The February Family Reading Extravaganza is sponsored by the PTA. We hope that the activities promoted during February will encourage families to read together and increase children’s interest in reading – books and beyond.

Hopefully your child has already been working on the first activity – the reading detective sheet. This is a kind of reading scavenger hunt where you child needs to find answers to most of the questions on the sheet. This sheet should be turned into your child’s classroom teacher on Monday, February 8th. Children who complete the sheet will get a small prize. And of course we’ll see which classrooms had the best participation. Haven’t seen the sheet? Download the form here.

The next activity is one that your whole family can do together. Your child received a bingo sheet with lots of different kinds of reading opportunities. The goal is to check off as many of the boxes as you can. Everyone in the family can help. Just have the person initial the box when they are done. The cards can be turned in at the ice cream social / book fair (February 23) for a prize AND the chance to really play bingo. Children who can’t attend this event can turn them into their classroom teacher on February 24th for a prize. The bingo sheet can also be downloaded here.

Questions? Email Sarah Verbiest at sverbiest@yahoo.com. Stay tuned – more fun to come!

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Please mark your calendar for these events occurring this month:

February 1st Family Reading Extravaganza from 2/1-2/25
February 11th Coffee with the Principal for the Dads 5:00-6:00pm
February 19th Movie Night @ 7pm Featuring “College Road Trip.” Rated G
February 22-25th Bookfair
February 23rd Bookfair/Ice Cream Social @ 6:30pm
February 26th Spirit Day & Walk to School @8am
African-American Extravaganza @6:30pm
March 1st PTA Meeting @ 6:30pm

The Panda Pacers Walk/Run Club will meet on the following Wednesdays, weather permitting, at Solite Park: February 10th at 1:45pm (due to Early Release), February 17th and 24th at 3:45pm.

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Volunteers are greatly needed to help with the Bookfair and Ice Cream Social. Please contact Audra Simpson (audramk@hotmail.com) if you are able to help.
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The NC PTA has endorsed Furtal.com as their online fundraising platform.

You can visit www.furtal.com, learn more about the program, and then type in pearsontown, or you can go directly to the Pearsontown Elementary page by clicking on the image below:

Furtal raises money without costing anything to parents, it engages our local and the online business community to support our PTA, and provides 24/7/365 fundraising opportunities.

Whenever you need to make a online purchase click on the link above and shop through the portal. Create a shortcut on your desktop, too!

You won’t notice anything different about your shopping experience. Companies included in the program, to name a few:

Amazon / iTunes / Target / GAP / KOHL’s / Fandango / Barnes&Noble / Bass Pro Shops / Walmart / Kmart / Piperlime / footnote / Petsmart / Sears / Macy’s / Office Depot

You can shop by categories such as – Gifts and Flowers – or by alphabetical listing. Please take time to check it out and support our school! Please share our Furtal site with your family and friends.

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If your child has lost items at school, they have been sorted and are ready for pick-up. Items will be available at all PTA events. Unclaimed items will be disposed of after May 7, 2010. Thank you, The Lost & Found Committee. If you have any questions please contact Carole Bruhn at carolebruhn@yahoo.com.

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The Panda Pacers are a group of Pearsontown Families that run, walk, and
play together weekly from Oct-Mar in a effort to have fun being physically
active. This group is for all families of all sizes, shapes and skill
levels.  The only requirement is that an adult accompany each child  and that all adults and children participate. We meet Wednesdays at 3:45 PM at Solite Park.
For more information, please contact Eileen Keaveney (ewkeaveney@aol.com) or Katie Thomas (Gerald.katie@verizon.net).

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Class Rankings for Campbell’s Labels Competition August 2009 – January 2010 click here

Class Rankings for BoxTops Competition July 2009 – January 2010 click here
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Don’t forget to Re-link your Harris Teeter VIC card to Pearsontown #1288. The programs starts August 1st. To link your card, give the cashier our code 1288, and your linked for the entire school year. Please ask your family members, friends, and co-workers that shop at Harris Teeter to link their card to Pearsontown. Once your VIC card is linked, Pearsontown receives a percentage of your Harris Teeter brand purchases in the form of cash. This is a free and easy way to help raise money for our school. Reminder cards are available to print out to the left.

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Welcome Pearsontown Pandas

We would like to welcome new families to the Pearsontown community and welcome back returning families for the 2009-2010 school year.

As many of you already know, Pearsontown is a rich community because of the incredibly strong support of our families and our wonderful and caring staff.

We are very excited about the upcoming school year and all the activities we’ve planned to enrich the lives of our children.