Feeling Thankful and Showing Thanks … again

[THIS POST WAS INADVERTENTLY SENT ON SUNDAY WHEN I HIT THE ‘POST BUTTON TO SOON.  IT WAS INTENDED FOR RIGHT NOW. – LMH]

We wish you and your family an enjoyable Thanksgiving. We hope that no matter where you are or how you celebrate that you are surrounded by warmth, love and kindness.

This poem was shared with parents at the beginning of the year by Mrs. Carol Moore, and it is a lovely way to express the thanks we feel for the connection Shamona Creek has with its families.

UNITY
I dreamed I stood in a studio
and watched two sculptors there.
The clay they used was a child’s mind,
And they fashioned it where care.
One was a teacher; the tools he used
Were books, and music, and art;
One, a parent with a guiding hand,
And a gentle loving heart.
Day after day the teacher toiled,
With touch that was deft and sure
While the parents labored by his side
And polished and smoothed it o’er.
And when at last their task was done,
They were proud of what they had wrought.
For this thing they had molded in the child
Could neither by sold nor bought.
And each agreed he would have failed
If he had worked alone,
For behind the parent stood the school
And behind the teacher, the home.
-Author Unknown

Have a wonderful weekend of giving thanks!

Are you a Black-Friday shopper…or an any-day shopper?

With the height of the holiday shopping season at its peak, the SCHSA wants to know:

1.  Do you shop at Target?  Do you have a Target Red Card?  If so, please take a minute and register your Target Red Card in their Take Charge of Education program…and 1% of your purchases will come right on back to Shamona Creek!  Click here to register your Target Red Card on behalf of Shamona Creek!

2.  Will you be beating the crowds or shopping from the comfort of your own home this year with the help of Amazon?  With the Amazon Smile program, .5% of your purchases will be donated back to Shamona Creek.  Click here and then choose “Shamona Creek Home & School Association” as your charitable organization of choice.  Then when you shop on Amazon, use the URL:  smile.amazon.com.  It’s that easy!

3.  Are you a GIANT shopper?  Whether its all the time or just running in for the essentials, by registering your GIANT shopper card in their A+ School Rewards program online (choose Shamona Creek as your designee), every purchase you make at GIANT will result in EZ money for our Shamona Creek community.

I invite you to take 5 minutes right now to do all 3 of these things.  Let’s see how great an increase we can see in our participation in these programs before the new year.  Ready?  Go!

(Oh…and invite your friends/family to do the same…those loud annoying toys your older brother buys for your kids on Amazon may as well be good for something…besides giving you a headache.)

Happy Shopping!

Save the date for a good time! RSVP for the Holiday Hop & Shop

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014 @ 6:30-8:30 PM

SCHSA invites you to celebrate the holiday season with a fun-filled night for the entire family, sponsored by Monkey Fish Toys. Put on your dancing shoes and join us for our first-ever Holiday Hop & Shop, a DJ dance party with organized games, contests, special dances, and more.

Admission is FREE. Refreshments will be available for purchase.

RSVP Online >

HOLIDAY MARKET
Parents – While your children are busy dancing and playing, please stop by our Holiday Market. Enjoy complimentary coffee & tea while shopping a variety of vendors. This is a great opportunity to find gifts for those still left on your list.

Note: This event requires all students to be accompanied by a parent or responsible adult. Siblings are welcome!

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
We need your help to make this night a success. SIGN UP >

PRINT, POST AND SHARE THESE FLYERS
SCHSA Hop and Shop Invite >
Hop and Shop Poinsettia Orders >

Stay tuned through December 12, as we share more details about the many elements of this party.

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If you would like to help put the finishing touches on the event or have any questions, please contact Jen Faust or Liz Kelly.

In Store and Online, the B&N Bookfair runs through this Sunday

Thanks to everyone who has made it out to the Shamona Creek Barnes & Noble Bookfair so far this week. We hope you enjoyed the evening concerts with your family, and we appreciate your support.

If you just can’t make it to the store this coming weekend, but still want to support our school, please visit www.bn.com/bookfairs {through tomorrow November 23} and enter our Bookfair ID 11435823 at checkout.

Yep…it’s that simple!

Again, thank you for your support!

Helping is E-Z: Soup’s on! Labels off!

The colder weather makes us crave comfort food. Soup always hits the mark. Campbell’s soup helps Shamona Creek hit the spot when parents clip and send in UPC codes from participating products. Please send in your labels from Campbell’s, Pepperidge Farm, Prego, V8, and more. The collection container is on the shelf outside the school office. Check out the complete Campbell’s Labels list.

The SCHSA, a non-profit organization, encourages our families to participate in a number of programs offered in the community that give back to our organization.  Here are the other E-Z ways you can help this year:

• Giant A+ Rewards Program
• Box Tops for Education
• Amazon Smile
• Target – Take Charge of Education Program

Please contact Shannon Gallagher or Melissa Bell if you have any questions or if you would like to volunteer with the Rebates and E-Z Money committee.

B&N Bookfair: Orchestra Tonight, Band Tomorrow

Print and Bring this Flyer with you

Tonight is the night … well, technically tonight is the first night … but tonight is the night the Orchestra plays at the Barnes & Noble Bookfair fundraiser!

“With the school library approaching its 25th year, money is needed to replace a good number of well-worn titles,” writes Ms. Carroll.

So, if you are planning to join us tonight, the entertainment will begin at 6:30 pm. You will also be treated to story hour with Mrs. Welsh (see her post!), as well as Mrs. Hoffman, Mrs. Lynn, Mrs. Verbovszky, Mrs. Miller and Mrs. O’Brien.

And, while you are at Main Street Exton, plan to have dinner at Peace A Pizza between 5:00 and 9:00 pm. They will donate 20% of the proceeds to us. (Please bring the printed B&N flyer with you.)

Thursday will be an equally great night, as our school band takes “center stage” at Barnes & Noble. They will perform at 6:30 pm and the concert will last about 30 minutes. Story hour will feature Mrs. Adams, Mrs. Copeland, Mrs. Milano, Miss Czap, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Benner and Miss Figorski.

The book fair runs through Sunday, November 23.

Can’t attend our bookfair at Barnes & Noble?
Visit BN.COM/bookfairs to support us online from 11/19/2013 to 11/23/2013
by entering Bookfair ID 11435823 at checkout.

Reminder: Home & School Association Morning Meeting

The Home & School Association typically hosts evening meetings, but we realize that there are parents whose obligations don’t allow them attend. Tomorrow at 9:30 am, we will have a daytime HSA meeting at Shamona’s cafeteria and we hope you can join us. No worries if you don’t have a babysitter, your young ones are welcome too.

We also recognize that there are parents who aren’t able to attend the daytime meeting. We will host evening meetings again later in the school year.

In the meantime, we encourage all parents to check out the minutes of past meetings on the website (CLICK HERE). We will post the minutes from the November 19 meeting online too.

Meeting reminders and other good dialogue can be found on the Shamona Creek Sharks – Parent Community Facebook group. All parents are welcome to join the group as another way to stay connected!

As always, the HSA Board welcomes your new ideas and appreciates your interest in volunteering for our various projects. LEARN MORE >

Read All About It! Barnes & Noble Book Fair is Happening This Week

If you are an avid reader who finishes one book and immediately starts the next…
If you have an e-reader, but still enjoy the weight and texture of an actual book…
If you could dawdle around a bookstore for hours on end…
…then you need to join us at Shamona Creek’s book fair at Barnes & Noble this week.

Between Wednesday, November 19 and Sunday, November 23, purchases made at Barnes & Noble (with the attached flyer) will benefit our school library. As one of two annual fundraisers for our library, the book fair provides additional funds for building upon and enriching the collection of books available to the students.

According to Ms. Carroll’s newsletter, “With the school library approaching its 25th year, money is needed to replace a good number of well-worn titles.”

You will be treated to a memorable performance by our very own Shamona Creek Orchestra (Wednesday @ 6:30 pm) and 5th Grade Band (Thursday @ 6:30 pm), as well as story time sessions with some of the best teachers in the country!

Click and Print this Flyer

This must-have-with-you flyer includes all the details you need to enjoy a night out with your family – dinner, entertainment and shopping! Start out with a fun dinner at Peace-A-Pizza at Main Street Exton then head on over to Barnes & Noble for some entertainment while gathering a few great reads.

Please Note: You must have the physical printed flyer in hand with you at Barnes & Noble and at Peace A Pizza in order for the proceeds of your purchases to be donated to Shamona Creek. (They will not accept any electronic representations of the flyer. It needs to be a paper copy.)

Helping Hands Needed
We are in need of a few volunteers who can help with the event on Wednesday and Thursday nights. Please contact Lisa Schown if you are available.

Can’t make it?
No problem…use Bookfair ID (11435823) when you shop online at bn.com/bookfairs between November 19-23. Share this link and code with grandparents and extended family along with a wish list of your child’s favorite books and games from Barnes & Noble.

Questions?
Contact Lisa Schown

Reminder: Science Fair Registration Deadline

The registration is coming. To set the tone, here’s a poem.

My Project for the Science Fair
My project for the Science Fair
was absolutely cool.
I built myself a time machine
and showed it off at school.

Inventing it was not too hard;
I had a little aid.
My future self came back in time
and showed me how they’re made.
–Kenn Nesbitt

There is no expectation that anyone will make a time machine (although that would be awesome); however, there is an expectation that you will make the registration deadline!

Please email Peter and Sharon Alfinito at s.alfinito@comcast.net before Friday, November 14. More details and project deadlines will be provided after you connect with them.

Save the date for the Science Fair on January 29, 2015.

All Aboard the ‘Learning Express’! The Holiday Fundraiser is on track for this week

Before Cyber Monday. Before Small Business Saturday. Before Black Friday. And yes, even before the new crazy-early days of the holiday shopping season, you can sneak on over to the Exton Square Mall and get a jump start on your toy purchases at Learning Express.

Our Holiday Fundraiser is taking place this week. It started on November 10 and runs through Friday, November 14. Store hours are 9 am to 9 pm.

Print and bring this Learning Express Holiday Fundraiser flyer to receive a 10% discount off of your purchase* and an additional 10% donation will be made to the Shamona Creek Home & School Association. You must present the flyer to receive this offer.

Happy shopping and thank you in advance for supporting the SCHSA!

* Because the donation has already been made, returns of products after the dates above will be at  20% off. This offer cannot be combined with any other offer promotion, markdown, giveaways, coupons, VIP awards or discounts. Due to manufacturer restrictions, LEGO Mindstorms may not be discounted, but will still be part of the fundraiser.