Weekly Beat: April 16, 2013 - Stevi B's TONIGHT!

Nickajack 2012-2013 Beat

This Newletter is jointly sponsored by the PTA and the NES Foundation

Issue: 2012- 050

April 15, 2013

In This Issue

Sub Zero Nickajack PTA Event

Jump Rope for Heart

End of Year Payment Policy

Box Tops Success!

Accelerated Reader Awards

Celebrate Teachers

CRCT Dates

Last PTA Meeting

Quick Links

PTA Website

Shop for Nickajack at Amazon

School Website

Cobb County Website

NES Foundation Website

Order Nickajack T-Shirts

2012-2013 Platinum PTA Pals

Gold PTA Pals Silver PTA Pals Bronze PTA Pals

Stevi B's Nickajack PTA Event

Tuesday, April 16th, 5- 8 pm

Come on out and let Stevi B's do the cooking and entertaining!

Drop your receipts in the fish bowl. PTA will earn 10% of all sales.

Each student receives 4 free tokens with the purchase of a kid's meal.

Teachers eat free! (Drinks sold separately.)

Stevi B's is located in the Highland Station Shopping Center next to Publix.

Thank you for supporting our PTA Pal and your PTA!

Jump Rope for Heart: Support the American Heart Association

Students,Come Jump Between 7:20 - 7:50 am ,

See Schedule Below

Please join Mr. Homansky in raising money and awareness about heart health.

Students may bring $1.00 and come to the gymnasium to jump rope in the mornings between 7:20 - 7:45 am:

Schedule for Grades to Jump:
Kindergarten & 1st grade: 4/19
2nd & 3rd grade: 4/18
4th & 5th grade: 4/17

All donations collected are due back to school on Friday, April 19th.

Online fundraising:

www.americanheart.org/jump

End of Year Cash/Money Order Only Policy

Beginning Monday, April 15th through the end of the school year...

Any field trip donations, Media Center payments, and/or After School Program payments must be made in cash or money order only.

Please make sure the Student's First & Last name is written on the white payment envelope for school payments or on the manila ASP envelopes for ASP payments.

Additionally, when paying for being a chaperone on a field trip, or making a donation toward the field trip, please write the child's first and last name on the envelope and add the fact that it includes a "chaperone" or "extra donation" with the payment.

Checks received on or after Monday, 4/15, will be returned to the student to take home and no credit given to the account.

ASP Payments can still be made online thru

MyPaymentsPlus.com

Box Tops Success!

18,870!!!!

We wanted to share our final success with box tops- 18,870 in the 10 week Shoot for the Moon Classroom competition! Pretty impressive response from our school!

Great job everyone!!!!

Keep collecting your boxtops because we can always earn this EASY MONEY for Nickajack! Turn them in as before and earn FREE cash for Nickajack!

Here are the results from the Shoot for the Moon Competition:

School Winner- Ms. Lasiter

Grade Level Winners:

K- Ms. Kohlbacher

1- Ms. Hunt

2- Ms. McDonald

3- Ms. Johnston

4- Ms. Joiner

5- Ms. Maples

A special thanks to PTA Volunteers, Renee Kovach and Yvonne Johns, and 1st grade teacher, Ms. Heflin, for making Box Tops and the Shoot for the Moon Competition so successful!!!!

Accelerated Reader Awards

3rd Nine Weeks

Your PTA and our PTA Pal, The Bookstop, are pleased to announce the Accelerated Reader winners for the 3rd nine weeks.

The following students were awarded a gift certificate from the Bookstop for a free book:

These students are consistently reading and taking AR tests!

Kindergarten: Jack Balzuweit

1st grade: Genvieve LaPierre

2nd grade: Sophie Balzuweit

3rd grade: Ansley Bailey

4th grade: Taylor Spaulding

5th grade: Arihant Gadgade

We would also like to recognize and encourage our students with the most AR points to keep on reading. At the end of the school year, the student with most AR points will be recognized.

chick fil a

As of the end of the 3rd nine weeks, the students with the most AR points by grade are as follows:

Kindergarten: Anna Figaretti with 44.0 points

1st : Rachel Levine 76.7 points

2nd: Malia Yost with 118.9 points

3rd: Ansley Bailey with 212.2 points

4th: Alex Melzer with 274.9 points

5th: Damon Lin with 780.2 points

These students were awarded a coupon from our Partner in Education, Chick -Fil- A for a free icedream cup!

Keep on reading everyone!

Celebrate Teachers with Chick-Fil-A, S. Cobb Drive

Nominate a Teacher Through April 26th

Do you know a teacher that goes that extra mile? A top-notch teacher that makes learning an adventure? Your favorite teacher could win a

Chick-fil-A Gift Basket valued at $100!

Nominate a teacher and include your schools name on their facebook page

www.facebook.com/CFASouthCobbDrive through April 26th, 2013.

Then, visit our Facebook page to vote from April 29th - May 1st. The winner will be announced on National Teacher Day, May 7, 2013.

It's easy to give that special teacher the recognition they deserve.

Testing: Begins Monday, April 22nd

Grades 3rd, 4th & 5th

Criterion-Referenced
Competency Test (CRCT)
Grades 3, 4, & 5
Begins Monday, 4/22
Ends Wednesday, 5/1

Last PTA Meeting & Movie Night

Thursday April 25th, 6 pm

Save the Date! Your PTA will hold the last PTA Meeting of the year on Thursday, April 25th followed by a movie night.

Your nominating committee will be presenting to the membership their slate of recommendations for the 2013-2014 PTA Executive Officers. Please plan to come out and cast your vote and enjoy a fun movie night.