"State of the District" meetings will help guide our schools' future
Thursday, March 28, 5:00-6:00 p.m. at Animas Valley Elementary School
Superintendent Dr. Karen Cheser invites everyone – students, staff, families, community members – to listen and contribute to the ever-evolving story of Durango School District 9-R. Twelve meetings in March and April will be spread across our schools. Board of Education members and other school and district leaders also plan to be in attendance.
The event will include:
* An overview of the district’s vision and strategy
* Celebration of the district’s good news and each school’s successes
* Sharing goals for the future from our Long-Range Planning Committee
* Describing the district’s specific facilities and funding needs
* Gathering feedback from attendees and encouraging engagement
For more information and additional dates, please click here: 9-R "State of the District"
2024 Read-a-Thon
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2022 Read-A-Thon
Animas Valley Elementary School Booster Club has decided to hold a Read-a-thon this year!
Read-a-thons actually get your reader excited about reading and it gives friends and family the opportunity to encourage your child to read even more.
Our Read-a-thon starts Monday February 7, 2022.
About one week before our Read-a-thon starts we will send home instructions on how to activate your reader's personal page. This is where you will be able to view and record their progress.
We encourage you to activate your reader’s account today by clicking on https://www.read-a-thon.com/readers/r/bWwPCF/1 and following the simple instructions.
We've chosen Read-a-thon because it will not take much of your time, gives your child a reason to read and helps in the development of stronger reading skills.
We hope EVERYONE participates.
Thanks so much,
Animas Valley Elementary School Booster Club
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Halloween Edition: October 2020 Update
While we may have gone into hiding last spring, the Animas Booster Club is not in the graveyard! However, this year we are keeping it simple since we know parents, kids, and teachers have a lot more to juggle.
We are not planning a fundraising or our traditional Booster Club sponsored school events this year due to COVID-19 restrictions.
PLAYGROUND PROJECT UPDATE
The Animas Valley Elementary GOCO playground project is (basically) finished!
After several years of hard work and fundraising, the Booster Club's BIG project, the new playground, is finished! We hope all the students and valley community members enjoy it! We are so proud our students play on the COOLEST playground at the school district's best elementary school!
**A huge thanks to everyone who contributed to our new playground! A special shout out to Bonnie Thornbladh for her incredible dedication to the project.**
OUR PLANS THIS YEAR
We will have a fall and spring meeting, date, and time to be determined.
We are dedicated to supporting our students and teachers with our existing funds.
Please contact us at avepto@gmail.com for more information, if you have questions or concerns that can't wait for our next meeting, or if you would like to be on our mailing list.
Outdoor Classroom Clean Up
Our parent volunteers and kiddos pause to document our efforts cleaning up the Outdoor Classroom! Mulch, decorations, white board renovation, and beautiful stumps were added to enhance our students’ outdoor learning experiences! Thanks all! (though not all who helped are pictured above)
Fall Festival Volunteering & More
Hola AVE Community!
We are looking for volunteers! Please sign up! Maybe you have some outdoor lighting, fall decorations…please contact us if you do! Also, please check out this week’s Husky Howler!
MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK!
Fall Book Fair
Our lovely Book Fair is coming around the corner! Please help us promote LITERACY and volunteer to support our amazing team. SIGN UP!
Fall Festival
Hi Families & Community Members!
We are organizing our Festival, date October 18th. If you have a business like Lularoe, DoTerra, or would like to have a table at our event to promote your club, please contact us! avepto@gmail.com
First Meeting of the Year & Some News
We hope you guys got the cutest pictures of your kiddos with our Photo Booth that was set up at the front of the school year! We plan on having a Last Day picture as well, how fun to see the difference! Big thank you to Bonnie Thornbladh and Melissa Kemp for making it beautiful and creating original art for our HUSKIES!
Also, thank you to all the attendees at our first ABC meeting of the school year this last Monday. If you would like to receive updates and meeting information you can email us at avepto@gmail.com to get on our NON-SPAMMY mailing list.
Our next regular meeting is September 23, 2019, directly following Monday morning meeting. We also plan on having a Fall Festival fundraiser meeting between now and then so keep your eyes peeled!
2019 School Year Starts A Little Earlier!
Hi Families!
The countdown begins as we have TEN DAYS left of summer before the first day of school on August 20th, 2019! Friendly reminder from your Booster Club that this year the tardy bell rings at 7:45 am.
Aww, enjoy the last of the lazy summer nights! We will see you all soon.
Healthy Huskies FREE Wellness Fair
Join us in the Cafeteria from 5-6:30 on March 13th for our first annual Health and Wellness Fair! This is in conjunction with the schools "Celebration of Learning." After you check out students classroom and latest work, please swing by the cafeteria and stop by any of the booths that interest you! You can find information on healthy lunch packing, helmet safety, hygiene and dental care, mental health care, healthy dinner recipes and food substitutions, seat belt safety and much more!! Bring home a bowl of Chef Casey's Stone soup to warm your belly! Hope to see you on Tuesday March 13th!
Schlotzsky's Fund Raiser
The Durango Schlotzsky's has generously offered to donate 20% of sales to AVE, with the flyer, on Saturday, February 10. Funds will be used to replenish our AVE Family Food Bank. The food bank currently supplies needed food and supplies to families at our school on a weekly basis.
Flyers were sent home in weekly mail, and the link to the file is below. You must have a flyer for AVE to receive credit.
Please Help an AVE family pay for Leukemia Treatment
Many of you may remember the amazing apple pie fundraiser that the Berghoff family held last year to help Dominik Fisher and his family after his diagnosis of leukemia. He is doing well but continues with treatment for a little over another year. Natasha, his mom, has started a gofundme page to help with expenses. Please consider helping this terrific family!
Shop on AmazonSmile and Amazon will donate to Animas Valley Elementary School!
Although we all try to go Local First, there are times that we simply cannot find a special item or gift locally. With the holiday season upon us, if you do any on-line shopping at Amazon, you can also give to your child’s school, Animas Valley Elementary School.
AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support the Animas Valley Elementary Booster Club every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to the AVE Booster Club.
Get started with these easy steps:
1.) Visit smile.amazon.com. It’s just like shopping on amazon.com.
2.) Sign in. Simply use your existing Amazon credentials. If you don’t have an account, you can create a new one.
3.) Start shopping! After you’ve chosen your charity (Animas Valley Elementary School Booster Club), your shopping experience will be the same as it is on the Amazon website. And there’s no extra cost for you at checkout! Amazon will donate 0.5 percent of your purchase, excluding shipping, handling and tax, to the AVE Booster Club.
4.) Please remember to shop our smile.amazon.com link every time. Purchases on the main Amazon.com site do not support AVE. To help remember, bookmark our smile.amazon.com link.
5.) Spread the word! Once you’ve checked out, Amazon makes it easy to spread the news with your friends and family by giving you an option to share on Facebook and Twitter. Please be sure to let everyone know you've supported the Animas Valley Elementary School Booster Club by including the #StartWithASmile hashtag.
Thank you so much for supporting the children at Animas Valley Elementary School by shopping on AmazonSmile.
Support our school and enjoy an evening of shopping!!
Sip & Shop
Fundraiser for Animas Valley Elementary
Get a jump on holiday shopping or indulge yourself!
l i v e l y
(a boutique)
809 Main Ave
November 17th 5:30pm – 8pm
A portion of the proceeds on this night will go directly to Animas Valley Elementary!
Guest Speaker: Lisa Ford
“Food is information: Eat to turn back the clock”
Come join us for fun, drinks, snacks, and shopping!
October Updates
Upcoming Event Dates:
October 9: Monthly Animas Booster Club (ABC) Meeting
October 11: Popcorn Day
October 16-20: Book Fair
October 20: Fall Carnival
October 16 - November 1: Take-home Holiday Fundraiser
Starting November: Winter Clothing Exchange
How is the ABC helping our school?
Just through September, we have provided funds &/or contributed volunteer hours for:
★ Solar Eclipse Glasses
★ Welcome Breakfast for Teachers
★ Ice Cream Social
★ Clothing for Nurse’s Office
★ Assisted in construction of the Husky Regulation Station
★ The Reflex Math Online Program
★ Husky Awards supplies
★ 18 Laptops with charging cart for ELA support. Students will access laptops for writing, revising, editing and publishing. Platforms to be accessed with laptops include: Raz Kids, Orton Gillingham, Storybird, The Kids Should See This,National Geographic, Animoto, Prezi, coloradohistory.org.
This year we hope to make significant updates to the playground, and would like to purchase 60 Chromebooks for the school. Join us to make it happen!
Book Fair
Coming to the Animas Valley Elementary library! October 16th - October 20th. Volunteers are needed and appreciated!! Please sign up at http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4dadad2ba5f85-fall4
The Fall Carnival! Please join us on October 20th from 5:30 - 7:30pm
★ There will be yummy food & treats, face painting, a bouncy house room, a muffin walk, spirit store sale, a bake sale, Date with a Husky and many more fun games.
★ New to the Fall Carnival... Shopping! For a donation of $30, local vendors will have the opportunity to purchase a table. If you or a friend have a small business and would like to help the Booster Club AND sell your product, please contact us at Avepto@gmail.com. We will only allow one rep from each company on a first come first served basis.
★ If you are available to volunteer to run one of our games, or help in any other way, please visit our sign-up genius at:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4dadad2ba5f85-fall6
★ See you there for a great night with teachers, kids and families. Costumes are welcome!
Holiday Fundraiser -
October 16 we will be sending home pamphlets where you will find tons of gift wrap and small gift ideas that will arrive in time for the holidays. Family members from out of town can order online and use our school code to help AVE raise money for our students. Orders will be due by Nov 1.
Clothing Exchange
Save those Hand Me Downs! Starting October 25 you can bring in women's and children's gently used winter jackets, clothes, boots and shoes that they have outgrown for our Clothing Exchange! Take what you need, leave what you don't! Let's share within our AVE family!
2017 ANIMAS VALLEY BOOSTER CLUB KICKOFF MEETING!
JOIN US!!! After the morning meeting on Tues. Sept 5. We are in search of Board Members, Committee Heads and many other volunteer opportunities!
We value the contributions of all parents and are so grateful for your involvement in supporting the kids and teachers of Animas Valley Elementary!
Questions? E-mail Bonnie Thornbladh, ABC President at AVEPTO@gmail.com.
2017 Fun Run canceled due to weather
Hello!
Unfortunately, the wet and cold weather has presented us with a problem. We don't feel that the kids can safely run in mud, on wet grass, and through the school on slippery linoleum.
We have consulted with Mrs. Brammer, and have decided to cancel the 2017 Fun Run. There are no other available days in the remainder of the school year to reschedule, therefore there will be no alternative date.
Thank you so much to everyone who has volunteered! Keep a look out for future opportunities!
ABC :)
BIG NEWS: 2017 Auction is ONLINE!
This year, the AVE Booster Club has posted all of our silent auction items on a special bidding website. In order to view and bid on our auction items this year, simply visit www.biddingowl.com/aveboosterclub and take 30 seconds to set up an account. This format has several exciting features that should improve the auction for bidders and boosters alike. Here are a few of the new features:
- Advanced bidding available - The auction is open and items are available for bid RIGHT NOW, from your phone or computer. The auction will close at the end of the evening. Any winners present will pay online, and receive their prizes at the event.
- Remote bidding available - Unable to make it to casino night? Don't want to lose your spot at the poker table? Have friends or family out of town who want to support your children's education? The online format means that anyone with a Bidding Owl account can bid any of our auction items! Don't miss out on the Golden Getaway, Napa Wine Tasting, Purgatory Condo Weekend, or any of our other prizes just because you won't be at the event! Event attendees will be able to bid right from their smart phones without ever giving up that seat at the poker table, or losing their dice-throwing mojo!
- Bidding notifications - Bidders can choose to be texted or emailed when a higher bid is placed for their item. Want to make sure you don't miss out on the Trimble passes or that photo facial? Just set an alert, and be notified when it's time to up the ante.
All bids will be placed online this year - including bids for class art projects - in order to streamline the bidding and payment process. To hit the ground running, take a moment to set up an account now. There will be a limited number of volunteers available to help set up accounts, but bidders will need to have a smart phone, and helpers will need access to bidder phones in order to set up accounts.