The Bobcat Store gives all students an opportunity to purchase small items using the Bobcat and Peace Builder tickets they have earned. Students enjoy shopping in the Bobcat Store on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month from 12:30-1:00 p.m. in room B-1 (Music Room).

Parent volunteers are needed to ensure the store is open on these Wednesdays. If you have a Wednesday available every now and again, the ladies at the Bobcat Store could sure use your help. Please contact Tiffany Pendrak at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and she can give you all of the important details. Without enough help not all the kids can redeem their “Bobcats” for deeds well done. Your help is needed and much appreciated!

Scholastic Book Fair

The Scholastic Book Fair Diner: All You Can Read! will be here during the week of March 1st through March 5th. Room D-1 will turn into a mini-bookstore for the week, with a percentage of all sales going to Reed to help pay for music, art, library books, drama, technology, playground equipment, and much more!

Sign up for just an hour or two…or sign up for many, depending on your schedule! Working parents: We need help on the evening of Tuesday, March 2nd (a great chance to help out even if you work during the day)!

Sign up to help in the office (see the Book Fair Sign Up Folder on the front counter) OR sign up at the Book Fair homepage: http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/reedelementary.

Thanks for supporting Reed!

Christine Moore
Book Fair Chair

Ice Cream Social  - Tuesday, March 2nd (5:30-7:30 p.m.)

Come and join the fun. Have some delicious ice cream with all the toppings in Reed’s cafeteria Tuesday, March 2, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. After enjoying your ice cream, be sure to visit the Book Fair in room D1. Don’t miss out on the fun!
 
Karen Quevedo

Yearbook Orders and Sneak Preview

Take a peek at selected 2009-2010 yearbook pages in the office window display!  Come see this year’s yearbook covers, as well as a sampling of pages.  Special thanks to Jeannie Bullock for creating the terrific display!

The yearbook is a wonderful souvenir of the 2009-2010 school year—60 pages of full-color photos of Reed kids at work and play. It includes a page devoted to each class, a photo collage for each grade, and pages representing various Reed activities throughout the year, including: Halloween, recess, lunch, music, spirit days, school play (The Magic Jukebox), student council, safety patrol, conflict managers, lunch monitors, rainy day monitors, Young Authors, Camp Campbell, 4th/5th grade walkathon, variety show, dinner nights out, Fall Festival & more!

Fill out the attached YEARBOOK order form, include a check payable to Reed PTA ($27 for each yearbook), and turn it in to the office no later than Friday, March 19.

Questions?  Contact Rob Dewis at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 978-7575

Reed’s Annual Variety Show

Reed’s annual Variety Show will be held on Tuesday, March 30th. Applications to participate in the show went home the week of Jan. 19th to all 4th and 5th graders. Try-outs will be held Tuesday, February 2nd at 1:30pm in the cafeteria. Performance in this show is a privilege offered only to 4th and 5th graders at Reed! If you would love to participate and share your special talent, please bring your completed and signed application and rules form with you to our try-outs on February 2nd! For all details and a complete list of the rules, please see the Variety Show application and Variety Show Rules form. Extra copies of these forms are also available on the PTA Yahoo website or in the office! We are looking forward to a great show again this year!

EMERGENCY “BAGGIE” REMINDER!

Attention Parents - If you have not provided your child’s emergency baggie, please do so to your child’s teacher ASAP.

Earthquake packet requirements -

Two non-perishable wrapped food items (granola bar, fruit roll, etc.)
1 family picture
1 purse size tissue (Kleenex) package
Comfort item: A note from parent(s) and a small item that can fit in a quart size ziploc bag (small book or stuffed animal).
*No games, no drinks - Reed School will provide the water.
*No candy, gum, cans or open/loose food items.

Please place all items in a quart size Ziploc bag with your child’s name on it. At the end of the year, this bag will be returned to you. (Parents of returning students can refresh the bag sent home at the end of the school year to be reused the next school year.)

Cartridges for Kids Fundraiser

If you received a new cell phone, digital camera, or some other fun electronic device over Christmas break don’t throw the old ones away! Bring them to school and drop them off in the cafeteria in the green box with the Cartridges for Kids poster. By doing this you can earn money for our school, recycle limited resources, and keep hazardous materials out of landfills.

This is an ongoing fundraiser, there is no deadline for dropping off items! Ask family, friends, and employers to donate items to our school (offices are a great place for recycling ink cartridges). Cartridges for Kids is also now accepting many brands of scientific calculators!

Other acceptable items include cell phones, ink-jet & laser cartridges, laptops, iPods, PDAs, video games & consoles, digital cameras, DVDs and GPS devices. For more information please contact Bianca Alsberg at (408) 458-0720 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). If you would like to see a detailed recycle list please refer to the Cartridges for Kids website at http://www.cartridgesforkids.com/recyclelists.html. Thank you for your help!

ART VISTA CO-CHAIR SPOT OPEN!

Our Art Vista chairperson, Monika Ryser is looking for a co-chair. Contact her directly for details as to what this will encompass. The biggest amount of help that she’ll need is later in the year as we get closer to the Art Show. Any of you who have been know what a great event this is. Wouldn’t you love to be a part of its success?  If so please contact her at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Thank you for supporting our young artists!

WWW.REEDPTA.COM!
Please visit the Reed PTA Website.  It’s packed full of good information; forms, calendar of events, description of programs, events, and contact information for each board member and chairperson.  Also included are links to the school website, local, state and national PTA, as well as information on just about everything you could think of. I hope you’ll take a few minutes to look it over.

A HUGE thank you to our webmaster, Kirk Wilson!

2009-2010 PTA Meeting Schedule

Please join us the first Tuesday of the month to plan and implement the many programs PTA makes possible for Reed students.
Your involvement and voice do make a difference for our children. Feel free to bring a friend.

Tuesday, September 1st 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, October 6th 9:15 a.m.
Tuesday, November 3rd 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, December 1st 9:15 a.m.
Tuesday, January 5th 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 2nd 9:15 a.m.
Tuesday, March 2nd 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 6th 9:15 a.m.
Tuesday, May 4th 6:30 p.m. - Last General Membership Meeting
Tuesday, June 1st 6:30 p.m. - Board members and Chairpersons