It was a very busy week for backpack flyers, so we thought we’d provide an end of week summary of the various items that were sent home and a few other messages.

1. It’s time for our 2010 Readathon. 100% of money raised goes directly to the purchase of new books for the Clinton School library.
All details, pledge sheet, and reading log can be found on the Flyers and Forms page.

2. Author Suzy Kline of Horrible Harry fame will be visiting Clinton during the school day on February 26th. To order autographed copies of Ms. Kline’s books, visit the Flyers and Forms page.

There is also a form for a chance for your 3rd-5th grade child to enter a contest to win the chance to have lunch with Ms. Kline during her visit.

3. Our student government’s annual candygram fundraiser is also underway. Pink flyers were sent home this week. This year all proceeds will be donated to the Haitian relief effort. February 10th is the last day to send in candygram orders.

4. Rehearsals for our all school musical revue are well underway and they’re going great! Volunteer parents and student performers are hard at work. Please remember to check the show website for all updated information, dates, and paperwork.

5. The Parenting Center has some great events coming up.
Author and psychologist Jeb Baker will give a talk entitled “No More Meltdowns” at Tuscan School on February 18th.

The Parenting Center is also hosting Lice Information night on February 11th at Clinton School. Please check out the details:
http://www.clintonelementary.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/FlyerLice.pdf

It’s also time for the Parenting Center’s winter workshops.

As always, there is a lot going on at Clinton and throughout the district. We hope you will be able to participate in or attend some of these programs/events.

If your child is interested in helping behind-the-scenes in this year’s Clinton Student Theater production, we still need students to help:

• Build and paint the sets
• Help with performers’ make-up
• Greet the attendees and pass out programs
• Notify the groups waiting in the green rooms (runners)

Please have him/her sign up (name/grade/teacher) this week in the front hall, and you will receive the registration and contract information next week via your child’s folder.

If you’ve already registered him/her to help with the sets or work in the stage crew, your registration information has been received, and Mr. Moss will contact you soon. This is not for children who are already performing and rehearsing.

These are very important roles, and we’d love to have your children involved. Meeting times will be announced shortly.

If your child is interested in participating in the school show this year, remember to return his/her registration by tomorrow, 12/18!

Forms will be going home today via your child’s backpack. Registration closes this Friday, so please don’t put it off. Thank you to all the directors who have volunteered to work with our children for the next 3 months. We can’t wait to get started!

As the song by The Youngbloods says, “Come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together try to love one another right now”  and ” you hold the key in your hand.”  And you do. We are still in need of parent directors for this year’s show. We need at least 3 more directors in order to open up registration for our children.  And, if you have an afternoon available, Tuesday-Friday or Saturday morning, we still need 15 assistant directors.

If you are afraid of commitment, and who isn’t, it is and it isn’t a huge commitment, once a week for 8 weeks, on the day and at the time that works for you, 2 weeks with tech rehearsal, which is an additional day each week, and 3 performances, cost= time.  Pay off= priceless. 

You don’t know what you don’t know.  Did you see the show last year?  Did you know that less then 1/8 of the parents who participated had ever done something like that before?  So experience is not needed.  Did you know that all it takes to do this and do it well is to bring your own passion, creativity, sense of wonder and trust in yourself and the children?  Did you know that the best way to model appropriate risk taking to your children is to do it yourself? 

Come on people now, join us, in making this happen, we had 150 kids in performance parts last year, and we are most likely to get more this year. We don’t  want to have to say no to any child who would like to participate. That can only happen if we have enough volunteers. So if you said no to our first request, or our second, don’t say no now, because with your help the answer to the question, can we do this? is “Yes we can.”

If we finally got to you, please go to the show page on the Clinton school website for more information

PS…..  THE NAME OF THE SHOW …………………………..Ok so we don’t have a name yet, do you?  If you do email us your suggestions.

If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes an army to put on this show. As Harvey Milk said, “I am here to recruit you!”

As before, the PTA’s Clinton school show is being coordinated by a large team of dedicated volunteers… the more volunteers we have, the better the experience for all of our kids! We need your help and participation. Please check out the school show page for more info.

First meeting will be on 11/17.