Category: General
It’s Time to Vote!
Now through April 30th
Vote early! More than one vote per household is allowed, so make sure everyone votes!
Ask what you can do for your school…
This is it. And, it’s easy!!!
Just Added to Our Festival Des Arts Auction!
Only 10 spots will be available for purchase for Paul Simon’s Farewell Tour on Friday, May 25. Enjoy this once in a lifetime experience with other Saklan parents from the comfort of an Executive Suite at the Oracle.
In case you missed it, our Auction Catalog is online!
If you see an item you want to bid on and can’t attend, it’s not too late to give an absentee bidding form to a friend who is going.
Thank you to all those who have helped make this event possible. We look forward to celebrating with many of you tomorrow night!
Mark Your Calendars!
Friday, May 11th, 3:00-7:00PM
Students will participate in an Art Scavenger Hunt during school hours from 2:15-2:50PM.
ART WILL BE UP AFTER SCHOOL AND REMAIN UP FROM 6:00-7:00PM DURING FAMILY FUN NIGHT.
Please come see all the work your child has done this year! They are very excited!
It’s Time to Vote!
Instant Wine Cellar Raffle Tickets
Top 5 reasons why you should buy Instant Wine Cellar Raffle tickets
By now, you’ve heard about this year’s Instant Wine Cellar Raffle and the fabulous selections featured. If you haven’t purchased tickets already, here are the top 5 reasons you should buy them now!
5) You can win 50 bottles of wine, valued at $4000! Why not?
4) You will instantly make new friends as the winner of the collection!
3) Two bottles of Opus One. Need I say more?
2) The odds are in your favor! 2 winners out of 68 available raffle tickets
1) The most important reason dear to our hearts….every dollar goes into helping our students!
Tickets are selling fast. Purchase yours ASAP with Carol Goldman now. For questions about the collection or raffle rules, please contact Sandy Lo, Raffle Coordinator, at sandralo@gmail.com
Happy Spring Break!
Spring Break is from April 2 – 6. Classes resume Monday, April 9. We wish all our Saklan families a relaxing and fun break!
Head’s Corner
Dear Saklan Community, 
At Flag this morning our Director of Development, Carol Goldman, announced this year’s Annual Auction, Festival Des Arts, which will be held on April 21 at the Lafayette Park Hotel.
Each year, tied to the auction, we designate a Fund A Need project for the year. The Fund A Need helps us enhance a program or our grounds and facilities to benefit all of our students.
Last year our Fund A Need was for the STEM program and thanks to your generosity we were able to raise over $55,000 to renovate our science room and add new technology and materials to enhance the program. Our students have been enjoying this new classroom and all of the additional projects and science kits they have been able to dive into this year.
This year’s Fund A Need project is Amplify the Arts and your gifts will go directly towards enhancing our music, performing and visual arts programs. At Saklan, educating our students goes far beyond acquiring important academic skills. The experiences in our Arts Programs are an essential piece of how we accomplish our mission of fostering students…
To become more Compassionate– through exploring other cultures, communities, and characters through music, art, dance, and drama, and supporting one another through these processes.
To become more Creative– through exploring various media and learning how to express themselves with their voices and hearts: singing, acting, playing instruments, or with their hands by creating unique pieces of visual art.
To become more Courageous– through being on stage, displaying their art, or composing music as means of expressing their unique ideas and voices to the world.
Our goal is to give Mrs. Chaffey, Mr. Isaac, and Ms. Natalie the items and technology they feel will be the most impactful ways of enhancing our programs and take our music, performing and visual arts programs to the next level.
Highlights of this year’s Amplify the Arts project include:
- Kiln, Mini Print Presses, and New Art Tables
- New Technology and Equipment for Recording and Composing
- African Drums in the Ewe Tradition of Ghana
- New Mac Computers for Teachers and New Digital Art for Students
- Protective Glass Display Cases for Student Art
The faculty and I thank you in advance for supporting our kids. We look forward to seeing you at the auction.
Have a great weekend!
Peter
Saklan Goes to Senegal!
In a couple of weeks, Ms. Obenchain, Saklan’s Super-Science Specialist, is heading to 
Senegal for her fellowship she won through Teachers for the Global Classroom. We are so excited for her!
Senegal for her fellowship she won through Teachers for the Global Classroom. We are so excited for her!She will be teaching Senegalese students science, and, particularly, about California and American culture. Our Saklan students and families are invited to share in this Global Classroom experience with 300 boys and girls ranging from the elementary school years through to the high school grades.
To do this, Ms. O was hoping to bring a few things, and thought maybe our entire Saklan community could help. If you come across any of these items and would like her to bring them to her Senegalese students, she would greatly appreciate it!
- She would like to teach them about some American holidays, like Halloween, and is asking to receive gifts of individually wrapped candies – Jelly Bellies, Sour Candies, Ghiradelli Minis, Hershey’s Kisses, as examples.
- For some younger Senegalese students, she would like to give small California/San Francisco mementos: erasers, pencils, bookmarks, key chains, etc.
- Consider sending any of your photos that she could use to highlight American and California holidays and/or lifestyles: holiday pictures and/or vacation pictures that Ms. O can easily pack in her suitcase. Pictures can be emailed to development@saklan.org.
Your gifts and print pictures for Ms. O’s Senegalese students can be delivered to the office or the science lab NEXT WEEK by Friday, March 30th.
Thank you so much, in advance, for your generosity:-)
St. Patrick’s Day!
As is the tradition every year, the Owlets, Hoot Owls and Kindergarten classes enjoyed St. Patrick’s Day celebrations last Friday. This entailed a lot of green, some sweet treats, a little magic, and lots of smiles! Those pesky leprechauns left green footprints, turned rainbow sorbet into green sorbet, and avoided those creative traps made by the Kindergarten class. There’s always next year….
FRIDAY BLOG 
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