May 2006 vol. 42 no. 4

::PRESIDENT’S CORNER

Dear Students, Parents, Teachers, and Friends,

As we conclude our second semester of 2005-06, I would like to thank you for your continued energetic support of our school and cordially invite all of you to our second annual Maifest. See below for more detailed information.

On behalf of our School Board, VIELEN DANK! And until the new school year!

Have a wonderful summer and keep your passion for German alive.
Josef Hellebrandt

Josef Hellebrandt


::Herzliche Einladung zum SBDS-MAIFEST 2006!

This coming Saturday May 13th our School will celebrate the end of the school year 2005/2006 by reviving an old German Tradition: A “MAIFEST” - a festival with wonderful German food and many different traditional activities. School will start that morning, like on all the other Saturdays, at 9.00 am. The students will go to their classes and at approximately 9:15 all of the classes will go with their teachers and meet in front of the Maibaum to receive their class certificates. At approximately 9:40 the children's classes will go back to their rooms with their teachers. The rest of the classes will help in putting the individual activity stations together. By 10.30 am we will begin the official opeining of the Maifest with student achievement awards and teacher recognitions. The school yard will be filled with students, parents, siblings and children that are ready to learn about German May traditions hands-on. The teachers and board members invite all of you to fun stations, offering everything from Folk Singing to a “Kirschkernweitspuckwettbewerb” ­ from “Kaffeklatsch” to Soccer and Flower Braiding … At approximately 12.00 pm we will start a traditional German BBQ with Bratwurst and Sauerkraut!


::ANNOUNCEMENTS & REMINDERS


E-Scrip Fundraiser

Please remember to sign up for our E-Scrip program! This is also an important avenue to raise money for the school. Signing up is easy, simply follow the link below and register. Every purchase you make at any of the major grocers and retailers sponsoring E-Scrip will generate a percentage of the sales towards our school. Details can be found at: http://www.sbds.org/fundraising.htm or simply sign up at http://www.escrip.com

Albertson's Fundraiser:

To participate and earn money for the school, participants need to sign up their Albertsons' Preferred Savings Card. This can be done either Albertson's online or through a mail-in registration form. We will make these forms available at school. If supporters have been issued a replacement Preferred Card after registration, they will need to re-register in the Community Partners program with the new Preferred Card.

On behalf of the Board and Teaching Staff, THANK YOU to our members for continued support at SBDS. We wish you all a safe and fun filled summer!