PTA News Roosevelt Elementary School May 2014 Para escuchar boletin en español: 869-3825 ex.89 http://www.sanleandro.k12.ca.us/roosevelt

President’s Message

Dear Roosevelt Community,

The school year is winding down. What have we accomplished? We have forged new friendships, drawn closer to our loved ones and strived to be all we could be. As we reflect, let’s continue to

persevere, press forward, continue on – for our children, for ourselves, for Roosevelt. Lori King PTA President

Mensaje del presidente

Hola Comunidad de Roosevelt,

El año escolar está por terminar. ¿Qué hemos logrado? Hemos forjado nuevas amistades, dibujado más cerca de nuestros seres queridos y luchado por ser todo lo que podríamos ser. Al reflexionar, continuemos a perseverar, seguir adelante y continuar - para nuestros hijos, para nosotros mismos, para Roosevelt. Lori King Presidente de PTA

這學年即將接近尾聲。我們成就了什麼？我們已

經建立了新的友誼，拉近我們的親人，並努力盡

我們所能。當我們熟思考內省，讓我們繼續堅持

下去，奮力向前，繼續-

為了我們的孩子們，為我們自己，為羅斯福小學

UPCOMING EVENTS May 21 – Voces Unidas, 6:30 pm May 22 – Spring Concert, 7 pm @ SLHS May 23-25 – Bancroft School Musical: Hairspray May 26 – NO SCHOOL: Memorial Day May 28 – Volunteer Tea, 2:30 pm May 28 – LGBTQS Alliance Meeting, 7 pm *Early Dismissal for ALL of June* Jun 4 – Coffee & Conversation, 8:15 am Jun 4 – Last Hornet Hustle, 10 am Jun 4 – Eat Out For Education Jun 6 – Family Dance Party, 7 pm Jun 11 – All School Assembly, 8:15 am Jun 11 – Student vs Teacher Kickball, 12:30 pm Jun 12 – Last Day of School Jun 12 – 5th grade Promotion, 8:30 am

Future dates Aug 20 – First Day of School

Roosevelt Elementary School PTA is now on FFaacceebbooookk. 137 People “Like” us already!

2Volunteer spot

For going above … And Beyond! The calls of duty throughout the 2013-2014 school year at Roosevelt, A Big Roundup of Applause goes out to: Everyone. Thank You! Roosevelt Volunteers are Out of this World with Awesomeness. We hope that you had good times and learned a lot this year – We Couldn’t Have Done It Without Ya’ll. And how about three cheers for our auction chairperson, Jennifer Osborn – Hip Hip Hooray!!! In Other News – Although it might be difficult to fathom the mere thought at this time, go ahead and throw this date on your calendar:

Save The Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 for the first day of the 2014-2015 school year and our annual “Volunteer Tea” held in the Multi-purpose Room (MPR). Plan to come on by after bitter-sweet student drop-offs to a supportive venue for collecting your thoughts over a cup of coffee or tea, reconnecting with your Roosevelt comrades – and signing up for volunteer activities planned for the year. Meantime, please enjoy a fun and safe summer! Questions? Email Jennifer J. Petrick at jjpetrick@comcast.net

Yearbook news

We’re pleased to announce that the yearbook has been sent to print. Thank you again for all the wonderful photo submissions! And thanks to all who’ve ordered yearbooks in advance. Be on the lookout for the Yearbook coming soon! YEARBOOKS ARE ON SALE for $20. Why wait until the last day of school? Order Today and have the 2013-2014 Roosevelt Yearbook personally delivered to your child's classroom. Cash/checks for $20 may be submitted (Payable to Roosevelt PTA) to teacher/office. Make sure to include student’s name/teacher. Thank you! Questions? Email Ed Varga at vargafamily@me.com

PTA board 2014-2015 elections

Thank you to all the new and returning PTA Board members for the 2014-2015 school year.

We are still short one important position: Fundraising Chair. The person in this position is responsible initiating, coordinating and accounting of all fundraiser events and monies school wide. Fundraisers include gift wrap, See’s candy, A's tickets and more!

If you think you might be interested this position, please contact Johanna Normart for more information at andrewnormart@sbcglobal.net.

Below is the full list of volunteers comprising next year’s PTA Board:

President – Lesley Feikert Executive VP – Lori King VP Membership – Shauna Olsen VP Programs – Stacey Tingstrom / Yvonne Day- Rodriguez VP Volunteers – Jennifer Petrick Treasurer – Tricia Reichert Recording Secretary – Jennifer Phillips Corresponding Secretary – Lesley Christiansen Historian – Lisa Musselman Financial Secretary – Lorrie Pullman Parliamentarian – Johanna Normart Auditor – Heidi Klopfer Purchasing Chair – Debbie Fitting Clothing Chair – Paula Hansen Webmaster/Facebook chair – Nicole Hunter Maes Health and safety Chair – Suzette Chaumette

PTA Meeting Notes

Here are a few more highlights from the last PTA meeting. This was the ninth and last meeting of the school year.

Teachers Report Multi-cultural night last night was great.

Teachers felt they did not notify families in time but turnout was great.

5th grade students thankful that Marine Science Institute was funded. Students go on a boat in the bay for science exploration.

3Principal’s Report

Multi-cultural night was fun. Thanks to Suzette for organizing drumming group. Teacher’s re-organized lines for food which was successful.

LCFF – Local Control Funding Formula – Soraya met with district and they have committed to centralizing certain things. Examples:

o All TOSA’s will be reassigned to classrooms and a team of district level coaches will be assigned with training and oversight

o intervention specialist will be hired regarding behavior management and implementation of PBIS

o parent liaisons to encourage parent involvement particularly from under-represented groups

o library-media specialist to re-open elementary libraries

o EL Clerks Questions about funding for IA and Computer

lab coordinator. Need to know details for future planning. Question of need for library coordinator with new computers in class. Ideas discussed included coordinator helping in classes, some type of homework help for students without computers. Soraya will get budget at the end of the month.

Morning drop off traffic – do not drop off kids in the middle of the street, do not leave car, no dropping off in the parking lot.

Thank you – to the Dad’s Club and PTA for support of students and programming.

Auction was awesome! Thank you to Jen and everyone who helped out.

Auction

Record number of guests – 308. Estimates are about $45,000 with more to sell.

Fundraising A’s ticket sales are in and half of last year.

Maria recommended to do paper next year and have one person order them.

Idea to pre-sale for Earthquake tickets now but game is not until September. Should be a popular game.

Mixed bag sales will start this week or next. We will look for a fundraising chair as Maria is

leaving. Programs

CPR training will be postponed until fall Mindfulness movie was cancelled due to many

other obligations. Some people have asked about checking out movie and Yvonne thinks it will not be a problem as long as she has it for the fall

CAP training finished up this week Survey to teachers regarding assemblies. Only

5 responded and we need more input. Soraya will have teachers do at next staff meeting.

Survey

Highlights of results: o 61 responses o Most important was IA (58%),

Outdoor education (60%), field trips (58%), HERO (37%)

o Family Activities – math and art/music nights

o Topics – parenting with technology, Common Core, bully-proofing kids

o Fundraisers – Auction, walk-a-thon, direct donations

o Volunteering – in classroom, committees events, field trips

o Hours per month – most 1-4 hours/month

o What would get people to meetings – childcare, topics of interest

o 36% of responders have 4th graders then the rest were spread out.

4 Trying to get more responses. Room parents

can resend to classes. If you haven’t already completed the PTA

survey regarding funding for and participation in programs and activities, here is one last chance.

Please use the link below to let us know your thoughts: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FKQMHDR

*This was the last PTA meeting of the year.

PTA BOARD President: Lori King, lsking@pacbell.net Executive Vice President: Lesley Feikert, feikertlesley@hotmail.com VP of Membership: Julie Helmbrecht, juliehelmbrecht@att.net VP of Programs: Yvonne Day-Rodriguez, Yvonne@ydaydesigns.com VP of Volunteers: Jennifer Petrick, jjpetrick@comcast.net Treasurer: Tricia Reichert, trishr675@gmail.com Financial Secretary: Lorrie Pullman, targa@sonic.net Auditor: Jill Stowe, jastowe@sbcglobal.net Corresponding Secretary: Diana Sacrey, dianatruran@yahoo.com Recording Secretary: Lisa Musselman, lisamusselman@hotmail.com Historian: Jennifer Phillips, jcphula@yahoo.com Parliamentarian: Johanna Normart, andrewnormart@sbcglobal.net

The following are serving in the capacities indicated:

Festival Coordinator: Maria Markison, alohamama1071@gmail.com Auction Coordinator: Jennifer Osborn, rooseveltauction@aol.com Purchasing Chair: Debbie Fitting, d.fitting@comcast.net Fundraising Chair: Maria Markison, alohamama1071@gmail.com School Clothing Chair: Deborah Love-Gray, lovegraydeborah48@gmail.com Health & Safety Chair: Dawn Fehr, degraves99@yahoo.com

!!San Leandro High School Choral Department Presents:

!Spring Concert !

A Tribute to the Movies!

!Featuring SLHS Choir & Notables !

with Special Choral Festival Guests Madison Elementary School Choir

Jefferson Elementary School Choir Roosevelt Elementary School Choir !!!

$5.00 Individual Ticket $10.00 Family Ticket !

Tickets will be sold at the door. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thursday, May 22, 2014

7:00 PM San Leandro High School

Arts Education Center

Thank you for all you do!!!

The Roosevelt Staff

Would like to cordially invite you to

The Volunteer Tea

Where: Multipurpose Room

When: Wednesday, May 28th, 2014

Time: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Please RSVP by Friday, May 23rd, 2013

***Child care will be provided***

Name: _______________________________________________________________ Child’s Teacher: ____________________________________________________ ______ Yes, I am attending ______ No, I can not attend ______ Yes, I need child care. # of children ____________

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Thursday, May 29, 2014 / 6:00-7:45 PM Celebrate the Middle Ages as we circumnavigate the globe through scholarly research papers and projects from our 7th-grade students!

Artistic and musical presentations will delight and astound you.

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Dance^ Your^ Way^ Into^ Summer^!A Family Dance Party

For^ All^ GradeS^!Cost: $20 per student or $40 per family

Dance^ Your^ Way^ Into^ Summer^!JUNE 6, 2014 • 7-9pmDo Hornet Hustle dances and more with all your friends at a super fun school-wide pay-to-play fundraiser hosted by the 4th & 5th grade classes.

For^ All^ GradeS^!Cost: $20 per student or $40 per family

Featured danCers: Dr. Sablo-Sutton • Ms. Forrester Ms. Epps • Mr. Fishbaugh • Ms. Lipka • Ms. Smith Ms. Thomas • Ms. Valdivia & musiC: Ms. Coburn

ContaCts: Kim Nichols (W2) bknic@pacbell.net or Jill Stowe (Rm 2) jastowe@sbcglobal.net

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San Leandro Unified School District & First 5 Alameda County

Summer Bridge (Pre-K) Program''' June 23, 2014 - July 24, 2014

9:00am until 12:00 pm (Monday-Thursday) Jefferson Elementary School

"'' For students entering Kindergarten who have not attended a licensed preschool program. Class size 18 students to one preschool teacher and one kindergarten teacher. The Summer Bridge Program includes parent trainings, daily snack and lunch for students.

This program is free! Limited spots available-sign up today.

Please register at your home school. Por favor inscrfbase en su escuela de residencia

Summer (Pre-K) Bridge Program held at: Programa Puenta de P-K para el Verano se ofrecera en:

Jefferson Elementary School 14300 Bancroft Avenue, San Leandro, CA 94578

510-618-4310

Distrito Escolar de San Leandro y Primeros 5 Condados de Alameda

Programa Durante el Verano (Bridge)* 23 de Junio, 2014- 24 de Julio, 2014

9:00 am - 12:00 pm (lunes-jueves) Escuela Primaria Jefferson

~·, Para estudiantes que van a entrar al Kinder y que no han asistido a un programa acreditado. El salon de clase consiste de dos maestras para 18 estudiantes. Durante el verano este programa (Bridge) incluye talleres educativos para los padres de familia. bocadillos y almuerzo para los alumnos.

Este programa es gratis! Cupos limitados disponibles, inscrfbase hoy.