PTO WEEKLY UPDATE 11/23/14

Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy the short school week and the extra time with your family and friends.

Holiday Breakfast This year's Holiday Breakfast is Saturday December 6th, 9:00 - 11:00 am. A yummy pancake breakfast, a choir performance, face painting, crafts and a photo booth! Suggested donation of $5 per family. All proceeds will go to purchasing needed classroom supplies.   We are excited to have a raffle at this years breakfast! Purchase one ticket for $3 or four tickets for $10 and have a chance to win an American Girl Doll!  With a value of $115, Julie and her story book would make a wonderful gift. If you would like to volunteer your time set up is Friday, December 5th at 3:45 pm and Saturday, December 6th at 7:30 am. Clean up will follow breakfast Saturday, December 6th at  11:00. We also need 2-3 photo booth operators. Help us make this breakfast even more yummy, a financial contribution will help to purchase an assortment of breakfast meats (bacon and sausage), please make out checks to Glenridge PTO, write “Holiday Breakfast” on your envelope and leave them at the school office. We would love your involvement. Any other suggestion of how we can make this a bigger and better occasion is welcome! Send all offers of help and suggestions to glenridgepto@gmail.com.

A Shout out to: Jennifer Chow and Lisa Rohlfing for contacting businesses for donations. Thanks to American Girl Company for donating a doll for our holiday raffle.

WE NEED PHOTOS!  Please email any photos of students at school events and activities. Start asking at workplaces & businesses for sponsors!  If any business is willing to sponsor our yearbook, we will advertise for them for FREE for 1 year at all of our PTO sponsored events.  Email pictures, interested businesses and any questions to Lisa Rohlfing.

Canned food drive Student council is participating in a canned food drive that will support the Kent Community Center and Maple Valley Food Banks. Please bring in items December 8th-10th.  Must be non-perishable (canned, dried, not frozen). Must be in original containers with original label. No glass jars. No home-canned foods. Paper towels. Toilet tissue. Facial tissue. Soaps/shampoo.

Boxtopoly! The first class to fill their Boxtopoly game board with Box Tops from the listed participating brands will win a fun surprise! So keep collecting Box Top labels and the brand logos and send them to school as soon as you collect them.  You can send others as well. Each one is worth 10 cents. Please see flyer that came home on Friday 11/21.

Paige Wehmeyer, 1st grade teacher, was born and raised in Seattle. She went to Washington State University as a third generation Coug! She enjoys scuba diving, hiking, and reading. In the Classroom In 2nd grade: In reading, students are studying characters and how they face challenges. In math, there are addition and subtraction story problems. Our students are also writing “how to stories” and learning how to type. And yes, we do art as well.