Dates to Remember: May & June 2010

Holy Priceless Collection of Etruscan Snoods, Batman! Can you believe we only have 13 more school days??

• 5/30, 9:00 am. Trillium Front Yard Kick-off Breakfast + Intro to Cob talk. Start building!!
  
• 5/30 - 6/5. Trillium Front Yard 10-day work party (Village Building Convergence)
  
• 5/31. SCHOOL CLOSED for Memorial Day. (Cob building does continue, however.)
  
• 6/1. Final SCRIP order of the school year; plan ahead for summer!
• 6/4, 8:30 am. TFT Coffee Klatch, in Aftercare room. All are welcome.
  
• 6/4, 5:30 - 8:00 pm. Grades 1-2 World’s Fair Project Night + Feast.
• 6/5, 6:00 - 9:00 pm. The Peace and Love Concert, a senior project featuring student musicians. Tickets $5; all proceeds to benefit Humble Hearts School in Kenya.
  
• 6/6, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. Trillium Front Yard Showcase.
• 6/7-6/10. All-school Intensives week. Contact Polly if you can teach, or assist with a class
  
• 6/11, 6:30-8:30 pm. "A Thousand Cranes" play by Trillium students, Da Vinci Middle School. General admission tickets $7; students & staff $5.
• 6/17. LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!! Classes end at noon.
• 6/17, 7:00 pm. Staff appreciation party. Yay, Trillium staff!
  

The camping! It's coming!

Some dirt on camping:

• Monday, 5/17, 6:30 - 7:30 pm. Pre-campout meeting for parents of students attending the campout.
• Make sure you've paid for family members attending with the student: $15 per person ($5 for children under 3).
• Drivers at Trillium 9:00 am Thursday, May 20 to load vehicles.
• No electronic games. No knives, or other dangerous items.
• Yes! to acoustic instruments.
• Mark your child's name on everything you pack, using permanent marker.

Fun, fun!!

Upcoming Trillium "Front Yard" events

Here are some upcoming dates for the Trillium "Front Yard" project:

• Sat, 5/8; 1:00 - 4:00 pm. Meeting to prepare for upcoming work parties.
  
• Sat, 5/15 - Sun, 5/16. Work party to bust up asphalt, place fence posts.
• Sat, 5/22 - Sun, 5/23. Work party to lay foundation for cob wall.
• Fri, 5/28 - Sun, 6/6. Village Building Convergence (VBC); i.e., the 10-day work party with lots of community help, to build the cob wall along Interstate, and wood fence along border with IFCC parking lot.

More information will be coming soon, via email from Rob VanNood.

Reminders for May 2010

Due ASAP:

• Criminal background form for any adult attending the campout
  
• All raffle tickets, sold and unsold
• Run for the Arts pledge money (by 5/7)
• Camp out information form (by 5/7)
  

Dates to remember:

• 5/7, 8:30 am. TFT Coffee Klatch, in Aftercare room.
• 5/7, 9:00 am. Raffle drawing in All-school meeting, Multipurpose room.
• 5/10. PGE Park baseball field trip. Students bring bagged lunch.
• 5/10, 6:30 pm. TFT meeting. Meet in lobby; childcare available.
• 5/12. Potluck for 2nd graders and families; meet 3-4-5 advisors.
• 5/17. Camp out meeting for parents.
• 5/20-21. Camp out for grades 1-2!
• 5/28. Final SCRIP order of the school year; plan ahead for summer.
• 5/28 - June 6. Trillium Front Yard 10-day work party!! (Village Building Convergence)
  
• 5/31. SCHOOL CLOSED for Memorial Day.
• 6/4, 8:30 am. TFT Coffee Klatch, in Aftercare room.
• 6/4, 5:30-8:00 pm. Grades 1-2 World’s Fair Project Night - FEAST.
  

Extra Board Meeting Tonight, May 3

There is an extra Trillium Board meeting tonight, beginning at 6:00 pm, to discuss school finances. All are welcome and encouraged to attend, but there will not be childcare available.

Board director James Hindes wrote in his email dated April 26, 2010 that Trillium is losing money; tonight's meeting will include discussion of expenses and ways to raise revenue, and offer time to ask any questions you may have.

Field trip to PGE Park

Monday May 10th, we will have a field trip! We were offered a free field trip to PGE Park. We will be riding the MAX to PGE Park for a baseball game. Before the game OMSI will do a demonstration about the science of baseball. Each class will need about three chaperones for this field trip.  I will have a sign up sheet by my door.

Run for the Arts money + Raffle tickets due 5/3

Reminder for Monday, May 3:

1. Turn in all remaining sold *and* unsold raffle tickets.
2. Bring in pledge money for Run for the Arts.

Thanks for supporting our school!