Mark your calenders for the following events at Roosevelt: calendaricon

Please Note: If you are a 7th Grade parent, make sure you’ve signed up to help at the Book Fair. The schedule is available in the office, so call or stop by. If you are not a 7th grade parent but would like to help out, you are welcome to sign up as well. If there aren’t enough volunteers for the Book Fair, some days and hours will have to be cut. The two Book Fairs each year are the only source of funding for new library books, so this is important!

Monday, November 17
Book Fair Open from 3:00pm – 5:00pm

Please come to the PTA Meeting  at 6:00pm in Room 14. The PTA will be discussing the status of the candy sale fundraiser and direct donation fundraising and checking in on PTA’s budget. All are welcome to attend and Spanish translation is available. Free childcare is offered in the YMCA room.

Tuesday, November 18
Picture Make Up Day (students having pictures taken may wear free dress)

Open Garden Day during Lunch Recess. Interested students may sign up with their teacher to work in the garden during lunch recess. Volunteers are always welcome to come and help out! Please contact Megan Goulden at megan.goulden@gmail.com for more information

Free chess lessons during lunch time recess for grades 1 – 8 (Sponsored by Roosevelt PTA – thanks to parent donations to the Roosevelt Enrichment Fund)

Book Fair Open from 10:00am – 10:45am, 11:45am – 1:15pm and 4:00pm – 7:00pm

Wednesday, November 19
Book Fair Open from 10:00am – 10:45am, 11:45am – 1:15pm and 2:00pm – 3:00pm

Thursday, November 20
Book Fair Open from 10:00am – 10:45am, 11:45am – 1:15pm and 2:00pm – 3:00pm

Friday, November 21
Last day to turn in your PTA membership dues! ($10 for individual or $15 for family) Checks can be made out to Roosevelt PTA – please put PTA membership on the memo line

4th grade PBL Presentation – Goldrush

Book Fair Open from 10:00am – 10:45am, 11:45am – 1:15pm and 2:00pm – 3:00pm

Book Fair Break-Down at 3:00pm – 4:30pm

Important Dates…
November 24 – 25 – Parent/Teacher Conferences – No School
November 26 – 28 – Thanksgiving Holiday – No School
December 2 – Reading Fair Pizza & Prep Night at 6:00pm in the Cafeteria
December 9 – SPARK Discovery Night at 5:30pm
December 15 – WinterFest at 5:30 at PCC (grade levels TBD)
December 16 – WinterFest at 6:00pm at PCC (grade levels TBD)
December 22 – January 2 – Winter Break
January 5 – Teacher Training Day – No School
January 6 – Classes Resume

Trivia Question…
8th grader Jose M. has asked for the return of the trivia question, so it’s back! Some weeks we will be offering a prize for the first correct answers sent in, so watch for those and send in your best guess! Jose M., for paying close attention to the emails and noticing that the trivia question had disappeared, you’ve earned 5 Raccoon Bucks! 

So, in honor of Roosevelt’s Book Fair this week let’s see what you know about the book circulation in our school’s library:

According to statistics for the 2013/2014 school year, how many books were checked out of the Roosevelt school library?

a. 15,192
b. 17,343
c. 19,550
d. 25,430

Make your guess and find out if you’re right at the bottom!

Chocolate Sales…
If you haven’t turned in your money for your boxes of chocolate, payment is now due! The PTA has written a check to World’s Finest Chocolate and had to pay in full for all boxes taken. The PTA needs that money for planned programs for the students and so we need that money brought into the office IMMEDIATELY.

Book Fair…
The Book Fair is being held the week of November 17 – 21. If you are a 7th grade parent, be sure to look for sign up sheets to volunteer during the week, the evening event or the break down on Friday afternoon.  Parents are asked to sign up for at least one time slot and/or to bring items for the evening event. All money raised from the coin drive and Book Fair sales go towards the purchase of new books for our school library and the classroom libraries so it’s vital that the Book Fair have enough volunteers to keep it open. Paulette cannot do it alone, so please sign up for a time slot to help out!

Street Sign Winners…
If you were one of the lucky 6 winners of the REF raffle that won a hallway street sign, please contact the school office or Guy Taylor at guytaylor123@yahoo.com with the name you want on your sign. You can choose to use your child’s first or last name with Street, Blvd, Way, Place, Court, Lane, Avenue, Road, etc. The sign will be installed when they come in and you will be notified that the sign has been installed. At the end of the year, you will be given your sign to take home.

Street sign winners:
YMCA wing — Kayla Y. – Kindergarten, Room 22
3rd/4th grade wing — Adam M. – 4th grade, Room 3
5th/6th grade wing — Sienna B. – Kindergarten, Room 26
7th/8th grade wing — Alberto F. – 7th grade, Room 17
Upper Campus Courtyard — Hayes E. – Kindergarten, Room 21
Main Hallway — April A. – Kindergarten, Room 21

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. To receive an email when your child has completed an Accelerated Reader Quiz, click the Email Setup link and enter your child’s name and up to six email addresses to receive updates.

To log on, go to https://Hosted122.renlearn.com/278977/HomeConnect That will open up a page requesting your child’s User Name and Password. Letters went home to parents with this information, but if you don’t have it, have your child enter the information. Once you are in the system, you will be able to see the books your child has read and what their progress is towards their point goal. Please note: This site currently doesn’t work on all browsers, but it does work on Safari.

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.

Raccoon Bucks…
In addition to the ice cream truck that has parked next to Schaeberg Library every afternoon at dismissal time, there is now an ice cream cart at the gate on the Euclid side. If you are giving your child money for the Snack Shack, they may be using it to buy from one of the two vendors on the street. If you would like to make sure that your child only buys snacks from the Snack Shack, you can purchase Raccoon Bucks that are acceptable currency for any item at the Snack Shack. Raccoon Bucks are available for sale at $1 each in the school office.

Spirit wear…
All sizes have been restocked and are again available for sale in the school office. If you’re stopping by the office in the morning or just before afternoon dismissal to purchase spirit wear, please be patient with Gwen and Rosie. There is always a lot going on in the office during those times, so it may take a while for them to get the chance to retrieve the items for you from the storage room. Also, if you are paying cash, please have exact change – the office is not allowed to hold cash to make change. Checks should be made out to Roosevelt PTA. You may also pay by credit card.

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

Trivia Question Answer…
The correct answer is d. 25,430! That’s a lot of reading! If you guessed c. 19,550, you were partially correct. That is the number of AR quizzes that were taken last year! Roosevelt is very lucky to have such a wonderful library and librarian to oversee it all.Library

How can you support our library?
1. Make sure that your child takes care of any school library books that come home to ensure that the books will last for years to come and can be enjoyed by all.
2. If your child loses or damages a book, please pay the fine in full so that the book can be replaced.
3. Come to the Book Fair. All profits made from book sales go right back into an account to buy more books for the library and classroom libraries.
4. Volunteer to help with the Book Fair! We only have a few volunteers signed up to help with the Fall Book Fair (the Spring Book Fair will be hosted by Kinder parents). Please contact the school office at 369-5597 or email Sarah Coyle at scoyle@rcsdk8.net, Julie Gordon at jgordon@rcsdk8.net or our librarian Paulette Elliott at pelliott@rcsdk8.net if you want to help out. If your parent/teacher conference is scheduled for this week, consider coming a little bit early or staying a little bit after your conference to help out!

Have a great week!