Principal’s Corner: A Message From Principal Kamau
WAVE Meeting and Presentation This Monday
Please join us for the next…
WAVEmeeting
Monday, November 7th at 8:30am (immediately after assembly) in the Banooni Auditorium
In 20 minutes or less get a campus update on all the happenings at Warner Avenue School. Your attendance is strongly encouraged.
Please plan to stay and hear a presentation from Dr. Shereen Tabibian, clinical neuropsychologist. She will be speaking to Warner Elementary parents about learning disorders in reading, writing and math. She will discuss key signs and symptoms along with the social, emotional, and academic implications in school-aged children for parents and caregivers to know.
Upcoming Talks
Monday December 5th
On Monday, December 5th, please plan to stay and hear a special presentation from Alan Silberberg.
Our children are growing up in a digital, social media-saturated world. Come learn about family safety online, including your digital footprint and cybersecurity.
Alan Silberberg is a Founder of Digijaks, a cybersecurity company specializing in social media and mobile devices. He is a member of the California Cyber Security Task Force (established by Gov. Jerry Brown) and subject matter expert on cybersecurity for the US SBA. Mr. Silberberg is a Warner parent and his tech column is often featured in the Warner What’s Happening newsletter.
Parents! Your child will be coming home next week with a copy of the 2016-17 Warner Party Book.
Please take some time to look through all the fabulous parties that you and/or your child can attend. Whether you’re looking for a chance to meet and make new friends or in search of an opportunity to share new experiences, there is something for everyone! It’s a great opportunity to create bonds with other families in our Warner community. Parties may fill up quickly so sign up fast and have fun socializing with your friends old and new.
UPCOMING PARTIES
NOVEMBER PARTIES
#101 COOKING THERAPY – PARTY FULL
Party Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Hosted By: Nui Keuper
#102 AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION –
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Presentation
*Pattie Fitzgerald is recognized as a leading expert in the field of childhood sexual abuse prevention. She has been featured on Good Morning America, ABC World News, CNN Headline News, MSNBC, Dateline NBC, and local television and radio news programs across the country. Please CLICK HERE for more details. We expect this to sell out!
Party Date: Monday, November 14, 2016
Party Time: 8:30a-9:30a
Party Location: Warner Auditorium
Hosted By: Nook Suphamongkhon
#103 TACOS AND TEQUILA
Party Date: Saturday, November 19, 2016
Party Time: 7:30pm
Party Location: 519 S. Beverly Glen Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
Hosted By: Danny & Rene Farahmandian, John & Sherry Bral, Nate & Cambrien Snyder, David & Jodi Fenton, Noel & Dina Cohen, Fred & Sharon Monempour
DECEMBER PARTIES
#104 CUPCAKE AND COOKIE PARTY
Party Date: Friday, December 2, 2016
Party Time: 3:30-5:30p
Hosted By: Maliha Fakhri
Party Location: 930 Thayer Avenue, LA, 90024
#105 KINDER PRIVATE SCREENING – DISNEY’S MOANA
Party Date: Sunday, December 4, 2016
Party Time: 3:00-5:30p
Hosted By: John Song & Mary Shannon
Party Location: Dick Clark Screening Room Santa Monica
#106 MOM’S WINE AND CHEESE NIGHT
Party Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Party Time: 7:00p-9:00p
Hosted By: Deborah Hakim
Party Location: 10488 Lindbrook Drive, LA, 90024
Warner Annual Fund- Please Contribute Now
Thank you to those families who have already donated to the Warner Annual Fund. Please click HERE to see which families have already made their contribution.
Sadly, we are only at 33% schoolwide participation. We need to increase our participation, both in terms of class participation and dollars contributed.
If you’re procrastinating–don’t. If you think your contribution won’t be missed–it will. If you can’t give the suggested amount, give what you can. Every dollar matters. Again, we need widespread support to ensure we can provide the high-caliber education we want for our kids.
Thanks in advance for your support for our children!
Calling All Shoppers!
Get your holiday lists ready to shop our best Warner Avenue School Holiday Boutique yet!! Come shop from our impressive vendors offering a vast selection of gifts for all your family and friends! We will have clothing, jewelry, housewares, kids’ clothes, toys, accessories, food vendors, and much more!
The Holiday Boutique will be held on Thursday, December 1st, from 8am-4pm in the school parking lot. Parking restrictions on the surrounding streets near the school will be lifted. Please feel free to tell your friends, family, or anyone who is looking for a fun and positive shopping experience!
Hope to see you all on Thursday December 1st!!!
*A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the school.
Your Holiday Boutique Chairs,
Rene Farahmandian and Sharon Monempour
A Message From Your WAVE Fundraising Co-Directors
A heartfelt THANK YOU to all the parents who showed up on Saturday and Sunday, worked a booth, set up tables and chairs, made signs, hung signs, and cleaned up. We couldn’t have done it without you!
Thank you to all the teachers especially Ms. Stults, Ms. Tascione, and Mr. Crossley for Haunt assemblies.
Thank you to Jerome, Lala, and Tony.
Thank you to Pam, Carolyn, Mrs. Chi and Principal Kamau.
We especially want to thank the following parents for taking on leadership roles and for their help in making this the best Haunt ever! We apologize in advance for any misspellings or omissions.
2016 Haunt Co-Chairs
Camille Anderson
Molly Richardson
Dennise Weir
Cynthia Wyse
Volunteers/Info Booth
Sharona Yashar
Chehreh Soleimani
Haunted House Creative Team
Jessica Earnhardt, Adriana Cervantes
Special FX Make-up Artist – Jeanne Ofek
Zombie – Chuck Lambert
Haunt Construction
Nigel Briand
Don Wyse
Permits
Rene Farahmandian
Sherry Bral
Kindergarten Yard
Roya Melamed
Teacher Auction
Tiffany McAvinue
Cathy Corell
Dina Cohen
Assembly
Lianne Passage
Jeanne Ofek
Casper’s Clink
Nigel Briand
Silent Auction
Ramona Shamoolian
Bake Sale
Lyora Peykar
Cambrien Snyder
Warner Cafe
Ramona Shamoolian
Betim Anthony
Shilla Naimian
Food and Beverage
Sarah Isaac
Cash Management
Nook Suphamongkhon
Karen Hamilton
Heather Robinson
Center Stage
Daniella Akka
Lianne Passage
Signage
Kim Loncar
Melinda Van Atta
T-shirts
Dennise Weir and family
Ghostly Giveaway
Stefanie Schwartz
Prize Room
Alyssa Schreiber
Haunt Photographers
Holly Shuter
Silly Zone
Dean O’Leary
Nick Zargarpour
Bobbin’ for Donuts
Lauren Polak
Ticket Boxes
Kindra Kelly-Scrumpia
Sound System
Jeff Bernstein
Rentals
Ron Zeidler
Classroom Haunt Reps
Hilla Nourmand
Marcela Rosmanich
Jessica Earnhardt
Jodi Fenton
Tyra Hunt
Adriana Cervantes
Naz Somech
Neda Rahimi
Betim Anthony
Lauren Polak
Roya Melamed
Cambrien Snyder
Michelle Kelly
Daniel Grover
Paula Lewis
Sandra Gaspar
Tiffany Aynehchi
Ghazal Hakamian
Tannaz Moin
Sherry Lavian
Stefanie Schwartz
Tammy Mescobi
Kindra Kelly Scumpia
Naomi Eisenberger
Michelle Russo
Ghazal Yashouafar
Chehreh Soleimani
We would also like to thank the following:
ZBT Fraternity from UCLA
Chi Omega Sorority from UCLA
The Weisbarth Family for the pumpkin donation
Ghazal Amy Vahdat-Yashouafar for the water donation
Julissa and Randy Rudnick for the hay donation
Ron Zeidler for the freezer donation
All the great kids who played actors and helped man the Haunted House door!
Lastly, thank you to all the parents who donated delicious items to the bake sale and to Warner Café.
Thank you everyone!
Jessica Weisblum & Julian Zolkin
WAVE Co-Directors Fundraising
Warner Food Drive
Paul Revere Middle School Information
Thank You For Supporting the Warner Technology Plan
Thank you to the following families for their support of the Warner Technology Plan (as of 11/07/16):
Regina and Michael Adler
Nader & Ronit Ahdout
Tiffany and Shahrad Aynehchi
Bakshian Family
Adrienne, Eric, Michael & Jake Barr
Bolour Family
Vicki Bolton
Berenji Family
Carosello-Perman Family
Bradley Friedman & Ilana Charet
Chow Family
Alex and Nazanin Cohen
Elizabeth Cohen and Wayne Greene Family
Lilian Clinton
Closter Family
Cohn/Ortega Family
Adam and Maliha Fakhri
Fang Family
Fenton Family
Freeby Family
Garg Family
Ghahremanpour Family
Gonsky/Urdan
Arthur Gregory
Grove Family
Lila and Robert Hanasab
Dawn Sierra for Wyatt Hatfield
Dan and Libby Harrison
Estelle Isaac
IsHak Family
Jafari/Schnabel Family
Joshi Family
Kelly Family
Khorshidi Family
Klaparda Family
Krieger Family
Yuliya Krokhaleva
Lambert Shinefield Family
Lanlua Family
Lavian Family
Lee Family (Ethan)
Leopold Family
Lev Family
Levins Family
Michelle Martinez
Matthew & Naomi Lieberman
Lustgarten/Barnow Family
McCollough Family
Medifar Family
Katelyn Meidel Family
Melamed Family
Mishael/Sweeney
Kira and Gennady Musher
Monempour Family
Moore Family
Sam & Camellia Naim
Natella-Paul Family
Narayan Family
Nazarian Plastic Surgery
Nowain Family
Nate and Lia Oster
Nikoo and Peter Parker
Peykar family
Sandy and Kambiz Pirnazar
Reif Family
Richardson Family
Sachs Family
Saeedian Family
Sallam Family
Samadi Family
Saven Family
Sehati Family
Kambiz & Ziba Sharim
Silverton Family
Parisa and Babak Shayestehfar
Shuter Family
Slaten Family
Snyder Family
Song Family
Suphamongkhon Family
Tabib Family
Taino Family
Tarica Family
Toobian Family
Tulloch Family
Verny Family
Hiroshi Watanabe
Lauren and Matt Weisbarth
Weisblum Family
Wertheimer Family
Wohlschlegel Family
Wyse Family
Zolkin Family
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Thank you to Bobby and Rebecca Khorshidi & Rob and Lila Hanasab for making a matching grant of $5,000. We appreciate your generosity!
Over the past few weeks, a pilot “Crossing Partners” program has been put in place to help ensure the safety of the Warner community in getting to the campus safely.
The pilot has been so successful that Ms. Kamau wants to incorporate this as a classroom safety job — separate yet related to carpool.
Thank you to Micah Yui for spearheading the Crossing Partners Program!
The classes will only be responsible for one week of Crossing Partners duty:
4 people per day
The crossing friends week is different from the carpool week and a schedule will be sent to your class carpool representative.
Photo Days
Help Us Get Free Money From Ralphs
Did you know Ralph’s will give us free money? They DO!
We get to “set it and forget it.” Once you register your Ralph’s rewards card and pick Warner for your charity, you don’t need to do anything else until next September. Ralph’s will give us a % of your purchases, and it all really adds up. Please invite friends and family to register their Ralph’s cards as well!
Three easy ways to go:
(1) Online; (2) by phone, (3) make us do it for you.
Follow the prompts to register your card or sign in to your existing account. When you get to pick an organization for “community rewards,” be sure to select Warner Avenue Elementary School (not a “pop warner” team), organization #81123.
By Phone:
Call 1-800-443-4438. Have your Ralph’s rewards card ready, or the phone number you use to access Ralph’s rewards. The representative will walk you through registration and linking up to Warner, organization #81123.
By volunteer:
We’ll do it for you! Email your Ralph’s rewards number and email address tosilverton.sarah@gmail.com . We will set your password to be “615Holmby” and opt out of communications. You will need to re-enter your account to change those settings. Please note, we cannot register you with a phone number, or if you have an online account with an existing password. Use the other options in those situations.
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.
Corporate Sponsors Wanted
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.
Click Warner B 4 U “Cart” on Amazon
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.
Join the Westfield Rewards program by visiting westfield.com/rewards
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.
Warner What’s Happening Newsletter Submissions:
All newsletter submissions must be approved and emailed to warneravenews@gmail.com by 4:00 p.m. the Friday prior to the following week’s newsletter. I took fourteen Kit-Kats from my child’s Halloween stash. Shhh…
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!
