Monday, October 29th
Operation Get Smart Assembly (4th grade), 8:30 am
Lego Enrichment, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Wednesday, October 31st
Running Club, 7:15 am
Box Tops Contest Deadline
Thursday, November 1st
Chorus, 7:15 am
Strings Enrichment, 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Friday, November 2nd
Original Art Orders Due
It’s hard to believe we are already through the first quarter of the year! We appreciate your ongoing support for our students and school. We hope all parents found your fall conferences beneficial. Please let your child’s teacher know if you need any additional information. When the home and school work closely together, our children benefit as a result.
Book Drive
Is it time to clean out your bookshelves at home? November 1st -15th we will hold a book drive to collect gently used children’s books for needy families. Some homes have little or no reading material which interferes with a child’s ability to succeed in school. We hope to use your book donations to make a positive impact on families right here in our community. Place the books you want to donate in the bins on the front hallway. This can be a great family project. Thank you for supporting literacy in our community!
Book Fair
Speaking of books.... the Book Fair is coming November 12th -16th!!! The Book Fair is always a favorite for our students. Books also make great holiday gifts. To conclude our Book Fair Week, we will have our annual Book Character Day on November 16th. Staff and students will dress as their favorite book characters on that day. Costumes don’t have to be elaborate. They can even be homemade! The purpose is to motivate our children to love reading!
Original Art
All students should have brought home a packet with their artwork and order form for Original Art. This is the annual fundraiser for the art department where 100% of the profits go right back in the classroom. The deadline for ordering is Friday, November 2nd. You can use this opportunity to order personal holiday gifts for your children to give to family members with their artwork on it. Orders will be back in time for Christmas. If you have any questions, please contact Kelly Radecki at mkradecki@charter.net or Stephanie Yearwood at glocksandthe3bears@gmail.com.
Box Tops
October 31st is our next Box Tops deadline. The class with the most Box Tops will win 10 minutes of extra recess. Please ask your grandparents, aunts, uncles, family friends and anyone else you can to save their Box Tops. Have your children create a cute container for them to collect them in. Our school wide goal for this year is to collect 100,000 Box Tops. This means $10,000 for our school! If we can do this then the entire school will win a school wide dance party!!!!
Cardinal Contacts
As a service to our students and parents, Bethel PTA publishes Cardinal Contacts, a telephone directory of student names, addresses, phone numbers, parents' names and parents' email and class lists. If you do not want your child's information in Cardinal Contacts, you must complete the form sent home in Friday Folders. Cardinal Contacts are available for $3.00. Please send the order form to your child's teacher by Wednesday, November 7th.
PTA Memberships
We are still need of more memberships in order to reach 100%!! Please join if you haven’t already. If you have joined, please consider joining for someone else in your family so that we can keep the 30 year tradition going! If you need another form, please contact Stephanie Yearwood at glocksandthe3bears@gmail.com or Mandi Palmer at todd.palmer@hotmail.com.
Spirit Nights
We will have two spirit nights in November. We will have our Chick-fil-A spirit night on Nov. 5th from 5-8 at the Woodruff Rd. location. Take a night off from cooking and eat at Chick-fil-A. Be sure to drop your receipt in the box at the restaurant, and PTA will get 20% of the sales from that night. Our other Spirit Night will be at Fuddruckers on Woodruff Road on Nov. 27th from 5-8! Some Bethel students will be there to wait tables and call out orders. This is a great way to have a sit down dinner with your family and support Bethel at the same time. We would love to see you there!!
Bethel Bash
Bethel Bash
It’s not too early to start preparing for the Bethel Bash! This time of year a lot of stores have hair paint and silly string. These things are often discounted after Halloween so it’s a great time to start sending these in for the Bethel Bash. These can be sent in anytime to the PTA room. You can also begin sending in egg shells for confetti eggs. We will be having a contest from now until the Bash for the class that sends in the most eggs. Just send in your cartons of empty egg shells to the PTA room and put your child’s teacher’s name on the outside of the carton. Empty the egg shells by tapping the end of the egg shell with a knife or cracking a small hole in the top and then emptying the egg out when you use it. Be sure to rinse your eggs and let them dry before sending them into school. The confetti egg booth is one of our most profitable and popular booths at the Bash!! Thank you for your support!
Monday, October 29th
Choice A: Hamburger
Choice B: Veggie burger
Choice C: Vegetation Station (chicken noodle soup, salad, and bread)
Pinto beans
Apple or sliced pears
Milk
Tuesday, October 30th
Choice A: Pizza
Choice B: Black bean burger
Choice C: Vegetation Station (southwest chicken and brown rice soup, salad, and bread)
Vegetable medley
Oranges or pineapple tidbits
Milk
Wednesday, October 31st
Choice A: Teriyaki chicken
Choice B: Vegetarian chili
Choice C: Vegetation Station (tomato basil soup, salad, and bread)
Carrots
Bananas or sliced peaches
Milk
Thursday, November 1st
Choice A: Pasta Marinara
Choice B: Vegetable frittata
Choice C: Vegetation Station (chicken vegetable soup, salad, and bread)
Green beans
Apples or fruit cocktail
Milk
Green beans
Apples or fruit cocktail
Milk
Friday, November 2nd
Choice A: Pizza
Choice B: Vegetable quesadilla
Choice C: Vegetation Station (ham and bean soup, salad, and bread)
Peas
Oranges or applesauce
Milk
Peas
Oranges or applesauce
Milk
October Calendar News
COMING IN NOVEMBER
November 5 Report Cards Issued
November 6 No School - Election Day
November 12 Book Fair & American Education Week
November 13-16 5th Grade Trip to Washington, DC
COMING IN DECEMBER
December 3-7 PTA Gingerbread Shop
December 3 Progress Reports issued
December 3-14 MAP Testing Window
December 10 PTA Meeting & Chorus Concert
December 19 Holiday Parties
December 20-Jan 1 Winter Break
