Whitney's Captain's Chronicle
Mr. Stacho's Newsletter - November 10, 2017
Color Guard
Preparing to sing for our Veterans
Saluting our Veterans
Student Council Food Drive! Please Help!
Next week Student Council has organized a non-perishable Thanksgiving Food Drive to benefit the Strongsville Foodbank. Items Most Needed
• peanut butter or jelly
• cereal or oatmeal
• spaghetti sauce
• Raviolis or Spaghetti-O’s
• canned vegetables
• canned fruit
• pork and beans
• boxed family meals
• large cans of beef stew etc.
• canned tuna or chicken
• canned soup
• macaroni and cheese
• rice
• toilet paper
• toothpaste
• & toothbrushes
Also Appreciated
• boxed side dishes
• baking goods
• beverages
• snack items
• ramen noodles
• canned tomatoes
• detergent
• shampoo & conditioner
• paper towels
• kleenex
• dish soap or hand soap
• baby food
• formula
• diapers
Picture Retake Day is Wednesday, November 15th
Cold Weather
As the cooler temperatures arrive, here are the guidelines for outdoor recess. Students will go outside for recess when the temperature is 20°F or above and the wind-chill is 10°F or above. Children should always come to school prepared to go outside for recess. So, remember to get out your mittens, gloves, hats, scarves, and heavier coats.
Birthday Book Club is coming soon!!
If your child has a birthday in AUGUST-NOVEMBER ONLY they should have received a Birthday Book Club invite last week.
Our birthday book club members will have time to pick out a book in the library on November 13th.
Birthday Book Club allows your child to select a book they would like to donate to the school library. The book will have a name plate with your child's name placed in the front cover. Your child will be the first one to check out the birthday book and will receive a bookmark to keep. Then at a later date members of the Birthday Book Club will be invited to a cupcake party in the media center.
If your invite was lost you can print the one attached below.
Breakfast With A Buddy
Upcoming PTA event: Breakfast With A Buddy!
Wednesday November 15th, Thursday November 16th, or Friday November 17th!
Students are invited to bring a buddy to school. This can be parents, grandparents, non-school-aged siblings, anyone that is special to your child, to enjoy a free Continental Style breakfast before the school and work day begins from 8:00 to 8:40. Please leave promptly by 8:40 to avoid traffic with the drop-off line and busses. If you would like to volunteer for this wonderful event, please go to http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c094faca922a1fa7-breakfast1
Or, email me directly at mkuznik@roadrunner.com.
Thank you,
Michelle Kuznik, Breakfast With A Buddy Chairperson
PTA Pampered Chef Online Fundraiser!
Pampered Chef on-line Fundraiser for Whitney PTA
October 30th through November 12th
Use this link to shop the full catalog and place an order for our fundraiser:
https://pamperedchef.com/go/whitpta
All orders MUST be shipped directly to the buyer!!!
Anyone can order from any where in the USA, please tell your friends and family!
ALL proceeds go to Whitney PTA which allows the PTA to provide activities for all the students such as the carnival, movie night, holiday shop and much more.
Please contact Lorayne Fares at lofares21@hotmail.com/440-212-6841 if you have any questions.
WHAT IS MAKERSPACE YOU MIGHT ASK?
Big News! MakerSpace is coming to Whitney.
To describe MakerSpace in simple terms, it is an area that allows for creativity and innovation to occur. Within this MakerSpace area students have the freedom to design, engineer, fabricate, create, build and collaborate. MakerSpaces provide students with a place to tinker and develop something that may not be possible to create without a space with resources. This will be an area students may use after their typing class (learning.com), during recess time, in an after-school club, or perhaps when working on a classroom project.
For the past several months we have been working to develop a space for our students and staff to utilize. We have selected a space within the media center to be the home for our new MakerSpace.
The Strongsville Education Foundation has awarded a grant to help fund the startup of our MakerSpace. Purchases may include equipment for 3D printing, robotics, engineering, coding, circuitry, photography, sewing, and much more. However, there are many items that we will need that you may be looking to repurpose. Maybe your children have outgrown a few of the items on our list and they can find a new home at Whitney!
We are sending this letter out to all of our families to inform you that inside the main entrance of Whitney Elementary School we have designated boxes set up for donations for our MakerSpace to get off the ground as soon as possible. We have placed a list of items that we are currently asking for further down this page and also on our Whitney website under the link MakerSpace.
Thank you for all of your consideration and willingness to help Whitney’s MakerSpace not only become a reality, but a huge success.
MakerSpace Supply List
In order for our MakerSpace at Whitney Elementary to get off the ground, be maintained, and be successful, we need some help from parent/relatives/community members so we are asking for donations of any kind. These could be items that you no longer use or items you purchase (new or used).
The list below is the "more common" items and are merely suggestions. They are definitely things that we would like but please do not limit yourself to only items on this list.
(All items need to be safe, clean, and appropriate for elementary-aged students. Items like hand-tools, sewing needles, etc. will only be used with adult supervision)
Sewing supplies (Needles, thread, scissors, fabric)
Ribbon, yarn, string
Legos, K’Nex, Blocks
All types of paper (Wrapping paper, card stock, construction paper, printer paper, scrapbook)
Markers, Pens, Crayons, etc.
Cardboard of any kind (ie: cereal boxes, pop-tart boxes, large appliance boxes (flattened please))
Cardboard tubes (wrapping paper, toilet paper, paper towel, etc.)
Play-Doh
Circuitry Kits (can be purchased online)
Craft supplies (cotton balls, popsicle sticks, paint, tape, low temp hot glue gun, glue gun sticks, regular glue/sticks, toothpicks)
Canvas, art supplies
Cameras, photography equipment
Things we can take apart (Old or broken electronics, old keyboards, small devices)
Hammers, Screwdrivers, pliers
Nails, Screws, Bolts
Storage Containers - tubs, baskets
Storage containers with drawers
Dominos, marbles
Playing cards (used for building items)
Batteries (various sizes)
Fabric
Fabric paint and/or markers
Old Christmas Lights (even if they don’t all work)
Again, please don't think you need to limit yourselves to just these items or that these need to all be purchased new. If you have similar items that you would like to donate, please feel free. We are not going to go through and limit ourselves to a certain quantity of an item in the beginning but if we feel like we have enough of something, we will go back and remove it from the list.
Thank you in advance for all of your help and support.