Summer Activity Packs

We need YOUR help!  Support Kyrene Kids in need this summer by providing educational and fun items to promote learning! 900 Summer Activity Packs will be distributed to Kyrene Kids in need in grades Kindergarten—3rd grade.

We need 900:
packs of crayons, packs of markers, deck of cards, card games, spiral bound notebooks, glue sticks, jump rope, pair of dice, small puzzles and games


* All items must be received by Monday, March 19, 2011.


Donation Drop Off Locations:
Kyrene Resource Center            Kyrene District Office
1330 East Dava Drive                  8700 S. Kyrene Road
Tempe, AZ 85284                         Tempe, AZ 85226

Cerritos 2nd Graders (and a Kinder!) Volunteer!

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Thank you Cerritos!!  Hygiene bags packed, food boxes packed, pallets of canned goods unloaded, books sorted and summer project started...WHEW!!!  Great work today Cerritos!

YOU Can Make a Difference Too!

Looking for a way to get involved and make a difference?  Check out the Kyrene Resource Center's upcoming projects and opportunities.

FRC TOUR – Friday, February 3^rd, 9:45 am

Anyone is welcome to come over and find out all about KFRC.  This is a great awareness opportunity for our Kyrene Community!  Find out what we do here, who we serve and why we do it.  Most of our donors and volunteers become involved with the Foundation or make donations to the Resource Center after touring the center. 

SUMMER ACTIVITY PACKS – we need to create 900 kits to be sent home!

Summer Activity Kits are distributed to all of our homeless and at risk students who fall far below grade level.  Activity Kits are grade specific and include academic materials created by teachers and specialists in Kyrene.  The Kits are designed to keep kids engaged in learning over the summer break. 

What we know and understand is not all of our students will be given learning opportunities over the summer break, in fact many of them will be unsupervised at home for most of the summer.  Summer Activity Kits is one way we can keep those students engaged in the learning process and offer summer fun like jump ropes!  Kits are distributed to students on the last day of school.

We will begin collecting items for Summer Activity Kits in February!

How can YOU help?

• We need groups to hold donation drives Do you have a group or a business that can help us with this project?  We will need 900 of each item to complete our packs! Drives can collect one or more of the following needed items:
• Crayons
• Markers
• Deck of cards
• Wide ruled spiral bound notebooks
• glue sticks
• jump rope
• pair of dice (can purchase 10pack dice to be broken into pairs)
• small puzzles and games
• Sorting and organizing event: March 19 from 3:30-6:30 at the district office board room.  Volunteer groups welcome!  
•  Our assembly day for this project will be on Wednesday, March 21^st from 1-4pm at the district office board room.    

WISHES COME TRUE!

In Kyrene, we want all our students wishes to come true!  Graduation and promotion dances are a big rite of passage for our students.  For many of our families buying a semi-formal dress that will be worn once or twice...is not an option.  For that reason we hold our Wishes Come True event where school administrators and teachers can refer a student in need to come and 'shop' for a dress, accessories, purse, shoes and more for the big day!

Collection of dresses and accessories  will begin on Monday, March 19 when we return from Spring Break and will continue through the month of April.  Donations of gently used dresses for 8^th grade promotion ceremonies are needed, donations of jewelry, and new make-up items, gift sets, hair supplies, etc. are also accepted.  Please remember dresses need to meet school dress codes.

Donations can be brought to our Kyrene Family Resource Center.

The Wishes Come True event will be held on Thursday, May 3^rd from 4-7 pm at the District Office, volunteers are needed.  

FRC Volunteer Day – Friday, May 25^th 8am-noon

This is a great volunteer day!  Although volunteers are needed weekly at the Resource Center, at the end of May we hold a large volunteer day to help close the Resource Center for the Summer months.  Kyrene Schools are closed this day but we are OPEN for volunteers.  There is lots of work and heavy-lifting involved on this particular day, so all volunteers need to be ages 12+.  Any middle-school/high school volunteers must have a parent present to volunteer on this day.  RSVP’s for this project should be sent to kfvolunteer@cox.net.

Any RSVPs or questions about connecting and volunteering with KFRC can be sent to kfvolunteer@cox.net

Our Friends at Denny's!

Thank you to Karla Piecuch and crew over at Denny's Restaurants! 

Karla came by this morning with a check for three hundred dollars and a bunch of new toys which will be used for our Summer Activity Kits and stored for next year's Winter Wonderland!

Toys were donated by loyal Denny's patrons and the money came from a contest to "like" Denny's on Facebook.

As she was leaving our center Karla asked us about the NEXT project they could help us out on with ANOTHER drive.... wow.  Thank you for all of your support Denny's!

Hungry?  How about dinner tonight at one of our Friends of Kyrene Foundation restaurants?



Denny's Restaurants

7400 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler -  I-10 & Chandler Blvd.

1750 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler - Dobson & Chandler Blvd.

1661 E. Warner Road., Gilbert - Val Vista & Warner Road



Cerritos Kids Care!

Cerritos Kids Care Club! 

144 Cerritos Students participated in Kids Care Club in the month of November. The students were able to complete 74 fleece blankets that were donated to Kyrene Family Resource Center’s Winter Wonderland.

Along with the blankets, Cerritos Kids paired books and cards to go with the age appropriate blankets. The Kids Care Club Teachers would like to thank Parents and PTO for their generous donations of fleece fabric and books for this huge undertaking by our elementary students.

Each month the group will focus on a different service project benefiting our community. 

What a WONDERFUL thing! 

Thank you Cerritos Kids!! YOU are making a difference!

Kyrene de los Cerritos Knows Fundraising can be FUN!

Cerritos kids were challenged to raise money for the Kyrene Family Resource Center and their reward was sweet!

If they raised over $100.00 then their principal and student advisor would wear custom made holiday jumpers to school.

Looks like Cerritos kids were up for the challenge!

Darcy DiCosmo, Principal and Sarah Collins, Student Advisor
Kyrene de los Cerritos Elementary

Dental Clinic

Wednesday January 3rd 9-11:30am

•Dental clinic is completely FREE, no income or insurance requirements.

•For any child under the age of 6 years old. (0-5).

•A oral health screening is done by a hygienist, visual exam only, no instruments.

•Fluoride Varnish is applied (painted on the teeth).

•Whole process takes under 5 minutes.

Fluoride varnish can reverse early damage to teeth and protects teeth for up to six months.

Children can receive these services every THREE months.

No RSVP or appointment required!

Dental clinics at KFRC will be the first Wednesday of Every Month 9-11:30am.

Kyrene Family Resource Center

1330 E Dava Dr.

Tempe, AZ

(located just west of Kyrene de los Ninos Elementary School campus)

Questions?

Amanda Nosbisch 480.783.4177 or anosbisch@kyrene.org<mailto:anosbisch@kyrene.org