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Parents and educators enriching the lives of
children at DeWitt Elementary PTA, P.O. Box 695, DeWitt, Michigan 48820
President’s Message I am overwhelmed at the support everyone has given the PTA thus far. I’d like to thank our parents for helping to make the DeWitt PTA the best we can be. We are off to a roaring start with many more exciting events to come. I wanted to take a little time to remind everyone that we are here solely for our children. We want to help create and support successful schools so that our children will learn to become successful adults. We are all on the same team and any united effort in helping the teachers, support staff, or principals makes DeWitt schools all that better. If you have not yet joined, please do so. This is a great opportunity to show your students you care. From the Vice President Thank you to all the families who participated to make Art Night a HUGE success! Our next Parent Education Program will be a one hour Internet safety presentation for adults sponsored by the Michigan Attorney General's Cyber Safety Initiative. The seminar is scheduled for Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 7:00pm in the Dewitt Junior High Auditorium. More information to come later....SAVE THE DATE NOW! School Updates FECC Despite being rained on, the Open House BBQ was a great success. We appreciate your patience with the uncontrollable weather conditions. The children looked so proud to be showing their families around in their classrooms & introducing their teachers. The book fair also went very smoothly, with a huge “thanks” to the many parents who volunteered. Chris Callaghan, Kelly Grim, Tracy Piotrowicz, Sara Wohltjen, Kate Jones, Tracy Wescott, Ruth Munich, Melissa Mazuca, Shannon Colarossi, Christy Baldwin, Koren Carpenter, Kristin Deppen, Kristin Tingay, Barb Groom, Karen Cronk, Kathleen Gould, Jana Kennedy, Chris Haman, Autumn Pepper, & Jamie Greenup – we couldn’t have done it without you!! Conferences are quickly approaching. If you expressed interest in helping with the Conference Cuisine, you should be hearing from us in a few weeks. Happy Halloween! Amy VanTighem & Kim Kracko Schavey Road Wow, we've made it through picture day and Halloween parties are right around the corner! Thanks to those of you who helped out with school photos! The photographers appreciated the extra help on that day! In addition, many thanks to all of you who turned in the volunteer forms for Schavey Road. We will be contacting you throughout the year for the various events that were listed on that form. Our next PTA event is just a short month away! We will be organizing the fall Conference Cuisine for the teachers and staff during parent teacher conferences. We plan on contacting those of you who volunteered to provide food for this event.....so look for an email in the next few weeks! Thanks for all your support! Tricia Briningstool 668-8825 & Ann Castle 668-0967 Scott School Scott school had a big day on Wednesday, October 24 for Priscilla Day. Ask your Scott schooler about it!! We look forward to seeing a lot of parent volunteers at the Halloween parties and we will be contacting you soon if you volunteered to help with conference cuisine. Laura Beck & Shannon Colarossi Herbison Woods Happenings Herbison Woods conducted a successful Book Fair on September 17-21st. This would not have been possible without help from willing volunteers - Mary Kovac-Iciek, Nancy Zamiara, Kim Sackett, Shari Willemin, Andrea Trutzel, Jill Kallenthaler, Anne Khol, Darla Shellberg, Jane Kleiman, and Marsha Benton. Thank you ladies! And, Picture Day went off without a hitch thanks to Amy Hieftje, Donna Sowulewski, and Shari Willemin. Calling all cooks!!! Our next event is Conference Cuisine. PTA volunteers provide dinner for our teachers and staff during Parent/Teacher Conferences on Monday, November 19th. We will be contacting volunteers shortly to either remind you what you signed up for during Open House or to seek out additional volunteers. Thank you for your willingness to help! Debby Hanna and Marsha Benton Family Skate Night It’s time for a family event…bring your kids skating to Edru Skate*A*Rama on Tuesday, November 6th, from 6:00 – 8:00! This is a private skating party for DeWitt Families. The cost is $5.00 and that includes skate rental. Part of the proceeds comes back to DeWitt’s PTA! In-line skates and speed skates are $2.00 extra. Don’t forget to bring your own if you have them. The snack-bar and arcade will be open. There’s also Laser Tag available for $2.00 per game. Parents, this is a lot of fun for adults, too! Edru is located at 1891 Cedar Street, just south of Holt Road and Cedar Street intersection in Holt. If you have any questions, please call Kristi Lewis at 669-8820 or email kjdlewis@comcast.net Carnival The Dewitt PTA Carnival needs YOU! We are looking for volunteers to chair the following positions: Kitchen, Raffle, Decorations and Donations. The spring Carnival is the biggest PTA event, and provides your schools with thousands of dollars each year. If you are willing to share your time and talents, grab a friend and volunteer! Contact Renee Ricks 316.5513 or Danielle Bolda 669.1748 or e-mail at dewittcarnival@yahoo.com Walk to School Day Walk to School Day was a great success. The children had fun. The parents had fun. The teachers had fun. The weather was great. We couldn't have asked for a better day. Thank you to all the parents and teachers who helped make the day a success. Your support helps make DeWitt a great school district. Schavey Road Elementary (SRE) will send out a Walk to School Day/Safe Routes to School survey soon. Please watch out for it and let us know your thoughts. You opinions are valuable to us. After the survey is complete we will follow up with a walking audit in the SRE area. If you are interested in participating, please let me know. Thanks again for your support on Walk to School Day! PTA Sells DeWitt Spirit Wear DeWitt spirit wear can be obtained by contacting PTA members Laurie Ward at wardboys1234@yahoo.com or Kim Goerge at goerge@comcast.net. Some items they have available are: Tee shirts with the specific school names (e.g., Schavey Road), full zip hooded sweatshirts, coolers, ID tags, pencils, water bottles, blankets Tailgate Update The 2007 homecoming Tailgate was a great success. It was a great combination of several district groups working together to provide a wonderful meal to our families. A big Thanks goes out to all who helped and participated: Lea Cummins, Karen Eible, Lynn England, Laura Heinritz, Don Iacobellis, Michelle Rick, Pat and Tom Ryan, Amy and David Tratt, Nancy, Mike, Ben, Drew, and Jeffrey Zamiara, Tina Templin, Mike Foster, David Potter, Robin Sheffler, Teri Rayburn, and Lisa Sullivan. Please plan on joining us next year for our Fall Homecoming Tailgate! Michigan Apples Our schools can win $3,000!!! The PTA is pleased to announce the start of collecting Michigan Apple Proof of Purchases. Last year the Michigan Apple Committee gave two $3,000, two $2,000 and two $1,000 prize amounts to schools collecting these labels. For each proof of purchase collected we are entered into the drawing for these prizes. All we are asking parents to do is save the Michigan Apple proof of purchase off your bags and send them to school. We will do all the rest. The drawing isn’t till April, so there’s lots of time to collect those labels! |
