Washington-Hoyt Elementary School PTA(253) 571-5700
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e-Bulletin Septmeber 21, 2009
Sep. 21, 2009 Monday
"Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile." - William Cullen Bryant
NEEDED! Someone with a food handlers card to attend the Chocolate Pancake Breakfast on 10/11/09 9am to 11am. You don't even need to work! Please call Shannon Rojecki at 761-2010 if you can help out! Things to do Now!
Turn in your order form form for the Back To School Night dinner! Check out the 3rd grade Math Club!
September
28 Scrip Order Due 28-2 Book Fair 29 Back to School Night 5:30 to 8:00PM
October
5 Family Skate Night at Wheelz 6PM 6-8 School Conferences 7 National Walk To School Day 9 No School-Waiver Day 10 Pancake Breakfast at Washington-Hoyt~part of the Proctor Chocolate Festival! 19Scrip Order Due
November
24 Ram Takeover (Tentative Date)
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Math Club registration reminder for 3rd graders There is still time to register for the 3rd Grade Math Club, due to start on September 28th. If you are interested in participating, please contact as soon as possible Teodora Minkova at (253) 761-0688 or tedi_m@hotmail.com. Brief description of the club: Time: Six one-hour classes after school on Mondays 3.45-4.45 pm, September 28-November 2 Place: Washington School Building (room to be determined) Fee: $ 50 Instructor: Dr. Elly Claus-McGahan Curriculum summary: Math Club consists of 2-3 activities at each meeting: problem solving for prizes from the problem solving book, a variety of games that reinforce or teach number sense, strategy, logic, probability, hands on activities that require drawing, coloring, manipulatives, paper-folding or cutting with scissors to explore symmetry, area, perimeter, geometric transformation, spatial thinking in 2 dimensions and 3 dimensions. Each day is different and the activities chosen are based on interest and ability of the club members. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Please turn in your ticket order form for the Back To School Night as soon as possible! ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________
October's Cougar Tales comes out Friday October 2. Have something to say? Email it to the editor at rose_ponnekanti@yahoo.com as a Word document by Wed. September 23. Kids - enter your submission for the new Kids' Page! Rosemary Ponnekanti (rose_ponnekanti@yahoo.com)
Fall Gardening News: Some of the Washington classes are about to head out to the garden for fall harvesting, weeding and cover crop planting. Volunteer parents would be really appreciated! You would be asked to attend for an hour during school time to help kids garden, then help garden coordinator Rosemary Ponnekanti in chopping and prepping veggies in the classroom. Please let your teacher know if you can do this. Gardening is great for kids! ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Some warnings from the community...
"I have been notified by a Click! Network representative that individuals posing as Comcast employees (sometimes presenting forged, or stolen employee badges) are approaching Tacoma residences, claiming (falsely) that Comcast has purchased Click!, and that Click! Network subscribers need to hurry up and take advantage of a special offer not being advertised to switch to Comcast before the announcement, at a very special price. Comcast has been working with Click! to try and track down these frauds. Individuals who are tricked into this are never signed up with Comcast. Please have victims in your areas contact Tacoma Police to make a police report, and the Click! representative listed below. If residents have seen or talked with these crooks but haven’t given them any money, please have them call Diane Lachel, at Click! Network Community and Government Relations, 253-502-8900, Click! is interested in talking with them to gather as much information as possible about where these criminals are operating.Thank you. Lisa Copp"
"An African-American woman actually came to our door today and when we would not cooperate, she got a bit testy and rang our doorbell a ton so we’d know she was displeased, she then went two doors down and actually starting screaming at our neighbor when he told her no, and no, and NO, she gets aggravated if you do not participate, she was drinking from a solo cup, so the whole thing is weird, weird, weird." _______________________________________________________________________________ Remember that every Friday is free dress day! Deb Llewellyn 253-762-1494 pie.alamode@yahoo.com washingtonhoytpta@hotmail.com For more info, visit www.wahoyt.org