A MONTHLY NEWSLETTER F R O M T H E PTA Valentine's Day Dance By Alina Chowdhury Our Dance-A-Thon was great! And even better, we raised over $1565. It was such a blast. We helped and we had fun too. The 5th graders danced with our Kinderbuddies and then we ate ice pops. It helped everyone! P.S. All of that money went to Elijah's Promise. Check out all the wonderful Bowne hearts and pledges on the wall outside the main office! By Gia James The Valentine's Day Dance-A-Thon was awesome! We had such a blast with our Kinderbuddies and we got the best ice pops ever as a special treat from the PTA. I hope everyone at Bowne had as much fun as I did at the Dance-A-Thon. By Landon Kearns At the Dance-a-thon, Bowne-Munro raised money for Elijah’s Promise, and on Friday we presented them a check for $1,590. Elijah’s Promise gives food to people who are hungry. Also they open their doors for people who are homeless so they can stay overnight because they don’t want anybody to get sick from the cold. I would like to thank Bowne-Munro for participating in this dance to raise money, and I bet everybody from Elijah’s Promise thanks you too. th th 4 and 5 Grade Valentines Dance By Ashleigh Quiles The Valentines party was awesome with all the 4th and 5th graders because everybody was dancing and having a great time. When the Harlem Shake song came on, the 5th grade boys started dancing and made a dance circle with Joseph and some of the 4th grade boys. It was fun. They even had a photo booth, a DJ, food and so much more. When you are in 4th or 5th grade, you are sure to have so much fun at the Valentine's party! By Cara-Linh Jones On February 6th, the 4th and 5th graders had a Valentine's Day Dance. There was music and snacks and people could take pictures by the doorway to the gym. It was really fun! If you went to the dance, how did you like it? If you didn't go and you're in 4th grade, you should definitely go next year! By Gavin Seaver The 4th and 5th grade dance was on Friday and it was awesome!!! The 4th graders were really dancing A LOT!! I bet next year, when the 4th graders this year become the 5th graders, they will dance even more than they did this year! I cannot wait! Band Trip to EBHS Orchestra Trip to EBHS By Steven Pepe By Joey Wang Last month, all the kids in band got to The strings field trip for the 5th grade was fun. We went to the High School go on a field trip. We went to the East and watched them perform and when they were done, we went to a Brunswick High School. We all got to classroom and played our instruments. Bowne-Munro performed with hear the older kids play their Lawrence Brook and we played our Winter Concert songs. It was a fun field instruments. Sometimes they had trip. really long songs, but they were really good! Then, we got to play ourselves. Chorus Trip to Hammarskjold The percussion kids got to play By Nicole Motusesky xylophones and many other instruments, including the gong once. The chorus trip to Hammarskjold was great. We were joined by a lot of other The rest of the people played their elementary schools. I was surprised to see how many people there were. All instruments. We also got to meet all of the seats were filled and there were 1,000 seats! We saw some old friends the future band teachers. 4th graders, from Bowne-Munro there. And we saw some siblings up on the stage. There if you don't already play strings, join the were great performances by all of the students and teachers. I really enjoyed band program! It is super fun! it. So if you want to go on the field trip next year, join chorus! Mr. Dave Day was February 10 and the lucky winner of the contest was Nicholas "Nico" DeRado from By Joey Wang Ms. Saunders' Kindergarten We met with our Kinderbuddies to class. Congratulations to celebrate Chinese New Year Nico! recently. We did a holiday project $145 was collected and will be used together, made lanterns and did a for 5th grade activities. ribbon dance to the song, Journey to Asia. It was a lot of fun! Lending a Hand to the 100th Day Warnsdorfer Band of School By Steven Pepe In February, Warnsdorfer had their Winter Concert with the band and By Victoria Sliwinski orchestra. Why does this matter to The 100th day of school was a fun day because we also had the Dance-A- you? Because I was in it! I was in it Thon that day. Everybody got to dance to celebrate Valentine's Day and because our band teacher, Mrs. the 100th Day of School. I know the Kindergarteners loved it and I bet the Vanzini, thought that it would be a other grades did too. Everyone did awesome! good idea for the percussion players from Warnsdorfer and Bowne to By Krista Luongo help each other out at their concerts. Last Friday was the 100th day of school and it was so much fun. First, The percussion player from Ms. Colaizzi had a poem for us. Then, during recess, you had to guess how many candy hearts were in the big jar. The lucky winners were Brianna Warnsdorfer played with me at the rd th Bowne concert and the percussion Silberlight (3 Grade) and Jillian Huston (4 Grade). There were 854 player at Bowne (me) played at the candies in the jar! After that contest, the school thought of math problems and they all equalled 100. It was so much fun! I love the 100th Day of Warnsdorfer concert. It was a fun School...it is the best! experience for me and the other percussionist named, Sophia. By Jessica Han Bowne-Munro By Cooper Torrelio Friday, March 20th was the Health Fair The Health Fair was awesome which is a once a year event that because there were a bunch of teaches kids in every single classroom 2015 people that taught us a lot of what they have to do to stay healthy. By Abigail Suntay important stuff. Actually, the At the diet station, the 4th graders teacher for karate in the Music learned about what kinds of food The Health Fair was fantastic! There was a Room was my teacher from my groups there are and more. The lot of nice people that taught us different karate place. I loved the Health Health Fair was filled with magical things. There was a girl named Marisa who Fair. It was awesome! things and there were even dogs here taught us about different medicines. There but, unfortunately, the 4th graders was also a person who taught us some By Ellen Lee karate moves. It was really funny. The jokes missed out on seeing them...that At the Health Fair, there were so really made us laugh. stinks a lot! many stations like the service dogs, the medicine center, and a nutrition center. No matter where By Emma Szaro you went, you learned something On Friday, February 20th, we had and most stations gave us the Health Fair. All of the stations something. Two stations that I were so much fun! I loved all of the went to gave me a mood pencil fun activities we did. We got to and a mini first aid kit. Last year, visit 5 stations and I loved all of the dogs got to see the 4th and them. I hope you had as much fun 5th graders but the dogs visited as I did. the 2nd and 3rd graders this year. So we missed them but they visited my class on the way out. By Catherine Dang It was recently Presidents' Day! On that day, we had no school so that meant a 3-day weekend and I bet that everyone had a great time. We even had a snow day which made it a 4-day weekend. What's even better, we get a 3-day weekend every year for Presidents' Day so get ready for next Presidents' Day! By Samantha Motusesky Every year in February, we celebrate President's Day. On this day, the school will always be off but it will be fun. For example, you can do anything you want on this day. This year, my family and I went to New York to see The Lion King. What did you do? A big thank you to all who joined a student for lunch at the Brown Bag with Books event on Wednesday, February 25. The kids were so excited to share part of their day with a loved one and the adults seemed enthusiastic too-even with the long lines. The fair had total sales of $4,428.02 and was the most well attended fair in years! The PTA was able to provide each home room teacher with a book for their classroom library and seven books were donated to the library for all students to enjoy. Special thanks to Mrs. Boley, Mr. Dave, Mr. Kevin Pascoal, our Cafeteria staff and all of the volunteers who worked to make this event such a huge success! Kris Grove (PTA Book Fair Chairperson) Brown Bag with Books Event Brown Bag with Books Lunch By Kelly Grove By Nicholas Tsoukalas On Wednesday, February 25, Bowne- Last week we had an event called Brown Munro hosted the Brown Bag with Bag with Books Lunch.