Wilde Lake Middle School PTSA

January 10 Meeting Canceled

The meeting scheduled for Tuesday January 10 at 7pm in the Media Center has been canceled because several officers will be attending 8th grade orientation at Atholton High.

New PTSA Officers

Here are next year's WLMS PTSA Board of Officers, as elected at our General Assembly Meeting on Tuesday, June 14:

Heather Barham, President
Monica Cave, Vice President
Lada Onyshkevych, Recording Secretary
Gwen Christopher, Corresponding Secretary
Kathy Jascewsky, Treasurer

Email addresses and photos are available on the Members 2011-2012 page.

Update HCPSS News

With the school year coming to an end, it's time to log onto HCPSS News and change grade levels and/or schools for each of your children. This is especially important if your child will enter grade 6 or 9 next year. Many middle and high schools send out messages of interest to incoming students over the summer months.

It's fast and easy to update your HCPSS News account. Just log in to the HCPSS Weekly News site at www.hcpssnews.com, choose Account Management, log in with your email address or phone number, and follow the prompts to update your account. For more information visit www.hcpss.org/newsletter/#hcpssnews.

While you're updating your profile, please double-check your contact information and make sure you have entered the correct email and cell phone information.

The WLMS PTSA Giving Tree

We suggest parents bring in the following items for our staff.

Tissues
Hand Sanitizer
Amazon Gift Cards
Borders Gift Cards
Barnes and Noble Gift Cards
2011 & 2010 editions of the Guinness Book of World Records
Pop-up Sticky Notes
Glue Sticks
5 Subject Notebooks
Dividers
Paper
3-Inch binders
Highlighters
Pencils & Cool Grading Pens
Pocket Folders
Mechanical Pencils
Colored printer paper
Set of colored pencils/markers
Scissors
Hand Soap
Construction Paper
Calculator Batteries
Novels for English & Reading Department

SUPPORT MATERIALS :
Clock Watchers

The Write to Read: Response Journals That Increase Comprehension [Paperback]

Empowering Struggling Readers: Practices for the Middle Grades (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy)

Amazon.com Fundraiser

The Wilde Lake Middle School PTSA is very excited to announce we have become an Amazon Associate! As an Amazon Associate, the PTSA will receive a percentage of all purchases made on Amazon.com when you go to Amazon.com through our fundraising webpage. The Amazon link on the fundraising page will take you directly to Amazon.com and provides the ID number for our PTSA. That way the PTSA will get a percentage of the purchases you make.

Remember, for the PTSA to receive a percentage of your purchase price, you must use the Amazon link located on our fundraising page. Thank you for all of your support and remember to shop early and shop often!

PTSA Membership News

Thanks to all the families that already joined your PTSA. It is only $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for students. Did you know that your fee enables you to be a part of the Howard County PTA, the Maryland PTSA and the National PTSA in which you would be one of 6 million members? Also, PTSA members qualify for discounts at various businesses. Misplaced your dues envelope, just send your name(s) your child’s/children’s and their homerooms, along with cash or check made out to "WLMS PTSA", for PTSA Membership. If you have any questions, please contact Marisa Kavka marisakavka@yahoo.com or Lisa Wovas lisaandkids@comcast.net. PTSA is planning a great year for your children-- don’t forget to join!

Track Your Student's Academic Performance with TeacherEase

TeacherEase is the grade book and communication tool that Wilde Lake Middle will use this year as one method to keep parents and students informed about academic performance. This service is free thanks to a generous contribution from our PTSA and can be used from anywhere there is an internet connection.

In order to access your child's grades online using TeacherEase, please complete the registration form found at this link: http://tinyurl.com/nub66f Filling out this document allows us to send you a user name and password. Some teachers accounts will be activated in the next week or so and the rest of the staff will be live at the start of the second quarter in November. Thanks for your patience and cooperation as we work to provide this service for our community.