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Important Dates
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A ssist a nt P rin c ip a l W i l li a m D u rst
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Kindergarten/New Student
Open House
March 24-28
Spring Break
April 1-4
Relay for Life wristbands on sale
April 3
McDonald’s Night 5-7pm
April 10
K-Kids/Student Council 7:45am
April 11
Relay for Life Hat Day
April 16
All Pro Dads 7:30am (media center)
April 17
Chili’s Night 11am-11pm
Kindergarten/New Student
Open House
April 18
April 21-May 2
April 22
On April 17 we will have our
Kindergarten/New Student orientation.
Tours of the campus will be held from
3:00pm-4:30pm and 6:00pm-7:30pm. This
is a great opportunity for families
experience what an amazing learning
environment we have here at Davis. We
look forward to meeting our new
students!
Drop-off Procedures
In the interest of student safety, we
would like to remind parents that
students are not permitted to be dropped
NO SCHOOL
off before 8:05am. The only exceptions
to this are WLGD News Crew (7:55am)
FCAT/CBT Testing
and Safety Patrols (8:00am). Thank you
1st/3rd Grade Musical Performance for your cooperation in this matter.
April 29
PTA Board Meeting 6-7pm
SAC Meeting 7-8pm
May 6
Battle of the Books 9:00am
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Class/Program Sponsorship
Volunteer Corner
Davis Dreamers ($300 and above)
Walkinshaw Family
Davis Partner ($200-$299)
Davis Friend ($100-$199)
Mark Piazza
Davis Associate ($35-$99)
*If you are interested in adopting a class, please
see the front office or your child’s teacher for
more details.
Volunteering!
Leila G. Davis Elementary
If you are not registered but would like to volunteer,
please fill out a volunteer registration form found in
the front office. Processing takes about 2 weeks.
Melodie Moreno
[email protected]
Volunteer of the Month
Kristina Melnick
Volunteer Luncheon
A special thank you to Mike Short and Leeroy
Selmon’s to providing an AMAZING lunch for
our volunteers, business partners and staff.
We would also like to thank our wonderful PTA
for helping to fund that as well. We
appreciate your continued support!!!
Our volunteer of the month works in many
capacities here at our school. She works in her
children’s classrooms, classrooms of teachers
that her children are not in, is on the 5th grade
moving up committee, does blue folders every
Friday and basically anything else that is needed.
She is AMAZING!!! Thank you for all that you do
Kristina!
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Leila G. Davis Elementary
Battle of the Books-May 6, 2014
Spring Fling
Congratulations to the following teams for
making it to the Battle of the Book. The school
battle will be held in the cafeteria at 9:00am
on May 6!
3rd Grade Teams
Team A:
Teague(Skninner)
Isaac (Skinner)
Hailey(McLarty)
Team B:
Lauren (Lemon)
Eli (Moffitt)
Ethan (Lemon)
4th Grade Teams
Team A:
LaiLani (Brown)
Nydia (Hetzy)
Isabelle (Hetzy)
Team B:
Giulianna (Garos)
Victoria (Garos)
Maddy (Garos)
5th Grade Teams
Team A:
Emily (Cascone)
Madison (Schew)
Sonya (Cascone)
Team B:
David (Fair-Purcell)
Ella (Fair-Purcell)
Julia (Knieja)
About Spring Fling!
May 16, 2014
5:30-8:00pm
We are looking for donations for our annual
drawing booth at the Spring Fling. If you have
any connections to a company that would like
to donate gift baskets/gift certificates please
contact Melodie Moreno at
[email protected]. This is always a huge
event for our school and we appreciate any
support that we can get from our community!
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Leila G. Davis Elementary
Music Notes
Special Event for 5th Grade
Chorus – Please return your RSVP and/or
permission slip for Viva La Musica as soon as
possible. We will be singing "Viva la Musica" and
"America the Beautiful" with the combined
choruses. Students should wear jeans or shorts
with the blue chorus polo or a plain blue or
other Davis shirt.
Viva La Musica! Tuesday, April 1, 6:30 – 8:00,
Countryside High School Stadium
Third Grade – We will have a "Recorder
Showcase" sometime in May to show off the
skills and concepts we have learned through
instrumental music. Stay tuned for more details
about our end-of-the year performance.
Second Grade – BRAVO!!! Congratulations to all
2nd grade students for their amazing
performance of "Of Mice and Mozart" this week.
Thank you again to the Davis administration and
staff for their support, and to the Second Grade
teachers, volunteers, parents, and families who
helped make the production a success.
First Grade – Our next musical program will be
"Sing Me a Story" on Tuesday, April 22 at
Heritage United Methodist Church. Classes will
demonstrate skills and concepts learned in
music this year by creating performances to 6
exciting story books. Mark your calendars, and
we'll see you there!
ALL COUNTY – Congratulations to 5th graders
Emily B, Jocelyn B, and Zurii T who represented
Davis in the Pinellas Elementary Honors Chorus
concert. These students worked very hard to
prepare and performed beautifully in St.
Petersburg earlier this month.
Mr. Martinez, Mrs. Dykes, and Miss Kendall
All 5th graders are invited to attend a
celebration of music featuring performances
from the musical ensembles of Safety Harbor
Middle
School
and
Countryside
High
School. Don't miss the combined choral
performance by students from Davis and four
other area Elementary schools!! Concessions
open at 6:00pm.
Relay For Life
Although not camping and walking overnight,
the LGDavis Bearcub team is still supporting the
Oldsmar/Safety Harbor Relay for Life, April 2526 at Canal Park in Oldsmar. If you are
interested in donating items to be part of prize
gift baskets, please contact team captain Mr.
Martinez at [email protected].
K-Kids/Student Council is also supporting the
Relay effort, selling purple wristbands for $1
before school from April 1st – 4th. Students
may also bring in $1 to wear a hat on Hat Day,
Friday, April 11. All proceeds will benefit the
American Cancer Society. Thank you for your
support!!
A Message from our President
The 2014-2015 PTA Board has been
selected:
All Pro Dads
All Pro Dads morning meeting April 16th
7:30am Media Center.
President - Amy Christensen
Treasurer - Vanessa Boyd
Secretary - Allison Scheinman
VP Ways & Means - Robin Schroeder
VP Programs - Inyoung Curry
VP Membership - Terra Bredeson
VP Legislative - Aimee McDermott
The official vote will be at Spring Fling
on May 16.
We have vacancies for Products and
Hospitality on our PTA committee.
Please contact me if you have any
questions or would like to volunteer
for one of these positions at
[email protected].
Congratulations:
Thank you to Mr. Esparza's class for
having the most PTA membership this
year! They will be celebrating with a
popcorn party! Way to go!
Thank you parents for helping Davis
out in our annual Walk-a-thon. We will
let you know how well we did by the
next newsletter and what the money
raised will go to purchase.
Have a wonderful and safe Spring
Break!!!
Brittany Dayes (PTA President)
Leila G. Davis PTA ● 2630 Landmark Drive ● Clearwater, FL 33761 ● 727-725-7972 ● lgdpta.com