Maple Dale Milers Info

Maple Dale Milers Spring Session Kick-off is March 9th

Details for Milers and the Cincinnati Flying Pig Kids' Marathon 26th Mile can be found here.

GEAR Pi Day - Sunday 3/13

Donations for Local Animal Shelter

Maple Dale's 3rd grade Brownie troop is collecting donations for Save The Animals Foundation, a local shelter for cats and dogs.  The top 5 most needed items include postage stamps, paper towels, trash bags (8, 13, or 60 gallon), fancy feast canned cat food, and well brand canned cat food.  For more information about the shelter, and more items that are on its wish list, go to www.staf.org.  Please send in items by March 10th.  For questions, contact Pam McCallen at pamzla@yahoo.com.

4th Grade Parents - "Gear Up For Greene" and "Greene 101"

Click here for the online flyer

The nurse's office stock of clothes is running low and we'll gladly accept donations of lightly used items. We need sizes 6-14 pants preferably with elastic waist band

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ong sleeve shirts especially for girls. Lightly used or new shoes, socks and underwear will also be appreciated!

Thank you!

Mrs. Muskal

Time to Submit Letters for Class Placement Next Year

Dear Parents, 

We are beginning the process of putting classes together for next year. One of the most important things we consider as we carefully look at class composition is your input. 

We ask that you give us feedback about how your child learns best, and on positive peer relationships that will make his or her learning experience next year optimal. 

Please consider writing a letter with this information. You may send this letter to school in a sealed envelope addressed to Mrs. Reinke, Assistant Principal. 

Please refrain from naming specific teachers. We would like to have your letter by March 14th. 

Should you have any questions, please email Mrs. Reinke at: 

reinkea@sycamoreschools.org

Sincerely, 

Ron L. Brooks, Principal

Treasurer Position Open

 

We are still looking for a Treasurer for next year's PTO Executive Board.  This is a great opportunity to be intimately involved in the workings of this great school!  The Treasurer is responsible for maintaining the PTO Budget, providing an updated budget each month for the board and general PTO meetings, writing checks, tracking monetary requests, and helping with counting money for carnival and the walkathon.  The Treasurer is not required to attend meetings, so this could be a good spot for a working parent who wants to be involved in Maple Dale, but isn't available during the business day.  Our current Treasurer, Kari Crusius, has held this position for the last two years.   With next year being Kari's last year at Maple Dale, it would be very helpful to have someone take on this position while Kari is still here to assist and mentor them. 

According to our bylaws, an officer can only hold the same position for two consecutive years.  If no one else is willing to take on this position, we will need to amend our bylaws in order to allow Kari to stay in this position longer.  Please contact Pam McCallen if you are interested in this opportunity:  pamzla@yahoo.com or 891-5881.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!

A giant round of applause goes to our amazing parents who have chaired some of our recent programs!!  We thank you for giving your time and energy to our school!

Thank you to:

**Belinda Busemeyer, Kari Crusius, Lisa Skinner, Amanda Dunphy, and Denise Schramm for their great teamwork organizing our fantastic After School Enrichment program!

**Meredith Towbin and Karen Griffin for organizing another fun Family Fun Skate Night!

**Amy Jordan for all of your efforts with the Staff Appreciation Week!

**Courtney Simon who organized our fantastic COSI event for the kids in the fall!

**Heather Parzynski for your amazing efforts organizing our fall Walk-a-thon!!

Box Tops - Last Call!

Please remember to send in box tops now to your children's classes. Deadline is Friday, February 20th. Thanks!

Evening PTO Meeting

 

Our PTO meeting this week is on Thursday, February 11^th, at 7:00pm.   The Blue Ash Children’s Librarian, Sam Bloom will be our guest speaker.  Mr. Sam will be enlightening us of all the great programs available through our city libraries.  Do you know about “Maker Space” at the downtown library?  Find out about it at our meeting!  Mr. Sam will also discuss electronic resources, and give us some book suggestions.  Babysitting service will be provided.

Book Fair Volunteer Opportunity

 

 

Are you interested in helping at our annual book fair? This event takes place Feb.22-26th with times being offered throughout the day. We need help organizing tables, handing out wish lists to the children, monitoring merchandise and possibly acting like human calculators. We will do our best to get you scheduled during your child's shopping time. Please email Amanda Hughes at ahughes@fuse.net if you are not already signed up, but would like to be.

Spring Pictures

 

Spring pictures will be February 23^rd.   If you would like to help the kids look snazzy for their pictures, we need a few volunteers from 9:30-12:30 and 12:30 – 2:30.  Please contact Pam McCallen if you would like to volunteer.  pamzla@yahoo.com or 891-5881.

Box Tops!

Please remember to send in box tops now to your children's classes. Deadline is February 20th. Thanks!

Yearbook Sales and a Call for Pictures!

If you have not yet purchased a yearbook for your student(s), don’t worry, there’s still time.

The Maple Dale yearbook committee is excited about this year’s yearbook, Our World at Maple Dale, bursting with photos, student portraits, activities, and highlights. We’re sure that your student(s) will want a yearbook to look back on these special memories.

 

To ensure your student doesn’t miss out on this opportunity order a yearbook(s) for your student(s), by going to:

https://ybpay.lifetouch.com

School ID code # 1833816

 

The deadline to order is March 4th.

 

It’s been a great year so far—and we look forward to an equally great yearbook!

 

P.S. Calling all photographers!

If you have snapshots of students and school activities that you want to be considered for this year’s book, please send an email to Angie Spyrou at: ispynightowls@gmail.com