Eagle Email
April 17, 2018


Mark Your Calendar
UPCOMING DATES

4/18 (Wed) - EARLY RELEASE DAY

4/19 (Thu) - Spring Individual Pictures

4/19 (Thu), 10am - Counselor Coffee

4/21 (Sat), 1pm - Campus Clean Up

4/22 (Sun), 2pm - Wellness Fair

5/1 (Tues) - 5/4 (Fri) - Book Fair

5/2 (Wed) - Coffee Talk with Principal Lis

5/3 (Thu), 5pm - Selwyn Celebrates the Arts

5/4 (Fri), 9:30am – Beginners Day

Eagle Events
EOGs Bring Test Anxiety
As the EOG testing season begins, Selwyn Counseling Staff will host a Parent Coffee on April 19 at 10am to discuss Test Anxiety. Parents of students in all grades are welcome.

Please contact Amy Wichman or Jessica Webster with questions.
Spirit Event at The Rusty Bucket
Everyone is invited to gather at the Rusty Bucket Restaurant and Tavern throughout the day on April 18. Present the attached certificate and 15% of your bill will be donated to Selwyn Elementary.
Time for Spring Cleaning!
Help beautify the Selwyn Campus this spring season by coming out anytime between 1:00 and 4:00 pm Saturday, April 21 . Bring your gardening gloves and non-powered yard tools and join us as we clear out the weeds and trash, spread new pine needles and plant new plants.

Contact Meredeth Murr with any questions.
Wellness Fair and Blood Drive
Join us on Sunday, April 22 from 2:00-4:00 pm for the Selwyn Wellness Fair! We will have lots of fun activities for the whole family and an assortment of community vendors available to share information on how to be more active, healthy and well. Volunteers are still needed for this event, so please click here to help out!

In addition, Selwyn will host a Blood Drive from 1:00-5:30 pm. To schedule an appointment, call 1-800-RED CROSS or visit www.redcrossblood.org (enter sponsor code: SelwynES) To save time use RapidPass online- day of drive!
Coffee Talk with Principal Lis
Mark your calendars for May 2 at 9:00 am to enjoy some morning joe with Principal Lis while he covers current events in education and how they affect Selwyn and the South Park campus schools.

Have questions? Bring those too! Please meet in the cafeteria.
Spring Book Fair!
Selwyn’s Spring Book Fair takes place in the Media Center on April 30 – May 4. Classes will visit the Book Fair during the school day. Parents will be notified when your child’s class will visit.

Families are also encouraged to visit the Book Fair during Selwyn Celebrates the Arts on the evening of May 3. Please note that the Book Fair now charges sales tax on purchases.

Please help us to make the Book Fair a success! Volunteers are needed to set up before the Book Fair, to assist shoppers and run cash registers during class visits, and to help clean up afterward. To see the available shifts and to sign up, please click here.

Contact Karen Carpenter or Melissa Lovett with any questions.
Calling All Rising Kindergarten Families!
Register now for Kindergarten and save the date for Beginners Day on May 4 !

It's time to register your rising kindergartners for the 2018-2019 school year! Registration materials can be accessed here . All completed forms will gladly be accepted by the Selwyn office staff, who can review your application to make sure it is complete.

Selwyn's Beginner's Day will be held on Friday, May 4 at 9:30 am . Please save
the date and plan to attend!

Volunteers are also needed to greet and welcome new Kindergarten students – please click here to help.

Contact Abby Hedges with any questions.
SCARTS Volunteers Needed
The SCARTS (Selwyn Celebrates the Arts) Committee needs your help to prepare for our annual spring art and music event. The committee needs volunteers to prepare and hang artwork.

It takes many hands to make this event happen, so please click here to sign up and join us in the Fine Arts Building as we prepare for the fun and festive event!

Contact Robin Huffstetler with any questions.
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Does your child snack often? While it's true they are growing and may need extra calories occasionally, create appropriate snacking habits with these tips in mind:

  • Only allow snacking in certain areas, such as the kitchen, and avoid serving snacks during screen time.  
  • For snacks on the go, offer a banana, string cheese, yogurt sticks, cereal bars, carrot sticks or other less messy foods.
  • Schedule snacks so that they don't interfere with a healthy meal. Skip snacks and juice within two hours of mealtime so that your child is hungry enough to eat with gusto a balanced, nutritious meal.

Teaching your child to make healthy snacking decisions now will help set the stage for a lifetime of healthy eating. Start today!