September 2009

· Fall Festival Planning Meeting on Friday, September 11, 2009 after the PTO MEETING in Room 145

· 1^st Market Day Order Due - September 16; pick up September 22, 5:30 to 6:15

PTO meetings will be held the 1^st Friday of most months in Room 145 starting at 9:15 a.m. Evening meetings are scheduled for October 6 & March 30 (April meeting) at 6:30 pm in the library. Children are ALWAYS welcome. If you have any questions about how you can be involved other than attending meetings, please contact one of the officers or a committee chair.

Don’t forget to register or update your profile on PTO Manager! www.weisenberg.ptomanager.com. We will be using this as a primary form of communication this year – including sending out information about upcoming PTO and school events. We will continue to send out links to the monthly school newsletter as well.

This will be our only printed newsletter of the school year. We will be sending out a link to the newsletter via PTO Manager each month. Please make sure your information is current! A limited # of printed newsletters will be available near our bulletin board in the waiting area of the office.

If you have any questions or comments about the Weisenberg PTO, we want to hear from you!

Please contact Clare Coupe-Scott at

610-298-8858 or clare@coupeware.com

We will be working again to help collect food throughout the school year. We will collect non-perishable items and even paper products like paper towels, toilet tissue, and facial tissues. You may drop them in the yellow box inside the school at any time. Our larger food drives will be for the holidays and more information will follow for these. Thank you in advance for the smallest donation of even a can of soup. This makes the world of difference to some of the families we help. If you have any questions or want to know more please contact Debbie Inhoff at 610-285-6802.

The 9th Annual “Fall Festival” will be held on Friday, October 30th. This is an all-day event with two exciting and educational assemblies with the Wildlands Conservancy, snacks, crafts and other activities using the theme “Early Settlers”. We will need some parent involvement for this fun filled day, so please volunteer your time and ideas.

If you are interested in helping, please attend the organizational meeting on Friday, September 11th in Room 145 immediately following our first PTO meeting. There are jobs available both during school hours and in the evenings from home.

If you need more information, contact Francine Stanley, 610-462-2881 or stanleysweeping@verizon.net, or Lori Barnett, 610-298-3028 or labar8@hotmail.com.

Your Kid Stuff Books will be coming home on Friday, September 11^th! They are full of savings on clothing, toys, activities and food. Help us earn money for our PTO and enjoy tremendous savings in the store you shop! Orders are due on Thursday, September 24^st. Questions? Contact Jennifer Howanitz at 610-336-8542.

THANK YOU for your support of the Market Day Fundraising program over these past three years. The $30,000 raised was put towards the purchase of the newly installed playground equipment. There are many more items on the “Weisenberg Elementary Wish List,” so let’s keep the momentum going! Market Day is kicking off the new school year with lots of new and improved products and some great promotional offers! It’s been a long summer for those of us who have grown attached to Market Day products. For those of you who are new to our school we hope you’ll give Market Day a try.

Look for the September sale flier and a letter describing the program to come home this week! The letter will give you all of the sale dates and ordering deadlines. It also will provide some information on the promotions going on right now! Don’t forget to place your September order online by September 16h at 11 pm.

Debby Keba (610) 298-8055 or Amy Link (610) 298-8963. If you would like to volunteer for the Market Day Program, please go to PTO Manager and select Market Day as one of your interests!

We are excited to announce the Before/After School Clubs program is growing. This year we have the opportunity to offer three new clubs, A Sewing Club for 2nd and 4th graders, Fun Runners, a running club for 3rd and 4th graders, and a Science club for 5th graders in the Spring. We will continue to offer Book Club,

World's Fair, German, Spanish, Shocking Discoveries, Fit Kids and Math Rocks. Please see our brochure in

the PTO packet that came home with your student on the first day of school for session times and grade level opportunities. If you are interested in volunteering for Before/After School Clubs (BASC) please got online to PTO Manager and select Before/After School Clubs as an interest. We are in need of parent volunteers to greet students at the front door as well assisting instructors in the classroom. Know anyone interested in teaching a club? We have easy to follow lesson plans for all of our existing clubs. Based on survey results, students would like to see art, animals, and more sports/fitness clubs in the future. Anyone interested in instructing or volunteering in a club should please contact Susan Bryan atSbryan@ptd.net or 610-285-2897 for more information.

Weisenberg will host our first ever MOVIE NIGHT on Friday, October 23, 2009. Join us for a night of great family fun! Tickets will be sold the week prior for $1. Sorry, no tickets at the door. Doors will open at 6pm. ALL CHILDREN MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT. Popcorn and water will be sold at the door for 50 cents. If you are interested in helping with (clean-up, movie night volunteer or ticket sales) for Movie Night, please make sure you have indicated so in your PTO Manager Volunteer Interests Profile. Visit the PTO Manager website (www.weisenberg.ptomanager.com) and under “Volunteer Interests” check “Movie Night."

We will host three parties this year: a Holiday Party on Wednesday, December 23rd, a Welcome Spring Party on Friday, March 19th and an End-of-the-Year Party on the last day of the last day of school. If you are interested in coordinating, helping with or donating for one or more of the classroom parties this year, please make sure you have indicated so in your PTO Manager Volunteer Interests Profile. Visit the PTO Manager website (www.weisenberg.ptomanager.com) and under “Volunteer Interests” select which party you can coordinate, assist with or donate items for. Mark your calendar for the party parent meeting on Friday, November 13th at 9:10. At this meeting we will try to get all of our coordinators and helpers ready for our parties this year. Please try and attend.If you have any questions please email either Sue Shankweiler at sshankweiler@yahoo.com or Fran Ledeboer at jledeboer@msn.com.

Welcome to the 2009-2010 school year in our beautiful new school. We hope everyone has been busy collecting and trimming Box Tops this summer. The fifth grade students with their multiple years of box top collecting experience will be joining our Weisenberg team. Box Tops is an easy way to help the PTO support more activities and events at Weisenberg. Simply trim the box tops off the boxes, labels and wrappers in your pantry or refrigerator, write your child’s name on each Box Top and send them to school with your child. Collection containers are available in each of the classrooms. Each classroom awards a monthly prize to a student whose name is randomly drawn from the box tops submitted for the month. At the end of the school year an ice cream party is awarded to the grade that collectively submits the most box tops. Let’s challenge ourselves to make this the BEST Box Tops collection year ever!

The yearbook committee will be looking for volunteers to help organize and create the 2009-2010 yearbook. We will need volunteers to help with photography and layouts. Photographers will be needed to help take pictures during assemblies, classroom parties, and day to day happenings. This year will be the first that Weisenberg is using Lifetouch's digital yearbook program. Layout volunteers will work on the yearbook from their home computer, after learning the digital program. Please sign up for photography or layouts in the PTO manager.

Parents are also welcome (and encouraged!!) to submit pictures to the yearbook that they have from events during the year, such as field trips, open house, family night, and rollerskating parties. We would like to do a "first day of school" page in the upcoming yearbook again, if we can get enough submissions. I have created a user name in the Lifetouch program for parents to access directly to submit pictures for yearbook. Go to www.yearbooks.lifetouch.com and click on "WebEase" under the "programs" tab. This will bring you to the login page. Job number is 1167910, user name "weisenberg", password "parent". In the program, there is a "shortcuts" section at the bottom right where you will find "image upload". You can upload into a specific folder (like first day of school) or into the generic "upload" folder. Please call Deana Sewald 610-298-8583 or email dne1196@aol.com with any questions.

On Tuesday, September 8^th, you will receive a packet of information about the Weisenberg PTO, including an opportunity to volunteer for programs and be included in the family directory. Please be sure to go to www.weisenberg.ptomanager.com to review and update your profile and indicate volunteer interests. We are looking forward to a terrific year!