A PTA The Publication Solon Early Childhood PTA Newsletter: www.secpta.net December 2018 IN THIS ISSUE Career Day Comet Card Important information and reminders OPEN Events Parent Mentor Information PTA Meeting Roxbury Holiday Shop Roxbury Spirit Wear order form Roxbury Sock Drive Solon HS PTA Holiday Gift Boutique Staff appreciation Star Students Volunteer opportunities Spirit Days will be Friday, December 21 & January 25. Students are encouraged to wear their Rocket Wear or the school colors of and. IMPORTANT DATES 12/3-12/7: Holiday Shop 12/3-12/14: Sock Drive 12/5: OPEN Parent MeetUp (9:00-10:30am) 12/13: Grade 4 Holiday Concert (7pm) 12/21: Spirit Day & Winter Parties 12/24-1/4: No school (winter break) 1/10: Candid picture day 1/15: PTA Meeting (9:15am) 1/23-24: Grade 2 CogAT Assessment 1/25: Spirit Day 1/28: Grade 2 IOWA Reading Assessment 1/28-2/1: Roxbury Responds Collection 1/31: Grade 2 IOWA Math Assessment PTA Meeting Our next PTA meeting will be held on Tuesday, 1/15 at 9:15AM in the Multi-purpose Room. Please join us! Roxbury Elementary is available for order! See the form at the end of this newsletter for ordering information.
When was the last time you were excited to receive socks? For thousands of Cleveland s homeless, socks are a gift that s never taken for granted. In fact, they are the item that's most requested by anyone living outside. 2018 ROXBURY SOCK DRIVE You Can Help! Roxbury Will Be Collecting Socks from December 3-14 Please send in your new pairs or packages of socks and help The Community West Foundation. The Community West Foundation supports the basic needs of individuals in our community. Last year the Roxbury family helped to collect almost 1000 pairs of socks that were donated to The City Mission! Thank you: The Mancuso & Roberto Family & The Roxbury 4 th Grade Leadership Council FALL BOOK FAIR Thank you to everyone who volunteered to help with the Book Fair. The fair was very successful and thank you to all that made purchases. We were able to provide approximately 331,200 reading minutes and over 1,840 books! Just 20 minutes of reading a day exposes a child to 1,800,000 words a year! Thanks for making readers out of our students! 2
Thanks to everyone who donated for the November Roxbury Responds Food Drive! We donated a generous number of items to a local food bank that put together Thanksgiving baskets for those in need! For our upcoming project, Roxbury Responds has teamed up with several agencies that work with youth in foster care and homeless youth to provide school supplies. The collection will run January 28- February 1. Please send in NEW items as described by grade level: K: box of crayons 1: pencils 2: colored pencils 3: wide ruled single subject spiral notebook 4: glue sticks For every class that collects 30 or more items the class will have hat day or crazy hair day on 2/4. Kindergarten Leya Abbass Delina Aklilu Sydney Allen Caitlin Boyland Cartell Bryant Avika Gupta Jake Peko Connor Watson Aiden Zhao Congratulations to the November Rocket Star Students! First Grade Molly Chen Celia Kardamis Svanik Kolli Andi Lyndon Lucas Mueller Brody Nash Valentina Ranallo Aurora Sumerak Arryn Thomas Evie Van Boening Bryson Wallace Hailey Wilkinson Ellie Wolfe Second Grade Zijia Cao Tariku Embacher Leighton Kellerman Andrea Kilroy Liliana Koval Sasha Kurguzikov Conor Lally Clara Lawyer-Mills Christian Roberts Adam Sealfon Paul Unger Third Grade Hadi Beg Mannat Dhooria Xiang Fang Ryan Kaganovich Ryan Krzywicki Kaylee May Jonah Rosen Mayah Rothstein Addie Schultz Jake Seiberling Liam Walther Luke Wilkinson Fourth Grade Carson Adelstein Skyler Berry Avi Gupta Elijah Komora Darsh Kutal Kendelle Lyndon Olivia Machesky Yahya Omur Sophia Publicover Bella Roberto Lily Siemen Emily Stickle Sophia Syntax 3
NEEDED: CAREER DAY PRESENTERS The EWOW committee, Explore the World of Work, is looking for family members who would like to present their career to our students on Friday, 3/15. It is an all-day commitment from 7:30 am-2:30 pm. The students visit each presenter s table and listen to a short 3-4 minute explanation of the career. It is a great way to expose the kids to a wide variety of occupations. It is a fun and educational day for everyone involved. For more information & to sign up, please see the attached form (click here). Please send completed forms to Kris Tercek, kris.terce@gmail.com. Thank you. Check out the GAME ON event at Roll House Entertainment on 1/18 (12-4pm). It s four hours of fun for the kids and the event benefits the Solon Council of PTAs! For more information and to sign up, please check out the flyer at the end of the newsletter (click here). 4
Missed an OPEN seminar? NO PROBLEM! Did you know that all lectures and seminars sponsored by Solon's Organized Parent Education Network are recorded and available to you on SolonTV? Follow this link --> https://setv.viebit.com/ and Select "OPEN Meetings" within the scrollbar on the left side of the screen. Programs from as far back as 2013 with topics ranging from assistive technology to eating disorders to anxiety to IEP supports and everything in between are available for you to watch at your convenience. Just because you missed it doesn't mean you have to miss out! The list of OPEN events for the 2018-2019 school year is at the end of the newsletter (click here). Parent Mentor MeetUp Wednesday, December 5, 9:00-10:30am Arthur Road School Library New for the 2018-2019 school year, OPEN is sponsoring a quarterly Parent Mentor MeetUp! This informal, open house gives parents the opportunity to meet and network with other parents within the special education system and the Parent Mentor in a relaxed and casual environment. Light refreshments will be served. Please join us if your child is on an IEP or 504 Plan and you d like to meet other families, discuss local service providers, see what events are coming up in the community, etc. No RSVP needed. Please contact Annie Dellamorte, Solon Parent Mentor, if you have questions at 440-349- 8039. 5
Please consider purchasing a COMET CARD! The Comet Card is the perfect REUSABLE discount card for purchases in the Solon area benefitting Solon Middle School PTA. They are $10 each. For more information and the order form, please see the flyer at the end of the newsletter (click here). LOOK FOR THE STUDENT SHOPPING LIST ON THE NEXT PAGE! To sign up to volunteer, click here. 6
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Career Day EWOW Is Looking For Presenters Roxbury s Career Day, EWOW (Explore the World of Work), is scheduled for Friday, March 15, 2019. EWOW is an academic, hands-on experience that provides students the chance to learn about different jobs & career paths. The children rotate through stations to learn from various professionals & ask questions about careers. It is one of the exciting and educational highlights of the school year for the students! We are looking for roughly 20 presenters from diverse fields of interest to spend the day talking with small groups of students, grades Kindergarten through 4th grade. Hands-on experiences & interactive presentations work best with this age group. Each group spends about 3-4 minutes at a presenter s station, before moving on to the next. If you are interested and available to be a presenter at EWOW on 3/15/19, please complete & submit the bottom portion of this flyer by Friday 12/14/18. The committee will finalize a presenter list to provide a breadth of careers, then contact all interested parties via email in late December or early January. Thanks in advance for your consideration. Any questions, feel free to contact: Kris Tercek, kris.tercek@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Career Day EWOW Presenter Response: Due Friday 12/14/2018 Please forward this form to the EWOW mailbox in the office to Kris Tercek Name Occupation Email Child s Name Child s Teacher & Grade Have you been an EWOW presenter in the past: YES NO 8
COMET CARD: $10 each The perfect REUSABLE discount card for purchases in the Solon area benefitting Solon Middle School PTA Akira Hibachi 15% off all food orders over $50.00. Dine in only. All Prem Cleaners 30% off any dry cleaning, $1.69 laundered men s shirts (not valid with other coupons) Buffalo Wild Wings - $5 off $25 food purchase. D&R Bagels Buy one bagel and cream cheese, get 1 free. Dunkin Donuts Free small coffee (hot or cold) with purchase of a sandwich Finish Line Car Wash - $2 off express car wash Gionino s Pizza (Solon location only) Buy 1 regular priced large pizza, get a small cheese pizza free Grantwood Golf Course 1 large bucket of balls free with purchase of 9 or 18 hole round Menchie s 10% off purchase Roll House - BOGO, 1 game bowling or laser tag, not valid Fri or Sat 5pm-close, excludes shoes Subway (Solon location only) - 50 off 6 inch sub, $1.00 of footlong sub, excludes $5 footlongs Very Berry Smoothie 10% off any smoothie Many Ways to Order the 2018-2019 Card Today! - Order online https://comet-card-2018-19.cheddarup.com - Submit order form & payment to the Solon Middle School - Contact Robin Siff, robinpsiff@yahoo.com or Lorna Titlebaum, LTitlebaum@aol.com - Comet cards can be sent home with student, 1 week after order $10 per card Checks made payable to SMS PTA. Card expires 11/2019. Parent Name: Phone: Student Name: Grade Homeroom or Team: School: Email Address: 9
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION & REMINDERS Photo ID: It is now policy to present a photo ID when you come into the school. Please refer to the Family Handbook for further information. School Dismissal Car Pickup: Please remember to enter Solon Blvd from Arthur Road instead of Inwood Dr. That way the car pickup line can be on the same side of the street as the school and no one needs to turn left into the school. This will help with the traffic flow after school. Walkers: Please remember to pick up your students either across Solon Blvd or at the Roxbury School sign. The teachers are responsible for getting the students to the sign and will not release them to parents standing at the door. After School Care Centers: Please remember to contact your after-school care centers with your changes in dismissal plans. The centers tend to call the schools when a child does not arrive as scheduled. Facebook: If you are on Facebook, please consider joining the Roxbury PTA group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/roxburyptasolon/). We will post our sign-ups on this group when we are looking for volunteers. For the safety and privacy of our children, only Roxbury families will be permitted in this group. If you send a request to join and are not approved right away, check your Facebook messages. We will be double-checking all new member requests to ensure that they have children at Roxbury. Yearbook: If you take photos at any school event, please send them to roxburypta@yahoo.com to be included in the yearbook. We would like to have as many kids represented in the yearbook as we can! Parking: When coming to school, please do not park in the front drive before 8am or after 2pm. Please park in the side lot or on the side ABC streets. Please do not park on Solon Blvd in front of the school at any time. Birthday Policy: Treats and trinkets will no longer be allowed to be brought in to celebrate your child s birthday. The school is recommending that you send in a book for your teacher s classroom library. Please refer to your Family Handbook for further information. Doctor/Dentist Appointments: Please remember to bring a note from your child s doctor/dentist if your child will be missing any part of the school day. 13
Roxbury PTA 2018-2019 Board President: Becky Utterback Vice President: Erin Wolfe Corresponding Secretary: Marylou Horwitz Recording Secretary: Emily Gallagher Treasurer: Tania Cieza To contact any PTA chair, please contact Becky Utterback at roxburypta@yahoo.com. 14