Save The Date: Friday April 11th is the Sylvan Park Annual Social

Save The Date: Social & Auction

We are excited to announce the date for our annual Sylvan Park Elementary parent social! Save the Date for Friday, April 11.

Every single parent, teacher and staff member is invited. During the social, we will be having a charity auction to help raise funds for our wonderful teachers and school. Any contribution you make, be it time, goods and services, or money, will have an impact on our children.

What: Food, Drinks, & Silent Auction
Where: The Reserve at Fat Bottom Brewing Co. 
When: Friday, April 11

We do need your help! 

We are in need of items for the charity auction. We’re looking for restaurant gift cards, vacation homes, staycations, photography sessions, big items, small items, anything you can think to contribute! 

  • Do you have an air bnb you’d be willing to donate?
  • Sport memorabilia?
  • Sommelier skills?
  • Season tickets to Bridgestone or Nissan?
  • Soccer tickets?
  • Do you have friends who own businesses in town that might want to contribute?

You can talk to your room parent or email pto.spark.fundraising@gmail.com.

School-wide Seminar for “Change Sings: A Children’s Anthem”

During the month of November, students participated in our second school-wide seminar using the book, Change Sings:  A Children’s Anthem by Amanda Gorman.  The values and ideas for this seminar were change, tolerance, courage, and dreams.  Students discussed what change they want to be and see for our world.  For the post-seminar writing activity, students completed the sentence, Change is… on a tissue paper square.  The squares were put together to create stained glass windows and hung in the front of our school.  Stop by and check out our display showing what change is to our students!  A BIG thank you to Amy Thompson for creating the stained-glass displays!  

Fall Clean Out: Donate “outgrown, not worn out” school clothing in our school UniCycle Closet.

unicycle donation

Fall Clean Out: Help us to keep our school closet stocked with great options for any student who needs them by donating what no longer fits.

FLASH UNICYCLE CLOTHING DRIVE 

What: your students’ outgrown (NOT worn out) SSA and spirit wear
Where: bins at the main entrance AND car rider entrances OR drop off at 4209 Idaho Ave
When: Nov 13-15

Why: Donated clothes will be used for distribution to SP students, re-stocking Sylvan Park’s closet for future/urgent needs, and contributing to Metro’s warehouse of SSA (from whence all schools, including SP, can & do request SSA in particular sizes/styles as needs arise).

Bonus: Surplus Sylvan Park Spirit wear will likely be available for all students & families at the Book Fair 11/19-11/21 (donation to SP PTO’s hardship fund optional).

Questions? Reach out to Patti Chew (patricia.a.frost@gmail.com)

Need to request clothes for your student? Reach out to Ms. Middlebrooks (Meredith.middlebrooks@mnps.org)

Trunk or Treat Pics, Congrats to the 5th Grade Best Trunk Winners!

Thanks to everyone who joined us in the Sylvan Park parking lot on Thursday 10/24 for Trunk or Treat. We had sooo many fabulously designed Trunks…. but the most popsicle sticks went to the 5th Grade Nashville Soccer Club themed trunk… GGGGGGOOOOOOOOOAAAALLL!!!

Much thanks to Hecklin Dental for sponsoring this year’s Trunk or Treat.

Help us STOCK THE LOUNGE for our awesome staff! December Cookies & Cocoa

Stock the lounge banner

 For December, we will have a cookie and hot cocoa bar. Signup by 12/13.

Each month, Teacher Appreciation will host a Stock the Lounge in the Teachers’ Lounge. Please sign up to show your appreciation!

Click the link to sign up to bring in treats OR send us some $$ on PayPal and we’ll do the shopping for you! 

Thanks so much for helping us show the teachers and staff some love! 

Sign Up to Bring Items
Paypal and We’ll Do the Shopping

2024 INVEST Campaign: We Made It!

Sylvan Park Invest Success

We started this year with the most ambitious fundraising goal that we have ever had… And we made it!

Thank you so very much, we could not have made it without the generous support of each and every member of our Sylvan Park Elementary Community. Your generous donations have helped to fund the instructional interventionist, a position which provides crucial support for students who are not at grade level, and benefits all Sylvan Park students.

A HUGE Thank You to all our business sponsors:

INVEST Campaign: Popsicles for Participation.

POPSICLES for Participation

POPSICLES for Participation was a success!  187 INVEST donations counted and over 52K raised to date.  The rain held off just long enough for our panthers to enjoy their popsicles at recess!  Thank you to each and every donation, we profoundly appreciate your support.

Haven’t contributed and would like to, NOW IS THE TIME!  

Only 9 days to go and we still need your help to reach our goal of $120K!  Our need to retain an interventionist and other critical support is paramount and contributes to the success of every child at our wonderful school.  We can’t do this without your support!

INVEST today, every dollar counts!  

First school-wide seminar for the 2024-2025 school year: Collaboration Station

Collaboration Station

September School-wide Seminar

Over the last two weeks, students participated in our first school-wide seminar.  Students worked in groups to complete the Cup and String challenge.  Classes read the book Collaboration Station by Shannon Olsen and discussed what collaboration looks and sounds like in our classrooms.  

In this seminar students will discuss the values of collaboration, mindset, teamwork, and communication and participate in an engaging and fun collaborative activity. 

For our post-seminar activity, students worked in groups to create an informational poster to showcase their learning about what collaboration looks like and sounds like in our classrooms.  Ask your child about this engaging and meaningful learning experience! 

New Items Available in the SpiritWear Store

“New swag has arrived!  We have a couple different designs, as you can see here and more coming!  

  • “It’s Cool to be Kind” t-shirt, long sleeve and tote
  • “I love my Sylvan Park Panther” t-shirt
  • New tie dye colors with a bit of a softer fabric – these will have the basic Sylvan Park logo

Coming Soon:  New colors of t-shirts, NON hoodie sweatshirts, new softer long sleeves, hats, more new designs and more!  

Shop the Sylvan Park Spirit Store

Have ideas on other SWAG you’d like to see – shoot a note to Ashley Ryan at ashleymbecker@gmail.com.  Pumped to add all this new gear (and more!) on the site!”