Wayside Waves 11.5.23 – Wayside PTA

Posted on November 5, 2023 by admin

1. Scholastic Book Fair
2. Potomac Pizza Spirit Night
3. Reflections 2023-2024
4. It Takes a Village
5. Amazon Wish Lists
6. 2nd General PTA Meeting
7. Yearbook Photo Collection
8. Digital Backpack

1. Our Scholastic Book Fair is Here!

Our Scholastic Book Fair started on Friday, November 3rd, and continues through Thursday, November 9th. You can still set up your child’s eWallet for a safe cash-free way to shop! Our book fair will also accept cash, credit cards and checks made payable to the Wayside PTA.Teachers will bring their classes to the book fair at specific times Monday, November 6th, and the morning of Tuesday, November 7th. See most up to date book fair schedule here.

The book fair will be open for all students to shop on Tuesday, November 7th, Wednesday, November 8th and the morning of Thursday, November 9th.

The book fair will be open for all families to shop during Teacher Reading Night on Wednesday, November 8th, 5-7pm.
Don’t forget to wear your pajamas to school and during Teacher Reading Night with Ms. Weinbaum, Ms. Young, Ms. Bajwa, Ms. Wells and Ms. Drannan!

Can’t make it to the book fair or need more choices? You can shop an expanded selection of options online until November 16th!

We still need a few volunteers! Help us make this year’s Scholastic Book Fair a success and sign up to volunteer today! Volunteers are needed between 9:30am and 3pm to help students find books and to check students out. Please sign up even if you can only stay for part of the time!

Thank you so much for your support!

Questions? Contact Marion Haberman at marionhaberman@gmail.com, Kirsten Carr at fundraising@waysidepta.org, Kristen Lavender at kristen.m.lavender@gmail.com or Melissa Adler at m_adler5@yahoo.com.

2. Potomac Pizza Spirit Night is on November 15th!

2. Reflections 2023-2024
Discover your world and explore new cultures or your own through dance, film, literature, music, photography, or visual arts. No experience is required to participate in Reflections! Be recognized as an artist in your community. Choose the arts category you’re interested in, create an original piece of artwork based on the 2023-2024 theme:

“I am Hopeful Because…”

For more than 50 years, National PTA has celebrated the imagination and creativity of students through the Reflections program. Reflections is a unique arts-in-education effort as it engages all students, including two age groups for elementary schools: Primary for K through grade 2, and Intermediate for grade 3 through grade 5.

There are six categories for this friendly competition, and participants can enter in more than one category. The six categories are:
1. Dance Choreography
2. Film Production
3. Literature
4. Music Composition
5. Photography
6. Visual Arts
There is also a division for the Special Artists.

Official rules & category specific guidelines can be found here: https://www.fspta.org/reflections.

How to participate in Reflections 2023-2024:
1. Create your work of art based on the theme “I am Hopeful Because…”
2. Complete the entry form for Wayside students found here
3. Email your completed form to Chuanwen Lu at c.lumails@gmail.com by Monday, November 20th

4. It Takes a Village

Thank you to all the room parents for organizing amazing Halloween celebrations for our Wayside students!

5. Amazon Wish Lists
We are grateful to everyone that has supported our Wayside teachers so far! Please consider a donation this month to show how much we appreciate them!

PTA / TEACHER WISH LISTS

Specials
Mrs. Weinbaum’s Art Class
Mrs. Freundel’s Counseling
Mrs. Rhoads’ Media Center
Mr. Rod’s Music Class

Specialists
Mrs. Jendzurski

Kindergarten
Mrs. Young’s Class
Ms. Saunder’s Class
Ms. Egan’s Class

1st Grade
Mrs. Rudolph’s Class
Ms. Claus’ Class
Ms. Yanow’s Class

2nd Grade
Ms. Gambrell’s Class
Mrs. Adams’ Class
Ms. Bronfman’s Class

3rd Grade
Ms. Deutsch’s Class
Mrs. Kaperst’s Class

4th Grade
Ms. Katzen’s Class
Mr. Heckhaus’ Class

5th Grade
Ms. Wells’ Class
Ms. Bortnick’s Class
Ms. Levine’s Class

PEP/SCB
Ms. Homan’s Class
Ms. Solender’s Class
PEP INC.: Mrs. Gray and Ms. Shafter

6. 2nd General PTA Meeting
Save the date for our next PTA meeting at Wayside ES on December 5th at 6pm.
The brief PTA meeting will be followed by a presentation on Restorative Justice by Ms. Freundel.

7. Yearbook Photo Collection

Book Fair/Teacher Reading Night photos- link to google form
Halloween Party photos- link to google form
Spirit Nights photos – link to google form
Walk to School Day photos- link to google form
Bingo Night photos- link to google form

Questions? Contact the yearbook committee at yearbook@waysidepta.org.

8. Digital Backpack
The Wayside PTA provides information on enrichment opportunities in our community as a courtesy to parents. The Wayside PTA does not endorse or recommend any enrichment opportunities.

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