February 1, 2010 – Newsletter
Upcoming Event: School Closure / Presidents Day
Date/Time: February 15
Who it impacts: All School Families
Overview: As posted in the calendar, we are off for Presidents' Day. If daycare is a need, we may be able to accommodate. Please contact the office if this is something that you are interested in. We will post a decision as to childcare (the 15th) in next week's newsletter.
Upcoming Event: Calendar Change
Date/Time: February 22
Who it impacts: All School Families
Overview: This was announced in the last newsletter, so this is just a reminder that although the calendar shows February 22 as a day off school for teacher's inservice, we took that day last month (January 19). This means that we will be in school in February 22. Please change your calendar accordingly. If parents have already made arrangements to take their child(ren) out for the day and those arrangements cannot be changed, we need you to contact the office to have the day excused. Otherwise, we are expecting all students to be in class on this day. Again, we try to set our calendar a year in advance, and when changes like this need to occur, we are grateful for the understanding and the flexibility of our school families.
Upcoming Event: Mission Trip Meeting
Date/Time: February 4 – 6:00pm
Who it impacts: Those interested in participating in the Mission Trip
Overview: The Tesopaco Mission Trip will run on the dates that are posted in the calendar so as to allow us to accommodate those several students who will be joining us from UCA. We will meet to go over the schedule in detail (handouts will be provided), and we will
also be looking at other options for fundraising. If you have not yet turned in your information regarding participating, and if you are planning to participate, please inform us at the office so that we can build a more detailed budget for the trip. I would like to present the final list of participants at this meeting.Upcoming Event: Badminton Night
Date/Time: February 1 / 6:30-8:00pm
Who it impacts: 7th grade and up
Overview: The nets will be set up and the gym is going to be open to play some badminton. Games will be drop-in in format. If enough players show, we can go to ladder tournament format. The objective is just to come out and have some fun. If the turn-out warrants it, we'll make this a weekly feature through February.
Upcoming Event: Principal's Open Gym
Date/Time: February 9 / 5:45-7:00pm
Who it impacts: All elementary students (through 6th grade)
Overview: I don't get opportunity to play with the lower elementary students very often, so I am going to open the gym next Tuesday for an elementary gym night. For all those who come out, we'll be playing indoor soccer. This will be a first-time event. If interest continues, we will try to do this on a twice-monthly basis.
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lucky library numbers for this week are 9 and 224. Come see Mr. O to claim your prize.
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Other Information Worthy of Note:
Stars and Stripes over TCJA…
It was more than 12 years ago that the flag that had been flying in front of our school was taken down, the pole was removed, and a smaller flag was attached to the side of the gym. Over the past few years we have been planning to put in a new flag pole, but it took until this year before someone took the helm and got that ball rolling. We want to thank Mr. Laubach and his crew (his dad and brother, Patrick, Dean and several others) for the work over Christmas, getting our new flagpole erected. Also, we want to thank Mr. Daniel, Mr. Kostoff and our Tri-City pathfinders for hosting a special dedication and first unfurling service. Finally, we want to thank our seventh and eighth grade students who have been faithfully raising and lowering the flag every day. It is nice to see our flag waving over us each day.
Thank-You...
The Mission Trippers want to thank all those who came out to the dinner last weekend. The evening was a huge success. Special thanks to the Salangos for the meal. All of their labor and their travel was donated as their gift to the mission project. We'd like to thank our parents for their support throughout the project, from helping with decorations to tearing down. We'd also like to thank all those who took a risk on us and purchased tickets. We are still seeking donations to the project. We will be building a dining room, and the total cost for the building will be about $6,800.00. We are currently about $2,700 short of that goal.
