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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Hi current TNS families - </span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">To help welcome our incoming families to our school and acclimate them, we are continuing with our New Buddy system and we are in need of current families to be "HOST" Buddies for next year. This will help us build a stronger community as we link up each incoming family with a veteran parent who is already in our school. We have approximately 50 new families joining our school next year therefore, <b>WE NEED 50 HOST BUDDIES</b>!</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br>Being a HOST Buddy is easy and not terribly time consuming; all you need to do is email/call your new buddy over the summer once we assign you and send a quick welcome note, perhaps with a little info about your children’s age/s, grade and teacher and maybe a little something about why you chose TNS. Plus, you would be on hand to be a resource for new families and answer questions they might have (what is SING? What time is drop off? What's the Holiday Fair? Etc.) We make it super easy for you - we even draft a note that you can copy and paste with your name! This is a great way to help out our school community behind the scenes - you can send a welcome email whenever it is convenient for you! We are especially in need of parents who speak a second language (you can indicate this to us when you sign up), primarily Spanish but Chinese and Russian is also helpful. <br><br>Interested? Sign up via Google Form Below or reply to me (Ella: <a href="mailto:ellaleitner@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">ellaleitner@gmail.com</a>) with your <b>name, email, phone and child's name and grade next year (plus foreign language if applicable)</b>. Spouses can both sign up to be buddies. We need as many buddies to help out as possible and for working parents, this is a great way to help out with a school initiative if you are not usually around during school hours!</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Sign up to be a HOST Buddy here:</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#1155cc"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><u><a href="https://goo.gl/forms/8QB5rg4FxwSTcl1q1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://goo.gl/forms/<wbr>8QB5rg4FxwSTcl1q1</a></u></span></font><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align: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<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font color="#993399">-----</font><div><font color="#993399">Ella Leitner</font></div><div><font color="#993399">Email: <a href="mailto:ellaleitner@gmail.com" target="_blank">ellaleitner@gmail.com</a><br></font><div><font color="#993399">Cell: 917-449-9422</font></div></div></div></div>
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