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HONOR FUND
To make a donation in honor of a birthday, anniversary, graduation, or, send get well wishes or condolences to someone, fill out an Honor Fund donation form and submit it to Barbara Spielman. Acknowledgements will be sent to the recipients. A donation form is attached to the Chai Lights and also available in the school office.

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LECTURE SERIES CONTINUES
The Gan Aviv Preschool Lecture Series continues on Tuesday evening, November 14th at 7:00 p.m. with Karen Friedland Brown, MA, speaking on “Set Limits and Save Your Sanity” - considering problems, evaluating options and learning techniques to set limits with one’s children that will save one’s sanity.
Karen is Coordinator of Parent Education, Parents Place of the Peninsula; and parent educator/trainer/consultant. She brings with her thirty years of experience in special education and is co-author of the revised edition of “Parentmaking: A Practical Handbook for Teaching Parents.”
The turnout at our first lecture was outstanding and we look forward to an even larger audience at this second lecture; this is a most informative and educational series.

PARENT ASSOCIATION HAPPENINGS
Scrapbookers
Socialize with SPHDS moms for a fun evening of scrapbooking!
The Parents Association invites everyone to its first Scrapbooking Night, on Wednesday, November 15th, from 7:00 – 10:00 p.m., in the MPR.
Feel free to invite friends to come and join in for an enjoyable and entertaining evening of Jewish scrapbooking! Bring your projects and be ready to cut… shmooze… design… shmooze… layout… shmooze… paste… shmooze and just have a great time.

Don’t Forget to Join the Book Group
The Parents Association has organized a women’s monthly book discussion group on the first Thursday of each month, beginning Thursday, December 7th, from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in the school library.
“The Red Tent” by Anita Diamant will be the first book read.
Please contact DeeAnn Hazani at dhazani@aol.com or call her at 408 736-0611 to sign up.

Parent Hebrew Classes
Need to catch up to your children in speaking Hebrew? Join the Parent Association on Thursday mornings, in the school library – room 13, between 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. for an adult Hebrew speaking class. For more information call Holly Mendel, PA president, at 408 245-3144.

Ready for your Java fix!
Each Tuesday morning, from 8:15 – 9:00 a.m., the Parents Association hosts a wonderful coffee and nosh. Join them and get acquainted with other parents, school board members and SPHDS staff; it’s a terrific way of meeting one another.

SMILES, SMILES, SMILES
Picture days can so easily turn into major stress days. We are fortunate to have so many caring parent volunteers who made sure that things went without a hitch. Many thanks to parent Aliza Preil, school secretary Rachel Flores, the room parents and most importantly the parent volunteers who helped during picture days: Maryam Zaghi, Joyce Arovas, Jeremy Gollub, Elana Feinsmith, Tali Rahat, Eyal Friedman, Anat Geller, Yarolena Zilberstein, Jody Hasson, Anat Faigon, Paula Berman, Deborah Saada, Diane Cohen, Victoria Bolotin and Loren Weltsch.

GRANDPARENTS AND SPECIAL FRIENDS DAY
This is a very special occasion where every student from Room 1 – Grade 8 has the opportunity to feel unique with their own special guest whether it is a grandparent, cousin or neighbor. Circle Wednesday, November 22nd, erev Thanksgiving, on your calendars for this special occasion.

ENROLLMENT 2007 - 2008
We are almost there. Campus tours for prospective parents begin on Wednesday, November 15th.
To arrange a tour, please call Rachel at 408 738-3060 to arrange a tour. Current families who have siblings of SPHDS students will have priority enrollment until January 1st.