Dublin Times
Week of: January 8-12, 2018
Conference Sign Up Begins Monday, January 8th through Monday, January 15th on Skyward Family Access.
Upcoming Important Events
Important Upcoming Events
- January 8 Third Grade Field Trip to Lansing
- January 8 Cub Scouts (6:15-8:15 PM) Cafeteria
- January 9 PTA Meeting (7:00 PM) Media Center
- January 9 Cub Scouts (6:15-8:15 PM) Cafeteria
- January 10 Fifth Graders Visit WLN for Band/Strings Concert
- January 11 Brownies (4:00-5:00 PM) Media Center
- January 11 Teacher of the Year Board Meeting-ESC (7:00 PM)
- January 15 MLK Jr. Day-No School
- January 15 PTA Hungry Howie's Day
- January 15 MLK Celebration-WLN (5:00-8:00 PM)
- January 18 Conferences (Half Day of School)
- January 18 Girl Scout Recruitment Meeting (5:30 PM) Media Center
- January 19 Student Council Spirit Day-Tropical Day
- January 19 PTA Bingo Night (6:30-8:00 PM) Cafeteria
- January 22 Musical Theater Class (4:00-5:00 PM) Media Center
- January 22 Cub Scouts (6:15-8:15 PM) Cafeteria
- January 23 Kidz Keyz Piano Class (4:00-5:00 PM) Room 401
- January 23 Cub Scouts (6:15-8:15 PM) Cafeteria
- January 25 PBIS Team Time (3:10-3:40 PM)
- January 25 LEGO Class (4:00-5:00 PM) Room 401
- January 25 Girl Scouts (4:00-5:00 PM) Media Center
- January 25 Brownies (4:00-5:00 PM) Art Room
- January 26 Guitar Class (4:00-5:00 PM) Room 401
- January 26 Cub Scouts (7:00-8:00 PM) Cafeteria
- February 2 PTA Daddy Daughter Dance (6:30-8:30 PM) CHS Middle School
January PTA Meeting
At this meeting, Detective Elges from the Oakland County Computer Crimes Unit will be at Dublin to present an important Internet Safety Presentation for parents.
This presentation will be incredibly informative and eye-opening and something parents will not want to miss! We hope to see you there!
Parent-Teacher Conferences Update
Elementary Parent – Teacher Conferences have been rescheduled for Thursday, January 18th from 12:00 to 8 p.m.
Parents may begin to sign up again on Skyward Family Access on Monday, January 8th through Monday, January 15th. Please sign up as soon as possible.
This will also be a HALF-DAY of school with dismissal an hour earlier than usual, at 11:00 AM. Please mark your calendars.
Conferences are a two-way conversation and your insights with regard to your child’s strengths and needs, learning style, and other non-school learning opportunities can help us to shape our instruction.
Conferences are scheduled through Family Access. If you do not have a Family Access account, please contact FamilyAccess@wlcsd.org or contact the Family Access hotline at 248-956-2190. Be sure to include your name, the name of each child in the district, your email address and a daytime phone number.
CLICK HERE for information on how to sign up.
MLK Day Celebration
You Are Invited to the
Walled Lake Schools Community-Wide
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration
on Monday, January 15
The 19th annual Walled Lake Schools community-wide Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration is planned for Monday, January 15, 2018 from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Walled Lake Northern High School.
The celebration will begin with a multicultural dinner from 5:00 – 6:15 p.m. with food from a wide variety of ethnic restaurants. During the dinner participants will visit student displays from each of our 19 schools focusing on our theme “Building Empathy in Our World: Understanding and Caring for Each Other”. Our dinner is sponsored by generous support from the PTA and PTSA groups from around our district as well as other contributors.
From 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. there will be a program in the auditorium featuring keynote speaker, Caleb White, who is the founder of The Caleb White Project. Caleb will be speaking about this year’s empathy theme, and he will also talk about taking action for Social Justice in today’s world. Several student choirs will perform, students will present their “Express Yourself” projects, and the Walled Lake Schools Friend of Diversity Awards will be presented.
Everyone in the community is invited to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration which is a free program. We are asking everyone to bring a donation of canned food, boxed food, and personal products such as laundry detergent, Kleenex, toilet paper, and shampoo to be donated to the food pantry at Cass Community Social Services in Detroit.
For more information, please contact Alec Bender, co-chairperson of the Walled Lake Schools Diversity Committee, at (248) 956-3432.
STRIDE Comes to Dublin!
STRIDE is a running group sponsored by the YMCA. STRIDE is designed to develop and enhance boys social, emotional, and physical competencies to successfully navigate life experiences.
Screened and trained adult volunteer coaches will teach the STRIDE curriculum focused on developing life skills through intentional conversation-based lesson and running games.
At the end of the 10 weeks, boys will be physically and emotionally prepared to complete a 5K run. The Spring 5K race is scheduled for Sunday, May 20th at Lake St. Clair Metropark.
Learn more at www.ymcadetroit.org/stride
Please CLICK HERE for an informational flyer with directions on how to register for this group. We have additional flyers in our main office. The flyer is also linked on our school web page under the FOR PARENTS tab.
CLICK HERE to register your son.
You must register online. There are only 14 openings at this time due to the number of coaches we have. All others will be placed on a waiting list.
- The cost is $136.00 per child.
- The group begins the week of March 13th.
- The group meets every Tuesday and Thursday at Dublin in the gym from 4:00-5:15 PM.
- Parents are required to pick students up promptly at 5:15 PM and sign them out in the gym with their coaches.
Congratulations Mrs. Squires!
**We also congratulate Mrs. Squires for being named Walled Lake Schools Elementary Teacher of the Year! She was surprised with this honor by Mr. Gutman and others in her classroom.
We will celebrate Mrs. Squires and other teachers from across the District in January at our Thursday, January 11th Board of Education Meeting at 7:00 PM. All parents, staff, and students are invited to help celebrate Mrs. Squires.
Student Council Tropical Day
We are asking that all students and staff that participate donate $1 to help raise money for our Dublin outdoor track.
Students may wear tropical style clothing that day that is appropriate for school. Thank you for supporting our Student Council and helping us to raise money for our school.
PTA Family Bingo Night
The PTA will be selling some concessions that night, so you may want to bring some money to purchase these items.
Mark your calendars and join us for a fun family evening.
If you can help, we can use some volunteers! Please CLICK HERE to sign up to help.
Cold Weather Reminders
PLEASE MARK ALL OF YOUR CHILD'S WINTER CLOTHING CLEARLY WITH THEIR FIRST AND LAST NAME. This is so helpful when we find lost items.
Hungry Howie's Pizza Nights for Dublin
Please order pizza from Hungry Howie's!
Purchase pizza all day and evening from the Hungry Howie's on Union Lake Road, let them know you're from Dublin and they will donate 10% of all sales to Dublin Elementary. Mark your calendars with the following dates:
- January 15
- February 19
- March 19
- April 16
- May 21
Thank you for your support.
Dublin's Daddy Daughter Dance
Our annual Dublin PTA Daddy-Daughter Dance will take place on Friday night, February 2nd from 6:30-8:30PM. This event will take place once again at Clifford Smart Middle School.
Please CLICK HERE for an ORDER FORM.
Please CLICK HERE if you would like to volunteer to help with this event.
Please remember that the form and payment are due to the office by Monday, January 29th.
Also, please remember this is DUBLIN'S Daddy-Daughter Dance and NOT Walled Lake Community Ed. Department's dance also scheduled in February.
Lunch Moms
Watch Dog Dads
Please click HERE to sign up to help.
When you come to school that day, please stop in our office, sign in, and we will direct you where to go!
Winter 2018 Community Education Classes
We are happy to announce that our Winter 2018 Community Education brochure is “live” online.
We hope your child experienced some of our after-school classes and recreational leagues this fall. Don’t forget, Mom and Dad, we offer adult recreation and enrichment classes too!
Our winter After-School classes begin in January and usually fill up quickly…so please register today to guarantee your child’s spot.
Our interactive, ONLINE FLYERS make registration a breeze. You can register directly from your smartphone, tablet or computer. To view the individual flyers for your child’s school, CLICK HERE to be redirected to our “Class Listings” tab on the Community Education website.
With the new online flyers, you can share them across social media venues, visit the instructor’s website and communicate with me, all on one page!
Youth and Adult Recreation and Enrichment registration flyers are also online on our website.
Community Ed Winter 2018 After-School classes at Dublin Elementary are:
Dublin After-School Musical Theatre - "Moana" - W18
Dublin After-School Fit Kid Camp - W18
Dublin After-School Power of Drawing! - W18
Dublin After-School Little Medical School/Pediatrician - W18
Dublin After-School LEGO: Transportation and Aviation - W18
Dublin After-School Guitar Club - W18
Dublin After-School Kidz Keyz (Piano) - W18
**NEW – ALL credit card registrations MUST be processed online. We can no longer accept CREDIT CARD payments by mail, fax, over the phone or walk-in/drop-off. A non-refundable service fee of 3.49% will be applied to all credit card transactions per district guidelines. As always, we will accept cash, check or a money order made payable to WLCSD. A blank registration form can be printed from our website.
Visit us on Facebook and give us a “Like” to stay up-to-date with all the happenings at Community Education. Our Facebook page contains hundreds of photos from our activities that we are sure you will enjoy.
Kroger Rewards Program
Please click HERE for directions.
Invisible Dad Program
Through the generosity of parent donations and the planning of a few dedicated people, we are thrilled to provide the Invisible Dad lunch program at Dublin Elementary.
Every day, in our own community and in our school, children are faced with a growing form of hunger: food insecurity. Not knowing where their next meal will come from, these children are not only faced with being hungry, studies have also shown these children can face more severe issues in the future. The Invisible Dad program hopes to change that by providing the funds necessary to make sure all children have access to a full meal at lunch.
These funds are not something you or your child have to ask for or apply to receive. These funds are available without question or judgment as children go through the line at lunch. Parents will be notified privately and confidentially if their child’s lunch is paid for by the Invisible Dad. Sometimes the situation is simple and the lunch account just needs to be refilled. We ask that you refill your account and perhaps consider donating back to the program. Sometimes the situation is more complex, the money just isn’t there and won’t be there for some time. In those cases, you and your child will not have to worry again about lunch. The Invisible Dad program will step in and make sure lunch is provided.
Donations can be made by sending cash or a check to school made out to “Walled Lake Food Services” with “Invisible Dad - DUBLIN” in the memo. This is not a tax-deductible donation, this is just money from you to a child in need.
Walled Lake Schools offers free and reduced-cost lunches; the Invisible Dad program aims to solve for the short-term and one-off situations. If you would like to apply for free or reduced-cost lunch, please contact Mr. Drewno.
For more information about this program, visit www.invisibledad.org. Please contact Mr. Drewno, or Julie Rader-Food Services Coordinator (julierader@wlcsd.org) with questions.
CLICK HERE to view a recent segment about Invisible Dad by Channel 7!
Dublin Contact Information
Principal jeffreydrewno@wlcsd.org
248-956-3832
Wanda Weaver
Principal's Secretary wandaweaver@wlcsd.org
248-956-3802
Sarah Garcia
Building Secretary sarahgarcia@wlcsd.org
248-956-3800
Email: jeffreydrewno@wlcsd.org
Website: http://wlcsd.org/dublin.cfm
Location: 425 Farnsworth Street, White Lake, MI, United States
Phone: 248-956-3800
Twitter: @DublinWL