Spring Fair this Sunday, May 20!

Forest Knolls Elementary School

Annual Spring Fair

Sunday, May 20, 2012

10830 Eastwood Avenue

Silver Spring, MD 20901


Time: 1:00pm -4:00 p.m.


There are inflatables, games, vendors, and prizes.

Pizza and Salads from Armand’s Pizza and drinks for sale.

Fred the Ice Cream Guy will be there!!

If you would like to volunteer even for just one hour, please contact Kristen Lefevre  or Jillian Newby at spring.fair@fkespta.org.  

 

Jillian Newby

Spring Fair Coordinator

Dine Out Night on Tues., May 22

Please Save the Date for our LAST Dine Out Night of this school year!!!!  Come support your school…..Food, Fun and Friendship!!!
 
We will finish our awesome Dine Out Nights at California Tortilla – - A FKES FAVORITE!!
 
When?      Tuesday May 22nd
 
Time?       4 p.m. until closing
 
Where?     California Tortilla
 
Come eat with your friends, classmates, and maybe some teachers too!  What a great way to end our school year! 
 
Flyers will come home soon… please bring them with you!
 
Best,
Maria Stumphauzer
Dine Out Night Chair

Please Pitch in on School Landscaping Projects

 Help is needed with conservation projects and work on our nature trail on Friday and Saturday! Please come out if you can! Remember to let me know if you’re coming so we can plan on tools, etc.

Fri., May 11, Noon – 3 pm: 5th Grade Tree Service Project.

Parents needed to oversee groups of 5th graders as they care for the trees on our nature trail.

(It’s appreciated if you can participate the whole time, but smaller time slots also available.)

Sat., May 12, 2-4 pm: “Second Saturday” Landscaping: Weed Whack on the Nature Trail!

Calling kids and parents to help remove invasive honeysuckle and other weeds that are overtaking our trail.

Bring gloves, shovels, trowels and stop by for any part of this time slot.

Thanks for considering, and again, please let Clare know if you plan to come.

Clare Nielsen

Conservation Committee Chairperson

conservation.landscaping @ fkespta.org

Fifth Grade Promotion Activities

Two more 5th grade promotion meetings to go until the kids finish Forest Knolls. The next meeting is on May 8.

Tuesday, May 8th at 7:30pm
5th Grade promotion meeting in teachers’ lounge.

Topics of discussion:
Budget total
Class gift – how much money is needed
T-shirt update
Class gift
Class plaque
Class party – June 11 : volunteers needed
June 11- promotion ceremony and 4th grade volunteers needed.

Jillian Newby and Alison Petersen

Fifth Grade Promotion Committee Chairpersons

Thanks to Our Teachers

This year’s National Staff Appreciation Week is scheduled May 7-11, 2012.

 If this is your first year as a parent at our great school, please know that the PTA Staff Appreciation Committee and its many helpers are offering a special week for our school staff, to show them in various ways how much we families appreciate their efforts, caring and support they give our children day in and day out, allowing them to strive at their best ability.   

 The week’s highlights are a hearty breakfast, an International lunch buffet, an afternoon tea and a FKES logo T-shirt as a gift.

We would like to continue with last year’s introduced gesture, involving our child/children to think of what she/he would like to send in as a special token of appreciation daily to their classroom teachers, specials’ teachers and other staff members they would like to say “thank you” to.  Please be open-minded to your child’s ideas and creativity… And please be assured that the school supply items listed below will make our teachers happy. ☺    

This is the suggested agenda:

Monday, May 7:                    A card or note with words of appreciation

Tuesday, May 8:                   A school supply item like hand sanitizer, tissues, glue sticks or dry erase markers. 

Wednesday, May 9:              A flower.  (fresh, or crafted, or painted, or drawn or, or, or…)

Thursday, May 10:                Another school supply item like hand sanitizer, glue sticks, tissues or dry erase markers.

Friday, May 11:                      A little sweet treat

Wouldn’t it be so nice to amaze our school’s staff with lots of little surprises coming their way this week?

Astrid Ingenlath-Diaz & Kirsten Frank

Staff Appreciation Week Coordinators

staff.appreciation@fkespta.org