LET'S GET TO KNOW OUR NEW STAFF HERE AT CARL TRAEGER !

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Meet: Brenna Masloroff, Empower Special Education Teacher

I'm a first year teacher, who just graduated this past spring. I'm from Franklin, Wisconsin, right outside of Milwaukee. Growing up there was my mom, dad, sister, and dog (Bailey!!) in my house. We did lots of road trips out east, my favorite vacation spot being Washington DC. The vacations slowly transitioned into sports trips to support my dad, an international softball umpire, and my sister and I, being a thrower on UWO's track and field team.

My hobbies include coaching track and field, hiking, puzzles, working out, and spending time with friends and family. 

My favorite color is yellow, food is chicken parmesan, candy is kitkats, and animal is a hippopotamus. 

My Walk up song: Dancing Queen by ABBA!!

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Meet: Cassi Robl, Library Media Specialist

Hello! My name is Cassi Robl and I am so excited to be joining Traeger's school family this year as the Library Media Specialist. Some things I enjoy include reading, playing pickleball, yoga, hiking, traveling, and trying new coffee shops. I grew up in Oshkosh, attending OASD schools K-12 (I am actually a Traeger alumni). I taught 1st grade in the Oshkosh School District for the past three years. I got my undergraduate degree in Elementary/Middle Education and Spanish Education at UW La Crosse. I am excited to support students in this role by fostering a love of reading, encouraging curiosity and creativity, and helping integrate technology and media into our learning environment.

I can’t wait to make it a great school year!

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Meet: Jamie Johnson, Special Education Teacher

I grew up on a dairy farm in central Wisconsin and still visit my extended family there as often as I can.  My husband, Jim, and I have 2 young adult children.  Grace, age 24, is married to Danny and they live in Oshkosh.  Our son, Sam, is 21 years old and works at Little Caesars. This is my 30th year of teaching!  I have been a first grade teacher, second grade teacher, a Literacy Specialist, and currently am a special education teacher.  

I love to read, as well as listen to audiobooks while going on walks. I like to read children's books and am always on the lookout for new books that my students will enjoy reading or listening to.  I enjoy painting rocks and setting them around town for people to find. 

Color - pink

Hot drink - hot chocolate

Cold drink - Dr. Pepper

Animal - whitetail deer

Flower - daisy

My Walk up Song would be : "You've got a friend in me" by Randy Newman

GIRLS ON THE RUN has begun!!!

The roster is FULL, only registered students will get notified by Ms. Heideman with further information. SEE YOU ALL THEN!

Weather Information

Here are the expectations for dressing for the weather.
Temperatures and appropriate outside recess wear is:

● Below 50 degrees: students need a coat
● Between 50-60 degrees: students need to wear long sleeves/can take off if warm
● 61 degrees and above: student’s choice (shorts are allowed)

Students go outside for two recesses during the school day. Students are outside unless it is raining/storming, temperatures are below 10 degrees, or the windchill feels like temperature is 0 or below.

ONLY A FEW MORE DAYS LEFT!~

WALKING FIELD TRIP FORM

-Now live in Infinite Campus

Please Click HERE for instructions on how to sign up for a field trip . 

By submitting this form, you are giving your child permission to walk with their class off of Carl Traeger Elementary School property on various days throughout the 2025-2026 school year. (ie: annual walk through the prairie, emergency drills to our evacuation sites, etc.) Forms need to be completed by September 22nd.

STREET TRAFFIC UPDATE:

Please do not turn around or drive through the driveway of Landscape Solutions across the street from Carl Traeger Elementary. This is not for public use and often times has equipment also driving through and may become dangerous. 

PARKING LOT TRAFFIC UPDATE:

Elementary parents are require to drop off and pick up in the front parking lot. Our back parking lot is ONLY for busses and pre-arranged situations with staff.  Thank you so much !

Tuesday, October 14 th 6:00pm – 7:00pm (Library Media Center (LMC)

@ Carl TraegerElementary)
Join us for our monthly PSC meeting to talk about our busy September, upcoming events, and volunteer opportunities. Current event chairs are encouraged to attend, bring any updates as appropriate.
The Google Meet link will be shared on our Facebook page.
Plus, save the dates for all 2025-2026 PSC meetings!

NEXT PSC MEETING is Tuesday, October 14th at 6pm. JOIN VIRTUALLY, link coming soon!

Scholastic Book Fair: September 24^th – October 1^st (EXCEPT September 26^th; no school day) (Cafeteria @ CTE)

The Carl Traeger Elementary PSC is looking for volunteers to help work the in-person book fair. Students and families can kickoff the school year by purchasing Scholastic books to add to their at-home library and/or to donate books to any of our CTE classrooms. Every purchase at the book fair fundraises Scholastic dollars that we can use to purchase books throughout the school year.

NEW this year: The Book Fair will be open during conferences on Thursday, September 25th and Tuesday, the 30th, so you can plan to do some shopping before/after your teacher meeting! Plus, we will have mini-popcorn socials during these times!

Any help is much appreciated and truly is what makes this book fair possible. Please signup where you can give your time here, then more information will follow closer to.

Photo Fundraiser: September 26^th – 28^th 4:00pm – 6:00pm each day (Lakeshore Park)

Fall is the perfect time to get in gorgeous photos with your loved ones & we're so excited to partner with local photographer, Alicia Jennerjohn and her business, Jenali, again this year to offer this incredible deal for our CTE families! We have date options available:
Friday, September 26th 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Saturday, September 27th 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Sunday, September 28th 4:00pm - 6:00pm

$160 includes a 15-minute photo session at the beautiful Lakeshore Park (Spots show 20 minutes, but a buffer is needed between sessions). You can meet Alicia at the area by the pavilion/four seasons building. You will receive 20 edited photos plus $55 from each session will go to our PSC in order to support our year-round events for the school.

Limited slots are available, so be to grab your spot today! Select your timeslot and make payment via Jenali’s site directly at https://jenali.pixieset.com/.../carl-traeger-fundraiser-2025.

Saturday, October 18th 9:00am – 2:00pm (Carl Traeger Middle School)
Be a part of one of our biggest fundraisers of the year: The Carl Traeger Elementary Fall Market &
Food Fest! We are looking for volunteers to help on both Friday, October 17th and Saturday, the
18th.  On setup day (Friday), we will be measuring booth spaces, setting out tables, and chairs for the
vendors, and prepping for the bake sale and concessions stands.
Students under 14 years old CANNOT handle money. If you would like to volunteer with your child,
please sign up for the bake sale or concessions. Students can help keep the bake sale table full of
goodies and replenish as needed.  The bake sale is donation only, so no handling of money is required.
Concession students can help with items, but not collect money.  
Bake Sale Dropoff: Friday, October 17th during setup from Friday 4:00pm - 6:00pm.
We appreciate your participation and you volunteering in order to make this event happen!

All events & information regarding our PSC can be found on our Facebook page at
https://www.facebook.com/TraegerElemPSC/events and on PTBoard at
https://traeger.ptboard.com/home.

May / June's TREE-Mendous Students 2025

News from the Art Room

Hello Traeger Families! Spring brought a flurry of activity to the Art room!

We had two more art shows to celebrate. The first show was called Art Fest, and located at the Oshkosh Public Library during the month of April. Students who represented Traeger Elementary were: Kinlee V., Ellie B., Sonny S., Owen B., Maddux H., Bentley N., Henry C., Ryland C., Olivia W., Charlie M., Kammie D., Lincoln H., Mikeyana M., Ava A., Claire A. and Mariyam T.!

The second showis hung at Central Administration for the OASD on Eagle Street. This year our 5th grade clay dragon eyes turned out so awesome that I took photos of five of them to hang up at Central for the year. These students even got recognized at a school board meeting: Blasa O., Rylee S., Inara K., Lucille R. and Owen B. 

The other exciting piece of news is that painter and mural artist Leif Larson came to CTE to do a large mural with our ENTIRE SCHOOL in April! We had an amazing time creating it and we have deep appreciation for our own PSC and the SOAR board for funding this event. Thank you!!

With much gratitude-

-Mrs. Harmon

PSC Agenda Notes 
9/09/25, 6:00pm - 7:00pm 

PSC Mission Statement: The purpose of the Carl Traeger Elementary Parents and Staff for
Children (PSC) organization is to serve in a voluntary, supportive and cooperative role bringing
home, school and the community together; to make all children, parents and staff feel important,
special, capable and a part of the community, to support Carl Traeger Elementary school by
providing necessary resources for children's educational benefit.
Who are we? PSC Officers:

· President: Nichole Casper
· Vice President: Megan Paulik
· Events & Volunteer Coordinator: Megan Paulik
· Communication & Outreach Coordinator: Kelly Zanders
· Co-Treasurers: Jolene Halbach & Nick Zanders
· Secretary: Kenlin Grams
1. Welcome new families & little about the PSC - Nichole
· PTBoard - What is it? How to use it?
2. Icebreaker-Introductions
3. Upcoming Fundraisers & Events

● Papa Murphy’s Restaurant Day-Mandy-Haven’t heard back! Will keep us
posted.
● Scholastic Book Fair- Kenlin
o Book Fair dates: Wednesday, September 24th- Wednesday, October 1st
o Volunteers needed-please complete district background check
● Popcorn Social-Justin (Volunteered to chair event)
o Two mini Popcorn Socials will be held the night of conferences with the
Book Fair open on Tuesday, September 25th & Thursday, September 30th.
o Volunteers needed/Donations of popcorn & toppings also needed
● Photography Fundraiser- Kelly
o Jenali Photography/Lakeshore Park
o Session dates: September 26th-September 28th
o $160 for 15 minute session/$55 of each session given to school
o Only 3 spots left-Sign up now!

● Fall Market & Food Fest-Nichole
o Saturday, October 18th
o Volunteers needed Friday for set-up and Saturday 6am-cleanup
o Bake Sale-Chair Needed-Set up table, re-package items, help clean up
o Concessions-Heather is looking for someone to chair with, as she is
unable to commit to doing it alone. This would involve set up, picking up food
and drink, clean up
o Booths still available- Please spread the word!
● K-2 Concert-Kendall (Volunteered to chair event)
o Monday, November 24th
o Voted on purchasing a backdrop to be used at concerts and other events
throughout the year (10.5 feet with frames-$600)-Vote passed unanimously

4.) Past Fundraisers & Events

● Barley & Hops Bloody Mary & Mimosa Fundraiser
o Sunday, July 19th
o $300 was brought in
o Difficult to find volunteers to staff and event turnout lower due to EAA

● Open House & Teacher Gift Cards-Nichole
o Provided $50 Target gift cards this year, instead of Amazon gift cards
o Stocked staff lounge for Open House-used some leftovers from Bingo. Will
put the leftover bottled water in the teacher’s lounge
o Only 100 informational PSC packets taken from the PSC table-How can we
reach more families at Open House?
o Need volunteers to staff the table, Kendall staffed some of it this year
o Possibly move the PSC table to conferences or have teachers send home
information with students. Leftover PSC packets could also be given out with
Book Fair purchases

● Kindergarten Playdate-Kenlin & Katie
o Held on August 28th, $46 was spent on snacks
o 8-10 families attended-Most attended 4K at Traeger-Look at options for
increasing attendance. Possibly open it up to 4K families or maybe hold
event after school starts

● Oshkosh West Homecoming Parade-October 3
rd
-Is the PSC interested in
participating? The parade starts at 5:30pm. Email the PSC within the next week if
interested in building a float.

● Leif Larsen SOAR Mural-Glass was installed over the mural for protection. Kristin
asked if the PSC would be willing to donate $1,500 to help cover the cost of the
glass. Student Council and SOAR have also contributed towards the glass. Vote
passed unanimously to contribute $1,500 towards the cost of the glass.

5. Treasurer Report - Jolene
6. Future Agenda Items:

· Book Fair Update -Kenlin
· Fall Market & Food Fest-Nichole
· Herd Game - Nichole
· Brighten Someone’s Holiday-Ashlee
· K-2 Concert
· Restaurant Day-Oct. 24th

-The Taqueria-Looking for a few kids to bring out food

7. Questions
8. Next Meeting Date: October 14th at 6pm
9. Motion to adjourn-

1st
- Megan 2nd
-Kelly