Osprey Family Update

2/12 - 3rd Grade Master Gardeners

2/15 - Talent Show

2/15 - 1st Grade Master Gardeners

2/16 - Military Kids Club

2/16 - Snow Glow Bash

2/19 - Book Fair Starts

Pender County Schools calendar: 23-24 PCS School Calendar

Please use this link to see what is going on in our specials classes!

Please help us celebrate our bus drivers next week!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0D48ABA62CA2FBC61-47880757-tmsbus#/

It’s time for the January Peace Awards. One student from each homeroom will be recognized on the Peace Awards Board, near the Counseling Center in the front lobby. These selected students spread “Peace” at school by showing kindness to their peers, being polite and helpful, encouraging each other to work things out when there are problems, being honest and dependable, staying positive and getting along with everyone.

These are the Peace Award students for January:

4th grade – Westin Mayo, Lilliana Moore, Charlie Ricker, Juan Carlos Vasquez, Kai Zink

3rd grade – Finley Andrews, Kinlee Burch, Niki Changelian, Esta Colby, Harrison Goodwin, Gavyn Malcolm, AJ Marchegiano, Landon Miller, Annabella Porter, Ethan Stone

2nd grade – Bradley Abbett, Emery Beil, Anna Kate Chewning, Victoria Ferrell, Blair Hamric, Marceline Hoffman, Rosemarie Jeffers, Reid Taylor

1st grade – Cason Brabham, Maxwell Fink, Birdie Greene, Teigen Hinson, Elijah Knauff, Lucas Medina, Orion Sanders, Andrew Talbott

Kinder – Nathan Brown, Holden Lansberry, Olivia Nascimento, Mila Reynolds, Charlie Sackett, Ruth Sizick, CJ Thomas

The book fair is coming to TAES!

All students will be able to shop during their Media class the week of 2/19 - 2/ 23. Online shopping and wish lists will also be available as well as the purchase of book fair gift cards. Please see the flyer below for more details.

Here are some helpful links:

Online Shopping make sure to connect to our school for fundraising!

Sign up to Volunteer here to work the book fair

This spring, we are thrilled to announce our participation in Neighborhood Forest's 15th Annual Free Tree Program as part of our Earth Week celebrations from April 22nd to 26th!

Since 2010, Neighborhood Forest has engaged over 1,500 institutions, reached over 500,000 families and planted over 130,000 (mostly urban and residential) trees through the hands of children and parents across North America.

We are excited to be participating in this wonderful program that teaches youth about the importance of environmental stewardship through the magic and wonder of planting and watching trees grow.

Please fill out the following online registration form by March 15th and receive a free tree (6-12 inches in size) during Earth Week (April 22-26). The tree species will be announced in early April. Neighborhood Forest aims to provide native trees in all regions they serve.

Register to receive a free tree for Earth Day to plant with your child:

https://www.neighborhoodforest.org/parent-registration/?school=54941

You will also have the option to donate and / or purchase additional trees and tree-related educational products (via the registration form). Please note this is optional and any purchases/donations will help fund more free trees for kids in the program.

Trees will be delivered to us and we will arrange to get the trees in the hands of your children on or around Earth Day (April 22nd).

Instructions on planting and caring for the trees, along with species details, will be emailed a few days before the tree delivery and will also be accessible in the “Resources” section on the Neighborhood Forest website. For further questions, please check out the Parent FAQs.

STRIDE is the YMCA's boy version of GOTR. We are excited to have STRIDE available this spring as well. We have a wonderful parent volunteer who will be coaching the boys for us.

Stride will welcome our 3rd and 4th grade boys. We will meet on Mondays and Thursdays from 2:30 - 4 pm. The season will run from March 11th - May 18th.

We will only be opening up a limited number of spots on a first come, first serve basis. Please use this link to sign up. Once it is filled, we will not be opening any other spots. Our coach will reach out to you for full registration once you have completed the sign up genius.

All PCS schools will be hosting a kinder registration event on March 13th. This is a great event to get your kinder students registered for the 24-25 school year! Come out and play games, eat some good food, enter some raffles, and have some fun!

One of Pender County's initiatives this year is to bolster student attendance. We know that the more students are in attendance, the more successful they are. Our goal is to have a 95% average attendance. See below for our current attendance data.

Students:

September 96.57%

October 94.74%

November 95.12%

December 91.58%

Yearly Avg - 94.5%

Parents, we invite you to follow us on social media:

Follow us on twitter: @tes_ospreys

Find us on Facebook: Topsail Annandale Elementary School

Find us on Instagram: topsailannandale

Be sure to join the PTA! Join by clicking on the link below. If you have more than one student, be sure to note all teachers

https://tes.memberhub.com/store

Be sure to follow us on Facebook at Topsail PTA and on Instagram at @topsailannandalepta

And please also mark your calendars to join us at Phroyo in Surf City from 12-9pm on March 29. Let them know you’re from our TAES and 15% of your sale is donated back to our school.

Mark your calendars to join us at our next spirit event on Wednesday March 20 between 4 and 9pm at Oval And Ale. The next day is a teacher workday, so make plans to meet your friends and hang out for a while! A portion of your purchase to be donated back to our school.

Spirit wear orders have been placed. Be on the lookout for your orders to be delivered in the coming weeks.

We are so excited to announce a little twist to our amazing annual Glow Bash, Snow! Please join us for the Family Fun SNOW GLOW BASH on Friday, Feb 16th from 5:00-7:30 pm.

This event will feature a DJ for a parking lot dance, a derby car for painting, photo booths, glow bracelets, face painting, playgrounds, and SNOW! There will be a variety of food trucks to purchase from if you like. This is a great opportunity to see the kids' friends and meet other parents! Glow Bash is an outdoor event held in the front playground area. Please dress accordingly and bring chairs if you’d like!

SILENT AUCTION

We will also be holding an AMAZING silent auction the week of Glow Bash. We would love your help in asking for or donating goods and services for this auction. We ask that all donations be turned in to school by February 9th. This could be gift certificates to local businesses, single items, themed gift baskets or anything that could be bid on at our silent auction!

We will display all silent auction items in the front lobby the week of Snow Glow Bash. Bids open Monday, February 12th and will remain open until Friday the 16th at 7pm. It is not necessary to be present to win. Bidding closes at 7:00pm the night of event and winners will be announced at that time.

TAES PTA will soon hold the first meeting of our Bus Driver Appreciation Committee. If you signed up for that committee, please look for an email in the coming weeks. If you would like to help, please email us at Ptatopsailelementary@gmail.com

YEARBOOKS are on sale now! The cost is $18 if purchased before March 1, 2024. Please use the link below to order:

https://strawbridge.fotomerchanthv.com/search/YB28096

Do you have pictures for the yearbook? Please upload them to the link below. It is IMPORTANT to give us as much info as you can (teacher, grade, student names, etc). 4th grade parents, if you would like a baby picture of your student in the 4th Grade Dedication page you can upload them at any time, YOU MUST include their name as a label. https://plicbooks.com/go/UUCZEU

Are you interested in joining a committee? We have many volunteer opportunities to choose from! Summer splash (May), concession sales, winter family event/glow bash, monthly teacher appreciation events, teacher appreciation week (May) and bus driver appreciation week (February) are just a few of our opportunities. If you’d like to volunteer, please send the PTA a message on Facebook or to our email Ptatopsailelementary@gmail.com for more information.