Bring a blanket or chairs to the River Eves Fall Festival on Wednesday, October 15th from 4:30 to 6:30 PM. There will be games, inflatables slides, goodies and the chance to dunk a teacher. Tickets and pizza will be available for advance ordering, and proceeds will be used to fund the Weekly Reader program. Flyers will come home soon with more information. Please contact Carol Moore if you can volunteer; we need baked goods and help with the booths.

Tags: Fall Festival, Events, Weekly Reader

River Eves has purchased 15 ActivBoards over the past two years -- and PTA has funded seven of them! What are they and why make this investment? An ActivBoard looks like a large whiteboard that doesn't use dry erase markers, but it is so much more. It is a PC, a VCR, a flipchart, a PowerPoint, a DVD player, an interactive lesson with students, a center during class, an Internet connection, a TV for special events, and more.

Can you imaging showing a DVD of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., pausing the DVD during "I Have a Dream," changing to the PC in two clicks where there is a flipchart or a website showing a fact you want to highlight, then switching back to the DVD to continue where you stopped -- and having an interactive quiz afterward? The kids absolutely love the ActivBoard environment. It's entertaining and interactive.

ActivBoards are only one tool in our teachers' arsenal and won't replace reading, writing and other traditional teaching methods, but PTA is thrilled to help bring this technology into the classroom to assist in our kids' education.

Tags: PTA, Education, Technology

Make sure you're collecting all your Box Tops; the first contest ends October 17th.

Tags: fundraising, Box Tops