October is shaping up to be a busy month at Abingdon!  We have many exciting events going on at school including the Book Fair, Picture Day, the Monster Mash (Fall Festival) and the annual Abingdon Halloween Parade around Fairlington.  In addition to all this, the PTA is hosting a Read-A-Thon to help promote literacy and raise much needed funds to support the PTA's programs for the rest of the school year.  

Abingdon also will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, which recognizes the contributions made by and the importance of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the United States.  The October Cardinal Calendar will be coming home this week to help you keep track of all of these exciting events.

Abingdon Book Fair - October 17 - 21

Due to the construction and renovation project, the Abingdon Book Fair will be held the week of October 17 - 21.  Typically, our Book Fair is held in the spring.  The Book Fair hours will be:

Fall Picture Day - October 14

Fall Picture Day will be October 14.  Order forms will be sent home this week in the Tuesday folder.  Please see below for information about how to volunteer for this event.

Read-A-Thon - October 24 - November 4

This year, to celebrate Abingdon's focus on literacy, the Abingdon PTA will be hosting a Read-A-Thon!  This will also be the Abingdon PTA's biggest fundraiser of the school year.  During the two-week Read-A-Thon, Abingdon students will spend time in their classrooms, as well as hopefully at home, exploring new books and expanding their literary horizons.  Guest readers will join Abingdon's students in this celebration of literacy, and there will be opportunities for students to win exciting prizes like gift cards for books!  This is a great opportunity for Abingdon families, both here and around the world, to help their children further develop their reading skills.  More information on this exciting event will be sent home in the October 11 Tuesday folder.

Monster Mash - October 28

Feel like dancing the night away while wearing your Halloween costume?  Then join us on October 28 for the Abingdon Monster Mash!  Due to the construction and renovation project, we have had to alter the format of our annual Fall Festival this year.  But we still want to celebrate fall so we are hosting a Monster Mash, that will feature a dance with a DJ in the cafeteria, bounce houses in the front plaza area, and other fun fall activities!   So mark your calendar now and look for more information in an upcoming Tuesday folder.  

                     

Calling all Volunteers!

We have numerous events coming up this month and we need your help for them to be successful!  We are looking for volunteers for the following events:

Before I sign off, I wanted to make one last plug to join the PTA .  Over the past two weeks, we have had about 135 families sign up to join the PTA for the 2016-2017 school year!  Unfortunately, this is far short of our goal of 300 members.  Our goal was set high in an attempt to have a large and diverse membership to further strengthen the amazing Abingdon community that already exists.  We want to be able to continue to offer fun family events, teacher training opportunities, assistance to families in need, and many other valuable programs that the PTA provides Abingdon.  To meet our goal we will continue to recruit members throughout the school year.  Please remember, that your dues are annual, so you need to join each year.  Please visit our website at  http://www.abingdonpta.org/join-pta   to join.  

Thanks for taking the time to read this week's Cardinal Courier and we hope you have a wonderful October!

Sincerely,

Jeni Hornback

Abingdon PTA President 

 

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