holidays #unusualholidayshopewelljhs.my-ptsa.org/content/320_3/document...shopping experience a...
TRANSCRIPT
Our winter Scholastic Book Fair is December 5-9. We will also be selling raffle tickets for 25 cents each for a chance to win a bean bag chair.
If you have your clearances on file and can volunteer during the Book Fair, please contact Kasey Nicol at [email protected].
Five Below Fundraiser Flyers
2
Golden Box Tops Challenge
3
Toy Drive 3
President’s Letter 4
What Does Our PTSA Do?
4
PTSA Giving Tree 5
Tweet Wall 6
Bracelet Fundraiser Order Form
7
Bracelet Fundraiser 8
Important Dates 9
Extended Calendar 9
Inside this issue: December Book Fair #BookFair
December 2016 Volume 2, Issue 4
Hopewell Junior High School
PTSA Newsletter
Holidays #UnusualHolidays
December
Bingo Month
Write a Friend Month
Universal Human
Rights Month
December 4 Santa’s List Day
December 9
National Pastry Day
December 11 International
Children’s Day
December 15 Bill of Rights Day
December 18
Bake Cookies Day
December 21 National
Flashlight Day Crossword Puzzle
Day
December 24 National Chocolate
Day
December 28 Card Playing Day
December 30
Bacon Day
December 31 Make Up Your Mind
Day
NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONS
To include any event or
other information in the
newsletter, please contact
Vivian Lumbard at
Morning Announcements #VikingP3Online
Did you know that the Video Announcement Club is recording the school’s morning announcements and posting them online? You can see the current day’s morning announcement on the Junior High home page on the district website.
Do you or someone you know shop at Costco? From now until August 31, 2017, specially-marked products will have a unique package code that you can enter here for a chance to win 100 eBoxTops! You can play twice a day, but only for a total of 22 times overall. There are also instructions on how to receive a code without a
purchase in the official rules on the site. The products at Costco where you can find the codes are:
Honey Nut Cheerios 55oz Yellow Box Cheerios 40.7oz MultiGrain Cheerios 37.5oz Lucky Charms 46oz Cinnamon Toast Crunch
49.5oz Nature Valley Oats & Honey
Granola Bars 49ct Nature Valley Sweet & Salty
Peanut Granola Bars 48 ct Nature Valley Trail Mix Chewy
Granola Bars Fruit & Nut 48ct
Fiber One Bars Oats and Chocolate 48ct
Fruit By the Foot Natural Colors 48ct
GoGurt Simple Club Pack 32ct Bisquick Annie’s Mac & Cheese Variety
Pack 12ct Annie’s Coco Bunnies Cereal Annie’s Fruit Snacks 42ct Ziploc® brand Freezer Quart Ziploc® brand Freezer Gallon Ziploc® brand Slider Ziploc® brand Sandwich Ziploc® brand Mixed Variety
Pack 347ct
Golden Box Tops Challenge #GoldenBTs
Page 3 Tag-a-zine
Toy Drive #HopewellToyDrive
• Make a monetary donation.
Checks (made out to Hopewell Area School District) or cash can be dropped off or mailed to: Hopewell Junior High Library 2354 Brodhead Road Aliquippa, PA 15001
The toy drive will run through December 16th. Thank you for brightening the holiday season for young people in our area!!
Organized by teachers, the Hopew ell Area School District toy drive has been providing gift items to local students for over 20 years. Last year, they brightened the season for over 70 families. Please consider donating in one of the following ways: Sponsor a child through our online angel
tree.
Go to hopewellangeltree.weebly.com. Donations can be brought to any school’s main office.
Purchase items from our Amazon Wish
List.
Visit amazon.com, click on “Wish List” and search for “Hopewell Toy Drive.” Any item that you purchase from this list will be sent to the Junior High School and distributed to local children.
activities into the school, but without your support we are not able to.
Our next PTSA meeting is in January 12, 2017 at 6:30pm in the Library at the Junior High. We look forward to seeing you there.
Some dates to remember over the next two months:
12/5 - Anderson Candy orders and money due
12/5-12/9 - Book Fair
12/8 - JHS Concert
12/23-1/2 - No School
Thank you for your continued support! I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year! Be safe over the Holiday Season!
Sincerely,
Michele Fuchs
PTSA President
I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving and break! Our lives get really busy this month and we have some wonderful ways to make your holiday and shopping experience a little easier. We are selling beautiful Hopewell and Pittsburgh Spirit Bracelets. We have Bangles for $25 and Crystal Bracelets for $35. Each Bracelet sold will donate $5 to our PTSA. We will also be selling $20 Harold's Inn Gift Certificates and for each gift certificate sold Harold's will donate 10% to the PTSA. Think about Hostess gifts, teachers, family, co-workers, hairdressers, etc.
Also, don't forget that for every weekend in December, Five Below will donate 10% of your sale back to the Junior High. Please remember to bring the flyer with you. The flyer will be emailed, sent home with kids, on our Facebook page and also located on our PTSA website. Feel free to forward the flyer on to family, friends, co-workers
etc. A lot of people shop for stocking stuffers for Christmas, so why not do it when you can kick back to the PTSA.
We also have a few Vocelli's Pizza Cards available for 2 cards for $5. They do expire on 12/31/16 but they would be great to use over the next few crazy weeks. Each card has 2 BOGO Large Pizza, 2 BOGO House baked subs and 2 BOGO breadsticks. Can't beat that deal for $5!
Each school year we spend $12,000 on fieldtrips, assemblies, events at school that we fund. So it is really important to help out with our fundraisers. I totally understand that it is very hard at this level since the kids are in sports, band, musicals, clubs, etc. that also fundraise, but we could really use your support. Each school year it roughly costs $30 per student; that is what the breakdown is. We would love to be able to bring more exciting assemblies and
President’s Letter #FromThePrez
Volume 2, Issue 4 Page 4
What Does Our PTSA Do? #HMJHSPTSA Do you wonder what the PTSA does with the money from their fundraisers? It’s more obvious for families to notice the PTA/PTSA involvement in the elementary schools - organizing various events where parents are asked to participate, class parties, being asked to chaperone on the field trips, etc. versus in Junior High.
The truth is our PTSA helps out
more than you may realize, and we would love to be able to provide even more for the children’s educational support.
On the next page is our “Giving Tree” for last year. Over $10,000 of our $12,000 budget went directly to support the
students, their classrooms and their learning experience. The remainder went for administrative expenses (insurance, photocopies, etc.) and teacher/staff appreciation.
When you support our fundraisers, you are helping us help the children and we appreciate it greatly!
What does Hopewell Junior High PTSA support?
FIELD TRIPS
$7,500 towards student admissions and transportation, including the 8th Grade Washington, DC
field trip
8th GRADE SENDOFF $1,000 for food,
decorations and supplies for our “graduating” student celebration
STAFF/TEACHER APPRECIATION
$550 for a staff/teacher appreciation luncheon to
show our support and gratitude for all that they
do during the year
STUDENT LEARNING AND FUN!
IN-SCHOOL PROGRAMS Help support the anti-bullying assemblies, special events like STEAMWalk and the 5th Grade
French and Indian War Day
5th/6th GRADE SOCIALS
Provide a safe, chaperoned
environment for the students
to socialize, have fun and
provide funding
CHRISTMAS CANDY, EASTER CANDY,
BOX TOPS, SHOPAROO & DIP/SOUP FUNDRAISER
Help provide funding for the year
VOLUNTEERS Everything we do for the children is supported by the
time, talents and efforts of our volunteers!
OPEN HOUSE Opportunity for families to meet teachers, see student classrooms and learn more
about the school and the PTSA with refreshments supplied by
the PTSA
BOOK FAIRS Foster a love of reading and provides over $1300 in free books to Language Arts and
Support classrooms, the school library as well as donations to
the Hopewell Toy Drive
Supporting our efforts goes a long way!
Want to learn more? Visit us at hopewelljhs.my-ptsa.org and help us help our school!
COMMUNITY Family, friends, neighbors,
coworkers and local
businesses support our efforts
to support the children with
purchases, monetary and in-
kind donations
edutopia @edutopia
Calling all students & teachers for Hour of Code 2016: edut.to/2gisrqL #HourofCode
Jessica Webster @jgroteweb
"... fundamental misconception that art classes r about learning 2 draw. In fact, they r about learning 2 see.." #creativityinc @fuechs1
WeAreTeachers @WeAreTeachers
New study links children's sleeplessness to bedtime use of electronic gadgets @washingtonpost bit.ly/2feYZSr #edchat #parenting
Kat @HMJHPrincipal
Congratulations Mrs. Lash & Ms. Grafton for your grant awards! Super job!@HMJHS_Vikings
MindShift @MindShiftKQED
What types of sound experiences enable children to learn best? ow.ly/EFmH306BUep #edchat #design #spedchat
Teaching Channel @TeachingChannel
Prevent #bullying by explaining the spectrum of disabilities. ow.ly/o0dn306BueU #SPEDchat
edutopia @edutopia
A compelling case for using "attendance questions" at the beginning of class: edut.to/2fnYc2L .
SchoolFamily @SchoolFamily
How to turn meal time into something everyone enjoys: ow.ly/WZ1d306oBri #kids #parents #together
MindShift @MindShiftKQED
Creating a welcoming classroom for students with special needs @cultofpedagogy ow .ly/KTbn306BPKW #edchat #spedchat #teaching
Jacie Maslyk @DrJacieMaslyk
Build student curiosity via @gcouros #InnovatorsMindset
Tweet Wall #TweetsForAll
Volume 2, Issue 4 Page 6
Spirit Bracelet Examples
Large crystals shown on the left and small
crystal depicted on the right.
Photo on right: Pittsburgh bangles shown with charms.
Photo below: Bangles shown with various charms
available.
2354 Brodhead Road
Aliquippa, PA 15001
hopewelljhs.my-ptsa.org
March 17-19 High School Musical
March 27 Easter Candy Orders Due
April 6 PTSA Meeting
April 21-23 Junior High Musical
April 28 5th/6th Grade Social
2017
February 9 PTSA Meeting
February 10 5th/6th Grade Social
March 3 Easter Candy Sale Begins
March 9 PTSA Meeting
March 10 5th/6th Grade Social
2016-2017 ELECTED OFFICERS
President Michele Fuchs
Vice President Mary Jo Reda
Secretary Kristie Conrad
Treasurer Kelly Hineman
Extended Calendar #CalendarEvents
May 1-5 Book Fair
May 11 PTSA Meeting
May 17 Art Show
May 18 Band Concert
June 14 Kennywood Day