
President
Andrea Kalvas
(440) 886-1371
Happy Holidays to all! Like the famous song says "It’s the most wonderful time of the year." I really love the Holidays, to me this is such a special time to connect with my children through all the traditions, parties and festivities. There’s nothing like watching the joy and wonder of the season in my children’s eyes. I know the holidays can be stressful and way to hectic but if we remember to put the "big rocks" in first we’ll do just fine. If you want to know what I mean about putting the "big rocks" in first you’ll have to come to our December meeting and hear the inspirational message.
A great big thank you goes out to Rita Basalla, Nancy Basalla, Sherri Spagnola and Grace Lannoch for a wonderful Tot Workshop. The presents look beautiful, we all can’t wait to see what our children made us. The ornaments are very cute and everything went smoothly. Thanks for all your work!
We have a lot of opportunities to have holiday fun with our children coming up. We’re going on a Christmas Lights Bus Tour on Dec. 4th. We’ll stop for dinner and sing Christmas songs on the bus. Many of our children will get to make a toy with "Santa" at Apple Country Market. There’s a play called "Lyle, Lyle the Crocodile" on Dec. 9th, lunch with Santa at Antonio’s Pizza on Dec. 12th, and roller skating at Skate Station on Dec. 29th. Moms, don’t forget our December meeting will be a game night so come and have some fun with us!
We had some famous members this past month. Sherri Spagnola was on Channel 5 News playing "Who Wants to Win $100,000.00" - good luck Sherri! And Cheryl Meriwether had her name in the "Sun News" for creating our web site. By the way, the web site got good reviews and earned a B. If you haven’t looked at it lately you should. Thanks Cheryl- you really have done a great job- I give you an A+ !!
I wish all our members and their families the most joyous Holiday Season! Say "Yes2Kids" by helping them understand that there is more joy in giving than in receiving.
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DECEMBER ACTIVITIES
December 4 Christmas Light Bus Tour, $5.00 per person
December 9 Lyle, Lyle the Crocodile and 10th Palace Theatre, $4.25 per at 10:00 a.m. person (need 10 for group rate)
December 12 Antonio’s Pizza 11a.m.-1p.m. Lunch with Santa
December 12 Sesame Street Live 4:30p.m. $12.00 per ticket
December 14, Apple Country Market and 19th $5.00 per child
December 14 Next Meeting, Game Night
December 29 Skate Station, 6:30-8:30 Bring your own skates or rent there @ $1.50 or $3.00 for in-line
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Council Delegate
Cheryl Meriwether
(216) 328-9723
Notes from the November 10, 1999 executive board meeting of the Parma Council of PTA’s:
She also spoke about the levy failure and the fact that this loss will impact our kids forever. She says when you go the ballot box it is either a vote for or against kids.
Notes from the November 17, 1999 regular meeting of the Parma Council of PTA’s:
Web site news: Our web site was reviewed in the Sun Newspaper section Surfing The Net With Sun. It got
a "B".
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Sherri Spagnola
Sunshine
(440) 888-2528
Anyone hearing of news regarding major family events about members and their families, please contact me.
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Environmental
Cindy McGuire
(440)845-9676
Factoids
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Please save Campbells Soup Labels, Box Tops, and Supermarket Receipts
Campbells, Chef’s Kettle, Franco-American, Goldfish, Healthy Request, Home-Cooking, Pace, Pepperidge Farm, Prego, Simply-Home, Spaghettios, Swanson, V8, and V8 Splash.
Please save box tops from all General Mills cereals and the following products: Golden Graham Treats, Gushers, Fruit by the Foot, Fruit String Thing, Fruit Roll-ups, Bugs Bunny & Friend, Trix Fruit Snacks, Scooby Doo Fruit Snacks, Shark Bites, Dunkaroos, Lucky Charms Fruit Snacks, Hawaiian Punch Fruit Snacks, Yoplait Trix Multipack Yogurt, Gogurt, Yoplait Yumsters, Yoplait Multipack Original Yogurt and all Lloyds Barbecue Buckets.
All box tops will be worth $.10 this year. Trix Yogurt has double box tops this month.
Please save all receipts from TOPS Supermarkets, Giant Eagle will start 10/10/99, please save receipts through 2/26/2000.
Kids Konnection
January 22, 2000
10a.m.-4p.m.
Valley Forge High School
Parma Early Childhood PTA, Normandy Cluster present "Kids Konnection," a gathering of child care providers, preschools, classes, toys, and more. Everything under one roof. A special kids resale spot will also be highlighted.
Preschools and child care centers are invited to set up a table to advertise their programs. Bring coloring sheets for the kids or plan something fun to show. Space will be available for various children's programs to demonstrate.
Tables are available at only $30 for exhibitors and $15 for resale tables.
Only one exhibitor will be permitted from the various "party" sale companies.
Deadline January 7, 2000
Questions/Contract Call: Laura Ponikvar (216) 573-1519
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School Readiness
Cindy McGuire
(440) 845-9676
Reading is part of a total language development and includes:
To learn to read, children need self confidence. Living each day in a happy, friendly school or home, gives the child a feeling of belonging, of being accepted, and a confident, positive self.
To learn to read, children must have developed a speaking vocabulary. Children must have a good model who uses words carefully, explains objects and experiences, helps the child listen and listens to the child. Children need to talk, to talk they need to be heard.
To learn to read, children need to have been allowed to think, to figure things out, to be independent and to have had big physical experiences. When a child tries hard to build a big house with blocks, he/she is thinking and getting physical experience. Making mistakes helps children learn; errors are expected in new learning. Building, running, interacting, and having rich, active playtime leads children to reading.
To read, children need to want to read. They need to see adults using books, they need to look through books, they need to examine and discuss pictures. They need to practice their own expressive abilities. All of these—the development of the mind, the language used by the child, the physical development of the body, positive attitudes and feelings and the social behavior of the child will make him/her the reader we want them to be.
Middleburg Early Education Center
Bonnie Chojnacki & Lynn Figaro
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Happy Holidays to Everyone!!