Principal’s Report
November - 2007

• There were a lot of smiles on Wednesday and Thursday, October 3^rd and 4^th.  These were the two days that school pictures were taken and our students were happy to oblige the photographers with great colorful outfits and of course “big smiles.”  Many of our PTA moms helped the children get ready for the pictures.

• The week of October 8^th was School Safety Week at Delaware Valley Elementary School.  To kickoff of the week we had Westfall Police Chief Mark Moglia appear as a guest on DVE TV.  In grades 5 & 6 Cindy Stine of Safe Haven came in to do a presentation titled “Healthy Relationships.” 

• On Wednesday, October 10^th Fran Rosario, district driver, gave a 20 minute presentation for all students in grades K through 6.  The Westfall Fire Department came on Thursday, October 11^th to do a presentation with our Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1^st grade students. 

• The Milford Ambulance came to our school on Thursday and Friday, October 11^th and 12^th.  They did a presentation for our 5 & 6^th grades students.

• Our school participated with “Drug Awareness” week.  Our thanks to Students Against Substance Abuse (SASA) who supplied black and red key chains for the students and staff.  Teachers and students shared information about staying drug and alcohol free.

• Our Student Council sponsored a fundraiser this past month.  It was “Guess the Weight of the Pumpkin.”  Fran Rosario, a district bus driver, donated a large pumpkin, which weighed 170 lbs.  Students were able to guess the weight of the pumpkin for .10 cents a guess.  The winner became the owner of the 170 lb pumpkin.
  
• On October 18^th all the 3^rd graders received a dictionary from the Milford-Matamoras Rotarians.  Representatives from Rotary were interviewed on DVE-TV and following their interviews they delivered the dictionaries to each of the 3^rd grade classes.  The representatives from Rotary were; Dr. Sam Evers, Tom Murante, Art Ridley and John Wroblewski.

• Our tutoring club program has started for all grade level.  We are offering tutoring Monday thru Thursday for grades first through sixth. 

• In Miss Sarah Casey’s class students wrote a letter to their favorite author.  The class has a song about parts of a letter.  They started a rough copy to help with their letters to their favorite author.

• Our annual Story Book Parade was once again a success.  Parents came to watch the parade.  As we have done in the past, each child chooses a character from a book and dresses up like the character.   Unfortunately, due to the weather they were not able to march over to the Milford Convalescent Home.  We had to modify the parade because of the start of rain. 

• Our Library Circulation for the month of October was 11,021