Dr. Wade’s message for 10/5/19 – 10/12/19

OCTOBER
10/7: Bus Evacuation Drill 9:45
10/9: No School for students & teachers
10/10: Interims distributed
10/14: Open House 10-11:30
10/14-10/17: Mobile Science Lab
10/15: 4th Grade Field Trip-Agricultural Farm Park
10/16: Kindergarten Field Trip-Green Meadows
10/16: 1st Grade Field Trip-Butler’s Orchard
10/17: 5th Grade Field Trip-Mount Vernon
10/25: 5th Grade Field Trip-Strathmore Concert
10/26: Family Portrait Day at Freed Photography Studios in Bethesda
10/31: Halloween Parties and Parade

MONDAY 9/30
– No School for students & teachers

TUESDAY 10/1
– Gr. 4 Glenstone Previsit (Think Big Cafe) 10:30-11:15
– October PTA Meeting 7:00pm – Media Center

WEDNESDAY 10/2
– Gr. 4 Think Big Cafe Field Trip

FRIDAY 10/4
– Early Release Day 1:20PM
– Travilah Spirit Day–Wear Travilah spiritwear or blue and white

LOOKING AHEAD
10/7: Bus Evacuation Drill 9:45
10/9: No School for students & teachers
10/10: Interims distributed

9/16 – 4pm-9pm | PTA Dine Night out at Potomac Pizza
Don’t forget to tell them you are with Travilah Elementary School!

9/18 – 9:40am | Parent Volunteer Breakfast
If you are interested in volunteering at Travilah or with the PTA, please join us in this information session! Please fill out this form or contact our Volunteer Coordinator, Nicole Lockhart (nclockhart@gmail.com) for more information.

Reminder: Sign up for the PTA by:

1. Filling out this FORM and returning it to the school
2. Online HERE through AtoZ connect
3. Find the PTA table at a school event and we will accept your information FORM and credit card payment.
   With your PTA membership, you will receive a School Directory!

Our annual PTA Back to School Picnic will be held on Friday, September 13th from 5pm-8pm.  We celebrate the start of the year with an outdoor gathering on the school grounds.  The PTA provides a fun packed evening to celebrate the new school
year with your neighbors, friends and new families!

All the games are FREE!
Pizza and Lemonade will be available for purchase.
The magic show will start at 6pm! 

We hope to see you there!

Click here for Flyer and details

You can also sign up for the PTA at the event. We will accept FORMS and cash/credit card payments.

This event is sponsored by: Kids Paint Club, Panda Programming and our hard working P.T.A.

BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT INFORMATION
Join us for Back To School Night TONIGHT 9/10/19 from 6:30PM-8:30PM!  This is an opportunity to visit your child’s classroom and hear more from their teacher about the learning and classroom expectations for the school year. Teachers will also provide more information about the new Benchmark Literacy Curriculum during their presentation. We will have two sessions during Back To School Night.  Please see below:

6:30-7:15pm
Session 1 (Grades 3-5)-Parents will go straight to their child’s classroom and begin with a live TV presentation from Dr. Wade, Mr. Greenwald (PTA President), and selected staff.

7:30-8:15pm
Session 2 (Grades K-2)-Parents will go straight to their child’s classroom and begin with a live TV presentation from Dr. Wade, Mr. Greenwald (PTA President), and selected staff.

PTA Reflections is back at Travilah!! This is a Nationally acclaimed student recognition program to encourage artistic creativity in the classroom and at home. Reflections Art Contest is a great way for your child to express themselves in many different artistic ways. K to Grade 5 can participate . Kids can Write a Poem or a Story, Take a Picture, choreograph a dance, make a movie, Compose a piece of Music or Create a piece of Visual Art. Each Art Piece must Interpret the theme “Look Within”. Please be sure to submit your student interest from by October 1st and your original work of arts by November 21st along with the Entry Form.

For more details visit https://mdpta.org/reflections/
or contact, Ramya Kumar at travilahptareflections@gmail.com.

Reflection Detailed Information Message

Want to join the PTA or volunteer? Please use the attached links and send the documents via email to travilah.pta.president@gmail.com OR in your child’s folder.

Room Parent Flyer (volunteer for the Halloween and Valentines day parties in the classroom during the school day):
https://travilahpta.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/room-parent-flyer2019.pdf

Family Membership form to join the PTA!
https://travilahpta.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/2019-2020family-membership-form.docx

Volunteer Form for all of the PTA events throughout the year. email travilah.pta.president@gmail.com if you have any questions about each event:
https://travilahpta.files.wordpress.com/2019/09/volunteerform2019-2020.docx