Aviara Oaks Elementary Email Blast

AOE Cookbook
Be a part of the first ever AOE Cookbook!  Submit your favorite family recipe to be included in our professionally bound cookbook.  We need 400 recipes by Sept. 15 2008.  So, submit your recipe soon.  Just click here and follow the prompts to log in.  
     Contributor:  Name to appear in cookbook 
              (Ex: The Doe Family or Jane Doe)
              Another title such as "1st grade" can be
              added when typing your recipe
.  
     Group login:  aoecookbook
     Password:    aoe
Preorder your copy now (and a few extras for family members) and get a special presale discount of $15 each!  If you wait until December, the price will go up to $20 each.  Click here for more details and a presale order form.  Questions, please contact Penni LeMasters at
thelemasters@sbcglobal.com or call 602-9147.

Win an iPod!!! 
All new eScrip subscribers will be entered into the drawing to be held September 12th.  Already registered?  No problem, just get a relative, neighbor or friend to sign up.  It's free and only takes a few minutes.  Just enter your name, address and VONS number at www.escrip.com to get started.  VONS gives a percentage of all your purchases to AOE.  Last year alone we earned $9,820.  Thank you to everyone who signed up on "meet your teacher" night.  You are already entered into the drawing.  If you sign up now or have within the last three months, please email me at  donnacostan@gmail.com and I will be sure you are entered into the drawing.  Look for the flyer coming home this Friday for more details.

Support Our Schools (SOS)
Thank you to all the AOE families who have so generously donated to our 2008 - 2009 AOE Support Our School Annual Giving Campaign.  We collected over $12,000 in our first week, with another $2000 in potential matching corporate grants!  We are off to a fantastic start!
Please keep those donations coming to keep Science Labs, PE, Kindergarten Karate, Music, and Classroom grants alive.  Your 2008 SOS contributions will fund:
     * Science Teacher, Grades 1-5:  $29,000
     * PE Teacher, Gr. 1-5/Kinder Karate:  $29,000
     * Music Program, K-5:  $20,000
     * Teacher Grants/Classroom Expenses K-5: $5,000
PTA sponsored events like gift wrap sales, restaurant nights, carnivals and dances cover only a portion of these expenses.  Our SOS Campaign Goal is to raise $50,000 by November 15th to cover the remainder of the costs.

Need a donation form?  Click here.  All donations are 100% tax deductible.

After-School Enrichment Classes Are Back!  
Don't miss out on the fun and excitement.   Our wonderful instructors are returning for Learning Lab, Unreal Science, Golf, Play Ball, Hoops, Jazzercise, Flag Football, Chess, Camp Imagine, Karate and Spanish (a year long class).  Enrollment packets will be sent home Friday, September 5th via Eagle Express packs.  Classes start the week of September 15th.  Click here for registration forms.  Sign up now -classes fill up fast!

Dates To Remember:
  9/4:  Recycling Begins
9/10:  Back to School Night
         6 - 7:30 PM 
         K am, 1st - 2nd  
9/11:  Back to School Night
         6 - 7:30 PM
         K pm, 3rd - 5th  
9/17:  Picture Day
9/17:  Room Parent Mtg, 8:30 AM
9/18:  PTA General Mtg, 8:30 AM
9/22:  Picture Day Makeups
10/3:  Movie Night at 6:30 PM

Full calendar of events at: www.aviaraoakselementary.com
/calendar.htm


Recycling
The first collection of the 2008-2009 school year is tomorrow, 9/4.  Please bring your aluminum cans and CRV or CA Cash Refund plastic bottles to the recycling volunteers on the lawn within the school gates.  We need all of you to help us reach our $7000 goal.  Please remember NO milk containers, food cans, laundry bottles, or glass of any kind.


Community News

"Becka and the Big Bubble" Book Launch Party!
Join us Sunday, September 14th, 2-5 PM when we introduce "Becka Goes to San Diego".  This family event includes free food, drinks, games, temporary tattoos, face painting, free goodie bags,and much more.  The party will be held at the Encinitas Library and adjacent park located at 540 Cornish Drive, Encinitas, CA 92024.  15 % of the proceeds from book sales at the party will go back to local schools.  For more information, click here.

Captain Cook's Culinary Academy for Kids is Now Open!
We are a cooking school designed specifically for kids age 3-14.  Our weekly classes feature hands-on preparation, basic cooking and baking techniques, kitchen safety and nutrition.  All of our recipes contain organic ingredients.  We also offer unique birthday parties, camps, play dates, parents night out and scout badges.  Call 760-431-2278 or visit www.captaincooksculinaryacademy.com.



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E-mail Notifications & Submissions

Please limit submissions to 80 words and PDF files to 200K max! If you are an outside organization, you must contact Ellen Durham (edurham@sdcoe.k12.ca.us) first at the Carlsbad District office for CUSD approval prior to review by AOE administration. To find out more about submitting announcements to the email blast, visit
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STAY INFORMED - BE INVOLVED!
Laura Howard, AOE PTA Volunteer Communications Coordinator
6900 Ambrosia Lane, Carlsbad, CA 92009