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Welcome to the 2020-2021 school year.while this year will look different than those in the past, our mission as a PTA, to make every child’s potential a reality by engaging and empowering families and communities to advocate for all children, has not changed. Your Executive Committee has been hard at work and we are committed to bringing home and school together. Health and safety are our top priorities, and we will address new challenges as they present themselves.

The PTA will provide breakaway mask lanyards to all Manetuck students. These lanyards will allow children to safely remove masks without having to put them down on a surface or in a pocket etc. Your support also provided folders for each student.

Special welcome signs to the Kindergarten Class of 2033!

Schools out! But your Executive Committee is Just Gearing up!

Woo hoo! We all survived the end of the school year quarantine/distance learning style. A huge thanks to everyone for a successful end of year. Give yourself a pat on the back for doing your part! Parents, students, educators, and everyone in between really worked hard to make the best of the situation.

Congratulations to our 5th grade students who are moving on to Udall! The moving up parade was awesome! Click here to see pictures.

Thank you to this year's past Executive Committee. We appreciate all your hard work, dedication, and commitment to our school and students. Thank you to our volunteers who chaired or helped at events. You were essential to our success.

The 2020-2021 Executive Committee has already begun to plan for the new school year. They are working well together to navigate through some of the challenges we may face with the return to school and COVID-19. We are thankful to have such amazing people to be a part of our PTA and are looking forward to another incredible year!

THANK YOU TO ALL of the aMazing Teachers and Staff at Manetuck!

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Yearbook orDers

Orders for yearbook can be placed at https://manetuck.memberhub.store/shopping/categories/7010

A Message from us... 3/20/2020

We hope everyone is staying safe, healthy, and sane during this unprecedented time. As a PTA, we are working on figuring out what the best course of action is for handling activities, fundraisers, and events that have been canceled. We understand that this is a difficult time and want to be sensitive to your needs and also the need for normalcy while we come up with a plan for how the next few weeks/months will play out.

Some of you may have already received e-mails from LifeTouch regarding the sale of our yearbook this year. Our yearbook was set to go on sale right when school closures took place. What used to be a 68 page book is now 80 pages with so many more photos of our children. The only event that won't be in our yearbook this year is the STEM Expo. But don't worry, our yearbook is almost complete! You may order a yearbook online right now. A copy of the order form we were going to be sending home is located here. The link to order yearbooks can be accessed by clicking here. The yearbook order code is 13416820. The link should take you directly to that but if not, you may manually enter the code to find it. All 5th grade students receive a complimentary copy of the yearbook. We have always accepted a cash/check payment in the past. For now, we are only accepting online orders and will provide instructions regarding accepting other payment forms at a later time. If you are able to order online, please do so. The yearbooks will need to go to print and your orders placed now will allow us to make sure we have enough copies.

Please see district website for update on School Activity Cancellations.

The following events have been canceled:

Getting to know Manetuck #1
March 16 PTA Meeting
March 17 Winter Reader's breakfast
March 20 Manetuckville Parent/Teacher Social
March 31 Spring Photos
April 1 Evening STEM EXPO (day expo still taking place)

We will advise of rescheduled events as the information becomes available.

On February 14, the children enjoyed a wonderful assembly by the ReesSpecht Life Foundation. The younger grades learned about cultivating kindness. The lesson spoke of how kindness comes from your heart and you can plant a seed with acts of kindness. The older grades received a deeper lesson that spoke about where bullying stems from and how to overcome it. Both presentations were touching, related to kindness and the effects it can have on the world. The students were very engaged and the adults present were touched by the message they heard.
The PTA is very proud to be able to bring this assembly to our school. Please speak with your children about it. You may also go to www.reesspechtlife.com, click share and tell what act of kindness your child did.
On P.S. I love you day, we hope it helped drive home the message that each of us can make a difference in the lives of those around us, be it a friend, stranger, or even someone who isn't kind to us. We all have a choice in our actions and by respecting others and cultivating kindness, we can change the world.
Hope everyone enjoyed the assemblies and the cute heart carabiners provided by the PTA. May each of them know they are special and loved and be reminded of that whenever they touch or see their carabiner.

We hope all our scholars enjoyed their shopping experience at our book fair. If you missed the opportunity to shop, or the book you wanted was sold out, you can still shop online. Please visit https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/manetuckelementaryschool1 to make additional purchases. The link is open through February 13.

For your convenience, we've uploaded the wish lists of the teachers who completed one so you may purchase a book for their classroom. You can locate them here.

Happy Shopping!

We're excited to kick off PARP. To help you stay on top of all the exciting activities we have planned, please reference here for a copy of the calendars. You may read a copy of the welcome letter or reprint lost logs here.

It's been a busy January! Reminder that 5th Grade Yearbook Cover Contest submissions are due January 24, 2020.

The PTA is currently accepting nominations for our 2020-2021 Executive Committee. A form is located on memberhub for you to place your nominations. All positions are 1 term only and are open for nominations. A person may serve for two consecutive terms in a position. All positions of the current Executive Committee are serving the first term of that position and are eligible to serve again in the same capacity. To be eligible for an Executive Committee position, you must have held a Committee Chair position. If you have any questions about positions or eligibility, please email manetuckpta@yahoo.com

WIHS is serving their Hershey Park fundraiser. You will find order form here. This is the only discount ticket sale they will be running and tickets will be in by May.

WI Council of PTA's is conducting a raffle for an iPad at their Founders' Day Award Recognition night on February 3rd. Raffle forms must be sent in by January 30th. You can print a form here.

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This year's Pumpkin Patch was a great success! Thank you to all volunteers who helped the students pick the perfect pumpkin! Thank you to our chair, Raimee Roger and Vice President Christina Elefante!

Trunk or Treat was a frightfully fun night! Special thank you to committee chair Jacquie Busking and Vice President Dawn Abi-Zeid for overseeing the night. Thank you to all the volunteers that decorated their trunks, baked or bought treats for the bake sale and volunteered at the event.

Manetuck was an Early Bird Winner for Membership! We hit the 60% membership goal set for us! Congratulations!!!

NYS PTA put out a survey over the summer. Nearly 1,000 fellow PTA members shared feedback and great comments that will help NYS make PTA membership better for you. All who participated were eligible to win PTA swag. Look who one the grand prize?!?!

We're so excited!!!

Thanks to all our amazing volunteers for a great photo day! Everything moved along so efficiently. The children wore their best smiles! Special thanks to our chair Mandy Stensland and her amazing side kick, Jackie Reetz. Job Well Done!!!

Our in school book fair went amazingly well! In fact, we believe it may be our best book fair sales to date! Thank you to all of our volunteers for helping the children shop the fair! We would especially like to thank our 1st Vice President, Kristie Terracciano, for all her hard work!

We had a great turnout for our first PTA Meeting! We shared a lot of information and will be updating the website to reflect many of the things we discussed!

Just to recap a few items: Online Sign ups are available through memberhub. You can find memberhub by clicking here. You would have received login instructions when your membership was processed. You must be a paid PTA member to access the signups. The link to join is listed toward the bottom of this web page.

The following committees are some of the open committees we would like to fill sooner than later:
Yearbook, Health & Wellness, PARP, Holiday Visitor

The following committees are new this year and will need to be filled:
Hospitality, Communications

Please e-mail manetuckpta@yahoo.com for further information. We will update you with descriptions of the committees over the next week.

Donuts with Dad was awesome!!! Thank you to Larry DeLorenzo for chairing this committee! We had some amazing volunteers help make it such a great event. The children had such a fun time.

Our Summer Reader's Breakfast was a success! We had over 70 students show who participated in the summer reading program. Each child received a goodie bag and a certificate. They enjoyed lunch with their friends and we grabbed a photo of everyone for the yearbook!

Thanks to our amazing chairperson, Morgan Buccello, and our 3rd Vice President, Christina Elefante for all their hard work in coordinating the details.

Thank you for our volunteers for setting up the cafeteria, serving the children, and making sure everything went smoothly!

National PTA’s Reflections program has helped students explore their own thoughts, feelings and ideas, develop artistic literacy, increase confidence and find a love for learning that will help them become more successful in school and in life.

Each year, our students create original works of art in response to a student-selected theme. The theme for the 2019-2020 program year is Look Within. Students submit their completed works of art in one or all of the available arts categories: Dance Choreography, Film Production, Literature, Music Composition, Photography, Visual Arts.

All requested applications have been sent. Entries are due Friday, November 1, 2019.

Thank you to Samantha Miller for assuming the chairperson position for this committee.

Our back to school breakfast was a success! The executive committee was joined by some familiar parents as well as some new parents. It was a comfortable and relaxing environment where everyone introduced themselves and got to know each other better. We discussed events that were going to take place throughout the school year and lots of questions were answered. All who attended received a little bag of kisses and tissues! Thanks for all who joined us and for those who helped make the event successful! We look forward to seeing everyone at our first official PTA Meeting on Tuesday September 17th at 7:00 p.m.

Membership is now open for the 2019-2020 school year. Support your PTA by joining online at tinyurl.com/supportmanetuckpta

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