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Principal’s Corner.................. March 2010
Nick DiPonzio
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PARP is the highlight in March at
This year’s PARP theme will be Be a Bookaneer. We are asking all our children and families to read each night. Parents will be requested to record the total minutes that their child reads, on a daily reading log, for the three weeks of PARP - March 5 through March 26. Our school goal is to read for a total of 125,000 minutes!!! Help us achieve that goal.
Work has already started to transform all of Crane into a reading frenzy, with the main focus on students and parents working together achieving reading goals! Our PARP program features many activities to keep our students motivated to read:
· On Friday, March 5th, we will kick-off the beginning of PARP with a special PARP Rally and Play during the school day. That night, we will celebrate PARP with our annual PARP Family Fun Night featuring pizza and other fun family activities. The Crane “Theatre Guild” (sounds better than the Crane staff) will present our annual Crane PARP play at this event as well. This play features Crane staff and is always entertaining! In conjunction with this, we will be holding a special Book Fair on Friday evening as well, where parents can browse and purchase books for their children to read during PARP.
· Guest Reader Day will take place on Tuesday, March 16, and will feature many district, community, and celebrity readers.
· We will also be offering a Parent-Child Book Club again this year as part of our PARP program. Mrs. Costello and Crane Teachers will be leading this parent-child book talk on Tuesday, March 23, for our K, 1, and 2 graders and parents, and on Wednesday, March 24, for our 3, 4, and 5 graders and parents. These book talks will be held in the evening and will feature books by our visiting author, Sarah Weeks, who will be at Crane on Thursday, March 25. Mrs. Costello will be sending home details about this very soon.
· PARP ends on Friday, March 26 – more details to follow.
You will soon be receiving additional information about PARP. Please contact Mrs. Mary Jo Costello (Crane Literacy Coach at 359-5422 or mcostello@rhnet.org), for more details or to volunteer to help. In the meantime, read to and with your child!!!
March Madness - Fruit and Vegetable Competition:
Starting March 2nd, we will engage our students in a competition between soon to be famous fruits and vegetables. The competition involves students sampling fruits and vegetables during lunchtime and voting for their favorite fruits and vegetables. Like the competition between the best college teams, winning foods will move on to the next bracket until a champion in both categories is determined. Our winners will be determined by the last week in March. We will announce the winning fruit and the winning vegetable during lunch on March 26th.
This program encourages children to choose fruits and vegetables as an alternative to sugary options at snack and mealtime. All Crane students in grades 1-5 will be given the opportunity to sample each participating fruits or vegetables each day during lunch. Students will vote for their favorite each day. Winners will be determined each day and charted on our lunchroom bracket chart for everyone to keep track of during the month.
Throughout the month, information will be shared with students about the value of incorporating more fruits and vegetables into their diet. We will encourage students to participate in these information sessions by submitting their own facts and ideas that they learn as well.
We are very excited about this opportunity for our students. We hope you are interested in being involved in the excitement and helping us! Volunteers are needed to prepare fruits and vegetables on the designated competition days. We also need volunteers to assist with the sampling during lunch. If you are able to assist with March Madness, please contact our volunteer coordinator Melissa Holahan at 334-5657 or minnie@holahan.org.
If the winter weather turns nasty, and you are wondering if schools will be closed, Rush-Henrietta has a number of ways to inform you of this important information. First of all, our district has initiated an automated phone calling system that will inform you when schools will be closed due to weather conditions. You will receive a phone call to let you know this information. Additionally, you can tune in to any local radio or television station or go to the RH website (www.rhnet.org) to find this information. Please do not call the school office for this information, as it unnecessarily ties up phone lines.
No School:
· Friday, March 19, 2010 – Superintendent’s Conference Day – No School for Students
Enjoy March! Spring is just around the corner!
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