Monday, April 22, 2013

Mrs. V-No has school spirit!


She decorated pumpkins as Ernie & Bert
to decorate the kitchen for fall.
Ms. Vienneau, our Kitchen Manager, has a knack for spreading school spirit!  Her enthusiasm is a perfect fit for prek-2 school.  She even spells her name tag phonetically as V-No.  Here are some examples of the many ways Ms. V-No adds fun to our school:

  • Throughout the year, she decorates the kitchen for each season with her own hand-made creations, including gingerbread houses and specially decorated pumpkins.


    With students on Book Character Day.
  • She randomly surprises students with stickers for eating their vegetables and trying new dishes. 
  • She created 'Lucky Lunch Day', to encourage students who might not normally buy a lunch to try school food.  (Students who participate are randomly chosen for prizes she purchased).
  • If there is a surplus of a particular side item, she draws funny faces on them to entice students to choose it.  (A clever way to promote white milk over chocolate).
  • She not only dresses up for school theme days, i.e., "Career Day" and "Book Character Day," she also creates her own theme days.  For example, on Cinco de Mayo you will find her wearing a sombrero and mustache.
    Lucky Lunch Prizes
  • On her own birthday, she dons a birthday crown and gives away special pencils.
  • She is also a talented cake maker who creates special cakes for staff meetings and retirement parties.
  • She participates in school events on weekends and evenings-even bringing along her grown daughter to share a PTO Breakfast with Santa.
    Cake she created for staff members
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  • Ms. V-No is always ready with age appropriate jokes. "What do you say if someone tries to take your cheese?....Nacho-cheese."  (Told while serving nachos).

Spending a Saturday morning with
 her daughter at a PTO event.
Posters she created to advertise
lunch menu.