LaVille Elementary NewsletterJanuary 31, 2014
Dear Parents/Guardians:
As soon as a decision is made, I will be sending a letter home detailing when we are making up our most recent snow days. The letter will be very long. Other events that needed to be rescheduled are on the last page of this letter.
TheScience Fair is Coming: February 6 & 7:
(Bring exhibits February 6 by 8:00 a.m.)
The Science Fair will be held on Thursday, February 6, 2014 and Friday, February 7, 2014, at LaVilleElementary School. Students will bring their projects/exhibits to the gymnasium on Thursday, February 6th, beginning at 7:45 a.m. and pick them up on Friday, February 7th, between 2:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m.
Students and parents may view the projects Thursday, February 6th, from 3:00 until 7:00 p.m. and Friday, February 7th until 12:00 p.m. Exhibits will be judged on Thursday, February 6th, from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. All projects must be turned in by the 8:00 a.m. deadline of February 6, 2014. There is a more detailed flyer attached.
Everyone Loves a Valentine Carnation!
CARNATION SALES: Orders due by February 7The 6th grade have started their annual Valentine Carnation sale! Send a carnation to a friend, your brother or sister, mom or dad, your favorite teacher, or that special someone! You can even send a carnation to someone special at the Jr/Sr High School! Carnations cost only $1 and will be delivered to classrooms on Valentine's Day, Friday, February 14th. Show someone how much you care! All proceeds from this sale will go toward the end-of-the-year 6th grade party. Please print off one of the Valentine cards attached to this newsletter and fill out however many you want! Please send in your money with each card. If you have any questions, please call Lindsay Garrett at (574) 250-6154 or Valerie Unruh at (574) 250-1023.
Wednesday, February 5, Texas Roadhouse LaVille Elementary Night:
Our Texas Roadhouse gift cards were a huge success. We sold $23,720 in gift cards which earned our school $3,558 in profits. Thank you to everyone who bought a gift card or two. You will be able to use those gift cards on Wednesday, February 5th,at our LaVille Elementary give back night. This will be at the Texas Roadhouse on the south side of South Bend. Our school will receive 10% of all sales. You must have the attached coupon for our school to receive the 10%. Feel free to invite friends and family members to this special night. The more sales Texas Roadhouse gets, the more profit our school receives and that money goes directly to our student activities fund.
February 25 & 26 School Dentist will be at LaVille: The dates for the visit will be February 25th and 26th. The In-School DentistSmile programs can see students with Hoosier Healthwise, private insurance, or no insurance. Enrollment forms have been sent home with your child. To take advantage of this convenient opportunity and have your child see the dentist at school, please fill out and sign the enrollment form and return it to school with your child. If you have not received a form, please contact the office and ask for one to be sent home with your child.
Our first LaVille Elementary PTO Trivia Night
was a big triumph. The consensus from everyone who participated Friday night was that we should make this a yearly event. It was great to see so many teams cheering for their team, laughing, and having a great time. It’s nice to know we can have an adult event like this and everyone can have fun, but stay safe. We had some competitive teams, but in the end, Cox’s Army took home 1st place! Congratulations to them and a big thanks, because then they turned around and donated half of their prize money back to the PTO. Miss Slomski would especially like to recognize and thank the following individuals who helped make this event run so smoothly: LaVille Elementary PTO for taking the chance to sponsor (organize and plan) this event. Larry Moore from Larry’s Field of Dreams for donating his residence to house this event, Greg Carroll from WSBT for emceeing and working the room for this event, Heidi Walker for selling pizza all evening, Juan Botello from Don Juan Cantina and Grill who made all the adult beverages, Pam Whitaker for running the raffle prizes, Heads and Tails, and 50/50, Monae Geer for selling raffle and 50/50 tickets, Melissa Duerksen for being a scorer and selling refreshments, Chris Slomski for being a scorer and who won the 50/50 drawing and donated half of his winnings back, Anna Slomski for selling Mulligans and distributing materials for different rounds, Scott Flynn for getting the crowd’s attention and announcing the winning ticket numbers, Mr. Shirley for updating the teams’ scores and hauling in tables and chairs, and Tony Garrett for hauling in tables, chairs, and all the other necessities we needed for this event. We would like to thank the following business who donated prizes for our raffles: John from Meijer’s, Patrick from Applebee’s, David from Ho Ping Chinese Restaurant, Swan Lake Golf Course and Restaurant, Alex from Hacienda, Mark from South Bend Chocolate, and Texas Roadhouse. All of these prizes helped make our trivia night an entertaining event. Last but not least, we want to thank all the teams who participated in this event. Each of you helped make this first time event memorable and fun!
Check out the Trivia Night Picture Collage attached to the newsletter.
Hey Lancers, It’s that time again… SPRING FLING RAFFLE SALES!!!
This year our theme is ...
“A Night Across the Galaxy”
Spring Fling is coming March 14th, so you will have a little over a month to get tickets sold. The ticket purchaser will get their name in the drawing for the following prizes, First Prize: $300.00, Second Prize: $ 200.00 and 3rd Prize: $100.00. Ticket holders do not have to be present to win, however they must complete the contact information on ticket stub that is returned to the school. Students may only order up to 150 tickets at one time, so we do not order more than we absolutely have to. Attached is the order form. Make sure to send in the bottom portion with your student’s information on it so they receive proper credit. Let’s Get out there and SELL!!!! Tara Menting Spring Fling Coordinator
Rescheduled Events
Attention All Third Grade Parents!
Parent Night Has Been Rescheduled!
We have rescheduled the informational parent night for all third grade parents to go over what your child can expect on the IREAD3 and ISTEP tests. Please come get some tips as to how you can prepare your child for these tests!
NEW DATE: Monday, February 3, 2014 at 6 p.m.
Where: LaVille Elementary Cafeteria
We look forward to seeing you there!!
Accelerated Reader Party Rescheduled to
Friday, February 21 3:00pm – 4:30pm
Attachments:
- 2nd Grading Period Award Winners
- Honor Roll for grades 4-6
- Science Fair Informational Flyer
- Trivia Night Picture Collage
- Texas Road House Coupons
- February Lunch and Breakfast Menu
- Valentine Carnation attachments (2)
- The Dentist Flyer – Give the Kids a Smile.
- Flyer for Spring Fling Raffle Tickets
Happy Birthday:Friday: Alexandra Collier.
Saturday: Jozee King, Callie McKinney, Shelby Casteel
Sunday: Payton Brant, Paul DeWitt, Katelyn Henry, Simeon Norton, Mr. Wayne Ayers and
Mr. Dave King
What a school year…water problems, heavy snow, dangerous wind-chills, and roads drifted shut! We try to teach our students not to hate, and I don’t mean to be a hypocrite, but I think I may hate the winter of 2013-2014. It’s probably nicer and maybe more accurate just to say I will always remember the winter of 2013-2014
As you can see we have nine attachments to this newsletter so I did not include pictures of the award winners, just the list of winners etc. But all the award winners’ pictures have been printed and are in the front hallway at school.
With all the attachments don’t forget to check out the February calendar on the next page. It’s a busy week next week, I would hate for you to miss anything.
February
Sun / Mon / Tues / Wed / Thu / Fri / Sat2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8
Happy Birthday
Callie McKinney
Payton Brant
Paul DeWitt
Katelyn Henry
Simeon Norton / Happy Birthday
Dylan White
3rd grade Parent 6pm Information Night on IREAD and ISTEP / Happy Birthday
Ed Farthing
Joseph Kring
Mentoring Event: Tubing at Wilson Park 3-6pm
/ Happy Birthday
Adin Norton
Gabriella Remenih
Texas Road House Night
/ Happy Birthday
Sabrina Barber
Daniel McCollough
Cody Minix
Acuity testing Grades 3-6
Science Fair Judging 8-3
Science Fair
Open House 3-7
/ Happy Birthday
Gabe Stutz
Acuity testing Grades 3-6
Science Fair
Parents Welcome
8am-2pm / Happy Birthday
Bradley Borsodi
Jill Fansler
Berlin Wallace
6th Grade Girls Basketball Tourney
9am – 3pm
9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15
Happy Birthday
Kylee Platz
Kyle walker
Kolby Watts
Acuity testing Grades 3-6
All Week / Happy Birthday
Reagan Bollenbacher
Greg Cashen
Austin Clark
Chelsea Croy
Gabrielle Davis / Happy Birthday
Abe Lincoln
Tracie Bathrick
Madison Sherk
Logan Spier / Happy Birthday
Alaina Kertai
Mackenzie Stephenson
6th grade Girls BB vs. Bremen
4:30 @ LV / Happy Birthday
Michael Good
Kayla Jones
We Have School!
Valentine’s Day
Parties at 2pm / Happy Birthday
Trent Brooks
Ricky Grzegorek
Trisha Rensberger
Sun / Mon / Tues / Wed / Thu / Fri / Sat
16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / 22
Happy Birthday
Mackena Deason
Josh Fansler
Nathan Palmer
Mr. Paul Shafer
Acuity testing Grades 3-6
All Week / Presidents Day
/ Happy Birthday
Jayson Horton
Cameron Jordan
Makenna Tribbey
Abe Lincoln Assembly
8:30 & 9:30
Girls BB vs. NL 4:30pm
6th @ LV / Happy Birthday
Josh Wilson
AR party
3-4:30pm / Happy Birthday
George Washington
Karter Kaser
Kaley Mangus