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QUICK LINKS!
| Field Website
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UPCOMING EVENTS
9/1
Springfield Council of PTA (SCPTA) Meeting Discovery Center
9am
9/6
NO SCHOOL
(Labor Day)
9/7
DIRECTORY DEADLINE
Field Early Release at 12:30pm
Bounce Party
Wacky World
1 - 4pm
(Identify yourself with Field & 25% comes back to us!)
9/8
Mr. Z's Fundraiser ends - please turn in your packets!
9/13
Pasta Express Night
4 - 9pm
(Identify yourself with Field & 15% comes back to us!)
9/15
Field Work Day at the SCPTA Clothing Bank
9am - 3pm
9/16
School Pictures
(individual portraits)
Social Suppers
11am - 6pm
(Identify yourself with Field & 10% comes back to us!)
9/18
Field Pancake Breakfast
Applebee's
8 - 10am
9/21
PTA Executive Meeting
at Field
1pm
9/22
Health Fair
9/24
Principal's Coffee
Field Library
9:15am
Skating Party
4 - 6pm
Skateport (S. Glenstone)
$4 per skater
($1 comes back to Field)
9/28
PTA General Membership Meeting at Field
6pm
Scholastic Bookfair
6:40 - 7:30pm
Open House
6:40 - 7:30pm
9/30
Box Top Collection
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Field Directory Deadline - Sept. 7
| Business card sized ads in the Field Directory are available for $20.
Also,
personal contact information is collected annually for the directory.
Your information (print and/or email) is NOT automatically renewed if
your children attended Field last year. (Forms were distributed at Meet
the Teacher and are also available in the front entry of the school.)
The deadline for both ads and contact information has been extended to
Tuesday, Sept. 7.
Questions? Please contact Sarah McNew, sarahamcnew@yahoo.com
or 887-6506.
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Membership Dues
| Annual PTA membership dues are $5. We hope every student's parents or caregivers will join us to help make this a great year at Field Elementary.
Forms have been sent home, are available at the front of the school, and will also be at Open House.
Don't forget to join!!!
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Faculty Birthdays!
| August:
18 - Andrea Wimberley
25 - Sherry Goings
26 - Aline Vann
September:
None
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Sign-up for Our E-Newsletter
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If would like receive our e- newsletter, please send your e-mail address to carolwooten@mchsi.com.
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Submit Information for Next Month's Newsletter
| Please contact
Carol Wooten,
carolwooten@mchsi.com, with your communication needs, concerns, or newsletter submissions.
The deadline for October's edition is September 20. |
2010-2011
Field PTA
executive committee
President
Jody Tetlow
766-1695 (cell)
885-8044 (home)
jodytetlow@gmail.com
President-Elect
Bill Enos
enos0726@gmail.com
Vice President of Programs
Anna Gintz
agintz0808@yahoo.com
Vice President of Fundraising
OPEN
Vice President of Communications
Carol Wooten
carolwooten@mchsi.com
Secretary
OPEN
Treasurer
Mike Harders
mjharders@yahoo.com
Parliamentarian
Linda Skolnick-Schur
l_skolnick@yahoo.com
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A Letter from PTA President
| Welcome to Field PTA!
Let's work together to make this year
great! I would like to personally invite each of you to make the
commitment to serve with me and the rest of a passionate and dedicated
group of parents and teachers this year. Start this year off by joining
PTA. You are welcome to contact myself or any of our fellow PTA leaders
to learn more about how to get involved. Your choice to help will make
a great difference.
Whether it means joining our PTA Board,
serving on a committee, or lending a hand for 5, 10, or 30 minutes
during this year - WE NEED YOU! Your thoughts, concerns, questions, and
ideas are needed and can help us continue to be the best we can be. Your time is needed so that we can work together for the benefit of each
child. If each parent gave 30 minutes of their time to serve a need
imagine what we could do together for Field?
Our first General Membership Meeting is on Tuesday, September 28th. The meeting will be right before Open House. This is a great time to learn more about Field PTA, sign up to lend a hand, and get to know other families at Field!
Join me in volunteering this year with creativity and commitment to serving our community at Field with love and respect. Let's get involved by taking positive action at Field thus demonstrating to our children the desire to take positive action in the world.
Jody Tetlow
PTA President
jodytetlow@gmail.com
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." Benjamin Franklin
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| I have started a new step in my personal communication with the addition of a blog is located at http://ncolbaughpossibilities.weebly.com.
Please log on through the Field Flyer or the school website. Read, comment and discuss the issues that are important to you and your children. Hope to "see" you there!
Dr. Nancy Colbaugh
Principal, Eugene Field Elementary
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Mr. Z's Fundraiser
| Please be sure to return your Mr. Z's packet with all order forms by Wednesday, September 8th. Mark your calendars for pick up on Monday, October 4th.
The purpose of this fundraiser is to support our operational budget within Field PTA. By doing so you are supporting programs such as the Discovery Center educational enrichment series, funding for field trips, the Springfield Opera in-house performance in the Spring, and more. Your contributions will also help to support our efforts to provide resources to each teacher at Field for classroom supplies and guided reading sets.
Prizes for items sold are featured in the Mr. Z's brochure within the packet. For each item sold 40-50% goes back to Field PTA.
You are welcome to make a donation to Field PTA in lieu of or in addition to selling Mr. Z's items. If you chose to make a donation, 100% goes back to Field PTA.
Prizes for Donations during the Mr. Z's fundraiser are as follows:
5.00 Donation = Participation/1 Item Sold
Prizes for Students
"Make Your Own Ice Cream Sundae Party,"
Sell 3 items OR make a donation of at least $15.00 (per student) to attend.
"Blast a Rocket for a Chance to Win 100.00"
Sell 20 items OR make a donation of at least $100.00 (per student) for a chance
Please Note:
All money is due when you return your order forms on September 8th. To save time for our volunteers, please send in your order forms along with one check made payable to Field PTA within your Mr. Z's packet.
Your support is greatly appreciated!
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Five for Food - $5 can make a real difference!
| The Field PTA backpack program announces a
Five for Food campaign. When purchasing food for the backpack program, every dollar counts!
Each single week during the school year, many of our students are supplied with backpacks filled with nutritious food to take home over the weekend. As the economy has been weakened, the need has become greater. The committee often purchases food in bulk for this program to stretch PTA dollars further.
Food donations are always welcome, but in the interest of trying to keep items being sent home uniform, the Backpack Committee hopes some might consider it's Five for Food campaign. A special can will be kept in the front office of the school for the collection of contributions.
The Five for Food can will remain in the office throughout the year. Please give as you are able to help make sure every student in our school is concentrating more on their studies than hunger.
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PTA Clothing Bank
| The PTA Clothing Bank is now open on Wednesdays from 9:00-3:30 PM when school is in session (except for the first Wednesday of the month). The clothing bank is also closed during the months of December and May.
Please contact, our school secretary, Mrs. Dixon, for more information about this service provided by Springfield Council of PTA's.
Field's PTA work date is September, 15th from 9am - 3pm.
Please contact our Clothing Bank Chair, Lisa Conover, at lmmc_97@yahoo.com to lend a hand on this work day.
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PANCAKE BREAKFAST!
| Saturday, September 18
8 to 10am
Applebee's Neighborhood
Grill & Bar
ENJOY A SHORT STACK FOR A TALL CAUSE!
All are invited to an Applebee's Flapjack Fundraiser Breakfast to support our school! This event is such a fun way to support Field! Field faculty will be serving up a delicious breakfast. Make plans now to attend!
$5 per person, includes all the pancakes you can eat, juice, and coffee!
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Volunteer Policies and Information
| Volunteering with Springfield Public Schools
Our volunteer program consists of community members, parents, grandparents, local businesses and organizations who acknowledge the importance between community involvement and education. Our volunteers work in a variety of capacities, both inside and outside the classroom from mentoring or tutoring a child to assisting in a school's office or cafeteria.
In order to become a registered volunteer, and keep your volunteer status current, volunteers must complete and return a Volunteer Registration and Background Check Form each year. This form may be obtained by clicking the SPS Volunteer Registration link below, in the Community Relations Office, or in the main office of our schools.
Upon a clear background check from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, you will be sent written notification (please allow up to 14 business days) which you may be required to present at the school you are volunteering.
Policies and Responsibilities
http://sps.k12.mo.us/communication/documents/PoliciesandResponsibilites.pdf2010-2011
Volunteer Registration and Background Check:
http://www.springfieldpublicschoolsmo.org/community/documents/2010-2011volunteerform.pdf
Anyone volunteering directly with children at our school must perform the registration and background check.
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Field Flyer is Green!
| We have been able to reduce paper waste
by making use of Constant Contact as a means to send our PTA Newsletter
as well as notifications of events, and last minute changes.
The email list is recomposed annually at the same time as directory publishing. Please,
if you have not already signed up for directory/Constant Contact or have not been receiving your e-newsletter, send your email
address to Carol Wooten at carolwooten@mchsi.com.
For those without access to a computer or
email, hard copies of the newsletter will continue to be printed and
placed in the flyer distribution stand directly inside the front door
at Field. Thank you for your support as we move toward becoming a more environmentally-conscious school.
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HELP WANTED
| A few PTA positions remain open. Please help us make this a great year by considering serving on the PTA board.
Vice President of Fundraising
Internal Fundraising Chair
Community Partners Chair
Original Art Works Chair
Sports and Event Concessions Chair
Secretary
Spiritual Guidance
Please contact Jody Tetlow, jodytetlow@gmail.com, if you are interested in serving in one of these positions on our PTA Board!
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PTA Reflections Program
| PTA believes all children deserve a quality arts
education and
 encourages students to pursue artistic expression through participation
in its annual arts Reflections Program.
The program offers students the opportunity to create works of art for
fun and recognition. Students in preschool through grade 12 are
encouraged to create and submit works of art in six areas: dance
choreography, film production, literature, musical composition,
photography, and the visual arts (which includes art forms such as
drawing, painting, print making, and collage).
This year's Reflections theme is "Together We Can."
Below you will find a few links to learn more about the program.
About Reflections:
http://www.pta.org/2035.htm
Reflections Rules and Documents:
http://www.ptareflections.org/cs/rules_and_documents
Questions? Please contact Laurie and Ben Edmondson at 877-0612.
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