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THE HAWK HERALD

4.2013 | Volume 13 Issue 8

16510 Fishhawk Boulevard, Lithia, FL 33547 | [email protected] | (813) 740-3900 | http://randall.mysdhc.org/PTSA

Dear Randall Families,

I hope you all had a nice relaxing spring break and that all the students came back ready to finish out the quarter and get ready for FCAT. The board is getting ready to finish out our year as well and plan for next year. Many of us including myself will be moving on as my son is in 8th grade. Therefore, we are looking for people who want to get involved. Please know that being on the PTSA board does not mean you have to give a lot of time. There are plenty of positions that require very little time and none of them take a ton of time – not even President! Kathy Hayes has written an article in this newslet-ter about next year’s board so please read it for more information and I encourage you to contact one of us with any questions!

We still have some fun things coming up like the Cultural Arts Night featuring Upcycled Art on April 4 from 6-8PM! Come enjoy the fun and see all the projects created by stu-dents, classes and teachers. Look at the article in this newsletter for more information.

If you currently have a Newsome High School student or an 8th grader that will be attend-ing NHS next year please consider getting involved with the PTSA there. I am currently on that board and will be on it again next year. There are many positions or even com-mittees that you can be on and they all take even less time and commitment than ones at the elementary or middle school level. Being on the PTSA is a great way to get involved with the school and know what is going on and that is harder and harder to do as our children get older. Please contact me for any information regarding the NHS PTSA.

As always if you have any questions or need to get in touch with us please email us at [email protected].

Sincerely,

Melanie Bentley-Montanaro

Melanie Bentley-MontanaroRandall PTSA President

President’s LetterMelanie Bentley-Montanaro

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April2-19 Spirit Night - Tea Cup Tea Room4 Upcycled Art Show25 Box Tops Due29-30 Spring Book Fair

May1-3 Spring Book Fair16 Spirit Night - Park Square Pizza/Art Monkey27 Memorial Day - No school30 Box Tops Due

June4 Spirit Night - TNT Smoothies7 Last Day of School End of 4th Grading Period


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Cultural Arts Night Recycled Art Show is Thursday, April 4th - from 6-8 pmCynthia Atkins

Bring the whole family for a little Art and Dinner! Formaggio’s Food Truck will be on the school grounds selling lots of fabulous Italian food. Randall students and teachers will be dazzling us with their talent in the Recycled Art Show, the “Trash”ion Fashion Show and the

Rock and Recycle Show. Plus don’t miss the Mini Art Expo where you can actually participate in different art projects like making a hair bow out of a necktie! Also, don’t forget to bring an unwanted new or gently used craft supply to exchange in the “Exchange It” Booth. If you have any questions please contact Cynthia Atkins at [email protected].

Don’t Miss the Chance to Vote for your favorite Artists!!

Staff Appreciation is Seeking DonationsDonna Blattel

The Staff Appreciation Committee will provide our next dinner for our teachers on conference night, Thursday, 5/2, in the Randall cafeteria. We will serve appetizers, sandwiches, salads and desserts. Be on the look out for the next Sign up Genius, or you can go directly to the website www.signupgenius.com and search for Randall Conference Night Dinner. Thank you for continously showing support by donating to our Conference Night Dinners for our outstanding Teachers and Staff at Randall Middle School Also in April, we will recognize our Teachers celebrating a birthday in April with a treat.

If you have questions about Staff Appreciation, Please contact or Donna at [email protected] or Jennifer at abdoneyj@ yahoo.com.

Box Tops for Education Shannon Derby

Congratulations to Ms. Caldwell’s homeroom class for winning the February Box Tops contest. Every student in her homeroom received a pair of JABRA Chill head-phones.

Thanks to your clipping and submitting Box Tops, Randall Middle School will re-ceive a check for $875.00. That gives us a total of $1,866.00 of free money from Box Tops for Education so far this year. Thank you all for taking your time and effort to collect and submit these Box Tops that earn money for Randall’s students, class-es, and teachers.

We have 2 months of homeroom Box Tops contests left. Let’s blow it out in April and May and end this year meeting our $3,000.00 Box Tops goal!

Marja PhilpottData Processor

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2012-2013 PTSA OFFICERS

Melanie Bentley-MontanaroPresident

Jill RintoulVP, Ways & Means

Kathi HayesVP, Membership & Volunteers

Cynthia AtkinsVP, Activities

Bonnie DittbennerTreasurer

Buff BishopRecording Secretary

Michelle QuessenberryCorresponding Secretary

Fredda JohnsonPrincipal

PTSA Mission• A powerful voice for all children• A relevant source for families

and communities• A strong advocate for the edu-

cation and well being of every child.

The Hawk Herald is a publica-tion produced by Randall Middle School’s PTSA. It is designed tokeep our families informed on cur-rent events happening at our school.

The Hawk Herald is published monthly throughout the school year and the deadline for submission is the 15th of each month prior to publication date. Online publica-tion dates are the last Friday of the month. Submissions for consider-ation should be emailed to Alison Fiol, [email protected]

MaryEllen EliaSuperintendent of Schools

Candy OlsonChair, County School Board

April GriffinVice Chair, County School Board

Doretha W. EdgecombCounty School Board

Carol W. KurdellCounty School BoardJack R. Lamb, Ed.D.County School Board

Susan L. ValdesCounty School Board

Stacy R. WhiteCounty School Board

How to Help RMS PTSAShannon Derby

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Student of the MonthKelly Hoobler

Congratulations to the following students who were selected as Stu-dent of the Month for February:

6th Grade(Optimistic)- Lilly Berrian, Valerie Bonilla, Thomas Carpenter, Regan Gomolak, Kendall Harris, Rebekah Hewitt, Austin Huffman, Faith Jacobs, Andrea Kanarek, Michael Lim, Doug Perez, Sydney Rintoul, Jimmy Rivas, Emily Robidoux, Anna Sanderson, Grace Sarkisian, Anna Staddon, Adeena Stewart, Daniel Walbolt

7th Grade(Kind)- Shane Abraham, Leighanna Ackerman, Lauren Bell, Blake Boyle, Sarah Bradley, Kyle Brewer, Caleb Dowd, Lainey Dumas, Eleanor Lawlor, Timmy Nassar, Anna Nelson, Drew Noel, Simone Paplin, Amana Richardson, Steven Ryals, Kaley Scheid, Justin Seagraves, Sarah Smith, Alexandra Walker

8th Grade(Fair)- Cody Adams, Hannah Benoit, David Boerger, Kiara Boone, Mad-die Burken, Cole Cochran, Kaitlyn Eder, Katie Ferrucci, Mikaela Granados, Christian Helenius, Garrett Hermida, Haley Jones, Isabella Menicia, Riley Munson, Michael Osborne, Olivia Paiva, Nicholas Schnelker, Elijah Tait, Andrew Tumlin, Harry Young

P.E. Students of the Month: Dehnert- Zane Tapper Sires- Dylan Desouza Farrell- Chloe Lieby Williams- Tristan Brandt Kiser- Makail Davis Young- Tim Hartung

On March 20th, all 8th grade PE classes participated in the Kick Butts Day. Ms. Williams’ 8th Grade Science Research classes made educational displays about the tobacco products and their effects. Students did some interesting relays and those who donated to Relay For Life got to pie a teacher in the face.

“Today’s lessons have reminded me how bad tobacco really is.” Daniel Harkins

“I learned that tobacco is more addictive than I thought.” Amila Vucelj

“Cigarettes actually contain chemicals that are found in cleaners and fuel sources.”Jonathan Breen

Volunteer hours must be submitted by May 1, 2013 to Mrs. Verdi to be eligible for the Presidential Volunteer Service Awards that will be presented at Honors Night in mid May. Volunteer hour logs are available in room 106.

SUBMIT YOUR VOLUNTEER HOURS!Kristy Verdi


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1. 2012-2013 FBLA Club; 2. Ana Caro del Castillo and Tara Green, 2nd Place Desktop Publishing; 3. Sarah Cowger, 5th Place Principles & Procedures, 4. Bobby McAdams, 3rd Place Business Math, and Hunter Wills, 6th Place Leadership & Parliament; 5. Ms. Delgado’s class with Teacher Assistant, Maddie Morales, from Newsome High School, and 6. Marina Reick and Katherine Shepard, 1st Place Buliding-a-Biz

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7. Jake Kalicki and Roberto Caban donating shoes.

RMS STUDENTSDONATE &COMPETE

8. The Meats Team in Gainesville practicing for the competition in April.Left to right: Angie Phil-lips, Katelyn Grossman, and Conlin King


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Tea for Two?Ann Nicholson

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Randall Middle School Spirit with Beef O’Brady’s. A big shout out to Take Out Butler for our MONTH of Spirit Nights in February ~ Take Out Butler was used 49 times during the month contributing $100 to our PTSA. We are looking forward to another successful MONTH of Spirit nights next year! We are gearing up for our April Spirit WEEKS at the Tea Cup Tea Room.

We have had a fantastic turn out at our events -- So mark your calendars for May 16th and June 4th! Let’s continue to show our spirit!

April 2-19 – Tea Cup Tea Room - Ladies roll in spring with a spring tea- 15% back - reserva-tions recommended but not requiredMay 16th – Park Square Pizza/Art Monkey Ice Cream – It’s a Party and DJ in Park Square.June 4th – TNT Smoothies – Give your brain a break from studying for those exams and get a healthy smoothie.

Thank you for supporting your school through our Spirit Nights.

Save the Date for the SpringBook FairKim Andrzejewski

The Spring Book Fair will be held April 29th - May 3rd. The book fair will be open from 8:30AM-4:30PM each day, and also during conference night, May 2nd. What a great opportunity to

stock up on books from the summer reading lists while waiting for your conference slot!

Volunteers will be needed for this event, so please watch the Randall PTSA sites for sign up information. Questions? Email Kim Andrzejewski at [email protected].

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Hawk Bucks Store Needs Volunteers!Linda Weiss

Do you have a Hawk Buck to spare? Hawk Bucks is a unique program where stu-dents are rewarded for making great choices on a daily basis. Students are given Hawk Bucks which are redeemed for small items or saved for larger opportunities. Once or twice a week during lunch, the students can redeem them at the store on the stage. We can only make this store available to our students with your help. Please consider donating your time to this awesome program. Please contact Lin-da Weiss, at [email protected], with any questions or simply to let me know you can't wait to get involved!

Kimberly WebberGuidance Secretary

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Counselor’s CornerMelissa Miller, 6th Grade Counselor

Here are the important dates and information for this month for you to be aware of:1. The 6th grade students will finish up their trip to Nature’s Classroom on April 4th.2. Stanford testing will be done with 7th and 8th graders on April 2nd and with 6th graders on April 8th. Please be sure to be here on time and ready to test on those days. Ms. Miller, 6th grade counselor, will be in charge of this testing.3. The Extended Learning Program ends on April 4th for those needing to earn quality points for the 1st semester. The last session will begin on Monday 4/22 and end on Monday 6/3 since there is no ELP on Memorial Day. This will be for students needing to earn quality points for any of the first three quarters. Letters will be mailed home on 4/17 and copies will be given to students too.4. There will be an anti-bullying presentation during lunches by Officer White who performed the song “It’s Not Snitchin’, It’s Crime Prevention” on the Morning Show, and the students really liked it. This will be on Wednesday April 10th, and Mr. Oliver, Prevention Specialist, is in charge of this.5. Ms. Richards, 8th grade counselor, did a presentation on the morning show on 2/28 and read the poem “Choose Your Stone” to show how saying mean things can really hurt a person. A discussion was held in homerooms so students could develop “stones of character.”6. Ms. Miller did a presentation on the morning show on 3/26 and read the story “Nails in the Fence” which is about how losing your temper is like hitting a nail in the fence because even if you say that you’re sorry afterwards, it still leaves a hole in the fence after the nail is taken out. A discussion was held in homerooms so students could develop empathy for others and come up with strategies to control their tempers.7. Ms. Richards presented our “Turnaround Student” award at the county’s ceremony on 4/11. More information will be coming about this.8. Be sure to wear a baseball shirt on 4/5 and a college shirt on 4/26 or you could always wear Randall shirts or colors on every Friday to earn extra hawk bucks for school spirit.9. FCAT testing will begin on Monday 4/15 with the math sessions for everyone. On 4/16, it will be the first session of reading for 8th grade and the computer-based reading test for 7th grade will begin and run through 4/19. Students will only need to do the computer test one day, but it takes all week to get all tests done on computers for everyone. The science test for 8th grade will be on Thursday 4/18. Math make-ups for 6th and 8th grade will be on Friday 3/19 and it will be on Monday 4/22 for 7th grade as well as science make-ups for 8th grade. The computer-based test for reading for 6th grade will begin on Monday 4/22 and end on Friday 4/26. The reading make-ups for 8th grade will be on 4/23 and 4/24. If needed, make-ups will be continued on 4/25 and 4/26, but those days will mostly be for boxing the materials up. Please be sure to be here on time and ready to test on those days. Ms. Roberts, 7th grade counselor, will be in charge of this testing. 10. 7th grade will go on a field trip to Busch Gardens on Friday 4/26.11. Character Education lessons will be done on April 29th in homerooms. For April, 6th grade discusses being ambitious, 7th grade discusses being considerate, and 8th grade discusses being courageous.12. Edline will be updated on 4/11 and 4/25 so please check to keep current on your child’s grades. Email teachers directly if you have any questions or concerns about grades or issues hap-pening in class.13. We start the final quarter on April 1st and students need to earn at least two quality points in each of their core subjects per semester in order to pass to the next grade level. If they don’t, they will need to make up those classes during the summer.14. There are no more days off from school until Memorial Day. Please remember to call the attendance line before school starts if your child is absent for that day at 740-3900 x1. As always, please feel free to contact us whenever needed. Ms. Miller, 6th grade counselor, can be reached at 740-3900 x255 or via email. Ms. Roberts, 7th grade counselor, can be reached at 740-3900 x233 or via email. Ms. Richards, 8th grade counselor, can be reached at 740-3900 x231 or via email. If you have an issue involving discipline or bullying, please contact either Mr. Antalek, 6th grade boys and 8th grade assistant principal at 740-3900 x226 or via email, or Dr. Sykes, 6th grade girls and 7th grade assistant principal at 740-3900 x238 or via email.


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Looking Forward to Next Year’s PTSA LeadershipKathi Hayes

Ever wonder if there is anything going on at your child’s middle school? Ever find information about an event wadded at the bottom of their backpacks, only to find that it came and went 3 months ago? Being on the PTSA Board is a great way to get involved in your child’s school and see your child from time to time as they pass by you as if you were a total stranger…but they love knowing you are there and helping out! The Teachers and Staff are so thankful for all the PTSA does for their school that it is a very rewarding experience!

We are reaching the end of our PTSA year! We have a Nominating Committee in place to start getting the new Executive Board and Chair Positions in place for the 2013-14 school year. If you are interest-ed in serving on the board or have questions about one of the positions, please email Kathi Hayes [email protected] or Melanie Bentley-Montanaro [email protected]. Please consid-er volunteering your time and talents with us! We’d love to have you on board next year!!!

Executive Board Positions: Chair Positions: ReflectionsPresident Awards Restaurant NightsVice President of Ways & Means Book Fair Staff AppreciationVice President of Volunteers & Membership Box Tops Student DirectoryVice President of Activities County Council Student RecognitionTreasurer Cultural Arts Night T-ShirtsCorresponding Secretary Hawk Store WebsiteRecording Secretary Newsletter PTSA Business Memberships Support RMS & Become a Member! Thank you to our RMS PTSA Business Members for their support. To become a Business Member, please contact Kathi Hayes at [email protected].

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