2009/2010 Creighton Year book is finally completed!

Our very first yearbook as the PAW group is done! It was a bumpy road as there was a giant learning curve ahead of us, but I am very happy with the results. Our yearbook chair, Crystal Oliver has worked really hard from the first of the year to pull it all together and I want to thank her, as a mom, for putting so much effort into our kids memories. Crystal spent the first half of the year designing the layouts and working with Taylor Publishing on everything from sales to portraits.
 The second half of the year we spent taking pictures of our great students at
play and picking out those perfect moments to share. If you purchased a book,
look for its arrival in late May 2010.

Crystal and I want to thank the following parents for all their help as well!
Without their help, it could not have been done.

Crystal Oliver
Brandy Duncan
Heather Byford
Tracy Lindsey
Towana Leal
Cindy Watford

Sincerely,
Kimberly Asaro
Paw President

FIELD DAY 2010

It's everyone's favorite time of the year! Creighton Elementary will be holding our annual Field Day Event on Friday, May 14th, 2010. As you can see, we are holding it a few weeks earlier than usual to try to avoid the heat. We are also holding a school-wide one day event instead of spreading it out over 3 days as in the past. We are looking for a LOT of parent volunteers to run individual stations. We will have 24 different stations for all of our students to participate in.

We are looking for:
24 volunteers morning shift
24 volunteers evening shift
Ice
Water
Ice pops OR snowcone supplies
Popcorn supplies
money to purchase t-shirt supplies

Thanks in advance for your participation!
Let's make this a Field day to remember.


Please call or e-mail if interested:

Jessica Ramirez (281) 330-9638
ramirezranch@yahoo.com
PAW club Secretary

OR

Sheila McDonald at (936) 231-2255

CREIGHTON PE teacher

Conference time: 11:00-11:45

or email to: srmcdonald@conroeisd.net


Sincerely,
Kimberly Asaro
PAW President

PAW club meeting - March 30, 2010

In Attendance: 
   Towana Leal - Bilingual representative
   Jessica Ramirez - Secretary
   Kimberly Asaro - PAW President
   Andrea Fitzgerrell - Farmers Market Chair
   Brandy Duncan - Homeroom mom coordinator

AGENDA

Meeting with Mrs. Watson rescheduled.

TAKS SNACKS - April 27, 28 2010

passed out parent database (snacks) to all who attended. Will divide and call.
Mrs. Fossler to send out an all call to all parents as well

FIELD DAY - May 14th 2010

Paws will be responsible for obtaining volunteers for this event.
Mrs. McDonald will be responsible for obtaining donation
Mrs. Ryan to be responsible for t-shirts

We need:
48 volunteers to run stations - Full day or half day shifts
2 pop-up canopies (K. Asaro faxed to Lowes)
Ice
60 cases of water
900 ice pops OR snowcone supplies
popcorn supplies
money to purchase t-shirts
moonwalk

Future PAW meeting with Mrs Watson - April, 13th 2010 - 8:15 am

to discuss 2010/11 Creighton school year calendar - Please attend if able!
Next years meetings will be held on the last Tuesday of each month at 8:15 am in the teacher work room.
All parents are invited to attend and dates will be posted on this website.

 We will also discuss ONGOING project updates for this year

1. Yearbook update - Crystal Oliver
2. Recycling/gardening update - Andrea Fitzgerrall
3. Box top update - Stefanie Kocerek


FARMERS MARKET - Saturday, October 16, 2010
date set and approved by Mrs Watson

Discussed preparing flyers - Kim Asaro

Brandy Duncan to work on hay bale maze

Andrea Fitzgerrell to chair event

  -will begin by measuring off spaces.

Prepared by Jessica Ramirez:

Agenda

Letter of donation request for field day

Letter of volunteer participation for field day

Sincerely,
Kimberly Asaro
PAW President

Creighton Farmers Market/Carnival - October 16th 2010

We are considering hosting a Farmers Market at the beginning of next school year. The date hasn't been set, but we are looking at Late September / Early October. To do this we are going to need a Huge volunteer force to pull it off. Andrea Fitzgerrell will be the Chairperson for this event.

Spend time this summer talking to friends, family and everyone else you know that may be interested. Also, pay attention to local fairs, markets and carnivals. What booths do they have, notice the number of volunteers, etc. I NEED all of you to help! Funds will go towards Creighton field trips and other school needs. But larger than that, it will be a great way to get our community involved and help local families and businesses.

The details are tentative at best but here are a few thoughts. We will most likely charge an area fee (or donation). We will request that everyone bring their own tables, tarps and anything else needed to run their booths.

Will need

craft vendors
fruit/vegetable vendors
plant vendors
canners
candlemakers
tupperware or any direct sales people
yard eggs
fall harvest such as pumpkins
hay bales
fall seedlings
herbs

I would also like to see families sponsor carnival games and booths.

Cake walk
Ring Toss
possible silent Auction
possible hay bale maze
moonwalk
face painters
petting zoo
dino dig
snowcones -
popcorn

I would like to see each grade level sponsor a booth as well

sand art
student art show



 As you can see, we need ideas and lots of help. Each area we add, will need a chairperson to coordinate it.  If we start planning now, all those interested will be able to spend the summer planning on what they can make or sell.  Please e-mail me with any thoughts, ideas, or interests in booths. I will post Andrea's contact information at a later date.

Kimberly Asaro
paw.club@yahoo.com

Sincerely,
Kimberly Asaro
PAW President

Creighton Spring Health Fair - Reading / Writing Event

Eat This-Not That was the topic of our annual health fair event. This event was hosted by our Creighton Enrichment team and was meant to raise awareness to what is quickly becoming a childhood epidemic. Diabetes. More and younger kids are showing signs of insulin intolerance, which will lead to early-onset Diabetes. During this event we had a special guest doctor from Sadler Clinic discuss this with students and parents. There were exercise demonstrations, a bike raffle, and healthy foods for our Creighton families.

Our Paw Club volunteers spent a lot of time preparing healthy foods for this event. A very special thank you goes to Belinda Harrell for chairing this event and working closely with Mrs. McDonald. Thank you also to-

Belinda Harrell

Jessica Ramirez

Brandy Duncan

Kimberly and Joe Asaro

Crystal Oliver and Family

Caney Creek High School students
Creighton Enrichment Team

   Our teachers also held a reading and writing event in the classrooms. It was a great way to show off what our kids are learning and to emphasize the importance of continuing their education at home. Packets were sent home with fun reading and writing exercises. Thank you to all of our teachers who helped with this event.

Sincerely,
Kimberly Asaro
PAW President

Creighton Spring Book Fair

This is my sixth bookfair with Creighton and although the economy is a big issue, our students and parents really pulled through for us and made this our best book fair to date! Our total fair sales were 7,220.42. That is a 758.15 increase over last spring. Of that our profit is 1,805.11 which will be used for books for our library and our students.

Thank you to Mrs. Massey and Mrs. Barfied for hosting yet another bookfair and for tolerating yet another mess!

Thanks to ALL of our volunteers who participated in this event.

Kimberly Asaro

Heather Byford

Belinda Harrell

Brandy Duncan

Crystal Oliver

Cindy Watford

Towana Leal

Jessica Ramirez

and a special thanks to Mrs Koen for helping with our busiest family night ever!

Sincerely,
Kimberly Asaro
PAW President