Thank You to Our Sponsors!

A HUGE Thank you to our Sponsors. Your donations will make our Silent Auction a GREAT Success!!

Vision Source Berry Family Dentistry Cavanaugh Flight Museum National Cowgirl Museum Disneyland Pocket Sandwich Theatre Wylie Flower and Gift Yogurtcup Eye Master’s World Olympic Gymnastics Academy Fort Worth Stockyards Championship Rodeo Billy Bob’s Texas Six Flag’s National Scouting Museum TCU Athletics DFW Adventure Park Grapevine Vintage Railroad Speed Zone Scarborough Renaissance Festival Dr. Phil show Wylie Printing and Office Supply Schlitterbahn Water Park Soaring Adventures Dominoes Pizza CATS (Creative Arts Theatre and School) Wylie Fire Department Wylie Police Department

Fessler Orthodontics Adventure landing Strikz Meteor Hamburgers Ice Skating Center at the Galleria Fish City Grill Yogurtville Yankee Candle Starbuck’s Fort Worth Museum ATA Martial Arts Great Wolf Lodge FC Dallas Move Studio Solid Core Fitness Brannick Photography Mesquite ProRodeo Fort Worth Zoo The Heard Museum Kimball Art Museum Dallas Zoo Shoemaker & Hardt Ballard Street Café & Grill Dallas Symphony Orchestra Sandy Lake Amusement Park Dallas Stars NRH2O Water Park

From the Desk of the President ...

Wow! What a great first couple of weeks. PTA has been super busy getting ready for our Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of great students) program as well as our annual Fall Carnival and Silent Auction. Due to the success of our fundraisers last year, PTA was able to provide 3 smart boards for our school. We are hoping that this year will be as big of a success. For those of you who do not know, PTA usually has 2 main fundraisers; the Carnival/Silent Auction and Spaghetti Dinner/Raffle. We use family based fundraisers instead of catalog sales because we think it is more fun to spend time with your family. All profits from these fundraisers go directly back to the school to help fund programs such as Watch D.O.G.S., the 4th grade Green Team, School assemblies, as well as helping to make purchases to upgrade our school, and many more things. Please be looking for volunteer forms coming home to help with our Carnival. This fundraiser cannot be a success without the help of our volunteers. We need at least 142 volunteers to make this night a success! If you have questions or concerns or if you want to help with something but have not been asked to please don’t hesitate to email.

PTA President
Debra Meyer

It's Carnival Time!

It’s that time of year again! Our annual Fall Carnival and Silent Auction will be held on Saturday, October 22nd from 5-8 pm. This fundraising event cannot be a success without the help of our AWESOME volunteers. I have added a donation request to help make our event a success. If you can help by contributing any of the following please drop them off in the front office. Also, if you or someone you know owns their own business we ask that you consider donating to our silent auction. Thank you so much for your help. If you have any questions or comments please do not hesitate to contact me at jdbmeyer@hotmail.com attn: PTA.

Donation requests: 2 littler bottles of soda, Debbie snack cakes, Individually wrapped candy

We will also be having a costume contest so be dressed to impress! The categories will be…..

• Most original
• Funniest
• Scariest
• Best overall

Fun stuff includes: Dunking booth, Petting Zoo, Bounce houses, games, and Lots of Yummy Food! Come join us for a night of fun and help out Dodd in the process!!

Criminal Background Check Form

The Wylie ISD website is have some technical issues with it's website.
If you need the Criminal Background Check Form here is a copy.
Click Here

What's going on at Dodd?

Friday, September 16: PTA Membership Ice Cream Contest ends. Sign up for membership and your student's class may win the Ice Cream party!

Friday, September 16: Dinobeat starts at 7:30am - Students in 2nd - 4th grade will be recognized.

Thursday, September 22: Fall Picture Day - Individual student pictures will be taken. Order forms will be sent home for those who desire to purchase.

Thursday, September 29: Dodd Spirit Night @ Cici's Pizza Wylie - let them know you are with Dodd and part proceeds from the evening will be given to Dodd for student technology.

Friday, September 30: Dodd Night at Wylie Stadium - Tickets are on sale now in the school office for reserved seating in the "Dodd section (500)" for the Wylie Pirates Homecoming game against Rockwall. Seats are $8.00. Support Dodd and enjoy the game!!

Watch DOGS Pizza Night

Calling all Dads!! Come join us for the Watch DOGS Pizza Night! Learn about the Watch DOGS and sign up to come help out at the school for a day. Pizza, drinks, and dessert provided.

Thursday September 8th at 6:30 pm

Hope to see all you there!

Watch DOGS - Dads Of Great Students!!

Parent Orientation Luau

Thursday, September 1 from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., Kindergarten through 4th Grade parents are invited to come and meet with their student's teacher and learn what the classroom expectations are for the new year. Each teacher will have two sessions that parents can attend, one starting at 5:30 p.m. and one starting at 6:30 p.m. There will be ice cream with tropical toppings and punch for the kids and parents to enjoy between sessions or after sessions. Thursday is also Hawaiian shirt day. Students and teachers will wear their Hawaiian shirts and you can even wear your grass skirts!

Dodd night @ Chili's - Tue, Aug 30

Come out and support Dodd at Chili's Wylie tomorrow night as we work to update our school technology. Bring in the attached flyer and present it to the waiter when you are checking out and Dodd will receive 10% of the sales. You MUST present the flyer for us to get the credit.

We look forward to seeing you and appreciate your usual support!!!

Link to Flyer

Morning Drop-off and Afternoon Pick-up Procedures

Please assist us with a smooth drop-off and pick-up by following these procedures.

Morning Drop-off procedures

Afternoon Pick-up Procedures

We appreciate the staff and crossing guard who are on duty to see to the students' safety. Please follow their directions while in the parking lot.

For Afternoon pick-up, students are walkers, bikers or car-riders. Please let your child's teacher know how they will be picked up.

Walkers - You can walk up and pick up your child at the 4th grade doors on Cheyenne. Please have your child's tag ready for verification.

Bikers - Students riding their bikes or scooters will exit the 2nd grade doors in the parking lot.

Car riders - Please have your child's tag in the right hand side window for the teachers on duty to see. Your child will then be called and waiting for you on the curb when you drive up.

No students can be picked up in the office during dismissal - 2:15 - 3:00 p.m.

Please be patient the first couple of weeks, as students learn their numbers and parents get used to the drop-off and pick-up routine.

Tonight is Dodd Night @ Chick fil A

Monday May 9 is Dodd night at Chick Fil A. Part proceeds for the evening's receipts will be donated to the Dodd PTA projects for this year. Come out and support our school!

Tonight is Dodd Night at Chick-fil-A

Please join us tonight for Dodd Night at Chick-fil-A.
Hope to see you all there!!

Tonight is Dodd Divas & Dudes Night @ Goodfellas!

Come out and support Dodd's Relay for Life team @ Goodfellas tonight. Goodfellas will donate a percentage of the sales today to the team. Just put your receipt in the bucket!

Thanks for your usual support!!!

Kindergarten Round-up

Kindergarten Round-up will be held on Thursday, April 7 from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. We will be registering incoming Kindergarten students for the 2011-12 school year. The Kindergarten team will be on hand to answer any questions and give tours of the Kindergarten Hall. Please see the website for the list of documents that will be needed.

http://www.wylieisd.net/news/2011/march/kinder.wspx

Chick-fil-a Night

Come out and support the Dodd PTA projects at Dodd Spirit night @ Chick-fil-a in Murphy on Thursday, March 31. Part proceeds for turned in receipts for the night will go to the Dodd PTA.

Celebrate the Arts - March 25-27

Dodd will be widely represented at the District "Celebrate the Arts" Showcase, March 25 - 27 at Wylie High School. The Art show will open on Friday, March 25 at 7:00 p.m. in the Wylie High School Cafeteria. Dodd students have submitted approximately 160 entries for the showcase. Each year, Dodd students make us very proud with their many awards! Their art will be on display the entire weekend.

Many of the 4th grade students have been diligently practicing for the 4th Grade All-District Choir which will perform on Friday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Wylie High School Auditorium. This is always an amazing performance!

We encourage you to come out and see all that our Dodd kiddos have been doing! Special thanks to Mrs. Nichols, our amazing Art teacher and Mrs. Gustavson, our marvelous Music teacher, for all their hard work in preparing our Dodd students for this yearly event.

Dodd Spaghetti Dinner and Raffle

Dodd Family,

I hope everyone is looking forward to our 3rd annual Dodd Spaghetti Dinner on Friday, April 1st. Several local restaurants have graciously donated all of our food items. We will be sending home another reminder with your child next Monday, so be looking in their folders.

We will be serving dinner from 5:30-7:30. If you have sports activities or other plans, no problem, we will have carry out plates available for you.

The cost is $5 per person, which includes spaghetti, marinara sauce (with or without meatballs), salad, bread, a cookie and tea, water or lemonade.

The raffle drawing will be held at 7:00pm. The 1st name drawn will get to choose between the $300 VISA card and the 4th Generation IPod Touch. The 2nd name drawn will get whichever prize is remaining.

Next Thursday, March 31st, is the last day we will be accepting raffle tickets. Thus far, only 70 of 600 students have sold and turned in their tickets. We are hoping for many more of you to turn yours in by next week. Please remember that the funds raised from the spaghetti dinner and raffle will be used for field day, water day (last day of school), teacher appreciation week, and to buy 2 SMART boards for our school. Please help support your school and your PTA.

If you need more raffle tickets, you can pick them up in the school office or print off the attachment that I have included with this email.

Remember, the top 7 students that have sold the most raffle tickets will win a limo lunch with Mr. Evans and Ms. Duvall. At this point, the #1 seller has sold 70 tickets and the #7 seller has sold 20.

We appreciate your support and hope to see you next Friday, April 1st.

Allison Moore
Dodd PTA

March 2 - Fund Texas' Future Day!

From the Texas PTA:

It's the biggest crisis in Texas history. Nearly five million Texas students need our help. Texas PTA is proclaiming Wednesday, March 2, as "Fund Texas' Future Day." It's imperative we make sure our "house is in order" - the Texas House of Representatives in Austin, that is. Please light up cyberspace by emailing your state representative on Wednesday, March 2.

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