More art from the Spring Art Show. Hope you didn't miss it!
The Intermediate School report was presented by Amy Acton.
- Thank-you to the PTO for the teacher appreciation lunches and for the financial grants to help the school.
- Sarah Reed has been nominated for Rotary Teacher of the Year. Good luck!
- It is our hope that all parents will use Progress Book as an aid in communication about assignments, homework and student grades. Please take the time to look at Progress Book on a regular basis. If you have any questions, please contact your teacher or Mr. Murphy.
- Concert Season/Art Show: Our staff and students did an outstanding job with this year’s spring concerts and art show. Ms. Riley with the help of many volunteers, thank you, had a beautiful art show for everyone to enjoy. Our fifth and sixth grade band, orchestra and select choir sounded great under the direction of Pay Haynish, Kathy Shoenfelt and David Clare. (Editor’s note: See an excerpt from a concert in the short video above. They sounded great!)
- Candy Grams : PAWS (People Always Willing to Serve) which is our student service learning group just finished a project called Candygrams. The Candygram sale raised $392.75 for Autism Speaks. PAWS also sold tie dye shirts during the art show. This sale raised $680, which will be donated to the Red Cross for Haiti relief.
- Science Days
- Barb Currey sponsored and organized a 4th and 5th Grade Science Day on two different days. Thank you to all the parent volunteers for coming in and helping. It was amazing! Students did a variety of activities and experiments to investigate sound, electricity, pressure, motion, and physical and chemical changes. The children learned a lot and it was a ton of fun!
- End of Year Activities : Thank you for all your help with the following end of year activities: Talent Show, Cook out, Field Day, Awards Assembly, Clap-out, Slide Show
- Assembly: Thank you for the whole school assembly on May 11 in the morning with the dance company from New York. It was a very entertaining and motivating for our students. It was important for them to see the tie between the arts and academics.
- Student Council: Student council is organizing a blood drive in conjunction with the American Red Cross. We had our kick-off assembly on April 30 and the drive is May 21, 2010.
- The City Project: The Acton/McHugh annual City project for their 4th grade classes in well underway. You can check it out at our city project online.
- Upcoming Dates
- May 20: Grades 5-12 Strings
- Festival in PAC
- May 26: 6th Grade Visits Middle
- School in AM, Career Day in PM
- May 28: NO SCHOOL for K-6
- ONLY
- May 31: Memorial Day
- NO SCHOOL
- June 3: Third Graders visit CFIS
- June 4: Fifth Grade goes bowling
- 11:00 AM-2:00 PM
- Sixth Grade Dance
- 7:00-9:30 PM
- June 7: Field Day & Slide Show
- June 8: Last Day of School
- 1:15 Dismissal
- Awards Assembly/Talent
- Show/Cookout
CFIS PTO Report
The Intermediate School report was presented by Jen Bencko.
- We will be distributing the spirit wear orders on Wed. May 26th from 6-8 at the REC center. This is a change in date due to the delay in the delivery of a couple of items. All that ordered were notified via email and phone calls of the change. We had an additional 30 orders this sale. Some items are still available to purchase-contact Debbie Weber with questions
- Field day and the end-of-the-year cookout are right around the corner. We’re looking for tricycles- contact Lorna Nafzinger if you have one to donate/ let us borrow.
- On May 11th the IS students were treated to performance by the Jim Linehan Dance Group. The performance was very well received by the kids. Would definitely consider this group again and recommend it to others. (You can see video of this group in last month’s CFIS PTO report.)
- The IS celebrated teacher appreciation day on May 5th. Jill Andrews pulled together yet another wonderful luncheon. Thank you Jill.
- Volunteer forms for beginning of the year help (CFIS) (104) and committee chairs for 2010-2011 (CFIS) (181) were sent in the most recent newsletter and hard copies followed the following week. Responses are very slow in coming back. We will resend the electronic copy in this month’s newsletter. Download and send them in to school OR by email if you can scan and attach. (Editor’s Note: If you are computer savvy, you can help us test our new online form system at the Acrobat.com site by downloading and filling out our Beginning of the Year Help At CFIS form. Once you have downloaded the form to your computer, you can fill it out and submit your responses to our PTO account electronically. All you need is any version of an acrobat reader on your computer. Give it a try. If this works, it could help us limit paper forms. )
