Friday, June 1, 2018
Ice Cream Social is Tonight!
Don't forget to join us in the evening for the annual A2 STEAM Ice Cream Social from 6-8pm on the back playground. There will be a variety of carnival games, face painters, as well as dessert snacks for sale. All tickets will be $1 each, and activities will range from 1 ticket (for an ice cream or game) to 3 tickets (for an elaborate face paint design). Please note, there will NOT be food trucks this year, so bring a blanket and picnic (limited pizza slices will be available to purchase for 2 tickets/slice). The event will be help rain or shine! We are still looking for a few more volunteers to help ensure a fun event for everyone: https://www.signupge
Monday, May 28, 2018
Book Fair is this Friday!
Scholastic BOGO Sale
We are hosting a 1-day only Scholastic BOGO sale again this year to coincide with the Ice Cream Social on June 1st. Books will be available for sale from 8:00am-7:00pm, or as long as they last! All books are buy-one-get-one free, so it's a great way to stock up on books for Summer Reading!
Cash, checks and credit cards are acceptable forms of payment - checks can be made out to A2 STEAM at Northside PTO.
If you are available to help volunteer for the sale, please sign up on this list: https://volunteer.scholastic.com/#/signup/Va3rjDtIO
Thanks in advance for your support of this sale!
Our mural is coming together!
Hello families! We are hoping that every student can put paint on the wall during mural week, June 4th - June 8th. In order for this to happen, we need volunteers! Volunteers can be any family member over 18 (meaning parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, older siblings, etc.).
Sign up for as many different slots as you want, we could really use the help! Please use the Doodle Poll here to sign up to volunteer:
It's going to be lots of fun, we are excited to see the whole community coming together to paint our mural! See you then!
Friday, May 18, 2018
The B Hive 5.18
We had so much fun at Field Day/Fun Run today. It was a busy morning and great sportsmanship. I think you are going to have some tired (still colored) kiddos.
Next week is Spirit Week. Here is the calendar for the week.
Spirit Week
Monday 5/21: SPORTS DAY 
Tuesday 5/22: Dress as Your favorite Book or Movie Character 
Wednesday 5/23: Favorite Color or Wear RED for Education 
Thursday 5/24: Wacky Day
Friday 5:25: Career Day/ Dress to Impress
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Scholastic BOGO Sale
We are hosting a 1-day only Scholastic BOGO sale again
this year to coincide with the Ice Cream Social on June 1st. Books will be available for sale from 8:00am-7:00pm, or as long as they last! All books are buy-one-get-one free, so it's a great way to stock up on books for Summer Reading!
Cash, checks and credit cards are acceptable
forms of payment - checks can be made out to A2 STEAM at Northside PTO.
If you are available to help volunteer for the sale,
please sign up on this list: https://volunteer.scholastic.com/#/signup/Va3rjDtIO
Thanks in advance for your support of this sale!
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Monday, May 7, 2018
Fun Run Information
Color Fun Run is back! And this year its going to be even more awesome, were having our first field day with the Color Run! All K-8 students will participate with their classrooms/advisories in this community-building event (regardless of fundraising completed).
This years prizes are:
- Everyone gets a pair of Color Run sunglasses
- The top 3 classrooms will win a Menchies frozen yogurt party
- Students who raise $150 and up will win a limited edition STEAM T-shirt
- Students who raise $250 and up will win a limited edition STEAM T-shirt and Principal for the day!!!
- The top 5 single students who raise the most money overall will win a AirTime Summer Jump pass for unlimited jumps till September 1!!!
Stop by the fundraising thermometer to see how well STEAM is doing toward our $20,000 goal!!!
How to donate:
1. Visit our online fundraising site at: https://grouprev.com/
- If you are new to A2 STEAM, please "Create your own page" at the top! You will register and have a personalized platform for supporting the event. Then you can share on Facebook, Twitter, email, etc. to collect donations from friends and family members. (Note: If you have more than one child at A2 STEAM, you will need separate emails to create their fundraising pages.)
- If you are a returning student, you will use the same email and password as in previous years. Please select "Login" at the top of the page, then Select "Start a Fundraiser" For an Organization. In the search bar type, STEAM (or Northside) and this year's fundraising "A2 STEAM Color Run and Field Day" will appear.
2. If you would not like to create an online fundraising page, please bring any donations in an enclosed envelope to the PTO drop box. Please include your Child's name and teacher. Make checks payable to: A2 STEAM at Northside PTO
Volunteers - We need you!! We are still looking for additional volunteers for the Color Run and Field Day events. Please sign up here and receive a FREE T-Shirt and some awesome swag!
Helping Girls Navigate Social Media
#SocialMedia4Girls: Parent Workshop
Most parents of young girls are faced with confusion and questions regarding the use of electronic devices and social media. What Apps are appropriate? How much is too much? How do we monitor use?
To help answer your questions, we are incredibly excited to announce a free 90 minute parent workshop, followed by 30 minutes of Q & A.
When: Wednesday, May 9th at 6:30PM
Where: Burns Park Auditorium
Helping Girls Use Social Media in Healthy and Positive Ways
Parents and educators often don’t know where to start when talking to girls about social-media expectations and guidelines. We didn't grow up with Snapchat and Instagram, and it can be overwhelming to stay informed on the latest apps, and monitor what girls are exposed to and experience. Social media is not going away, researchers agree that social media use by teen girls is currently "fueling a mental health crisis.”
In MEDIAGIRL’s (http://www.mediagirls.org) 90 minute workshop, founder and Executive Director Michelle Cove shares a new road map with concrete strategies to help parents and educators understand our kids' use of social media, and guide girls in making social media fun, healthy, and empowering. There will be time for questions after the presentation.
What You'll Learn
- How girls say they’re influenced by social media
- Unspoken “girl rules” of Instagram, Snapchat & more
- How to help girls think critically about posting
- Healthy guidelines to set with girls around use
- How some girls are using social media to inspire
About the Speaker
Michelle Cove, founder and Executive Director of MEDIAGIRLS, is an award-winning filmmaker, author, and journalist whose projects have been featured on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Katie Couric’s talk show "Katie," "The Today Show," Fox TV, and national publications. She is the author of the book I Love Mondays (Seal Press, 2012), co-author of the national bestseller I'm Not Mad, I Just Hate You!: A New Understanding of Mother-Daughter Conflict, and author of Seeking Happily Ever After (Tarcher Penguin, 2010). Michelle was Sr. Editor of the national magazine Girls' Life, and continues to blog regularly for the
award-winning Huffington Post Parents.
MEDIAGIRLS TESTIMONIALS
"Michelle is one of the most dynamic, engaging, and inspiring speakers I have ever had the pleasure of working with. She gives honest, practical feedback in a way that is both caring and down to earth, and she is one of the funniest people I have ever met. Her refreshing perspective encourages those she works with to grow, from the youngest, shyest girl in a room to the loudest, most outgoing woman."—Mikki Pugh, Boston Program Manager, Strong Women, Strong Girls
Michelle Cove ran her MEDIAGIRLS workshop at the Boston International Kids Film Festival, and provided a great discussion about the myth of the "perfect girl," what to look for in ads and how companies frequently play on the insecurities of women and girls in order to get them to buy products. The audience clearly enjoyed themselves and learned a lot from the interactive presentation, and I highly recommend Michelle to come to your community and schools! --Olivia Osiecki, Filmmakers Collaborative
"Michelle’s presentation was informative and thoughtful. Her passion regarding the representation of girls in the media was obvious and motivation to all who had the pleasure of hearing her words. She was able to achieve something that is very difficult when presenting to an audience with such a range of ages, which was to make everyone in attendance think." —Keith Civin, The Rashi School, Dedham, MA
Michelle Cove's presentation to middle-school and high-school girls and parents was remarkably engaging for their parents. Her candid assessment of the societal pressures that the media passively and overtly gives to pre-teen and teenage girls was informative and thought-provoking. Michelle's ability to hold the audience's attention was extraordinary, with many leaving well informed. — Justin Cameron, Principal Frederick W. Hartnett Middle School
Michelle Cove is a charismatic speaker who adeptly presented this difficult topic in a refreshing new light. Michelle’s presentation engaged all of the 50 attending students and left them inspired to make changes on our campus as well as in their communities back home. Several groups went on to initiate their own discussion sessions over their remaining week at the program. We are delighted to work with Michelle in the future and thoroughly recommend her. --Ariel French, Director of Programming for Explo at Wellesley
"Michelle spoke at the 'Gender in Society Day' at our school and really made an impact on the students. She was an extremely relatable speaker, which made everyone feel comfortable participating and asking questions. Her presentation was engaging and made students think, whether male and female. We were really lucky to have her as a speaker!" —Samantha Leone, co-founder Media Literacy Club, Newton North High School
We learned from Michelle how to stand up to media messages that undermine girls and women. We can either be mesmerized by the media's false images or empowered to re-shape them. By modeling the latter, MEDIAGIRLS gives girls the tools to transform their lives and the world around them. Michelle opened our eyes and led the way." —Paula Sharaga, Brookline Public Library
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