STEM Festival (3-5pm) – A district-wide Festival is coming to Edgemont Park with a variety of STEM activity stations for elementary-aged families to enjoy. Reach out to WatchungPTAPresident@gmail.com or Katie Sanders at ksanders13@yahoo.com if you have ideas or would like to join the Watchung planning committee.

When: April 16 9:30-11:30am

Where: Brookdale Park –

When you Register for the Color Run HERE and enter the code [WATCHUNG] at check-out, 10% of your race fees will be donated to our school.

Monday, March 13th kicks off our three-week food tasting event that will have twelve different vegetables “competing” to be our school’s favorite.

This SignUp Genius  provides opportunities to donate vegetables, chop veggies, distribute samples outside the cafeteria, and collect votes. Which veggie will be the victor? We can’t wait to find out!

Watchung Family Ice Skating Day

WHEN: March 26th 12-130pm

WHERE: Clary Anderson Ice Arena

*More details to come

On Read Across America Day, we will kick-off our Read-A-Thon. This is a great way to get kids hooked on reading, engage in some friendly competition between classes, and win prizes, all while raising funds for Watchung School PTA! Watchung students will see how many minutes they can read–or be read to!–from March 2-23rd, and collect pledges to support their efforts.

Submit the reading logs and get your pledges in by sharing your child’s individual page on this MemberHub Link .

Watchung Free Read-A-Thon Library –We’re thrilled with the response of kids taking books home! Students can return, or keep the books. If they return it, we have a bin set up outside the N. Fullerton Street door that will be checked daily to restock the library.

Watchung Read-a-Thon – donate books by 3/1

Donate your elementary school-aged books to help us create a Watchung Read-A-Thon Free Library! These books will be available for students to grab while walking through the front hallway, take home to read to boost their Read-A-Thon minutes, and return (if they like) for others to also enjoy.

A bin is located outside the N. Fullerton Street entrance (featured in 2nd picture). The bin has signs for K-2 and 3-5 to help with the sorting. Drop your books by Wednesday March 1st morning to give us time to sort for the March 2nd Read-A-Thon kickoff.

Thanks to Victoria Lloyd for helping to make this Watchung Free Library happen!

***While we love a good preschool board book, we are not collecting them at this time***

 

Families will receive a confirmation email before classes start on Monday.

We are looking forward to a great winter ASE session. Please direct any questions to asewatchung@gmail.com

Monday – Wear Black – For Unity

Tuesday – Wear Green – For Progress

Wednesday – Wear Yellow – For Success

Thursday – Wear Red – For Freedom

Friday – School Spirit – To show we are all ONE community

Valentine’s Gifts as 5^th Grade Fundraiser

Moss & More has specially designed a beautiful potted fern for Watchung School families and will donate nearly half of each sale to raise money for Watchung’s 5th grade graduation, yearbook and festivities.

Pick up is in-store on 2/12 between 9:30am-3:30pm at 42 Upper Mountain Plaza.

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Watchung’s Spring Fundraiser

When: Friday April 14^th 7-11pm | Where: 18 Label Studio

Mark your calendars for an epic Casino Night themed party! This is a vital way for us to strengthen our community and raise money to support the school’s upcoming Library & Media Center. Here are some ways you can get involved:

• Class-made Creations – each homeroom class will create an art project to auction off at this event. Each class can select 1-3 volunteers to run this project (it does not have to be time consuming and we already have great ideas for potential projects!). Reach out to your Class Parents if you’re interested.
• Donations needed for AUCTION:  The majority of money raised at our upcoming spring fundraiser will be from the auction. We are soliciting donations from our generous Watchung community. Examples of past items have included tickets for the theater, sporting events, VIP tours, hotel/vacation house accommodations, a private chef, guided experiences and a high-end vacuum cleaner. Smaller items are also welcome and can be grouped together into larger auction packages. If you have something you would like to contribute or have a great idea, please let us know at  watchungptapresident@gmail.com