The PTO Never Sleeps

Well, actually we do, just a little.

Now that we've turned the calendar page to October, and published the handy Family Directory, had an incredibly successful Fundraiser, enjoyed the really, really fun Fall Fun Party and held one of our best-ever Book Fairs, we want to first thank all of our volunteers, families, teachers and staff who helped make all of those things as good as they were.

Although we're still dealing in details, we can tell you that our Fundraiser sales were about 25% higher than last year, which itself was better than expected. This is how our PTO can continue to do good things four our students, teachers and the school as a whole. Thanks to the counting team, and a very special thanks to everyone who made it through distribution afternoon with us. We hope you recovered quickly.

The Fall Fun Party lived up to it's billing. It was fun! For the second year in a row, we moved the party inside due to wet grounds, although Mr. Albert and Mr. Piper were kind enough to take their station outside for a little kickball. Thank you to them, and to Mrs. Parker running the tunes in the Band Room, and Mrs. Lundin and all the teachers and for going with the flow with the PTO. Also thanks to all the many volunteers. We hope you had fun!

Thank you to Ms. Moser and Mrs. Spurlock, who are our Scholastic Book Fair chairpersons. Also thanks to the fabulous volunteers who filled their shifts with care and enthusiasm. Our sales were over $7000 (wow!) and we're hoping to take advantage of an opportunity, from Scholastic, to turn our profits into Smart Boards for our new school building. Stay tuned for updates about that. Once that happens, we can get back to sharing those Book Fair funds with our library and classrooms.

Anyway, don't look now, but we're already starting to plan the Winter Carnival. It's early this year, on December 10, 2010! And once again, it's going to be great. If you'd like to volunteer, please email rocketpto@gmail.com and let us know. We've got all sorts of opportunities, even some with very few decibels involved. The other thing is, a parent or guardian has to stay on-site (in case of emergency) ... if you're there anyway, you could help out, no? We have some nice perks for our volunteers.