FORT RIVER READS!!!

FORT RIVER READS!!!

Book Event & Community Marketplace

Thursday, December 9

The Fort River Scholastic Book Fair will take place during the week of December 6, and this year it will END with a BANG!

On Thursday, December 9 you will be invited to join the community for an evening celebrating literacy, music, entrepreneurs, and families at the FORT RIVER READS!!!--Book Event & Community Marketplace. We will offer a chili dinner, dessert, and coffee for your enjoyment at a very reasonable cost. The annual Winter Sport Swap, where you can drop off/pick up terrific gear for your kids (for FREE!) will also take place on this evening. Please see below for more information on everything that will be happening during this fun event.

All proceeds from the Book Fair and this Event will go directly to the Fort River Library for books and educational materials.

FORT RIVER READS!!!

Fort River Reads!!!--Bakers Needed

We are gearing up for our exciting FORT RIVER READS!!! Book Event & Community Marketplace on the evening of December 9. We need volunteers to sign up to bring desserts for the bake sale. In addition, we also need donations of cornbread and/or cornbread muffins to go with the chili dinner.

Click here for the online sign-up sheet: http://frpc.pleasebringit.com/public/JuiBQZZOpto 

Items can be dropped off at any time during the day of Thursday, December 9 or at the beginning of the event. All proceeds support the Fort River Library. Contact the Bake Sale Coordinator for more details: Erin Cherewatti (echerewatti@yahoo.com or 253-2304)

Vendors Still Wanted!

We are still looking for vendors to take part in the FORT RIVER READS!!! Community Marketplace.

• Do you own a small business?
• Want to expand your market to the Fort River community?
• Are you an artist?
• Do you make/sell jewelry, pottery, photography or other crafts?

We want YOU to be a vendor at our Marketplace on December 9!

If you would like to have a table to sell your wares, please contact Shari Abbott at shariabbott@mac.com or 256-2353. This event is part of the FORT RIVER READS--Book Event and Community Marketplace on the evening of Thursday, December 9 celebrating the final days of the Scholastic Book Fair. See above for more information about this event.

Volunteers Still Needed to Work at the Book Fair

**SEE BELOW FOR LINK TO CLASSROOM VISIT SCHEDULE**

If you love to read and want to share your enthusiasm with kids, we need you at the book fair! Volunteers are needed for shifts during daytime classroom visits or during the evening Book Fair at our new FORT RIVER READS!!! Book Event & Community Marketplace.

Tasks are varied and include assisting shoppers, stocking and arranging merchandise, checking out customers, or maybe even dressing up as your favorite book character! During slow times you might have time to read to kids! Volunteers are also needed to set-up and breakdown the fair and for other promotional and decorating tasks.

The Scholastic Book Fair will take place during the week of December 6th. We need lots of volunteers! Classroom visits will occur on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, December 7th - 9th. The evening Book Fair will occur on Thursday, December 9th, and includes our exciting new Community Marketplace, chili supper, dessert, coffee, and delightful company!

Click here to see when your child's class will be visiting the book fair 

Click here to sign up to work on the Please Bring It sign-up sheet

Fair Coordinators:

Diane Caraker (dianec711@comcast.net) 413-687-8333

Carol Slaughter (cslaughter143@aol.com) 413-253-9920

All profits from our Scholastic Book Fair directly support the Fort River Library! Every child at Fort River will benefit from your participation in this great community event!

FORT RIVER READS!!!

Winter Sports Swap

The annual Fort River Winter Sports Swap will take place from 6-8pm on the evening of Thursday, December 9 at the Book Event and Community Marketplace. Please bring your used winter/sports gear and clothing--coats, hats, gloves, boots, skates, ski equipment, etc. to Fort River anytime between 3-6pm. Everyone in the community is invited to come by after 6pm and take anything they need. This is a FREE exchange--you do not need to bring anything to participate in the Winter Sports Swap. This is a great way to clean out your winter clothing/equipment or stock up on gear for growing kids! Questions? Contact Peter Wood at cpwolfwood@hotmail.com.

Yearbook Candid Pictures and Volunteers Wanted

You can send digital pictures of class and school events to the yearbook in two ways:

1. Forward digital photos to yearbook.fortriver@gmail.com
2. Put digital photos on a DVD or flash drive and place it in the PGO mailbox marked for the yearbook.

Volunteers are always needed, both adult volunteers and student/adult teams.

Stop and Shop A+ School Rewards Program News

The Stop and Shop A+ School Rewards (BonusBucks) Program is underway. So far Fort River has 104 people signed up, and we earned $87.70 last month.

If you are a Stop and Shop customer, it's still not too late to register!!! Just click here for easy instructions on how to register. 

Thanks!

Beauty and the Beast Auditions

Be our guest and join us for registration and auditions for:

Starlight’s Youth Theatre’s Spring Musical

Audition and Registration Information:

• Youth Ages 7 -18 years of age

• Sunday, December 5th from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.

• Maple Ridge Church, 659 Amherst Rd (Rte. 116), Sunderland, just over the Amherst border and across from Bub’s Barbeque.

• Call Deb at 413-210-1137 to reserve audition time; you need to reserve an audition time before December 5th .

• Be prepared to sing 16 bars of a song and you will also do some scene readings provided by Starlight.

• Registration fee: $130 fee to be paid at time of audition/registration. Depending on the age group of the class, the students will learn acting tools such as sensory recall, character development, expression of emotions, method acting, as well as participating in the mounting of a full scale musical: Disney's beloved “Beauty and the Beast”.

• Classes and rehearsals will be held at the Maple Ridge Church where auditions will be held and will start Saturday, January 22, 2011.

• All youth auditioning will receive a part in the production.

• Starlight’s Youth Theatre is under the direction of Cyn Strycharz and is the only theatre group in the Pioneer Valley dedicated solely to the youth of the valley.

• Visit our website: www.starlightyouththeatre.wordpress.com

• Performances will be on June 3, 4, & 5, 2011 at Bowker Auditorium at UMass

Please note: this event is not sponsored by the Fort River PGO. 

Fort River Reads!!--Date Change

FORT RIVER READS!!!

Book Event & Community Marketplace

Thursday, December 9

(Please note the date change.)

The Fort River Scholastic Book Fair will take place during the week of December 6, and this year it will END with a BANG!

On Thursday, December 9 you will be invited to join the community for an evening celebrating literacy, music, entrepreneurs, and families at the FORT RIVER READS!!!--Book Event & Community Marketplace. We will offer a chili dinner, dessert, and coffee for your enjoyment at a very reasonable cost. The annual Winter Sport Swap, where you can drop off/pick up terrific gear for your kids (for FREE!) will also take place on this evening. More information and details on this exciting event will follow in the coming weeks.

At this time members of the Fort River community who own small businesses are invited to have a table at the Marketplace to sell their products or services. Please contact Shari Abbott (shariabbott@mac.com or 256-2353) for details and to reserve a place at the Market.

Volunteers are needed to plan and run this event. This is a fantastic way to get involved with something that really impacts kids at Fort River! If you love books and want to support the Fort River Library, your help is needed. Again, please contact Shari (shariabbott@mac.com or 256-2353) to volunteer for committee or event work. All proceeds from the Book Fair and this Event will go directly to the Fort River Library for books and educational materials.

FORT RIVER READS!!!

Vendors Wanted for Community Marketplace

Do you own a small business?
Want to expand your market to the Fort River community?
Are you an artist?
Do you make/sell jewelry, pottery, photography or other crafts?

We want YOU to be a vendor at our Marketplace on December 9!

If you would like to have a table to sell your wares, please contact Shari Abbott at shariabbott@mac.com or 256-2353. This event is part of the FORT RIVER READS--Book Event and Community Marketplace on the evening of Thursday, December 9 celebrating the final days of the Scholastic Book Fair. See above for more information about this event.

PGO November Meeting Agenda

The next PGO meeting is on Wednesday, November 17 at 8:45am in the Fort River Cafeteria.

Please join us!


Meeting Agenda

1. Introductions and Meeting Guidelines

2. Budget Review

3. Upcoming Events

4. Winter Event Ideas

5. New Business

Election Day Bake Sale: Big Success!

On Tuesday, November 2nd, the hard-working fifth grade classes held an Election Day Bake Sale to raise funds for their annual field trip. Each spring the fifth grade visits the historic textile mills of Lowell, MA as part of an interdisciplinary curricular unit integrating early US History, Geography, Economics, and Immigration. Read more about the mills and their fascinating history here.

Due to the incredible generosity of our school community and Precinct 6 voters, the fifth grade was able to raise $592.76! Cheers to all of the successful bakers, sellers, and eaters!

Latest Newsletter

In case you missed it, Assistant Principal Susan Kennedy Marx posted the latest school newsletter on the Fort River School website last Friday (Nov. 5). It includes a cool Powerpoint presentation made by Fort River students about the recent rescue of the Chilean miners. Click on the link to view it: http://fr.arps.org/node/2394.

FORT RIVER READS!!!--Book Event and Community Marketplace

SAVE THE DATE!!!

The Fort River Scholastic Book Fair will take place during the week of December 6, and this year it will start with a BANG!

On Monday, December 6 you will be invited to join the community for an evening celebrating literacy, music, entrepreneurs, and families at the FORT RIVER READS!!!--Book Event & Community Marketplace. We will offer a chili dinner, dessert, and coffee for your enjoyment at a very reasonable cost. The annual Winter Sport Swap, where you can drop off/pick up terrific gear for your kids (for FREE!) will also take place on this evening. More information and details on this exciting event will follow in the coming weeks.

At this time members of the Fort River community who own small businesses are invited to have a table at the Marketplace to sell their products or services. Please contact Shari Abbott (shariabbott@mac.com or 256-2353) for details and to reserve a place at the Market.

Volunteers are needed to plan and run this event. This is a fantastic way to get involved with something that really impacts kids at Fort River! If you love books and want to support the Fort River Library, your help is needed. Again, please contact Shari (shariabbott@mac.com  or 256-2353) to volunteer for committee or event work.

All proceeds from the Book Fair and this Event will go directly to the
Fort River Library for books and educational materials.

FORT RIVER READS!!!

Fort River Yearbook Committee Meeting, Nov. 10

Come join the yearbook committee as we plan and design our next yearbook. We need parents to be involved in:

--Yearbook cover design with the 6th grade students 

--Communicating with teachers/parents to collect digital photographs
--Photographing missing staff/students

--Photographing events, specials classes, and instrumental performances

--Creating yearbook pages, distributing proofs to classroom teachers for review, and editing 

Come and find out how you can help at our first meeting on Wednesday, November 10th at 7:00pm, or contact Kathy Niedzielski at stonyhill4@verizon.net. Location: Fort River Library.

School Picture RETAKE Day is Monday, November 8, 10am-1pm

School Pictures went home yesterday with students. If you are dissatisfied with the photographs and wish to have them retaken please bring your entire packet to give to the photographer on retake day. Please do keep the class photograph. If your child was absent, please send in the envelope and payment if you wish to order a package. In some cases your child's teacher may have the envelope.

Original Works Workshop--Thanks from the PGO

The PGO would like to thank Carmela Gravante-Gunnells and Barbara Davis (whose children came to Fort River 10 years ago) and Multi-Arts teachers for their support of the event at Fort River.  In additon we would like thank Multi-Arts Director Catalina Arrubla organizing this fun event!

This event was supported by Guild Art Supply.

Also, please note that orders are now being collected.  They can be dropped off in the PGO mail box in the main office.

Tour of Hawthorne Property

We Want You To Come!

THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL  INTER-ELEMENTARY CROSS COUNTRY CHALLENGE

Where: 

On fields behind the Amherst Regional High School

When: 

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 (see time schedule below)

How far:   

1K (.62 miles) for Kindergarten through second grade

1.5K (.93 miles) for grades three and four

2K (1.25 miles) for grades five and six

How much:  

Donation requested, but not required

Schools Invited:   

Crocker Farm, Wildwood, Fort River, Shutesbury, Pelham, Leverett, Common School, Amherst Montessori

Time Schedule

K-2 boys and girls (3:30)

3-4 boys and girls (3:50)

5-6 boys and girls (4:10)

(Please register as close to 3:00 as possible)

  

Sponsored by the Amherst Regional Boys Cross Country Team.

Please note: this event is not sponsored by the Fort River PGO.