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AutumnFest was a HUGE hit!! (Despite the rainy start!). It looks to become an annual event. THANK YOU for your support!!

 Basket Raffle Winners were... (some baskets were divided to give more people the chance to win!)
K-Anything Disney-Mindy Bumgardner, Sarah Bard & Chelsea Crietz
1st grade- Family Fun Night- Connie Stimley
2nd grade- Hannah Montana/High School Musical- Cheryl Spickler
3rd grade- Pamper Me!- Beth Price, Worthy's Refuge, P.J. Edgin & Connie Stimley
4th grade- Rainy Day Fun Pack- Wilma Morgan
5th grade- Shop Til You Drop!- Sarah Lamberson ($180 in gift cards), Pat Miller ($25 Minit Mart), Natalie Rhodes ($25 Minit Mart), Erica Getz ($30 Sheetz), Betty Grissinger ($25 Hoss's)
6th grade- PA Sports and Entertainment- Brenda Gutshall (cooler full of stuff!), Sherry Matney (Steelers stuff and Curve tickets), Renee Feagley (Spikes tickets)
PTO- Stampin' Up- Melissa Cramer
PTO-Webkinz and Interactive Toys- Tammy Jones

Walk-A-Palooza raffle winners were pulled on Monday, November 3 by the high money raiser, Jaedon Booher. Jaedon raised $234 and walked 52 laps (also the most in the school)! She is a Kindergarten student in Mrs. Yocum's class. She recieved a $50 Toys R Us gift card for her efforts. She pulled the following raffle winners....
$40 Wal-Mart gift card winner- Michael Querry
$30 Toys R Us gift card Wyatt Snair
$25 Wal-Mart gift card Hayden Heintz
$20 Toys R Us gift card Jaden Kester
$20 Wal-Mart gift card Hayden Heintz (again!)
$15 Wal-Mart gift card LaRue Campbell
$10 Toys R Us gift card Christian Nelson
$10 Wal-Mart gift card Morgan Brumbaugh
Trojan T-shirt winner Tori Booher

Every student was entered into the drawing based on the amount of money they turned in for their pledges for Walk-A-Palooza. THANK YOU all for your efforts and congratulations to all winners!!

Congratulations to Taylor Carter, who won the "Throw a pie at the prinicpal" drawing at AutumnFest, and had too much fun tossing her cream pie at Mrs. Goodman! Thanks for being such a good sport, Mrs. Goodman (and watch what you volunteer for in the future!)

Vickie McMullen won the AutumnFest 50/50 drawing for $48.50!!!

Our second annual Trunk or Treat was a success (except for the weather). About 150 kids came through the parking lot of 20 decorated cars to recieve their treats before the rain shower hit at 7 pm, cutting the night short. People's choice parking spot went to Jody Fye and Erica Huffnagle and their children, Cheyenne Fye and Matarryn Huffnagle for their graveyard themed trunk. Second place went Terri Souders and Brandi Smith and their children Samantha Souders and Caylin Reeder for their prision themed trunk. Voting was close and everyone did a great job on decorating their cars!  Thanks to everyone who participated!!

Popcicle with a soldier day was a big hit! Several retired, reserve and active members of the military or representives (wives) came in to the classrooms on Novemeber 10 and talked to the students and everyone enjoyed a popcicle treat. The students were very involved in the question and answer period. Each student then made a card or colored a picture to be sent to the Reserve Troop from the area who are training for Iraq. Everyone took a lot from the experience! Thank you to all those who gave their time and for everything you do and have done! GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

Santa Shop was held on Dec. 16&17, 2008. I hope everyone enjoyed the gifts that the students picked out with so much care and thought! We sold out of almost everything! THANK YOU to all the parents and students helped!!!! It would not be possible without all of you!

Breakfast with Santa had a great turnout! There were about 250 people at the school early on Dec. 21 to enjoy a free pancake and sausage breakfast and visit with Santa. Every child recieved a free book and candy cane. Thanks to Title 1 for their finicial help with this!! Admission was a can of food for the MU food bank. They were overwhelemed!

Snow tubing on Jan. 24 had 64 people braving the cold from Kistler Elementary! Great turnout! The weather could have been a little better, but that seems to be the theme with outdoor PTO events this year! bad weather! Everyone seemed to have a good time with our discounted passes in sprite of the cold, windy day!

Science Fair- Feb 23&24 had 45 students showing off their sciencific knowledge to the school. There were some very interesting displays about a huge variety of topics. All participants received a certificate for their efforts! 

Congratulations to the talent show participants for putting on an AWESOME show (as always!) on March 13 at MUAHS. 33 students shared their talent with us in 20 acts. Everyone did terrific!! Judging was very close, but the winners were...

Solo... 1st Victoria Boozel; 2nd Darian Dixon; 3rd Tori Booher

Groups... 1st Mackenzie Komir and Karli Smith; 2nd Dustin, Douglas and Sarah Gearhart; 3rd Kole House and BJ Loner

Winners were awarded cash from the PTO. All particpants recieved a $5 gift card donated by area businesses.

Thanks to those sponsors, to judges Emily Brown, Erin Mansberger and Missy Miller, to score keeper Deb Goodman, to Master of Ceromonies and 'sound guy' Tom Sheeder, to Hunter McVey for the lighting, Caitlin Morgan for her help at practices, Cory Price, Cristin Henry and Emilee Gearhart for handing out programs and helping on show night and Amanda Sechrist for the programs.

Easter Egg Hunt was a great success! Thanks to everyone who donated eggs, candy or money. We were overwhelmed with the donations! More than 100 children attended the egg hunt on April 11 and received candy, prizes and a book from the Easter bunny who stopped by for a visit. (Thanks Title 1 for buying the Easter bunny the books!). Thanks to all the parents that help to "hide" the eggs as well. We have kept the eggs so that this can be an annual event!

Spelling bee finals were held on April 20. Each 3rd-6th grade classroom entered their top 3 spellers into the finals. 3rd and 4th grades competed and 5th and 6th grades competed. Thank you to all the teachers for their cooperation with this! The 3rd-4th grade champion was Darian Dixon with Alivia Sechrist coming in second. The 5th-6th grade champion was Kole House with Blake Spennati coming in second. The PTO donated a medal to the top speller in each class and a certificate to all participants in the finals. Mead Westvaco generously donated a travel tablet for each student in grades 3-6 and 5 subject tablets and folders for each finalist. Each of the champions also recieved a spelling bee champion certificate and a dictionary provided by the PTO. Awesome spelling everyone!

Teachers and Staff appreciated all that was done for them on Teacher and Staff Appreciation week. They were served breakfast on Monday, received a book of stories from their students on Tuesday, snack foods from parents on Wednesday, pizza lunch on Thursday and a keychain with a picture of our school on Friday. Thank you Kistler Staff for all you do!!!

42 students, families and friends attended the Family Fun day at Penn's Cave and Wildlife Park in Centre Hall. It was fun and educational! And a beautiful day (for once!).

Everyone enjoyed a great day at DelGrosso's Amusement Park on May 22. Great weather, good food and fun for all! DelGrosso's was paid for by YOUR contributions during AutumnFest 2008 and Walk-A-Palooza 2008! Thanks for your support!

Super Fun Field Day was held on June 9 with an extra special attraction this year! Any student that earned their 25 book t-shirt had the chance to dunk a staff member and/or throw whipped cream at them. This was one of the 11 stations that all students rotated through. Others were human knot, 3-legged race, big ball game, sponge race, frisbee toss, sponge toss, parachute game, tattoos, freeze pops, and musical hula hoops. Thanks to all the parents and high school students who were able to help that day. It would not have been possible without your help!!