Longbranch Family Newsletter
Week of January 23rd
JDRF Fundraiser! This week!!
- From the staff, they are collecting $1 a day in exchange for the staff being able to dress "comfy".
- From the students, they are collecting $1 per student on Tuesday to wear a hat to school, $1 to wear pajamas to school on Wednesday, and $1 to have crazy hair or wear a favorite team shirt on Thursday.
There is no obligation to participate. We appreciate your participation if you are able!!
This Week's Events
MONDAY
- Monday Morning Meeting
- After school ESS: 1st grade Reading, 3rd grade Reading and Math
TUESDAY
- Strings before school
- ESS: 2nd grade reading and math, 4th grade math, and 5th grade reading
- Boys Basketball Practice
WEDNESDAY
- Cheerleading Practice after school
- Monday Morning Meeting skit crew after school
- ESS: 1st grade reading, 3rd grade reading and math
- WINTER STORY NIGHT at 6:45pm
THURSDAY
- Boys basketball games
- Team Leader Meeting at 7:45am
- ESS: 2nd grade reading and math, 4th grade math, and 5th grade reading
- Strings in AM
- Paraeducator meeting after school.
FRIDAY
- PLT for Lunch
WEEKEND
Spring Carnival Parent Leadership Action Team--WE WANT YOU!
We will be hosting our 1st Spring Carnival at Longbranch on April 28th and 29th!
Planning is underway but we would love more help! We need people to help with games/booths, food, silent auction, decorating & signage, prizes, clean up, supplies and SO much more! There will be planning meetings held throughout each month.
Please contact amanda.scroggin24@gmail.com for more info or if you would like to help out!
Parent Leadership Information and Events
Winter Wonderland Dance
Our annual Winter Wonderland dance is coming up on Saturday 2/4/17 from 7-10 p.m.
We need volunteers to help at the event and make it a success! If you help for a one hour shift you get into the dance for free and get a free family photo taken with our photographer!
If you would like to help out, please sign up for a time slot at the following link.
Sign up here: http://signup.com/go/axtUhe
Family Fun Night at Top Flight Gymnastics!
Date: Saturday, March 4th
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Cost: $10.00 per child
You MUST have a registration form filled out in order to participate. This can be found at the link below. Make sure to bring it to Top Flight filled out on March 4th
http://topflightgymnastics.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/special-event-registration-form.pdf
Spring Carnival Plans are Underway!
We will be hosting our 1st Spring Carnival at LongBranch on April 28th and 29th!
Planning is underway but we would love more help! We need people to help with games/booths, food, silent auction, decorating & signage, prizes, clean up, supplies and SO much more!
There will be planning meetings held throughout each month.
Please contact amanda.scroggin24@gmail.com for more info or if you would like to help out!
Yearbook Photos
We need your photos for our 2016-2017 Longbranch Yearbook!
Our yearbook coordinator cannot be at all the awesome events that go on with our students throughout the year and needs your help in making sure we get a large variety of kids and activities included in the book!
Please email photos that you would like to submit for possible inclusion in the yearbook, along with the names and grade of the students in each picture, to longbranchyearbook@gmail.com.
Any questions, contact the VP of Communication, Rachel Pearson at communications.longbranchpta@gmail.com.
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Popcorn Fridays
If you have not filled out your popcorn Friday form it's still not too late! The form can be found on the PTA website at www.longbranchpta.org and sent to school in your child's folder!
$5.00 per child covers all 9 of our popcorn Fridays.
Kroger Cards Help Generate BIG MONEY for Our School
Kroger donates 4% of all money you spend after you scan your Kroger Plus card as long as you connect the Plus card to our Longbranch PTA account.
If 400 families connected their cards and spent $100 a week at Kroger, each family would make $4 per week. That's $1600 a week. That's $19,000 a quarter. That's unreal. That's plain and simple easy money.
We encourage you to visit Kroger.com and create an account. Click Community Rewards. Search for Longbranch and connect your plus card with Longbranch PTA. It's the EASIEST fundraiser you'll ever participate in, period.
https://www.kroger.com/account/enrollCommunityRewardsNowsNowWinter Events
Jan 31: Boys Basketball Practice
Feb 1: Superintendents Advisory Council
Feb 2: Groundhog Day, Boys Basketball Games
Feb 3: Popcorn Friday
Feb 4: Family Dance from 7-10pm
Feb. 6: No School
Feb 7: Boys Basketball Practice
Feb 9: Boys Basketball Games, School Board Meeting at 7:30pm
Feb 10: Crazy Socks Day
Feb 13: 1st Grade Field Trip to Taft Theater
Feb 14: Friendship Celebrations, Boys Basketball Practice, SBDM at 4:30
Feb 16: Boys Basketball Games
Feb 21: Boys Basketball Practice
Feb 22: Basketball (Boys and Girls) and Cheer Photos after school
Feb 23: Boys Basketball Games
Feb 24: Dulcimer Performance for 1st and 2nd Grades
Feb 27: Club Day
Feb 28: Boys Basketball All Star Game--Tentative
Our W.I.G.s (Wildly Important Goals) for 2016-2017
Updated 12/2016
ATTENDANCE: From 96.97% in December to 97% average daily attendance by March 15, 2017.
Current: 96.97%
MATH:
2nd grade: Raise the average percentile rank for 2nd grade students from 59th percentile to the 70th percentile of the nation by May 2017.
3rd-5th grade: Raise the average percentile rank for 3rd-5th grade students from 73rd percentile to the 80th percentile of the nation by May 2017.
Winter Checkup for 3rd-5th Math:
- 3rd Grade: 78th percentile
- 4th Grade: 80th percentile
- 5th Grade: 81st percentile
READING:
Raise the average percentile rank for all students from 55th percentile to the 65th percentile of the nation by May 2017.
Winter Checkup for Reading:
- K and 1st Grade: Not measured by percentiles
- 2nd Grade: 67th percentile
- 3rd Grade: 69th percentile
- 4th Grade: 66th percentile
- 5th Grade: 64th percentile