Collins Elementary PTAPanther Post

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Volume 9, Issue 4 April 2014

Upcoming Events

Friday 5/2 ~ Sno Cones $1

Week of 5/5 ~ Teacher

Appreciation Week

Tuesday 5/6 ~ East Coast Pizza

Spirit Night @ 4-9pm

Wednesday 5/14 ~ Volunteer

Breakfast in the media center

Thursday 5/15 ~ General PTA

Meeting @ 6:30pm – free

childcare

Friday 5/16 ~ 5th Grade Field Trip

Monday 5/26 ~ Memorial Day,

No School

2013-2014 PTA BoardPresident – Michelle SpiessTreasurer – Ellen TonkinSecretary – Megan Jones-WillisCo - VP Membership/Volunteers -Megan Monday & Cory StevensonVP Ways and Means – Lori Themar

Collins Elementary12424 Summerfield BlvdRiverview, FL 33579813-672-5400Steve Sims – Principal Teri Madill – Assistant Principal

Helpful Information To report your child’s

absence, please call 813-672-5400 x1

No student can be signed out after 1:30pm.

Every Monday is early release day; dismissal is 1 hour early.

Spring Fundraiser WinnersThis year for our Spring Fundraiser, each of the students were able to participate and sell cookie dough and kitchen wares.

From the Guidance Corner:

March and April have been exciting months for our students at Collins Elementary. Our K Kids/Mediators were active in heading our Pasta for Pennies campaign. A special thank you to all for helping your child(ren) support (AND YOURS) in helping us to reach our goal to help the leukemia and lymphoma Society through our donations, defeat cancer in children!!! Mrs. Head’s class won the Pasta Party, but the students from Mrs. Fowler and Ms. Hnizdil made it a close race. Our students can be extremely proud of their wonderful service to other. Our very own hero – Riley Morey – came to visit us and encourage us on the morning show. We look forward to having her back to stay in the upcoming school year! (Continued on page 3)

Hello Collins’ Parents!

It is hard to believe that we are nearing the end of the school year! The PTA would like to thank everyone for your support and hard work in helping us reach our goals this year. Not only did we have a successful Panther Run, but we sold over $22,000 during our Spring Fundraiser! Your hard work has paid off and the Sunshade is now providing our students with plenty of shade and protection from the sun. Since we had a successful year, we are looking into adding water fountains by the basketball courts and the Kindergarten-2nd playground.

Thank you to all the moms and dads that made it to our Muffins for Moms and Donuts for Dads! We had a great time hosting the events and we were so impressed with the great turnout we had for both!

On Thursday, May 15th we will have our final General PTA Meeting. During this meeting we will be going over our treasure report, reviewing our successful year, and voting in the PTA Board for the 2014-2015 school year. As always we will have free childcare and refreshments available!

Thank you for your continued support!Michelle SpiessPTA President

PTA Membership Goal Reached!

Thanks to everyone who joined, we were able to reach our goal of 385 PTA Members! All Students will receive an ice cream treat immediately following

their lunch on May 21st.

Jump Rope for HeartThanks to all who helped support the American Heart Association with the Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser. The students raised over $5,000! As one of the prizes, students were able to “slime” Coach Torres & Coach Michel!

Student Birthday Announcements, $5/eachYour student’s name will appear on the digital sign on or around his/her birthday.

Name (PRINT) Birthday (mm/dd) Name (PRINT) Birthday (mm/dd)1. 3.2. 4.

Please make checks payable to: Collins PTA

Spring Fundraiser WinnersThis year for our Spring Fundraiser, each of the students were able to participate and sell cookie dough and kitchen wares.

We are truly proud of our 4th grade mediators Kerrigan Blakemore, Chloe Barbee, Kaitlyn Jorden, Riley Birkey, Anthony Bunn, and Wadi Marshad. They are actively practicing their mediation skills and will be training with professional mediators at our annual Area 8 Peace Conference, May 9other mediators from our Area 8 schools. They will help our students solve conflicts before they escalate into major problems the remainder of this school year, along with our truly outstanding 5Abigail Weisberg, Isabella Duran, Tyler Bennett, Max Bergman, and Sebastian Castro. On May 27be able to fine-tune their mediation skills at Camp Cristina as they work on team building skills.

We wish the best to our 5th grade mediators as they move on to middle school next year! A special thank you to them for the conflicts they mediated that ended in a win-win!

The word for May is Co-operationpurpose. Just as you do, we encourage our students to others helps everyone to attain this goal. Please discuss with your child/children what month of May. Please feel free to use your

It is never too early to help your child(ren) begin creating their career path starting with career awareness. Talk with your child about careers that you observe (ex. on vacation). Talk about the values, personal abilities, skills, interests, and other fascinating information that goes with the jobs that you see. You might want to share about any stereotyping, traditional, nontraditional roles that you discover. Ask them what requirements are necessary for and on that job. It is important for our students to learn how to make decisions, set goals, understand planning, and develop interests. Equally important is the knowledge and understanding of the critical rolecollector is important. This will help make your child’s career path to the world of work smoother.

We are so glad that you are part of our school. You are the Best!!!!Sue Chapin, Counselor

Congratulations to

Ms. Ulakovic’s 2nd Grade Class who won the 3rd Quarter Box Top Contest with

1,481 Box Tops!

Remember, Box Tops can be turned in anytime during the school year ~ they do expire, so

please do not hold on to them too long.

Relay for Life

The Collins Elementary Relay for Life Team raised just under $3,500! Thanks to all the support from our Collins students,

families and teachers for making it a success!

Student’s Name Teacher Grade

Shirt Size Shirt Color Quantity

Shirt Size Shirt Color Quantity

The students did a great job and raised over $8,000 for our school! The highest seller in each grade will participate in a pizza party with Mr. Sims on May 9th to celebrate!

PTA Membership Goal Reached!

Thanks to everyone who joined, we were able to reach our goal of 385 PTA Members! All Students will receive an ice cream treat immediately following

their lunch on May 21st.

For PTA use only Date Rcvd: ______ Amount Paid: ______ Cash: ______Check #: ______ Initials: ______

Shirts for Sale ONLY $5!!First Come, First Serve

In WHITE we have several Youth Small, Youth Medium, and Youth Large available and a few Youth XL, Adult Small, Adult Large and Adult XL available.In BLUE we have only a few Youth Medium, Youth Large, Youth XL, Adult Small, Adult Medium and Adult XL.

We also have 5 Adult Small and 5 Adult MediumPANTHER RUN SHIRTS for $5 each.

We are truly proud of our 4th grade mediators Kerrigan Blakemore, Chloe Barbee, Kaitlyn Jorden, Riley Birkey, Anthony Bunn, and Wadi Marshad. They are actively practicing their mediation skills and will be training with professional mediators at our annual Area 8 Peace Conference, May 9other mediators from our Area 8 schools. They will help our students solve conflicts before they escalate into major problems the remainder of this school year, along with our truly outstanding 5Abigail Weisberg, Isabella Duran, Tyler Bennett, Max Bergman, and Sebastian Castro. On May 27be able to fine-tune their mediation skills at Camp Cristina as they work on team building skills.

We wish the best to our 5th grade mediators as they move on to middle school next year! A special thank you to them for the conflicts they mediated that ended in a win-win!

The word for May is Co-operationpurpose. Just as you do, we encourage our students to others helps everyone to attain this goal. Please discuss with your child/children what month of May. Please feel free to use your

It is never too early to help your child(ren) begin creating their career path starting with career awareness. Talk with your child about careers that you observe (ex. on vacation). Talk about the values, personal abilities, skills, interests, and other fascinating information that goes with the jobs that you see. You might want to share about any stereotyping, traditional, nontraditional roles that you discover. Ask them what requirements are necessary for and on that job. It is important for our students to learn how to make decisions, set goals, understand planning, and develop interests. Equally important is the knowledge and understanding of the critical rolecollector is important. This will help make your child’s career path to the world of work smoother.

We are so glad that you are part of our school. You are the Best!!!!Sue Chapin, Counselor

 

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