Jump Rope For Heart 2013

Dear Parents, Within the next few days your child will be bringing home a collection envelope for this year’s Jump Rope For Heart. Some children may have already brought the envelope home. Please place the envelope in a safe place, perhaps on the refrigerator, or in some other place in your house. This will be our 10th annual fundraiser to help the American Heart Association. This event provides our students with a wonderful lesson in charity. We hope that all children will try to raise money this year. We do not want any children going door to door! We suggest that children ask their family members, relatives, and good friends for donations. Some children have had great success asking mom or dad or a friend to take the collection envelope to work and circulating it there. The Heart Association provides the children with prizes they can win based on the donations they receive. The prizes are listed on the back of the collection envelope. Collection envelopes must be returned by March 27th. Feel free to return them earlier if you like. Students should return the envelopes to their gym teacher. The event will be held over the course of 5 days, March 18 to March 22. All children will participate during their regularly scheduled gym periods. Their will be 12 stations of varying challenges of jumping activities for fun for the children to participate in during their class. Having the event during school time allows every student in the school the opportunity to participate in the jump. We hope your family can celebrate that no one has been touched by heart disease or stroke. Those families that have lost a loved one to heart disease or stroke might choose to make a donation in their honor. This “honor” donation will then be posted on our Honors poster and placed in the gym as a reminder throughout the year. We have talked with all children about the various circumstances that family’s today face. Not all families are in a position to give but the children will be eager to ask for donations. At the same time, we hope they have understood that people can only give what their present circumstances allow. Please do what is comfortable for you and your family. Thank you in advance for your help and support. You may follow us along with the posting of children in action on our P.E. blog site: http://baker08.blogspot.com/ Mr. Fantaroni & Mr. Raudonaitis Physical Education Dept.@ Ezra Baker School