UPCOMING EVENTS
Tuesday, February 12
9-10 a.m. Parent Training on Math Curriculum Content
Thursday, February 14
2:15 p.m. Valentine's Day Class Parties
Friday, February 15
Group Pictures Day
Monday, February 18
President's Day Holiday
Wednesday, February 20
5-9 p.m. Elevation Burger Restaurant Night
Friday, February 22
7 p.m. Music and Dance Night
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HELPFUL LINKS
How are we doing? Have Comments? You can send an anonymous survey to the PTA or school, click here.
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2012-13 PTA Officers and Board of Directors President - Eric Williams |
A BIG THANK YOU TO...
- Marquette Heaven for the great job she has done growing the PTA membership this year. We are 319 members strong. Our PTA will be entered in a MCCPTA drawing for a $250 Silver Diner gift card. You all made this happen!
- Lisa Bosse for organizing Domino's Restaurant Night. The PTA raised $120.
- Ivelisse Cuevas for speaking at the February PTA Meeting on the importance of dental care for our kids.
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Loyalty Card Programs
School ID: 58180
(school 6557768)
(school 7852)
(school 00762 Rockville)
(school 219478)
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Planning Underway for Valentine's Day Classroom Parties
Room parents are in the process of planning Valentine's Day parties. If you are interested in helping at the party, please contact your room parent. Valentine's Day parties will be held on Thursday, February 14 at 2:15 p.m. Please do not bring young children with you.
Spaces Still Open to Volunteer at Manna Food Center Once again Ritchie Park is celebrating Manna Mania in February to help the hungry in your community. We need 6 or 7 volunteers to sort food on Saturday morning 2/16 and
a couple more on Tuesday 2/12 and Wednesday 2/13, 5:30-7 p.m. Kids must be older than 7. Please let Lisa Bosse know if you have questions and/or to sign up for this great community service activity.
Register for Mad Science Afterschool
The new Mad Science "Funky Forces" sessions are now available for online Registration. Funky Forces Sessions will be available on both Mondays and Thursdays. Monday class starts on 2/25/2013, and Thursday class starts on 2/28/2013. To register click http://register.madscience.org/dc. If you have any questions or any problem with registration, please don't hesitate to contact Teresa Williams, Mad Science Coordinator, at etk2williams@gmail.com. |
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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
Parent Training on Content within the Mathematics Curriculum: Ritchie Park will have a parent training on what it means to compose and decompose numbers and why that equal sign keeps moving around! The training will be on Tuesday, February 12 from 9-10 a.m. All parents are welcome. If you plan to attend, please email our Staff Development Teacher, Susan DiManna, by the end of the day February 8.
February Restaurant Night will be at Elevation Burger on Wednesday, Feb. 20 from 5-9 p.m. Be sure to say you are with Ritchie Park.
RPES'S ANNUAL MUSIC AND DANCE NIGHT! It's a night of FUN, it's a night of GAMES, it's a night of DANCING with all of your friends!!!! It's Friday, February 22 from 7-9 p.m. Siblings are welcome! It will be a night you and your children will NOT want to miss!!!!!
There will be two rooms of music and deejay-led games (the GYM is K-2 and the APR for GRADES 3-5) as well as yummy snacks sold by the 5th grade promotion team. There will a MANNA FOOD DRIVE and a Donation Drop-Off area for non-perishable food. Bring your children, siblings and all your friends for a fun filled night and let's help fight hunger!
Barnes and Noble Ritchie Park Book Fair: March 10 from 1-5 p.m. at the Washingtonian Rio in Gaithersburg. Raffles, Surprise Guest Storytellers, Scavenger Hunt and More! Volunteers will be needed for various posts throughout the day. An online sign up form coming soon. Learn about math curriculum 2.0. A large group of specialized MCPS staff provided a full range of information on the components and implementation of the Math 2.0 Curriculum and interacted with the community by answering the challenging questions in a forum held January 30, 2013. This informative program was coordinated by the Montgomery County Council of PTAs Curriculum and Gifted Child Committees, and will be re-broadcast in its entirety weekend mornings in February at 9am. MCPS TV will air the entire event on Saturdays and Sundays at 9:00 am February 9, 10, 16, 17, 23 & 24 on Comcast channel 34, Verizon channel 36 and RCN channel 89. Be sure to watch or record it!
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WAYS TO VOLUNTEER
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED for Music and Dance Night. We need volunteers to help set up and to monitor the gym doors to make sure food and drinks stay out of the gym. Please contact Mimi Arnold or Emily Goldberg for more info.
PTA Board Nominating Committee FormingThe PTA is looking for 3 volunteers to fill the nominating committee. The committee is responsible for vetting open positions on the 2013-14 PTA Board. If interested, contact Eric Williams.
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FUNDRAISING FORUM
 The next next deadline for sending in Box Tops is February 14. Please keep collecting and sending your boxtops to school. Don't forget to check the BoxTops Marketplace online every time you shop online. This way the school gets a percentage of your purchase. Log onto Box Tops for Education when you are shopping on the internet for those January sales. A certain number of pink squares are credited to the RPES account. Here is the list of the OVER 250 participating stores.
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ADVOCACY CORNER
Last April, MCCPTA passed a Resolution supporting legislation that places Burden of Proof--when a parent challenges in a due process hearing the special education services offered by the school--on school districts. Here is a link to the resolution. Toward that end, Senate Bill 691, sponsored by Senator Karen Montgomery, has now been introduced in the Maryland General Assembly. Please consider contacting your representative in Annapolis and requesting that they support placing burden of proof on school districts. You can use mdelect.net to find your Maryland General Assembly Senators and Delegates and here is a sample e-mail text you may wish to use. If you have any questions, you can contact Jennifer Young or Rich Hart, RPES PTA delegates. 
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