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Are You Cleaning Out Your Gift Closet?

Please Consider Helping The Giftmakers

Looking for a family activity that will directly help out other South Puget Sound families? Clean out your "gift" closet, shop a few sales and contribute to a fabulous student-run program right here in the South Puget Sound area. Giftmakers is a program operated by students in the Puyallup School District. They coordinate toy, book, game, and stocking stuffer drives, and the items collected are given to local families in need during a two-day gift giveaway in early December.

Organizers, who work year-round in preparation for the following year’s event, are seeking the following new items from the community to make this year’s gift-giving a success:

• Toys, books, and board games for children ages 4 to 14. Each child is given a new toy and several books, and each family receives a board game.
• Sporting equipment such as basketballs, plastic bats and balls, and volleyballs.
• Infant and pre-school toys.
• Holiday stockings and stocking stuffers.

Now all of Pierce County can easily contribute to this event! Drop boxes are available at all Sylvan Learning Centers in the South South Area:

Puyallup: 12020 Meridian Ave. E. 98373 (253) 848-0771
Graham: 9807 224th St. E. (253) 262-2050
Bonney Lake: 8708 188th Ave. E. (253) 862-4100
Fircrest: 2089 Mildred St. W. (253) 565-0922
Lakewood: 11150 Gravelly Lake Drive (253) 582-2000
Auburn: (253) 417 E. Main (253) 218-0590
Olympia/Lacey: 3825 Martin Way E. (360) 438-1833

For more information, check out the Giftmakers website at:
http://www.puyallup.k12.wa.us/ourcommunity/partnerships/giftmakers.cfm

Forgotten Math Night '09 Take Aways

This seminar, for parents, focused on a pre-algebra and algebra refresher to give adults more confidence in helping their students with their math homework. Fun with Fractions, Intersting Integers, Dynamic Decimals & Perfecting Percentages, Acing Algebraic Equations, Grapple with Graphing and Excelling with Exponents were covered.

Stay tuned for our next Forgotten Math Night.