Tickets can be sold for $5.00 per ticket or $25 per packet of 6. Families each receive 12 packets to sell for starters. Tickets available in the website shop or click the link at the top of the website’s home page. Or, click here: on or after the 18th.
You don’t have to live in Santa Cruz or be present to win. Schools all over our community are participating in this event, so the sooner you can get out and sell your tickets, the better
Come to a feast prepared by your children using food they gathered from the garden. There will be sweets and savories galore. Arrive on time and don’t forget your waste free place settings.
SPCA educators will come to the kinder hut to give a presentation called “Our Wild Neighbors”
School portraits will be taken for the yearbook and photo packages can be purchased.
Come listen to your children sing some songs then send them along to aftercare (compliments of Orchard for this event) and hear about how we structure our time in class together, along with information about field trips. Mostly this is a time to connect and get to know each other better.
Come in costume! Classes will perform skits. There may be a puppet show and there may be a guided tour through the "haunted willows".
Rosy, Tara, and Jane will take the kinders and first graders to the Seymour Center for their Underwater Wonders Discovery Lab and Tour. Here’s a brief description of the content:
Discover the underwater relationships among marine animals and plants living in tidepools and kelp forests. Investigate live animals and plants to learn and model how they work together as parts of an ecosystem.
We will leave school by 10 and return by 1:30. We will have lunch at the site after our lab. We will need a lot of carpool drivers but can only have a limited number of chaperones join the lab. More details to follow.
SPCA educators will come to the kinder hut to give a presentation called “Pet Care 101”
Performers please arrive at 6
We will have a finger food potluck and a holiday market in the yurt from 7:30-8:30
We will take the city bus from the bottom of Trout Gulch Road, two stops, to the Aptos Library. We’ll stay for story time with a librarian, get library cards, check out books, eat lunch, and then hop back on the bus to come back to school about 1pm.
Tara and Rosy will be traveling together on this trip. We welcome a parent chaperone as well.
Stay tuned for more details.
Childcare provided free of charge in our school’s aftercare program.
The financial aid deadline for returning students for the 2025-2026 school year is February 13th. We give priority to continuing students but will offer remaining monies to new families shortly after this date. Please be sure to turn in all tax information and all of the necessary paperwork, facts and figures, so there are no delays. The application costs $45 and can be found on the website under the Admissions tab. Look for the button named FAST. For help, please contact FAST’s support email address: familysupport@ismfast.com
This event will be similar to last year’s “casino night” with some tweaks. The date is a placeholder. We’ll let you know when it’s official.
SPCA educators will come to the kinder hut to give a presentation called “State and National Animal Symbols”
Please pay your re-enrollment fee by this date to hold your child’s place to attend in the fall.
Childcare provided free of charge in our school’s aftercare program.
This is an all school event. Students will participate in a short performance followed by a celebration of our graduates. We’ll end with a zero-waste, finger-food potluck.
Meet on the kinder deck at 12:30! Kindergarten family and friends only. Ceremony followed by potluck. You may take your children home early or hang around with them until 3pm.
And that’s a wrap! Half day and no hot lunch! Have a great summer Orchard families!
Our last Friday is a minimum day — School ends at noon. Families may set up tents then and return to the campout no earlier than 7pm.
