There will be early dismissal for elementary students noon Feb. 15. There is afternoon kindergarten that day.

There will be no school Feb. 18 for the Presidents Day holiday.

Kathy Grim has started working with a large group of volunteers, United and Rebuild New Jersey, and has come up with a project, called Backpacks for the Beach, to help get the kids the things they need to help get back to school.

They are collecting gently used backpacks and planning to stuff them with rulers, pencils, pens, erasers, folders, notebooks, tablets, crayons, markers and any school item that will fit into a child's backpack.

They are targeting kindergarten through eighth grade students.

She will take the donations to either Seaside or Union Beach on Feb. 17.

If you are interested in helping out with this project contact Grim at kg1779@yahoo.com.

Northwestern Elementary

Northwestern Elementary is holding its third annual Cabin Fever Carnival 6-9 p.m. Feb. 22.

Event activities will include a winter-style dunk tank with NWE staff who volunteered to be dunked.

There will also be a moon bounce obstacle course, carnival style games, crazy hair, face painting, Chinese auction and shopping.

Partners In Education will be offering walking tacos, cheese pizza, hot dogs, corn dogs, macaroni and cheese, pasta salad, cabbage and noodles, chicken noodle soup, Philly soft pretzels, nachos and baked goods for purchase.

They will be auctioning off a Kindle Fire HD.

Stop by with your family and frIends and have some good ole summertime fun in the middle of winter.

PIE is collecting Box Tops this month.

Send all your clipped and counted Box Tops to the office by Feb. 22.

Weisenberg Elementary

Online Market Day orders are due by Feb. 20.

Log onto to marketday.com and enter 24729 to make a purchase.

Delivery of your order will be 5:30-6:15 p.m. Feb. 26.

Thank you for shopping at Target and using your Target RED card.

By enrolling in Target's Take charge of Education, Weisenberg received $933 toward field trips and assemblies.

Visit www.target.com for more information on this great program.

Don't forget to clip your Labels for Education.

These labels can be found on a variety of products - not just soup anymore.

Clip and save labels from Post cereals, Dannon yogurts, Glad food storage, Emerald nuts, Pop Secret popcorn, BIC stationary products, Pace Salsa, Prego sauces, SpaghettiOs, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish, and Campbell's soup.

Find an entire list of products on the Weisenberg Library website and scroll down the left hand side to Labels for Education.

These points are used to purchase various items for the school and library.