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Issue 6 April 2012 EDITOR: CARLA VIDMAR

PTA newsletter DONALDSON ELEMENTARY DONALDSON ELEMENTARY

Table of Contents 2 Art Fair 3 BTB Teams 4 Save The Date 5 Reflections 6 Labels 7 STudent Interviews 8 Photos

Great job to all of the Donaldson Battle of the Books Teams. You all represented Donaldson well. I couldn’t have asked for a better group of kids to work with!  

Congratulations to the tournament winners, the Fantas-tic Five: Casey Bachowski, Kylie Laughery, Loren Perry, Christina Prologo and Sydney Williams. Your team name will be inscribed on the plaque in the office! 

To the non-winning teams, a pat on the back as well, you read 10 books and had some fun with reading which is my ultimate goal. There can only be 1 winner but you are all winners in my book! 

Thank you to the parents who took time to support read-ing and show kids that reading is a skill that should be prac-ticed and enjoyed! 

Thank you to the teachers who accepted AR points and encouraged lunches and participation. 

 Students enjoyed a celebration lunch on Tuesday April 3rd in the library. Students received their participation certificates and many accolades from me at lunch!! See page 3 for all participants.  Beth Schultz, Librarian

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ART FAIR

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Setting Suns Rainy Evans Rachel Kiss Mackenzie Gillie Kellyanne Hernandez Mrs. Jennifer Kiss TM

5 Musketeers Lauren Bayer Caitlin Davis Breanna McMurtrie Arielle Moulinie Danni Telles Mrs. Ashley Bayer TM

The Reading Rockets Mackenzy Gerard Danielle Miller Noah Scheider Aaron Silvis Gabrielle Tressky Mr. Anthony Tresky TM

Lightening Stars Alexa Dezelan Morgan McElhany Brianna Medved Reanna Nadik Samantha Story Mrs. Barb McElhany TM

Racing Readers Keilanni Hernandez Pheobe Karas Rhianna Pannette Maria Vidmar Mr. Kevin Karas&Mrs. Ronelle CherillaKaras

Reading Rock Stars Bria Allen Jenna Hollyfield Ava Meier Adrianne Newton Madelyn Santiago Mrs. Monica Meier TM Book Bandits Wade Gunderson Justin Herron Carson Venuti Mrs. Beth Venuti TM

Knights of the Reading Ta-ble Adam Chang Trevor King Alex Kwiatkowski Brendan Zimmerman Edward Zou Mrs. Jacqui King and Mrs. Su Li TM

Fantastic Five! Casey Bachowski Kylie Laughery Loren Perry Christina Prologo Sydney Williams Mrs. Pam Perry & Mrs. Karen Prologo TM

Righteous Readers Michael Cosnek Sammy Shields Scott Zanella Mrs. Kelly Cosnek TM

BATTLE OF THE BOOKS TEAMS

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Mr. Lambert flying?

DONALDSON FITNESS DAY

COMMUNITY EVENTS

North Fayette Community Days August 3rd and 4th Games, 5K, fireworks and fun for all!

McDonald McRun 5K run and walk for kids & adults July 1st @ 9am Sign up at http://www.active.com/running/mcdonald-pa/mcdonald-mcrun-2012

Save The Date May 18, 2012

Details to follow

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REFLECTIONS

On Friday March 23rd we recognized the following students for their participation in REFLECTIONS ART PROGRAM. This year's theme was: "Diversity Means" We had 39 participants. There are 5 levels of competition: local- council-regional- state- nationals. We are pleased to announce that 4 students went on to compete at the regional level: Gabriel Trotter for his Visual Arts entry Elena Turner for her photography entry Connor Guira for his photography entry Meadow Robertson for her dance entry

VISUAL ARTS Grades K-2 Grades 3-5 Rachel Mamula Gabriel Trotter Julia Prologo Ethan McClain Esha Lahoti Gianna Giacomino Delaney Evers Allie Dellovade Breanna McMurtrie

PHOTOGRAPHY Grades K-2 Grades 3-5 Connor Guira Elena Turner Alex Mack Sophia Weber Sarah Rankin Alyssa Goldstrohm Sarah Rankin

LITERATURE Grades K-2 Grades 3-5 Rachel Mamula Mackenzie Gille Julia Prologo Loren Perry

DANCE Grades K-2 Grades 3-5 Meadow Robertson

Reflections Ice Cream Social All participants received a Michael’s Craft

gift card.

Thanks to all students that participated! Michelle Giacomino, Reflections Chair

Gabriel Tro er receiving his 1st Place Plaque at the PA PTA Awards Breakfast.  He placed 1st in State for the Interme‐diate Visual Arts catego‐ry.  His digital copy went on to the Na onal PTA level judging.  

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STUDENT INTERVIEWS

If you would like to have your child write an article, please contact Anne Harris-Crowe at anneharriscrowe@yahoo.com. It would be great to have a lot of children participate!!!!!

By Brayden Fayad My favorite thing at Donaldson is playing with my friends. My favorite subject is math. My favorite special at school is when we have gym. I really like my school.

By Adam Crawford The P.S.S.A's are really fun. My bus driver is also funny and nice. I have 2 teachers and 2 classrooms. My teachers and my classmates are awesome and really nice. In class we do science, reading, math, social studies and language arts. Science and math are my favorite subjects. Gym and swimming are my favor-ite specials.

By Andrea Russo

In Horizons class, we picked through a real owl pellet. An owl pellet

is a little ball of fur and bones. The owl throws up the ball. In my pel-

let, I found 3 rat skeletons and a mole skeleton. We placed all of

bones on a sorting chart. It was really fun digging in an owl pellet!

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