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Page 2 Linton Elementary School Newsletter April 2012THANK YOU...THANK YOU...THANK YOU!Huge thanks to Erin Conner for an amazing Art Show evening…and to Mrs. Bignallfor a brilliant display! What a wonderful evening! Special thanks this month to ourvolunteers……Volunteer Appreciation Week!The Linton staff would like to take a moment to say THANK YOU to ALL of our wonderfulvolunteers. Whether you can help a little or a lot, at school or at home, weTHANK YOU for your time. Your classroom teachers have a small token of our appreciationto give to you. If you have not received anything from your child’s teacher,please just call the office. With the massive amounts of volunteers in our building, it isquite possible that we missed a few.Teacher’s Fund Gift CardsLINTON LOVES OUR VOLUNTEERS!Teacher’s Fund Gift Cards are available at the office and are a terrific way to saythanks to your favorite teacher during Teacher Appreciation Week. Cards can be purchasedin any amount, and the money goes directly to that teacher to use in theclassroom.Thank you, Mrs. Anduss and Mrs. Stadjuhar for ALL you do for Linton students, families,and staff!Pioneer Ice Cream recently held a contest for new ice cream flavors. Thewinning flavor for Linton was STRAWBERRY NIGHT DREAM, by Jocelynin Mrs. Baldwin's class! Over 160 votes were cast. Her flavor will competeagainst the 9 other schools during the week of May 29- April 6.

Page 3 Linton Elementary School Newsletter April 2012DISTRICT NEWS BRIEFS...Sign up for 2012 Summer Music Program – Deadlines ApproachingStudents may now register for Poudre School District’s 2012 summer instrumental musicprograms. Beginning, intermediate and advanced programs will be offered to studentsthis summer. Parents should select the appropriate class based on their child’s currentgrade level. Beginning Instruments will be offered July 23 - Aug. 10 to students currently in 5 thgrade – Registration deadline is June 1. Intermediate instrumental will be offered July 23 - Aug. 10 for students currentlyin 6 th and 7 th grade – Registration deadline is June 1.Advanced instrumental will be offered Tuesdays and Thursdays in June for studentscurrently in 8 th – 12 th grade – Registration deadline is May 18.Registration information is available on the PSD website, under Academics (on the toptool bar), Summer School.STEM Institute for 5th - 12th GradersThe STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Institutes will be held atseveral middle schools this summer, as well as Fossil Ridge High School.The STEM Institutes, which will be held June 4 - 8 and June 11-15, give students achance to explore subjects they are interested in deeper. Classes in Vet Science, Chemistry,Boom!, Anatomy, Space Science, and many more will be offered.The middle school institutes will be held at Preston, Webber, Wellington, Lesher andBerthoud (Turner) and are open to current 5th - 8th graders.The high school program at FRHS is open to current 8th – 12th graders.For more information, read the STEM brochure. In-depth class information and costs arelisted on the STEMinstitutes.org website."I Walk & Ride Safely" program teaches safety skills to kindergartners, Early Childhoodstudents, and first gradersParents and their students entering kindergarten this fall are encouraged to attend thefree annual I Walk & Ride Safely program sponsored by Poudre School District, the FortCollins Police Department, and the Larimer County Sheriff’s Department. Older studentsare also welcome to attend. Children will learn how to walk to school or ride a schoolbus safely. Instructions are given under actual traffic conditions, including crosswalks,signs, traffic signals, automobile traffic, and crossing guards. PSD school bus operatorsparticipate at all schools and the Fort Collins Police Department and/or Larimer CountySheriff’s Department will participate at some schools. For more information, please callthe training department at 490-3141 or 490-3578.2012 I Walk/ Ride Safely Schedule (Please note: Some presentations include twoschools. If two schools are listed for a presentation, the presentation will be held at thefirst school listed)Linton-Monday August 13th at 11:30 AM.

Page 4 Linton Elementary School Newsletter April 2012COURTSIDE: with Mr. RanglosLINTON PHYSICAL EDUCATIONHappy April! We have had a great time in PE this last month finishing up badmintonin the 3 rd , 4 th , and 5 th grades. The students did a great job learning theskills and tactics and played games extremely well. I was even more impressedsince this is the first time they have had a badminton unit. WELL DONE 3-4-5!We are well into our track and field unit for 3-4-5 as well. We have been workingon sprint races, the long and triple jump instruction started this week, andwe will follow up with the throws (shot put and softball) as well as distance runningtactics. K-1-2 has been busy with our field day unit learning the games andprocedures for field day.Speaking of Track and Field, the annual PSD Elementary Track Meet for 4 th and5 th grades will be held at French Field (Rocky Mountain High School) on May 2and May 5 th , 2012. We have been going through the qualifying process duringintramurals. Boys and girls in 4 th and 5 th grades have an opportunity to qualifyin up to 5 of 10 events and participate at the district meet. If your child/childrenhave qualified for the meet, look for information coming home in the next coupleof weeks.Mileage ClubI cannot begin to tell you how impressed I am with the popularity of this activity.At last count we have 126 participants, (students, siblings, and parents). Andwe are still growing! We meet every Monday and Thursday after school from3:00 to 3:45 weather permitting. At this point 27 participants have reached the10 Mile Club and 2 have reached the 20 mile mark. They will have their picturestaken for the Mileage Club Wall of Fame later next month. Congratulations!!!!!! Itis not too late to start, everyone is welcome to come. (Just as an FYI, next weekthere will be no Mileage Club as Monday, 4/16 is a collaboration day for thestaff, no school for kids and Thursday 4/19, I will be at ECO-WEEK with the 5 thgrade.)Field DayField Day preparations are well under way! Please set aside Friday May 25 th(rain date is Tuesday May 29 th ) and come have a blast with your kids!!! I lookforward to this event every year as it is a giant PE PARTY in which we celebratePE and show what we have learned about character, sportsmanship, and teamwork.A final time schedule will be posted in the upcoming weeks. If any parentswould like to help work at field day, please call me at 488-5890, drop me anemail at mranglos@psdschools.org or connect with Tiffany Ayraud (VolunteerCoordinator). Thanks.

Page 5 Linton Elementary School Newsletter April 2012Designs and Images is coming!On April 17 the annual Designs and Images Art Exhibit at the Foothills Mall will be on display. ThisArt show is a long standing tradition in the Poudre School District and features artwork from everyschool. There will be a reception for the student artists on display on Monday, April 23 from 5:30-7:30.I hope everyone will make an effort to stop by Linton’s display, because of limited space I can’tchoose every student to “go to the mall” but I do make an effort to highlight as many kids as possible.Be on the look-out for a note home indicating that your student is there.Tie DyeIt’s almost time for the 5 th grade to tie dye. I will be sending notes home soon with instructions onwhat they will need and when they will need it. I don’t want any students to miss out on the fun,so if bringing a t-shirt is a problem for anyone, please let me know-we can work it out.Mrs. BignallDistrict Battle of the Books Results-Way to go Linton!We had another great year for our District Battle of the Books! On ThursdayApril 5th teams from Linton, O’Dea, Lopez, and Beattie participated.Here are the results:3rd Grade-The Linton team took the trophy!-Team members are JosephConnor, Mason Helm, Heber Tagle, and Jacob Iverson; coachedby Erin Connor4th Grade-The Lopez team took the trophy-congratulations to AnnaImark, Addie Francone, and Savannah Clyde; our Linton team did awonderful job too-team members are: Jocelyn Burnside, Brian Clarke,Joanna Olsen, and Ben Poulsen; coached by Kristi Poulsen5th Grade-Linton team took the trophy!-Team members are MarkHansen, Mike Van Shaar, Nathan Richmond, and Ben Mortensen;coached by Jennifer Hansen.Thank you so much to Mrs. Stolte, Mrs. Leerssen, Mrs. Howard, Mrs. Harbour,and Ms. Larson for helping at the event. Also, thank you to ZachLeerssen for helping with scorekeeping. Check out some photos of theevent on the Linton website!Good News!-Next year we will have another school joining us, so we willbe having our District BOB event at the auditorium at Fort Collins HighSchool!

Page 6 Linton Elementary School Newsletter April 2012Music Notes!Kindergarten classes will have a small music performance for theirfamilies on May 10, 2012 from 9:30-10:00 AM in theLinton Gymnasium.Linton’s 2 nd graders performed SQUIRM! a wiggly, giggly, squigglymusical, on Thursday, April 12 th . Here is a picture Seth Wolfein a spider costume.Sydney Peirce and MichelleClarke in their snake costumes!

Page 7 Linton Elementary School Newsletter April 2012Some of our Linton 4 th and 5 th graders are playing guitar!The Bohemian Foundation donated 25 guitars to Linton.

Page 8 Linton Elementary School Newsletter April 2012LINTONELEMENTARY4100 CARIBOU DRIVEFORT COLLINS, CO80525Phone:970-488-5850Fax: 970-488-5852Website:www.psdschools.org/lintonAttendance Line488-5851