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A Strandwood PTA Publication
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FEBRUARY 7, 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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A Message From The Principal
|  Drum roll please! Families of Strandwood staff is pleased to inform you we have a school website!
Please visit us at http://strandwood.mdusd.org! We are excited about our website. It will feature school news, our school calendar and teachers are building their websites as we speak!
Our calendar has gone electronic and is updated weekly with activities happening during the school day, fieldtrips, classroom presentations, after school events and links to the PTA website where you will continue to get PTA news about after school events, Dinner Dance Auction and all the amazing work our fabulous PTA does on a daily basis!
Thank you for supporting our staff by logging on to the website. |
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Spirit Day This 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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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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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! Last weeks winners were B-4 and P-3. Who will win this week? |
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Box Tops for Education
|  Congratulations to Mackenzie & Kyle Hicks - our January Box Tops Winners! The Hicks family collected 152 box tops.
Keep clipping and saving - our next deadline is Monday, February 28th. Do you shop online? If so, please visit the Box Tops Marketplace at www.boxtops4education.com or click on the link via our website. Over 100 retailers give eBox Tops to our school when you shop at the Marketplace. Popular stores include Aeropostale, Best Buy, Gap, Expedia, iTunes and more.
Check it out today! |
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Collect Safeway register receipts for the
10% Goes Back to Schools program!
| Bring in your latest Safeway receipt and put it in the eScrip box in the front office before Feb 28th! By sending in your receipt, Strandwood can claim the proceeds from your purchases in the 10% Goes Back to Schools program. Strandwood could earn thousands of dollars from this program so while you're at it; see if you can get your friends and family's receipts too!
For questions, please contact Katherine Bracken at Katherine.bracken@comcast.net
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PTA Parent Education Speaker Series
| The Strandwood PTA Parent Education Speaker Series continues on February 17th with Kim Koppenhaver-Klute discussion titled "Capable Students". The speaker series has been getting better and better with each presentation and you won't want to miss this one. Kim will also return on March 24th to present "How to Talk so Kids Listen"
WHO: Kim Koppenhaver-Klute
WHEN: Thursday, February 17th from 6:00pm to 7:30 pm.
WHERE: Strandwood Library
COST: The Parent Education Speaker Series if free and there is also free child care available on site.
Of course you are welcome to just stop by but to help plan the event please RSVP with the amount of attendees and children that need child care to strandwood_emailclub@hotmail.com. Thank you.
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Time to Start Thinking About the Strandwood Dinner Dance Auction
|  The countdown has begun and we are only 3 months away!!!!
The Dinner Dance and Auction committee is hard at work to bring you another successful and fun event. We are so excited to introduce new families to our annual tradition and give them a warm welcome as we open the doors on April 9th!! We have reached out to over 600 businesses and have begun to collect a great variety of donation items, but we are always looking for more. If you have a business in mind that may be willing to donate their services or items, please contact Cindy Cindy TurnerTurner. There are donation letters and forms available on www.strandwood.org in the auction section, or in the school office. It is very easy to print some up and have them on hand when the opportunity arises. Please let Katherine Bracken know if you have acquired a donation.
We are also organizing the sign-up parties, which are always a big hit, as well as big money maker! Contact Martha Alexander or Melaine Huth with your idea or if you need one! Class projects are underway and look great so far. These items will be available exclusively on-line. So when the auction goes live on March 7th, make sure you check them out. The kids are always excited and proud of what they contribute to the auction !
Auction packets will go home on Feb 15, and ticket sales will begin! Please stay tuned for more information to come!!
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Strandwood Talent Show Sign Up Sheets
| OK Strandwood students, the annual Strandwood Talent Show will be held on April 15th and 16th. The sign-up sheets that will be distributed later this month and watch for more information in the Roadrunner as the event nears.
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Parenting Tip of the Week
From www.parents.com | |
How to Handle Head Injuries
If your child takes a tumble, watch for warning signs of a head injury: confused speech, lethargy, blurred or double vision, difficulty with balance or walking, and vomiting. Call your doctor if you notice any of these signs.
Click here for the article. Remember to click through all the pages of information by clicking Next.
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Outdoor Ed Fundraisers
Eat out and help Outdoor Education
| Fill in your 2011 calendars with the following dates and help our current Strandwood Fourth Grade classes with their Outdoor Education experience next year! Plan on eating out at these restaurants on the dates listed below and a portion of your expense will help lower the cost of each of the students.
Thursday, February 17 - Panda Express
Thursday, March 17- Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill
Friday and Saturday, April 15 and 16 - Coco Swirl
Tuesday, May 17 - Back Forty Barbeque
Celebrate Chinese New Year and the Year of the Rabbit with a meal at Panda Express on Thursday, February 17, all day! Bring this flyer between 10:30AM to 11PM that day and the Strandwood Outdoor Education Fund will be reimbursed 20% of the business that we bring in that day! This fundraising effort is to help lower the per student expense for this year's fourth graders next year when they go have their week-long outdoor experience in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Indulge in Chinese take out and help ensure that this beloved and highly valuable tradition continues for our kids. Gung Hei Fat Choy
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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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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.
If you are interested in one of these positions please email us at strandwood_emailclub@hotmail.com. |
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Coordinators Also Needed
| In addition to the Vice Presidents and Assistants needed, many program coordinator positions are also open. For a list of all the coordinators please check page 2 of your Student Directory or click here. We will know which positions are open in a month or two. Many current coordinators, like the Read and dream Team, are looking for shadows to follow them throughout this year in preparation for taking over next year. Two new positions for next year include After School Programs and Volunteer coordinators.
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FPHE No Cooking on Tuesdays!!
February 8th - Tahoe Joe's
| 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 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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Education News and Information
| Mt Diablo USD News Update - Where Kids Come First - In 1980, the Mt. Diablo Unified School District went through the process of closing seven schools. This was a very difficult process for the community and school district. Unfortunately, we find ourselves in a similar situation today Click here for the rest of Superintendent Lawrence's newsletter.
The next school board meeting is tomorrow. The board might make a decision to which schools to close at this meeting (read the newsletter above for more information). Click here for the complete agenda.
What Are Our Choices? Check out Board member Gary Eberhart's message regarding school closures by clicking here.
2011-2012 MDUSD Academic Calendar has been posted. Click here to view next year's schedule.
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Dates, Times and Places
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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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