March Calendar 2 - Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! 4 - Kindergarten Registration 6-7PM in the cafeteria 7 - Blood Drive, 3-7pm, parking lot 4-8 - Kindergarten Registration Week 9am-2pm in the office 6 - Pirates Palooza: grades 3-6 8 - Choir Concert at First United Methodist Church, 7:00 10 - Daylight Saving Time Begins 15-22 - NO SCHOOL….Spring Break (unless we have another snow day) 25 - IRead begins for 3rd grade 30 - Spring Courtyard Clean-up, 8-10am

March 2019

Christopher L. Smith, Principal Dana Bodart, Assistant Principal

Calling All PopTabs The final day to collect pop tabs for this

year is April 1st. As a school we have

increased our amount from last year by

over 300%!! Way to go Pirates.

The district contest ends April 1st and

the kids at Riley need our help.

Bring in those tabs.

Every one counts.

Book Fair & Social Save the date - April 12. This is our very popular buy one get one free book fair. Look for volunteer information soon.

More details inside: Attendance page 2 Blood Drive page 2

Bonus Program Update page 11 Courtyard Cleanup page 4 Choir Concert page 5 Counselor’s Corner page 6 Kindergarten Registration page 12 Math Bowl page 3

Spring Break page 2 Spring lunch/breakfast menu page 14 STEM request page 4 Teacher Appreciation Week page 11 Yearbooks page 2

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Notes From the Office Spring Break March 11, 12, 13, and 14 we will be having school due to the four snow days we had. We

will not have school on Friday, March 15 unless we have another snow day before Spring Break. Guaranteed Spring Break is March 18-22. Classes will resume on Monday, March 25.

Yearbooks It’s not too late to order your yearbook! Yearbook orders are being taken in the office. You may bring $16 in cash or a check made out to Parkside and Mrs. Ebersold will help you. To order online,

visit: www.interstate.com/yearbook and enter code 34006N

Attendance Is Important Parents, please remember that attendance is important. Leaving school early counts the same as coming to school late. Both count against a student’s attendance. It is important for every student to be at school every minute of the day. Unless your child is vomiting, has diarrhea or a fever, they

are expected to be in school the entire day. Students are counted tardy if they are not in their classroom at 8:10. School is dismissed at 2:37.

Blood Drive Parkside Elementary School Blood Drive

Thursday, March 7, 2019 3:00PM - 7:00PM Parkside Parking Lot

Students can earn the prizes below by recruiting donors!

Donors must be 17 years old (16 with signed parent permission slip), meet height /weight eligibility requirements, be in good general health,

and present a photo I.D. at registration. Not sure if you are eligible? Visit the eligibility page of our web site, or email specific questions to Eligibility.

More questions? Contact: Shannon Crawford(scrawford@indianablood.org).

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Math Bowl Congratulations to the PARKSIDE MATHLETES who won the Regional contest and placed 4th in the

state of Indiana on February 21. These kids mastered questions about geometry and measurement as well as logic problems. Thirteen teams competed in the regional competition where Parkside

overtook Southside in a tough battle to claim first place! Results of the state competition revealed that Parkside came in 4th place in the state against 117 competing schools! Way to go Parkside Math Bowl team!

The following is a list of round participants. * round captains

Round 1: *Sam Song, *Neal White, Dhruv Deshmukh, Edward Simpson Round 2: *Andy Qin, Pravav Nalole, Hitashi Patel, , Parth Shah, Emmersen Logston

Round 3: *Rishabh Rajesh, Arsh Attar, Noah Dornfeld, Harshil Gandhi, David Simpson Round 4: *Michael Crossman, Rhea Jain, Steven Sun, Kohen Fischer, Vardhan Yepuri

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Courtyard Clean-up Courtyard SPRING CLEAN-UP

Saturday, March 30th from 8-10am

Pruning, Raking, Mulching, and a bit of planting All volunteers welcome. (kids must be accompanied by an adult)

questions, call or text Tasha Tyner 512.296.7851 or tyner6@yahoo.com

STEM Lab News The STEM lab has an exciting project coming up starting in March. We need bottle caps to use as wheels. Any size will work but we have found milk caps work the best.

Volunteers are need to watch the hot glue table after spring break.

For the safety of our students we require an adult to be at the hot glue table. -You do not need experience teaching or working with children.

-You do not need to know how to make the project. -Please do not think someone else will volunteer. -All volunteers must have a background check on file.

If you are able to volunteer, or have any questions about bringing in bottle caps, please contact Mrs. Simons at simonsk@bcsc.k12.in.us

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Music Notes

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Counselor’s Corner

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Counselor’s Corner

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Third Grade

Fifth Grade

On Friday, February 22nd the fifth graders had a successful Colonial Wax Museum! The gym hosted

over 90 student booths of colonial characters ready to share about the colonial time period. The

students were knowledgeable about the colonies, as well as artisans and notable figures of the

time. Thank you to all the family members, teachers, and students who visited the museum. We

were so happy to have a crowd to present to, and we hope you learned something new!

Grade Level News

Miss Bodkins:

Sarah DeLap Ayden Hamm Kaylee Thackrey

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Pre-K

The children in Edwards Pre-k class pretended to be Dental Hygienists during Dental Health Month.

They examined and cleaned the Dragon's teeth. It is a fun way to learn care of our own teeth.

Grade Level News

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Pre-K

Ever since we built gingerbread houses in

December, Mrs. Morlok's Pre-K students have

shown an interest in making more houses.

We had a visit from Rachana Kalkarni with

Louis Joyner Architects and she talked to us

about what it means to be an architect. We

learned about the drawings that architects

make as well as the physical models they

make to represent a building project. Our

students have drawn out their house designs

on graph paper and we are getting ready to

make our physical models. Stay tuned!

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Teacher Appreciation week Teacher Appreciation week is coming up May 6-10. The Parkside PTO has some special things planned to show our teachers how much we appreciate and value them. You can help us in a few

different ways:

GIFT CARDS - We are asking for donations of gift cards to raffle to the teachers each day that week. Gift cards can be for any dollar amount and from any store or restaurant. Cards can be turned in to Mrs. Ebersold in the office by Friday, May 3.

WRITE A THANK YOU NOTE - Tuesday, May 7 is National Teacher Appreciation Day. On this day, take the time to say thank you or write a special note of gratitude for all of the hard work and

long hours your child's teacher has put in this year.

VOLUNTEER - We are in need of a few volunteers to help serve lunch one day this week.

If you would like to volunteer or have any questions please contact Susan Finney at scfinney@gmail.com.

Bonus Program Update So far this year, we've collected $516.90 with Box Tops.

Keep collecting and place them in the Box Tops bin in the cafeteria.

Winners

Fall - Mrs. Logston's 5th grade class Winter - Mrs. Cole's first grade class Spring - Ms. Morlok's Pre-K class

We may have an end of year contest and definitely a summer family contest. Watch for more details!

Parkside Pirates

You are invited to our

next PTO Meeting:

Tuesday, April 15

at 1:30pm.

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