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CANON ELURA 100 - purchased in 2006, used handful of times
Pristine Condition, Asking $400
includes accesssories:
e-mail mdomb106@comcast.net
This 5 WEEK FREE program will meet on Sundays AND Mondays at 11:30 am in The TOY BOX’s book corner. Come to only one or all ten sessions to learn some ASL with your child - open up a whole new world of communication and joy. Appropriate for all ages . For more information call 413-256-TOYS (8697) or go to www.amhersttoybox.com
Charlotte Doyle is offering ballet at the White Barn, 20 Dickinson Street, right in town. Mondays 3:30-4:30pm is intermediate ballet for grades 5 through high school. This class includes optional pre-pointe and/or beginning pointe work. Fridays 3:30-4:30pm is creative dance and ballet for 4 - 7 year olds. Friday evenings 6:45-8:15pm is an open intermediate ballet class for teens and adults. Any adults who are interested in a very beginning ballet class during school hours please respond with preferred days and times. Please email jctgdoyle@comcast.net or call Charlotte at 413 250-0035 to register or for more information.
Want to do your share in reducing trash to the land fill? Purchase Lap Top Lunch Boxes at Monkey Business. Our children's clothing and footwear store sells the lunch boxes and cases that you can see on line. Use them over and over again. Highly recommended in environmental magazines. Monkey Business is located on route 9 behind the Spirit Haus. Phone 256-0020
Violin. 4/4 size, William Lewis & Sons. Purchased used 4 years ago from Stamell. Spruce and maple. Lightly used, but shows original wear on edges. Includes fiberglas bow (needs restringing), hard case, professional shoulder rest. Originally paid $500 for package. Will see for $300 or b.o. Email Fred at flevine@comcast.net
The Wildwood Volunteer Orientation will be held on Wednesday, September 26, at 8:45AM in the conference room. This orientation is held for new parents that have not previously been CORIed within the past few years. If you are interested in volunteering in the school, your child's classroom or at PTO functions, please plan to attend this important meeting. For working parents who want to be involved, there will be a evening session TBA shortly. If you have been CORIed, you are welcome to stop in and fill out new paperwork on where you would like to volunteer this year or stop by the office to fill out a new form. If you have any questions, please contact our volunteer coordinator, Kristen Ford, at 230-3095 or krisdave23@comcast.net
Learn to rock climb in Western Massachusetts! We will climb at a number of interesting and varied rock climbing sites in the Pioneer Valley. Throughout 6 sessions you will learn basic rock and rope craft, climbing technique, challenge yourself in a safe enviroment and have buckets of fun! Taught by an enthusiastic and very experienced staff, this will be your next great adventure giving you skills you can use your whole life.
We leave from Wildwood Elementary School on Saturdays 9:00am and return at 1:00pm. We provide all equipment including climbing shoes, helmets, hardware and harnesses. You bring appropriate clothing for the weather, food and water.
Cost is $210 for the 6 sessions. Offered by Morse Hill Outdoor Education Center. Age 10 and up welcome. Call 253-1807 or email Info@morsehill.com for info and registration form.
That's right folks, Tuesday, September 25th is Wildwood School Picture Day. Comb your child's hair, polish those white chicklets and send in your order forms. For more information OR to volunteer please contact Anne at cattlexstudios@verizon.net
Hi All, There is a Wildwood PTO meeting, Tuesday, September 25th at 6pm in the conference room. Drop in with your input, ideas, questions or concerns. We would love to have you. See you there!
On Friday, students participating in the Summer Read-a-thon gathered to celebrate their achievements. Elaine Donohue and Liz Rosenberry gathered the group in the library to award prizes and announce the results. More than 100 students participated with many students reaching or surpassing the personal reading goals they set for themselves. Overall, the group read nearly 1,500 books and raised more than $5,000 for new books for the Wildwood library. A great big THANK YOU to these students and to their families who encouraged them and supported their reading. The following students were recognized for their high achievement in their grade level:
Grade 1 Amy Benedetto, Emily Warren
Grade 2 Brandon Feldman
Grade 3 Karen Benedetto, Jonah Weinbaum, Madeleine Fordham
Grade 4 Liliya Miller, Isabel Tripp
Grade 5 Isaac Siegel, Ian Robson
Grade 6 Hannah Treloar, Jennie Lytel-Sternberg, Erin O’Connor
Rare Pokemon cards and accessories, including poster, books, etc. About 60 cards. Call Lucas Graham for details 256-2160
1) Battery operated swing
2) High Chair
3) Graco stroller with infant carseat
4) Shoes/snow boots of various sizes (size 3-10)
5) Carseats for older children (age 1.5 - 4)
6) Many other misc. items
All are in very good condition. Price is very reasonable. Please email
malobi@yahoo.com or call Malobi Choudhuri at 549 0665
Amherst Community Arts Center is offering a fall session: Art For All
A *Wildwood Junior Girl Scout troop* has formed for girls in 5th and 6th grade. Two Amherst College students, who were life long Girl Scouts, will be running the troop. They plan to meet the 3rd Tuesday of every month (with a few exceptions for breaks) from 7-8 or 7-8:30. They will also schedule activities as needed/decide upon with input from parents and girls. To register, come out to the Bangs Community Center Friday, Sept. 28th between 6 and 7 pm. If you can't make it, contact:Dana Carnegie Girl Scout of Western Massachusetts
584-2602, ext. 13 or dcarnegie@gswma.org
There will be a Girl Scout information and registration evening for the Amherst community at the Bangs Center, on Friday, September 28th, from 6 pm to 7 pm. Pizza will be served! The cost to register a girl is just $10 for the year. Dana Carnegie Girl Scout of Western Massachusetts 584-2602, ext. 13 or dcarnegie@gswma.org
The Wildwood PTO Giftwrap Sale is going on now through October 2.
This is your chance to stock up on high quality wrapping paper,
birthday and holiday gifts, and more. Check out the brochure that
came home with your child last week, and pass it on to friends,
family, and co-workers. You can see some of the offerings in the
display case in the entryway at Wildwood. If you have any questions
contact Kate MacGregor at 549-7561 or kmmacg@comcast.net
Calling all walkers!
There will be a meeting on Wednesday, September 26th at 10 a.m. in the conference room. It is open to all parents/guardians who would like to learn more about the program and/or participate in planning. Contact Sarah for more information sarah.auerbach@comcast.net
Where else can you find a FULL YEAR of family-targeted advertising for under $150.00? The Wildwood Family Directory is nearing completion and is now soliciting full and half-page advertisements. We're giving first year advertisers and Wildwood parent-owned businesses first refusal. If you are interested, please contact Susan Waite ASAP at subeetboneiz@verizon.net or at 413-658-5844.
The Wildwood Open House will be on Wednesday, September 19th from 5:30-8:30p.m. Parking will be available in the Middle School lot...bring your flashlights!
The Schedule for Open House:
5:30-6:00 ELL/SPED/Intervention
6:00-7:00 Art/Librarian/Music/Physical Education/Computers
6:00-6:30 Kindergarten/1st Grade/2nd Grade
6:30-7:00 3rd Grade/4th Grade
7:00-7:30 5th Grade/6th Grade
We hope to see you there!
Stop by the PTO table and the Dean's Beans coffee table.
Wow!!! They are fabulous...watch out Beckham, Wildwood soccer stars are on the rise! Thanks to Margot and all of her volunteers for putting them up. Check them out and kick a ball around.
Don't forget to visit the Dean's Beans Coffee table at Open House. You can pick up an order form, get information on other products and even buy a pound of coffee. Proceeds go to our school. (You can also access an order form right here on the blog)...Have you had your cup of Dean's Beans today?
Your school is participating in Safe Routes to School, a program offered by MassRIDES, the Commonwealth’s travel options service of the Executive Office of Transportation. The Massachusetts Safe Routes to School program promotes walking and/or bicycling for school trips, while bringing schools customized program design and implementation, materials and programs, and safety enhancements. Your school will receive free student give-away items to initiate and promote the Safe Routes program, plus no-cost educational materials targeted to you, your students, and community leaders.
The Safe Routes to School program gives your children the opportunity to enjoy their trips to school by walking and bicycling. These travel options help improve the environment around your school, and improve the health of the students, while making it safer for children to travel to school. Your children can gain a sense of freedom, have fun, and establish a healthy lifestyle!
How can YOU help?
Get Active! Get Healthy! Help lead a Walking School Bus with parents, guardians, and community members to be with our children, increase safety, and have FUN walking to school. The Walking School Bus is a program that organizes groups of people (children, parents and neighbors) to walk from a designated location to school together.
The Summer Read-a-thon has raised $4,451.28 and counting! Thank you to Liz Rosenberry for your hardwork in organizing this event. Good Job to all of you Wildwood readers!
The Wildwood PTO will have an information table set up at Open House. Come see what it's all about. Sign-up to help on a committee, just stop by to say hi, or heck sign a friend up for stuff (we won't tell). There are many ways to help out and we are always looking for volunteers.
For more information contact Kristen Ford at krisdave23@comcast.net
Dear Parents,
Are you concerned about the food we eat, the water we drink and their effect on you and your children’s health? The League of Women Voters of Amherst is presenting a program addressing these concerns on Thursday evening, September 27, 7:00 PM at the Crocker Farm Elementary School cafetoria. The speaker is health and environmental advocate Dr. Jill Stein. Her topic is “HEALTHY FOOD, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES”. She will discuss why real democracy is critical to the availability of healthy food, quality health care and truly healthy communities. The meeting is free and open to the public. Contact the LWV at 413-253-0633.
The most popular section of The Wildwood Wire was the Classifieds. Well, have no fear, your intrepid Wildwood Blogger will be bringing you the Wildwood Parent Classifieds each week as a free service from the Wildwood PTO. Just send your items for sale, rent, or recycling to editor@wildwoodpto.org
For Sale: 6 Month old H-P Pavillion Computer $700. Bought this past April. State of the art , fully loaded H-P Pavillion a1750e; 2.4 GHz Dual Core; 4Gig memory; 160GB Hard Drive (7200 rpm SATA); 256mb nVidia GeForce 7500LE Dedicatd graphics (this is a killer game PC); Lightscribe 16x DVD RW; 9-in-1 card reader; Windows Vista Home Premium; 2 USB; 1394 Firewire; TV-Out; DVI-Out; Integrated 7.1 Surround sound; Microsoft works; $700, such a deal! email baer@sweetmojo.com.
Delicious Coffee for a great cause! Click here to print your order form.
Wildwood PTO is partnering with Dean's Beans to offer special Wildwood blends of Dean's delicious organic, kosher, Fair Trade coffee!
Each pound purchased will raise money for the PTO-supported programs at Wildwood.
It's easy:
1. Fill in an order form and send it, along with a check made out to 'Wildwood PTO', to school with your child. Order forms are available in the school office or by clicking the link at the top of this article.
2. Orders will be placed the first Wednesday of each month. Coffee will be roasted and shipped in one-pound bags of whole or ground beans; we'll send it home to you via your child's backpack on the second Wednesday of the month.
3. Order by the month, or 3 or 6 or 9 months at a time. Buy for yourself or your friends and relations!
Coffee List
Regular Coffee $8.50/lb
Checkmate Blend: Nicaraguan French Roast, strong and exceptionally smooth.
Strong Street Blend: Full-bodied, complex Columbian medium-roasted beans. The traditional standard in coffee!
Swiss-water Processed Decaf $9.50/lb.
Unwired Blend: Flavorful, aromatic, full-bodied Peruvian French Roast. The best tasting decaf in the world!
Mildwood Blend: Mixture of medium and dark-roasted Mexican Chiapas beans, mellow and medium-bodied with very low acidity.
Questions? Email Donna McCallum at Donna.mccallum@gmail.com
Those participating in the Read-a-thon sure read an amazing amount over the summer! They have also done a terrific job raising funds for their school library. So far they have raised $3,190.00—and still counting! If you have not already done so, please turn in your pledge money and book lists to your child’s classroom teacher, or drop them off with Ms. Champoux in the office. We will be handing out prizes to all who turn in pledge money by Friday Sept. 14. Participants will celebrate their accomplishments in the school library on Friday Sept. 21 at 2pm. If you did not get a chance to participate, but would like to contribute to help out the library, checks can be made payable to Wildwood PTO. If you have any questions contact lrosenberry@verizon.net.
Welcome back Ms. Rivera!
Support the Arts at WW by donating some cash for sketchbooks. Each sketchbook costs $3.00 per child. Those budget cuts are making it hard for Ms. Rivera to purchase the sketchbooks...Send in your donations today! Volunteers are also welcome in the Art Studio, come let your creativity show. Contact Ms. Rivera at riverajl@arps.org if interested.
Earn cold, hard cash for your school! Start collecting your Box Tops and send them into the office with your child. Clip the little coupons from your food boxes (taco shells, cereals, even toilet paper), and send them into the office today. For more information contact Ohmead Snow at snowo@arps.org
Thank you to all of the class parents that attended the meeting. There are still some classes without a class parent.
If you are interested in becoming a class parent, contact Jane Thurber janethurber@comcast.net
class parents ROCK!
