Roadrunner Masthead
A Strandwood PTA Publication
MARCH 26, 2012
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In This Issue
Wanted: Newsletter Editor
FPHE Dine Out for Education
Make A Difference Day
Associate "No" With Spending
Dates, Times and Places
Wanted: Newsletter Editor
By Jeff Eide
This will be my last year as editor of the Strandwood publications. If you are interested in becoming the next editor please email me at roadrunner@strandwood.org. This is a great volunteer opportunity for someone that wants to help but doesn't have the time during the school day. Be the one that keeps the Strandwood community up to date with the latest news and information.

The editor publishes the Roadrunner each Monday and an Email Blast when necessary. Everything is web based with Constant Contact so there are no difficult publishing programs to learn. In addition to publishing the newsletters, the editor also maintains the Email Club list, also on Constant Contact. 

I can work with the new editor anytime between now and the end of this school year. Drop me a line. 
 
FPHE Dine Out For Education 
Dine Out Tomorrow at Pasta Pomodoro

Support Pleasant Hill public schools by attending the Dine Out for Education events. Print / bring the attached flier and restaurants will donate a percentage of your meal to FPHE. 

(Click here for the attached flier for restaurants and dates.)
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Photo courtesy of the Bargmann family.
Calendar
Click the image below to go directly to the monthly Strandwood PTA web calendar.
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Make A Difference Day
Gardening Committee

On Sunday, April 22, 2012, Strandwood Elementary School will conduct its annual "Make a Difference Day", which is our garden clean-up and planting day. Volunteers are need to trim, weed, rake, and plant. Also this year, we will be placing Connecticut blue shale along the edges of the grass in the quad to reduce mud being tracked into classrooms.

 

Volunteers should meet in front of the office. One of the coordinators will direct you to one of the clean up areas. Volunteers are encouraged to bring brooms, rakes, shovels, picks, and gloves.

 

The work will be done between 9 am and 2 pm.  If you can spend 30 minutes or more, we can accomplish so much. Strandwood is a pretty school, and we can work together to help keep it that way. It's also a great way to celebrate Earth Day.

 

For more information, contact Michael Howard at fireknight1@aol.com or Annie Reed at annieroop@astound.net.

 

Thank you from the Gardening Committee

Michael Howard & Annie Reed

Associate "No" With Spending
From our friends at Parents.com

Peer pressure really kicks in around kindergarten, so your child may beg for things her classmates have. Teach her a valuable lesson about money by telling her she can't have everything she wants. Next time you're at the store and she sees two things she really wants, make her pick just one. Age-by-Age guide to money responsibility.  

 

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Dates, Times and Place
March 26 - Hearing Screening
March 30 - Blue Slip Pizza Lunch
March 30 - 2nd trimester reports cards distributed
March 31 - Ports of Call Dinner Dance Auction

April 5 - PTA General Membership Meeting
April 6 - Spotlight Assembly
April 9 - 13 - Spring Break
April 16 - Free to Be Assembly  - Final assembly in the series
April 17 - Spring Picture Day
April 18 - Student Council Spirit Day - Earth Day
April 18 - Field Trip - A5 and A6 - John Muir House
April 20 - Strandwood Talent Show
April 21 - Strandwood Talent Show
April 27 - Blue Slip Pizza Lunch 

 

View the calendar on the Strandwood PTA website by clicking here.  
Visit the Strandwood Elementary School website by clicking here.  
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