Below is a list of dates for the remaining PTA Meetings for this school year. All PTA Meetings are held at 7pm in the Secondary Media Center. We'd love to have you come to discuss upcoming PTA sponsored events and fundraisers, new ideas, or ask any questions you may have.

Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

The CCS PTA Farm to School Committee, working with OHM BOCES Food Service and the Mohawk Valley Farm to School Initiative, has launched a new Harvest of the Month sampling program. Harvest of the Month is a Farm to School initiative that promotes a seasonal, locally grown item each month. A day or two before the Harvest of the Month is listed on the menu each month, the elementary school kitchen staff will prepare a batch of the menu item for volunteers to serve samples to students in the cafeteria. The idea is to encourage the students to try something new and maybe even choose it for lunch later in the week. Below is our sample schedule:

Menu Item	Sample Date	Date Listed on Menu
Halloween Beans	October 30	October 31
Roasted Cauliflower	November 27	November 29
Asian Cabbage Slaw	December 18	December 20
Butternut Squash Soup	January 29	January 31
Mini Potatoes	February 26	February 28
Honey Carrot Bar	March 26	March 28
Black Bean and Corn Salsa	April 23	April 25
Cheesy Kale Bake	May 21	May 23
Cucumber Yogurt Dip	June 4	June 6

If you would like to join the Farm to School committee, please email us at farmtoschool@ccspta.info You can also help by encouraging your child to try the samples offered! Thank you for your support!

The CCS PTA Farm to School Committee is in need of several volunteers to help serve samples of this month's Harvest of the Month (Halloween Beans) to students in the elementary school cafeteria. We will need volunteers between 10:30 am and 1:50 pm on Tues, October 30. Even a 1 hour shift would be very much appreciated.

If you are available to help out, please email us at farmtoschool@ccspta.info with the time you can come and for how long. Thank you for your support!

The Elementary School Halloween parade will be held on Wednesday Octover 31 at 2:00 pm. To avoid the buses during the Middle School/High School dismissal, the parade will take place on the Walking Trail at the Elementary School playground.

Guests are welcome to park in the ES parking lot in back of the school and line the inside and outside of the Walking Trail just left of the Baseball diamond. If it is raining we will parade inside.

Winter Break

February 18-22, 2019

8:30-3:45
Cost: $160 per student member / $180 non-member

Spring Break

April 15-19, 2019

8:30-3:45
Cost: $160 per student member / $180 non-member

The offerings will be divided to accommodate elementary students, junior high students and high school students with appropriately themed art and movement activities for each group. There will be two sessions each day for each group so that they have different activities and a different teacher from the morning session to the afternoon session. Students please bring sack lunches. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Drop in for free children’s activities and treats! Kids will use bold shapes, bright colors, and some “magic” tissue paper will create amazing compositions. This project is inspired by the art featured in Jeffrey Gibson: This Is The Day.

Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College
198 College Hill Rd
Clinton, NY 13323

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents folk a guitar coffeehouse concert by Adam Dudding, aka The Ramblin’ Brooks on Friday, October 19 at 7:30 pm in Café Opus.

Adam Brooks Dudding, who teaches folk guitar at Hamilton College, is a performing songwriter, guitarist, and independent recording artist with over two decades of experience as a DIY touring musician and producer. His songs are well-crafted and heartfelt showcasing his musicianship and eclectic range of styles and influences.

As The Ramblin’ Brooks, Dudding’s passion for storytelling and gritty, blues-based music merges folk, country, pop and psychedelic-rock with contagious grooves. From his midwestern upbringing and musical dawning in Ohio to his co-writing and performing adventures in Nashville, TN to cross-cultural sonic explorations discovered in Shanghai, China, Adam’s wanderlust weaves its way throughout the soundscape of his songs.

This concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call the box office at (315) 859-4331 or visit www.hamilton.edu/performingarts.

The Hamilton College Department of Music presents pianist Fei-Fei on Sunday, October 21 at 3:00 pm in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center for Music and the Performing Arts.

Praised for her “bountiful gifts and passionate immersion into the music she touches” (The Plain Dealer), pianist Fei-Fei is a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and a top finalist at the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. She continues to build a reputation for her poetic interpretations, charming audiences with her “passion, piquancy and tenderness” and “winning stage presence” (Dallas Morning News), both in the US and internationally, including her native China.

The Hamilton College recital will include Mozart’s Piano Sonata No. 18 in D Major, K. 576, Lowell Liebermann’s Gargoyles, Op. 29, and Rachmaionoff’s Moments Musicaux, Op.16, among other work.

This concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call the box office at (315) 859-4331 or visit www.hamilton.edu/performingarts.

The Hamilton College Departments of Music and Dance and Movement Studies will offer a full schedule of free performances in Wellin Hall, Schambach Center during the College’s Combined Family Weekend/Fallcoming Friday, Oct. 26, and Saturday, Oct. 27.

Under the direction of Danan Tsan, the Hamilton College Choral Program will perform on Friday, Oct. 26, at 7:30 p.m. This program will a variety of choral works for large and small ensemble in a shared program with the Department of Dance and Movement Studies.

The second part of the Friday evening and Saturday afternoon performances is dedicated to the Department of Dance and Movement Studies. Hamilton College faculty choreographers Bruce Walczyk, Sandra Stanton, and Paris Wilcox will present original works performed by Hamilton students.

On Saturday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m., the Hamilton College Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble take to the stage. Conducted by Heather Buchman, the orchestra will present Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1. “Winter Dreams.” In the second half of the Saturday evening performance, the Hamilton College Jazz Ensemble will perform under the direction of Michael “Doc” Woods. The Jazz Ensemble will play standards as well as new arrangements from Woods.

All Family Weekend performing arts events are free and open to the public. Seating is general admission. For more information call the box office at (315) 859-4331 or visit www.hamilton.edu/performingarts.

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