The Paxtonia May Fair Raffle Committee has begun soliciting donations for our annual raffle. If you own a business, this is a great opportunity for you to publicize your business and support the Paxtonia PTA. Even if you don’t own a business you can support the raffle by donating a gift card in any amount to your favorite store or res-taurant. Donations can be brought to the school office. Please mark “May Fair Raffle Donation” on the envelope and include your name so we know whom to thank! If you have any questions about making a donation, please contact Kathy Herring at Lycoming1979@yahoo.com or 540-7143.

Dear Parents,

I continue to be amazed at the staff, students, and parents of Paxtonia Ele-mentary School! We are blessed with dedicated teachers, enthusiastic stu-dents, and supportive parents. I’m confident that we will more than prove our “academic worth” on the upcoming PSSA tests. Equally important to me, I’m also confident that we’ll continue to prove our “social worth” through our charitable events and by treating each other the way we would want to be treated.

*Educational Trips For those who like to plan ahead, the PSSA testing dates for grades 3, 4, & 5 are as follows:

-PSSA READING & MATH for Grades 3, 4 & 5 March 12 – 16

Please note on page 32 of the CD Handbook/Calendar that no educa-tional trips for students will be ap-proved during PSSA testing dates.

*Birthday Party Etiquette Please do not have your child distribute birthday party invitations at school

Next PTA Meeting March 5th @ 7PM…Free Child Care Provided

Editor: Yvette Fleming

unless every member of the class is invited. It’s disheartening for a child to be excluded. Remember that kids have feelings too. Simply use the U.S. mail when inviting smaller numbers. Thanks.

*Jump Rope for Heart

Thank you so much for your donations toward the “Jump Rope for Heart” pro-gram. According to our terrific physical education teachers, Mrs. Mauck and Mrs. Nichter, Paxtonia donated about $8,000 towards this worthy cause! Again, thanks to everyone for making us all “Paxtonia Proud”!

T. Toone Paxtonia Elementary Principal

Happy Spring to all of you!!! It is hard to believe March is here and there are only a little over three months of school remaining – it is scary how fast the year has gone! The PTA has so many more activities planned for the last three months of school, between the roller skating party on the 18th of March to our Friendship Center Family Night in April and May Fair in May, we have a busy end to this school year. Please make sure you check your calendar so you don’t miss out on any of the fun.

I want to thank Caroline Allen for tak-ing the time to speak at our February PTA meeting. We should be proud that one of Paxtonia’s own will be named as the Pennsylvania State PTA President at the State Conference banquet on the evening of April 14th. The conference is being held in Camp Hill this year. If you are interested in attending the confer-ence, helping out during the conference, or can donate some time to make cen-terpieces for the dinner, please let me know.

Mr. Toone would like to try something new this year for families that will be registering their children for Kindergar-ten. He would like to open Paxtonia to the new registrants on Saturday morning, April 14th, to hear a story and become a little more familiar with the school before the actual registration taking place Mon-day morning, April 16th. If anyone is available to help out, please let me as soon as possible.

I also wanted to thank Jeanne Bennardo and all her volunteers that helped to make Science Night such a suc-cess. Both kids and parents seemed to enjoy themselves. If you are looking for something for the family to do, come out and enjoy the last roller skating party on March 18th!

See you at the PTA meeting on the 5th!

Jamie Zuvich Paxtonia PTA President

Randall, Cody Rapp, Breanna Shaffner, Tristan Shroyer, Conner Smuda, Anna Spangenberg, Tory Wylie, Michael Yurkovic, TJ

Second Honors Third Grade Boudreau, Brady Case, Nathaniel Guzzo, Alek Neilson, Gary Nielsen, Hunter Ryazanov, Vlad Scarlett, Samaria Shaw, Hope Smyre, Nicholas Staub, Evan

Fourth Grade Bentzel, Courtney Buffington, Sarah Collins, Harlee Fife, Karli Frazier, Michael Grimwood, Elizabeth Hartman, David Hess, Jacqueline Hess, Olivia Ho, Kayla Hoang, Sarah Lingle, Betty Miller, Justyce Moyer, Tim Myers, Deanna Notestine, Nick Schraf, Eric Smith, Meghan Staver, A.J. Steiner, Tyler Zhmurkin, Daniel

Fifth Grade Caplan, Hannah Carter, Kristian Crouse, Adam Davis, Jayneisha Drake, Faith Engle, Katearie Forrester, Tayler Gorse, Kendall Herman, Martyna Hicklin, Andrew Kolman, Kayla Letsas, Leah Lopez, Marisol Myers, Chelsi Nguyen, Hung Perry, Jacob Romanowski, Austin Rubbo, Matthew B.U.G. Awards Third Grade Barowski, Austin Govedari, Enes Hawthorne, Kiana Huff, Wesley Huff-Curry, Colton Parody, Nick Richards, Darrien Shaw, Hope Shukri, Omar Spriggs, Kendra Word, Amir

Fourth Grade Delany, Colin Hartman, David Miller, Coulson

Fifth Grade Brock, Matt Davis, Brandon Engle, Katearie Frank, Rachel Goehrig, Samantha Hairston, Maya Kim, Ju’Mee McLendon, Bailey Mosonyi, Cecily Rapp, Breanna Sathe, Manasi Spangenberg, Tory Tkatch, Christopher Yurkovic, TJ

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Martin, Christopher Mellinger, Marco Merlo, Serena Mihalik, Chance Miller, Michaela Mollah, Aliya Parody, Nick Pope, Janiese Purcell, Mark Schehr, Madison Schrum, Susie Shukri, Omar Simon, Erika Smith, Gabrielle St.Clair, Zachary Stevens, Joshua Thomas, Christion Veli, Jon Wylie, Emily Yost, Rebekah Zieber, Megan

Fourth Grade Anderson, Sam Armas, Enrique Bainbridge, Randi Bergen, Alexis Bonomo, Noah Carricato, Joseph Carsey, Nathan Carter, Kiana Cherry, Rachel Collins, Danny DeFebo, Chloe DeFebo, Sydney Delany, Colin Dillman, Brooke Forgenie, Joshua Fox, Marissa Fuller, Julius Green, Joshua Grewal, Jorawar Hoffman, Allie Houser, Meagan Kauffman, Autumn Kendle, Jace Kreiger, Larissa Lopez, Mikaela McIntyre, Mia Morrow, Logan Nelson, Anthony Nwokeji, Uchenna Owens, Jake Partenheimer, Matthew Patel, Swati Pickles, Charlotte Reynolds, Alyssa Rhoads, Renee Salvatore, Marina Scott, James Shappell, Ashley Sinisi, David Smith, Nate Suda, Amanda Syed, Abdullah Torres, Eric Vancena, Julie Warner, Remi Wisner, Richard Youngblood, Dealie Zachary, Cezanne Zervanos, Austin Zuvich, Tyler

Fifth Grade Adlestein, Matt Allen, Brenden Armbruster, Pierce Baer, Matt Beard, Roberta Bowser, Katie Brock, Matt Brown, Tre Buls, Mackenzie Case, Jacob Cochran, Rob Crouse, Morgan Davis, Brandon Dick, Andrew Ellis, Cody Feaser, Gabriela Goehrig, Samantha Green, Anna Gundy, Taylor Henshaw, Austin Herrell, Ashton Herring, Andy Hughes, Matthew Kelly, Scott Martinec, Augustus Matzoni, Justin McLendon, Bailey Melnichak, Madeline Mitro, Dana Mosonyi, Cecily Nguyen, Christin Notestine, Jacob Paris Mikaela Phillips, Cullen

Distinguished Honors

Third Grade Azzato, Alyssa Bailey, Ryan Devlin, Karrah Frist, Leanne Gigliotti, Nicholas Hynum, Madison Kane, Noah Kim, SunJu Krampe, Emma Leisher, Ashley Lydon, Madison Martin, Joey Peterson, Bryanna Scheaffer, Ronald Speck, Ashlee Spinosa, Evan Thompson, Evvie

Fourth Grade Chambers, Allison Cleaver, Ryan Evans, Samuel Jones, Victoria Keen, Kirsten Kerschner, Jacob Kijowski, Zachary Kumar, Ganesh Lengel, Monica MacMillan, Jonah O’Connell, Grayson Packheiser, Abigail Rapp, Sabrina Ray, Arnab Sherman, Adam Shiffler, Vivian Shovlin, Michael Sinisi, David Whittle, Derek

Fifth Grade Bonneau, Haley Burkholder, Haley Cooney, Brett Frank, Rachel Grubb, Jesse Hairston, Maya Hess Alexis Heter, Caitlyn Horst, Martina Imboden, Seth Kim, Ju’Mee Kim, Sunyi Krampe, Noah Leisher, Kendra Linn, Andrea Martin, Christina Miller, Allyson Murdoch, Hunter Neidig, Amanda Ruello, Max Sathe, Manasi Schaffer, Marissa Schraf, Ryan Stegura, Adam Sukley, Alexandra Summers, Ashley Thottakara, Arun Tkatch, Emily Tkatch, Keri Wenrich, Gretchen

First Honors

Third Grade Balel, Rohan Bannon, Cory Barowski, Austin Bennardo, Guy Binley, Caroline Bloom, Nicholas Boltz, Jessica Boyd, Maya Burkhart, Emily Burkholder, Alexis Cheam, Emilee Corrigan, Christopher Decker, Justin Eck, Carter Eyster, Brooke Givler, Bradley Gutshall, Ashley Hauf, Megan Henshaw, Tyler Hess, Ethan Horner, Riley Horst, Nathan Horst, Owen Huff-Curry, Colton Johnson, Noah Joseph, Alisha Kiner, Kassidy Knapp, Taten Laban-King, Diondra Lehman, Kaci

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Paxtonia Elementary has invited the Mobile Dentists/Smile Programs to the school on Tuesday, April 3rd to promote oral health and hygiene. The mobile Dentists/Smile Programs will provide on-site preventative dental care to students such as dental examinations, cleanings, fluoride treatments, sealants, and check up x-rays. These services will be provided to those students that returned completed permission forms that were sent home in February. No child is ever turned away by the Mobile Dentists/Smile Programs because of financial need.

For more information call or visit the website.

Teacher/Staff Appreciation Week is soon approaching!!! It will be Monday thru Friday, May 7 – May 11. We are looking forward to showing our staff how much they are appreciated!

We will be serving hot and cold meals all week long. We ask that you please send in 1 or more of your favor-ite dishes and we organize the rest…it’s that simple! If it’s not pos-sible for you to do so, there are other ways for you to donate to show your appreciation. Please keep an eye out for a flyer with ideas on how to help. If you have already signed up for this event, a reminder will be sent home soon. If you’re interested in helping in any way, please call Emily Peterson @ 545-3880 or Lori Horst @540-1905.

The schedule for the week is as follows: Monday: Continental Breakfast/Snacks Tuesday: Soup & Salad Wednesday: Hot Lunch Thursday: Subs & Pizza Friday: Appetizers & Desserts

Thank you for making this wonderful event possible!!!

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Roller Skating Party

Don’t miss Paxtonia’s Roller Skating Party on

Sunday, March 18th. The Roller Skating Party will be held at

Olympic Skating Rink in Enola from 4:30 – 6:30 pm. Admission is free. Skate rental is $1.00 and rollerblade

rental is $3.00. For information about directions go to

www.olympicskatingcenter.com or call 732-9168.

Karen Bloom and Julie Marolf

March 5, 2007 YoJo Presents

Choose To Read 9:15-9:55 (K-2) YoJo initially has a bad attitude about reading. The show's host is determined to change this negative position, so he puts YoJo in various situations where choosing not to read leads to several comical mishaps. Although YoJo learns the hard way about the importance of reading, the host eventually cheers him up by demonstrating that reading can also be lots of fun. The show ends by reading aloud a short story from "The Prince and the Princess", in which YoJo acts out the part of the prince, and an audience member plays the role of the princess. The enjoyment of the experi-ence leaves YoJo with an enthusiastic spirit to read, and he's last seen running off to the library. Ace Your PSSA 10:10-11:00 (3-5)

This show covers very specific test-taking strategies and has been co-developed directly with educators who know these tests thoroughly. Some of the important points that an “Ace Your Test” show emphasizes include:

• Important preparations before the test.

• Paying close attention to all instruc-tions, questions, and answer choices.

• Previewing test sections and budg-eting test time wisely.

• The proper way to fill out answers on answer sheets.

• Using the process of elimination to make a better educated guess at tough multiple-choice questions.

• Writing constructed responses clearly and neatly.

• Supporting ‘open-ended’ construc-tive responses with evidence and detail.

• Most importantly: Confidence and a great attitude!

The following are the programs that Paxtonia PTA is currently sponsoring, and each has their own appropriate collec-tion box located in the front lobby of the school. Please place the items in a plastic sealed bag before placing them in the collec-tion boxes. • Used Ink Cartridges Recy-

cling • BoxTop$ for Education • Old Cell Phones • Aluminum Can Tabs

Ronald McDonald House • Campbell’s Labels

• Tyson’s Labels

15 Friendship Center Family Night 6-8PM

May

3 2 Hr Delay –Teacher In-Service 7 PTA Meeting 7:00 PM 7-11 Teacher/Staff Appreciation Week 11 Mom’s & Muffins 19 May Fair 25-28 NO SCHOOL— Memorial Day Holiday

March

5 PTA Meeting 7:00 PM 18 Roller Skating Party

4:30PM—6:30PM 26 No School— In-Service 30 Snow Make-up Day

April

2 PTA Meeting 7:00 PM 5 Snow Make-up Day 6 No School—Good Friday 9 No School—Spring Break

Snow Make-up Day (if needed)

School Spirit Day is the last day of each month. Each grade has a contest for the class showing the most spirit. Don’t forget to have your child show their school spirit!

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Giant Shoppers We need more Giant Bonus-

Card Designations!

Out of approximately 600 students, we only have 262 BonusCards registered and designated for Paxtonia Elemen-tary as of February 1. Let’s get that number up and increase our reward dollars! To date, registered Bonus-Cards have earned our school $2,509.73 from October 2006 through January 2007. Ask friends, neighbors, grandparents, aunts, un-cles, coworkers; anyone you know that would be interested in designating Paxtonia Elementary on their Giant BonusCard. You can register online at www.GiantAPlus.com and enter school ID# 01059, pick up a Designa-tion Form at your local Giant Cus-tomer Service Counter, or fill out forms that will be going home with students soon. The more cards we have registered for Paxtonia the more money our school earns for much needed educational tools. Remember, if you have students at other schools you can designate them too! Thank you so much for your support.