Arno Cougars presentation to Dr. Sturock

Coming soon to Arno…

March 20

Steve @Bennie guest reader- 9:30

5th Grade MIF training

March 21

4th Grade MIF training

Eval Webinar at Riley- Steve 8:00

March 22

MTSS District Committee 8:30

Early Dismissal 11:40- Teacher PD

5th grade leaves for camp

March 23

5th Grade camp

Ok To Say Assembly

• Grades K & 1 @ 9:30 am

• Grades 2 & 3 @ 10:30 am

  In the gym

March 24

Camp Return 1;00

Steve guest reader @Mrs. Jensen 2:30

***Bingo for Books rescheduled for April 27- Same time schedule

Dr. Sturock Honored

Allen Park’s superintendent, Dr. Sturock was honored Monday evening at his final appearance at a board meeting.  Many special presentations paid tribute to all of his hard work, dedication, and putting students first.  Arno had a great showing with several staff members and students in attendance.  We are very excited and pleased to announce the Arno Media center has now been named to “John J Sturock Media Center” in honor of our superintendent, and recognizing that he was also a former Arno student- Go Cougars!!   Dr. Sturock was also given a plaque commemorating that naming, as well as a shirt donated by the PTA, and two large photos of the sign in place above the media center door.  Mr. Creutz also had an outstanding adapted version of Crosby, Stills, and Nash in chorus with Arno students! Special thanks Emily Quickel, Kaylee Williams, Olivia Kalis, Zach Hillmer , Zoila Davenport, Reina Garza, Abby Obrycki, Sandy Bennett, Diane Peyton, Dawn Watson, Brian Trionfi, Lisa Smalley, Barb Chuby, and Todd Creutz for their contributions to the night.  Way to go Cougars!

Some of our recent tweeting colleagues…

Standing-room-only today at #macul17 as @maureenklein puts good out into the world on behalf of young readers pic.twitter.com/VP8zNMESS0

— Sara Metzger (@metzger_bennie) March 16, 2017

Awesome start to #macul17 "If we change our world, we can change the world." – @SirKenRobinson pic.twitter.com/iL43GaI7m9

— Sara Metzger (@metzger_bennie) March 16, 2017

Author, Chris Bak, is at Arno Elementary to share her love of reading and writing with our students. @szArno #marchisreadingmonth pic.twitter.com/u11dcaiHVl

— Dawn Watson (@dpawatson) March 16, 2017

https://twitter.com/phillippittman7/status/841952825974378497

From the PTA

It’s the “LUCKIEST” Day of the Year! We hope that some of our Caring Cougar Community were able to catch a tricky LEPRECHAUN! If not, we hope you’re enjoying your day with good food, drink, and people!

This Saturday, March 18th, the PTSA will be holding our annual Spring Fever Craft/Vendor show, Mom to Mom Sale, Bake Sale, Sports Memorabilia and Card Show, and Silent Auction. Please join us at the High School from 9-3 to help support our Community and graduating Seniors. All proceeds help fund our scholarship program

As many of you may know by now from following our Arno Elementary Facebook page, we have 2 State Winners for our PTA Reflections contest: Charlotte Tracz- Primary Music (Award of Merit) and Sophia Kaloian- Primary Visual Art (Honorable Mention). Both girls were presented with flowers and a card from our PTA and will have the opportunity to go to the Michigan State PTA Reflections Reception! Way to Go Girls!

Speaking of winners….our Executive Board has its own “Winner” too! Our Super Awesome Treasurer is part of her company’s (Consumer Energy) ad campaign to support women’s leadership with two other companies: the Society of Women Engineers at U-M and Career Mastered. WAY TO GO JULIE! What a wonderful opportunity to be involved in! Julie also applied for anagrams from Consumers Energy and was awarded $250 for volunteering her time at Arno and in our Community. WOW! What a Rock Star!

If you have enrolled in the Kroger Community Reeards Program, you MUST re-enroll in April. If you have NOT enrolled in this program, please email us at:arnopta@gmail.com and we can get you started and set-up. It really only takes about 5 minutes of your time to help out your school!

Arno PTA Executive Board nominations are being accepted! If you think you would like to contribute to the PTA by taking on an executive board position, please email us or send us a message on Facebook. Elections will be held at our April 13th meeting. In order to ensure our official ballots are correct, we need to be aware of anyone interested in running. If you have any questions about any of the positions (President, VP of Fundraising, Treasurer, or Secretary), please contact us and we will be happy to answer any and all questions.

PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! Get your Daddy/Daughter RSVP’s in SOON! No RSVP’s will be taken after March 31st. Do not miss out on this event! New Venue! Awesome DJ! Delicious Food! Fond Memories with your Duaghter(s)!

We hope everyone enjoys their weekend! Hopefully we will see many of you at the Spring Fever event on Saturday!

Scholastic Magazine REMINDER

Please remember to place your order in the PTA shared doc by the end of this month.  Please refer to the numbers I had sent out just prior for next year, plus pad by two.  Let me know what questions you have.

MACUL

We are now on day 2 of the state tech conference and there will be much to share.  Please visit http://www.teach42.com/fetc-2017/ for some really great websites for creativity and other subjects like writing,  The ones I explored are amazing and can really bring up the tech game in our classrooms.  The site belongs to Steve Dembo, who spoke at MACUL a few years back, and contains other presentations he has done.  Please consider exploring some of these top educational sites.   More to come.