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Welcome Back Polar Bears!!

We are excited for a great new year at North Elementary. We will be sending membership paperwork home in the next few weeks. Included in those will be membership, fluoride sign ups, yearbook and T-Shirts. Please support our school and sign up for membership even if you can't volunteer.

Every member that joins PTA this year will be entered into a drawing for an IPAD that was donated to our school!!

Prices will be as follows:
Membership $5.00
Fluoride $3.00
Yearbooks $12.00
T-Shirts $8-$12.00

Please make checks payable to North Elementary PTA

Upcoming Events

We have a fun last month of school planned! Below is a list of the things your child will be participating in:

May 2-6th: Teacher Appreciation week
May 6th: Dairy Queen Fundraiser from 6-8
May 23rd: Reward swimming trip for 3-5th graders
May 24th: Yearbooks will be handed out
May 25th: Field Day (wear appropriate clothing)
May 26th: 5th grade vs faculty kickball game
May 27th: Polar pride assembly & slide show and 5th grade graduation

We are excited about all the fun things this month.

Dairy Queen Fundraiser

We will be doing our last fundraiser of the year at Dairy Queen on Friday, May 6th from 6:00 to 8:00. It includes dine in and drive through sales. Dairy Queen will donate 25% of total sales to our school. Please show your support and treat the kids to ice cream!

Spelling Bee

We would like to thank all those who participated and helped with our first annual spelling bee. It was a fun event supported by the students, teachers and parents. School winners were as follows: Grades 1-3 1st place Jack S. 1st place Dylan M. 2nd place Ethan W. Grades 4-5 1st place Courtney F. 2nd Place Kett E. Our 4th and 5th grade winners will go on to compete in the district spelling bee. This event will be held at South Elementary on April 8th, from 2:30 to 3:30. Good luck Courtney and Kett!

Safety Meeting

All parents are welcome and encouraged to attend a safety meeting that will be held on April 14th, at 6:30 in the gym. We will be discussing protocol for lock down's, questions and answers, and parent expectations. Terry Pickett, Director of Elementary Education for the district will be conducting the event.

2011-2012 President

We would like to thank Heidi Miller for volunteering to be our 2011-2012 PTA President. We are thrilled to have her on board with us for next year. Currently we are still looking for a President Elect. If interested please contact a member of the board for more information.

Upcoming Events

We have a lot of fun and exciting events during the month of March. Please put them on your calendar and support your students.

March 7-11 Book Fair (Buy one get one free)
March 15th Spring Pictures
March 17th Kindergarten Registration
March 18th Science Fair
March 23rd Accelerated Reading Assembly
March 24th Safety Meeting
March 30th Arts Night
March 31st 1-3 grade Spelling Bee
April 1st 4-5 grade Spelling Bee
April 8th 5th Grade Dare graduation and Maturation program

Thanks to all those who have worked so hard to make all of these events happen

Cookie Dough

Its time for our annual cookie dough fundraiser. The packets should be coming home with your children this week. We will run the sale until March 9th and all packets with money and selling sheets need to be turned into your child's teacher on that date. Cookie dough pick up will be on March 25th from 3:30 to 5:30. Please support us in this fundraiser and help raise money for a new electronic marquee for our school.

1st Annual North Elementary Spelling Bee

The North Elementary PTA is very excited to host our first annual spelling bee. Each class will have their own competition and get the top two winners who will advance to the school spelling bee. First through third graders will compete for two school winners and fourth and fifth graders will compete for two winners who will advance to the district competition. (only 4th and 5th graders will advance to the district competition) Students who are interested may obtain a spelling list from their teachers to practice at home, or download them from the schools website. The school spelling bees will be on March 31, for the first through third grades and on April 1, for the fourth and fifth grades. We are really excited about this new tradition for our school and our district. Please support and encourage your students to participate.

We will be following the "scripps" style competition and using words from their spelling lists for our competition. Once we are registered with scripps we will be able to send our district winner to the state to compete in the Utah Spelling Bee. (that will not be in place for this years district winner) For a copy of rules and regulations please contact your students teacher.

Kite Flight

It is time again for our annual Kite Flight reading contest. We will be partnering with the Lion's Club again this year for this fun event. Your child will receive a reading chart by Jan. 30th, and must read the required number of hours for the duration of the event. At the conclusion of the event there will be the actual Kite Flight on April 30th from 10:00 to 3:00 at Park Discovery. The kids will need to bring their completed reading chart in order to get their free kite. Please help us with your participation in this fun event. Last year without our schools participation and the generous donation from this event we would not have been able to get our new playground. We look forward to another successful event!