Coffee & Conversation

EVERY DAY from 8-9 am in the Parent Center.

Stocked with FREE coffee, tea and sometimes morning treats,  it is the ideal place to connect with other parents before you head off to work or your daily routine.  

Two computers with internet access and other resources are also available.

THURSDAYS:  Spanish only.  Challenge yourself to learn or practice spoken Spanish. Or come help others learn a second language. 
Culture, conversation and community!  Come get connected.

Every DAY 8-9am in the Parent Center (room 35), Bret Harte Elementary

Welcome Back Bret Harte

Welcome Back or welcome to this family.  It's going to be a great year.  Some dates and details to get on your calendar.

•  Tuesday, September 6, 8am.  First Day of School
• Vote for the Bret Harte Garden to receive a $5,000 grant from Raley's Reach online Program.  www.raleys.com/reach  Cast your vote DAILY. Voting opens Sept. 6 and last through Sept. 23.  Go to the website, create an account, click Raley's Reach, browse nominations, click Region 3/Sac, vote for Bret Harte Garden.  It's that easy. 
• Saturday, September 24- Back to School Breakfast 8-10am. Meet your teachers, interact with other parents and children and enjoy a morning together.  Cost is $5 per adult (includes PTA membership and breakfast)
• Wednesday, September 28-Back to School Night.  Meet your child's teacher and hear what is planned for the classroom.  Sign up to volunteer on a PTA committee or in your child's classroom at this event.
• First GENERAL PTA MEETING- TBA.  School year plan and Budget will be presented and voted on.  Come get involved and make your voice heard.  EVERY CHILD- ONE VOICE is the PTA motto.  

Bret Harte Garden Unveiling and Celebration

Please join us for our garden unveiling and celebration on Saturday, June 11th, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Unveiling ceremony at 1pm followed by celebration from 1:30-4:30pm.  These are "DOLLAR DAYS" at Bret Harte Elementary School. $1.00 entrance gives you unlimited use of jump structures, Wii dancing,  and much, much more.  Music by DJ Supe all day and a live performance by Mister Cooper at 2pm.  $1 items will be for sale all day including food, drink, baked goods and refreshing treats.  Join in on a cupcake walk, try your skills in one of our fitness stations or collect health and wellness information from local vendors.  Seeds, seedlings and plants will be for sale, plus check out the arts and crafts on sale as well! Don't miss this wonderful family oriented and multi-cultural event!

• Location: 2751 9th Ave., Sacramento, CA 95818.  Enter the main gate on Franklin Blvd or the side gate on 6th Ave. 
• Joanns4angels@gmail.com for more information

Ms. Bunny's Class Store

Ms. Bunny has a group of entrepreneurs setting up shop and making money for their class.  A small group of children gathered together one FUN FRIDAY and starting making stuff they thought they could sell.  They set up shop selling their homemade items for $.25 to $1.  Some larger items had a price tag as much as $5.

It wasn't long before students started bringing unwanted items from home to sell.  At the pancake breakfast the store made $25.  The total to date the store has brought in is nearly $100.  The class has still to decide how they will spend their earnings. 

Bret Harte PTA Garden Wishlist

Specific items:

Costco:
   3 Gorilla Wagons $99 each (heavy duty wagon for hauling garden equipment, tools, compost, etc)
   1 standing camp stove $157.00 (for cooking demonstrations)

Seville classics professional chefs table with bamboo top $79.00
Southern Sales Veneziano planter resin $19.99
Whalen Industrial Rack $154.99 (for storage in green house)
9 Tree & Shrub Watering Kits $29.99 each

   4 bags organic potting soil $7.99 each (for starting seedlings in the fall)
   BULK Small paper bowls for garden recess snacks (recyclable please)
     (we'd like to serve garden snacks at least once a month)
   BULK Small paper cups for drink snacks (ie fresh squeezed juice or homemade smoothies)
  10 Boxes of compost able silverware (will be used for garden snacks and other PTA events)
   BULK Paper plates (recyclable or compost able for large school food functions)
   BULK napkins (compost able)

Science related items:

  20 magnifying glasses

  10 butterfly nets

  10 bug catchers

   4 grow lights for a grow lab,

5 - 6 heavy duty picnic tables for our outdoor classroom/picnic area (or materials to build)

shade cover for outdoor classroom

Garden related items: 

  Leftover seedling containers (for planting seedlings) Save yours and let us know we will pick them up or you can drop them off in the office
store-news@amazon.com  (Squirrel proof bird house)

  Bird houses

  Bird baths

  Butterfly sanctuary, etc.
  Worm Motels (6) http://www.wormfancy.com/p/products.html 

  SALE---Drip system from DripWorks for our NEW FRUIT trees  www.dripworksusa.com

  Green House

  Shed

  Gardening hats for kids and docents enough for one class at a time (15 plus 1 for teacher)
  Kid size garden gloves (15) -$1 each at the Dollar store
  25 gardening boots in varying sizes for children
  26 Metal watering cans; one for each classroom, 6 for the Garden.
  Garden tools-Shovels, rakes, hoes, spades, hoses, small pitch forks (2) for turning compost

Building supply Needs: 

  plywood for mural and garden signs

  benches 1-2 

  Picnic bench supplies and plans (Build TBA)

  Supplies for COMPOST SYSTEM, Build-May 28th, 2011 (contact KeithAKlassen@gmail.com)

  Clay ovens (Rosemont High makes these)

  LARGE Worm Motel (supplies to build)
  6 Classroom/Pod worm motels see wormfancy.com $109 each!
  Supplies to build wood recycle stations ( recycle/compost/landfull-trash)  Build TBA this summer?

Gift Cards would be GREATLY appreciated:
   Any local Nursery (Capital Nursery, Green Acre's, Talini''s...)
   KidsGardening.org   Lowe's
   Home Depot
   Costco
   Nugget Market
   Oak Park Farmer's Market (Saturday's), Florin Farmer's Market (Thursday's), Cesar Chavez (Wed), Fremont Park (Tues)-- (much of our garden snacks will come from farmers markets & we could use them to say thank you to families donating their time to maintain the garden during summer/holiday months)
   Co-Op
   Smart n Final
   Target
   Walmart
   Dollar Store
   Office Max, Kinko's Office Depot (copy supplies and/or toner for our PTA copier)

Questions about our needs? or to find out about joining the Garden Committee or Garden Docent team in the fall contact us

Char Klassen
charklassen@gmail.com
916-996-1320

Wish list updated bi-weekly