Week of April 7 – April 11

Monday, April 7
6th graders leave for Yosemite at 8:00am – Please be on time for the bus!
Parents may see how the students are doing on Roosevelt’s Yosemite Facebook page at www.facebook.com/rooseveltatyosemite

Please return forms for missing items or corrections to the Spring/Easter candy orders that went home on Friday, April 4.

Tuesday, April 8
Site Council meeting at 6:00pm in the Staff Room (Room 14).  On the agenda for this month’s meeting:  Food service, additional fencing request, assistant principal allocation and the school’s electronic sign. All are encouraged to attend and Spanish translation is available.

Wednesday, April 9
Student of the Month Assemblies — 8:00am 3rd-5th grades, 9:00am 1st grade, 10:45am 2nd grade, 11:45am Kinder (YMCA Room), 1:10pm 6th-8th grades

Thursday, April 10
Intermediate Orchestra Festival rehearsal at 9:15am

Friday, April 11
Early Dismissal! All Kinders on Early Bird schedule, Grades 1 & 2 dismissed at 1:00pm and Grades 3 – 8 dismissed at 1:20

4th Grade Electricity & Magnetism PBL Presentations — Invention Convention! All are invited to come and see the what our 4th graders have invented at 8:20am in Rooms 2 & 3.

6th graders return from Yosemite at approximately 6:00pm

Important Dates…
April 14 – 18 – Spring Break — No School
April 21 – Classes Resume
April 21 – PTA Meeting at 6:00pm in Room 14
April 23 –  3rd grade field trip to DeAnza Planetarium
April 23 – 7th grade field trip to Stanford University
April 24 – Coffee with Principal Girardi at 8:00am
April 28 – STAR Testing
April 29 – Family Science/Literacy Night: “Oh Suess!”
April 30 – Last day to order Yearbook for $25
May 2 – 8th grade field trip to The Tech Museum
May 13 – Reading Fair entries due! Presentation boards may be dropped off from 7:45-8:00am in the cafeteria
May 13 – Roosevelt’s Reading Fair at 6:00pm in the Cafeteria
May 16 – Movie Night
May 19 – 5th graders leave for Outdoor Education
May 19 – Kent Award Dinner – Mr. Williams receiving 2014 Kent Award from San Mateo County School Boards Association
May 20 – Kristi Yamaguchi coming to Roosevelt for the Kinder & TK Raising a Reader event (date to be confirmed)
May 20 – PTA Meeting at 6:00pm in Room 14 — Last PTA meeting of the year!
June 5 – 8th grade graduation at MIT

Reading Fair…
Families that attended the Pizza & Prep Night on April 1 found out about an exciting event happening on May 13. Roosevelt will be hosting it’s first ever Reading Fair! What is a Reading Fair? This is a chance for students to creatively share one of their favorite books to the rest of the school. Students will be able to show their knowledge of the parts of a book and the components of a story. Grades K – 2 have been working on their project boards as a class, but ALL students may enter the reading fair. Winning projects will receive prizes! If your child would like to enter, please stop by the office to pick up a FREE starter kit — instructions, tri-fold presentation board, glue, markers & construction paper. There are only a few free starter kits left, so pick yours up before they’re all gone! To see some examples online of reading fair projects, check out this link of some Reading Fair images.

5th Grade Families…
Please send in your payments now for the week Outdoor Education in May. As with other field trips and events throughout the year, the PTA can’t fund the entire trip for the 5th grade so we need parent contributions  to make this trip happen.

Fundraising…
If you have already donated your $100 per child to the PTA, you will be entered into another raffle offering an AMAZING prize! Here’s a hint: “warm sandy beaches”… What could this prize be? Details will be coming after Spring Break.

If you haven’t already paid your $100, it’s not too late! Checks can be made out to Roosevelt PTA or you may pay by credit card in the school office or use the Donate button on the parent blog at www.rooseveltparents.com

The PTA would once again like to extend their heartfelt thanks to those families that have already contributed $100 and to those that have been making regular payments on their pledged amounts.

GreatSchools Sweepstakes!…
GreatSchools.org has launched a new sweepstakes, and Roosevelt could win $5,000! Entering is easy and a great opportunity to get extra funds for our school. Spread the word!

To enter, go to the Best Year Ever Sweepstakes page: www.greatschools.org/sweepstakes

• Write a review about our school at www.greatschools.org/sweepstakes. Your review is anonymous and just takes a minute to write. Parents, teachers and students 13 and older can write reviews. Once your review is posted, our school is entered to win!
• Increase our school’s chances to win! Tell friends to write a review about Roosevelt school because every new review posted in April gives our school another entry into the drawing – up to 10 entries! Post your review and get others to leave one by April 30, 2014!

The PTA Needs YOU…
This year, the PTA was able to provide Art, Music, Field Trips, after school Spanish classes, lunch time chess, after school dance classes, Family Fun nights, and so much more! Our PTA board has served the maximum number of terms and so we need people to step up to be the new Roosevelt PTA! This is your opportunity to make a difference at Roosevelt! You can take on one of the board positions alone or with a partner to share the work. This is a great way to get involved and meet other parents at the school.  Please come to Monday night’s PTA meeting at 6:00pm in Room 14 to hear more. You may also contact the school office and they will put you in touch with someone from PTA to talk about next year.

Yearbooks…
The school yearbook is now available for pre-purchase! Mr. Williams’ after school yearbook club has been working on the yearbook for most of the year and it will be filled with lots of pictures of all of the activities throughout the year.  The yearbooks are full color and available for only $25 each if ordered before May 1. After May 1, the cost for each yearbook will be $30. Please make checks payable to Roosevelt PTA.  Return your order form with your payment to your child’s class or bring it in to the school office. Extra order forms are available in the school office.

Fundraise While You Shop…
Don’t forget to scan this week’s receipts for Shoparoo, check those Safeway receipts to make sure that Roosevelt is getting your escrip credits and look for Box Tops on anything you bought this week! (A note about Shoparoo: there are other Roosevelt schools in the area – one in Burlingame and one in San Leandro. Please make sure that your points are going to the correct Roosevelt School.)

“Like” us on Facebook…
Please be sure to “Like” the Roosevelt page www.facebook.com/RooseveltElementarySchool

Have a great week!