Announcements

PTA Reflections is a nationally acclaimed student recognition program to encourage artistic creativity in the classroom and at home. Students of all grades and abilities may participate and explore the arts based on the 2016-2017 theme: What Is Your Story?

If you would like to participate, please read through the following list. Entries must be submitted by Tuesday, November 29, 2016.

1. Identify your arts category(ies):
   • Visual Art if you enjoy drawing or painting
   • Dance Choreography if you love to dance
   • Photography if you like taking pictures
   • Literature if you like writing stories
   • Music Composition if you love music
   • Film Production if you want to make a movie
2. Decide what your topic will be for the theme “What is Your Story?”. Who are you and
   how do you see the world around you? What does the theme mean to you?
3. Read the attached General Rules for Participation and the Rules for the Arts Category that you are choosing.
4. CREATE YOUR ART!!!
5. If you have any questions, want to receive reminders, or just let the Reflections committee know that you will participate so they can verify your entry was received please use the contact form below and this information will be sent to Mike and Kathie Blackman.
6. Complete the Student Entry Form. The title and the artist statement required on this form are very important.
   The artist statement is your opportunity to explain how your entry reflects this year’s theme “What is Your Story?”. It is just as important as the art itself since the judges are instructed that half the total score is based on how closely the entry relates to the theme.
   Print out a hard copy to turn in with your entry. Please remember both the student and parent signatures!
7. Turn your entry in to the Reflections box in the school lobby by the deadline on Tuesday, November 29, 2016. Please complete and include the Submission Checklist with your entry.

The top three entries in each category in each age group will move on to the Howard County Reflections Program, the top three county entries will move onto the Maryland State Reflections Program, and state winners in each category will compete in the National PTA Reflections Program. Last year’s state winning entries can be seen on the Maryland PTA Reflections website and the national winning entries can be seen on the national PTA website under Awards & Events.

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New after school programs have been added for the fall.

If you are interested in joining, print the forms below and send in the form along with a check for the fee with your child.

• Nautical Engineering. Have you ever been on a speedboat? Have you ever built your own
  boat? Students in this class will be challenged to design, build, and race their own boats using recyclable materials. Takes place on Wednesdays. Download the form.
• Silver Knights Chess. Chess club is taught by experienced Silver Knights instructors using a curriculum developed by National Masters. Takes place on Fridays. Download the form.
• Rube Goldberg Challenge. The contest is offered to school teams comprised of fourth and fifth grade Howard County students. The students transform everyday materials into a wacky innovative machine that accomplishes the given task of unfurling a banner. Takes place on Mondays. Download the form.
• Lion King Drama Showcase. 15 sessions -Thursdays 4-6pm after school in band room– 9/22, 9/29, 10/06,
  10/13, 10/20, 10/27, 11/3, 11/10, 11/17 12/1, 12/8. Download Registration form here.

We have new shirt styles this year and they are AMAZING.
Check them out and you can find something for the whole family:

• Look at our store and checkout using paypal. OR
• Download an order form and return it with a check to your child’s teacher.

The Wilde Lake school community has invited us to join them in their presentation on sexting, cyber bullying, Internet safety, technology, and child pornography.

Date: Thursday, September 8th
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: Rouse Theater at Wilde Lake High School, 5460 Trumpeter Rd, Columbia

The presenter is Christopher Reid of the Maryland State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Unit

Our Fall 2016 “Kiddie” Cheer Clinics are just around the corner. Clinics will be held on Monday, September 12, Saturday, September 17, and Saturday, October 1, 2016, 9 am – 12 pm, in the Cafeteria. $50 per clinic. Participants will learn cheers, sideline dances, stunt, tumble, and jumps. Please share and invite your family, friends, and neighbors to sign-up today! If participants sign-up for all three dates, they receive a Free Hawks Cheer t-shirt and get to cheer with our Varsity and JV athletes during the 1st Quarter of the Homecoming Game on October 7th!

If you are interested, please visit our website or sign up here.

Each year, the PTA produces a student directory with information about the children in each class, teacher information, and family contact information. This directory is distributed free of charge to all PTA members. It will not be distributed or sold to organizations or non-members.

NEW THIS YEAR! CESPTA will be producing the directory from data you enter when you go complete your Family File (Emergency Cards) for the school. Please make sure to check to ALLOW the information to be included in the PTA Directory! We hope to have a much more complete directory this year since EVERYONE must complete the Family File.

Access the family file here

This is the best way for other parents in your child’s class to get in touch with you! You do not have to join the PTA to be included in the directory. However, joining the PTA is the ONLY way to get this information on your child’s classmates!

Our PTA sponsors several fun events as well as educational programs at our school every year.  In order to keep these events and programs going, we need volunteer help.

We are looking for people to chair the events/programs listed below, as well as fill Committee Head positions for certain events.

Please take a moment to look at what is listed here and consider becoming a Chairperson or Committee Head for one (or more), of these events/programs.  We have very detailed notes and instructions for you to follow if you choose to chair an event/program, and Event Coordinator who will work with you, so it is really quite easy to put together one of these programs/events!

Volunteers Needed

• Spring Fling– Do not be intimidated by this. We will make it so that several people will be in charge of a sub-section of work.
• Fundraising
• International Night

Jump in and take your spot on the planning committees! Use our contact form below and let us know what you are interested in.
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