That's a wrap!

Congratulations to everyone on a super, spectacular, sensational show. The singing and dancing was only made better by the wonderful fourth and fifth-grade hosts. And we learned a thing or two about New Jersey. Like, who the hell knew that Lou Gehrig AND Babe Ruth played in South Orange?! Mind. Blown. Thank you again to Katie Rickard and Missy Wahlers for your tireless enthusiasm, creativity, and amazing energy and to Amy Merlino Coey for all your behind the scenes work! To everyone involved in the show and to the parent skit directors - we appreciate all of you! And that’s what so great about New Jersey!

Get your Tusan Tigersâ€™ walkinâ€™ shoes ready

The first-ever Tuscan Walk-A-Thon will take place on Thursday, June 2, 9:30am-12:00pm, and boy are we excited! Kids will hit the pavement, and enjoy some fresh air while raising money!

To make this a success, we need your help. Please take a few minutes to register your Tuscan Tiger here and start asking friends and family to make pledges. As we cannot plan for our big annual in-person parent fundraiser, this Walk-A-Thon is a vital way for us to raise funds to help the PTA continue to offer important events and initiatives - like assemblies and book fairs - to the entire Tuscan community.

There will be a live DJ, giveaways, and refreshments. Two grades will walk at a time (for approximately 30 minutes). Parents are encouraged to volunteer. We are looking forward to a fun morning.

Look out for fliers in backpacks (if you did not spot one already) and an email from your class coordinators with more details. Rain date is June 9.

A huge thank you to our sponsors, Tuscan parent-owned businesses: CKO, Little Apple Arts, The Kate Elliot Team, General Co-operative Store, Oh! Canary, and Stephane Wrembel.

Questions? Email amacwhannell2@gmail.com

Very important message about the upcoming PTA meeting

Our next PTA meeting is on Tuesday, May 17 at 7:30 pm via this Zoom link (or by calling in to 646-876-9923, Meeting ID: 848 8571 8747, Passcode: 817553) This is a very important meeting because we’ll be officially electing our Nominating Committee! The Nomm Comm as we like to call it is parents who are looking for volunteers to fill next year’s open positions! This year’s Nomm Comm is: Whitney Swain, Donny Levit, Amy Bhattacharyya and Wen Zhu.

Also, we want to know! Are you interested in PTA leadership?

We need:

A new VP (who usually steps in to be the President the following year)
Committee members and chairs to help with next year’s fundraising, yearbook, membership, teacher appreciation, class coordinator leader and more.

Interested in helping?! Please email TuscanPTAPres@gmail.com. The election for next year’s Executive Board will be in our June meeting.

Help make recess fun AND safe

Recess is fun! Recess is outside! And to ensure the safety of our kiddos, we are in need of parent/guardian volunteers to help make sure that recess is fun and safe. Interested? Sign up for next week here.

There are 30 more days of school

But it’s not too late to join the PTA! We’d love to have you. We’ve upgraded our platform designed for PTAs, which will make it easier for you to use and us to operate. Instructions for how to sign up can be found here, but even if you don’t join the PTA (please, please join!), it’s still important to sign up for an account on our new site so that you can have access to the information you’ll need.

SUBJECT: Tuscan PTA Newsletter 5/15