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Purdy Elementary School December 2015 Purdy Elementary School December 2015 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Future Dates 1 2 3 4 5 Jan. 4 Classes Resume Jan. 8 Purdy Pride Day 2nd Grade Field Purdy Pride Day PTO Breakfast Jan. 12 Gr. 4/5 Geography Bee Final Trip to UWW Wear Red & Blue! w/Santa Jan. 13 Group/New Student Picture Day Performance 8:00—10:00 AM Jan. 15 No School-Records Day 11:45 AM —2:00 PM Jan. 27 Gr. 4/5 Career Night-3:00-5:00 Jan. 29 Report Cards Sent Home Big Buddy Day Feb 4&9 Parent/Teacher Conferences Feb. 5 Purdy Pride Day Feb. 19 11:50 Dismissal Day 10 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Holiday Concerts @ High School 6:00 PM-K-1 6:50 PM-2-3 Culver’s “Scoopie Night” Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ELL Field Trip Grades 3-5 8:30-2:30 Big Buddy Day Day 9 Day 10 Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Last Day of Classes Before Winter Break No School No School No School Winter Break Winter Break Winter Break “See You Next Year” Day 4 Day 5 Merry Christmas! 27 28 29 30 31 January 1, 2016 No School No School No School No School No School Winter Break Winter Break Winter Break Winter Break Winter Break Happy New Year! PURDY PANTHERS PURDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL December 2014 FROM THE PRINCIPAL Upcoming Events: Enjoy the Holiday Season The PTO Breakfast with Santa event will be on December 5th from 8:00—10:00. Dear Parents, Deadline for purchasing tickets has been extended to Tuesday, November 24th. Late October and early November are very Forms are still available in the office. busy months for our school. In addition to December 10th is our celebration of rigorous instruction from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Holiday Concerts. We will be presenting 2 our school and its staff squeezed in report concerts (K/1 and 2/3) that evening. cards, parent teacher conferences, Veterans Detailed information is available in this Day/Open House, and Rollerblade Night. All newsletter. require many extra hours of preparation, however, family connections are very Here are some Concert tips and expectations: important to our staff and the time spent All children are expected to participate getting to know you and your child makes us unless prior arrangements are made or all successful at servicing our students! there is an emergency. After weeks of practice, our students really look forward Highlights Include: to this special night by performing in front Our Veteran’s Day celebration was a huge of you! success highlighted by our guest speaker Use parking lots in back of the high school. Master Sergeant Jason Hill retired from The front can get very congested so please the U.S. Air Force. We were able to use all entrances around the building. recognize 18 of our very own U.S. Veterans Keep parking fire lanes and auditorium or active military personnel. Special aisles clear. This is a code violation if not thanks to members of the VFW, DAV and followed, cars may be ticketed and we American Legion who, year in and year can’t start a performance until aisles are out, are always here helping us make this cleared. Please be patient between a memorable event. Thanks Veterans! performances. Everyone always gets a It was great to see so many people at our great seat. Open House and had close to 200 parents If you need handicap seating notify the and grandparents visit classrooms through office before the concert. Handicap seats the morning. We also served over 350 are reserved and if not used, released to turkey lunches. We received a lot of anyone. compliments about strong teaching and learning. Needless to say our students are The holidays are a great time to teach about more than excited when a loved one giving. Many classrooms have charity gift giving programs. Please look for these comes in through the classroom door! Family Rollerblading Night was a great opportunities if you would like to help or even consider adopting a Purdy family. event. Around 100 people attended and had some healthy fun skating with Hoping you have a great holiday! families. Special thanks to Maggie Messler and the Purdy PTO for hosting this event, as well as the FAHS NHS volunteers. Leigh Ann Scheuerell, Principal Thanks also to Jeff Jensen and Patty Brain Purdy Elementary School for their work setting up and running a safe event in the gym. SCHOOL PTO FALL BOOK FAIR CANCELLATIONS AND POSTPONEMENTS Purdy Panthers are awesome!!! First off, the kids who came through were so respectful and just As snowy days and dangerous weather loved viewing all the titles. It makes all this hard conditions draw nearer, the District and work worth it just to see their excitement. school will continue to use Blackboard We had the best turnout EVER in our new Connect to announce cancellations, delays, location by the IMC/Library. Thank you to all the and postponements. We will continue to students, parents and teachers for coming by and notify parents of important and emergency participating in our Fall/Holiday Book Fair. Over school programming announcements with the 5 days the fair was open, we had $4,023. in phone calls or/and emails. sales and sold over 270 books—we beat the goal! A good percentage of this comes back to Purdy Note: Please keep us up to date on PTO to reinvest in the students and classrooms. telephone number changes. This fair can’t run without the time of our generous volunteers. Thank you to Brian Enger, Wendy Byrnes, Brian Muth, Maggie Messler, Dawn Blackwell, Sarah Dewing, Heather Hartwig and Leigh Ann Scheuerell HALLOWEEN MONSTER for taking time out of your schedules to be here MASH RAISES $949.00 for the families to view and shop. TOWARDS SCHOLARSHIP Here is some fun trivia. Can you guess what our top selling book was? Thirty-three copies were sold of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School. This year’s Monster Mash raised $949.00 for Bookmarks were the most sold item—155 in total! the Dream Scholarship, which is managed by the Fort Foundation. The scholarship is Our next fair will be held in April 2016, in conjunction with the Spring Arts Fair. This will be designed to encourage children, who a BOGO Fair (buy one, get one) and should be a previously attended Purdy, to consider lot of fun. college or technical school for their post high school plans. To date thirteen Jill Draeger & Beth Hesselbacher scholarships have been awarded. The Book Fair Chairperson scholarship is awarded when students graduate from Middle School. Criteria includes: family need, behavior, extra- curricular activities and grade point average. Special thanks to staff volunteers of the Monster Mash: Mike Stricker, Jeff Jensen, Michelle Brown, Keri Hill, Annette Hoye, Pam Gustin, Heidi Kosak, Heidi Wegner, Amy Schmidt, Jesse Rautenberg, Julie Kusel, Tammy Telfer, Sue Deuster, Kris Hofer, Penny Bright, and Jenny Mares. DO NOT park in the fire lanes. There is PURDY HOLIDAY NO parking along the curb closest to CONCERT: the entrance of the high school. These cars will be ticketed. December 10, 2015 Fort Atkinson High School Also, please be sure you are seated in the auditorium. There is no standing in Mark your calendar! Your child will be the aisle or blocking of aisles. Please performing in our annual winter do not bring chairs into the auditorium concert. We will present for you an or use stairs for seating. Fire code evening of entertainment starring your prevents people from standing/sitting children. Please note the outline of the in the aisles. special times for each grade level as listed below. No food or drink is allowed in our auditorium. Every child is expected to perform unless Please kindly follow the directions of there is a family emergency that evening, the building principals, school staff or since this is a co-curricular program rather volunteer ushers. than extra-curricular activity. The students have been working hard to bring you their Even during the holidays we need to best. Please have your child ready to line put safety first. If a child or a guest up in the maroon hallway behind the High required an ambulance or a fire truck, School Auditorium at the time listed below: we would want to be sure that these services can get through to assist. KINDERGARTEN & FIRST GRADE Thank you in advance for your Put coats in the HS library. cooperation and for joining us for the Line up at 5:45. holiday concerts. Concert: 6:00 Afterwards meet in the library. SECOND & THIRD GRADE Put coats in HS commons. DRESS REHEARSAL at the Line up at 6:35. High School Auditorium Concert: 6:50 December 10, 2015 Afterwards meet in the commons. Family members who are unable to Fourth and Fifth grade to perform on attend the evening concert are welcome April 7, 2016 at 6:30 PM—High School to come to our dress rehearsal that day. Please be aware that this is our only NOTE: Families are encouraged to park in rehearsal in the auditorium, it is longer the rear parking lots. Only park in than a regular concert and as such will designated areas. In many cases these will involve some stopping and starting to fix be closer to the auditorium than the “far any technical difficulties which may arise.
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