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Good morning Shepherd families and friends,

We’re getting to the home stretch of the school year – but don’t let up yet! We’ve got a list of activities to send us home over the next few weeks!

In this week’s PTO Bulletin…

  • Shepherd Musical – Thurs, June 2nd at 6 pm (come watch!)
  • Spirit Weeks – June 6th-June 18th
  • Fifth Grade Exhibitions – June 8th
  • Field Day – Friday, June 9th
  • PK4 Move Up Ceremony – June 10th
  • 5th Grade Promotion – June 22nd at 4:30 pm
  • Calendar of Events

Shepherd Musical – Lights! Camera! Action! -TONIGHT at 6:00 pm

Join us to see our first live action performance in several years by our Shepherd Stars! Come cheer on your friends and watch them sing, dance and put on a great show! Come watch in person or live on TEAMS here.

FIELD DAY – Thursday, June 9th

The annual Shepherd FIELD DAY IS BACK!

We’re excited to see everyone out on the field again playing games, bouncing balls, running, hula-hooping, and enjoying some popsicles!

More details coming soon

Spirit Weeks!

We’ll have TWO SPIRIT WEEKS to close out the school year…get ready to have fun and be creative!

June 6th – Dress for the beach

June 7th – Crazy Hat/Wacky Hair Day

June 8th – Shepherd Spirit Day

June 9th – FIELD DAY

June 10th – Pajama Day

June 13th – Crazy Sock Day

June 14th – Twin Day

June 15th – Shepherd Spirit Day

June 16th – College Spirit Day

June 17th – Pajama Day

THANKS to our AWESOME Gala/Auction Volunteers!!!

We couldn’t have done it without you! A HUGE THANKS to a few parents who really took the lead to pull off this year’s Gala and Auction – Stephanie Bingham, Julia Skapik, Jennifer Fessler, Jodi Arellano, Anthony Rodell, Nicole Carter-Matthew, and ALL THE ROOM PARENTS!

Seeking PTO Nominating Committee Members

We’re looking for 3 parents (not related to anyone on the current PTO Board) to run our Nominating Committee and Elections in June.

If you can volunteer to help, please email pto@shepherd-elementary.org.

Nominations for PTO Board Positions for the 22-23 school year

Nominations are open for ALL positions on the Shepherd PTO Board. Check out our page here for the positions, descriptions and what the PTO does for Shepherd Elementary. Self nominations and nominations by others are allowed.

Please submit all nominations to elections@shepherd-elementary.org.

Support the Shepherd 180 Fund

Help the Shepherd PTO fund lots of great events, initiatives, and extra circular efforts at Shepherd this year by donating to the 180 Fund.

It’s called the 180 Fund because there are 180 instructional days in the school year and your donation of a dollar a day per student helps the PTO support sending students on offsite field trips, funding teacher educational wish lists, putting on school plays and concerts, updating outdoor playground equipment, funding additional academic supports, and hosting school-wide events! This budget really helps us give our students even more unique, meaningful and enriching opportunities each year.

Any contribution is always much appreciated. And as a reminder, your contribution is 100% tax deductible. Thanks for your support – we’re looking forward to getting back to BETTER THAN NORMAL

THANKS to our 180 Fund DONORS

MANY, MANY THANKS to the following families:

Snyder-Johnson Family

Arellano Family

Kunce Family

Bradley Family

Bennett Family

Beridon Family

Tivol Family

Lyles Family

Faulman-Coffey Family

Johnston-Gruetzmacher Family

Archer Family

Lipton-Marnon Family

Richards Family

Frias Family

Raglani Family

Jabaily-Messing Family

Ju Family

Walton-Prather Family

Marchand Family

Zettle Kreisberg Family

Weerasingha-Cote Family

Yonkwa-Rijmen Family

Boykin-Chase Family

Romine Family

Roberts Family

Marks-Fagen Family

Holdridge-Ma Family

Varda Glover Family

Yang Family

Steele Family

Escalante Family

Gallagher Family

Rodell Family

Prabhu-McDonald Family

DeAngelo Family

Dorsett-Holliday Family

Musgrove Family

Singh Family

Mitchell Family

Francis Family

Carlyle Family

Joiner Family

Martin Family

Mokodean Family

Britton Family

Smith Family

Head Family

Gulczynski-Gupta Family

Goodman Family

Marrkand Family

Youssef Family

Hayes Family

Daly Family

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