Dear SHARP Parent(s)/Guardian(s),

We had a very busy April with so many school activities!!! On April 1st

, we had two major events: our annual

Author Day and the 3rd

Grade Recorder Evening Concert. Both events were great! The kids and parents loved

them. We had our monthly attitude assembly on “Curiosity and Creativity” presented by Mrs. Fliegel’s and Mrs.

Rappaport’s classes with our musical mornings program. Our first Friendly’s Night out was a huge success!! The

PTA-sponsored “Human Board Game” assembly was a hit with the kids as well as with the teachers and staff!!!

We had an amazing Teacher’s Appreciation Week with our Superhero theme!!! Thank you to all the families that

donated funds for this very special week. Our teachers/staff really appreciated getting smoothies, pretzels,

hoagies, hot cooked breakfast, a special snack jar and the most beautiful display case full of our everyday

Superheroes at school--our teachers!!! Our annual Spring Book Fair/Family Night/Ice Cream Social was a success

in addition to the popular poster contest. The Sharp community loved hearing the 4th

and 5th

graders at the

Spring concert in Band/Orchestra/Chorus. Our talented students made special “Trash to Treasures” projects

which were on display at the annual Cherry Hill Earth Festival. Lastly, we had our yearly Sharp Phillies Day!!!

This May, we have even more activities planned for the Sharp community around PARCC testing. The Second

Part of the PARCC testing will take place in May. Originally, it was planned for 4 weeks, but the District was able

to combine it to 2 weeks. Our last movie night of the year will take place outside on 5/8 with “Big Hero Six”

being shown to the Sharp Community. Our yearly Sharp Night at the Riversharks will take place on 5/9. Lastly,

our biggest fundraiser of the year--“Bingo and Baskets”--will take place on 5/26 (please see flyer attached).

Most importantly, all of our events and programs throughout the year can’t happen without volunteers!!!

Please look at the information attached to this newsletter about our nomination process and how you can get

involved on the PTA Board. We really need you!!

Let’s thank individuals and groups who have contributed to our SHARP community!! Please look at the latest list

of those to whom we are THANKFUL. Thank you!

All the best,

Tammy Raden

Sharp PTA President

gold_raden@yahoo.com

Joseph D. Sharp Elementary PTA

Volunteer to Get Involved!

300 Old Orchard Road, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003-1299

(856) 424-1550, Fax (856) 424-6577, http://sharp.cherryhill.k12.nj.us/

Mr. Ric Miscioscia, Principal rmiscioscia@chclc.org

May, 2015

Dear Sharp Community,

“Grit is not static. It fluctuates throughout every stage of life.” This is one of many points to ponder by

Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth, Cherry Hill graduate and 2013 MacArthur Fellowship recipient, at her presentation

on True Grit at CHHS West on April 16. Dr. Duckworth spoke to many community students, parents, and

educators about the positive outcomes that are typically produced out of one’s grit and determination to go

forward in work, especially in times of distraction or even adversity. She further explained through her

research, ranging from gritty pioneers Charles Darwin to John Wooden, that the concept of true grit is not new,

but the continuing research behind it, including some she and colleagues conducted recently in Cherry Hill,

overwhelmingly suggests that being gritty can turn plans into reality.

Talent is important, intelligence is important, but grit is also needed to maintain momentum in practice

and achievement. When practice becomes difficult, grit is what helps cultivate talent and intelligence. I

especially appreciated her comment on how grit is not granted to us, but it must be learned, often through our

mistakes, and how much of a role we play in mentoring and cultivating grit on our young learners. Dr.

Duckworth noted that grit is not something that we cultivate in one child, but something that we cultivate in the

community. We must celebrate the hard work, practice, and mistakes that help us learn. No matter what our

students want to be, it is going to take hard work and practice. We need to instill that work ethic in them now.

While Dr. Duckworth’s research has shown that grit does improve with age, it is certainly something that we can

all help nurture in our young learners.

More information will soon be available on our district website regarding Dr. Duckworth’s work and

presentation to the Cherry Hill community. In the meantime, I invite you to use the following address to view a

brief presentation Dr. Duckworth made in 2013: https://www.ted.com/speakers/angela_lee_duckworth

Our Sharp students continue to “Work Harder to Get Smarter.”

Sincerely,

Ric Miscioscia

Principal

MAY 2015

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

1 2

3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Dancing

w/Stars

WEST 7pm

Attitude

Assembly:

Cooperation

Movie Night

6:30pm

Riversharks

Night

4:35pm

10 11 12 13 14 15

16

17 18 19 20

21 22 23

Kindergarten

Orientation 1:30pm

5th

Grade Dance

24 25

NO SCHOOL:

Memorial Day

26

Bingo & Baskets

6:30pm

27 28 29 30

Additional Dates: Bulldog articles next month are due by Tuesday, May 19th via email to Ben1721@aol.com.

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Support your Sharp School PTA!

Do you shop at Target? Did you know Target’s “Take Charge

of Education” program allows Target cardholders to designate

1% of their Target charges to Sharp? Our school ID number is

72512. Visit www.target.com/tcoe to enroll your card today!

Please consider ordering your personal and work printer cartridges from nearby Cartridge World (2110 Marlton Pike East, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003 - 856.751.0900). Not only are the cartridges less expensive than the

office supply big box stores (even with a coupon!), but they offer free delivery for orders over $50. Better yet, Sharp will receive a percentage of sales from every transaction when you mention our school.

Do you have an Eat Well, Do Well Card? This free card—when properly linked to

Joseph D. Sharp School—will enable the Silver Diner to donate money back to our

school every time you have it swiped when paying for your meal. Please refer to

the following web link for more information:

https://www.silverdiner.com/eatwelldowell/join

Keep collecting Box Tops at ShopRite – register to credit Joseph

D. Sharp Elementary School, Shop and Earn automatically.

THANK YOU TO…….

• Mrs. Fliegel’s class and Mrs. Rappaport’s class for a great “Creativity and Curiosity” presentation to the

school at our Attitude Assembly.

• Our annual Author Day coordinated by Suzanne Myers with Mrs. Laskey. Suzanne, we will miss you at

Sharp next year!!!

• Melanie Lomas for coordinating our first Friendly’s Night with support from Alpa Shah on the PTA

Board.

• Jade Dalumpines and Lisa Boyle for making the special Happy Birthday Booklet for Mr. Miscioscia’s

birthday.

• Marcy Kerr and Susan Lee for coordinating a fantastic teacher’s appreciation week!!!! Thank you to

PTA Board members Jade Dalumpines (for an outstanding Superheroes theme in the Display case) and

Lisa Boyle (for your letter to the school and logistical support). To all the parents that helped to fund

this year’s activities and all the parent volunteers—we could not have done it without you!!

• Ben Ovadia, Elvin Rodriguez, Kristen Viglietta and Danielle Carter for being on the 2015-16 Sharp

School PTA Board Nominating Committee.

• Jade Dalumpines for coordinating the Human Board Game assembly.

• Kim Hart and Susie Fields for coordinating the Spring Book Fair. All the parent volunteers who helped

with Book Fair set-up, class book selection and taking down the Book Fair. A big Thank You, to our

wonderful Sharp Librarian, Mrs. Laskey!!!!!

• Terri Zimba for coordinating the Ice Cream Social with help from Marissa Ortiz, Suzanne Myers, Marcy

Kerr and student volunteers.

• Dr. Beckman and Mrs. Britton for double duty: the 3rd

Grade Recorder concert and the Spring Concert.

Great Job!!!

• All those who volunteered at Sharp’s table at the Cherry Hill Earth Festival: Mr. Miscioscia, Joanna &

Bianca Angelache, Beth Deluca, Elvin Rodriguez, Natalie Cutler, Tammy Raden and Shana Herring.

• Kristen Viglietta for organizing the Sharp Phillies Day!!!

• Our Musical Mornings coordinated by Kristina Campoverde.

• All the teachers/staff who participated in Volley for Support!!

Teacher Appreciation Week

We would like to individually thank each one of you, who had a part in this special appreciation week. Also, A HUGE “

THANK YOU” for the overwhelming generous donations from each family who participated in giving to support this week,

a week that was dedicated to our wonderful teachers at Sharp Elementary School. Without your generous donations we

could not have done this without each of you. The list below will acknowledge everyone individually, and how they made

the breakfast and luncheon a success.

Marcy Kerr – helped with luncheon, brought oven baked breakfast potatoes, organized the buffet breakfast and set it up,

organized the chocolate sweet day with chocolate covered strawberries, organized the smoothies and pretzel day

Deborah Mast – 2 gallons of orange juice and 2 packs of cooked sausage links

Lisa Boyle – 1 gallon of milk, helped serve at the breakfast, and clean up, helped individually bag pretzels into slip covers.

Celia Rosenblum – 4 dozen pancakes, also helped serve at the breakfast.

Lisa Poslusny – 2 trays of French Toast Casserole

Kristy Curtis – 1 dozen of French Toast

Tracey Hoffman – 2 packs of cooked sausage links

Beth Schimpf – 2 packages of cooked bacon

Kris Bailey – 2 packages of cooked turkey bacon

Terri Zimba- Egg casserole

Ilene Naddeo – Hashbrown casserole

Sue Lavene – 1 dozen muffins

Rinku Sheth – 1 dozen muffins

Jen Zane – Banana Chocolate chip muffins

Christina Alvazoglou – 2 full (extra large) trays of fresh fruit salad

Susan Lee – homemade Banana caramel sauce, also brought pancake syrup, helped with serving breakfast, organized the

Tuesday morning Hoagie luncheon for the teachers, organizing the teachers’ gifts

Christy Kam – provided butter, and helped serve breakfast, and served during the Tuesday Luncheon for the teachers,

designed Teacher’s week Flyer, participated in individually filling and wrapping the teacher’s gift

Caroline Chung – Helped serve for breakfast, helped serve during the Tuesday Luncheon for the teachers. Also wrapped

individual teacher’s gift.

Eun Joo Koo – Helped with serving for the breakfast.

Shana Herring – Helped serve the Tuesday luncheon.

Tammy Raden – Helped in clean up after breakfast.

Colleen Abronski – Helped in clean up, helped in dipping and decorating the strawberries, and helped in setting up all the

chocolate candy bowls.

Joey and Sandy Dalumpines – Scrambled eggs

Jade Dalumpines – Created the beautiful display case.

*** A special Thank You, to Lori Cochlin , for coming in extra early to get water into chafing pans, lighting the sternos,

getting ice ready for cold drinks, transferring hot food items into the chafing pans, and helping with clean up after the

breakfast.

Sincerely,

Marcy Kerr and Susan Lee