Make sure to mark your calendars for the following events at Roosevelt this week:
NOTE: Daylight Savings Time ended on Saturday night/Sunday morning, so you should have turned your clocks BACK by one hour.
Monday, November 5
Box Top Contest Begins! (See below for more information)
Coin for a Day Challenge Begins! Bring in your Pennies!
Power of One Anti Bully Assembly grades 4-7 at 8:15 – 8:55, grades K-3 at 9:00-9:40
ELAC Meeting at 1:30pm
Site Council meeting at 6:00pm in the Faculty Lounge (Room 14). Note that the meeting time is changed for this meeting from th usual 6:30pm to 6:00pm. Come and hear the latest district and school news. All are encouraged to attend and Spanish translation is available. (Attendance counts toward your 40 hour time commitment)
Tuesday, November 6
Election Day! – Don’t forget to get out and Vote!
Coin for a Day Challenge – Bring in your Nickels
Wednesday, November 7
Kindergarten Tour Night at 6:30pm for parents enrolling their child in Kindergarten for the 2013/2014 school year. (See below for more information)
Coin for a Day Challenge – Bring in your Dimes
Thursday, November 8
Coin for a Day Challenge – Bring in your Quarters
Friday, November 9
Box Tops Contest Ends!
Coin for a Day Challenge – Bring in Any Coin!
Restaurant Fundraiser! Johnny Rockets in Sequoia Station will donate 20% of net sales back to Roosevelt. Please remember to bring the flyer that came home in last Thursday’s folder. Extra flyers are available in the school office.
Important Dates…
November 12 – Veterans Day – No School
November 13 – 16 – Book Fair (4th grade families providing volunteers)
November 14 – Cookies & Cocoa Night at the Book Fair from 4:00pm-7:00pm (4th grade families providing volunteers)
November 19-20 – Parent/Teacher Conferences – No School
November 21 – 23 – Thanksgiving Holiday – No School
November 26 – PTA Meeting at 6:00pm in Room 14
November 29 – Coffee with Principal Girardi at 8:00am in Room 2
December 1 – Hometown Holidays Parade – Downtown RWC (Kinder & 2nd Grade families volunteering)
December 3-7 – Holiday Gift Store (6th Grade families volunteering)
Trivia Question…
There used to be a 2 cent coin produced by the US Mint.
a. True
b. False
Make your guess and find out if you’re right at the bottom!
Candy sale update…
There are still some families that haven’t yet turned in money owed for the World’s Finest Chocolate Sales. Our PTA had to pay World’s Finest for all of the boxes that were taken out, so please send your money in so that the PTA may be reimbursed and that money can then be used for programs for the students.
Coin for a Day Challenge…
Roosevelt is participating in a coin drive challenge to raise money for books for our library as well as each classroom library. Please bring in your coins this week and lets see how much we can raise for books! (Pennies on Monday, Nickels on Tuesday, Dimes on Wednesday, Quarters on Thursday and any coin on Friday) The class that raises the most money will win a pizza party!
Box Tops Contest…
It’s time for the first Box Tops Contest of the year and this one is by classroom! The class that brings in the most Box Tops will win an ice cream party! Box Tops may be turned in to your child’s classrom. Look for Box Tops on products such as Kleenex, Cheerios, Hefty, Ziploc, Huggies, etc. Every box top the school collects gives 10 cents back to our school! So tell your family and friends to start collecting those box tops. (Once this contest ends, don’t stop collecting – there will be another contest in the spring!)
Help Needed…
Ms. Girardi needs help with getting the word out about our Kindergarten Tour Night on Wednesday so we need people to help distribute the flyers at various preschools and businesses around town. If you can help, please stop by the school office to pick up some flyers to drop off at the libraries, local businesses such as Bayshore Elite and Creative Learning Loft in Roosevelt Plaza as well as any preschool that you may have attended with your child. There will be a list of locations that will need flyers to be dropped off and you can sign up to drop off flyers at as many places as you’d like. Thank you for your help.
Looking for a Tree Stump Grinder…
The school’s garden committee is looking for anyone that has access to a root grinder or chainsaws or anything that can help to take out the giant tree stump that’s in our school garden. Right now it makes using the storage shed in the garden almost impossible, and so any help or leads would be appreciated. Please contact Megan Goulden at megan.goulden@gmail.com
Parent/Teacher Conferences…
Teachers have been sending home schedules for Parent/Teacher conferences. Please make sure that you’ve signed up for a time and if you haven’t, please contact your child’s teacher.
On the Parent Blog…
Pictures from the Halloween Parade have been posted as well as pictures from Ms. Mallari’s class and Mrs. Torres’ class. The 5th graders in Room 13 have been campaigning for class officers and you can see some pictures as well as link to Mr. Williams’ blog to see the campaign speeches. The 4th graders in Room 10 have been learning how to play their recorders and more pictures have been added of the 1st graders working on their American Symbols PBL unit. Kinder and middle school tour season is starting early, so more pictures of what’s happening in our classrooms are desperately needed. If you have any that you’d like to send in, let us know. And don’t forget, for the most accurate information throughout the week, check out the parent blog. www.rooseveltparents.com
Kinder Tour Night…
If you know anyone that has a child that will be entering Kindergarten next year, let them know that Roosevelt will be holding a Kindergarten Tour Night on November 7 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm. For more information, go to the School Tours section of the parent blog or call the school office at 369-5597.
Hometown Holidays Parade…
Roosevelt will once again be walking in Redwood City’s Hometown Holidays Parade on December 1. This year the theme will be Christmas in Hawaii and volunteers are needed. Both Kindergarten and 2nd grade have been assigned to help with this event, but families from other grade levels are also welcome to help and participate in the parade. Parents and children are needed to volunteer for ideas, decorating, walking in the parade and anyone that would like to perform a short hula dance for the short 3 minute stop during the parade. If you wish to volunteer, please contact Brandi Sevudredre at blkchrry@hotmail.com
Holiday Gift Store…
The holidays are just around the corner and this year we’re trying something new – a Holiday Gift Store! This will be run much like the book fair. An outside company will be coming in with items that will be set up in the Holiday Store. Students (and parents) will be able to shop for gifts for family members and friends for the holidays. More information will be coming home in the coming weeks. 6th grade families have been assigned to help with this event, so look for sign up sheets soon.
Job Opportunity…
The school district currently has openings for Instructional Assistants for Special Education. Please contact the district’s HR department at 423-2200 for an application. http://www.rcsd.k12.ca.us/
“Like” us on Facebook…
The district created a Facebook page for every school in the district. Please be sure to “Like” the Roosevelt page to get school and district updates and pictures from school events in your news feed. http://www.facebook.com/pages/
Trivia Question Answer…
The correct answer is a. True. The United States two cent coin was produced from 1864 to 1873. It was made of 95% copper and 5% tin and zinc and is a little bit smaller than the quarter we know today. No one knows for sure why a two cent piece was introduced, but it is possible that it was an effort to return some coins to circulation.
Around the time the two cent piece was introduced, the Civil War was in its third year and people began to worry about what was going to happen. It had been believed that it would be a very short war.
Worried about the economic future of the United States, they started stashing away coins for the hard times they feared were coming. First they began hoarding gold and silver coins, but eventually all coins disappeared from circulation. So, when the two cent piece was first released to the public, it appeared that it would be accepted. People were using it regularly for their day to day purchases. Later, however, it was determined that the only reason people accepted the coin was because of the shortage of circulating coins caused by the Civil War.
When the war ended and people began using their silver coins once again, the two cent piece fell out of favor. So, the two cent coin became one of the shortest lived issues of United States Coinage.
So, if you come across one when looking under your couch cushions or at the bottom of your purse for coins this week for the Coin for a Day Challenge, you’re in luck! A 2 cent piece from 1872 is worth about $1,400 today.
Have a great week!
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