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JFB PTO Newsletter
October 29, 2014

Please add jfbpto@gmail.com to your email address list so this years newsletters reach you!
Important Upcoming Dates
Fri., 10/31 Fall parties (2:15-3:20pm, JFB classrooms); Market Day Order Deadline
Tues., 11/4 NO SCHOOL (in-service day)
Wed., 11/5 Market Day Pick-Up (5pm, JFB Caf)
For more events, check out our JFB PTO Google Calendar! You can even subscribe to the
calendar so you can be alerted when new items are added!
Fall Parties
If you have not yet sent in your $3 donations for Fall and Winter
class parties, please do so today! Just send the money in an envelope
with your child's name on it and the teachers will pass it on to the
Room Parents.

There will be a shuttle running from Landen Kroger parking lot for
our Fall parties scheduled for Friday, October 31st. The shuttle will
run from 1:30-2:15 p.m. and will return after the parties at 3:00 p.m.

All parents attending the party other than the room parents and families
needing handicapped parking will need to ride the shuttle.

Room parents will be receiving a parking pass for the JFB parking lot. Please have it visible for
the parking attendant upon arriving at the school parking lot. Room parents in charge of the
parties may begin setting up at 2:00 p.m. in the classrooms and the parties are scheduled from
2:15-3:00 p.m. Parents are welcome to leave with their children at 3:00 p.m. and ride the
shuttle back to the Landen Kroger parking lot. We hope to see you there!
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Family Fun Knight
Thank you to everyone who participated in Family Fun Halloween Skating Knight at Castle
Skateland. Approximately 105 students participated, and many were in costume. We are grateful for
PTO Family Fun Knight Chairperson, Kristina Johnson, for organizing this fun community event!

Box Tops for Education
Thank you to everyone who turned in Box Tops for Education for our
fall collection, and congratulations to Mrs. Roewers class for being the
top contributing students! They will receive a fun extra treat. Our grand
total for this collection period equates to $1,295.20! This money goes
towards funding our wonderful in-school enrichment programs
throughout the year.

Remember to continue clipping and collecting for our spring contest.
Visit jfb-pto.org/Rewards for more information. A big thanks goes to
JFB PTO Box Tops Co-Chairs, Paula Voegele or Amy Edwards!

Staff Appreciation
A huge THANK YOU to everyone who provided food for
teachers on our three parent-teacher conference nights.
Several teachers have asked us to pass on how much they
appreciate not having to worry about scrambling to find food
before meeting with everyone for conferences! Special thanks
to our JFB PTO Staff Appreciation Co-Chairs, Becky Stevens and
Kari Falk. Awesome job, everyone!

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After-School Enrichment
Click on the following pictures to learn more about the fall enrichment programs currently accepting
new registrations, or scroll to the end of the newsletter to see the flyers!
StarGlazers Pottery register
by phone or email by 11/12.
Empowering Girls with
Confidence (now offered on
early-release Wednesdays!)
register by phone or online by
11/26.

JFB Candy Drive for the Troops
For the fourth year, J.F. Burns Elementary School will collect
Halloween candy to send to the troops overseas. The candy
drive starts Monday, November 3 and ends Tuesday,
November 11. Candy donations can be brought to the
school, located at 8471 Columbia Road in Landen.
Chocolate will be accepted, but no candy in the shape of
body parts or weapons can be donated.
The schools goal is to exceed the 927 pounds of candy (pictured below) that was donated last year
with the help of neighbors, local friends, businesses, and the rest of the Kings Local School District.
This year, we will be partnering with The Yellow Ribbon Support Center located in Batavia, Ohio. The
Yellow Ribbon Support Center was founded by the parents of SSG Keith "Matt" Maupin after he was
captured by insurgents in Iraq on April 9, 2004. The Yellow Ribbon Support Center sends care
packages to deployed troops to bring them a little comfort from home.
We are also accepting monetary donations to
help cover the cost of shipping the care
packages. You may send a check in made
payable to "The Yellow Ribbon Support
Foundation" or make your donations via PayPal
through the Yellow Ribbon Support Center
website. All donations are tax deductible.
Questions? Please contact PTO Support Our
Troops Chairperson, Hope Cantrall
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JFB PTO at Work for Our Kids!
We have had a number of in-school enrichment programs at school recently. This is why we
raise funds! All of these programs are paid for by YOUR participation in our PTO fundraisers.

Readers are Leaders; Midwest School Shows
(second grade)
This interactive assembly was created to
reinforce elementary grade level reading and
English language arts skills. The program used
entertainment, illusions, humor, and fun
props to review reading comprehension,
phonics, and to help encourage students to
discover that reading can be fun. The show
also incorporated routines that help students
discover story building and creative writing.

Look, Count, Find Out; Cincinnati Zoo (Frischs Outreach)
(kindergarten)
Inquiry isnt just for the big kids anymore! The children
met Rosie, a screaming hairy armadillo, and learned the
fun of discovering how the scientific process can help
answer their questions!



Your Heart, Your Blood, Your Health; Cincinnati
Museum Center (second grade)
What an amazing machine the heart is! Students
learned about how the heart is packaged, the way it
works, the way it sounds, to which system it
belongs, and what it pumps. They were able to get
up close and personal with capillaries, run a
little race, test their food pyramid knowledge, and
share some giant microbes!




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Impact of Inventions; Cincinnati Museum Center (fourth grade)
What would life be like without light bulbs, traffic lights, or farmers almanacs? Using a
timeline, experiments, hands-on activities, and role playing, students investigated the impact
of famous inventions created by Benjamin Banneker, Garrett Morgan, Eli Whitney, George
Washington Carver, and Patricia Bath.

Bats; Cincinnati Museum Center (third grade)
The children walked like a bat, learned how to fly like a bat and even met a native Big Brown
Bat. They explored echolocation, how it works, and what it sounds like. Students learned
about these truly amazing yet misunderstood animals through a slide presentation, game,
artifacts and more!


Stay Informed
In addition to our e-blasts, stay informed by checking out our website, Facebook
page, and Twitter feed! If you ever have questions, send us an email and we'll
do our best to help! ~ Shannon Russell, JFB PTO President
www.jfb-pto.org facebook.com/BurnsPTO @jfbpto jfbpto@gmail.com
GO KNIGHTS!
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Reminders

Do you have pictures youd like to share for
consideration in the 2014-2015 yearbook? If
so, upload them to our Lifetouch community
portal by 2/25/15


You can order Market Day products online
and they will be delivered to JF Burns each
month! Next ordering deadline:
10/31/14. Pickup: 11/5/14.












Kroger Community Rewards makes fund-
raising easy all you have to do is shop
at Kroger and swipe your Kroger Plus Card!
Users must re-register their Plus Card each
year, so please login and use Organization
Number 83795 to make sure you are still
signed up.
Do you have a Target
REDCard? You can call
1-800-316-6142 or go
to target.com and
select JF Burns
Elementary School (ID
#85265) to be your
designated school.
Interested in opening a
Target REDCard? Some
of the benefits include:
Automatically get 5% off when you use your card
in stores and Target.com.
Target will donate 1% of your REDcard purchases
to JFB when you designate our school on your
account.
Free Shipping from Target.com
For more details on REDCard benefits, visit this link.

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