Noe News is Good News, 2008-2009 PTSA Newsletter #30
Catherine Hoagland
School calendar web address
NEW:
Attached is the February PDF of the “Middle Years”.
District’s Comprehensive School Survey
The District's Comprehensive School Survey link is attached. There will also be computers available on the Parent Teacher Conference Days for parents to complete the online survey. Paper copies are available too.
http://snipurl.com/parentguardian
Big Thank You to all who volunteered at the PTSA Membership Dance
The PTSA would like to give a big THANK YOU to all who volunteered at the PTSA Membership Dance on Friday. Thanks to Beth Ann Rubin, Missy Wislocki, Melanie Bunger, Mary Redden, Dean Walker, Susan Coleman, Dani Brow, Pam Wolford, Sherri Ernst, Paula Atteberry and Gina Reczek. Your help with ticket sales, set up, chaperoning, food sales, organizing backpacks and games, and clean up made the event a great success! We couldn't have events for our students without our great Noe volunteers. Thanks again! - Kim Williams
Spring Bookfair
Our Spring Bookfair is next week – February 16th – 20th. We are still in need of a few volunteers to fill some time slots. If you can volunteer a few hours next week, please call Cindy Carpenter Kurtz at 797-1459. Thanks for all your help for our school.
JCTA Action and Dr. Berman’s response
Attached is an article in the JCTA Action and a response letter from Superintendent Dr. Berman sent to the School Board members so that parents may be informed on both sides of the concerns expressed. The PTSA has been requested to forward on to the Noe Parent community.
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Old News Worth Repeating:
Tech Savvy Parent needed
Are you a tech savvy 6th or 7th grade parent interested in becoming more involved in your child's school? We have a job that can be done from the comfort of your home on a weekly basis - updating the school activity calendar that is accessible online to parents. You get the information from the school and plug it in online so all parents can keep up with what is going on. If you are interested, please contact Maria Sorolis at soro...@insightbb.com. Thanks for all your help.
Clothing Drive
During the month of February Noe PTSA will be collecting clothes for those in need. Please help us by donating old clothing you no longer wear. Send your gently used clothes in to Noe so we can share it with the 15Th District PTA Clothing Assistance Program for our area. There will be a box set out for dropping off donations. So do your spring cleaning and donate your old clothes.
Volunteers Needed for Junior Achievement event!
For the fifth year in a row, we have been offered the opportunity for some of our students (our entire 7th grade) to participate in a wonderful learning opportunity through Junior Achievement, called Finance Park.
The program is a community collaboration in which students are given the opportunity to role-play that for one day they are thirty years old, have a family, and are challenged to meet all their living expenses by balancing their budget on a fixed, monthly income. After completing a six-week curriculum, students take a trip downtown to visit JA's newly developed Finance Park. The JA Finance Park is designed as a business district in which students experience consumerism and financial responsibility.
In order for us to participate, we must be able to commit one adult volunteer for every six students. Volunteers serve as financial advisors, working with a group of six students, giving guidance as they make their consumer decisions. As a volunteer, your commitment would involve a one hour training session (the morning of the program) and then working with a group of six students for the remainder of that day. You would need to be at the Finance Park facility (located next to Central High School's football stadium, at 1401 West Muhammad Ali Blvd.) by 8:00 a.m. on the date of your commitment. The program would end by 1:30 p.m.
Due to the program's design of having one adult volunteer for every six students, we need to recruit 15-20 adults for each of the four days of the event. If interested in volunteering for one (or several) days, please let us know by contacting Tara Hengartner in the school office at 485-8307.
The dates of the program are:
Wednesday, February 18 (7 Challengers)
Tuesday, February 24 (7 Navigators)
Thursday, February 26 (7 Monarchs)
Tuesday, March 3 (7 Champions)
2008-2009 Yearbooks -
Order online at www.jostensyearbook.com
for free, and leave the checkbook at home. Yearbooks cost $26. If
you have questions, please contact Cindy Martin at cin...@aol.com.
New Volunteer Opportunities
We have some new volunteer opportunities for parents who want to become involved (or more involved) with their child's school. Please email Maria Sorolis at soro...@insightbb.com if you can help fill any of these needs.
· Teachers need help making copies. These are scheduled through our librarians. This can be arranged according to your schedule. If you work, you can help in the morning from 7:40 am on. If you are interested please include information about your availability. (Days of the week and times)
· Everyone Reads volunteers are needed. Volunteers meet and read with/mentor students for 30 minutes once a week.
· Team leaders need to form relationships with parents who are available to help with paperwork related to things like fields trips, fundraising and other inventive programs. If this sounds interesting to you please also identify whether you are interested in working with a particular team.
Thank you for your continued help to keep our school the best.
Noe Middle School Book Drive
During the holiday season, we like to share with others. At Noe, we are planning to share the gift of reading. Please bring in any new or gently used books to Mrs. Jeffers (7 Monarchs), Mrs. Hart (7 Challengers), or the school office, by Friday, December 19th. The books will be given to participants of the Family Reading Nights on January 29 and April 16. We're looking for books for all ages, from beginning readers to chapter books, to preschool to middle school.
Coke Rewards "no pain, all gain"
Noe PTSA has a new "no pain, all gain" fundraiser. If you are familiar with Coke Rewards, Noe Middle School is now a registered school at that site. If you collect Coke Rewards points, all you do is select the "Rewards and Sweepstakes" tab, scroll to the bottom of the window that opens and click the "button" that says school. Enter Noe's ZIP code (40208) search by State and City. Then you can donate your points to benefit our school. Thanks for all your help!