Grades 1 – 3  Chessie Celebration

Black Eyed Susan Celebration

Nominations for 2008-2009 PTA Officers

The following individuals have agreed to serve on the SPES PTA for next year.

Nancy Jackson

Backpacks for Woodside

 If anyone is interested in donating a supply-filled backpack to Woodside Elementary please email:  Nancy Jackson (n1jackson@verizon.net) and tell her what grade level.  At the end of the year, she will send you a supply list for the grade you choose (it is fun to have your grade student do one for the same grade.)  The filled backpacks are needed by mid-August.  At Woodside, the students in need come to the school before the new school year begins and they get to pick their own backpack.   Last year it was truly amazing to see the counselor’s room filled with backpacks! 

Friday Night Spring Fair a Huge Success!!

Despite the threatening weather, this year’s Spring Fair was a huge success!

The large crowd who attended the evening fair had a great time.  A special thank you to Mary Winstanley and Karen Ramsey for organizing this huge event.  Also, thank you to the “army” of volunteers who helped set-up or clean up, manned the booths, sold tickets, donated sodas, baked goodies, etc.  YOU made this year’s fair a success! 

The awesome Rock Wall provided by Big Vanilla Fitness Center was great fun too!  Thank you, Big V for helping our Spring Fair ROCK! 

Ledo Pizza Fundraiser Ends in June 2008

Ledos Pizza will be offering up their fundraiser nights to other schools in the area for the 2008-2009 school year.  What a great opportunity Ledos has provided us for some easy revenue to help fund our PTA projects.  We thank them.  The last few SPES pizza nights will be after 5 PM on Monday,

June 16

Please remember to mention SPES when you pay your bill!! 

Scholastic Book Fair Spreads the Joy of Reading

The BOGO Book Fair was a great success!  We were able to give Woodside over 100 new books purchased or donated from the Book Fair.  Thanks everyone for your generosity!  Scholastic will match every $ with a donated book to their charity.  We collected $111 for our Woodside book purchases – so that means Scholastic will donate 111 books!!  Great work!!  Nancy Jackson’s dedication is what makes this event a continued success at our school.  Thank you, Nancy, and to all those parent volunteers who helped run the fair!

LAST BOXTOP Contest Ends June 3^rd

Mrs. Repko’s clippers win again!!!

Her winning class received $4 vouchers to use for shopping at the BOGO Book Fair! Prizes also included cool Scholastic pencils and erasers.  Don't forget to use those Food Lion coupons to get your class 30 bonus BOXTOPS.  Mrs. Repko's class, after 4 wins in a row, is sure to be using theirs!  We have some great prizes from our last Book Fair that you won't want to miss, so keep on clipping!  Our last contest ends June 3^rd!

Please remember to keep collecting over summer vacation so we can start the year off with a bang!!  A reminder of the items we are collecting:

General Mills Box Tops

Campbell’s Label (Symbol & UPC Code

Tyson Product A+ Bonus Labels

Nestle Pure Life Go Play Water Labels

Kleenex TABS

Back-To-School Book Boost

Send in 30 Kleenex tissue box TABS for a chance to earn 15 Scholastic books for your child’s classroom!

Visit www.earlychildhoodtoday.com/kleenex for all the tools needed to create your own Back-To-School Boost Collection Box

Remove TABS from your Kleenex products all summer long. (From top of box)

Save TABS in your Back-to-School Book Boost Collection Box and get them to your teacher ASAP.

Send a box of Kleenex Anti-Viral Tissues with your child on the first day of school.

Starting August 15, teachers can mail 30 TABS to Back-to-School Book Boost, 557 Broadway, P.O. Box711, New York, NY 10012 to receive 15 Scholastic books for their classroom.  Limited to the first 1,000 entries

Grounds Committee Accepting Plant Donations

When digging in your garden this spring and even this fall, please consider donating some of your perennials to the Grounds Committee.  They will even come and dig them up for you!!  Please contact Julie Shay at feyshay@comcast.net.  Thank you!!

E-mail Communications

Please be sure to update your email address with the SPES main office.  By doing so, you can receive newsletters from the PTA and SPES, as well as emergency notices from the office and last minute school reminders.  Thank you for helping to keep the lines of communication open between home and school.  The following page contains a form you may fill out and send in to the office.

SPES E-Mail Communications

Please take the time to update your email addresses with the office.  Your email address will allow you to receive newsletters, emergency notices, and last minutes reminders from SPES.  Thank you!

Thanks for another great school year!  Please remember to log your volunteer hours before the end of the school year.  Our 08-09 volunteer form is attached.  If you’d like to get a jump-start on filling out your paperwork for next year, please feel free to complete the form now and return it to Alyson Figlioli.  Thanks again for all your hard work this year.

Thinking Ahead - EEP

Please consider instructing a course for our Educational Enrichment Program next fall.  Ideas include sign language, horticulture (working with our PTA Grounds Committee) or one of your own ideas!  Contact Susan Gumula at susangumula@yahoo.com or 410-419-0952, anytime over the summer to get started!

Visit www.innisbrook.com and enter our school number:  102557

1. Choose the appropriate grade pack (remember to choose NEXT YEAR’S grade level and pay via credit card.
2. If you have any questions, please call Molly Hasson at 410-421-5310 or Innisbrook’s Customer Service at 1-800-334-8461 (M-F, 8:30 AM-5:00 PM Eastern Time)
3. Order Deadline:  June 30, 2008.  The school supply packs will be shipped directly to your home prior to the start of school.

   Price Information (Cost per pack)

   Grade………………………Price

   1^st………………………….$25.01

   ^2nd…………………………$29.49

   3^rd…………………………$33.36

   4^th…………………………$30.70

   5^th…………………………$38.28

   K………………………….$27.02

   ***Teachers may request that you purchase additional items.

Thank you for your Direct Donations!!!!!

Thank you to everyone that participated in the Direct Donations Campaign this year.  Because of your contributions, the PTA was able to fund the following projects.

New video camera and monitor for the school – used in morning announcements and other projects.

A bought Agenda Books and Home Folders for each student.

Cash donations given to each teacher, both classroom and resource, to supplement items bought for the classrooms.  We also gave money to each grade to buy necessary materials for that grade.

Beautification of the school grounds – the PTA was able to landscape around the sign out front of the school and supply lots of plants and mulch to the new and existing flowerbeds.

Provided snacks to each student during Stanford and MSA Tests, as well as the Winter Concert.  PTA also provided the food for the end of year parties.

Sponsored several Fine Arts Programs for enrichment of all the students including:

Susan Stockdale, author and Illustrator

Illstyle Dance – character building using dance, drama, and music

“The Amazing Road Trip” with Mike Rose – in conjunction with our social studies curriculum

 Mark Lohr – History of Vaudeville – “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again”

PTA paid the registration fee for our school nurse, Sharon Grimes, to go to a conference on allergies that provided great information to her to share with the rest of the staff.

Supported financially the Black Eyed Susan and Chessie programs as well as supplemented your donations to birthday books so that every student in the school received a book in honor of his/her birthday for the library.

Scholastic Book Fair - Profits made gave teachers and staff $ for books and materials for classrooms.

Financially support SPES in various areas:

Technology

Art supplies

Ice Cream Social

Provided thank you breakfast/luncheons/gifts for the teachers and staff.

These are just some of the projects that you have funded this year.  Decisions for several projects are still pending…. keep your eyes open!!  All are welcome to attend monthly PTA meetings.

P.S.  Thank you Susan Streaker for your dedication to student initiatives, including our fabulous reading program!  You’ve done a great job!