Our annual Pancake Breakfast is a tradition started 6 years ago, when I talked my husband into making pancakes for our entire school/community to correspond with a book I read titled, Old Black Witch! by Wende Devlin. The students enjoyed the book and they absolutely loved the pancake breakfast. Thus a fantastic new community event was born! The PTA provides the ingredients/supplies for this event with my husband and Mr. Seavey flipping the pancakes while I serve orange juice, milk, and keep the syrup containers filled. What a busy but thoroughly enjoyable morning!
This year our Pancake Breakfast will be held on Friday, March 13th in the school lunchroom beginning at 7:00 a.m. (yes, if you come earlier there will still be pancakes!) and running till 8:30 a.m.! What a great way to begin the day! Our community, parents, staff, and students all come together to eat warm syrupy pancakes and visit with one another!
Keep your eyes open for the letter which will be coming home in the next week! We need to have you sign up letting us know how many will be coming and what they would like to drink! This helps me purchase the right amount of ingredients plus we can give the bus driver a heads up as to who will be on the bus that morning. They usually have a very light load!
So wake up the kids, grab grandma and grandpa and come on down for some hot pancakes and warm conversation!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!
Our Barnes & Noble Bookfair was FANTABULOUS! We all had such a great time on Saturday and I was so happy to see so many of our students, families, staff, and community members join us!
Joann Palmieri and Becky Middendorf did an absolutely awesome job with the face-painting! I received many compliments from parents and Barnes & Noble staff regarding the outstanding designs and attention to detail they lavished upon the students! Thank you both so very much!
Mrs. Peterson's girls showed up for the harmonica concert and played, accompanied by my husband, much to the enjoyment of everyone there. Many thanks to Casey Skinner, Kayleen Hager, and Tyler Fleury (and my husband Francis Russell)! You guys rock!
The costume contest was a blast! You are all so creative and have wonderful imaginations! Thank you for taking part! The winners were: Bailey Erfle (Goldilocks and the 3 Bears), Brady Skinner (Indiana Jones), and Emily Millard (Pippi Longstocking)!
The Think-Fun games were just that...FUN! We had such fun playing them and entering to win the prizes! Our winners were: Kayleen Hager, Brayden Erfle, Alec Nys, and Jacob DeBuff.
Our Scavenger Hunt was another big hit! The older students searched for 18 hidden tokens while the younger students searched for 15 hidden tokens. Although it took me and my daughter two hours to hide all the tokens, it took our students only 20 minutes or less to search and discover all of them. The winners were: Emily Millard (grades 4 and up, with 7 tokens) and Brenner Bushfield (grades K thru 3, with 6 tokens).
Again, I want to thank our PTA for providing the prizes for the Storybook Character contest as well as the hourly drawings for $5 gift cards to be used in Barnes & Noble. I also want to thank them for their support and help that day. Joann Palmieri was instrumental in setting up the television interviews with KTVQ2 and KULR8 and she was very supportive in interviewing with me on both occasions! It wouldn't have been nearly as successful without you all!
I want to thank Barnes & Noble for their help and contributions. They gave us the gift cards for the Scavenger Hunt prizes and provided both the cookie decorating activity as well as taking care of the set up and clean up for the bookfair. Lorrie Niles was fantastic! Last but not least, a big thank you to my 4 children who worked with me all day including setting up and clean up!
Now...(drum roll please!).... We earned $664.00 plus we received $93.75 worth of books donated to the school from our 'wish table' of book selections! That comes to a whopping $757.75 for our bookfair! WAY TO GO EVERYONE! YOU ALL ROCK!
Joann Palmieri and Becky Middendorf did an absolutely awesome job with the face-painting! I received many compliments from parents and Barnes & Noble staff regarding the outstanding designs and attention to detail they lavished upon the students! Thank you both so very much!
Mrs. Peterson's girls showed up for the harmonica concert and played, accompanied by my husband, much to the enjoyment of everyone there. Many thanks to Casey Skinner, Kayleen Hager, and Tyler Fleury (and my husband Francis Russell)! You guys rock!
The costume contest was a blast! You are all so creative and have wonderful imaginations! Thank you for taking part! The winners were: Bailey Erfle (Goldilocks and the 3 Bears), Brady Skinner (Indiana Jones), and Emily Millard (Pippi Longstocking)!
The Think-Fun games were just that...FUN! We had such fun playing them and entering to win the prizes! Our winners were: Kayleen Hager, Brayden Erfle, Alec Nys, and Jacob DeBuff.
Our Scavenger Hunt was another big hit! The older students searched for 18 hidden tokens while the younger students searched for 15 hidden tokens. Although it took me and my daughter two hours to hide all the tokens, it took our students only 20 minutes or less to search and discover all of them. The winners were: Emily Millard (grades 4 and up, with 7 tokens) and Brenner Bushfield (grades K thru 3, with 6 tokens).
Again, I want to thank our PTA for providing the prizes for the Storybook Character contest as well as the hourly drawings for $5 gift cards to be used in Barnes & Noble. I also want to thank them for their support and help that day. Joann Palmieri was instrumental in setting up the television interviews with KTVQ2 and KULR8 and she was very supportive in interviewing with me on both occasions! It wouldn't have been nearly as successful without you all!
I want to thank Barnes & Noble for their help and contributions. They gave us the gift cards for the Scavenger Hunt prizes and provided both the cookie decorating activity as well as taking care of the set up and clean up for the bookfair. Lorrie Niles was fantastic! Last but not least, a big thank you to my 4 children who worked with me all day including setting up and clean up!
Now...(drum roll please!).... We earned $664.00 plus we received $93.75 worth of books donated to the school from our 'wish table' of book selections! That comes to a whopping $757.75 for our bookfair! WAY TO GO EVERYONE! YOU ALL ROCK!
Thursday, February 12, 2009
BIKES FOR BOOKS IS HERE!
The annual Bikes for Books contest sponsored by the Huntley Masonic Lodge is once again in full swing. This contest runs throughout February and March and is open for all of our students. The Masonic Lodge is purchasing 4 bikes and helmets for prizes, however the Howe family will be purchasing one bike and helmet, Mrs. Ny's father will be purchasing one bike and helmet, and my family will be purchasing one bike and helmet which gives us 7 bikes/helmets. This means one student out of every class will be a winner!
The rules are simple: READ, READ, AND READ SOME MORE! Every book you read is a ticket to enter into the drawing. If you read an AR book you will get the same number of tickets as there are AR points for that book. If the AR book is only 1/2 point, you will still get one ticket! If your parents read to you at home they can fill out a ticket for every book they read to you!
Ask you teacher for the tickets! Ask me for the tickets!
What a great program and a fantastic reward for our reading program!
Thanks to the Huntley Masonic Lodge and the families that are purchasing the extra bikes! Our school community and families are the best!
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to stop in, or call, or blog back to me!
HAPPY READING! Let's stuff our classroom ticket boxes FULL!
Mrs. Russell
The rules are simple: READ, READ, AND READ SOME MORE! Every book you read is a ticket to enter into the drawing. If you read an AR book you will get the same number of tickets as there are AR points for that book. If the AR book is only 1/2 point, you will still get one ticket! If your parents read to you at home they can fill out a ticket for every book they read to you!
Ask you teacher for the tickets! Ask me for the tickets!
What a great program and a fantastic reward for our reading program!
Thanks to the Huntley Masonic Lodge and the families that are purchasing the extra bikes! Our school community and families are the best!
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to stop in, or call, or blog back to me!
HAPPY READING! Let's stuff our classroom ticket boxes FULL!
Mrs. Russell
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Please Join Us This Saturday!
I am sure most of you know about our great Valentine's Day Fundraiser at Barnes & Noble! It is going to be a fabulous day with many fun activities and prizes! All day Saturday anyone purchasing anything at Barnes & Noble merely needs to say, "I am with Pioneer School" for us to benefit from their purchase. Barnes & Noble will give us a percentage (15%) of what is spent as long as the purchaser mentions they are from Pioneer School. This is a great way for us to earn money for our school library! Remember it will cost you nothing extra, just let them know you are with Pioneer School and the library will benefit!
We plan on having the following activities:
*Face painting
*Think-Fun Games to play and compete for prizes
*Harmonica concert by the 4th grade and my husband, Francis Russell
*Valentine cookie decorating
*A scavenger hunt (one for grades K-3 and one for grades 4 and up) with prizes
*A 'Come Dressed as Your Favorite Story Character' contest with prizes
*Free Coffee & Cookie give aways for the Barnes & Noble Cafe every hour (for adults)
*and more!
Come join us that day, sign in with me and get your "I'm with Pioneer School" sticker to wear and show your pride in our school!
I look forward to seeing all of you!
Mrs. Russell
We plan on having the following activities:
*Face painting
*Think-Fun Games to play and compete for prizes
*Harmonica concert by the 4th grade and my husband, Francis Russell
*Valentine cookie decorating
*A scavenger hunt (one for grades K-3 and one for grades 4 and up) with prizes
*A 'Come Dressed as Your Favorite Story Character' contest with prizes
*Free Coffee & Cookie give aways for the Barnes & Noble Cafe every hour (for adults)
*and more!
Come join us that day, sign in with me and get your "I'm with Pioneer School" sticker to wear and show your pride in our school!
I look forward to seeing all of you!
Mrs. Russell
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Welcome to Pioneer's Book Quest!
This is our school library book blog! A great place where we can discuss and share our latest adventures in reading.
I would like to start with one of my favorite books as a young girl. I loved reading The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. I was fascinated by the idea of entering a wardrobe to discover another world peopled with talking creatures, mythical beings, and magic. The fact that years and years could go by in Narnia with all the fantastic adventures to be lived and enjoyed while only moments would pass by in our time, was such an awesome concept for me to understand and explore. I re-read the story on many occasion spending days imagining myself as Susan, the brave heroine.
The ability to 'lose' yourself in a book and visualize the experience in your mind is part of the 'magic' of books!
What books have you found especially amazing or magical?
I would like to start with one of my favorite books as a young girl. I loved reading The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis. I was fascinated by the idea of entering a wardrobe to discover another world peopled with talking creatures, mythical beings, and magic. The fact that years and years could go by in Narnia with all the fantastic adventures to be lived and enjoyed while only moments would pass by in our time, was such an awesome concept for me to understand and explore. I re-read the story on many occasion spending days imagining myself as Susan, the brave heroine.
The ability to 'lose' yourself in a book and visualize the experience in your mind is part of the 'magic' of books!
What books have you found especially amazing or magical?
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