Dear Point Vicente Parents –
 It’s almost time ... get ready... READ! We will kick off our annual celebration of the joy of reading February 21. Please help your children by scheduling a trip through the library so they have a stack of books! We will all count our pages read - and there is an ice cream treat for the class average that beats mine! Our celebration culminates March 23- and parents are invited to join us for lunch that day! This is a great opportunity to grab a book yourself and join your child on the couch! Read Across America with Point Vicente!
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From the desk of Kathy Barry, District Nurse:
Flu season is upon us.  Some of the symptoms of the flu are: fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills, fatigue, sometimes diarrhea and vomiting.  

Please keep your child home if they have flu symptoms.  Students can not return to school until they are fever free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medications (for example, Tylenol). The flu virus is spread mainly from person to person through droplets made when people with the flu cough, sneeze or talk.  The flu virus also may spread when people touch something with the flu virus on it and then touch their mouth, eyes or nose.  
To help prevent the spread of the flu, stay away from others as much as possible to keep from infecting others.  If you must leave home, wear a mask if you have one or cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue or by sneezing into your elbow, not your hands.  Wash your hands often to keep from spreading the flu to other.

Thank you. 

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Your PT VICENTE PTA Needs You!

In the spirit of keeping our PTA strong, we are starting our search for next years PTA members. Everyone is welcome!
The following positions will be open for the 2018/2019 school year:

-President: Organizes the PTA general on the 2nd Tuesday of every month and Exec Board meetings the 4th Tuesday of every month, attends Council meetings once a month and President Council meetings once a month, goes over budget before the beginning of the school year and finalizes it after the school year has started, works closely with the Principle, oversees all positions to make sure we get everything done each month for whatever is happening, brings in volunteers, chairs and new position holders.
 http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/president/

-EVP: Assists the President and will attend meetings with the President and will go in place of the President if they can’t attend themselves
http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/executive-vice-president/

http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/membership-chairman/ http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/honorary-service-award/http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/hospitality/ 
​-4th VP: Disaster Preparedness and Event Organizer - Organizes Fall family evening event, pumpkin contest, works with Science Night organizer to make sure she has all volunteers that she needs on hand before and after event, child/ parent read across America picnic, works with Variety show organizer to make sure she has all the volunteers she needs if any, works with Dads ice cream social organizer to make sure they have everything they need, Organizes Disaster preparedness and orders anything we need updated or missing.
http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/disaster-preparedness/

-5th VP: Communications: Writes the school newsletter "The Fog Horn", works with room parents to communicate anything the PTA needs to share with families, oversees compilation and production of the Directory.
http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/job-description-for-communications/http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/fundraising-chairman/http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/legislative-advocacy-chairman/

 http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/treasurer/

http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/parliamentarian/http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/secretary/

http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/auditor/http://toolkit.capta.org/job-descriptions/reflectionsprogram/Works with merchandising company, takes spirit wear orders at registration, all events, during the school year and delivers orders to students.

Please consider nominating yourself or a peer parent by submitting a straw ballot:

https://www.memberplanet.com/preview/pointvicente/strawballot1415_1_2_1_1_1_1_1

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Did you know your PTA Family Directory is now available on line?
If you signed up for a PTA membership- then you should have access! Emails with access information were sent out the week of December 20th.
The email was titled: Instructions to access our school's online and mobile directory
The directory is a great way to stay in touch with other families in our school community.
With access you can search for families, students and faculty and update your family data if anything changes. You can also print the directory, visit our online Store and Signup for events.

Thanks for being in our community!
​If you believe you should have access but have not received the email- please contact Stefani Turner at stefstrat70@gmail.com

​​   Dates for Your Calendar

Feb 12th: Next Ruby's Night (4th Grade Focus)
Feb 13th: Next PTA Meeting
Feb 15th: Pt V Parent Education Night- Kim Fricker
Feb 19th: Presidents Day, No school
Feb 21st: Read Across America activities begin
Feb 23rd: Fun Run
Feb 27th: Chipotle Fundraiser

***please note there are full descriptions of the above events on our school website under the calendar section.
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