Parents, we would love to have your older students volunteer in exchange for community service hours! Please have your older kids (6th grade & above) contact: camilleanderson1@gmail.com for volunteer opportunities.
Warner Dance Team Auditions
Come audition for the 2016-2017 Warner Dance Team! The dancers will be trained in jazz, hip hop, and contemporary under the direction of SuperStars Dance Academy. In addition to performing at Warner events, the team will attend two competitions during the year.
Date: Friday September 23, 2016
Location: Banooni Auditorium
Time: 2:45-3:30pm
Junior Team: Grades 3-5
Petite Team: Grade K-2
The dancers will be taught a combination and then asked to execute the choreography with style, enthusiasm, and stage presence!
Thank you for your interest in the Warner Dance Team! GOOD LUCK at the audition!
Thank You Drop Off Volunteers
We appreciate the parents from Ms. E. Lee’s class who covered the drop off lane over the last week:
Farnaz Manavi
Chris George
Jody Hedien
Sara Jara
Tanaz Banooni
Elizabeth Saven
Carrie Casden
Scott Shelton
Dan Selzer
Stacie Binder
Sandy Thayer
Danny Grover
Sue Selzer
Sarah Grover
Maite Alvarez
Jessica Earnhardt
Second & Fourth Grade Socials
FOURTH GRADE SOCIAL
The 4th Grade Parent Social will be on Thursday, September 15thfrom 7-10pm. We hope to see all 4th grade parents there! Please RSVP through the evite. If you did not receive an evite, please email Jeannine at jrsehati@gmail.com
SECOND GRADE SOCIAL
The 2nd Grade Parent Social will be on Saturday, September 17th at 8pm. We hope to see all 2nd grade parents there! Please RSVP through the paperless post invitation. If you did not receive an invitation, please email Jeannine at jrsehati@gmail.com
Join the Orchestra!
Open enrollment has begun for the school’s instrumental music program.
Woodwind, brass and string classes are now being formed for students of all levels.
Get all of the information online and register at:
Welcome back (or welcome if you are a new family) to 2016-17 school year and launch of the Warner Annual Fund Drive!
WAVE Foundation established the Annual Fund to bridge the gap between basic district funding with essential 21st century resources, services and equipment necessary to promote a highly successful learning environment. We cannot afford to take Warner’s excellence for granted. Public funding alone does not guarantee academic excellence for our children. That’s why your donation is critical.
Your child should have brought home an Annual Fund brochure earlier this week in their backpack. if you did not get one, there are extra brochures outside the office or you can download a brochure by clicking HERE.
Annual Fund contributions can be made online via credit card or bill pay via your checking account atwww.warneravenueelementary.com/warner-annual-fund/. Donations are tax-deductible and can be made in full or in three or six installments.
The Annual Fund is the school’s highest giving priority as it supports the educational and enrichment programs that make Warner unique. Our children are counting on our support.
Please consider making your gift to the Annual Fund today! Each gift provides an immediate and direct benefit to our children.
Thank you in advance for your generosity and best wishes for a wonderful school year.
Karen Hamilton
Director, Warner Annual Fund
Any questions, please email me at warnerannualfund@gmail.com
is the official website for WAVE, the parent-teacher organization that supports enrichment and education at Warner Avenue Elementary.
You will find links to our 2016-2017 calendar (download it to your phone!), a list of event chairs and committee heads, list of WAVE Officers and Directors, various downloadable and online forms, and much, much more.
How to Parent A School Age Child
Please take the time to read the brilliant advice given by Betsy Brown Braun, a child development and behavior specialist, parent educator and best-selling author (reposted with Betsy’s permission of course).
School has begun (at last!) Every parent wants to help her child get off to a good start. Every parent wants her child to have a great school experience. Every parent wants to be the best parent of a student that she can be with her child’s successful year in mind.
I am going to cut right to the chase. Here’s what you, the parent, can do in order to help your child have a good school year, get the most of his school experience this year, and cultivate in him the traits that will help him grow to become the adult you hope he will be one day.
1. Wait SIX weeks before you make a judgment about the new class, new teacher, and new year. It takes six weeks for things to settle down and for a child to get comfortable in his new setting.
2. Keep your child’s teachers in the loop. Share with them any significant information that affects your child-travel, surgery, moving houses, ailing family members. Your child’s teachers want to support him and need to know what is going on in his life.
3. Don’t use email to share anything that is “hard” with your child’s teacher. Use email to arrange a time to speak in person or send a quick, easy message. Respect your teacher’s time away from school. She needs her time to be the best teacher she can be.
4. Respect the chain of command, the pecking order of your child’s school when there is an issue. Start with the classroom teacher, then the lead teacher, then the level chair, and finally the principal. The system is in place for a reason, and it usually works.
5. As I used to tell the parents in the school I directed, “I will only believe half of what your child tells me about you, and you should believe only half of what they tell you about us.”
6. Follow the school rules. (Obey the signs, respect the boundaries, follow the directions you have been given.) They apply to everyone…even the biggest donors! You are a model for your child in doing so.
7. Be discreet. Your child is always listening, especially when you think he is not. Save your judgments and criticisms about his school, his teacher, the program for your truly private time.
8. Do not compare your child to other children. Every child has his own style and timetable for growing and learning. And in the end, each child will learn it all. Remember, faster is not always better or desirable, and more is not necessarily what a child needs.
9. Your child’s homework is your child’s. The teacher doesn’t need to know what you can do. Ask your teacher how involved she wants you to be. My suggestion: After you have helped your child to create a homework spot, after you have discussed his plan for getting his homework done, back off. You need to butt out of his homework. And if he is not meeting his teacher’s expectations for homework, allow him to experience the consequences of those choices.
10. Help set up your child to be successful. If he is forgetful, hang a list by the back door of things he needs to remember each day. If he needs to recharge after his day, allow him time to snack, rest, and regroup.
11. Allow your child to make mistakes, even fail. Allow him to forget his homework, to forget his lunch, to forget his trip slip, to forget to bring his soccer shoes, do a lousy job on his homework. Let him experience what happens when you don’t take responsibility for these. Next time he will.
12. Be careful not to race in fix things that have gone awry. By doing so you give your child the message that you don’t think he is capable of fixing things himself or making a course correction.
13. Insist that your child works towards solving his own problems. Ask, “How are you going to handle this?” Then let him do what he says and not what youthink he should do. Self-esteem grows out of successful experiences that the child has authored. Let him feel capable.
14. Stifle your judgments. Of course you know better; your child needs to learn to do better. Use a speaking voice that is caring and interested but not concerned. No judgments, please.
15. Don’t take the bait when your child complains. Parents are quick to want to jump in and try to solve an issue. Often issues shrink with time and distance. Give it a day or two and then ask what your child wants to do about the issue, if anything.
16. Support your child in helping him to discover what he loves. Hyper specialization at a young age may be important in a particular sport or in music, but it cuts into the child’s willingness to explore.
17. It is okay for your child not to do everything he wants. Learning to make a choices is an excellent lesson.
18. Downtime really is important. It is in downtime that learning happens, that children process their experiences, their learning, their days. The child who has no downtime doesn’t learn to entertain himself.
19. Emphasize the importance of sleep. The link between health/achievement and sleep is well documented. Insist on a bedtime. Collect tech devices at a specific time. Beds should be used for sleep, not for homework, not for cell phones. This is true for all children.
20. Eat dinner as a family. It needn’t be a long event; it needed even be home-cooked. But circling the wagons reminds the child of his place in a family. His family is his safety net, always. And for families with more than one child, there is much ambient learning in hearing your siblings’ stories.
21. Give your child the gift of time alone with you on a regular basis. Your undivided attention is invaluable. You don’t have to go out; you don’t have to be doing anything special. That you want to be with your child alone sends a powerful message about his significance in your life.
Betsy Brown Braun, best selling author of the just released, You’re Not the Boss of Me: Brat-Proofing your 4 to 12 Year Old Child(HarperCollins, 2010) and the award winning Just Tell Me What to Say: Sensible Tips and Scripts for Perplexed Parents (HarperCollins, 2008 – now in it’s 14th printing), is a child development and behavior specialist, parent educator, and multiple birth parenting consultant. With 45 years of experience in public and private early childhood and elementary education, Betsy has directed and founded school programs, taught in both public and private schools, has been a school director, and was the founding director of Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s Early Childhood Center. In 2001 Betsy founded Parenting Pathways, Inc. to provide guidance to parents seeking the skills and confidence needed to negotiate the often-challenging parenting pathway
Betsy and her husband Ray Braun are parents of adult, married triplets and grandparents of six .
Any parent or business interested in corporate sponsorship (advertising in the roster, banners at school corners, this newsletter) please contact Tracy Austin at tsue73@yahoo.com.
It’s a tax-deductible contribution to Warner AND a great way to advertise your business to all the parents and the entire neighborhood.
Interested in Volunteering?
If you would like to volunteer in a classroom or on campus, or for a WAVE event, you must complete an online application and obtain a LAUSD volunteer badge from the district.
You must wear your badge while you are volunteering on campus.All volunteers are required to complete an online applicationevery year. Please follow the steps below:
3) If this is your first time completing an application online, do not attempt to log in. Click “Register” to register first.
4) Once your account is set up with your email, log in.
5) Start a “New Application”.
6) On Step 4-School Placement, enter your child’s information.
*Please use your child’s classroom number as the School ID.
7) After you submit the application, print it out, sign at the bottom, and bring it to the main office with your new TB test results. If your TB status is already on file (valid for 4 years), you do not need to bring a copy.
8) Read and sign the Volunteer Commitment Form in the main office. This form is also available on www.warneravenuelementary.com in the Volunteer at Warner section.
Everyone who goes through the Amazon portal on Warner’s website before shopping can earn us a 4-10% referral kickback at no additional cost. This could be thousands of free dollars for our children’s school!
Here’s how:
(1) Send all your friends and family all over the world an email with a link to Warner’s website: www.warneravenueelementary.com
(2) Need to shop on Amazon? Every single time, go to Warner’s website first and click through our portal to get there. The portal will always be on the very bottom of every page on our site, and we’re trying to put up a more prominent portal as well.
(3) Even to browse make it a habit. Every new purchase has to be put in the cart and paid for ONLY after clicking through our portal or we are not credited.
(4) You will not get confirmation that the purchase earned us a referral reward, but if you follow these steps, we’ll get free money!
FAQ:
1. Can I shop, put stuff in my cart and then click through Warner’s website to buy? No. Your cart will be there and the purchase will look the same to you, but Warner will not earn any money from it. The system is setup to credit us only for funneling a customer to them, and a customer is defined as a person who goes on our site, clicks through to Amazon’s site, commits items to a cart, and eventually makes the purchase. You must go through our portal before putting items in your cart to benefit Warner.
2. What if i click through the portal, browse and don’t put anything in my cart. I leave the window up, and later that day I make an Amazon purchase? Once you click through our portal, you’ve activated a 24 hour session timer. Purchases made in that window should be credited. But you’re safer always, always, always clicking through Warner’s Amazon portal to browse or shop on Amazon.
3. What if I click through Warner’s portal, put stuff in my cart and then wait a while before I compete the purchase…like more than 24 hours? So long as you accessed Amazon through our Warner portal and put items in your cart in that session, the purchase is credited to us if made within 90 days. But again, you’re safer if as a habit, you always, always click through Warner’s Amazon portal before you even browse, or shop, or finalize a purchase on Amazon.
4. What about Amazon Smile? We are working to link the Associate program to our Smile program. It should be invisible to you, but if it turns out there’s another step to the process we’ll update this page. Otherwise, if you were to shop smile.amazon.com without going through our website portal, we only earn a fraction of 1%, instead of 4%10%.
5. How much money do we earn? Amazon’s formula is complicated, with the numbers depending on the type of items purchased, the amount of money spent, and the total volume of clickthrough customers we refer. Don’t worry about it! Just shop as you normally would, after always first going to Warner’s site and clicking our portal to Amazon. The more people do it, the more we earn.
6. How long does the program run? Amazon is running the Associate program year round without limitation. Unlike other promotions, it earns money for Warner even when school is not in session.
7. Will doing this mess up my Amazon Prime account? No.
8. Does Amazon allow Warner access to data about my family’s purchases or account? No. WAVE administrators can get frequent updates on how much the school has earned in total, and that’s it. We can’t tell you if a particular purchase was credited, and we don’t get customer account data at all.
So every time you shop Amazon, first go to:www.warneravenueelementary.com, Then clickthrough to Amazon from our portal, fill your cart and check out as usual. Every single time.
Thank you for supporting Warner Avenue Elementary!
Shopping in Century City? Earn Money for Warner
Earning money for Warner is easy when you shop in Century City.
Once your account is confirmed, you can submit receipts by signing into your account. Select the ‘Points’ tab, then ‘Add Points.’ Be sure to ‘Pick Partner’ and choose Warner. Or submit your receipts to the Westfield Customer Service Desk within 7 days.
Upload your receipts within 14 days of purchase.
Lost And Found
The Lost and Found is located outside the kindergarten yard. Please check regularly for your children’s lost items. Lunch boxes will will thrown out at the end of the day each Friday. Unclaimed clothing will be donated monthly.
CLICK HERE to shop Amazon and earn free money for Warner. Click through the Amazon link at the bottom of our website.
Shop at OFFICE DEPOT and they’ll send Warner 5% of every purchase!! Simply mention WARNER School to the cashier if in stores or at the time of check out on line or punch in Warner’s NEW ID# 700-100-74. Thank you for supporting Warner!!
Box Tops
eBoxTops are worth 10 cents each, and they add up fast! Our school can use the money to buy whatever it needs! Here’s how:
There is potential for our school to earn thousands of dollars through these programs so PLEASE participate and sign up.
THANK YOU for supporting Warner!!
Please recycle your used ink cartridges. Drop them off in the containers by the Main Office. Look for more recycling drives coming to Warner this year!
Please mark your calendars for Beautification Day. It is on Sunday, September 18th, from 10am – 2pm.
