For those of you celebrating: Happy Lunar New Year! Wishing you good health, happiness and prosperity for the year of the rat.
A big thank you to all the families ate at Chipotle last Wednesday to support our fundraiser! We had lots of fun eating dinner with other families and we had a great turnout! Hopefully our next Restaurant Night Out at Panera in Rego Park (2/11 from 4pm-8pm) will be just as successful!
We hope you received the information we sent home about our next fundraiser with Double Good. They offer delicious gourmet popcorn in many different flavors and 50% of sales comes right back to the PTA!! Many thanks to Rebekah Cabonargi who is heading this fundraiser, and we appreciate all her time and effort. The PTA welcomes assistance from parents who want to take on a fundraiser or other project – just let us know you would like to help.
As mentioned last week, we are starting the process of amending our PTA by-laws and would like to encourage all parents to actively participate. You can read the current by-laws here:
https://www.303pta.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Bylaws-with-signature-2018-PTA-of-AEA.pdf.
As a first step, we are forming a by-laws committee and are looking for parents to volunteer on the committee. Please be on the look out for more information that will be sent home via your child’s backpack.
It’s this time of the year again when we slowly start the PTA election process. We will also need to create a committee for this process – a nominating committee. Please consider volunteering for the nominating committee – it does not require much time and effort. A flyer was sent home about this earlier this week.
For those of you following the news about the Diversity Plan process, here is an interesting article about why Queens is different than Brooklyn: https://chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2020/01/27/why-integrating-middle-schools-in-queens-wont-follow-brooklyns-footsteps/
This week’s events:
There are none! There are two school trips scheduled this week: the 1st Grade Trip was earlier this week on Monday 1/27 and the Kindergarten Trip is on Thursday 1/30. If your child has an AEA trip shirt, please have them wear it.
Looking ahead:
Tuesday, February 4 at 8:30am – On Stage with Mrs. Leto
Wednesday, February 5 at 7:30am – SLT meeting
Thursday, February 6 at 6:30pm – CEC meeting
Tuesday, February 11 from 4-8pm – Panera Bread Rego Park Fundraiser
Thursday, February 13 at 7pm – PTA meeting
Here’s looking forward to a great February!!!
The PTA of AEA