Spirit Week

Hey Bees!

It's time to celebrate the end of testing and show your Birney Spirit! Here's what Student Council has planned for your fun:

Monday, June 21 - Mis-Matched Day Stripes with flowers, plaids with paisley, the scarier the better. Dress to offend.

Tuesday, June 22 - Sports Day Wear your favorite jersey or sport shirt.

Wednesday, June 23 - PJ Day Come in your best jammies.

Thursday, June 24 - Crazy Hair Day A good use for those Aztec wigs. Leave the colored hairsprays at home, please.

Friday, June 25 - Aloha Friday Island style is the word of the day - think palm trees, waves, sand and surf.

Silent Auction at the Passport to Adventure

This Saturday, June 19 • 11 am - 2 pm
Bring your checkbooks, bring your cash to score great deals on great prizes and help out the Birney in the process. Below is a list of some of the items you will find at the auction. More are being added everyday.
1. VIP Tickets and meet-and-greet with the Blueman Group in Las Vegas, NV (air and accomodations NOT included).
2. Jenna Raskin giclee print from her HEART series.
3. Glassblowing class
4. Siri Johansson Swarovski Puff Heart necklace with sterling silver chain
5. Professional Coach 4u certificate for $350 training with Mark Paskowitz
6. Pampered Chef Gift certificate, with bakeware and Food TV cookbook
7. “Dinner and a Movie” - Restaurant.com certificate and the Directors Cut version of the movie “8: The Mormon Proposition”
8. Family 4 pack of tickets for the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park
9. Book club: 2 copies of the book “You don’t ask, you don’t get” by local San Diego Author Janet Williams
10. Family Photography session by Jackie Simpson 2 hour sitting on location with CD of retouched images included.
11. Vox Marketing Communications copywriting services for a press release or Web site home page
12. Brett Bean limited edition print of his new comic characters. Brett was featured at
ComicCon
13. Massage and acupuncture package by Tracie Livermore and Laurel Holloway
14. Pacific College of Oriental Medicine acupuncture treatments
15. Mueller College of Holistic Studies massage treatments
16. 1 hour massage and your own in home massage chair cover
17. Signed SDSU women’s basketball
18. “Man Pack” - pizza, haircut and a beer
19. “Up to the Bar” 18 piece cocktail glassware set
20. Quit Your Wine-ing (stemless glasses and wine)
21. Champagne Set (goblets and flutes and a bottle of champagne
22. “On the Rocks” (cooler and rocks glass set)
23. Surf School in Pacific Beach certificate good for 1 lesson for two people

Special treasures from Birney
1. Movies with Ms. Donovan - 2 kids ("you and a friend") popcorn and drinks. Parent approved movie
2. Movies with Ms. Touw - 3 kids popcorn and drinks.
3. Lunch with Ms. Amanda for your child and a friend at Station Grill
4. Student recognition awards in July - 4 front row seats
5. 5th grade promotion in July - 4 front row seats
6. Kinder promotion in July - 4 front row seats
7. December Awards - 4 front row seats
8. March Awards - 4 front row seats
9. Grade level performance in July (each grade, date, time) - 4 front row seats
10. Principal’s parking spot for July

And hopefully many more...

Pizza Gourmet Express - June 9 and July 14

Family Dinner Night at Pizza Gourmet Express

Enjoy a nice dinner out and help support the Birney PTA assembly programs at the same time.

Wednesday, June 9
and Wednesday, July 14
11 am - 9 pm
4615 Park Boulevard • San Diego, CA 92116
(619) 546-7430

Come enjoy a fresh selection of Pizzas prepared to your specifications right before your eyes. Enjoy them baked in our high speed pizza ovens, or take and bake at home. If you are having meetings at work order take out. Teachers, get a group order together and enjoy some good food at lunchtime. Birney Elementary will get 25% of all food purchases. Discount does not apply to deliveries.

Let’s enjoy some good food and support field
trips and assemblies for our Birney students.

Don't forget you can order it ahead of time and pick it up or even order it not cooked and cook it up later.

If you need a flier, download one here!

Garden Grant. Help us win!

Nature’s Path is giving $50,000 in cash, garden design, technical assistance, and fund raising support to two deserving communities.

Our school,

Alice Birney Elementary, an International Studies Magnet has a large established school garden comprised of numerous fruit trees, herbs, California native plants, drought tolerant plants and a beautiful vegetable garden. Additionally, the preschool has a small raised bed box to start teaching even our youngest community members how to grow food.

Approximately 3000 square feet of our urban campus is currently maintained by volunteers, parents, a paid Garden Club instructor (2 hours a week/16 weeks) and students for the purpose of growing food and learning about nature, plants and agriculture in general. Additionally, four compost bins and a worm bin are maintained to teach children about conservation, decomposers (bugs and bacteria) and natural soil amendment. With such an established garden, why are we requesting grant support?

We are humbly requesting financial assistance that will allow us to hire an independent educator (20 hours a week/36 weeks) to run the Garden Club and help the teaching staff integrate the garden into their classroom curriculum. The curriculum that is developed will belong to the school and will be used in future years. We also believe that if we pay for this position, we are demonstrating our support of those who pursue agricultural education in spite of an academic environment that is devastated by budget cuts. Thank you for your consideration and your support of agricultural education.

When you have a moment, please vote for Birney Elementary School Garden grant. Click the below link, go to the top/right 'log-in' box, create an account, and vote for Birney's garden project.

Please feel free to pass along to your friends and family. Every vote counts!

Pancakes!

Don't Forget, Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. So enjoy all you can eat pancakes and also help out the PTA. The money earned will help support student assemblies, field trips and events.