Update from PT

This is from PTA

"We will be starting our Fundraiser tomorrow, Wednesday August 31st.  We will have tried to pull all of the books for students that sent an opt out form back.  If you have an opt out form for a student that didn't get pulled, please pull the packet out of your pile before distributing and staple the opt out form to the envelope and return it to the PTA box.

Our fundraiser will run through the 14th of September.  All books and money will due back that day.  We will be coming around to classrooms on the 14th after school to collect your piles of books so we can go through the books, reconcile money and start putting together the piles of books to send home with each student.

I will be putting up a PTA meeting sign up by the mail box (either late this afternoon or tomorrow morning).  We would like to have a teacher present whenever possible at our meetings.  Meetings are typically the 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:30-7:30 except for October which will be the 2nd Thursday of the month.

I will also be putting a flyer in each teacher's box regarding Box Top collection.  Our first collection will be occurring the last week of September.  We will be doing contests a little differently this year, we will have one contest for K-2 and one contest for 3-5.  We will be running 3 contests during the year, each 3 months long and then we will have overall winners as well at the end of the school year.

We will be looking for volunteers for Saturday Live.  At this point, I'm not sure we will get the help from the Billings Bulls this year so we will need more help then ever.  Please make sure to encourage parents to sign up to help.  We will have a sign up opportunity at the open house and they can always use our signup program: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040a4dabab23a64-saturday1

Candy collection for Saturday Live will start September 7th and run through September 21st.  We will have a collection box in the work area to store your candy.  We will also being doing ticket sales for Saturday Live before school the week before the event (Saturday September 24th).  I'm not sure if we will have someone available to sell after school or not. We will see if we can line someone out to sell for the early release after school.  We do not typically sell tickets during the late release.

Also new this year is our remind system.  There are three different lists, one for General PTA announcements, one for Volunteers, and one for Bakers.  Sign-ups for these can be found on our website, www.bitterrootpta.weebly.com

As always, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me or any other member of the PTA board.

Thanks,

Jenny Jasper
PTA Vice President - Communication"