Darby Avenue PTA

Keep Darby in the top 20!!  
The competition is getting much tougher to stay in the top to win.  The contest ends tomorrow, 9/3, at 10PM.
We’ve been slipping down - Please continue getting new votes - keep spreading the word!!!
We’re so close to winning $500,000 but we need your help!
Vote on Facebook here:    http://apps.facebook.com/KohlsCares/school/111541/darby-avenue-elementary
Here’s our Facebook group:  Darby 500K
Here’s a flier to e-mail:  here
With your help, WE CAN WIN!!  Tomorrow’s our last chance….

Darby Finale Event  Friday, 9/3, 7:00p.m.-10:00p.m.
Come to the Darby auditorium to see our Facebook #s during the last hours of the contest!
We’ll have tables outside in the front of the school for voting on laptops and making last minute phone calls!

*** Check out Facebook Group “ Darby 500k” to see how you can help us spread the word so Darby Elementary can win $500,000!!***

Mayor Villaraigosa Votes for Darby!! 
CONTEST ENDS THIS WEEK - 9/3     DARBY NEEDS MORE VOTES TO WIN $500,000!
Our mayor came to Darby on Friday (9/27) and voted on his Facebook account to support Darby!  Fox 11 news was there - see their FOX’s Good Day LA video:  http://www.myfoxla.com/dpp/good_day_la/vote-for-darby%3A-facebooking-for-funding-20100827  NBC LA posted thisvideo:  http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/Northridge-Elementary-School-Aims-To-Win-500-Grand-101670438.html  See this posted video with the Mayor: http://vimeo.com/14496542  The Daily News posted pics on their Saturday, 9/28 publication and other TV news media were there, as well!  The Skateland Hummer was there and free skating tix were passed out.  Free coffee was provided by Don Francisco’s.  Verizon lent us some laptops and their internet.

Darby is now in the top 30, as of 9/29, we need to be in the top 20!!!!  We need to keep going - spread the word - vote 5 times for Darby (and 5 times for up to 3 other schools, if you wish).  The contest ends this Friday, 9/3!!  Spread the word on your facebook account, tweet about us, …  Here’s the link to vote for Darby today! Thank you for your support!  http://apps.facebook.com/KohlsCares/school/111541/darby-avenue-elementary

CAMPUS BEAUTIFICATION EVENT    Friday   8/27    9:00a.m.-11:00a.m.

Weeding….Planting…..Cleaning……Organizing…..We’re getting ready for the school year!
We welcome all families and community members.  Come to our Parent Center to see the list of “To Do” items.
Drinks and snacks will be provided.  *Please bring your own gloves and tools to use, if you want to weed/plant.

**We’ll, also, be set up for Facebook voting in the front of the school for the Kohl’s Cares contest! Tell your friends and neighbors to vote.  We’re the only LAUSD school in the top 100 right now - we need to get to the top 20 to win $500,000 for Darby!

SCHOOL INFORMATION The 1st Day of School is Monday, September 13!    All students to arrive at 8:10a.m.
After you drop your child(ren) off, come to our Annual Tissue Tea in the Parent Center!

New Students!  Welcome to Darby!
All parents of new students have been invited to the Kindergarten & New Parent Orientation on Wednesday, September 1, at 6:00p.m. in the Darby auditorium.
*First day of school:  Kindergarten and all new students come to the auditorium at 8:10a.m.

Returning Students!  Welcome Back!
*First day of school:
Returning students going into grade 1, go directly to your former Kindergarten classroom at 8:10a.m.
Returning students going into grades 2-5, go to your former classroom’s line-up on the yard at 8:10a.m.

School supplies
Some basic school supplies are provided by the school for each student.   If you would like to purchase school supplies for your child or for your child’s class, the school supplies expected to be used this year are here. *If you come across a great sale and would like to drop off your extras to help out the school, there is a container in the school office.
We will be having a Q&A page for parent questions on this website.  Please send us your questions relating to the school or PTA to:  board@darbypta.com

Kohl’s Cares Contest update - Great news, but we still need more votes!
Darby’s in the top 100 in the nation for votes!!!  We need to get into the top 20 to get $500,000 for our school!  Please vote your 5 times on Facebook and tell your friends, families and neighbors.  Our children need your vote!  

Von’s 10% Goes Back to Schools!       *** August 11 - September 14 ***

Purchase any of the 2,000 products with the participating yellow school bus tags and 10% will go to Darby!

Von’s program flyer:    http://www.vons.com/IFL/Grocery/BackToSchool2010#iframetop

Choose Darby by October 13:   Use the password: escrip    Group Name: Darby Avenue PTA      Group ID: 153435198

Box Tops for Education   
Darby was paid $752.00 last year in Box Tops!!!
Cut out your Box Tops, send them in to school, look for the student contests beginning in October, and check out the sweepstakes to win 1,000 Bonus BoxTops for Darby: http://www.2ways2earn.com/

Hi All,

Kohl’s Corporation is giving away $500,000 to each of the 20 schools that get the most online votes this summer on KohlsCares!  That totals $10 million!

It’s a contest through your Facebook account - you can vote multiple times.  Spread the word to your friends and families.   We need to spread the word today . . . . . contest ends 9/3/10.

Imagine what Darby can do for its students with half a million dollars!

Start voting through your Facebook account today:
http://apps.facebook.com/KohlsCares/school/111541/darby-avenue-elementary

For more information about this contest, visit: http://apps.facebook.com/KohlsCares/school/111541/darby-avenue-elementary
or via facebook.com/kohls

Benefiting the Valley Interfaith Council coalition of food pantries.  Donate non-perishable foods to:

Aug 16-19   McDonald’s locations:  15700 Ventura Blvd (Ventura/Haskell),  17641 Ventura Blvd (Ventura/White Oak), 18909 Ventura Blvd (Ventura/Wilbur)   **Donate 5 items and receive a FREE smoothie.

Aug. 18  Taco Bell at 11101 Woodley Ave (SFMission/Woodley) **Donate 5 items and get a FREE taco & medium drink.

*Information found on School Board Member Tamar Galatzan’s Galatzan Gazette, Issue 128, 7/29/10 (see right sidebar of this webpage for direct link to Galatzan Gazette)

Our next PTA Association Meeting is Monday, August 23, at 12:00p.m. in the Darby Parent Center. *Lunch will be provided.  An agenda will be posted later in the month.

If you would like to be put onto our e-mail distribution list or if you have any questions, please contact us:
Executive Board:  board@darbypta.com
President, Karen Green:  president@darbypta.com

Hope to see you there!

LAUSD has a Summer Food Services Program to continue to provide nutrition to those students who qualified for the free and reduced lunch program during the year and may not have access to food necessary to continue summer learning and for physical growth.    It is available for all LAUSD qualifying students and their siblings, ages 1-18.  The summer service locations in our area are:

1.  North Hills Community Park   8756 Parthenia Place    818-895-9863    Lunch:  12:00-1:00  Snack:  3:30-3:45

2.  Reseda Recreation Center    18411 Victory Blvd.     818-881-3882     Lunch:  11:30-12:30  Snack:  3:45-4:00

*There are other service locations in the San Fernando Valley.  To find them, call LA County Services (dial 211)
**For more information on this summer food services program visit:

http://cafe-la.lausd.net/

Hi Everyone,

Here is the Agenda for the July 28 Association Meeting.

Association Agenda July 28 2010

Summer PTA Association meetings – Save the Date!

To all PTA members, please join us at our summer Association meetings! 

Wednesday, July 28, 7:00p.m at Karen Green’s home. Food will be provided.

*Please RSVP for address and directions

Monday, August 23, Noon in the Parent Center at Darby. Lunch will be provided.

*Please RSVP so we know how many to expect and how much food to provide. Thank you!

If you are interested in the meetings, but are not able to attend, please contact President Karen Green: president@darbypta.com to be added to the e-mail list. She’ll send out an overview of what was discussed at the meetings to you.

We’ll be approving next year’s activities and Preliminary Budget. Hope you can come!

With all the budget cuts, we really need the help of all you parents out there.

Here are the school supplies that are recommended by grade level.  If you come across a good sale this summer, please think about purchasing some of them for your child, his or her class, or school in general.  There will be a school supplies bin in the school office beginning in August to drop off your school supplies for general school use.  Any supplies purchased for your child or your child’s classroom can be sent directly to the classroom when school is in session.  Thank you!

Please look at the list below by clicking on the link and see what you can do to help us.

Needed School Supplies

We REALLY appreciate it!!

Thanks

How many times have we all heard that before from our children?

Well, we have compiled a list of activities that families can do this summer.

These activities are either free or cost very little. You can check out the list in our  I’m bored.. Summer fun things to do  page by clicking on the link.

There are also free Monday Morning concerts at the Madrid  Theater. Click this link to see the schedule. Free Monday Morning Concerts

Have a great summer!

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Hi Everyone,
If you have visited our website in the last few days, you may have noticed things have been changing, some times minute to minute.
During the summer months the Darbypta.com website will be going through a facelift with some new stuff showing up and hopefully a whole new look. Some of which you can see now (we now have a background ).

You can watch this happen by checking our site everyday to see what has changed. Sometimes there will be small changes, sometimes there will be big changs and sometimes the changes will come and go (Thats what makes it fun I think.. Here today gone tomorrow).
So keep coming back to see whats happening..
Thanks
The webmaster

DARBY’S OPEN HOUSE &

SILENT AUCTION 4/20/10

5:30          Silent Auction Opens (auditorium) $5 Pasta,
Salad, Drink Dinner for purchase 
PTA meeting in Parent Center  

6:45          Open House Begins 

6:55          Silent Auction Closes 

Please come join us for dinner and peruse our 60 lovely baskets.  There is something for everyone!  Summer camps, Disneyland, Universal Studios, Magic Mountain, laser tag party for 15, Dodger Tickets and much more!  All proceeds go to Darby to support our Opera Assembly, Talent Show and Science Night.  Hope to see you there! 

Thank you to our Sponsors:  Adventure City, Aquarium of the Pacific, Bear Pit, Bed Bath & Beyond, Ben & Jerry’s, Bob Baker Marionettes, Brunswick Bowling, Cabrillo Aquarium, Canvas on Demand, Castle Park, Comedy and Magic Club, Corbin Bowl,  Creative Leap, Delicious Bakery, Disneyland, Dodger Stadium, Dream Dinners, Education Station, FordAmphitheater, Guinness Book of World Records, Gymnastic Olmypica, Habit, HuntingtonLibrary, Ice House, In-N-Out Burger, Toyota Speedway, Island Packers, Jersey Mikes, KidspaceChildren’s Museum, Los Angeles Zoo, Madrid Theatre, Magic Mountain, Mission Bowl, MyGym, Pacific Park, PAWS, Pick-Up Stix, Pickwick Ice Center, Ripley’s Believe It or Not,Ronald Regan Museum, Ruby’s, Santa Anita, Santa Barbara Zoo, Skateland, Mountasia,Souplantation, Spirit Cruise, Stonefire Grill, The Groundlings, Theatricum Bontaicum, TheGrammy Museum, TGIF, Tiny Town, Tommy’s, UCLA, Ultrazone, Universal Studios, ValleyIce Center, Van Nuys Ice Skating, Warner Brothers, Weiler’s, Wild River, Zach’s and more! 

DARBY’S “Fun in the Sun”JOGATHON  

It’s time to put on your DARBY GEAR and cheer on our students!  Don’t miss this fun and healthy event!

Friday, March 12^th, 2010

Walk/run times
K          1:00-1:45
1^st        1:45-2:35
2^nd       10:30-11:25
3^rd        11:30-12:20
4^th        9:30-10:10
5^th        8:30-9:25

Volunteers are needed to count laps, hand out water, cheer walkers/runners and handout popsicles.  At least 2 parents per classroom are needed.  Donations of Bottled Water are still needed, please bring to the Parent Center.

Questions?  Contact Lisa Vargas at Lisavargas@earthlink.net or (818) 363-0037

For more information click here:

http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/darbypta

School Tours are scheduled for the following: 

Tues, 2/23:  8:30
Wed, 2/24:  10:30

Tues, 3/9:  8:30
Thurs, 3/18:  8:30
Tues, 3/23:  8:30

Mon, 4/12:  8:30
Mon, 4/19:  8:30
Tues, 4/27:  8:30

PTA Board Descriptions

PTA Committee Chair Positions

The PTA’s FREE Valentine’s Dance is on 2/12/10 from 5:00 – 8:00 pm. 

Our DJ will keep us dancing and there will be pizza, popcorn, nachos, drinks, bake sale and light-up novelties for purchase.  This is a fun event for the whole family! (Please do not drop-off your children)   

If you would like to volunteer we need: 

1.         Selling items/food during dance for 1 hour or more (please indicate a time you are available 5-6, 6-7 or 7-8pm)
2.         Clean-up after dance from 8:00 – 8:30
3.         Donate individually wrapped bake goods for bake sale on 2/12/10

The dance committee will be setting up for the dance right after school on Friday 2/12/10 if you would like to join us.  Please contact Hilda Franco at chicafranco@yahoo.com or (818) 645-7753  if you are able to volunteer! 

See you rain or shine!
Hilda Franco
Sheila Foster  

There are so many ways to help out your child’s school.  We are looking for anyone that is willing to help either at school or at home.  Please take a moment to complete the attached tear off with your area of interest and return to school with your child, or you may send an email to Jennifer Shurtz at profmedbillers@aol.com (in the subject line please type PTA).

2010-2011-pta-interest-flyer.doc

Sweet Bliss Skin and Body
Lanza Fitness Personal Training
Postal Plus
The Sosa Family
Los Angeles Fire Department Station 70
Tacori Collection

LA Fitness
Rodeo Realty - Joe Russo
Mission City Orthodontics
San Carlo DeliKids Castle
Law Offices of Larry D. Simons
Christopher Law Group
SALCO TV Video Computer Service 

Order Your Commemorative Brick Today!

Only $25 per brick (prices will go up after November 30)

The bricks are 4” x 8” and engraved using state-of-the art laser technology.

Commemorate bricks will be placed in the

Memory Garden at Darby.

Bricks may contain up to 3 lines, 20 characters per line.

Order forms can be found here brick-order-form.doc,

in the Front Office, or in the Parent Center.

?Questions?

Contact: Nancy Simons at Lar-nan@verizon.net, or 818-360-0121

SPOOK-A-RAMA

Friday 10/30/09 

Costume Parade:  12:30 - 1:00

(no weapons, pretend blood or masks - children bring costumes to school and will change before parade)

6 Rotating Fun Stations: 1:00 - 2:30 FREE Spooky House & FREE Carnival Games: 2:30 –5:00

(Pizza, popcorn, drinks, sno-cones and bake sale for purchase after school)

Spook-A-Rama will take place of all classroom parties this year.  Instead of donating items for class parties, please contribute to our Spook-A-Rama.  These are the items requested for each class: PLEASE DONATE (due 10/27/09 in class)

15 sealed bags of candy for prizes
Small prizes or cash donations towards prizes the PTA purchased
Napkins
Cookie
Sprinkles
Soda
Volunteers to work stations, Spooky house, game booth, food sales or clean-up.

If you are able to volunteer, please contact Hilda Franco at chicafranco@yahoo.com, what times you are available and where you are interested in working.

Also needed:  Gently used books, VHS or DVDs for book sale collected in Parent Center.  Bake sale items on Friday, 10/30/09 Parents are welcome and encouraged to come!