CURRENT OFFICERS:
Donna Johnson, Co-President, 848-7445
Jennifer Carver, 849-1910
Karen Gieseke, Treasurer, 846-4662
MEETING MINUTES: (click on the link to view -
which will open in a new window)
March
2007
April PTO Meeting Notes:
• Each teacher will get $10 per student for field trips this
year. If the cost of the field trip exceeds the $10 per child
allotment, we will then have a vote at the next PTO meeting re:
the possibility of funding the extra $$. Everyone in attendance
at the PTO meeting will have a vote in these decisions. So, parents,
please make an effort to attend these meetings- decisions as they
really do affect your children!! We invite everybody in the Cranston
Calvert community to attend.
• We also discussed further uses for the money that was raised
at the fundraiser at Ochre Court (almost $13,000!!!) Principal
Booth will survey the teachers to see what she can come up with.
• The annual spaghetti dinner was discussed as well-just
the preliminaries- we let you all know more as soon as we do.
Cranston-Calvert was awarded the
Schools
of the 21st Century Learning Center grant for
$200,000 for 3 years.
The goal of the 21st century grants is to provide programs
to create high quality, comprehensive, out-of-schooltime
programs that give students academic, enrichment
and school engagement opportunities designed to
complement our regular academic program.
We are very excited to be given this opportunity and look
forward to next year!!!
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Reading
with
children and helping them practice specific reading components
can dramatically improve their
ability to read. Scientific research shows that there are
five essential components of reading that children must
be taught in order to learn to read. Adults can help children
learn to be good readers by systematically practicing
these five components:
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Phonemic awareness– recognizing and using individual
sounds to create words. Children need to be
taught to hear sounds in words and that words are made up
of the smallest parts of sound, or phonemes.
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Phonics - Understanding the relationships between written
letters and spoken sounds . Children need to
be taught the sounds individual printed letters and groups
of letters make. Knowing the relationships between
letters and sounds helps children to recognize familiar words
accurately and automatically, and "decode" new
words.
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Reading fluency - Developing the ability to read a text accurately
and quickly,. Children must learn
to read words rapidly and accurately in order to understand
what is read. When fluent readers read silently,
they recognize words automatically. When fluent readers read
aloud, they read effortlessly and with expression.
Readers who are weak in fluency read slowly, word by word,
focusing on decoding words instead of
comprehending meaning.
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Vocabulary development - Learning the meaning and pronunciation
of words. Children need to actively
build and expand their knowledge of written and spoken words,
what they mean and how they are used.
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Reading comprehension strategies - Acquiring strategies to
understand, remember and communicate
what is read. Children need to be taught comprehension strategies,
or the steps good readers use to make sure
they understand text. Students who are in control of their
own reading comprehension become purposeful, active
readers.
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Don’t
forget our ongoing fundraisers:
We are always collecting:
• Box tops 4 Education
• Old Cell Phones
• Used Ink Cartridges.
All of these items translate into more resources for your
kids!!!
Thank
You…..
To all who helped out with the Cranston-Calvert Gala and
Auction.
It was a wonderful event and we were able to raise over
$10,000!!!!
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April 16-20
Spring Break
April 23
K-3 Field trip to
IMAX
April 25
4th & 5th grade
filed trip to IMAX
May 7
PTO Meeting
5:45 PM
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Save the Date!!!
It’s that time again!!
Newport Public Education Foundation will have another
Mother’s Day 5K on
Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 13, 2007.
Registration that day will
start at 7am and the Race will go off at 9AM with the non-competitive
Family Walk at 9:05AM. The Run is a certified course and
there is a $150 award for the top male and female finisher.
This year we are encouraging the creations of teams of 5
people racing together. We welcome student teams (5 people
under 18) as well as
adult teams (5 people over 18). Students and friends can
run with each
other …and teachers, parents and friends of each school
can also create
teams…the principal and four staff anyone???
$50 cash awards to the fastest
student elementary team, the fastest student middle school
team and the fastest student high school team. AND $150
to the one school with the largest percentage of attendance
(including students, staff, friends of schools etc.)
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Underwood PTO Officers:
Bev Muessel, President, 846-1594
Melissa Pattavina, Vice-President, 619-0393
Karla Little, Treasurer, 846-6045
Kerry Clougher, Secy, 849-2042
The Underwood PTO welcomes the participation of ALL members of the
Underwood community. If you have a talent, an idea, a passion, or
just want to help out any way you can, please contact one of our
officers. We'd love to have you join us! We need to hear ideas and
suggestions.
NEXT PTO MEETING: Tuesday May 15, 6pm. Kerry Clougher's
house- 9 Cowsill Lane (off of Harrison, just up the road from Underwood).
Directions - call 849-2042
Meeting Minutes (click on the
link to view, which will open in a new window)
March 2007
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BOX TOPS CHALLENGE: Mr.
Horsman with GREEN hair for Field Day!
This year,
Mr. Horsman has vowed to dye his hair green if we can collect
5,000 Box Tops by June 1st! So check out all your boxes and
cans and clip the Box Tops and send them in with your child's
name and grade - every class who collects 400 will get a pizza
party! This is good money for us - 10 cents for every top
collected.
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ISLANDS OF READING
SPRING BOOK FAIR:
May 21 - 25, hours vary. Help celebrate reading as we hold
our Spring Book Fair in conjunction with local bookstore Island
Books. Great selection of children's titles for sale.
ALSO - Suggested
Summer Reading List Titles from our Underwood teachers.
For more information, please contact Jennifer Harris, 935-9078,
jqh@cox.net
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We're
SO pleased with how our LEGACY QUILT
turned out! Karla Little and Jeanne Neumeyer worked very
hard to get all the squares together into something every
student can be proud of! The quilt is hanging in the cafeteria
for all to enjoy. Please stop by to see how special it
is. Click on the thumbnail to the left to see the full
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Our
NEW PLAYGROUND is progressing - Kirby Perkins
Construction should be prepping the site soon. Parts of the
playground have been assembled and are waiting to go into the
ground! Very exciting.
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| Finally, our Underwood Teachers
would like to thank every parent volunteer out there who gives
some time to our students. And we, as parents, would like to
thank every teacher for their devotion to our children's learning.
We are making a difference! Congratualtions to everyone at Underwood
for the high test scores from the fall. Well done to all. Congratulations!
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