Olivia Johnson
Our annual Scholastic Buy One Get One Free Book Fair opens this Wednesday. It will be open before school on Wednesday the 15th from 7:30 to 8:00 and during parent conferences (8 AM to 8 PM Thursday, April 16th and 8 AM to Noon on Friday, April 17th.) The BOGO Book Fair will accept credit cards, checks, or cash.
We are still seeking volunteers to help man the book fair. If you are interested, please contact the school office.
Don’t forget our Silent Auction/Bingo Fundraiser is Saturday night (April 11th) from 6:00 to 8:
00. We have lots of great prize packages to bid on and some fabulous class projects like the ones seen here from Mrs. Chen, Mrs. Modee, and Ms. Beller. In addition, for $15 you can play ten games of bingo and have the chance to win more prizes. All funds raised go towards activities and items that benefit our kids.
April will be a busy month here at Veneta Elementary School. We have lots of fun, important, and interesting things coming up this month. Please follow the jump for more details about these events and mark them down in your calendars! Continue reading
Veneta Elementary PALS is hosting their first ever Bingo Fundraiser on Saturday, April 11th from 6 PM to 8 PM. Instead of our annual auction, this will be our main fundraiser of the year. The cost will be $15 per a person for ten games of Bingo. Additional sheets and bingo daubers will also be for sale. There will be a prize package given to each winner. Refreshments will be sold. The evening will also feature a silent auction featuring student projects and other fabulous items that have been donated to the school. All funds raised will be used for Outdoor School, Field Trips, Assemblies, and other special activities sponsored by PALS like our Valentine’s Dance. There will even be a special performance by the Veneta Elementary School choir. For more information, ask a PALS parent or contact the school at 541-935-8225. Everyone is invited to our PALS Bingo Fundraiser. Children are invited to attend but there will be no separate childcare provided.
Our 13th Annual Veneta Elementary School Raffle kicks off March 16th. We have two grand prizes this year. One is a 40 inch Samsung Smart TV and the other is a $300 gift card to Winco. Winners will be drawn during our PALS Bingo Night on April 11th. Our Raffle Sales Contest goes from March 16th to April 6th. Continue reading
Veneta Elementary’s Annual Reading Contest and Celebration kicks off on Friday, March 6th with an appearance by the Eugene Emerald’s mascot Sluggo in a schoolwide assembly at 1:30 PM.
Our Reading Celebration runs from March 6th through March 18th. There will be lots of activities focused on reading going on at the school including a reading recess each day, making bookmarks at lunch, sharing favorite books from staff members, guest readers, and a school wide read in.
The highlight of our Reading Celebration is our Reading Contest. Each student is asked to read each day and track their reading on the tally sheet that will come home on Friday. Each grade level has set a goal for the number of minutes each student should read. Every student who meets that goal will receive a two tickets to a Eugene Emerald’s baseball game. The student in each classroom who reads the most minutes will receive a gift certificate to the Spring Book Fair in April. Students can read books or newspapers or magazines. They can also have parents or siblings read to them. Or they can read to a sibling or parent. Every student who returns their Tally sheet will receive an “I Love Reading” pencil. Tally sheets are due March 19th.
The center for the Prevention of Abuse and Neglect will be holding an open and free forum for anyone interested in the topic of Child Abuse Prevention as part of the 90 by 30 campaign. The goal of the 90 by 30 campaign is to reduce child abuse in Lane County by 90% by the year 2030. The forum will focus on what we can do in the Fern Ridge area to stop child abuse before it starts. The forum will be Wednesday, March 4th from 6:00 to 7:30 at the Elmira High School Theater. Please join us for this important conversation.
If it takes a village to raise a child, then it takes an incredible hard working and supportive school staff work
ing together to educate one. The teachers and myself would be lost without the amazing and incredible classified staff we are lucky to work with here at Veneta Elementary School. From our educational assistants to our custodians to our kitchen helpers to our secretaries- the classified staff at VES rocks. We are lucky to have each and every one of them. Please join our school this week in saying thank you to our classified staff for all that they do each and every day to support our students. Thank you to Ronda, Lorie, Cherri, Kristi, Shannon, Jessica, Sam, Missy, Cara, Misti, Delise, Jaime, Cortnie, Kelly, Janet, Gracie, Mona, Pete, and Pete. Thank you for making our school a wonderful place to grow and learn.
Beginning with the 2015-2016 school year, Fern Ridge School District will be offering a full day kindergarten program at both Veneta Elementary and Elmira Elementary. Kindergarten PreRegistration will be May 2nd.
Parents of incoming kindergarten students who want to visit our school are welcome to come on Tuesday, March 10th at 6:00 PM for a tour of our school and then stay for our PALS (Parents Action League For Students) meeting if they like. We will also be offering school tours on March 12th at 8:30 AM and March 19th at 8:30 AM. On both schools parents and children can see our library, gym, playground, and peek into classrooms. In addition to incoming kindergarten students, we welcome other students interested in attending Veneta Elementary School under open enrollment.
Watch this space for more information about kindergarten informational nights and more opportunities to meet our staff and learn more about what full day kindergarten here at VES will be like.
Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 1:15 will be the Veneta Elementary School OBOB Finals!!! Two teams will be answering questions about 16 different books that they have read over the last few months. The teams are the Book Crew and the Book Givers. The winning team will go on to represent Veneta Elementary at the regional competition in March. In our book, both of these teams are winners for all of the work and effort they have put into OBOB this year. Plus they have each successfully battled their way through the semi-finals and pool play to make it to the finals. Congrats and good luck to both teams!