Box Top Competition is Ending SOON!!!

The Box top competition will end at the end of April. Current totals are: Mrs. Patience with 646, Mrs. Smith with 561, Mrs. Davenport PM with 387, Mrs. Martineau with 325. There are additional collection sheets HERE on the box top website if you need them. Double check your expiration dates-we can't submit anything that has expired. Also check the products you have-there are several that expired 6/1/09. Thanks for your support-as always any questions you can contact Jaimee Sorensen at 523-5865 or mark.jaimee@gmail.com.

Box tops for education are due!!

Jaimee Sorensen wanted me to post about box tops. She says...

Keep bringing in your box tops. We will receive a check in April with all box tops submitted by Thursday, February 26. The classroom and family competition will run until the end of the April. Please continue to support our school with your box tops. Call grandparents, aunts & uncles, neighbors. The class with the most box tops wins a pizza party and the family with the most collected will receive a $50 Craigo's gift certificate. Double check expiration dates, we cannot submit anything that has expired. There are several to expire June/July 2009.

Click here for the box tops for education website.

You can also go through the box top website to shop online and a percentage of your purchase will be donated to the school. Stores include Walmart, Aeropostale, all the Gap stores, Barnes & Noble, Old Navy, Oriental Trading, Overstock, Target, JCPenney. Just go to the Box Tops Marketplace. Click here to view all of the stores who participate.

If you have questions please call Jaimee Sorensen at 523-5865 or email at mark.jaimee@gmail.com.

25 Cent Friday!

Wow- who new how successful our first day of 25 cent Friday would be! I think every kid in that school brought money. Shari Bruce and I were working at the table and almost everything we had sold out! It was pandemonium at it's best! The kids were really excited and seemed to really love the whole thing. It made pretty good money for the first time too! If there is anyone who wants to help with this on Friday's, call Shari Bruce or post a comment here. We will need 2 people at least for a little while. I think Shari has made a schedule for the first couple of months, but she made need more help, or fill ins! Also a reminder- the cookie dough sale will be starting this week. I hope everyone is getting ready for this! I really hope it will be very successful.

Calling all helpers!

So- I have a couple things we need help with, or at least need to start getting geared up for. Mr. Marlowe asked us if we could have someone come in and help cover Judy Ritter (the secretary)at the school while they have faculty meetings. Up to this point she has not been able to go to them. It will be on Wednesdays (only every other) starting at 2:55 and going for about an hour. I think all you would do would be fielding phone calls and taking messages. It doesn't need to be the same person every time but it would be nice to get a few people that would be willing to help so we can call on them. The next meeting is September 23rd. Leave a comment on this post if you are interested,or email me at bawdenmom@hotmail.com. Also, we need to get ready for the spook alley at the end of October. If any of you have husbands or brothers or neighbors or you who really like to scare kids- please let me know! We have some great ideas but we need the manpower! If anyone has a husband like mine, that is one of their favorite things is scaring their kids! Also, any connections to props or anything that would be cool in the spook alley, let me know! I think this could be very fun and very successful if we have a lot of help! Thanks for all your help with everything!

Hi!

I'm so excited Felicia started a blog for Discovery!! This will be such a great place to share resources and stories, and to get to know each other. I am Felicia's sister-in-law and my name is Bonnie Blad. I have 5 children. They are Madi (12), Alex (almost 10), Gabby (7), Jake (4), and Jaxson (5 months). We are a busy, but happy family. We just moved here from Twin. The kids have adjusted well, and are loving their new schools. We are so happy to be a part of the Discovery family, and can't wait to get to know more of you!

Go Dragons!

Today the mascot for Discovery Elementary was announced! The kids voted and they chose the dragons! This should be a really fun mascot to work with! If anyone has great ideas or has seen some really cool dragons, please let me know! Hope everyone is as excited as me and my kids are!

Grandparent's Day

What a fun day for the first graders at Discovery Elementary! Many grandparent's came to brag about their wonderful grandchildren and tell about their experiences they had in their own school years! It was so cute to watch the kids as their grandchildren listened to them brag! Some of them were a little shy, others smiled with pride, others just sat there looking happy that they had grandparents who love them so much! It was so fun to be there. I was with my son in Mrs. Grimm's class so I gt a picture of them together but I'm sure all the classes had just as much fun! Thank you for all the hard work 1st grade teachers!