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 | Volume XVII, Issue 11 - January 7, 2019 | |
 Happy New Year! I hope everyone enjoyed their time off, and your 2019 is off to a great start. Our PTA has planned just as many great programs and events as the first half of the year. We are excited to get started and share what you can expect. Our January PTA Meeting will be on Thursday, January 17th at 6:30pm in the SCHOOL GYM. The theme is Cultural Night & World of Art and is hosted by Kindergarten and Second grade. We will be highlighting the artwork of the Reflections winners and participants. We will also be hosting our annual Cultural Night after the meeting. Come join the fun and experience dance, crafts and food from various countries. If you are interested in participating in the event by representing a country, please reach out to Mounika at mounika.12345@gmail.com. We will have our Digital Safety Week led by our librarian Mrs. Teal at the end of January. Teachers will be discussing what it means to have good digital citizenship. To help celebrate this week, students are encouraged to participate in each theme days. Go to CHEPTA.net to learn more. If you have a student who loves science and performing experiments, you won’t want to miss our upcoming Family Science Night featuring exhibits and experiments from The Perot Museum. Mark your calendar now for the evening of Thursday, January 31st here at the Castle. Also, we are recruiting for the open PTA positions to serve in the 2019-20 school year. Please consider serving on the PTA Board or committee and how you could share your talents with us. We will post those opportunities in an upcoming newsletter and on our website. I am looking forward in sharing all the fun with you and your families. Please reach out if you have any questions. Truly, Nina Samuel
CHEPTA President 2017-19 |
| THIS WEEK - Mon, Jan 7 to Sun, Jan 13 | |
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| NEXT WEEK - Mon, Jan 14 to Sun, Jan 20 | |
| | - Tues, 1/15: Last day to order Science Night Shirts
- Thurs 1/17: PTA General Meeting - Art and Cultural Night feat. Kindergarten, 2nd Grade, and all of our Reflections participants
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Please click here if you are interested
in helping with Cultural Night. |
| AND BEYOND - Mon, Jan 21 to Sun, Feb 24 | |
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Digital Citizenship
Week - Jan 28
| | Family Science
Night - Jan 31
This is a great night of hands-on experiments and demonstrations! T-Shirt orders are due
by Tue, 1/15.
| | Marcus HS Drum
Camp - Feb 23
The Marcus High School Drum Line is sponsoring its annual Elementary School Drum Camp. Register by 2/13.
Sign up here
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2018-2019
Yearbook Submissions
Share your child's favorite moments from this year in the CHE yearbook! More info here | | Cultural Night
Volunteers Needed!
Volunteers are needed to help showcase music and arts (dance or songs) by different countries by culture. We also need parents to help set-up and tear down before and after the event. For more information, contact
mounika.12345@gmail.com. Volunteers can sign up here. | | KMS PTA
Needs You!
Calling All Current and Future Killian Parents!
How would you like to be involved next year? Multiple positions are available. For more information, visit here. |
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The PTA Volunteer Program is one of the best ways that parents can support the students and staff at our school. Please review the brief descriptions of each volunteer area and indicate your preliminary interests. Your contact information will then be forwarded to the CHE PTA board member or committee chair that is in charge of that activity. Someone will be in touch with you soon. Please be aware that Board Policy requires that each volunteer undergoes a background check before working with students. You will need to complete the background check during your VOLY account creation process. Go to VOLY now to get started: 
Here are sign up opportunities to support our school, teachers, and students: EVENT-SPECIFIC| Name | Date | Location | Commit | Details | | Jan 17th | CHE | 2 hours | Volunteers are needed to help at our Cultural Night on Thursday, January 17, 2019! Please consider helping at one of the shifts so that we can make our Cultural Night a success. Please contact Mounika Naids at mounika.12345@gmail.com with any questions. |
YEAR-ROUND| Name | Date | Location | Commit | Details | | Toys and Trinkets for Specials (no sign-up needed) | On-going | Drop-off
(CHE front office) | 0-15 min | The Specials teachers could use donated small toys or trinkets for their classroom treasure boxes (incentives for grand behavior) | | Empty rolls and clean K-Cups for STEM NEW! | On-going | Drop-off
(Ms. Sulak's classroom) | 0-15 min | Ms. Sulak is in need of HUNDREDS of empty paper towel rolls and empty/washed-out K-cups for various projects. We are overflowing with empty toilet paper rolls, so we don't need any more of those, thank you! | | Castle Courier Spotlight Articles | On-going | Home | 30-60 min | max 1 per child; students write an article about a specific program, event, or club to be included in the bi-weekly Castle Courier newsletter. | | Kindergarten Lunch Duty | On-going | CHE | 30-45 min | 10:30am-11:00am lunch time; assist students and teachers in the cafeteria during Kindergarten lunch | | WATCH D.O.G.S | On-going | CHE | All Day | WATCH D.O.G.S. is a one-of-a-kind school-based, father involvement program that works to support education and safety. For more information please email, CHEWatchDogs@gmail.com |
Thank you for volunteering!
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| THE FUN STUFF (AND WHY WE'RE HERE) | |
 | | My name is Kierlin Duncan and I’m in the 3rd grade. My favorite thing about 3rd grade is being on the other side of the building. My teacher is Ms. Clayborn and she makes going to school fun because she lets us use technology a lot. I’m going to describe Fastt Math which is a fun and easy way to learn math. What I like about Fastt Math is that it has goals and levels for completing math. Plus, it has all these games for you when you’re done! You should do it because we’re in the twenty-first century now. Everybody does things digitally now, right? All in all, I think you should try Fastt Math. |
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