April 2024 

PTA Digital Newsletter

Date: Wednesday, May 1st

Time: 6:30 - 8pm

Location: Capitol Hill School

The Plan: Volunteers will turn our school into a museum filled with amazing art by our Capitol Hill students! Take a walk through art history and let your student show off their amazing artwork from this school year.

Who Can Come: Everyone is welcome! Bring the grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins ... everyone is welcome to view our Capitol Hill Museum

Cost: FREE! Thank you to all our volunteers and to Ms. Anderson, our amazing art teacher, for helping make this event amazing for our community!

The art show will have over 800 pieces of artwork to display. All pieces need to be mounted, labeled and hung around the school. That takes a lot of volunteer power. 

Please sign up to help at a prep night (6:30 - 7:30 and kids are welcome and can be very helpful too!) or sign up to help set up on May 1st as we get the school ready.

CLICK HERE to sign up to volunteer to help prep and/or set up for the Art Show.

A HUGE thank you to Tabitha Ames for taking the lead on the Art Show and helping bring it back to our community! 

We love raising money AND not thinking about dinner!! 

Date: Wednesday, April 24th

Time: 4-8pm

Location: Level Beer in Multnomah Village, 7840 SW Capitol HWY

Details: $1 from each pint and 10% of bottle/can sales will be donated to the PTA between 4 and 8pm

No code or flyer needed

Tell everyone! All sales benefit our school!

Missoula Children's Theater will be working with Capitol Hill students to put on the play Treasure Island. We will have auditions as numbers will be limited. If your child is interested in theater or trying something new, we encourage everyone to audition! 

Auditions: Monday, May 13th from 2:20 - 4:20. If your child gets a part they will stay for rehearsals until 6:20 that night

Rehearsals: May 13th - 17th 2:20 - 6:20 at school

Performances: Friday May 17th at 6:30 and Saturday, May 18th at 2pm at Capitol Hill

The PTA believes that EVERY CHILD should receive a yearbook. 

We use PTA funds to buy yearbooks for every student at our school each year for FREE. 

Yearbooks will be passed out during the last week of school but for now...

PICTURES NEEDED!! 

DO YOU HAVE:

• Fun photos from class events?
• Field trip photos?
• Photos from school events (Big Boo, Movie Night etc)? 

SEND FUN PHOTOS TO MELISSA HAMILTON AT

 chepdxyearbook@gmail.com

If your child was not a student at Capitol Hill for picture day, please send a photo of your child so they can be in the yearbook! 

5th Grade Families: Please email baby photos of your student.

Join us for our LAST PTA meeting of the year on May 8th

We will vote on board members for next year and approve our budget

Childcare is provided for FREE by our amazing Champions Staff! 

Join us at 6:30pm in person in the library or on Zoom 

(CLICK HERE for Zoom Link)

We are so excited to have so many new faces volunteering for next year's PTA board! We will vote on new board members at the May PTA meeting. 

We are still looking for 2 Volunteer Coordinators. If you are interested in learning about the position or the time commitment, please reach out to Jill Morgan or Kate Gannon Sprinkel at volunteer@capitolhillelementary.com. 

We are also looking for lead volunteers for the following:

• Loved Book Exchange
• Big Boo!
• Auction
• Community Cares Day
• Yearbook
• Staff Appreciation Team

Our Capitol Hill Equity Team will be choosing a children's book for our entire community to engage in! On April 18th, everyone is welcome to virtually join Principal Sauers as he announces and reads the book aloud. Our Capitol Hill Librarian, Ms. Wutzke, will have a recorded reading of the book for those who cannot join the virtual event. 

This is Capitol Hill's first attempt in creating a unifying experience focused on reading and equity. As a school we will be engaging in meaningful dialogue in each of our classrooms. We encourage families to read the book together and join us in this experience! 

Principal Sauers Book Reading - April 18th, 6:00 pm

Google meets link - meet.google.com/vws-binm-gwy

April and May are filled with days when we appreciate all the many people that help our students each and every day at school! If you would like to spoil any or all of our amazing staff members but you don't know what to get, we have created a list of Staff Favorite Things.

CLICK HERE to find out what our staff members really love.

Our Staff Appreciation Team has been working hard all year to show our teachers and staff how much we love and appreciate all they do for our kids. They have brought morning snacks and coffee as well as after school snacks for staff meetings. 

If you would like to contribute to the teacher appreciation fund, please CLICK HERE to donate. 

If you would like to join the team or be on their mailing list for volunteer opportunities, email Jill Morgan jalderson@gmail.com and Kim Hebdon kimberleyhebdon@gmail.com 

The PTA Website is full of great information and now has a new Resources tab. There you will find PTA meeting minutes, treasurer's reports, calendars, newsletters, the PTA reimbursement form and the Staff Favorite Things List. 

Say what you will about social media ... but it is a great way to get information out to lots of people quickly! For this reason, our PTA is on both Facebook and Instagram. Our Parents Facebook page is also a great place for parents to post questions and get information about things happening in our community. 

It is also a great way to see old photos from PTA events if you are new to our school. ◡̈  

Find us on Facebook: "Capitol Hill School PTA" and "Capitol Hill Elementary Parents Group Portland OR"

Find us on Instagram @capitolhillpta