Chatterbox PTO Corner RES Champions Night. This night is an opportunity to learn more Thank you to all who parabout Ticket to Read, the ticipated in the Super online reading program FUNd Run. Our main purchased by the PTO at fundraiser is a 100% volunteer event, which means the request of our teach100% of the funds raised ers. stay at RES. That is why Great job Publix grocery the support of our Super shoppers! Just by showing Sponsors, Super Donors your Publix Partners card and Super Volunteers is at checkout, RES earned vital and so appreciat$204.70 this quarter. If ed. Again, thank you!! To you need a card, please hear about the results, look in the front office by please join us on Friday, the visitor computer. November 7thfor the FiMark your calendar for nal Reveal Pep Rally. the RES Fall Book Fair Tuesday, November 4th is the fall PTO General Session Meeting and Literacy sider volunteering to work the book fair. It is fun to help the kids find that special book. To volunteer, click the Sign UP Genius link posted in the RES Parents Facebook group page. Also, the Thanksgiving Dinner at RES coincides with the book fair. Your child’s guests are welcome to shop the book fair with their favorite Champion. Hint, hint – this is a great opportunity for grandparents to visit RES. Go Champions! during the week of November 17th-21st. If you are available, please con- November 2014 RES PTO Board: President Kirsten Milenkovitch KirstenRL@yahoo.com Vice President Amy Parker parka@charter.net Secretary Laura Rogers rogers36830@att.net Treasurer Google Calendar on RES Website As requested, there is now a Google Calendar on the RES website. Click the "Events" tab to view the calendar. But please continue to read your teacher's newsletter as individual class events may not be on the calendar. 1 Carly Baum carlybaum@hotmail.com Out in Left Field... A big thank you to all the families and friends that joined us for “Walk to School” and helped out with the Super FunD Run. There were over 100 walkers, a school record! We cannot do these fun things without YOU! There will be more opportunities to volunteer J Jump Rope for Heart, last Friday in February and Olympic Day in the spring. Thank you Mrs. Homburger for volunteering to enter points. The response for bringing in points has been great so we may need a few more volunteers! Please continue to collect “Coke Points” from cases,12 packs and caps from Coke products including PowerAde. Mrs. Wall and I use to the points to buy materials for our classes. Please contact Mrs. McDonald if you can help. Literacy Night Reading Coach News The Auburn vs. Alabama Reading logs are due by November 7. Continue reading and recording your reading on the RES Champion “Going for the Gold” reading logs to be able to participate in the mid-year reading celebration this winter. Students need to complete and turn in at least two of the reading logs by December 5th to participate. Keep reading and Go Champions! Please Join Us for Camp Read-a-Lot RES Family Literacy Night Tuesday, November 4th 5:15 pm Please join RES for a fun night of reading activities for the whole family at Camp Read-a-Lot! A light dinner will be provided by PTO and Chick-Fil-A! Schedule of Events: 5:15 pm – Doors Open for Dinner 5:40 pm – PTO Meeting 6:00 pm – Camp Read-a-Lot Rotations Begin Chatterbox 2 A Message from Our Principal Greetings Richland Champions! This school year is flying! We are now well into the 2nd nine-weeks! Our Super Fun(d) Run was a huge success! I would personally like to thank our PTO president, Kristen Milenkovitch, and all of our parent volunteers that made this event possible. Further, I would like to thank all of the parents and friends of our Richland Champions that donated to this cause. With the funds we raised we will be purchasing educational programs such as Ticket-to-Read and V-Math Live, and we will also purchase a SMART Table that students will be able to utilize. Lastly, we will purchase additional playground equipment! All of these items were recommended needs as a part of our Strategic Plan. We have heard your requests and have responded with the addition of a Google calendar to our website! It is located under the events page. You can synchronize events that are planned at our school to your Smartphone. Unfortunately, it’s that time of the year when students are getting sick and some have shown symptoms of the flu virus, which include fever, vomiting, headache, and fatigue. We are taking steps to help decrease the spread of flu. Parents of any student showing flu-like symptoms will be contacted to retrieve their child from school. Children showing any flu-like symptom should not be sent to school and should remain home at least 24 hours after a fever is gone without the use of fever-reducing medication. Congratulations to our Teacher of the Year! Mrs. Brandy Wynn! Thank you for all that you do to make Richland Elementary special. You are a true Champion! Lastly, just as an FYI… Want that Hollywood Smile?????? Auburn City School Dental Clinic offers FREE DENTAL SERVICES for qualified, uninsured ACS students. (Medicaid is accepted.) Please contact Yowanda Crayton 887-1948 or Joy Stanley at 887-1926 for applications or questions! Sincerely, Jeff Johnson 3 November 2014 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1 2 3 4 Literacy Night 5:15 5 6 7 FUN(d) Run Reveal 8 Pep Rally 1:30 9 10 Veteran’s Day 11 NO SCHOOL 12 13 19 20 14 15 Program 1:30 16 17 23 24 18 25 26 NO SCHOOL T-Giving Lunch 21 k & 2nd 1st 27 28 NO SCHOOL T-Giving Lunch 22 NO SCHOOL 29 30 Veteran’s Day Program The RES Veteran’s Day program will be held on Monday, November 10th at 1:00 pm in the multipurpose room. Our first grade students will be performing a selection of patriotic music, presented by Mr. Rowser. The RES Ambassadors will lead the school in the Pledge of Allegiance and our veterans will be honored. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend the program, which will last about an hour. Book Fair member of the military to join us for this special event. Veterans attending the program are encouraged to meet in the media center at 12:00 noon for light refreshments and fellowship. There will also be a slideshow with pictures of our veterans. RES students and staff members may invite a family member or friend who is an active or retired Chatterbox 4 The Scholastic Book fair will be arriving at RES the week of November 10th. It will be set up for a (teacher) sneak peak on Friday, November 14th with shopping officially starting on Monday, November 17th and continuing through the week. During the Grandparent Thanksgiving lunches, book fair access will be reserved for our guests. Each class will have a set shopping day and time for the students, with parents welcome to come at any time school is in session. This is a great time to stock up on gifts as well as holiday reading material. We hope to see everyone during the Fall 2014 Book Fair! The 2014 RES Fun(d) Run was a huge success. Although we are saving all of the final results for our BIG REVEAL pep rally on November 7th, we did want to take an opportunity to thank all of this year’s generous business sponsors. If you know someone associated with any of this businesses, please take a moment to thank them for their support. There are so many wonderful causes in our community that need business funding, and we are really honored that these companies are investing in our children. GOLD SPONSORS SILVER SPONSORS GOLD SPONSORS Advantage Chiropractic Dixie Electric Auburn Bank Alabama Cattlemen’s Association Big Dog Running Company Auburn Opelika Parents Magazine CiCi’s Pizza Auburn Pediatric Dentistry Cypress Point Dadeville Animal Hospital E.H. Jones Real Estate, LLC East Alabama Pediatric Dentistry Fuelrecyclers.com Geordan Communities Kathy Powell State Farm Liles Pediatric Dentistry Mammoth Printing Michael Allen Homes Prewett Insurance Group SM America Stone Martin Builders Realtor Sylvia Paul Thames Orthodontics 5 Congratulations to our Champions of the Month for October! 2nd-Rhett Baldwin 1st- Destiny Marshall K- Shania Aepli Staff Employee- Mr. Wilson Teacher- Brandy Wynn Others Nominated Colton Adcock- Mesman Kassidi Todd- Hanson Keller Glasscock- Cutler Paxton Holley – Messer Addison Spencer – Royston Gabrielle Reese- Fields Mason Peacock- Jones Catherine Greathouse- James Elizabeth Burgess- Traylor Faith Sanford – Culp Brody Davis- Weeks Aaizah Ali – Davis Jayden Williams – Godwin Chloe Robertson- Higginbotham Paxton Blackburn- Burnette Kate Ha- Wynn Alaya Johnson-Johnson Ella Hatley- King Myles LaFrentz- Houlton Hagan Brock- Wood Melissa Smith- Brock Weston Witt- Flowers Jayden Stinsen- Durdin 6