Tuesday 5/7 – Tacky Bow and Tie Day  -  find your favorite bows and/or ties and make a statement!

Wednesday 5/8 – Twin Day  -  find a friend or (more than one) and dress alike.  Twins, triplets…the more the merrier!

Thursday 5/9 – Rewind Day  -  dress backwards today!

Friday 5/10 – Orange Friday  -  celebrate all things orange today – or wear something from your favorite sports team if it’s not the Giants – in honor of today’s Jog-a-Thon!

Be sure to stop by the MP Room this Thursday night during Open House to bid on your child’s class project! Along with art projects and themed baskets, there will be teacher experiences to bid on, Name Bricks to purchase and an opportunity to sponsor a specific art supply. 100% of the proceeds from the evening will go directly to art education at CRES!

May 6 – 10 is Teacher Appreciation Week. Let’s show our teacher’s how truly thankful we are to have them!

New Trees are going to be planted behind our MP room to provide lunchtime shade, compliments of the PTA. We recently set aside $1500 for this project!

Anne Spencer, PTA President

PTA Newsletter April 2013 (.pdf) new application (.pdf)

Right on the Consumnes River Elem school grounds

Early Bird Special is being extended through April 15 due to Spring Break last week!  Only $35 per booth

 $40:00 April 16-May1

Applications available at CRES school or RMA bldg or  Application for Trash n Treasure (.pdf)

Vendor set-up will be Friday afternoon and/or Saturday 5:00am to 7:30 am for your convenience

Refreshments will be available

Volunteers needed: please email Letty to join the fun. stanlettyv@aol.com

Trash n Treasure (.pdf)

Movie:     Hotel Transylvania [PG]

Who:    CRES Families and Friends

All children must be accompanied by an adult-no drop offs allowed

When:          Friday, March 1^st  

  6:45pm – movie will start @ approx. 7:00

 Where:  CRES MP Room

 Front rows reserved for blankets and bean bags, back area for folding chairs.

 Price:          Special Movie/Meal Deal – $3.00

$3.00 entry price includes movie, a pizza slice or hot dog, popcorn and drink. Additional items available for purchase.

 Extras:       Pizza slice – $1.00     Soda – $1.00    Candy-$1.00    

Hot Dog – $1.00      Hot Chocolate – $1.00

 Questions?                                                                              

Contact: Amie Messina @ 916-838-4147Seema Khatri @ 916-595-2785

 Another way to help is to participate in the Lables of Education, Box Tops for Education, and MyCokeRewards programs.  All three of these programs provide support in the way of cash or materials through products many of us already buy.  Please read on for a few words from our coordinator, Marissa Maranise.

 My name is Marissa Maranise and I am the coordinator for CRES for Labels for Education and Box Tops for Education.  Both of these programs are very simple ways to help support our school.  By purchasing products (at the store or on-line) you can contribute to our school.   Both of these programs allow CRES to purchase things for Acedemincs, Art, and Athletics. 

 Sumitting is very easy.  Clip our your label for education or box top, collection sheets can be downloaded from each of the websites, glue the labels and/or box tops to the sheet and submit to your student’s teacher.  Be sure to include student’s name and teacher as there could be prizes for submitting the most labels or box tops.  For more convenience there are also two other drop off locations in our community.  There is a box at Plaza Foods (near the cards and coffee) and a box at the RMA office. 

Have students ask relatives, friends, and/or neighbors to help collect as many label and box tops as possible. 

Here is a link to the Labels for Education website.

http://www.labelsforeducation.com/

Here is a link to the Box Tops for Education website:

http://www.boxtops4education.com/Default.aspx

Here is a link for MyCokeRewards website:

www.mycokerewards.com

 If you have any questions please contact me at marissamaranise@yahoo.com or 916-798-6832.  I’ll be happy to answer any questions. PTA Newsletter February 2013 (.pdf)

Please bring your family and join us on

Saturday, April 13, 2013 for a patriotic 5K (3.1 miles) walk in Elk Grove Regional Park. Check-in begins at 9:00 a.m. – refreshments will be served. The opening ceremony begins at 10:00 a.m. and concludes with a delicious lunch provided by Outback Steakhouse.

Advance registration:

$25.00 per person; $75.00 families of four to six members; $150 groups of 10. Walk-in registration: $30 per person; $85 for families of four to six members; $175 groups of 10. Children 5 and under are free.

Flyer, Walk, 2013 (Black and White) (.pdf)

Each school’s SARC summarizes the school’s mission, goals, accomplishments, and highlights the school’s unique programs. In addition, state law requires that the SARC contain all of the following: demographic data, school safety and climate for learning information, academic data, school completion rates, class sizes, teacher and staff information, curriculum and instruction descriptions, postsecondary preparation information, fiscal and expenditure data.

The federal No Child Left Behind law requires that SARCs contain reports concerning the “adequate yearly progress” of students in achieving state academic achievement standards; Title I Program Improvement status; graduation rates at the secondary level; and the extent to which “highly qualified” teachers are teaching core academic subjects.

 A hard copy of these reports can be requested by visiting your child’s school office. Additionally, these reports have been translated in Spanish and Hmong at schools with large populations of families who speak these languages. Any questions regarding the SARCs can be answered by your child’s principal or by contacting Learning Support Services at 686-7712.

School Accountability Report Cards Flyer (.pdf)

January 28 (today): Mr. Gulden and our super-supportive PTA would like to remind you that the Rancho Murieta Community Blood Drive is taking place today, from 1-6 p.m., at the St Vincent De Paul Catholic Church. Mr. Gulden will be there Giving blood too:)

February 2 – Father-Daughter Dance right here at CRES

February 6 – PTA Membership Meeting 7 p.m. in the library

February 9 – Thank you to the Rancho Murieta Optimists who have donated two pairs of tickets for their bus trip to the Kings game (vs Utah Jazz) on February 9. All students with perfect attendance, including no tardies or early dismissals, were put in to a hat and two names were drawn as our winners. If you weren’t drawn but are interested in enjoying a fun night with the Sacramento Kings vs. Utah Jazz on February 9th, here’s the information: tickets are $22.50 / child —- $35 / adult which includes ticket, round trip bus transportation and Go Fore Pizza dinner. The bus leaves the North Gazebo at 5:00 p.m. Contact Alicia Correia 230-0262 aliciacorreia@att.net to get your tickets!

February 11 and February 18 – School Holidays in honor of Washington’s Birthday and President’s Day

February 22 – Minimum Day for staff professional development; all kindergarteners will be on a morning schedule (7:50 – 11:10 and 1-6 grades will be on the minimum day schedule (7:50 – 12:20).

March 1 – PTA Movie Night

March 4-8 Parent Conference Minimum Days

March 10 – Mother-Son Bowling

March 11-15 – 6th graders to Sly Park

March 13 – CRES Science Fair

April 11 – Open House

April 15 – STAR Testing window opens for grades 2-6

May 10 – Minimum Day for staff professional development; all kindergarteners will be on a morning schedule (7:50 – 11:10 and 1-6 grades will be on the minimum day schedule (7:50 – 12:20)

May 28 – Kindergarten Promotion Ceremony

May 29 – 6th Grade Promotion Ceremony

May 30 – Minimum Day, Field Day, and Last Day of School for 2012-2013

Please contact the school office (682-2653) with questions about any of these upcoming activities.

This year, Jim Les, Coach of the UC Davis Men’s Basketball team, and his players are challenging elementary school students from around the Sacramento area to read!  Our school is participating in their Reading Program this year.  In our office and library, you may have seen the posters of the UC Davis Aggies Basketball players reading their favorite childhood books.  As participants in the program, every CRES student and staff member is receiving a complimentary ticket to a UC Davis home basketball game.  Our game is on Saturday, January 26 when the Aggies play the Highlanders from UC Riverside.  On Friday, your child will be receiving a voucher (on a white, 8.5×11 sheet of paper) with all the information, directions, and a campus map with directions (including free parking in lots 30 and 35 only since it’s a weekend). 

Please contact Mr. Gulden (mgulden@egusd.net) with any questions regarding this exciting event!

The YMCA Child Care program located on the campus of Cosumnes River Elementary School is conducting a community interest survey.  The Y would like to know if there are families in the community that would be interested in a half day preschool program for children ages 4-5 offered from 8am – 12pm daily. This program would provide a Kindergarten readiness based curriculum and help ease the transition into the Kindergarten Classroom.   If this is an option in which you might be interested, please return the attached survey to Jen Moore at the CRES YMCA (forms may be dropped off in the school office). pre-k survey (.pdf)