Great Gatherings Hosts Needed!

A great gathering is a themed party hosted by Maple Dale parents, with all proceeds going towards the Maple Dale PTO.   We are looking for hosts for parties!  Design your own party, or choose from some of the ideas below.   Click to contact Pam McCallen or 891-5881 for more information.

Bunco with the Girls

Parents Night Out or "Santas Little Helpers" - offer babysitting for the kids, could be an adult, or an older scout troop

Cupcake Decorating Party

Craft Beer Tasting

Owl Pillow Sewing Class

Ladies Night Out - wine, cheese, snacks, & laughs

Lunch & a Fashion Show - lunch in your home, with Cabi rep

Sangria Party - sangria, tapas, music

Kids' Minecraft Night - pizza, snacks, mincraft and other games

Design a Porch Pot - all materials to ccreate a porch pot, wine, snacks

Poker & Whiskey Tasting for Men

Suds N Sausages for Dads

Boys' Wiffle Ball & Hot Dog Party

American Girl Tea Party

Origami Party for girls of a specific grade

Euchre party

Bid n Buy Donations due Monday May 4th

Reminder: Donations for Bid n Buy needed by Monday May 4th! in order to have time to make baskets and bid sheets.

Open PTO Chair Positions for 2016-2017

Maple Dale offers your student so many special opportunities to grow and learn!

Please consider assisting our PTO with the programs you have come to know and love!

 

We are looking for parents to Chair the following great programs for the 2016-2017 School Year:

 

Yearbook      Fall Staff Appreciation      Book Fair      Girls on the Run      Great American Fundraising

Book Swap   Outdoor Classroom           4^th Grade Recycling Rangers

4^th Grade Celebration       Run Jump Play Event         Field Day       Eating with the Stars

 

Click to contact Laura Davis or Click to contact Christy Banke 

Thank you!

Presentation- Summer Reading: Recommendations and Motivation

Join GEAR for this special presentation with Sam Bloom (Children's Librarian at Blue Ash branch of  Public Library of Cincinnati ) on May 4th 9:30 am at the Blue Ash Elementary UC wing.
* open to all

Click for flyer

Earth Week Wrap Up

What a great time we had at Maple Dale celebrating Earth Week! Thank you to all of our parent volunteers who helped at the Earth Fair on Tuesday, to the students who made beautiful posters that decorated our cafeteria for the week, to Hamilton County Recycling & Solid Waste Distrtict and Healthy Roots for coming to the Earth Fair to educate us about recycling and composting, and to Whit's Frozen Custard for donating for our drawing! It was a great week!

Classroom Basket Donations Due May 6th!!

Quick reminder: just about one week left to bring in donations for the Classroom baskets. Check Carnival Packet to see what is assigned for your child's grade.  

Classroom Basket Donations

Please remember to send in donation for classroom baskets!  The kids look forward to baskets at Carnival. Check flyer to see what is assigned for your child's grade.  Donations are due by May 6th

Carnival Packet

The Carnival packet with a bright green cover sheet was sent home last week. We hope you had a chance to review the information.  If you have any questions please Contact Dawn Thaman 

 Remember: Preorder your tickets by Friday May 8th to get the discount!

Carnival Ticket Pre-sale

Cash Raffle Pre-sale

Help Wanted

Be a Sponsor

Book Swap

Book Swap – Friday, April 24^th.

Attention K – 4^th grade families!  It’s not too late to bring in books that your kids no longer need for the Book Swap!  Please send in your books any day right up to Book Swap day on Friday, April 24th.  Our goal is for each Maple Dale student to be able to choose a “new to them” book.  Please Contact Martha France with questions or to volunteer for this totally fun event!

Bid N Buy

    ** Is in need of some large baskets for putting items in.  If you have one or two lurking in storage, please bring them in to the Maple Dale office.

    **  If you have any new items to contribute to the bid n buy (gift cards, framed photos, sports paraphernalia, etc.), please get it to Maple Dale or Contact Pam McCallen 891-5881 by May 1st.  We need time to organize items into baskets and make bid sheets.   Thank You!!

Great Gatherings!

A great gathering is a themed party hosted by Maple Dale parents, with all proceeds going towards the Maple Dale PTO.   We are looking for hosts for parties!  Design your own party, or choose from some of the ideas below.  Contact Pam McCallen or 891-5881 for more information.

Bunco with the Girls

Parents Night Out or "Santas Little Helpers" - offer babysitting for the kids, could be an adult, or an older scout troop

Cupcake Decorating Party

Craft Beer Tasting

Owl Pillow Sewing Class

Ladies Night Out - wine, cheese, snacks, & laughs

Lunch & a Fashion Show - lunch in your home, with Cabi rep

Sangria Party - sangria, tapas, music

Kids' Minecraft Night - pizza, snacks, mincraft and other games

Design a Porch Pot - all materials to ccreate a porch pot, wine, snacks

Poker & Whiskey Tasting for Men

Suds N Sausages for Dads

Boys' Wiffle Ball & Hot Dog Party

American Girl Tea Party

Origami Party for girls of a specific grade

Euchre party

MY SON PINOCCHIO JR. IS A ‘WHALE’ OF A TIME

Disney’s MY SON PINOCCHIO JR.

Presented by Symmes Players

Playing at Sycamore Jr High in Blue Ash

Cincinnati, OH. (April 8, 2015)- Symmes Players proudly presents Disney’s MY SON PINOCCHIO JR., playing at Sycamore Jr. High on Friday, May 1^st at 7pm, Saturday, May 2^nd at 7pm, and Sunday, May 3^rd at 2pm. The 60-minute musical, designed for elementary-school aged performers, is based on the 2000 made-for-television movie Geppetto with original music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a few tunes from the 1940 Disney classic Pinocchio. The 3^rd and 4^th grade Symmes Elementary cast contains approximately 70 students led by Rachelle Penilla and Carina Henry.

“I am so impressed with these Symmes students.  Their hard work, talent, and ‘can do attitude’ is going to yield an entertaining performance.” Carina Henry, 2015 Assistant Director

Seventeen years ago, Kathy Wenning, a parent at Symmes Elementary, had the idea to create a theater program where every 3^rd and 4^th grade student, regardless of abilities, could participate in a theatrical experience.  Symmes Players was born!  Since then, hundreds of students have participated in Symmes Players.  The program is completely run by parent volunteers who devote their time and energy to the actors and production.

In this twist on the traditional Pinocchio story, things don’t work out exactly as expected. The Blue Fairy is satisfied that she granted Geppetto’s wish perfectly, but the toy maker is less than thrilled with his new son Pinocchio. Geppetto tries to convince the Blue Fairy of Pinocchio’s defects, and he begs her to take him back. The Blue Fairy refuses, but later agrees to give Pinocchio to a greedy puppeteer, Stromboli, who wants the stringless puppet for his show. When Pinocchio saves them both from the mouth of a whale, Geppetto realizes he has grown to love his new son. Upon returning home, he is forced to persuade Stromboli and the Blue Fairy that he deserves to keep Pinocchio.

Performances of Disney’s MY SON PINOCCHIO JR. are open to the public at Sycamore Jr High on Friday, May 1st at 7pm; Saturday, May 2nd at 7pm; and Sunday, May 3rd at 2pm. Admission is $7 per person.

For information about tickets, contact Anna Hartz at: symmesplayers@yahoo.com.

For more information about licensing MY SON PINOCCHIO JR. or other Disney shows, please visit www.DisneyMusicals.com.

Our Sister School

Maple Dale will be supporting our sister school, Winton Hills Acadamy this spring by providing a teacher apprecaition luncheon for the staff.  The luncheon is scheduled for May 7th.   We would love to find some parents at Maple Dale who would be willing to provide food and paper items for the event.  It has been an honor to celebrate and support the hard working staff at our sister school in past years and we are looking forward to it again!   Please Contact Deanna DeBrosse if you are able to support  the luncheon.   Thank you!

Earth Week April 20th- 24th

Click here for flyer with details

PTO Reminders for Week of April 6, 2015

                                               

Thursday April 16th at 9:30 am with guest speaker Ann Marie Reinke,  Assistant Director of Academic Affairs. She will cover Compass Learning over the summer and next year's author visit. 

Book Swap – Friday, April 24^th.

Attention K – 4^thgrade families!  It’s time to start gathering up books that your kids no longer need for the Book Swap!  Please send in your books any day the week of April 13^th.  Collection bags will be outside your child’s classroom door.  We typically collect fewer 4^th grade-level books so you might want to check with friends and relatives to see if they have any books they no longer need.  Our goal is for each Maple Dale student to be able to choose a “new to them” book.  We also need some additional volunteers to help collect and sort books prior to the event .  Please contact Martha France m.france@fuse.net with questions or to volunteer for this totally fun event!

Reminder: Time to renew your Community Rewards with your Kroger Plus Card. Maple Dale Elementary must be renewed once a year, during the month of April. Simply follow the instructions detailed in the "Selecting an Organization" section to maintain or update Maple Dale as your chosen organization. 

click here for instructions  How to Enroll Your Kroger Card

Summer Tennis

SUMMER TENNIS!  Games! Learning! Fun!  

For grades 3 - 8, Sycamore will be having a 3-day summer tennis camp June 8th, 9th, and 10th.  

For grades 6, 7, 8 there will also be a four-week clinic.

For information, please contact Coach Mike Teets at teetsm@sycamoreschools.org.