Mark your calenders for the following events at Roosevelt: Mark Your Calendar

Monday, October 14
Regular school day – Redwood City School District is NOT observing Columbus Day

Tuesday, October 15
Kindergarten Information Night at MIT at 5:30pm for 2014/2015 school year. All parents with a child entering Kindergarten next fall are encouraged to attend.

Site Council meeting at 6:30pm in the Staff Room (Room 14).  Please note the time change due to the District’s Kindergarten Information Night.  On the agenda for this month’s meeting:  Measure W update, Measure W spending and school safety.  All are encouraged to attend and Spanish translation is available.

Wednesday, October 16
6th Grade Field Trip to the Egyptian Museum

Thursday, October 17
Registration due for Roosevelt’s 4th/5th & 6th grade basketball teams. Registration forms and information are available in the school office or on www.teamsideline.com/redwoodcity Scholarships are available.

Important Dates…
October 21 – PTA Meeting at 6:00pm in Room 14 (Special presentation by RCPD on school safety)
October 23 – Restaurant Fundraiser Night – Pasta Pomodoro
October 24 – Halloween BoxTops sheets due!
October 24 – Spooktacular Bingo at 5:30pm (2nd grade families volunteering) Note date change
October 25 – Teacher Training Day – No School
October 28 – November 1 – Fall Book Fair (5th grade families volunteering)
October 30 – Picture Make-up Day
October 31 – Halloween Parade at 8:15 – Downstairs Playground
November 7 – 8th Grade Parent Information Night at Sequoia High School at 6:30pm

Cardboard Boxes…
The school garden committee is looking for cardboard boxes to put down all over the garden. If you have any cardboard boxes to donate, please drop them off at the school office or contact megan goulden at megan.goulden@gmail.com for more info.

Box Tops…
Don’t forget to send in your Box Tops on the pumpkin sheet that came home in last Thursday’s folder to get a treat! Each Box Top earns our school 10¢, so each sheet turned in earns $1.00 for our school. Right now we have just over 600 students at Roosevelt, so we could earn $600+ just for turning in those sheets!

6th Grade Families…
If you haven’t done so already, please send in your $50 deposit for the May Yosemite trip. Roosevelt has to give the Yosemite Institute a headcount of students attending and a deposit to hold our space. Checks may be made out to Roosevelt PTA. You may also pay via credit card in the school office or with the Donate button on the parent blog.

Money from Chocolate Sales…
If you still owe money from our World’s Finest Chocolate sales, you will be receiving a notice home. Please turn in any money due ASAP to the school office. The PTA has to send payment for all boxes taken and the money needs to be in the bank account.

Online Directory…
The 2013/2014 school directory is going green! We’ve switched to an online directory to save money on printing costs and to save paper. You will be able to access the directory from your home computer, smart phone or tablet. You can also update your family information any time during the year. The system will “graduate” your child every year, so you only have to enter the information just once. Each year you just need to verify that your information is correct.

Go to:  https://www.myschoolanywhere.com/new-family.a5w?fam=RooseveltSchool13838

Fill out the information for each Roosevelt student in your family
In the “Family Display Note” please fill in any languages spoken at home
Hit Save  — You’re all done!

**If you tried to fill out the form earlier and were given an error message, please try again. The problem has been fixed!**

Spooktacular Bingo…
Mark your calendars for Roosevelt’s 4th annual Spooktacular Bingo Night!  Thursday, Oct. 24th from 5:30-8:30. Doors open at 5:30, with our Pumpkin/cake walk beginning at 5:30.  Come in your favorite Halloween costume!  Pizza, popcorn, water for $1.00 each. 2$ for candy. Bingo will begin at 7pm.  .50cents per game. Pumpkin/cake walk, face painting, and Bingo with fabulous prizes! (Please note: The date has been changed due to the school holiday on Oct 25 and the availability of our bingo callers) Speaking of our bingo callers, what will Mr. Williams and Mr. Anderson come dressed as this year? Come to bingo night to find out!

If you are a 2nd grade parent, make sure you’ve signed up to help with this event.Please contact Kim Schiff at kbschiff@sbcglobal.net if you can help, Thank you!

Book Fair…
Information for the Book Fair being held during the week of October 28 – November 1 will be coming home this week. If you are a 5th grade parent, be sure to look for sign up sheets to volunteer at the Book Fair. Parents are asked to sign up for at least one time slot and/or to bring items for the evening event.

PTA Membership…
It’s not too late to send in your PTA Membership form! Our PTA’s dues to the CA PTA are due in November, so we can still accept memberships. Membership dues help to pay for insurance and for support services from the district, state, and national PTA. The cost is $5 for an individual membership and $8 for a family membership. Checks may be made out to Roosevelt PTA.

“Like” us on Facebook…
Please be sure to “Like” the Roosevelt page to get school and district updates and pictures from Roosevelt school events in your news feed.If you’ve liked our page, but don’t see any updates in your news feed, it’s because Facebook has been using a formula that hides posts for pages that don’t pay for sponsored placements. What can you do? Go to our Facebook page and hover your mouse over the Liked box. Then make sure Get Notifications and Show in News Feed are checked. www.facebook.com/RooseveltElementarySchool

Have a great week!