Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays to all of the faculty, staff, students and families of Moore Elementary School! See you in 2012!

Toys 4 Tots at Moore

On Thursday, December 15th, Moore Elementary School participated in our annual Toys 4 Tots toy drive.  Mr. Heffelfinger, one of our 2nd Grade teachers, helped organize the drop-off at the school and was able to have two United States Marines present for the students to interact with as they dropped their toys upon arrive to school.  Ms. Young, our Orchestra teacher, had a couple students playing Holiday music to help spread some Holiday spirit as well. 

"This year's drive was off the hook - the largest that I can remember", said Mr. Heffelfinger.  Mr. Heffelfinger then added, "We completely packed the vehicle they brought, there was no room...it was crammed in there pretty good".

Mr. Heffelfinger and the rest of Moore would like to thank everyone who participated and helped make the holidays a little brighter for those who are in need!  We would also like to thank Ms. Young and her students for the lovely music, Mr. Heffelfinger for organizing and helping with the drive, the USMC for their participation, and to the Moore community. 

Thank you, and Happy Holidays!

Schedule of Events - December 19-23

This week at Moore, we will be having a great number of events for the students and staff!  Here is a breakdown of what you (and the students) can expect:

Monday, December 19...we will have a modified schedule for the day, with shortened periods for Specials.  There will be an in-school Holiday concert at 1:30pm for students and faculty/staff only.  We respectfully ask that no family members attend the in-school concert.  At night, we will be holding our Holiday concert at 7:00pm in the gym.

Tuesday, December 20...we will be holding our second night concert, starting at 7:00pm in the gym.

Wednesday, December 21...MOORE SPIRIT DAY!  Students and Faculty/Staff are invited to wear any of their Moore Elementary School gear!

Friday, December 23...last day for students, faculty/staff before the winter break.  Many classes will be holding winter/holiday parties in their classrooms and enjoying some fun/enriching activities all the while.  There will be a select group of faculty members roaming the hallways in the afternoon singing some winter/holiday classics!

We hope that everyone enjoys the week...and has a safe and happy holiday break!

December PTA Minutes

General Membership Meeting Minutes

December 5,  2011

Moore Elementary School Library

Officers in Attendance:  Dianna Schoenen – chair/president

                                                    Rhonda Tucker – absent

                                                    Rachel Karc – vice president #2

                                                    Beverly Jenkins – secretary

                                                    Heather Davidson – absent

Agenda Topics

n  The chair opens the meeting at 7 hrs.06min. pm

n  Approval of November minutes by two meeting attendees..

n  Principal's Report,           Mr. Dimmick

            1. Thank you to all volunteers.  Received a lot of positive responses about Santa's

                        Workshop and Vendor Fair.  May move it to the gym next year.

            2.  Hawk Mtn. presentated for the 6^th grade and they love it.  PTA sponsored.

                  3.  Lenape Indians will be presenting to 4^th grade for an  program  Monetary gift

                       from the Northampton Educational Foundation funded this program.

4.  Exploring having Ed Hanna (channel 69) in for a weather presentation.        

5.  $7000 donation from PTA.  Moore will purchase doc.cams, projectors and

                        clickers.

n Committee's

           1.  January 9^th Health Fair

            a)  5-8pm,  11 Vendors

           b)  PTA bulletin board is right outside of APR room to announce Fair and for                 general use for any committee.

                        c)  Free classes in APR room

                     1.)  Kid's Fitness

2.)  Yoga

2.  Reflections,                         Beverly Jenkins

     a)  Awards program went very well.

     b)  Top 5 winners in each category moved on to Council.

c)  Need baker's for council reflections program January 12^th 2012, 7pm.

3.  Holiday Stop & Shop/Vendor Fair

                        a)  Brought in $800 profit.

                 4.  Book Fair,                          Michelle Beil

a)  $2308 profit

                  5.  Holiday Party,                       Rachel Karc/Lynne Auger

                             a)  Went very well. Enjoyed by all.

                  6.  Fundraising

                                  a)  Joe Corbi's      $4900 profit

                             b)  $5000 short of fall goal.

                             c)  Clothing Drive and Wawa Hoagie coupons

                             d)  Gertrude Hawk in spring.

7.     6^th Grade

a)  Currently doing a lottery calendar fundraiser.

8.  Need New Chair for the following:

                              a)  Spring Carnival/Fitness Walk

                              b)  Pumpkin Painting with Pop

c)     Holiday Party

      9.  Movie Night,                          Kim Hartzell/Debi Gantz

            a)  Went well

            b)  Gave away popcorn and a drink

            c)  Sold candy

n  General                              

                        1.  Custodial appreciation is handled by Debi Gantz.

                        2.  Anjello Grello has connections to local media and also Scranton/Phila.

                             a)  Contact him if something is newsworthy.

                        3.  If you take pictures of a Moore event, there are a few ways you can get the                                                       pictures to the yearbook staff-  Mrs. Dalton is the advisor                                                        (dalton@nasdschools.org).

            a)  Use the community upload site- community.lifetouch.com and enter Moore's upload code:  TIQJNY (all letters).

            b)  Give Mrs. Dalton your memory card to copy the pictures.

            c)  Burn picture to a CD.

d)  E-mail non-compresses individual files to Mrs. Dalton.

e)  Looking for students in classrooms as well as at assemblies, special events, recess and after school events.  

Adjournment

n  The chair adjourns meeting at 7hrs. 55min pm.

Next Mtgs:  Monday, February 6^th,  7pm          Moore Library

                    Monday, March 5^th, 7pm               Moore Library

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Exciting News!

Mrs. Arcury, our District Dental Hygienist, is one of the 12 winners chosen from hundreds of entries in NCC's (Northampton Community College) Billboard Campaign.  Mrs. McGlynn, NASD's traveling nurse nominated her by writing a letter as to why she should be chosen, along with a photo in my profession.  Mrs. Arcury's photo and the program which she graduated from at NCC (Dental Hygiene) will be prominently displayed for all to see sometime in 2012.  Mrs. Arcury is so excited, and so are we!  Mrs. Arcury's "photo shoot"  is coming up sometime next week!  Congratulations...and we're proud to say we have a star among us!

Moore Sweatshirt Sale - UPDATE

The sweatshirt sale items are scheduled to be delivered to Moore the week of December 12-16 (most likely the middle of the week).  Once they arrive, our goal is to distribute them to the students as quickly as possible.  Please keep an eye on the Moore Good News blog as to when they have arrived and will be delivered...since some may be a holiday gift!

KidWriting At Its Best!

The above video is of Mrs. Schucker's Kindergarten class.  The class read the book "Whose Garden is It?", and the students used KidWriting to determine who they think the garden belongs to.  We hope you enjoy the video, these students certainly enjoyed creating it!

EMERGENCY CLOSINGS INFORMATION

With that time of year approaching, we wanted to send along some useful information with regards to emergency school closings due to inclement weather.

If there is an emergency or weather closing, an announcement will be made on local radio and television stations by 5:45am, or as early thereafter as possible.  As an alternative, parents/guardians can call the administration office at 610-262-7811 as early as 6:00am on inclement weather days.  One call to the administration office will notify parents/guardians of delays or closures for the entire district.

In the event of early dismissals due to weather or other emergencies, announcements will be made on local radio and television stations, as well as the parent notification system used by the District.  Dismissals vary between the schools (different times for high school/middle school vs. elementary schools), so be sure to listen for your child's school(s).  

Please be sure to review with your children the procedures you'd like them to follow in the event of an early dismissal, delay or cancellation of school (alternate place for them to report if no one will be home).

The local radio stations carrying school closings and delays/early dismissals are: 790AM, 1230AM, 1400AM, 95.1FM, 96.1FM, 99.9FM, 100.7FM, and 104.1FM.  Local television stations carrying this information are: Channel 69 (WFMZ) and Channel 16 (WNEP). The school district website (www.nasdschools.org) and local news agency websites will also carry school closings, delays and early dismissal information.

We hope that Mother Nature helps us out this year and limits the number of cancelled days, delays and early dismissals...but if she doesn't, we'll be prepared!