Rubios Restaurant Fundraiser

Del Cerro Spirit never stops, not even for weekends!

Come dine at Rubios and 20% of all food and non-alcoholic beverage sales for Take out orders as well as Dine-in orders (When accompanied with this flyer) Will be donated to Del Cerro.

May 4th, 2011

2:00 pm - CLOSE

THREE Rubio's Location:

Mission Viejo - Alicia & Jeronimo
Laguna Hills Mall
Mission Viejo - Marguerite Pkwy

Jamba Juice at Del Cerro

Wednesday, April 27th at 1:10pm In front of Del Cerro School $2.00 - 8 oz $4.00 - 16 oz Cash Only Flavors: Peach Perfection - peach juice blend, apple strawberry juice blend, frozen mangos, strawberries, & peaches Strawberries Wild - strawberries, bananas, apple-strawberry juice, non-fat frozen yogurt Mango-a-go-go - mangos, passion fruit-mango juice, pineapple sherbet Razzmatazz - mixed berry juice, strawberries, bananas, orange sherbet

PTA Meeting April 11, 2011

PTA General Meeting will be held Monday, April 11, 2011. Please join us for our PTA General Meeting at 7:00pm in the MPR or the Library. We’d love to have you!

Pop Tabs: Turn in date is May 21st, 2011

JOIN DEL CERRO BY HELPING THE ORANGE COUNTY RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE!
Collect pop tabs to benefit the Orange County Ronald McDonald House and Ronald McDonald Family Rooms.
What is a PopTab?
A pop tab is the piece of metal that opens aluminum cans. Like the can, the pull-tab is recyclable and helps our environment while helping families in need.received from recycling pop tabs helps provide comfortable housing and emotional support to families of critically ill and injured children being treated at Orange County hospitals.
Why Collect PopTabs?
Money received from recycling pop tabs helps provide comfortable housing and emotional support to families of critically ill and injured children being treated at Orange County hospitals.
What YOU can do to help:
Collect pop tabs, count them and store them in a zip loc bag. Ask your family and friends to collect too!
Turn in date is May 21st, 2011. Bring your filled zip loc bag in with your name, room number, and # of pop tabs collected.
PRIZES:
4 Highest pop tab collectors will get 2 one-day passes for Wild Rivers AND highest classrooms (one from K-3 and one from 4- 6 grades) will get an ice cream party!
Remember...recycling is great for our environment and doing a good deed to help those in need makes you a better person! Thanks for your help!
Mrs. Mary Ellen Lewis
Pop Tab Program Coordinator and
Mrs. Rodriquez & Mrs. Knoles,
Parent Volunteers

2011 Del Cerro Jog-A-Thon Thank You!

The jog-a-thon was a great success and the rain held out so that our Del Cerro Dolphins could run while raising money for our school. We are very fortunate to have a great bunch of volunteers. We thank you all for your time and dedication to our school. Del Cerro would like to thank the following Donors for their contributions to the jog-a-thon which included prizes and the much needed water for our kids! Special Thanks to... Our Sponsors:

• Trader Joe’s, Mission Viejo 
• Stater Bros, Laguna Hills  
• Boomers 
• Chuck E Cheese 
• Aliso Hills Taekwon-Do 
• Elks Lodge 2444 
• Steve Dietsch of The Pinnacle Group 

Cari Vedder & Jack Van Camp Jog-a-thon Co-Chairs

A Message from the PTA President - April 2011

Well, it’s hard to believe we’re hitting the home stretch of the school year! It’s unbelievable how fast time flies!
The second annual Book Fair was a great success. Thanks to our new co-chairs, Kathy Karns and Kathy Eubanks for making this such a special event! Thank you to the many volunteers that also contributed to the Book Fair. Without volunteers, these events would not happen!
I hope everyone enjoyed our Science Family Fun Night with Mrs. Marilyn Wenzel. There were some fun experiments and crazy creatures featured this year. The students and the parents really enjoyed themselves.
Thanks to Cari Cohn-Morros for inviting the Special-Ed Chairperson from Council, Mary Damkroger, to our last PTA meeting. Mary was able to give us insight on the challenges that many people face every day that most of us take for granted. This is a great opportunity not just for the students, but for the adults as well to learn patience and get an understanding of these challenges. It was great to learn of some of the challenges and to learn of people that have had great success in life in spite of them. If you can help with the Abilities Awareness day, please contact Cari via email through the website or the front office.
Don’t forget spring break is coming up! Hope everyone has some great things planned and spend some quality, family time together!
Julie Fretwell
President-Del Cerro PTA
president@delcerro.org

Principal's Message April 2011

Dear Parents,
The week of May 9th is Teacher Appreciation Week at Del Cerro. This is a wonderful opportunity to recognize the diligence and skill of the teachers who have worked with your child during this school year. This recognition does not require money or special gifts. It is a great time to honor these public servants with a sincere “note of thanks” from you and your child. Nothing means more to teachers than the acknowledgment they receive from the students they teach and the parents they collaborate with during the school year. Our PTA will be organizing a special luncheon for our teachers on your behalf and any assistance that can be provided will be greatly appreciated. Rodger Mudd points out that “no calling in our society is more demanding than teaching; no calling in our society is more selfless than teaching; and no calling is more central to the vitality of a democracy than teaching.” Lindley Stiles reflects that “The world seldom notices who teachers are, but civilization depends on what they do.”

TEACHER

You are not the kind of teacher who only teaches the things on written pages. You’ve taught me how to live my life and how to think for myself. I can never repay you; I can only thank you and try to make you proud of me. But I want you to know that whatever I become, however far I go in life, I owe so much to you. You are a treasure, never to be forgotten. –Author Unknown-

Teaching is the profession that creates all others!! Your efforts and those of your children reaffirm that quality education for our young people continues to be our greatest challenge as well as our most vital responsibility. It also recognizes how much we rely on teachers with the help of parents to provide guidance, support, and encouragement to our students. Your support of this special week will help us focus attention upon the critical role education plays in our society. There are few adults who do not recall vividly the teachers who provided him or her with inspiration and contributed a positive impact on their learning. This is a great time to acknowledge those contributions for the teachers of Del Cerro!!
Larry Callison
Principal