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Teachers and Parents,

Field Day is TOMORROW! (Friday 8:10am-12:00pm). Please remember the following:

• Send a sack lunch with a drink (unless you previously ordered lunch through the cafeteria) or you can bring something to share with your child at the school picnic which begins at 12:00.
• Be sure that adequate sunscreen has been applied before school.
• Students may get wet so a towel and/or change of clothes may be necessary. Dry socks are a good idea, too.
• It is a good idea to apply bug spray before school.

Dress—Students should wear:

1. Comfortable t-shirt (Grade levels will wear similar colors although this is NOT required: K-blue, 1st grade-red, 2nd grade-blue, 3rd grade-green, 4th grade-yellow, 5th grade-red)
2. Shorts
3. Socks and athletic shoes (Students will need to wear shoes that are appropriate for running, but that might also get wet.)
4. Students may get wet so a towel and/or change of clothes could be helpful!

Volunteers: Thanks to everyone in advance! Field Day could not take place without wonderful parents working stations. Please check in at the table in the lobby upon your arrival.

Parking: We will be using the parking lot next to the cafeteria. Please park in the front of the building.

Thanks again for all of your help in making Field Day a success!

The Field Day Team,
Collin Holz 214-402-4971/ collinholz@yahoo.com
Jennifer Shaw 469-549-1275/ jbshaw6@att.net

Please join us tomorrow, Monday, May 14th 8:30am, as Wilson’s Principal Katy Cooper hosts another Principal’s Coffee Talk. Coffee and donuts will be provided.

This summer, Wilson teachers will be participating in Great Expectations training as a continuation of their professional learning. Great Expectations is built around 6 research-based tenets and will build upon their learning from the 2011-12 school year and be implemented next year.

Summer is almost here and graduating seniors are getting ready to put on their caps and receive their diplomas. Give grads a gift that is better than cash or checks — give gift cards!

Gift cards work like cash, but they are better because they earn rebates that support the Wilson PTO. Every retailer gives a percentage of the gift card value to our school. With a variety of local and national retailers to choose from, you are sure to find the brands that your grads need for life’s next chapter.

For example:

• Target – denominations of $25 or $100 earn the PTO 2%
• The Container Store – denominations of $25 or $100 earn the PTO 9%
• OfficeMax – denominations of $25 and $100 earn the PTO 5%

To download a copy of the order form, please click Scrips/Gift Card Order Form.

Don’t see your merchant listed on the order form? Click Scrip Participating Retailers to see if your favorite store participates. You can write in your merchant/denomination at the bottom of the order form.

We will place our LAST SCRIP gift card orders of the year on Tuesday, MAY 22nd and 29th. These orders will be delivered by Friday May 25th and Thursday May 31st, respectively.

Wilson Elementary FIELD DAY (8am-12) and Family Picnic (beginning at 12 noon) is scheduled for this Friday, May 18.

Our PTO sponsors FIELD DAY and many volunteers are needed to help make it a success. The more volunteers we have – the more games our kids get to play. Both moms and dads are needed to work events, set up and take down equipment, manage the water table and provide refreshments for the many volunteers and children. Please plan to stay after the Field Day activities to have a picnic lunch with your child beginning at 12:00 noon.

YOU MUST HAVE A COMPLETED AND APPROVED VOLUNTEER BACKGROUND CHECK ON FILE TO VOLUNTEER DURING FIELD DAY. The volunteer position will require your full attention. We encourage you to make child care arrangements for younger siblings.

Please use the links below to sign up for food and drink donation or to sign up to volunteer on the day of Field Day. If you have already sent in a field day sign-up paper of the request, you do not need to sign-up online.

Thank you so much for all of your help and support in volunteering to make Field Day a great event for our children. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact any of the members of the Field Day committee:

Collin Holz 214-402-4971/ collinholz@yahoo.com
Jennifer Shaw 469-549-1275/ jbshaw6@att.net

As the school year comes to a close, it is great to thank teachers for all their hard work. Get extra credit and give them a smart gift that is guaranteed to please.

Gift cards make perfect presents for every hardworking teacher on your list, plus they earn rebates that support Wilson.

Give teachers gift cards to treat themselves to:

• A night out with dining and/or entertainment
• Stocking up on books and music
• Their favorite shopping spots

Shopping for your kids’ favorite teachers is so simple with gift cards, and teachers love them!

To download a copy of the order form, please click Scrips/Gift Card Order Form.

Don’t see your merchant listed on the order form? Click Scrip Participating Retailers to see if your favorite store participates. You can write in your merchant/denomination at the bottom of the order form.

We will place our LAST SCRIP gift card orders of the year on Tuesday, MAY 22nd and 29th. These orders will be delivered by Friday May 25th and Thursday, May 31st, respectively.

Join us at the 2nd annual NTH@C Photography and Filmmaking Camp to learn and explore the other side of the camera!

The campers will learn how to use industry grade equipment, within two categories, photography and film.

All programs and cameras will be provided to help students excel and learn to love the photography and filmmaking process.

When? June 25-29, 2012
What time? 9:00 AM-Noon for incoming 4th and 5th graders
1:00 PM-4:00 PM for incoming 6th-8th graders
Cost? $130
Where? NTH@C campus

Go to the NTH@C Photography Camp Website below for more information and registration:

Save time! Save money! Save gas!

Please visit:
EPI School Supply Site
ID: WIL038
To order your kit today!

Prices will increase after the site closes on May 15th so order TODAY!

If you wish to pay by check or cash, please print 2012-13 School Supply Order Form, seal in an envelope marked “PTO-School Supplies”, and send to school before May 15th.

Any questions?? Please contact:
Michelle Minnick / 214-770-0603
Tamara Keller /214-289-4445

For next year’s PTO Board we have a few openings in which we are looking for parents to fill:

• Staff Appreciation Week – need 2 additional coordinators
• Newsletter/Website – need a coordinator
• Scrips (gift cards) – need a coordinator
• Fundraising – need another coordinator
• WilsonFest – need a Chairperson and additional coordinators in Games, Food and Silent Auction.

If you would like to find out more about any of these positions, please click PTO Board Interest Form 2012-13 to read the job description.

Any interested persons may contact Kara Dunn, 2011-12 PTO Board President.

Beginning Monday, May 14th, please make sure your child has money in his/her school cafeteria account.

Unfortunately, the cafeteria is not able to allow any negative balances on a child’s account for the remainder of the school year.

If you use the on-line payment system, please allow 24 hours to process your payment or send a copy of the confirmation
with your child.

You can make a payment at www.mynutrikids.com
Remember that your child’s balance will transfer with them to the next school year, or school in the district, until they finish high school.

If you have any questions, please email them to lmendoza@coppellisd.com

Thank you
Liz Mendoza
Wilson Café Manager

Starting immediately, parents that have children currently attending Coppell ISD schools will have the ability to update their information for next school year via the online student registration system.

To do so, go to Coppell ISD website by clicking CISD.
Go to PORTAL in the upper right hand corner and click on “Parent Portal”.

Sign in at the top right hand side by using your email and password. On the left hand side, you can click on ‘Student Registration’" under ‘My Student’. There are also detailed instructions on that page if you should get stuck.

Questions about your child’s portal? Contact Debbie Turner, Wilson secretary, at 214-496-7500.

WHAT: RANGER RUN
WHEN: This Friday, May 11th
TIMES:

• 8:30 5th grade
• 9:25 4th grade
• 10:20 3rd grade

WHERE: Around the Wilson Campus

WHO: All 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders

• If you can volunteer for the mile run, please email Lori Moore.

Jobs include course monitors, timers, water table, and overall supervision. It is a FUN day, but we need several volunteers for it to happen!

You must already have a background check on file.

Coppell Middle School West has begun selling school supplies for the 2012-2013 School Year.

You can order your school supplies now at CMSW School Supply Sale.

Orders will only be available online through June 24, 2012 at this price.
School Supplies will be available for pickup during schedule pick up in August.

Amy Forrester, Wilson’s school nurse, has a need for parent volunteers.

She needs two parents, one male and one female, that can help chaperone during the 5th Grade Growth and Development talk on May 11th from 1:30-2:30. Nurse Forrester and a local doctor will be doing the program and they need some parents to stand in the room to help with the students and make sure they are paying attention and not acting too silly.

If you are able to assist, please sign up by clicking the link below.

The Coppell Education Foundation Fun Run/Walk is tomorrow —Saturday, May 5th. It’s not too late to make the decision to walk a 1K or walk/run a 5K!!

Wilson already has over 47 from our school signed up to participate tomorrow.

Walk up Registrations are being accepted:

Event Site Address
Buddy Echols Stadium
Coppell High School
185 West Parkway Blvd
Coppell, Texas 75019

Event Timeline
7:30 AM: race day registration and packet pickup
8:30 AM: 1 mile race start
9:00 AM: 5K start
10:00AM: awards

Race Day Registration
Fun Run – $20
5K – $30, or $25 for CISD Student (cash or check)

Don’t miss the fun …
… Runners’ faces on the Big Screen at Cowboy Stadium, t-shirts, vendor booths, pancakes, Biggby coffee, bounce houses, snow cones, music, freebies and lots more.

Show your support for CISD and do something healthy for yourself or as a family.

Below are the unapproved minutes from the April 23rd PTO Meeting.

If you have any corrections or additions to the minutes, please email the PTO Secretary, Tamara Keller, no later than Friday, May 18th.

Minutes April 23 2012

We are jumping up and down with excitement for our 1st Annual Project ACES (All Children Exercise Simultaneously) this coming Friday, May 4 at 9 a.m. Each classroom will watch a video with a short motivational “minute” about the importance of exercise followed by a 15 – 20 minute exercise video to get them up and moving. Our goal is to have all CISD students exercising at the same time!

Project ACES is a nationwide effort to teach students that daily exercise is important to leading a healthy life.

We would love to have parent volunteers that morning to photograph and video tape our kids in action. If you’d like to be a part of this exercise in good health please contact Cindy Hendricks at wilsoncin@aol.com.

Thank you so much for the follow volunteers that gave their time to help out in the Wilson office!

Amy Bays
Rachelle Blankenship
Stancy Hagans
Dona Head
Joy Kutz
Sowmya Manuva
Hameeda Somani
Jessica Truax

Does your child need help finding a good book to read? In addition to asking your own school librarian, the Coppell Public Library has online services that are available 24 hours a day.

NoveList K-8 Plus is great for finding titles of series, favorite authors and books in a specific Lexile range. Just go to www.coppelltx.gov, click on library, click on catalog and click on the NoveList K-8 Plus link. You will need a library card number to log in to the database. If you need assistance, please call the Coppell Public Library at 972.304.3658.

THE BIG PICTURE
CISD’s Gifted and Talented Program for K-12 and Meet the School Board Candidates

Thursday, May 3 at 7 p.m.
CHS Lecture Hall

On May 3, CGA will host a night to introduce the Coppell ISD Trustee candidates for Places 6 and 7 and a presentation about the Gifted and Talented program in Coppell ISD through all grades.

The Meet the Candidates portion of the evening is first on the agenda, whereby the school board candidates will briefly introduce themselves to the audience and remain to entertain questions afterwards.

Following this, Todd Kettler will give a complete view of the GT program available in CISD. While you may have heard some of this information in the past, this will be the first time you hear it all in one seating, in one night, giving the full picture.

Event is FREE and OPEN TO ALL who are interested in attending.

CGA does not endorse or support any candidate.

Regardless of who you support, we hope you will make your voice heard during early voting or on May 12, Election Day.

For more information, go to coppellgifted.org

Please plan on joining us TONIGHT at 7pm in the library for our monthly PTO Meeting.

We will be presenting the proposed 2012-13 PTO Board, sharing our preliminary financial results from WilsonFest, and discussing upcoming PTO and school events for the rest of the year.

Every Wilson parent is automatically a member of the Wilson PTO — we do not charge dues. Everyone is welcome.

Complimentary childcare is provided during the meeting for school-age children by Coppell Middle School students.

Mark your calendars for the annual Coppell ISD Night at Rangers’ Stadium on Monday night, May 14. The Texas Rangers will play the Kansas City Royals at 7:05 p.m.

• $2.50 from every ticket purchased will be donated to the CISD Education Foundation.
• There will only be one selection for seating – Upper Reserved for $13.50 for all of CISD. Each campus will be grouped together.
• If any family wants to sit in another section, they will need to purchase their tickets directly from the Texas Rangers and must mention they are with COSD 1) In order to receive the CISD discount, the tickets must be purchased prior to the game and not at the ticket window, and 2) in order for $2.50 to be donated to the Education Foundation, they must mention they are with CISD.
• All Checks must be made payable to Wilson PTO
• All ticket orders and money must be received no later than Friday, April 27th

Your student should be bringing home details on purchasing tickets and attending the game between the Rangers and the Kansas City Royals. You can also download a copy of the form by clicking Rangers Night.

Watch for information coming home this week with your student.

If you or your child wants to order additional copies of their WilsonFest PhotoLoco Booth photos, please go to:

• www.PhotoLocoBooth.com
• Go to View My Photos
• Then find Wilsonfest

Thank you to PhotoLoco Booth owner Debbie Allen and her sister, Wilson staff member Beth Brandenburg, for bringing this activity to WilsonFest.

Thank you for coming out last Friday evening and supporting our school and the PTO. The money we raise from WilsonFest will help us to buy additional iPod touches for our classrooms plus other requested technology items, sponsor scholarships for the upcoming Austin (4th Grade)and Pine Cove (5th Grade) Field Trips, and plan other fun events for the children such as Field Day.

We will have our financial results from WilsonFest available at the April 23rd PTO Meeting. Please make plans to attend.

The list of “Thank You”s are extensive but I still want to take the time to recognize those parent & staff volunteers who contributed their time and talents in making WilsonFest possible:

WilsonFest Coordinators:

• Carley Wood – Games/Activities
• Kim Peters & Michele Tucker – Food

A Extra Special Thank You to:

• Wilson Staff members Cathryn Sutton/1A & Kristy Cash/K3 for coordinating and organizing the staff donated silent auction items.
• Also a thanks to Cathy Petersen, Tamara Keller and Kim Fullwood on getting additional donations for the auction.
• Scott Wood, Justin Keller, Eric Greaser, Johanna Hewlett, Nikki Darkoch, Jen Judd, Donna Maguire and Alyssa Martinson for helping Carley behind the scenes with Games.
• Katy Cooper for getting volunteers for the pie throwing contest and dunk tank.
• Pie Throw Recipients: Joni Stephenson, Katy Cooper and Amber Beene
• Staff participating in the Dunk Tank: Leah Sanchez, JoEllen LeBlanc, Karli Kautz, Lisa Dormady, Amy Forrester, and Andi Feille
• Coppell Fire Department and firefighters
• The 32 Coppell High School, New Tech High School, and Coppell Middle School West National Honor Society volunteers who manned our games.
• Corporate donors/sponsors: Market Street, Tom Thumb, Target, Sam’s, Wal-Mart, Chicken Express, CiCi’s, and Mooyah Burgers.
• Michelle Behm, Sneha Patel and Darci Nguyen for counting the money during and after WilsonFest.
• Sharrie Ely and family for working the Cake Walk. They have done this for us for several years.

Wilson Staff Volunteers:
Donna Bekavac, Laura Bird, Beth Brandenburg, Maria Brinneman, Ann Carlsson, Kristy Cash, Nancy Deveneau, Lisa Dormady, Suzi Downey, Renee Fandre, Andi Feille, Allison Fike, Amy Forrester, Margareta Garcia, Janet Hall, Jane Johnson, JoEllen LeBlanc, Lillian Macy, Debra Marshall, Marilyn Mohr, Wendy Pray, Jan Ridley, April Rivas, Crickett Roberts, Carla Rostro, Heidi Rupley, Ali Sanabria, Vivian Scruggs, Carol Smith, Tracie Smith, Joni (& Mr.) Stephenson, Cathryn Sutton and Debbie Turner.

Parent Volunteers:
Celia Ahn, Jennifer Bedford, Howard Blankenship, Rachelle Blankenship, Cristy Brandenburg, Holly Brock, Adriana Canon, Yvette Carson, Dina Castranova, Angie Colon, Tes Corry, Mike Darkoch, Lauren Davis, Kim Fullwood, Lisa Greaser, Rachel Harris, Stephen Harris, Dona Head, John Hewlett, Jen Judd, Erin Kachline, Justin Keller, Tamara Keller, John Kichan, Stefanie Klein, Joy Kutz, Walter Kutz, Tony Maurer, David Millman, Jennifer Millman, Michelle Minnick, Sean Minnick, Kim Montgomery, Darci Nguyen, Maggie Parker, Sneha Patel, Lance Peters, Shelley Ramos, Darrin Roberts, Anne Rogers, Rich Rogers, Jessica Scott, Hameeda Somani, Eric Stehly, Sarah Stein, Claudia Todd, Al Turati, and Scott Wood.

Finally, I would like to thank the families who contributed food items for the games, cake walk and food court: Allawala, Anderson, Bedford, Behm, Belathur, Bellah, Blankenship, Brandenburg, Campbell, Chang, Chun, Colon, Conger, Felton, Fullwood, Goforth, Grosser, Hernandez, Hewlett, Judd, Kachline, Keller, Kichan, Kilgo, Kline, Martinez, Martinson, McGill, Millman, Nguyen, Olson, Parker, Patel, Peck, Peters, Petersen, Rogers, Salazar, Satpathy, Smith, Stolar, Tan, Thakady, Tucker, Vu, and Yang.

If I mistakenly did not include your name in the list above, I apologize. Please know that your service or contributions were much appreciated.

All my thanks!
Kara Dunn, PTO President & WilsonFest Chair

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Raffle.

The three (3) names drawn Friday night for each of the prizes were:

American Girl Doll – Vanessa B. – 1C
Lego – Niyati B. – 3C
Kindle Fire – Reagann S. – 1A

If your child was not present to claim the prize Friday evening, it was sent home with them on Monday.

If you won a bid on a silent auction item, but did not pick it up or pay Friday, you should have received an email Sunday evening acknowledging your winning bid and giving you instructions on how to retrieve and pay for your item(s).

Please make plans to send or drop by the office this week to pay and retrieve the items you won.

There was one item (Dickey’s bbq coupons) that I could not match with a family. If you were bidder #432, please contact Kara Dunn to make arrangements to pickup your item. This family or person would not have had a pre-assigned number and would have been given one by our staff, but I accidentally (oops!)threw away that list in my haste to clean up Friday evening.

We made over $4500 on the Silent Auction!!!

Thank you to all of the families who participated.

Jump Rope for Heart donations are due this Friday, April 20th. Please bring all checks/cash in the Jump Rope for Heart envelope to Mrs. Moore in the gym.

If you set up your personal website to collect online donations, please do the following:

1. Go to http://www.americanheart.org/jump
2. Login with the username and password you came up with when setting up your website
3. Click on Check Your Fundraising Progress on the right side of page
4. Under Donation History, click on view receipt
5. Print the receipts for each donor
6. Please put all receipts in the Jump Rope for Heart envelope.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for your participation! It feels good to help save lives!

Lori Moore
PE Teacher

WilsonFest, the PTO’s largest and most successful fundraiser, is Friday from 6-8:30 pm at the school. Bring your whole family & invite friends. Everyone is invited to attend!

WilsonFest is a combination of carnival games and a silent auction. To find out more about what games, activities, and food we will have available, please click WilsonFest 2012

We also have many great items up for bid in the WilsonFest Silent Auction. To see the list of the LATEST items available, please click Silent Auction Items.

We hope to see you and your family at WilsonFest for an evening of fun and food!

After 2 weeks of voting, the students at Wilson have selected the 3 Staff Members who will be the recipients of the thrown whipped cream pies:

• Mrs. Stephenson (music)
• Mrs. Beene (Asst Principal)
• Mrs. Cooper (principal)

During WilsonFest, anyone can buy raffle tickets for a chance to throw one of the 9 pies for one of the 3 teachers. Raffle tickets will be $1/ticket or buy 5, get 1 free and sold only during WilsonFest until 8pm.

For each of the 3 teachers, we will draw 9 names and pie throwing will commence soon after the names are drawn. If you are not present when the throwing begins, another name will be drawn in your absence.

There will be 9 thrown pies for each of the 3 staff members. There will also be a silent auction item to win a guaranteed throw of 1 pie at each of the 3 staff members.

Wilson Parents:

Thank you to those of you who quickly signed up to help during WilsonFest.

We have an immediate need for 6-8 people during the school day on Friday from 9-11am to help set-up our games. This involves allocating candy and prizes between games, making sure each game has adequate supplies, and prepping game for use in the gym.

There are also shifts available for early morning and late afternoon on Friday. If you can come help, we need you. Please sign up below.

Also, we still have a significant number of positions that need to be filled during the carnival, especially for game monitors, the henna and arm cast stations, food court, and shifts later in the evening from 7-8:30. If you are able to stay and help the entire evening, that would be a huge help. I promise the time will fly by!

If you are able to help, please sign up NOW so we can reassess our unmet needs. If we do not get adequate help, we may need to potentially eliminate some games and activities that will be unmanned during the carnival.

It takes many hands on deck to make an event as large as this one to happen and we rely upon your participation to make it successful.

Thanks!
Kara Dunn
WilsonFest Coordinator

To support the dart throw game, we need help inflating balloons. If you can help us by either using an air compressor or a hand pump, please contact Carley Wood.

This is a great and easy way to help from the comfort of your home. Hand pumps will be provided.