BEAGLE BUGLE Newsletter Norman Rockwell PTA

Monday Bugle - March 20

IN THIS ISSUE Yearbook Photos Needed After-School Spring Enrichment: Chess LegCon 2023 Spring Running Club - Volunteers Needed Math Challenge 12 Pre-Order Your Yearbook! March Recess Volunteers IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES March 29 - Spirit Day (Culture Day) April 7 - Coffee w/ The Principal 9AM April 10 to 14 - Spring Break (No School) April 29 - Spring Musical Performances

Photos for the Yearbook The Yearbook Team is looking for photos in the following categories: Candid photos from ALL grades Running Club Saint Patrick's Day Snow Days Toy Maker Choir If you have any you'd like to share, please email yearbook@normanrockwellpta.org Thank you!

Spring After-School Enrichment Progress: Chess More information on our after-school programs for the Spring quarter coming soon! In the meantime, take advantage of early sign-up for Chess! Excel with Chess Grades: K-5 March 28 - June 6 (no class April 11) Tuesdays, 3:30 - 4:30PM Class Description: Each class will have check-in, lessons, practice play, and an in-class tournament round. We ensure that all kids are being challenged and learning something new each week. Our first class we will be assessing the groups. This will also give us an idea for key strategies we will be learning throughout each session. Check-out is at 4:30PM behind the school in Portable 4. Join anytime until the class fills. Registration Here: Chess Registration

Did You Miss LegCon? You can Still Take Action! Hundreds of PTA leaders and advocates from across the country met virtually last week for LegCon 2023. During the conference, attendees advocated for issues that affect the health and safety of every child by meeting virtually with their members of Congress. Also during LegCon, National PTA honored Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR-01) with its 2023 Congressional Voice for Children Award, as well as honored the recipients of its 2023 Outstanding Advocacy Awards. Even though LegCon is over, we encourage all of you to keep the momentum going! Review our leave behinds for federal legislation and policy recommendations that would further our policy priorities for this Congress. And sign up for action alerts so you don’t miss any opportunities to continue advocating for better health and safety measures for children! Thank you to those who joined us to take action for better health and safety measures for children. Don’t forget that all LegCon sessions are viewable for conference registrants on-demand through June 7!

Parent Volunteers Wanted for Rockwell Spring Running Club Warmer weather is coming! After Spring Break, starting April 18, 2023, we will be resuming the Rockwell Running Club, Tuesdays and Thursday during lunch recess. Parent volunteers are needed for help with set up and take down, monitoring and punching student mileage punch cards. Please sign up on Sign Up Genius, Click HERE If you have any questions, please email Chrstine Cottom PE Specialist, ccottom@lwsd.org

Math Challenge #12 Due by Thursday, March 30th Thank you to all of you who participated in Math Challenge #11. The winners of this will be notified next week. Math Challenge #12 is now available HERE For this challenge, lucky prize winners will be randomly selected from qualified submissions. Please feel free to try more questions than the minimum required for your grade level to qualify. Grab some friends and family and work on the challenges together! Once your student completes the challenge, email their paper by the due date to mathchallenge@normanrockwellpta.org The due date for Math Challenge #12 is Thursday, March 30th. Please contact us if you have any questions of if you need additional information about this program. Let the challenge begin! Pallavi Singh Stefania Tarantino Qing Zhou (Jenny) mathchallenge@normanrockwellpta.org

Pre Order Your 2022/2023 Yearbook Hardcover Yearbook $30 Please note: there is no longer a softcover version of the yearbook as we have switched publishers. Order Your Yearbook HERE. Purchase Notes: Yearbook purchase is Step 4. If you've already renewed your PTA membership and/or contributed to the ABC, you can simply click NEXT to move to the next page. If you have any photos that you'd like to share with the yearbook team, please email yearbook@normanrockwellpta.org

March Recess Volunteers Needed A new month means a new recess wrangler sign up! This is an ongoing volunteer opportunity; you may sign up for as many shifts as you wish! We need 6-8 volunteers helping every day at morning recess and lunch recess shifts from 12:15PM - 1:20PM. You can sign up for an entire shift or part of a shift. We also need lunchroom helpers every day from 11:55AM - 1:00PM. New and Experienced Recess Wranglers: Your help during recess is greatly appreciated by the staff. Sign up for a March recess time here. PLEASE NOTE: You must be an approved LWSD volunteer (you can apply HERE if you're not already a registered volunteer). If you have any questions, please email Sri at volunteering@normanrockwellpta.org

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