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Palos Verdes High School car wash coming this Saturday!

October 24th, 2012

Palos Verdes High School AVID Family! It’s time for our 5th Annual Car Wash. In this blog, I will try to address some questions you may have about the Car Wash. Here we go….

DO WE NEED EVERYONE’S HELP?
Yes. We need everyone’s help.

HOW CAN I / MY FAMILY HELP?
Your family can help in some of the following ways:
1) Attend the Car Wash and wash cars. Bring the whole family. It’s a fun day!
2) Bake some delicious treats for the bake sale end of the car wash. If you’re able, package them for sale, but if you’re not able to package them don’t worry. You can bring them game day or you can deliver them the day before to your AVID teacher’s classroom.
3). Bring liquid refreshments to the car wash. A case of water or a gatorade type beverage is fantastic. A 6-pack of water or beverage is fabulous. Bring what you like to drink and bring a couple of extra for someone else and then we’ll have plenty. Bring your drinks on game day or bring over the next couple of days to your AVID teacher’s classroom.
4) Bring food for you and a few others. Families in the past have brought: breakfast burritos, bagels, subway, pizza, Taco Bell, and more. Again, bring what you like and if you feed 2-10 other people then we’ll be able to keep all our troops fueled up for the morning and post car wash clean up.
5) Bring a cooler for the drinks. If you bring it game day, ice would be clutch. If you bring it to your AVID teacher’s classroom by Friday we will get the ice (if available down in the athletic trainer’s office).
6) Do you or someone you know play in a band? We need more performers for the concert end of our Car Wash and Concert.
7) Bring some towels home to wash and dry. If everyone takes one load home, that will “spread the wealth” on this fun job. Wash and dry at your leisure and return to your AVID teacher.
8) Wear a costume on the day of the wash!AVID CAR WASH FUN (and some not so fun) FACTS
The Car Wash started 5 years ago and almost nobody (except the AVID teachers) thought it would be successful. The highest anyone at PV High had made on a car wash was between $1,000 to $2,000. When you factor in the $50 most AVID families spend on their 5 car wash tickets and all the students at PVHS buying car wash tickets for extra credit, we have made $10,000 or more many years on the car wash.

Where does the money go? The money is deposited into our ASB account. Our biggest expense is tutoring. Our tutors do not make a ton per hour, but over the course of 10 months, it adds up. Also, we pay the teacher tutors for their good work in January and June when they man our after school finals tutorials. Other money is used to defer the cost of buses when there is an AVID trip, or to pay for the substitute teachers when an AVID teacher is chaperoning an AVID trip, to pay for the AVID t-shirt (coming soon) you receive the first semester each year, to pay for some classroom supplies, and some Fun Friday costs and more! The money cannot come out of our AVID ASB account without a receipt. So everything is documented and on the up and up.

THANK YOU for helping make the AVID Car Wash and Concert (and Bake Sale) one of the best days of the year. See you Saturday. Teachers will be at school from 6:45 am to the end of wash (hopefully around 1:30 if we have a large clean up committee 🙂

An awesome photo from last year.

PVHS AVID 10 update

December 1st, 2011

AVID 10,
Bagels tomorrow! Yay! Thank you bagel families!

Grade POs due. EC to write a letter to last guest speakers: Michelle and Laura.

Room 306 is ours thanks to Ms. Sheridan who wanted to keep the room but realized it was perfect for our AVID class and gave it up for us. A big thank you to Ms. Sheridan who comes back from maternity leave this coming Monday!

Thanks to all who RSVPed (Yes or No). I attended the AVID 12 dinner tonight and it was a great time. I doubly look forward to ours on Wednesday!

Tomorrow we will spend half the class on our essay. Tuesday will be the same and notes are due Tuesday as well.

We had a great lesson from Studyhut’s SP and Rob Stone on Wednesday where we learned that for difficult problems with “easy” answers, it’s a great opportunity to “work backwards” and plug in the answer choices into the problem to find your answer (starting with the middle number). Thanks Rob and SP! HW for practice on this lesson is out of the book and is due our next Wednesday A day in 2 weeks.

Wow! December already…

All the best to all you beautiful people

PVHS AVID update

November 16th, 2011

Wednesday is a tutorial day in AVID. Also, your SAT homework is due. Please have that ready to be turned in to the bin. Hand it in after you go over it with our SAT tutors. The SAT plan is as follows:
1) go over “Plug in the numbers” assignment from two times ago,
2) review any questions on the internet/computer problem assignment (although those were meant to be on the easier side….not to make you feel bad if you got them wrong….).
3) a new lesson will be taught with a new assignment. New assignment will be due on Wedneday November 30.
Tutorial to follow SAT prep.

Friday we will:
1) meeting with tutors (please have your planner for the meeting)
2) finish the 60 Minutes
3) read some Lone Survivor
4) catch up on some recently ignored vocabulary
5) take a long since promised excursion to the market in the last 40 minutes of class
Guest speaker was rescheduled for that date.

Tuesday before Thanksgiving:
Notes due. Guest speaker. Read some Lone Survivor

Monday after Thanksgiving:
Nothing due. Tutorial was cancelled.

Important dates:
Jan. 11, 12 and 17: after school tutorials from 3:00-4:00 with PVHS teachers
Jan. 14 (Saturday): Study sessions from 9:30 to 11:30 and 12:30-2:230. Attend one or both. Taco Man coming from 11:30 to 12:30. Everyone to be fed. This is a reward for an amazing job on the car wash!

PVHS AVID banquet

May 24th, 2011

A picture says a thousand words…….

Tutors at the AVID banquet