Boosterthon Fun Run on Thursday!
Come out and cheer on the students at the Fun Run on Thursday, April 21. We will have a Glow Run indoors because of the weather. Here’s the updated schedule:
Kinder: 8-9 am
1st: 9-10 am
2nd: 10-11 am
5th: 11 am – noon
PK: 12-12:30 pm
3rd: 12:30-1:30 pm
4th: 1:30-2:30 pm
You still have time to get pledges! We have pledges from at least 20 states and 4 other countries! We’ve reached more than halfway to our goal, so ask your friends and family to support Summitt. A portion of the money raised will help fund math and reading tutors, something that parents have been asking for a long time. Here’s how you can support Summitt Elementary:
• Register your student. To log in pledges, please register your child on funrun.com, using our school’s registration code: 689-679. Students receive a FREE GIFT just by having their parent or guardian register them on funrun.com.
• Reach out to people who can be sponsors. Connect with 10 people who can be your child’s sponsors. You can use social media in the pledging process and even create custom videos—all of this is on funrun.com. Be sure to capture and record each sponsor’s e-mail address. They will also have an easy opportunity to pay for your student’s pledge by credit card online.
Boosterthon payment volunteers needed
We need volunteers to help count and enter information after Boosterthon Fun Run ends. We will need volunteers to enter cash and check payments into Boosterthon’s online system for individual students on Thursday, April 28 and Friday, May 6. We need help from 9:30am – 1:30pm on Thursday, April 28th and 8am-10am on Friday, May 6th. It would be best if you can stay the entire time. However, we will gladly accept any volunteers we have for any amount of time. Sign up here: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f4facac22a0fc1-boosterthon
PE News
Summitt’s 4th annual CATCH Family Fun Night has a new date! It will take place on Monday, May 16 from 5:30-7:30 pm all around the Summitt Campus. It’s the same week as Field Days, so fingers crossed for great weather that week!
This is a completely FREE and super FUN event for all families in our community! We will have several activities such as a Camp Gladiator Obstacle Course on the black top, a Mile Run/Walk with our Fuel Up to Play 60 Team on our Track, a Parent Pacer Challenge in the gym, a Dance Party in the cafeteria and sporting equipment out for you and your family to use in our fields! There will also be many opportunities to get information and goodies from local health and wellness groups and taste some delicious healthy food from My Fit Foods! The more active you and your family are, the more chances you have to win some great prizes donated by our North Mopac/Parmer HEB and Go Noodle!!! There will be prizes for students, parents and teachers!!
We need your vote!
Our 5th grade Fuel Up to Play 60 Team created a bulletin board in the cafeteria and we just entered it to win some equipment for our school from US Games!! All you have to do is click the link below and our bulletin board will be the first one listed … just click VOTE! And you’re done! You can vote once per day until April 29th and we’d greatly appreciate it! http://a.pgtb.me/5VMW51/kflt6?w=44145800&e=121369036
Spring Fling tickets, baskets, auction information
Spring Fling tickets are available at www.summitteagles.org/store for $25 until Friday, April 22nd. All tickets sold after Friday will be $30. Tickets will also be sold April 25th – 29th before and after school in the Great Hall for $30. For more information on tickets and how you can bid on classroom baskets and Teacher Time & Talent next week, click here.
Need a babysitter for Spring Fling?
Capital Gymnastics on McNeil is hosting a Special Kids Night Out from 6-10pm on April 30th! So far, we have about 10 kids signed up for this event, and we need a minimum of 22 children signed up or else it will be cancelled. Sign up now so parents and kids can have a fun time that night. The evening will include gymnastics, inflatable fun, pizza dinner, and a movie. Kids ages 3 (and potty trained) to 5th grade invited. Call 512-219-9930 and reserve spots today! It’s $25/$20 for siblings. Payment required for reservation. Please ask about cancellation policy and what to pack and wear.
Author visit
Author, Natalie Lloyd, will visit with Summitt 3rd graders this Thursday, April 21 at 8 am in the library. Copies of both her books can be preordered, or picked up at the event and autographed. Parents are welcome to attend.
Spring Pictures
The spring pictures went home to your student(s). Parents now have the opportunity to purchase from the package and customize their purchase to meet their needs. There is no obligation to purchase and any unselected prints can be returned to the school.
See First Graders perform
To celebrate Asian American Heritage month, the Vietnamese Community is organizing a special event called Vietnamese Heritage Day on Saturday, April 24 at the AARC, 8401 Cameron Road. Our wonderful Summitt first grade students of the Vietnamese Dual Language Program are going to perform at 5:30 pm. It’s free so come out and see our students perform!
AISD AND COMMUNITY NEWS
Meetings for proposed Magnet school
Currently, a magnet program does not exist in the south Austin high schools including, Akins, Austin, Bowie, Crockett, and Travis. District data demonstrates that a large portion of the Liberal Arts and Science Academy (LASA) student applicants and enrollees are of the southwest AISD community. LASA’s current location at LBJ High School has reached capacity.
Community members have the opportunity to review the program proposals and are asked to complete a survey to further inform the committee’s work. The public will have multiple opportunities to share perspectives with the committee, tasked with establishing magnet program visions and curriculum/instruction needs for a potential new south magnet program.
The meetings are come-and-go meetings, allowing community members to arrive at any time during the meeting and stay as long as they would like. The meeting format will ensure all attendees receive the same information regardless of arrival time.
* A community session is slated for 4 to 7 p.m. April 28 at the Mendez Middle School cafeteria. Community members will have the opportunity to review the program proposals and will asked to complete surveys to further inform the committee’s work.
Trojan Cheerleading and Mascot Camp
Anderson High will have a cheerleading and mascot camp for incoming Kinder-9th graders on July 11-14, 2016 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, click here.
More camps at Anderson
Click here for a list of camps offered for elementary to high school students at Anderson this summer. They range from sports, dance, cheer, robotics, theater, etc.
Violet Crown Spring Festival
The annual Violet Crown Spring Festival will be on Saturday, May 7th from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Brentwood Elementary, 6700 Arroyo Seco. For more information, visit http://www.violetcrowncommunity.org/vcf.html
Summitt Alumni Scholarship
The Summitt Elementary Alumni Scholarship is now accepting applicants through May 2, 2016. The scholarship was established to recognize former students who have excelled in their academic endeavors, supported their community through various service projects and/or participated in extra-curricular activities, and proven they possess the drive to further their education. By granting these scholarships, we encourage students to pursue their academic endeavors and hope to strengthen relationships between Summitt and its alumni. Summitt Elementary will offer either one (1) $600.00 or (2) $300.00 scholarship/s, depending on the number of qualified applicants. The deadline to apply is May 2, 2016. Download the Summitt Elementary Scholarship Application 2016 (Word doc). Find out more!
Supporting Young Children in Grief
A Brown Bag Lunch & Learn Event
Date & Time: Friday April 29, 2016 from 12 noon – 1:30 pm
Location: My Healing Place, 8401 Shoal Creek Blvd Suite 102, Austin, TX 78757
Fee: $10 per participant; space is limited so please RSVP online at: http://www.myhealingplace.org/event-bb-2016-04-29.htm or by phone 512-472-7878.
1.5 CEUs Included for LPC, LMFT & Social Work Licensing Boards
Join us for an afternoon of enlightenment and learning with Rachel Saffer, LMSW & Katie Tarvin, Graduate Social Work Student. There a lot of myths and false assumptions about how young children grieve, or what they need during times of grief. Many believe that children are so naturally resilient that they will be able to adapt to a significant loss fairly easily. Others worry about any and every expression, behavior, or mannerism that a child may or may not be doing and whether that is “okay” or “normal” as they’re grieving. This presentation will provide you with explanations about how children understand grief and death loss developmentally, what they need from their home and school environments to adapt as well as possible to the loss, and give you take away tools and exercises to use with young children to help them explore their loss in healthy, appropriate ways. Drinks will be provided. Please bring your own sack lunch.
Make Balcones Park better
Show your support for our neighborhood city park by donating to make improvements. Donate $50 to the Balcones Park & Pool Improvement Project and get a “Support Balcones Park” sign for your yard! We must raise $15,000 to get the $200,000 in grants from Austin Parks Foundation and Neighborhood Partnering Program. Donate Today! http://balconespark.org/donate-to-park/
Celebrate Adelphi Acre Community Garden’s birthday
Please join us at the Adelphi Acre Community Garden One Year Anniversary party on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., located at the Southeast corner of Adelphi Lane and Amherst in northwest Austin. Everyone is invited to attend this family friendly event and to help celebrate this milestone. The anniversary will celebrate the continued effort of members, support from sponsors, local businesses and the partnership with multiple city and local agencies that has helped the garden grow. More information is here.
Trojans Pop Warner Registration now open
Football and Cheer are open to participants ages 5-12 years. Scholarships are available. Details for Trojans Pop Warner Football & Cheer can be found on our website, www.trojanpw.com.
Questions about football? Contact Myra Adkins ([email protected]). Questions about cheer? Contact Jennifer Young ([email protected]). Go Trojans Pop Warner Football and Cheer!