[Edison-PTSA] TIME CORRECTION- PTSA ANNOUNCEMENTS- March 11

Correction: The Regional Volleyball game is at 6 p.m. at Jefferson tonight.

 

From: ptsa-bounces@edison.u4friends.org [mailto:ptsa-bounces@edison.u4friends.org] On Behalf Of Sola, Sharla J
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:03 AM
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Subject: [Edison-PTSA] PTSA ANNOUNCEMENTS- March 11

 

EDISON PTSA ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

March 11

 

·         Parent Help Needed! The PTSA will be providing dinner for Edison staff members during the parent teacher conferences on Thursday, March 18th.  We will provide a pasta dinner, garlic bread, and tossed salad.  We need parents to bring a dessert, drinks, plates, napkins, cups, or silverware and/or to help set up, serve and clean up. If you can help, please email Kristian Sargeant at kristian.sargeant@sjcnc.org. Please let her know the items you are bringing or the time you are available on March 18. She needs parents to volunteer from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m., 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., or 5:30 to 7:00p.m. Your help will show our teachers and staff how much we appreciate their efforts. If you have any questions you can email her at kristian.sargeant@sjcnc.org or call her  at 217-202-1642.

 

·         Book Fair Volunteers: The library is looking for parent volunteers to help with the upcoming Scholastic Bookfair, March 12 - 19. Volunteers are especially needed Thursday, March 18^th during Parent/Teacher Conferences 4-8 pm. Check out the fair website: http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/publish/edisonlibrary. Contact Debbie Smith or Teresa Jones at 351-3732 to volunteer or if you have questions.

 

·         Spring Concert:  The 6^th Grade and 7^th/8^th Grade Concert bands will perform their Spring Concert TONIGHT at 7:00pm in the Edison Middle School Auditorium.  Please come out to hear Edison’s wonderful musicians!

 

·         Spirit Week: All next week will be Spirit Week at Edison. Here’s what will happen each day:  Monday  - Twin Day – Get together with another friend or two and dress like twins; Tuesday – Skittles Day – Dress all in one color from head to toe. Also Skittles will be on sale at lunch; Wednesday – St. Patrick’s Day – Dress in Green; Thursday – Clash Day- Wear as many clothes as possible that don’t match; and Friday – No School due to conferences.

 

·         Thank You! Thank you to Ms. Jackie Borchardt for her initiative, hard work, and dedication to making our ISAT movie  and afternoon reward activities a success! Her efforts are certainly appreciated.  It took countless hours, phone calls, manual labor, and communication to bring this to fruition, and we really appreciate what she did.

 

·         Volleyball: Come out to support Edison’s 8^th grade volleyball team TONIGHT as they play in the final Regional game. The game starts at 6 p.m. at Jefferson. Congratulations on great wins in the games on Monday and Tuesday night. Go Comets!

 

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[Edison-PTSA] PTSA ANNOUNCEMENTS- March 11

EDISON PTSA ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

March 11

 

·         Parent Help Needed! The PTSA will be providing dinner for Edison staff members during the parent teacher conferences on Thursday, March 18th.  We will provide a pasta dinner, garlic bread, and tossed salad.  We need parents to bring a dessert, drinks, plates, napkins, cups, or silverware and/or to help set up, serve and clean up. If you can help, please email Kristian Sargeant at kristian.sargeant@sjcnc.org. Please let her know the items you are bringing or the time you are available on March 18. She needs parents to volunteer from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m., 4:00 to 5:30 p.m., or 5:30 to 7:00p.m. Your help will show our teachers and staff how much we appreciate their efforts. If you have any questions you can email her at kristian.sargeant@sjcnc.org or call her  at 217-202-1642.

 

·         Book Fair Volunteers: The library is looking for parent volunteers to help with the upcoming Scholastic Bookfair, March 12 - 19. Volunteers are especially needed Thursday, March 18^th during Parent/Teacher Conferences 4-8 pm. Check out the fair website: http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bookfairs/cptoolkit/publish/edisonlibrary. Contact Debbie Smith or Teresa Jones at 351-3732 to volunteer or if you have questions.

 

·         Spring Concert:  The 6^th Grade and 7^th/8^th Grade Concert bands will perform their Spring Concert TONIGHT at 7:00pm in the Edison Middle School Auditorium.  Please come out to hear Edison’s wonderful musicians!

 

·         Spirit Week: All next week will be Spirit Week at Edison. Here’s what will happen each day:  Monday  - Twin Day – Get together with another friend or two and dress like twins; Tuesday – Skittles Day – Dress all in one color from head to toe. Also Skittles will be on sale at lunch; Wednesday – St. Patrick’s Day – Dress in Green; Thursday – Clash Day- Wear as many clothes as possible that don’t match; and Friday – No School due to conferences.

 

·         Thank You! Thank you to Ms. Jackie Borchardt for her initiative, hard work, and dedication to making our ISAT movie  and afternoon reward activities a success! Her efforts are certainly appreciated.  It took countless hours, phone calls, manual labor, and communication to bring this to fruition, and we really appreciate what she did.

 

·         Volleyball: Come out to support Edison’s 8^th grade volleyball team TONIGHT as they play in the final Regional game. The game starts at 7 p.m. at Jefferson. Congratulations on great wins in the games on Monday and Tuesday night. Go Comets!

 

March 8

 

·         Congratulations: Congratulations to seventh grade Social Studies teacher, Liz Rotramel, who presented her unit on Local and National Reactions to Brown v Board of Education at the February 27, 2010 American History Teachers' Collaborative Workshop. Edison is fortunate to have two of its teachers, Ms. Rotramel and Mr. Guzman, invited to share their expertise with this group of educators from several school districts! 

 

·         PTSA Officers Needed:  The Edison PTSA is seeking nominations for officers for the 2010-2011 school year.  We are in particular need of a Treasurer. For more information, please contact Mary Schoen Petersen schoenpetersen@comcast.net or Jennifer Clarke jenniferandjohnc@sbcglobal.net.

 

·         Edison Jazz Bands:  On February 13th, Jazz Band 1 and Jazz Band 2 traveled to the Eastern Illinois University Jazz Festival in Charleston, IL, where both bands won first place honors in their respective competitions!  In addition, Aidan Healy, Ben Mertens, Julien Turner and Abby Manaster were named "Outstanding Performers" at that competition.  Eli Imlay was given an "Outstanding Soloist" award, which earned him a scholarship to the EIU Summer Jazz Camp. During the last weekend in February, both bands traveled to the University of Louisville Jazz Festival, held in Louisville, KY.  Both bands gave excellent performances and were very well received.  Emma Hall, Julien Turner, and Abby Manaster were presented with "Outstanding Performers" Awards and Eli Imlay was given another "Outstanding Soloist" award, which earned him a scholarship to the U of L Summer Jazz Camp. Congratulations to the jazz bands!

 

·         Volleyball: The 8^th grade volleyball team will play their first regional game tomorrow at 7 p.m. at Jefferson. Come out and cheer them on! If they win, they will play on Wednesday, March 10 at Jefferson.

 

·         Athletic banquet: The date for the athletic banquet for Baseball, Girl’s basketball, Boy’s basketball and Volleyball will be announced in the near future.  It will probably be held in early May.   Cross country members will be invited depending on their GPA.

 

·         Athletics for 2010- 2011: Dates for physical deadlines and tryout/practice dates will be available after spring break. 

 

·         Coupons for Athletic Goods: Students can find coupons from Dick’s Sporting Goods for lacrosse, golf, team sports, soccer, baseball and softball outside room 122 on the black computer cart.

 

 

The Announcements are managed by the Edison Middle School PTSA. If you would like to submit information, please send your content to announce-request@edison.u4friends.org. The PTSA reserves the right to deny or edit submissions. If you would like to unsubscribe, please send an e-mail to ptsa@edison.u4friends.org and include “Unsubscribe” in the Subject Header or go here: http://edison.u4friends.org/mailman/listinfo/ptsa_edison.u4friends.org. Archives of the announcements can be found at http://edisonptsa.blogspot.com or http://edison.u4friends.org/pipermail/ptsa_edison.u4friends.org/.