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Thank you, thank you to our wonderful PTC & to all the parents who make this school the awesome place that it is.

Wednesday, May 16th! End of  Year Performance for Pre-k & Kindergarten.  12:30 in the Fellowship Hall.

Last call for Lost & Found! Raincoats, lunch boxes, sippy cups & many, many articles of clothing.  Please come get your stuff before we clean it out!

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Please mark your calendars:  Mug & Muffin Resurrected (4/25 @ 9:45A) + Spring Work Day (5/5 @ 9A)

Mug & Muffin with Special Guest David Epstein, Weds., April 25th at 9:45, Quillian Room

Our very own Mr. David invites you to a special Mug & Muffin relating to sports, fitness, and health.  David’s non-profit organization, Atlanta ContactPoint, promotes local initiatives and develops new facilities to support healthy living.  David will discuss sports and activities available intown, plus tips for healthy snacks and lunches for your child.  Nutritious snacks & drinks will be served.

Questions?  Contact David Epstein, Atlanta ContactPoint, dejesam2000@yahoo.com

Spring Work Day, Saturday, May 5th from 9A - 1P on the playground

What better way to celebrate Cinco de Mayo?  Join parents and teachers for a morning of gratifying work sprucing up the playground.  Childcare, coffee, and snacks will be provided.  Details and volunteer information to follow.  Questions?  Contact our hard-working Work Days Chair, Guy Welch at guy@guywelch.com

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Questions about the PTC and your membership dollars at work?  Interested in serving on the PTC next year?  Please find me at school or contact me by e-mail jmctipping@gmail.com or phone 404 386 4668.

Thank you,

Jen Tipping

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5 Things To Do This Weekend–Click here–we make the  list!

April 2nd - 6th Closed for Spring Break

April 11th Last preschool tour 10:o0 in the Quillian Room.

April 11, 12, & 13 Spring Photos

Fellini owner Clay Harper has written a very funny children’s book & we are hosting a musical/theatrical performance of his book.  Sunday, April 15th 12:45 in the Fellowship Hall. “Are You Sure That Was A Rabbit” performance (music & theatre)–free.  Clay will be here & provide pizza for everyone.  Jas Ingram illustrator will be here also. Tell your friends & bring them along.

April 16-20 Scholastic Book Fair–Click here to see the volunteers so far!

April 25th & 26th–Fellini Pizza Day

Monday, April 23  Camp payment due in full.  No refunds after May 7.

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Spring photos with Kristy Photography.  Turn this form into your child’s teacher. There are extra forms on the hallway tables.  4/11,12,13

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Summer Camp forms have been sent home! Our Garden Camp (click here) now includes children ages 4-8. Summer Camp weeks are June 4th-June 29th & July 9th-Aug 3rd.  We are closed the week of July 4th.  FYI: At the end of Camp II we are closed from August 6th until the new school year begins September 4th.  All parent orientation is August 30th.

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A big Thank-You to the big house next door to the preschool (Green Gables) for donating their house for the Teachers Appreciation Party that takes place in May! Check out their website.

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Our web-calendar is loaded with daily information on our preschool.

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April photos with Kristy Photography: return this form to  your child’s teacher or you can pick one up on the hallway table.  4/11,12 & 13

Upcoming Bash news.. Click here!

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Summer Camp forms have been sent home! Our Garden Camp (click here) now includes children ages 4-8. Summer Camp weeks are June 4th-June 29th & July 9th-Aug 3rd.  We are closed the week of July 4th.  FYI: At the end of Camp II we are closed from August 6th until the new school year begins September 4th.  All parent orientation is August 30th.

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Thursday, March 1st Tuition Due-Click here for prices…

Yeah! Burger dine-out for DHUMP~!  Tuesday, March 6th

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Our web-calendar is loaded with daily information on our preschool.

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Our web-calendar is loaded with daily information on our preschool.

REMINDER:  Monday, 1/16 School closed for MLK Day.

Wednesday, 1/18 Preschool tours begin.. Please tell your friends to check our web calendar for all the tour dates through March or until we are full with a wait list.

Our January calendar is posted below.

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Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, check your email, or News & Views for the latest.
Please ‘Like’ our Bloomin’Bash page.

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January News:

Pennies for Pretty Potties–click here to see a sample of the mosaic design to be installed above sinks in the new bathroom.

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Wednesday, 1/4 First day back to school.

Monday, 1/16 School closed for MLK Day.

Wednesday, 1/18 Preschool tours begin.. Please tell your friends to check our web calendar for all the tour dates through March or until we are full with a wait list.

1/25th & 26th Fellini Pizza Day!

Saturday, 1/28th DHUMP ice skating party (click for tickets) at Piedmont Park @ 2:30 pm. Don’t forget to add the promo code DHUMP so we get 50% back. Adults & children 4yrs of age & up.

Monday, 1/30–Registration for the 2012-13 school year for our currently enrolled families. Applications will be sent home this week.

Tuesday, 1/31 Kindergarten open house 9:45-10:45am

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Summer Camp! Summer camp weeks are June 4th-June 29th & July 9th-Aug 3rd.  We are closed the week of July 4th.  Applications will be ready early March. At the end of Camp II we are closed from August 6th until the new school year begins September 4th.  All parent orientation is August 30th.

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Our web-calendar is loaded with daily information on our preschool.

Happy Holidays!

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Hello DHUMP Parents, Did you know that Fellini’s has been supporting DHUMP for 19 years with free pizza on Pizza Day? That’s right, they will donate over 240 pizzas to our kids this year alone. This started because both of the owners was a DHUMP parent, oh so many years ago. And it has continued every year since. Amazingly generous!

So we have arranged a couple of appreciation nights this month. This is how it will work. We want to support the locations that do the hard work baking pies for us each month. So on Monday, December 12th we will mob the McClendon Ave location in Candler Park. And on Tuesday, December 13th we will do the same at the Ponce de Leon Ave location in Poncey Highlands.

All you have to do is pick a night and a location, go the restaurant for a sit down dinner or order a pie to pick up to take home to the kids. It should be fun at the restaurant with all of the other DHUMP families. Just be sure to tell them that you’re a DHUMP family so that they know how much we appreciate all that they do for us. And don’t forget to leave a nice tip for the cooks and wait staff that always take such good care of us.

We picked these days because everyone will likely need a break from fixing dinner with the hoilday rush coming upon us. And, there isn’t a pizza day in December because of the holiday break, so the kids will have to get their fix. Here are the dates again.

Monday, December 12th
Fellini’s Candler Park
1634 McClendon Ave
404.687.9190

Tuesday, December, 13th
Fellini’s on Ponce
909 Ponce de Leon Ave
404.873.3088

Have a soup lunch after church and enjoy buying local art, crafts, fair-trade coffee, hand-knit items, sterling silver and gold wire jewelry, origami fairy wands, crystal collections, fused glass vases and bowls, ornaments, baked goods, Rebus Puzzle Book, Hand-baked Gingerbread Houses, Palestine Olive Oil, Mistletoe from our Youth, DHUMC bags from Children’s Team, Sweet/Spicy Pecans, Candles, Hair bows, and much much more. All profits go to the ICM Food Pantry, VBS, 6-Star Refugees, Oak Grove Liberian School, Atlanta Women’s Day Shelter, Global Health, KIVA microloans, and Genesis Shelter.  To sell a craft or ask questions, please contact Jean Ewing, 770-634-5678.

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Dine out @ El Taco Tuesday, Nov. 8th 2012   Please  join us at El Taco in Virginia Highland.  Portion of profits from the night are donated to DHUMP!  Thank you & see you there… El Taco

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Mark your calendars:  Saturday Dec. 3 @ 11AM DHUMP Barnes & Noble @ Edgewood. Queen Emeralda will be there with story time. When purchasing books, CDs or anything please tell them you are there for DHUMP and a percentage proceeds are donated to our preschool.

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Parent Network: We are happy to put your work information in this space for a donation to our Scholarship fund.

Aviary Organic Beauty Collection Girls night out Nov. 17th.

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Tuesday, November 1st–Tuition Due

Wednesday, November 2nd–Speech & Language Screening–click here for permission slip info.

If you’d like to volunteer for an hour, bake something for the bake sale, or donate prizes for games, please contact jmctipping@gmail.com or lisa@myeventperfect.com - see you there!

Saturday, November 5th–Fall Fling 10-2pm  Train rides, Artist Market, Free Pizza & much more..click here for more info...

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FarmMobile is back in VaHi! After much prodding, FarmMobile is coming back to the neighborhood this Thursday. They are going to make VaHi a regular stop every other Thursday. But we need to visit them so they will keep coming! I’ll send out a note here to remind everyone, but you can also ‘Like’ them on Facebook to get regular updates on their schedule.
FarmMobile will be in the upper parking lot at Druid Hills United Methodist Church at the corner of Briarcliff Road and Ponce De Leon Ave. Easiest access to the parking lot is from the traffic light at Briarcliff Road and St. Charles Place. They will be there from 1:30 pm until 3:00 pm. That means that you should be able to swing by after preschool and before SPARK releases.
For those of you unfamiliar with FarmMobile, it’s a mobile farmers market providing locally sourced produce, meat, bread, cheese and other goodies. Most of the produce is from Riverview Farms in Ranger. The grassfed beef and pastured Berkshire pork are from Riverview Farms too. The eggs are from a small farm just around the corner from Riverview, which provides the chicken feed. Some of the cheeses come from as far away as Tennessee. The chicken is from White Oak Pastures in Bluffton.

Eat local. Eat Organic

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Our lost and found overflows with your children’s clothes, lunch boxes & toys.  All unclaimed items will be donated to charity.