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A Strandwood PTA Publication
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JANUARY 31, 2011
Good Morning
Every Monday, Email Club members receive important information regarding upcoming events and communications from The PTA and Strandwood staff via the Roadrunner. The Roadrunner also provides links to important flyers and new items on the PTA and school websites. Do you have any comments about this Roadrunner or suggestions for future Roadrunner articles or features? Drop us a line at strandwood_emailclub@hotmail.com.
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Box Tops For Education
January Box Tops Contest Ends Today
| Please turn in your Box Tops for the January contest by this afternoon. This could be your month to win! Our next deadline will be Monday, February 28th.
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Next Strandwood Spirit Day is Wednesday
| Another spirit day is around the corner~Wednesday, February 9th! Grade Color Day is the perfect day to show spirit not just for school, but for your grade too! Each grade is assigned a color and they just come to school wearing it. Here are the colors:
Kindergarten-Orange First-Red Second-Blue Third-Yellow Fourth-Green Fifth-Black
Thank you! Strandwood's Fourth/Fifth Grade Student Council |
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Student Council Raises Money For Food Bank
|  The student council was proud to present Mr. Larry Sly a check in the amount of $621 for the Contra Costa Food Bank. Mr. Sly came to the student council meeting and was excited to take the money back to the organization to help out our community. Thanks to all the Strandwood families to contributed before the holidays!!
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Photo courtesy of the Bargmann family.
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Calendar
Click the image below to go directly to the monthly Strandwood PTA web calendar.
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What is it?
Returned by popular demand: What is the object in the close up photo below?
Find the answer in the Dates, Times and Places section at the bottom of the newsletter.
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Baggies For Boo-Boo's
| The office could use some small baggies that they put ice in for minor scrapes and bruises. The themed ones seem to be very popular. If you pick up a box please deliver it to Viki in the office.
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Kindergarten Pre-Registration Opens Feb 1st
| Pre-registration of children eligible for kindergarten in August 2011 will be conducted in all Mt. Diablo Unified School District elementary schools on a first-come basis starting Tuesday, February 1, 2011. The hours of registration will be 9:00 - 11:00 am and 1:00 - 3:00 pm. Children who will reach the age of five (5) years on or before December 2, 2011, are eligible for kindergarten in August.
For more information and the necessary forms please click here. |
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No Cooking on Tuesdays!!
February 1st - Burger Road
| Support the Pleasant Hill public schools by participating in FPHE's Dine Out for Education event every Tuesday from January 18 - March 15. The event includes lunch, dinner, or take-out at the participating restaurants. Restaurants will donate a % of your meal to FPHE. Click here to print the event flier and learn more about the nine-week event. Be sure to present the flier when you dine at the restaurant.
February 1 - Burger Road - 2634 Pleasant Hill Road and Panda Express - 2380 Monument Blvd.
February 8 - Tahoe Joe's - 999 Contra Costa Blvd.
February 15 - Savanh (new name for Bangkok Restaurant) - 1910 Oak Park Blvd. and
Kinder's Deli - 2227 Morello Avenue
February 22 - Back Forty Texas BBQ - 100 Coggins Drive
March 1 - Jack's Restaurant - 60 Crescent Drive
March 8 - BJ's Restaurant - 385 Sun Valley Mall
March 15 - Devino's Pizza & Pasta - 2221 Morello
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PTA General Membership Meeting February 3rd
| Come listen to our fantastic Kindergarten teachers bring us up to date. They will explain what happens in Kindergarten and will discuss where they have been and where they are going.
Please join us for this informative presentation in the Library and stick around for the normal PTA business discussions that follow. The meeting starts at 6:30pm and runs until 8:00 or 8:30.
Babysitting is provided free of charge in D-1.
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Fridays are Roadrunner Days!
By The Student Council
|  Every Friday students are encouraged to wear their Strandwood Spirit Wear! No spirit wear? We consider classroom t-shirts or anything blue and gold as spirit wear on Fridays! The two classes with the highest percentage of students with spirit wear get to display our Roadrunner Friday trophy in their window for the week!
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PTA Executive Board Positions Open
| The PTA Executive Board has the following Positions Open for the 2011-1012 School Year:
VP Communications: Fulfills duties of President in her/his absence (If there is no Executive VP). Responsible for coordinating and assisting the following programs or events: Calendar Sign Maintenance, Communication folders, Copy Room support, Student Directory, Jump Start Day, Kindergarten Registration, Membership, Publicity and Marketing, Email Club, Roadrunner and Email Blasts, School Pictures, Teacher Liaisons, VIP Families Liaison
Assist. VP Communications: - Assists VP of Communications as needed.
VP Programs, Health and Safety: Responsible for coordinating and assisting the following programs or events: Assemblies, Bike and Skate Safety, Campus Improvement, Disaster Preparedness, FAME, Fall Fest, Family Resource Center, Gardening, Make a Difference Day, Nutcracker, Parent Education, Talent Show, Read & Dream Team, Reflections, Senior Reading Buddies, Turn off TV Week, Upper Grade Book Swap, Vision and Hearing Screening.
Assistant VP Programs and Health and Safety - assist VP as needed.
Assistant VP Ways and Means - Assist Vice President of Ways and Means. Looking for someone to shadow Cindy Turner this year and become VP of Ways and Means for the 2012-2013 School year. (Vice President of Ways and Means is responsible for coordinating and assisting the following programs or events: Book Fairs, Dinner, Dance Auction, Fundraising, Gift Wrap Sales, Labels and Box Tops, SCRIP, Spirit Promotions, Fund for Excellence.)
The commitment includes willingness to perform the positions as described above, and to attend the Executive Board Meetings once per month (has typically been the 3rd Tuesday of the Month), as well as the General PTA Meetings once per month on the first Thursday of every month.
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FAME for February
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FAME is a six-year cycle of fine arts lessons that focus on one artist and one composer for six lessons throughout the school year. Because no lesson is repeated throughout the six years, students never get the same FAME lesson twice. This is FAME III out of VI.
This is FAME's fifteenth year at Strandwood! We are thrilled to have enjoyed strong administration, staff, PTA and parent support throughout that time.
FAME takes place on Tuesdays throughout the month. If you're interested in observing, please contact your child's teacher for their schedule. Parent visitors are always welcome. Links of the Artists and Musicians take you to their wikipedia page were you can find out more information about them. Images or sound files of the art and music will be linked if available.
Our FAME lessons are taught by a wonderful team of enthusiastic parent volunteers (referred to as docents). Our docents attend pre-lesson meetings to review and prepare for the art and music portions and the accompanying art lesson.
Coordinators: Kendra Phair & Laurie Wozniak
Art: "Blue Boy" by Thomas Gainsborough
Music: "Sonata in C Major" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Would you like to listen to these pieces of music? For the 1st Movement, click here. For the 2nd Movement, click here. For the 3rd Movement, click here
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Parenting Tip of the Week
From www.parents.com | |
Happy Parents, Happy Kids.
Your kids learn so much from you, so make sure your marriage is teaching them the right things about relationships. For example, even if kids kick and scream when the babysitter comes over, seeing their parents go on a regular date night will teach them the importance of staying close. Click here for the article. Don't forget to click "next" at the bottom of each section.
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FPHE 4th Quarter Newsletter
2011 Annual Campaign Goal: $60,000
|  The Foundation for Pleasant Hill Education is starting 2011 with one key resolution: double the grants we awarded last year. Thanks to community
support, grants awarded went from $14,000 in 2009 to over $30,000 in 2010. We want to award $60,000 this year. It's an aggressive goal, but we will
be successful with your donation of $55 or more.
Click here to read their latest newsletter.
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| Education News and Information | School Closure News: Superintendent Suggests that Monte Gardens, Silverbrook and Sequoia Elementary and Sequoia Middle be removed from the list of suggested closures. "Superintendent Steven Lawrence recommended narrowing the list of possible schools to close from seven to three, with the ultimate goal of closing two. He suggested closing Glenbrook Middle School, along with either Wren Avenue or Holbrook elementary schools in Concord." Click here to read the Theresa Harrington article from the Contra Costa Times. The Board expects to vote on the school closures on February 8th.
A closer look at Glenbrook Middle School's $1.7 million improvement grant. (by Theresa Harrington) "One question that arises as the Mt. Diablo district considers closing Glenbrook Midle School is: what would happen to its School Improvement Grant?
Rose Lock, assistant superintendent for Student Achievement and School Support, told me today (Thursday) that the district is exploring whether it could continue to receive funding by amending its application for school closure. Previously, she said, she told Board President Gary Eberhart that the district would not be able to receive the funding if the school closed. That would be the case if the district closed the school and didn't amend its application, she said." Read the rest of the article by clicking here.
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Dates, Times and Places
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February 3 - PTA General Membership Meeting
February 8 - School Site Commettee meeting - 3:15 in the library
February 9 - Student Council Spirit Day - Class Color Day
February 14 - School Holiday - President Abraham Lincoln's Birthday
February 21 - School Holiday - President's Day
View the calendar on the Strandwood PTA website by clicking here.
Visit the Strandwood Elementary School website by clicking here.
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In the Office or On-Line
Flyers regarding the following items are available in the office this month. You can also click on the link, underlined if there is one, to go directly to that site.
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