Subject: Class Community Service Event -- Final Reminders
From: "Heather Coryell" <[email-masked]>
To: "Gus Bessalel \(via Google Spreadsheet\)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:46:09 +0000 (UTC)

Dear 11th Grade Parents,  This Saturday is our class wide community service project (the FAPAC holiday party for DC foster children and their families). We would like to thank those of you who have already signed-up— including all the wonderful student volunteers and those who have donated and either mailed or dropped off gifts and supplies.  If you have not yet signed-up, please follow the link below and indicate how you would like to help by Tuesday 12/1. Please see below for important reminders for this week. This Week's PrioritiesVolunteers:
Confirm Your Role & Time slot: 
Please check the sign-up (link below) to be sure you and/or your student is still able to volunteer for the role at the designated time. 
Attend One Orientation Session: 
Every student and parent volunteer (elves, santa's helpers, face painters, gingerbread house helpers, card-making helpers, singers, servers, gift wrappers) MUST attend one 30-minute FAPAC-led orientation. Two sessions will be offered on Friday Dec. 4th: at 12:10pm in Room 112 and 6:30pm in the Dining Room. There is no sign-up for these sessions. Just pick one and attend. 

PLEASE Update the Sign-up with Last Minute Changes:
If you or your student has a last minute health issue or unanticipated scheduling conflict, please update the sign-up so that the party planners are informed and can try to find substitutes.

Wear Green and/or Red on the Day of the Party: 

FAPAC has requested all volunteers wear holiday colors. 
Donations:

Extended Gifts Drop-off Deadline: 
If you have gifts to donate, please drop them off at Room 222 no later than Tuesday, 12/1 before the end of school. FAPAC has arranged for a second pick-up. 

Card-Making materials:We need construction paper, markers, stickers, glue, kids scissors, stickers, other art supplies for the card-making station. Wrapping SuppliesWe need rolls of wrapping paper, gift bags (various sizes), bows/ribbons,tape and gift tags.  Link to Sign-up: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/ 30e0e4badad2faaff2-fapac For questions, please email: [email-masked]  Details on Classwide Community Service Project:    
   - WHAT: FAPAC (the Foster & Adoptive Parent Advocacy Center) Loving Circles Brunch and Party 
   - WHY: To bring together foster children, their birth and foster families during the holidays, a typically stressful and challenging time of year for foster children.
   - WHEN: Saturday, 12/5 (11am-2pm, with some volunteers arriving earlier) and Friday 12/4 for Decorating.
   
   - Volunteer Orientations: Friday, Dec. 4th, 12:10pm in Room 112 and 6:30pm, Cafeteria. The sessions will run about 30 minutes (volunteers must attend one of the session.).
   
   - WHERE: Dining Room, senior center and hallways.
   - WHAT TO DO: 
1.    Volunteer: Students can sign-up to serve as elves, face-painters,gift-wrappers, decorators, clean-uppers, and crafts helpers.  Parents may sign-up to wrap gifts, decorate, clean-up. By Tuesday 12/1, any remaining volunteer slots will become available to students in other grades.  2.     Donate: We need all gift donations to reach FAPAC no later than Tuesday 12/1. All other donations (crafts supplies, gift wrapping supplies, gingerbread houses, face painting kits) should also be dropped off at Room 222 as soon as possible..  
Your 11th Grade Reps,Fatim, Heather, Lori and G