Camden Intermediate School Bear Facts Newsletter

February 2017 SOCIAL PLANNING MEETING FEB. 15, 2017 Dates to Remember 3:15pm teacher workroom All Parents WELCOME!! January 23 End of Nine Weeks CIS PTO January 24 SOCIAL IS NEAR!!! NOW Full School Day Get your green on at our… Cupid Shoppe January 31 Feb.8-10 Pre-order Report Cards St. Patrick’s Day Social 12:00pm-3:00pm Delivery Feb. 14 February 8-10 Date: March 2, 2017 3pm-5pm Cupid’s Shoppe PTO will be selling Locaon: CIS Gym (please pickup Candy Grams $1.00 February 13 your student in the Cafeteria) Chocolate Roses No School $2.00 Admission: $3 + permission form February 14-17 Share the Love Week Acvies include Rock Wall, Football Throw, Photo Booth, Corn Hole, Face February 22 Painng, Hula Hoop, Raffles, Taoos, & Progress Reports more. Firehouse Sub night Concessions include Pizza, nachos, Camden Intermediate School drinks, Candy, pizza & more. Phone: 252-335-7808 CIS PTO President: Alveta Chamblee Black History Month: Vice President: OPEN Camden Intermediate School celebrates Treasurer: Pamela Mullen Secretary: Stacey Anderson . Bear Facts: Amanda Mason Moses Grandy was an African-American author, [email protected] abolitionist, and, for more than the first four decades PTO FACEBOOK of his life, an enslaved person. Grandy helped build the Camden Intermediate School Canal and learned how to navigate [email protected] boats. It was that skill that led him to be made commander of several boats that traveled the canal and Pasquotank River, transporting merchandise from CIS PTO Elizabeth City, to Norfolk, Virginia. Upon Next meeting: MAR. 1, 3:15 p.m. his freedom, Grandy published the autobiography, We still have positions for Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in officers open. the United States of America, in 1843. It was one of Come support your school and kids: volunteers always slave narratives read in the United States and overseas needed. that fueled the abolitionist movement. Reminder from the office to parents: Students cannot be picked up from the office after Character Word of the Month: 2:30pm. Normal pickups will be in the cafeteria Kindness at 3:00pm. If your child will be getting home another way other than their normal mode of Being nice, considerate, and caring to transportation (car or bus), please send a note others with your child in the morning to give to his/ her homeroom teacher. If you have to call the school for a change, please call before 2:00pm. It is disruptive to the teaching environment when a classroom has to be called Keep Sending in and messages given to students. Your those BOX TOPS!!! cooperation in this matter is very much Contest send FEB. 24, 2017 appreciated. Winning class gets an ice-cream party!! Volunteers will be needed to count.

Please remind your student to SHARE THE LOVE WEEK check lost and found. Lost and Donations needed by FEB 9. Found is located right next to the kleenex, paper towels, trash bags, hand office. Thanks!!!! sanitizer, clorox wipes *donation box labeled in the lobby*

Help us Recycle and Earn! Ink cartridges, laser cartridges, Firehouse Sub Night cell phones, laptops, digital Feb 22, 2017 4pm-8pm cameras, mp3 players, gps devices Show your school flyer, 15% of your purchase will go to CIS

Camden Women's Club Art and Literature Contest

Jaiden Bellamy - 1st place - weaving craft category Skylar Parks - 1st place - digitally enhanced photography category Brenden Anderson - 1st place -color photography category Alexis McCoy - 2nd place - color photography category Alexis McCoy - 1st place - graphite pencil visual category Arabella Rhodes - 3rd place - pen and ink visual category Justin Thompson - 1st place - poetry Kara Tucker - 3rd place - poetry Kylee Simonds - 2nd place - short story

All 1st place winners will advance to the District Arts Festival