What CGES PTA has accomplished for Coconut Grove Elementary School 2010-2011 Year thru 2/1/2011

We on the PTA board would like to offer a hearfelt thank you to all of our generous and hard working PTA volunteers. We have a lot to show and are very proud to have such dedicated supportive PTA members. Take a look at what the PTA has done so far, this year!!!

　

*$800- Harvest Fest- Purchased entertainment to help teachers raise money for classrooms.


*$3,500- Teachers Wish List- Help off set expenses for the classroom.


*$2,500- After school Tutoring


*$5,400- Media Center repairs- Electrical for the computer lab.


*$1,200- Awards-Pins and trophies for award ceremony.


*$700- Classroom book sets.


*$350- Special needs - Pay for children who can’t afford field trips.

*$5,000- Smarts Boards- 2 Smarts Boards,2 Projectors, installation.

*$500- Uniform donation- Help children who can afford uniforms.

*$500- Teacher of the Year- Awards and luncheon.

*$600- Local, State, National dues and insurance.

*$500-Beautification- Gardens and Butterfly garden

*$700- Books for Battle of the Books

The Alliance Francaise presents: Listen and Watch, Tonight at the Coconut Grove Elementary Auditorium!

Come Join us For a night of Culture and Fun. Some of the Proceeds will benefit Coconut Grove PTA

CGES PTA VOLUNTEER CALENDAR 2011 SIGN UP!

February

February 8 FIPA Meeting RSVP dartois@bellsouth.net .. 7pm Corinne’s House, 705 San Antonio Ave, CG

Feb 9, am maybe pm ticket sales, membership drive - PTA, FIPA, SIPA, shirt/patch sale

Feb 9 Winter Ball 6-8 pm, Contact Choi choiblue@yahoo.com

Feb 16 72-73 ticket sales, membership drive, shirt/patch sale

Feb 17 72-73 Performance, Membership drive ticket sales, - PTA, FIPA, SIPA, shirt/patch sale, tshirt patch sale

Feb 18 NO SCHOOL

Feb 19-21 Parking CG Art Fair, accepting donations, memberships, alumni

FEB 21 NO SCHOOL

Feb 23 PTA Board MTG 8am in the cafeteria

Feb 24 PTA General MTG, membership drive - PTA, FIPA, SIPA, shirt/patch sale, FIPA Mardi Gras Gala ticket sales for March 5, 2011

March

March 1   Board Meeting 8 am in the cafeteria and 

   ***Fundraising cocktail with Teachers   RSVP Lorena.Keough@divsearch.com

March 5 Mardi Gras Gala for FIPA @ 6:30 pm   RSVP fipa@fipamiami.org

FCAT Writing Test

March 14-18. Spring Break NO SCHOOL

March 31 PTA General MTG 8 am in the Cafeteria. Cyber Safety Presentation

membership drive - PTA, FIPA, SIPA, shirt/patch sale

April    **** April is Financial Literacy Month ****

April 5 PTA Board Meeting 

April 11-22 FCAT Snacks

Field Day, TBA

April 28 PTA General MTG membership drive - PTA, FIPA, SIPA, shirt/patch sale

May

May 3 Board Meeting

May 13 Battle of Books

May 16 Book Fair begins and ends May 20

ticket sales, membership drive - PTA, FIPA, SIPA, shirt/patch sale

Spring Program and Dinner 

5^th Grade Banquet

May 26 General Meeting PTA Elections membership drive - PTA, FIPA, SIPA, shirt/patch sale

FIPA Meeting and Elections

To schedule:

Repaint the TO THE TOP Wooden Board.

Beautification Meeting

Dad's Club

Dad's Breakfast

Survey and help grant proposal or wish list for new library/ media center.

Scavenger hunt sheet for CGES (similar to Fairchild Tropical Garden)

New membership slip including website, fb, etc.

French Cocktail Fundraising meeting

100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PLANNING PARTY FOR CGES

Student Award

Hello all,

Tonight from 5 to 7 p.m. Asa Carey, a Coconut Grove Elementary School 5th-grader will receive first prize for his entry in the 2011 Black History 3-5 Elementary School Essay Contest!!!!
 This is one of the MANY, MANY amazing opportunities for students in this school thanks to the new principal's efforts to put the students on the map - and another amazing win for the charity Asa Carey is a part of.
Asa Carey, 11, a resident of Coconut Grove is the President of the Joshua's Heart Foundation's (http://www.joshuasheart.org/) Junior Advisory Board, and as such wrote his essay on the wonderful work they do like, back packs full of food for kids, collecting clothes for orphans at His House orphanage in Miami Lakes and Thanksgiving food distributions.

Joshua's Heart Foundation was started by 10-year-old Joshua Williams when he was only five years old after seeing a program on starving children and he and his mother, Claudia McLean jumped in to do something locally to help. Joshua is Asa's best friend of five years since Asa Carey attended Fisher Island Day School, a prestigious private school where Asa Carey attended on academic scholarship since the tender age of six. Joshua's Heart has grown from a small food distribution to many varied fundraisers and distributions and contributions all over Miami-Dade County! Joshua and Claudia themselves cannot attend tonight because Joshua is receiving an award himself from Barry University! Congratulations again Joshua!! But Joshua will be present on Friday at 10 a.m. downtown in the school Board 1450 NE 2nd Ave during the 2011 Awards Reception and Ceremony and Black History Program!

Asa Carey has also gotten a perfect score on the Math portion of the SSATs this year, and a total score of 97% in the nation! He is a Gifted student at Coconut Grove Elementary School, an anchor in the Broadcasting program and most recently qualified for the school's Spelling Bee- which if he wins, will then compete in the Miami Herald Spelling Bee!

Congrats Coconut Grove Elementary School and Mrs. Marmesh and Dr. Lopez! Congratulations Joshua's Heart Foundation! Working together we are all winners!!
Asa Carey hopes we can all see you there!!!


Warmest Regards,

Yvonne Carey-Lederer

French performance

Francais has joined with Cge Pta to present:

Laurence Yadi
& Nicolas Cantillon
 
Thursday, February 17th | 7.30 pm | @ Theatre of the Coconut Grove School elementary
Compagnie 7273 in Miami
Listen & Watch - Romance
Thursday, February 17th at the Theatre of the Coconut Grove School elementary at 7.30 pm (3351 Matilda Street, Miami, FL 33133)
Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon have put together a piece of work of fierce sensuality. How so? Because each and every movement comes from their own invention and from a retrospective look back, from Lancelot and Guinevere, to Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in “A Bout de souffle,” to Joaquin Phoenix and Gwyneth Paltrow in the recent film, Two Lovers. From the courtly love of knights and the up-in-the-air kind of romanticism of Jean-Luc Godard, to the trace of adolescence that some adults retain throughout their lives. Laurence Yadi and Nicolas Cantillon don’t rest on their laurels; they have too much pride in their work for that. They rise up, become entangled, like the roots of a baobab tree and let go when the embrace becomes too much to bear.
Listen & Watch (40 minutes) brings together on stage the dancer/choreographer Nicolas Cantillon and the American guitarist Sir Richard Bishop. The performance will be followed by a thirty-minute session after the performance where the audience members will have a chance to meet the performers. This will be followed by a solo performance of On Stage by Laurence Yadi. The evening’s concluding performance will last ten minutes.
Sales tickets in advance at the Coconut Grove School and the Alliance Francaise / adults: $ 12, 5-12 years old: $8
Advanced sales at Coconut Grove Elem:                                                                                                                                          Wednesday ,February 9  8am-9pm in the schools court yard.                                                                                                       Wednesday ,February 16  2-3 pm in schools court yard.
At the door / adults: $15, 5-12 years old: $12

Student At Coconut Grove Elementary wins