claim your family’s lost items weekdays from 8:15 a.m.-4:15 p.m in the hallway between the library and the gym. Unclaimed items will eventually be donated.
IMMEDIATE VOLUNTEER NEEDS
The Burns Park Community is only made stronger by it’s volunteers and we have some immediate needs:
Library Morning Helpers - Rachel Erdstein, our building library/media specialist, is collecting all due library materials first thing in the morning. We need a core group of 4-5 volunteers to regularly check-in and shelve materials just after drop off from 8:45-9:15 am. If you are available and willing to help sign up here.
Walk & Talk Coaches - Walk & Talk is an optional lunch recess activity where students in grades 1-5 can choose to walk or run together around a specified loop in Burns Park. For miles completed, kids earn "toe tags" they collect on a chain and wear proudly! Coaches are needed on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays during lunch recess to organize and distribute student lap cards, keep track of laps completed, and distribute toe tags. Sign up here.
FAMILY STEM NIGHT
The Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA) at the University of Michigan is hosting a FREE Family STEM Night on Wednesday, Nov. 13 from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Burns Park Elementary Auditorium. Explore the STEM field through interactive experiments & challenges. Register online here.
Your PTO,
Kory Zhao, President
Michelle Ding, President-Elect
