Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Family Night - 4th Edition

Tonight we had our 4th and final Family Night event. We made the choice at the beginning of the year to combine PTO meetings, Kid's Club (1st-5th grades) and Sand Dollar club (PreK and 5K) into one quarterly event. Overall, I believe that it has gone really well. Attendance has been pretty steady and we had over 150 in attendance tonight. The theme tonight was "Literacy". This is the 2nd time we used this theme this year, but it is so important that I felt like it was a worthwhile venture. We had our 4th and 5th grade Strings perform as well as some K5 students. Breakout sessions included Pat Wilson - creator of Alphabet Junction, a children's storyteller, cybersafety, and family math, reading, science and art activities. We even managed to serve pizza following the meeting.
I would say that the Family Night format has been successful as our goal was to get families to come to school to learn and play together. Thanks to all of our great staff for organizing these events and doing all of the work to make sure that each one was successful!

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