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Mark your calendars for our Book Swap!
Bring in your old books: Mon - Wed, March 3-5, 7:15am-7:45am
Pick out your new books: Thur & Fri, March 6-7, 7:15am-7:45am
For every TWO books you donate, you’ll receive a ticket to exchange for ONE “new book.” All remaining books will be donated to our sister school, Powers Ferry Elementary.
Click here for more information.
Contact Kiki Missailidis or Jennifer Shaw with any questions.
Ten years ago NEA (National Education Association) and its members started a reading revolution. It began with a one-day celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday, March 2, and has now become a year-round literacy campaign reaching nearly every home, school, and community.
Mt. Bethel Elementary is supporting NEA’s Read Across America Program by challenging each grade level to reach a reading goal during the week of March 3 - 7.
Click here to learn more about the many fun events planned for the week promoting the joy of reading!
Contact Kiki Missailidis or Jennifer Shaw with any questions.
The Eastern Cobb County Council PTA proudly presents
the first annual Teen
Job/Community Service
Fair at the Northeast YMCA on Saturday, March 10
from 11:00am-3:00pm. This is a great opportunity for
teens to secure summer employment or increase their
community service hours.
Saturday, March 10 11:00am-3:00pm - Northeast Cobb YMCA
For more information, contact Pat Giuliani (404-409- 9112) or pat.guiliani@parentcorps.org.
Mt. Bethel is once again competing in the Newell Recycling Challenge! The three local schools that collect the most aluminum cans by March 15 will win a free Sea World/Bush Gardens live animal presentation in the spring as well as a cash prize! So bring us your cans, and your neighbors’ cans, and your office’s cans - as many as you CAN collect!
We need everybody’s help to win the contest and bring this exciting opportunity to our students!
Like the Hannah Montana song says … “Everybody makes mistakes! Everybody has those days! Nobody’s perfect!” This is the theme for Exceptional Children’s Awareness Week, which is March 17 – 21.
Our goal is to remind the Mt. Bethel community that it’s okay to be different. Each of us is different in some way, but we are more alike than different! Differences make us who we are. Nobody’s perfect!
Activities to raise awareness and understanding during the week will include a puppet show called The Kids on the Block, a video displayed on the closed circuit TV system, a parent workshop on Dyslexia, fun activities during specials...and much more!
More detailed information regarding Exceptional Children’s Awareness Week will be provided in the coming weeks. Contact Karen Greene or Kari Squire with any questions.
Please join us for this FREE and informative presentation.
When: Tuesday, March 18th
Where: Merchants Walk Library Conference Room
Time: 12:00 – 2:00 pm
Come find out what Dyslexia is and isn’t and how you can help students who aren’t “natural readers”. Dr. Libby Turner will provide a “Dyslexia Roadmap” to guide parents from “hunch”, to identification, to intervention, and finally reading and writing success.
Click here
to view a flier with additional information about this presentation.
Please RSVP to Kari Squire at (put Dyslexia as the subject) so that we can make sure we have enough handouts.
On Friday, March 21, PTA will offer the Ident-A-Kid and Fingerprinting Programs. Ident-A-Kid provides a laminated, wallet-sized card containing a complete physical description, photograph, home address, and fingerprint of your child at a nominal cost.
The Fingerprinting Program, sponsored by Cobb County's Sheriff's Office, provides a 7 x 8 paper identification card with all of your child's fingerprints for free. No permanent record of these cards is maintained by the Sheriff's Office or Mt. Bethel. The completed cards will be sent to your home.
Please look for flyers in your child's Thursday folders the week of March 10! Questions may be referred to Judy Marek.
We will be collecting healthy, “do-it-yourself”
breakfast and lunch items for the students at Powers Ferry
Elementary because …
We will also need volunteers to collect and distribute the food. Watch for the flyer (coming soon) about how you can help feed the children of Powers Ferry during spring break.
Bins will be located by the
front doors of Mt. Bethel Elementary. Place gift cards in an
envelope marked Mt. Bethel PTA Community Outreach.
Click here
for a flier with more information and suggested items.
Please contact Susan Thrash, Community Outreach Chair, to find out how you can help.
Mark your calendars for Mt. Bethel’s Spring Scholastic Book Fair! Visit our book fair and take a “Reading Road Trip!” Won’t you join us?
Preview: Tuesday, March 25 – Friday, March 28
Book Fair Sales: Monday, March 31 – Friday, April 4
Hours: Monday – Thursday, 7:15am – 4pm &
Friday, 7:15 – 10:00am
Note: Extended shopping hours available Thu, Apr 3 from 5:30pm-6:30pm!
Click here to view a cool website with more information about our book fair!
