Field Day Planning Meeting

A Field Day planning meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 11 @4:00 in the Community room at school. If you would like to volunteer but are unable to attend the meeting, please contact Michaele Wheeler at wheelerjm@q.com

PTA Open Board Meeting

An open PTA board meeting will be held Thursday, May 6th at 4:00 p.m. in the Community Room. Everyone is welcome.

May & June Calendar Dates

May 5th - District Choir Festival 7:00 p.m. at THS Auditorium

May 6th - 7th Grade Registration 1:30 p.m.

May 12th - Talent Show Tryouts 1:30-4:00 p.m.

May 19th - Maturation Program for 4th grade girls and 5th and 6th grade girls and boys

May 20th - First Grade Program 7:00 p.m.

May 25th - Badger Book Bonanza 5:00-7:00 p.m. (Book Fair)

May 26th - Kindergarten Field Day 9:00 a.m.

May 27th - Kindergarten Graduation 9:30 a.m.

May 28th - Last Day for Kindergarten (regular schedule)

May 28th - Super Hero Day

May 31st - Memorial Day - No School

June 1st-4th Kindergarten Assessment (by appointment) for 2010-2011 school year

June 1st - Field Day

June 3rd - Talent Show & Awards Assembly

June 4th - Early Out (Wednesday schedule 8:45-1:05)

Picture Day

Spring school pictures will be Tuesday, March 23rd.
Siblings age 2 and older are invited from 1:00-1:30 p.m.

Utah Saves

Utah Saves
Family Financial Fitness Challenge Celebration
Family Game Night & Piggy Bank Pageant

Go online to http://extension.usu.edu/tooele/ or tooelecity.org and print off a Family Financial Fitness Goal sheet. Make a family savings goal and then attend:

Monday, March 22nd 7:00-8:30 p.m.
USU Extension (151 N. Main)
FREE POPCORN AND TREATS!

Kids - bring decorated piggy banks (with all the change you've saved)
Parents - bring your completed Utah Saves Family Goal sheet to enter for prizes such as a $100 Wal-Mart gift card.

For more information and to learn about financial classes please call (435) 277-2400.

Tooele County Anti-Tobacco Poster Contest

The Tooele County Anti-Tobacco Poster Contest is open to all school students Pre-K through 12th grade. Design a poster that shows that benefits of being tobacco-free or the consequences of tobacco use. Great prizes for all grade levels - gift cards, food, and cash! Deadline March 12th. Turn in to your teacher or take it to the Tooele County School District Office. For more information, contact Gayle Parker at (435) 830-7338.

Open Auditions for Annie

Open Auditions for Annie

Little Girls/Orphans Auditions are Saturday, March 13th
Adult Roles are Saturday, March 20th and Wednesday, March 24th

For more information and to download audition forms visit: www.LaForgeEncore.org

Kindergarten Readiness Workshop

FREE 6 week workshop for both parents and children 4 years and older. The classes focus on skills children need introduction to before entering Kindergarten. Each fun filled class will provide children with an introduction of literacy, math, science, art, and music. While parents receive helpful information to help their child prepare for school and how to be involved in their child's education throughout the school years.

REQUIREMENT

Your child must be entering Kindergarten in September 2010
Next class begins Wednesday, March 17th 2010
Call the Tooele Family Center to reserve a spot
(435) 833-1978 ext. 2127 or 2010

Community Art Classes

The Tooele City Arts Council offers a wide variety of community art classes. Most classes are for adults, and some are for parents and children. Visit www.tooelecity.org for a full class listing.

5K / Kiddie K (1K) Walk/Run to benefit Shriner's Hospital

5K/Kiddie K (1K) Walk/Run to benefit Shriner's Hospital
Saturday, March 27th, 2010 8:00 a.m. Elton Park
Registration or donation can be made at Tooele Wal-Mart
Service Desk or logging on to www.tooelerun.info

PTA Chocolate Fundraiser

Don't Forget!

World's Finest Chocolate PTA Fundraiser orders are due by Monday, March 22nd. Please turn orders and money in to the school office.

Michelle Obama to Speak at Legislative Conference‏

National PTA® is pleased to announce Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States, will be the keynote speaker at PTA's Legislative Conference.

Her keynote address will be Wednesday, March 10, 12:30 – 2:15 p.m. EST.

The First Lady is slated to speak about her national campaign "Let's Move"—a movement pertinent to the National PTA's efforts toward fighting childhood obesity and promoting healthy lifestyles. Her address is part of PTA's National Legislative Conference taking place March 9-11 in Arlington, VA.

If you are not attending the Legislative Conference, tune in to the live webcast of Mrs. Obama's address: pta.org/LegConWebcast.html.

The direct url for the webcast is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ptaconference.

Open Board Meeting

An open PTA board meeting will be held Thursday, March 4th at 4pm in the community room. All SCES parents are welcome to attend.

County Commissioner's Meeting Regarding Proposed Power Line

There will be a County Commissioner's meeting tomorrow evening, Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 7:00 PM at the Tooele County building downstairs on the south side. This meeting will be regarding the proposed power line that Rocky Mountain Power wants to put in our community. The proposed route would take the line along SR-36 within a quarter mile or so of many of our homes and Settlement Canyon Elementary School. I was contacted today by a local community action group who tell me that all interested members of the community are welcome to attend, and asked that I let our PTA members know about the scheduled meeting.

Thank you,
Mandi Murphy, President
Settlement Canyon Elementary PTA

Upcoming Calendar Dates

February 25th & 26th - Kindergarten Registration for Fall 2010

March 2nd-3rd- District Writing Assessment for 5th grade

March 3rd - Choir begins at 7:45 a.m. held every Wednesday and Thursday morning

March 8th - Teacher Collaboration (Late Start Monday)
School starts at 10:00 a.m.
A.M. Kindergarten 10-12:15
P.M. Kindergarten 12:55-3:10

March 10th - Community Council 7:00 p.m. in library
Title I information discussed

March 11th - PTA fundraiser starts

March 15th-19th- Club Invention 3:15-4:45

March 25th - 3rd term ends

March 25th - Early out for students (Wednesday schedule)
8:45-1:05
A.M. Kindergarten 8:45-10:35
P.M. Kindergarten 11:10 -1:05

March 26th - No School

March 29th-April 2nd Spring Break

Tooele School District's Title I Preschool

It's time to apply for Tooele School District's Title I Preschool held at Northlake Elementary. Potential students must be 4 years old by September 1, 2010 and live within Northlake, Settlement Canyon or West Elementary Boundaries. Pick up an application form in the office. Testing will be the last 2 weeks of school. Deadline: March 12th.

Tooele Babe Ruth

The Tooele County Babe Ruth Baseball League will be conducting their 2010 registration during the next two weeks of February. Registration for the Tooele County Babe Ruth League will be at Tooele City Hall on Thursday, Feb. 18 from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. and on Saturdays, Feb. 20 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Local youth ages 5 through 15 are encouraged to register for the local baseball program. Birth certificates are required for all players except previously registered players with birth certificates on record. Playing age is based on the player’s age as of April 30, 2010. Registration fees are $45 for players ages 5 through 8. Fees for ages 9 through 12 will be $80. Registration fees for players 13 through 15 is $95.

Softball Sign-ups

Attention Girls Ages 5-18

TOOELE COUNTY GIRLS SOFTBALL

Sign-up dates will be: Fridays Feb. 19th and 26th 6-8:30 p.m. and Saturdays Feb. 27th and March 6th 10a.m.-4 p.m.

Tooele High School Commons Area

Cost: $40 per girl Discount for multiple girl families

A $25 late fee will be assessed to sign-ups after March 6th

For questions please contact:
Guy Sheehan 841-1240 Kathi Sheehan 840-8807 Curtis Castagno 882-7088

Box Top Contest

It's that time again! Help your child's class win a pizza party! For the months of February and March, we will be holding a box top contest! The class that brings in the most box tops during these months will win a pizza party.

Minutes from Jan. 7th PTA Board Meeting

Attendance: Mandi Murphy, Shondell Hymas, Kayleen Hymas, Jolene Beard, Michaele Wheeler, Tamsen Andrus, Lisha Hogan, Vannessa Borders, Kammeron Murray, Nannette Johansen

Start time: 4:07

Pledge

Minutes approved Dec 09 approved motioned by Mandi second by Lisha

Principal’s minute:

Science fair judges: 20 judges needed coordinated by Carri Lyda and Laura Hogan

Feb 5 from 9-12

20 judges are needed. If you are interested in being a judge please contact Carri lyda or Laura Hogan

Science fair projects will be displayed on Feb. 4^th judged on Feb. 5^th

Parent teacher conference on Jan 20, The PTA a will provide lunch. To help out contact Vannessa Borders

Governor Herbert Will be at SCES at 10:00, he will be at the school for a short time

He will not be available after the assembly for pictures

Due to district cut backs there will be no school Jan 19 and again in March

School will be out early on Friday Jan 15

Lisha financial report

PTA voted to purchase general liability insurance which covers up to 1 million. There is a $160 premium for both liability and officer’s liability insurance

Motioned by Lisha second by Mandi

Teacher minute by Mrs. Murray

Mrs. Anthony needs books for literacy activities

Box tops earned $171.30

379.06 was refunded to the PTA for reflections

Focus on art received a 500.00 from Wal-Mart

Upcoming events for Calendar

Fundraising-Planning on doing World’s Finest Chocolate fundraiser around late March for chocolate delivery by Easter-

Field day will be held June 1

It was suggested to do a separate field day for kindergartners, who are done with school 1 week before the rest of the students

General meetings – nominating committee March and May

Feb 4 is the reading extravaganza

Ballot for nominated PTA has to be posted for 30 days

4 positions open for elections

Legislative VP, Treasurer, President Elect

Letters need to be in to the nominating committee by Feb 15 (Nicole, Vannessa, Heather)

In using the school blog it was suggested in placing a counter on the Blog to see how many people are using this resource.

Guiding good choices 5 families total have signed up

End time: 4:40

Reading Extravaganza

Our Family Literacy Night Extravaganza is going to be on Tuesday, February 2nd from 5-7 p.m. We will be having a myriad of literacy games and activities, community readers, selling pizza and other goodies, and giving out free books! We will also be having a book exchange! Start gathering some of your gently used books, bring them to your student's teacher by January 29th, then take home that many books on the night of the Extravaganza!

Popcorn With Parents

To help achieve our reading goals, we would like to invite you to read with your child on Friday, January 29th, in his/her classroom from 2:15 to 3:00 p.m. You can bring your own books or borrow them from a teacher. If you have other children at SCES, you can take all of them to the youngest sibling's room and find a cozy place to read together. Enjoy eating popcorn while showing the importance of reading with you child. Hope you can come!

Parent Teacher Conferences

Parent Teacher Conferences will be held January 21st 4pm-7pm by appointment only.

Friday Early Out & No School

School will dismiss at 1:05 this Friday (1/15). Also, there will be no school on next Monday and Tuesday (1/18 and 1/19).

Fundraising - Box Tops

We are always collecting box tops, labels for education, and coke points so keep them coming!!! Even little amounts add up over time.

Science Fair

We need 20 volunteers to judge the Science Fair! No experience necessary. Friday, February 5th, from 9-12. Please consider volunteering and also please ask grandparents, co-workers, and neighbors to help too. Thanks for your help with this important and fun event! Contact Laura Hogan at 840-2966 or lhogan@pureutah.com or Carri Lyda Lucier at cmlyda@gmail.com or 249-0343.

Science Fair is coming soon! It's a great opportunity for family fun as well as for inspiring your children to enjoy science. If you need help, please contact Mr. Manley at rmanley@tooelesd.org or Carri Lyda Lucier at cmlyda@gmail.com or 249-0343.

Open PTA Board Positions

It's that time of year again! Settlement Canyon Elementary PTA has the following open board positions for the 2010-2012 term:

President-Elect
Treasurer
Education VP
Legislative VP

If you are interested in running for one of these positions please contact a member of the nominating committee in writing. All written inquiries should be in a sealed envelope addressed to the SCES PTA Nominating Committee and turned in to the PTA box in the office by January 15, 2009.

January PTA Board Meeting

The January PTA board meeting is set for this Thursday, 1/7 at 4 pm in the Community Room. Everyone is welcome... hope to see you there!