FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Hurry! Start Bidding Now!

ONLINE AUCTION OPEN FOR BIDDING!

You don't want to miss out on the spectacular items available on our auction site, www.biddingforgood.com/strandwood. Go now to get your bids in. We have an amazing collection of trips, parties, baskets, events, and more in store for you this year including a Las Vegas getaway, American Girl doll package, sports tickets, a 3-night stay in Napa, beautiful art made by your children, summer camp tuition, symphony tickets, signed Pixar art, Tahoe lift tickets and so much MORE!

RAFFLE TICKETS

Don't forget to purchase raffle tickets. Look for the Raffle Lady before and after school or turn in your order form to the office. This year, we are raffling the following:

A pair of cruiser bicycles (men's & women's)
A beautiful Kate Spade purse
A Nintendo 3DS gaming package
An overnight stay at The Lafayette Park Hotel with a $250 gift card!

Tickets for the raffle are $2 each or 15 tickets for $25. You do not need to be present at the live event to win!

DON'T MISS OUT ON THESE AMAZING PRIZES!

Read and Dream Logs Due Tomorrow

This month's Read and Dream logs are due tomorrow - Friday, February 28th. Please have your completed logs turned in to your child's teacher or the dedicated box in the office by 3pm. Thank you very much! Keep up the good work!

Let's Keep Recycling!

We had an incredible finish to the month-long Bottles and Cans Fundraiser & Ice-Cream Social Competition. The first March donation date is Friday, March 7th.

Parents, please continue to put your child's teachers name on or in the bag so their class can get credit next month's competition (more details to come)!

Here are the FINAL standings for the month of February:

Ms. Thornson 37

Ms. McCaffrey 37

Mrs. Anderson 74

Mr. Brown 116

Mrs. Larson-Guerra 119

Mrs. Bartlett 122

Ms. Baskauskas 187

Ms. Abbott 403

Ms. Beck 456

Ms. Schuster 510

Ms. Hoffman 737

Mrs. Christoi/Ms Prado 829

Ms. O'Connell 1095

Ms. Wilson/Ms. Dajani 1436

Remember that the bottles and cans must be CRV-eligible and UNCRUSHED (so the scanner can read the barcode when we turn them in).

Thank you, Strandwood families, for your generous donations and time to help fundraise for next year's 5th grade Outdoor Education program. If you have any questions please contact Tracy Nachand at tnachandclan@att.net.

Attention 3rd-5th Graders!

Got books you no longer want? Want to get some new books to take their place? Bring gently used books to your classroom from March 3 - March 6 and receive "tickets" for the book swap. The swap will be during school on March 7.

Volunteers are needed to help collect and organize the books throughout the week and to work at the swap. Please e-mail amanda.szakats@gmail.com if you have 30 minutes to one hour to volunteer your time! You can also sign up to volunteer here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D4FABAB29A5FA7-parent.

Rules:

1. Everyone gets at least one ticket, so that everyone can participate in the swap.

2. If you bring more than 2 books, you will get a swap ticket for each book over that amount. For example, two books gets you one extra ticket, three books gets you two extra tickets, etc.

3. All books should be third through seventh grade level. No little kid books or grown-up books. No activity books.

4. You can earn a maximum of 12 tickets (for thirteen books).

5. If you have more than 13 books you want to donate, please do! Extra books are used for teacher classrooms and charities.

See you at the swap!

Questions? Please e-mail Amanda Szakats at amanda.szakats@gmail.com.