Monday, October 6
Turn in money from chocolate sales
Tuesday, October 7
Free chess lessons during lunch time recess for grades 1 – 8 (Sponsored by Roosevelt PTA – thanks to parent donations to the Roosevelt Enrichment Fund)
Navigating Middle School/Teen Success (4th of 8 week session) at 6:00pm for parents of students in grades 5-8. Students whose parents attend will earn a free dress pass and are entered into a raffle for prizes! If you haven’t attended the other sessions, you are still welcome to join in. (Sponsored by Foothill College’s Family Engagement Institute)
Thursday, October 9
Please attend the Facilities Planning Town Hall Meeting at 7:00pm at MIT (400 Duane Street). Many of our school campuses were built in the 1950s and new ways of teaching and learning require new learning spaces that are different from classrooms today. Recognizing that our schools may need changes to accommodate new models or learning, serve the needs of an influx of new families to the area, and ensure that our schools adhere to the latest safety standards, the Redwood City School District started a Facilities Master Plan process last spring. The master plans for Roosevelt, MIT, Hawes, Clifford, Roy Cloud and North Star will be discussed and shown at this meeting. This is your chance to see the future plans for the Roosevelt campus and give your input to improve our school.
All Redwood City residents are welcome at any of the meetings, and Redwood City School District parents and staff members are especially encouraged to attend.
Friday, October 10
Free dress Fridays begin for students who sold 4 boxes or more of chocolate (6 boxes for families with 2 or more students)
Important Dates…
October 13 – Site Council Meeting at 6:00pm in Room 14 – guest Anna Lague to talk about school lunch menus
October 14 – Picture Day! Free Dress
October 14 – Open Garden at Lunch Recess
October 15 – Parent coffee with Principal Girardi at 8:00am in Room 1
October 15 – 1st grade field trip to DeAnza College Planetarium
October 16 – California Great Shake Out – Earthquake Drill
October 16 – Middle School Report Cards sent home
October 17 – 3rd grade Lawrence Hall of Science Workshop
October 18 – Beautification Day – Sponsored by PCC (more information below)
October 24 – Family Fun Night – Spooktacular Bingo! at 6:00pm (6th grade parents asked to volunteer)
October 26 – Garden Beautification Day (Sponsored by Building Together)
October 27 – PTA Meeting at 6:00pm in Room 14
October 28 – Open Garden Day at Lunch Recess (more information below)
October 30 – Halloween Parade at 8:15am – lower playground
October 30 – Last day to turn in $130 for PTA donation to be entered into the raffle (more information below)
October 30 – End Roosevelt vs Adelante BoxTops Challenge!
October 31 – Teacher Training Day – No School
Box Tops Challenge!…
The Roosevelt/Adelante BoxTops Challenge is in it’s 2nd week! Please send in those BoxTops before 10/30! Each BoxTop earns 10¢ for our school, so sending them in will not only help to win the challenge, but we can earn money for our school! Principal Girardi has challenged Adelante’s principal to a BoxTops contest – the school that has collected the most BoxTops for the month will be declared the winner and the principal of the losing school will have to wear the other school’s spirit wear for a day. Let’s make sure that Adelante’s principal has to show some Roosevelt Raccoon pride by collecting and turning in those BoxTops before October 30!
Candy sale update…
If you haven’t already done so, please turn in your money for the World’s Finest Chocolate Sales. Our PTA has to turn in the money to World’s Finest for all of the boxes that were taken out. Free dress Friday begins on October for any student that sold 5 or more boxes of chocolate (or 8 for families with 2 or more students). Teachers have the list of students that qualify for free dress.The limo ride to In N Out hasn’t been scheduled yet. The final numbers need to be calculated and permission slips will be sent home with your student when it is scheduled.
Beautification Day…
Once again Peninsula Covenant Church is generously sponsoring a Beautification Day at Roosevelt School to be held on Saturday, October 18. Our teachers have submitted their wish lists and projects that they would like completed in their classrooms (i.e. cleaning shelves, organizing books, etc.) as well as other small projects all over the Roosevelt campus. Roosevelt families are invited to participate in this community event. To learn more and to sign up to volunteer, please go to http://www.
Garden Beautification Day…
We are pleased announce that Roosevelt School was chosen as a recipient of a Rebuilding Together Peninsula project on October 26th, 2014. Their sponsor, the Carey School of San Mateo, will be working with RTP to provide upgrades to our garden space and surrounding area. They will be creating new, moveable benches, creating a more functional composting area, adding organizational structures to our tool shed, and creating more informative and pretty signage around the garden to highlight the wildlife habitat aspects. They may also add asphalt art outside of our special education classrooms to enhance that area for our students.
They will provide 100 volunteers and some of our students will be asked to be the ambassadors for our school during the project.
Accelerated Reader…
Attention parents of students in grades 2 -8: you can now view you child’s Accelerated Reader progress online! Renaissance Home Connect is a tool that allows parents to log in to a Web site and view a snapshot of their child’s Accelerated Reader progress. That progress includes average percent correct on quizzes, number of points earned, and results on the last quiz. In addition, parents can view all the Accelerated Reader quizzes their child has taken, and can access an online search tool, AR Book Finder, to search for books using various criteria, including author, subject, or reading level. Parents also have the option to receive email notifications in English or Spanish when their child has completed an Accelerated Reader Quiz.
Please watch for more information about how and where to log in to your student’s account.
Our Next Big Event…
Is Spooktacular Bingo on October 24! 6th grade parents are being asked to help with this event. Please contact Aurora Gallardo at aurora.gallardo@star-vista.org or Valerie Romero at (650)346-2445.
Last chance to win an iPad Mini!…
Are you in…to WIN? The drawing for the iPad Mini and other wonderful prizes will be held on October 30. If you’ve turned in your $130 pledge to the PTA, but haven’t turned in your raffle ticket, please do so before October 30. If you are making monthly payments and you pay your $130 pledged amount by the 30th, you will receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win one of the raffle prizes. Checks can be made out to Roosevelt PTA or you can pay by credit card in the school office. Will you be one of the lucky winners?
Did you already pay the $130 pledge but haven’t received your goody bag, raffle ticket and green shirt? Please contact our PTA treasurer Guy Taylor at guytaylor123@yahoo.com
Outdoor Education & Yosemite…
5th & 6th grade families are asked to please turn in their payments for this year’s Outdoor Education and Yosemite weeks. Payments may be turned in to the school office. Checks and credit cards are accepted.
Fundraise While You Shop…
Shoparoo: Do you have a smartphone? Take a picture of your weekly shopping receipts for Shoparoo points! If you have an iPhone or Android smartphone, download the free Shoparoo app today. **NEW THIS YEAR** — you can even scan your restaurant and department store receipts for points. For more information, go to www.shoparoo.com
Escrip: Please don’t forget to also sign up on escrip.com and register your Safeway Club card, credit cards and debit to help earn money for Roosevelt at stores such as Safeway, Old Navy, Home Depot, etc. and remember to always look for the Box Tops logo on anything you buy. Each Box Top earns 10¢ for our school. We’ll be having Box Top contests throughout the year, so clip them and save them! NOTE: You must renew your Safeway Club Card with Escrip each year. Please go to escrip.com and click on “Renew Your Safeway Club Card”
Target: Do you have a Target REDcard? Did you know that if you select Roosevelt School, Target will donate 1% of your REDcard purchases from Target stores and Target.com to Roosevelt. www.target.com/redcard
“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!
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