Fall Creek PTA

Friday’s Faces: The Santana Triplets

Luke (left), Amanda and Tyler (right), 7, are Fall Creek’s first triplets.
What’s the coolest thing you did in school this week?
Luke: “Playing outside — kickball. I got a home run.”
Amanda: “I liked a book I read. The sun came up. A person sneaked downstairs. He gets food. Then he pretends he’s asleep.”
Tyler: “I liked walking upstairs to the library. And being at Fall Creek with my brother and sister.” (Tyler was at Cayuga Heights last year.)

–Friday’s Face is a weekly feature of the Fall Creek PTA web site. If you’d like your child featured, email president@fallcreekpta.org

We’re the Best!

Today’s Ithaca Times features its annual best of Ithaca awards and we are the winners for best elementary school. Principal Karen Keller told the Times reporter, “We find ways to keep this a happy, upbeat place where adults and children want to walk in the door every day.”

The Metamorphis of the Butterfly Garden

Kids and parents are pitching in and bringing order to our previously untended butterfly garden in the front of the school. Check out the transformation!

Many thanks are due to Jacquelyn and Aaron Buechel for taking on this project. They are the parents of kindergartener Quinn.

Credit Union Opening Day: Oct. 1

The credit union starts up for the year on Wednesday, Oct. 1 from 7:40 a.m. to 7:55 a.m.

If your child isn’t a member of Alternatives Federal Credit Union yet, you and your child can fill out an application at the table in the school lobby before and after school on:

• Thursday, Sept 25th
• Friday, September 26th
• Monday, September 29th
• Tuesday, September 30th

Parents need to bring the following with them to open an account:

• child’s social security number
• driver’s license (or other photo ID) if they want to be co-signer on their child’s account).
• $3 for each child they are signing up ($1 of this money will be the child’s initial deposit, the remaining $2 are the fees that the Fall Creek PTA must pay to Alternatives Federal Credit Union for opening student accounts.)
• your child (so they can sign the card)

If you can’t make it to school on those days, please e-mail Trena and Jane at creditunion@fallcreekpta.org and they will make arrangements to help you with the paperwork.

For more information see the Credit Union Home Page

Friday’s Face

What’s the coolest thing you did in school this week, Owen?
“Going to the falls. We were bringing back fossils to look at.” (Ms. Martindale & Mihal’s class took a geology field trip to Ithaca Falls.)

–Friday’s Face is a weekly feature of the Fall Creek PTA web site. If you’d like your child featured, email president@fallcreekpta.org

Friday’s Face

What’s the coolest thing you did in school this week, Sophie?

“In math, we were cutting out squares and shapes and seeing how many we can do out of graph paper. It’s fun to do the cutting and writing and multiplying.” (Miss Alicia’s class is doing geometry.)

–Friday’s Face is a weekly feature of the Fall Creek PTA web site. If you’d like your child featured, email president@fallcreekpta.org

Go Green Work Party Friday

We will be having a Go Green work party this Friday (9/12/08) from 4 – 5:30 pm at school.
 
We will be stickering all the recycling bins to show what goes in them (Paper, Mixed Containers, Deposit Containers) and deploying them throughout the building. There are approximately 60 bins (existing and brand-new).
 
Kids are encouraged to come and help.  If you are interested, e-mail green@fallcreekpta.org

Thanks to all those who turned out

We had a great crowd for our first PTA meeting of the year — more than 60 kids and about 60 adults. The parents who lead our events and programs were thrilled to have lots of people sign up. If you couldn’t make the meeting and still want to get involved, don’t worry! Contact the leaders directly (see the program page on this web site) or e-mail Helen Ann at vp3@fallcreekpta.org 

Our next PTA meeting is Monday, Oct. 6 with pizza at 5:30 p.m. and the meeting part getting underway at 6 p.m.

Friday’s Face

What’s the coolest thing you did in school this week, Aiden?

“Making a palm tree with my name on it.” (Mr. Bell’s class read the classic children’s book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and the kids are each decorating a picture of a palm tree and cutting out the letters of their names and lining them up on the tree trunk.)

–Friday’s Face is a weekly feature of the Fall Creek PTA web site. If you’d like your child featured, email president@fallcreekpta.org