February 19 2024 Dolphin Digest – TPES PTA Weekly Newsletter

What: The TPES Read-a-thon is a month-long, school-wide event in which your child reads and sets goals related to their reading. Like in a charity marathon, where runners are “sponsored” for every mile they run, caregivers and others may sponsor students for every minute they read. The pledges collected at the end of the Read-a-thon are donations to the PTA, and these donations provide benefits for students, teachers, and staff at TPES. 

When: The Read-a-thon runs February 19 – March 15, 2024. 

Where: At home or school, your child reads or is read to. This includes audio books and another child or adult reading to them.

Who: Anyone (parent, grandparent, family friend, etc.) can sponsor a child. Then you or your child records the minutes read. 

Why: Instead of asking children to sell items—like candy or magazines—to family and friends, a Read-a-thon encourages kids to get lost in a book, and supportive adults feel good about encouraging a child’s love of reading and supporting the school without having to purchase anything they do not need.  

How: Students and their caregivers will record minutes read on reading logs. These should be handed in to teachers every Friday of the Read-a-thon. More information was provided in your student’s Dolphin Folder and is available on the PTA website linked here (including extra reading logs if you need them). If you have any questions, email Amanda Wagner at helloamandawagner@gmail.com.

4. Author’s Visit This Friday, February 23

This Friday, February 23, we have local author, Shannon Earle, presenting to first graders. She’ll read her nonfiction book The Penguin of Ilha Grande. Please prepare students. They’ll be sitting on the floor in the All Purpose Room (APR). She’ll read the book on a Boxlight and show things related to her research and the events in the book. She’ll take some questions at the end.

5. Donate Cardboard Tubes 

Send or bring in your cardboard tubes: toilet paper, paper towel, wrapping paper, etc…) for our maker room! Collection box is in the atrium. Thank you! 

6. Cleaning Supply Donations Needed for PreK

Our Prekindergarten classes are in need of cleaning supplies. In particular, classrooms need Clorox wipes, Lysol wipes and Spic and Span spray. Donations can be dropped off in the office. Please let the office staff know that your donation is for PreK. Many thanks in advance.