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PTO Newsletter October 2013 News from around Clinton Park: Letter from the Administrators The school year is off to a great start. We have enjoyed every minute of getting to know you and your precious little one. Thank you to all of the volunteers who helped to make Clinton Park's Grandparents' Day one of the best ever. It definitely could not of happened without you. We are so excited about the upcoming Family Read Night. We hope that you will join us for the fun family event. Again, we are so appreciative of all of the parents and students that make Clin- ton Park an awesome place to be! Thank you, Suzanne Hollingshead Amanda Tullos Spirit night winners for the month of September are: Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night– Ms. Rayburn’s class won an ice cream party! Domino’s Spirit Night– Ms. Smith’s class won a pizza party! Mystery Friday Clinton Park PTO members will be coming around to each class on Mystery Friday and counting how many students in the class have on a Clinton Park T-shirt! Make sure your child wears their shirt every Friday to show school spirit and help their class win! Also, the PTO has a few extra shirts if you have not yet purchased one. Send $10 (youth sizes) with your child in an envelope marked PTO T-shirt, and the shirt will be sent home with your child. Sizes are on a first come first served basis. PTO President’s Notes Many thanks to all parents and PTO members who helped make the activities during the month of September a success! The PTO hosted Grand- parent’s days September 4-6. Fundraising committee sold cups, tattoos, decals and spirit shirts at the high school home football game September 6. We still have a limited supply left of fundraising items (if interested please email [email protected]). We kicked off our fall fund- raiser, Yankee Candles. We will announce the winners of the Yankee candle contest in our November newsletter. I am excited to announce that overall sales met and ex- ceeded our expectations! Thank you for your participa- tion! Accelerated Reader Committee began prize patrol September 5 and will continue each Thursday. Our home- room parent coordinators hosted a room parent tea Sep- tember 9. Hospitality treated the teachers to a snack lunch September 19. The Arrow Bucks store had to be relocated but is stocked and functioning well. Beautifica- tion Committee put pine straw down in our beautiful but- terfly garden. We look forward to another busy and fun filled month of October! Thank you, Annie Villejoin The Yearbook Committee will continue accept- ing pre-orders through the month of October! Yearbooks cost $25 each, and personalized yearbooks are $30.
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PTO Newsletter October 2013
News from around Clinton Park: Letter from the
Administrators The school year is off to a great start. We have enjoyed every minute of getting to know you and your precious little one. Thank you to all of the volunteers who helped to make Clinton Park's Grandparents' Day one of the best ever. It definitely could not of happened without you. We are so excited about the upcoming Family Read Night. We hope that you will join us for the fun family event. Again, we are so appreciative of all of the parents and students that make Clin-ton Park an awesome place to be!
Thank you,
Suzanne Hollingshead
Amanda Tullos
Spirit night winners for the month of September are:
Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night– Ms. Rayburn’s class won an ice cream party!
Domino’s Spirit Night– Ms. Smith’s class won a pizza party!
Mystery Friday Clinton Park PTO members will be coming around to each class on Mystery Friday and counting how many students in the class have on a Clinton Park T-shirt! Make sure your child wears their shirt every Friday to show school spirit and help their class win! Also, the PTO has a few extra shirts if you have not yet purchased one. Send $10 (youth sizes) with your child in an envelope marked PTO T-shirt, and the shirt will be sent home with your child. Sizes are on a first come first served basis.
PTO President’s Notes Many thanks to all parents and PTO
members who helped make the activities during the month of September a success! The PTO hosted Grand-parent’s days September 4-6. Fundraising committee sold cups, tattoos, decals and spirit shirts at the high school home football game September 6. We still have a limited supply left of fundraising items (if interested please email [email protected]). We kicked off our fall fund-raiser, Yankee Candles. We will announce the winners of the Yankee candle contest in our November newsletter. I am excited to announce that overall sales met and ex-ceeded our expectations! Thank you for your participa-tion! Accelerated Reader Committee began prize patrol September 5 and will continue each Thursday. Our home-room parent coordinators hosted a room parent tea Sep-tember 9. Hospitality treated the teachers to a snack lunch September 19. The Arrow Bucks store had to be relocated but is stocked and functioning well. Beautifica-tion Committee put pine straw down in our beautiful but-terfly garden. We look forward to another busy and fun filled month of October!
Thank you,
Annie Villejoin
The Yearbook Committee will continue accept-ing pre-orders through the month of October! Yearbooks cost $25 each, and personalized yearbooks are $30.
Looking Ahead: November Events
November 5- PTO Board Meeting 6 PM in the CPE Library. All PTO members are welcome to sit in on board meetings, but only board members are allowed to participate (unless consent is granted beforehand).
November 6– Fall Make-up Picture Day and Class Group Pictures
November 25-29– Thanksgiving Holidays
2-3 Domino’s Spirit Days ALL DAY
10 Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night 5-8 PM
11 End of First Nine Weeks
17 Report Cards Issued
21 Newk’s Spirit Night 5-8 PM Put your re-ceipts in the bucket by the registers in order for your purchase to count!
21-25 Book Fair Week The Scholastic Book Fair will be set up in the library for students to shop! When your child buys a book at the Fall Book Fair, a portion of the profit is given to the Clinton Park Library to redeem for books. If you are interested in volunteering at the Book Fair, please email
21-25 Red Ribbon Week This is a week of na-tional focus on keeping kids drug free. For our youngest arrows, we focus on making healthy choices into habits. We will have a healthy food coloring contest and a special way to dress each day of the week to help keep the focus on how important those healthy habits are.
24 Family Read Night 5-7 PM Come celebrate Family Read Night at Clinton Park! There will be lots of free games and activities– balloon animals, sandy candy, bounce house, face painting and the Book Fair will be open. Please join us!
25 Box Tops Deadline Cut out your box tops and put them in a Ziploc bag labeled STUDENT NAME- TEACHER NAME. The Kindergarten and First Grade classes that turn in the most box tops will win a class party, and students who turn in box tops will have their name entered in a drawing for Spring Book Fair gift certifi-cates!
October Schedule of Events
O c t o b e r 2 0 1 3
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
1 PTO Board
Meeting
2 Domino’s
Spirit Day
3 Domino’s
Spirit Day
4
7
8
Chick-Fil-A
Spirit Night
9 10 11
End of 9 Wks
14 15 16 17 Report
Cards Issued for
First 9 Wks
18
21 Newk’s
Spirit Night
Book Fair
Red Ribbon
Week
22
Book Fair
Red Ribbon
Week
23
Book Fair
Red Ribbon
Week
24 Book Fair
Red Ribbon
Week
Family Read
Night
25 Book Fair
Red Ribbon
Week
Box Tops
Deadline
28
29 30 31
For all PTO updates, events, and information, check out the PTO page on the Clinton Park website!
http://clintonpsd.schoolwires.net/domain/158
Have a question? Feel free to email the PTO:
Clinton Park Staff October Birthdays
3 Anna Doyle
5 Scarlet Sizemore
7 Jana Westling
8 Shirley Henderson
9 Amy Landfair
12 Vonda Brown
16 Krystal Mason
