April 1-13: Cary Towne Center Art Show

April 15 : PTA Meeting 7-8pm, Media Center

April 23 : Science Olympiad Awards and Ice Cream Party, 3-4pm, families of participants welcome

April 24: Kindergarten Orientation ,1-2pm Media Center

April 26 : Carnival , 4-8pm

May 9: Field Day Tracks 2&4

May 15: Last day for Box Tops/Labels for the year

May 16: Field Day Tracks 1&3

Presale flyers went home last week. Bracelets are $2 less expensive if you buy as presale than at the door. Please return flyers to your classroom teacher by April 16th. Bracelets will be distributed the week of Carnival. Decorations will start to go up this week. Keep an eye out for the posters. Kid raffle donations and cake walk donation pledges are still being collected. 10-12 adult volunteers are still needed for one hour shifts at the Carnival to help with bracelet sales and concession sales. If you have an hour of time to donate, please contact AnnMarie Marchese at amm823@nc.rr.com

Attention MCES Parents!

The Spring Carnival 2014 planning is well underway! The Kid’s raffle will be at the Carnival again. In order for this to be successful, the PTA would greatly appreciate your help in providing a small donation item. Each grade is assigned a specific-themed item. Donation items need to be small in size and inexpensive ($1-$3). (Examples of items are given, but you can purchase anything within the theme.) Great places to find things are in the dollar bins at Target, Michaels, and AC Moore, or at Walmart and 5 Below. Cash donations are also accepted.

Kindergarten Collection- Sweet Treats (any candy, pack of gum, lifesavers, lollipops, NERDS, taffy, etc. or will accept bags of the small candy items.)Note- 3rd grade has chocolate!

1st Grade Collection- Girlie Things (nail polish, hair ties, socks, Squinkies, bracelets, silly bands, or other jewelry, key chains, etc.)

2nd Grade Collection – Boy Things (matchbox cars, baseball cards, keychains, mini –lego sets, silly bands, etc.)

3rd Grade Collection – Chocolate Lovers (anything chocolate, kisses, mini Hersheys, M & M’s, regular size candy bars, etc. or will except bags of the small chocolate bars.)

4th Grade Collection – School/Arts and Crafts ( pencils, pens, fun erasers, box of crayons, mini markers, sticky notes, scissors, stickers, stencils, beads, etc.)

5th Grade Collection – Sport Team Craze – (favorite college or pro team items – pencils, key chains, stickers, magnets, or anything small that you can find with a sport-team logo on it.)

Donation items will be accepted until April 18th and can be dropped in the PTA Spring Carnival collection box located in the front office. Thank you for your continued support in making the MCES events possible!

The Nominating Committee is still searching for a parent to serve as Co-President for the 2014-2015 school year. This is a great opportunity for a parent to get involved, yet be guided by a experienced co-President. PLease consider volunteering for this position. The PTA is also looking for academic minded parents to coordinate the Reflections Art Contest, Science Olympics and Spelling Bee. Without dedicated volunteers, these events will not be able to be held. Two teacher representatives are also needed. Please contact the AnnMarie or Kerri on the Nominating Committee at MCESPTAnomcom2014@yahoo.com or amm823@nc.rr.com

Middle Creek Families,

We are so excited about our new garden! We want to keep it looking great, as well as our grounds.

Thank you to all who volunteered for our Garden & Grounds Day. We didn't quite have enough mulch to finish the job,

so we are having another delivery this week.

Please take a moment to check out our new Garden Club Sign-Up Genius.

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094AA8A6238-mces

We will continue to add days & tasks to our Garden Club schedule.

Please help us out for an hour!

Thanks!

MCES Garden Committee

Kaleidoscope Art Show at Cary Towne Center will feature artwork from Middle Creek Elementary April 1-13.

http://mcesptaforms.weebly.com/uploads/2/2/0/7/22076046/cary_towne_center_art_show.pdf

Do you remember how you were feeling when your first child was entering kindergarten? Well now is a chance to lend a hand to those moms that are preparing to be in those same shoes! The MCES Kindergarten team and school Administration will be holding its parent/child orientation on Thursday, April 24th from 1-2pm in the Media Ctr. The team needs 10-20 volunteers to help them in the gym, to welcome the children and assist in organized fun and games, while their parents can focus on the informational meeting in the Media Ctr. Please consider helping us out to make this a special day to remember for these parents and kids, and giving them all a warm welcome from the MCES family! See the SignUp Genius link below to sign up to volunteer or email: dzolfo@nc.rr.com. THANK YOU!!!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4DA5AF2A1-kindergarten

Ms. Jacobs is looking for some parent volunteers to help with the EOG's.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1sKMd58UwBChDLgn7DpKATHnDNqqnylYHNtDAVdXC6xI/viewform

I am in need of some yarn (lots!) and some more egg cartons.

Thanks so much! Ms. Howell

The counselor for Holly Ridge Middle will be coming on April 8 at 12:00 to talk with the students about middle school. Track 4 students will be tracked out during this visit, and this will be the only visit. Tracked out students are welcome to come, but the visit is for STUDENTS ONLY. You may drop your children off, and Mrs. Fillard will supervise any track 4 students from 12-12:45.

* This is for Holly Ridge transfers only. West Lake Middle session TBA.

Please see Mrs. Fillard's teacher site for great information:

http://teacherweb.com/NC/MiddleCreekElementary/Fillard/apt14.aspx

Box Tops:

The final Box Tops contest will end Thursday May 15, 2014. The top class from each track will win a popsicle treat.

* Please trim the box tops for submission by cutting along the dotted line. Also expired Box Tops can not be submitted.

Labels for Education:

With our points from the Labels for Education, PTA President Dawn Matta delivered supplies and outdoor/indoor recess items to each teacher. Items included playground balls, sidewalk chalk and games.

Soda Can Tops:

The PTA is no longer collecting these for the Ronald McDonald House.

Shoparoo:

MCES supporters have done a fantastic job submitting receipts for points. I am confident by the end of July will be achieve 200k in points or $450. Please continue submitting your receipts and check those receipts to see if you can scan barcode items for extra points.

Thanks for all of your support for these Consumer Products. ?'s contact Sharon Brown at slbrown@nc.rr.com

Parent information and volunteer letters should be coming home soon. We encourage parents to volunteer early, but please be reminded that parents must be on the Wake County volunteer list.

Tracks 2 & 4................Friday - 9 May 2014

Tracks 1 & 3................Friday - 16 May 2014

More details have been included on the parent letters. Unfortunately, we were not able to schedule a rain date this year.