FHES PTA Newsletter - T-minus 4 days til Bingo!

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FREEDOM HILL PTA EAGLE NEWS
April 26, 2022

BINGO NIGHT - FRIDAY 5/6, 6-8pm
Join us on next Friday, May 6th from 6-8pm in the cafeteria for the long awaited return of FHES PTA's Bingo Night! Purchase 1 card for $1 or 5 cards for $6. Have fun playing bingo with your friends and winning prizes! Pre-order your pizza and all pizza proceeds go to the 6th grade celebration activities. All the details and order form is here. You can either order your cards and/or pizza on Pay4SchoolStuff by May 5th at 9pm or turn in the flier to the PTA mailbox by Wednesday, May 4th by 5pm.

BINGO VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Many hands make the work light! We need some volunteers to make our Bingo Night a success. Sign up Genius is here to sign up for a shift. Special 6th Grade Sign Up Genius for 6th graders doing pizza sales and community service.

WALK, BIKE, ROLL TO SCHOOL DAY
Join us on Wednesday for Walk, Bike or Roll to School day is Wednesday, May 4th! gWalk or bike to school, thank your bus driver and encourage drivers to pay attention to walkers and bikers. Pick up your prize in front of the school (from FCPS Safe Routes to School program)! All the details are here! Rain date is Thursday, May 5th.

PTA MEETING RECAP
Thanks for joining us for the PTA meeting. The recording is here with Passcode: 4@Hs*5iSMv. Or check out our slides here!

PTA BOARD POSITIONS OPEN
We want to thank Gina Song and Nicole Camara for doing an amazing job as Secretary and VP of Business Development this year on the PTA Board! They have decided to step down for the 2022-2023 school year. We are looking for 2 new members (or more) for the PTA Board. If you are interested, please send in a short form here to nominating_committee@freedomhillpta.org. Questions? Feel free to contact president@freedomhillpta.org or for the word document version.

TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK 5/2-5/7
Want to see what our amazing Teacher Appreciation Committee has in store for our teachers THIS WEEK (5/2-5/7)? Check out the flier here ! Our teacher appreciation team, Sechin and Sara Lyon, are servicing the whole school - this is a great reminder you may want to do something special for your classroom teacher, favorite specialist or administrator too!

LEVEL THE FIELD - DONATIONS

FHES PTA is happy to support Joseph Long, a Freedom Hill graduate and currently a junior and Life Scout at Marshall High School. Joseph is working on his Eagle Scout project with a non-profit sponsor called Leveling the Playing Field that works to provide sports equipment to underserved communities. Donate your used sports equipment to this great organization! Or join us at the community event on May 8th at Marshall High School to support the work that Leveling the Playing Field is doing in the greater Washington, DC area. All the details are here!

ARTWORK DEADLINE NOW 5/13
Missed the Artwork deadline? You can still submit materials until May 13th! (We wrote the wrong date by accident in Dr. Z's newsletter so correcting here.) A fun art activity (details here) that can be turned into fabulous gifts for friends and family or just for fun! Use use our art paper or use a different square piece previously created (at least 8x8 inches), upload to Square 1 Art, and order your gifts! Need templates printed out? Ideas for projects? Visit the Art Gifts page at freedomhillpta.org for the instructions.