Happy first week of December.
Readvolution - congratulations to the 70 students that reached the goal of 800 minutes! The students received a certificate and directions to purchase tickets. Big Thank you to Mrs. Judge-Lenkeit for organizing the event for Underwood Elementary!
Carolina Hurricanes Partnership Celebration: The Youth Department from the Carolina Hurricanes will visit PE Electives at Underwood this Monday, Dec 3, 2017. Also, Underwood was selected to receive a grant from the Hurricanes and NHL for new school appropriate hockey equipment to support our PE department!
Media by Moonlight: Our book fair was very successful and we met our goal that provided the media center with $500 worth of books to go back into students hands. Thank you to the Media by Moonlight committee led by Megan Delong.
Giving Tree - Underwood's Holiday Giving Tree is up! If you would like to assist a family with their holiday gift needs, please come by Ms. Schnitzer's office and take a tag from the tree. We are asking parents and staff to purchase gifts of a maximum of $30 per tag. Please wrap each gift and put the tag on the gift you are giving, so we can keep track of your purchases. Please sign up to give gifts on a sign-up sheet in the front office office.
Gifts are due by Monday, December 10th. All gifts can be brought to Ms. Schnitzer's office. Thank you everyone in advance for your participation and for helping Underwood families!
The Toy Drive was a successful collaboration with Two Men and a Mom morning show on WRAL FM, MIX 101.5 with their annual Toy Drive for the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Triangle.
Updates:
Spelling bees are going to be happening soon in the students classrooms, spelling lists have been sent out to families via Memberhub. If you have questions please contact Mrs. Page (jpage5@wcpss.net). The school spelling bee will be January 26th.
Calendar Updates
December 3rd - 7th - IOWA Tests (3rd grade)
December 4th -Q2 Interims home
December 5th - Lunch and Learn with PTA
December 5th - Zoe’s Family Kitchen spirit night
December 11th - SIP / Leadership meeting
December 18th - Holiday Performance (Music/Dance-7pm)
December 20th -Holiday Performance (Band/Strings-7pm)
December 21st - Early Release
Travis Shillings, Principal
