Field Day

For those of you who are new to DCE, let me talk about Field Day.  This year Field Day is scheduled for May 18.  The day will begin with a pep rally and the 5th grade girls will do a May Pole program.  Then they will be off and running (literally).  There will be 6 stations that each grade will rotate through set up all around the campus.  The stations change a bit each year, but will probably include a water balloon war station, a wet bounce house/slide station, a track and field station, a snack station with a DJ and so much more.  As you can imagine the success of this event requires an enormous number of volunteers.  BUT IT IS SOOOOOO FUN!  There will be 2 shifts.  Parents can either sign up for one shift or offer to work both.  I have always worked both because I don't work during the day (other than all this fun volunteering stuff) and I LOVE field day.  My husband, Tim, just works one shift so he can spend the rest of the day at work. I have worked many different positions in my 7 years at DCE for Field Day.  I have been in charge of one, which was GREAT and I have been in charge of various stations.  If you work the full day in a station, you are sure to see your child's class come through at some point and you can eat your lunch with them.  It is a lot of fun.

I have to mention one thing that drives me batty!  There will be one person assigned to walk with the class from station to station.  This is an important job (one of the most) but easily handled by that one person for whom it was assigned.  However, I always see about 5-8 parents trailing around behind their kid's classes from event to event.  Ok, sweet, but not really helpful.  I promise your kid is going to have a blast regardless of if you are standing there or not and we need you to help in the other events.  So, try to keep that in mind.  If I see you wandering aimlessly on Field Day, I am going to try and put you to work!  This is for the kids and is absolutely their favorite day of the year.  Dads, this is the best event for you to volunteer.

So, all that being said, please sign up to help during Field Day.  The kids need your help to make it a success.

Thanks and see you there!
Lisa

Another spring break is over :(

I can't believe that another spring break is behind us.  It goes by so quickly.  We have 13 more weeks of school left in the year.  WOW!  13 more newsletters and blogs and then I pass the torch onto a new pto president.

Our family had a very nice spring break.  We had soccer on both weekends (competitive soccer can be quite a beating) and were able to rush to New Orleans during the week for a jam packed week of culture and food.  I am not planning on eating ANYTHING for about a week to cleanse.  Just kidding, but they do make some good food there.  The kids had a nice time and we were able to shelter them from most of the not age appropriate things that can be seen in the french quarter area.  We finished the break off with an overnight visit from some of our closest friends from Tulsa.  They are the only family that we know that has children exactly the same age and sex of our children.  It was great.  A perfect way to end the week.

I hope that each of you had a wonderful and relaxing vacation.  I hope that the children are refreshed as the next few months of school are jam packed with activities and testing testing testing for our 3-5 kiddos.

Get one more good night's sleep.  See you bright and early tomorrow :)
Lisa

PTO Meetings

We have our March PTO meeting this Friday at 9:15 in the science lab in B hallway.  We will be discussing the spring social, the success of the auction, upcoming events, and the slating of officers for next year's PTO board.  If there is anyway that you can attend the meeting, we would love to have you.  I understand that many of you are working during this time, so we will continue to upload our minutes and budget numbers to the newsletter for your review each month.  For those of you who do have the time to come, we try and finish the meetings within an hour and Mr. McLain fills us in on DCE happenings.  I always learn something new.

Hope to see you Friday,

Lisa