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Amanda-Clearcreek Elementary

2014-2015

AMANDA CLEARCREEK PTO 2014

PTO OFFICERS: President – Katie Stevens –

catering1katie@aol.com – 740-438-2790

Vice President – Christina Varney – christina.varney@yahoo.com – 614-832-3335

Secretary – Jennie Cowdrey – jrcowdrey6@gmail.com – 330-221-7397

Treasurer – Misty Winston – misty_trh@hotmail.com – 606-316-5030

Our Mission: The Amanda-Clearcreek PTO is a nonprofit

parent teacher organization (PTO) whose mission is to establish and nurture a close relationship between the parents, teachers, and students. The PTO sponsors assistance to teachers in classroom settings, raises funds for supplemental educational materials and experiences, supports school and family social interaction, and provides a non-biased forum for sharing information on issues that impact our children. It is our belief that the team effort of a parent teacher organization offers the best possible learning environment for our children.

FUN EVENTS PLANNED FOR THIS YEAR:

Secret Santa This will be held on a Saturday morning in

December from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm.

The kids will be able to get their picture taken with Santa and then go shopping all by themselves in our Winter Wonderland store!!

Parents – we didn’t leave you out!!! There will be a vendor fair and Scholastic Book Fair in the cafeteria for you to do a little shopping as well!

Texas Roadhouse Night Out: Come and enjoy dinner with your family and

friends at Texas Roadhouse and help support our PTO.

Mark your calendars for Oct. 2nd and May 6th!

KISS Breakfasts: Kids Invite Someone Special breakfast The kids can invite someone that is special to

them to breakfast at school! There will 3 KISS breakfasts this year – Sept.

26th, Feb. 10th and Apr. 16th!!

And many, many more…

BOX TOPS AND CAMPBELL’S SOUP LABELS

We do collect Box Tops and Campbell’s Soup Labels!!

Please send them in with your child to school. We will have little competitions going on with the classrooms to see who can collect the most!!

The winning classrooms will get a small prize!!

COMMUNICATION IS KEY!!

Our PTO board believes in good communication. We want you to know everything that we have planned and everything that you need to know.

Please visit our facebook page – “Amanda Clearcreek

PTO”

Come to our Parent Meetings: Sept. 9th at 6:15 at the Primary Cafeteria Jan. 13th (time to be determined by the

parents) Apr. 14th (time to be determined by the

parents)

VISIT US TONIGHT We encourage you to visit our table tonight

to ask questions, meet our board members, pick up information with important dates, and sign up on our contact list to receive emails or texts from us.

We have some really neat ACES apparel that we will be taking orders for soon. We wanted to have it ready for tonight but unfortunately it is not.

ACES

We are looking forward to a great year with you, the kids, the teachers and the administration.

Please contact any board member if you have any questions. Our contact information will be available on the school website very soon.

Thank you for your time!!

Kiddos – we hope you have a WONDERFUL school year!!

Arrival: 8:40 A.M. Tardy: 9:00 A.M. – 10:30 A.M. Half Day Absence: Arriving between 10:30-2:30 Full Day Absence: Leaving before 10:30 A.M. Tardy: Leave after 2:30 P.M.

If a student is tardy more than 3 times in a 9 wk. period, he/she will receive a lunch/recess detention.

If a student is tardy more than 3 times, he/she will not be considered for perfect attendance.

A student who is tardy 8 or more times is subject to disciplinary action and/or referral to Fairfield County Truancy Officer.

Elementary School Day

Fourth Grade Fees: $23.38

Super Science Classroom Magazine Eureka Math Workbook Computer Headphones

Fees

Amanda-Clearcreek Elementary

Regular Lunch: $2.00 Extras: $ .25 to $ .50

Milk Only: $ .40 Menus available on the school website.

Lunch

Letter Grades

Grades

Grade Percentage

A 95-100%

A- 92-94%

B+ 89-91%

B 86-88%B- 83-85%

C+ 80-82%C 73-79%

C- 70-72%

D+ 67-69%

D 63-66%

D- 60-62%

F 59-0%

All personal belongs, such as but not limited

to, cameras, radios, disc players, electronic games, balls, toys, MP3 players, laser pens, trading cards, Ipods, are not to be brought to school unless they have a purpose in the classroom and/or the child’s teacher has given permission according to school policy.

Personal Items

Regular attendance by all students is vital for student

achievement! However, if your child is going to be absent, please call and

leave a message at school. A telephone answering service has been provided so that parents may call before or after school hours. When calling in a students absence please state your name, the student’s name, your phone number and the reason for the student’s absence.

Students have two days for every missed day of school to complete make-up work.

Reasons for an excused absence: Personal illness of the student; Illness in the student’s family Death in the family; or Religious reasons

Attendance

Hair should be worn in such as way as to not

disrupt the educational process. All shirts must have sleeves. Refer to p.12 for specific information regarding

the dress code.

Dress Code

If interested in volunteering your time to help

a teacher and/or student, please get a Volunteer Handbook and complete the application.

Volunteers

Please refer to p. 11 for the bus safety rules.

These rules have been established for the safety of all students and will be enforced.

For the safety of your child, changing how a child is to go home will not be accepted by phone. Please send in a note with change request. *In the event of an emergency, change in transportation will be approved by the building principal or transportation director.

Bus Safety

Homeroom/Social Studies Science with Mrs. Ogborn Specials Reading with Mrs. Meyer Lunch/Recess Math with Mrs. Hines Intervention/Pack-up in homeroom class

Student Schedule

Students will be tested on computers. Students will have following tests:

Math Reading Social Studies (4th grade only)

Very task based where the students need to complete a task with the given information or graphics

PARCC Testing

All teachers have emails and phone numbers

accessible on the web Class website: www.ac-bishop.weebly.com

All contact information is included in the handout sheet

Contact Information