Claxton Craft Fair Success!

A big Thank you to all that came to support our local crafters and for supporting Claxton Elementary!

We had 29 vendors plus the 4/5th grades wrapping gifts and selling pizza, teachers selling the mugs they painted this year and the raffle. 



We netted $1000!

Holiday Staff Appreciation Lunch- this Friday December 6th: donate

This year the 2nd grade is handling the staff appreciation lunch on Dec. 6th. 

In years past, people have also donated $5-10 gift cards or poinsettias to be raffled off for the staff at that lunch. If any of you can pick up a gift card or flower, we would much appreciate it. You can put gift cards in PTO box "Fundraiser Folder" that is located in Mrs. Stewart's office. Any poinsettias can be brought to the parent workroom on the 1st floor. 

They need all donations by Thursday so that they can see what they may need to add. 

School Musical Needs Your Help!

Are you creative? 
Do you wish to use your creative talents to help your school in a fun way?

Cindy Baldwin, the co-director for the school musical, needs a costume designer and a program designer for the show in May.  

These two opportunities will ideally begin soon and continue throughout the musical. 

If interested, contact our volunteer coordinator, Rachel Tutwiler at 
rachel.tutwiler@asheville.k12.us.nc

PTO General Membership Meeting

PTO  Meeting

Tuesday, December 3rd

6:00-7:00pm

Claxton Media Center (1st floor)

 As a parent or guardian, you ARE already a member, so please join us! We look forward to seeing you there.

*Learn about important news and upcoming events!

*Meet other Claxton parents!

*Learn how to volunteer your time, on campus or off!

Read-A-Thon a huge success!

This year's Read-A-Thon was a huge success! 

Our students read 54,000 minutes in K-5 

We raised $6,400. 

Our top reader, Wiley, read 1,843 minutes! 

Thank you to Joan Best and Julie Porter-Shirley and all our other volunteers, readers and supporting parents and caregivers!

Claxton’s First Lego League Teams bring home trophies!

Congratulations to Claxton’s FLL Teams!

Claxton’s two FLL teams really shined at the FIRST Lego League regional tournament in Flat Rock last weekend!  The Hot Shots took home the 1^st place trophy for their research presentation, as well as the 1^st place for the tournament high score in robot performance.  The Hurricane Hunters took home a 2^nd place trophy in core values, and scored exceptionally well with the judges for robot design.  

Both teams will compete in the state tournament at NC A&T State University on January 12^th.

The competition includes four judging areas:  A project in which the kids researched a real-world problem caused by natural disasters and propose a new and innovative solution; Core Values in which kids are judged of how the work as a team and their ability to demonstrate the eight Core Values of the FLL Program; Robot Design where the kids are judged on the robot they’ve built and programmed for competition; and Team Spirit which is all about strutting your stuff throughout the tournament!  In the afternoon, team-built robots compete for points in a game based on the scientific research theme.   Our fourth and fifth graders competed against 19 other teams from the region.  Kids range in age from 9-14 years old, and many of the teams we competed against were veteran teams.  This is the third year Claxton has participated in FLL, and the third year we’ve had a team progress to the state tourney! And, it was a lot of fun to see Claxton FLL alumni now competing with Asheville Middle School and ArtSpace teams. 

We are exceptionally proud of the outstanding teamwork, dedication and commitment shown by our teams!   We’re also deeply appreciative to our sponsors – Lockheed Martin, Asheville Pizza and Brewing Company and Chuck Giezentanner, a local artist who turned the kids ideas into t-shirt designs!  And, of course, we’re deeply in debt to the many parents and teachers who volunteered their time to help the team in ways large and small.  FLL is a team effort and it would not be possible for the kids to succeed without a great network of support!

PTO annual winter auction is looking for volunteers

The PTO annual winter auction is looking for volunteers!

 No amount of help is too small. No experience with an auction? No problem! 

We would love your help to support with this event which helps fund the Storytelling Festival, teacher mini grants, field trip scholarships, books, classroom supplies and more! 

Contact Meg Ragland at ClaxtonAuctionMeg@gmail.com