PTO WEEKLY UPDATE 9/21/14

NEWS, EVENTS AND VOLUNTEER REQUESTS

What exactly is PTO? PTO stands for Parent Teacher Organization. As parents and guardians and staff, we are all members. There is no membership fee or required commitment. There are many ways that someone might participate as a PTO member. For example: attend events, volunteer in the classroom, teach monthly art lessons, fundraise, or attend monthly meetings. There is no right way, just your way.

Mrs. Fields Cookie Dough Fundraiser: Look for fundraiser order forms in your 9/26 Friday Flyer. Money raised through our fundraiser will fund programs like Accelerated Reader, drama and field trip transportation. Order forms are due 10/9, we welcome you to turn them in earlier.

Glenridge Website: The PTO will be updating our blog and Facebook accounts with important news and information that will help parents and students have a great school year.  Please follow us at glenridgepto.org and https://www.facebook.com/glenridgepto.

Classes will win prizes!!: Keep collecting Box Tops and Labels for Education and help your child’s class win a prize!! The class with the most participants and the class who collects the most will win prizes. Stay tuned and turn them in! J

Save the date for these future events….

Glenridge Fall Carnival:  Friday October 17^{th, pm.}  

We hope you join us for this fun event. Volunteer information can be found here: http://www.glenridgepto.org/p/volunteer.html. Donation Information can be found here: http://www.glenridgepto.org/2014/09/donations.html.

Glenridge BookFair  October 20^st-23^th. Volunteers needed. Contact us if interested or want more information.

Shout outs of thanks to…

-The parents who helped with Jamba Juice sales.

-The parents who have printed flyers at the library.

Community Sponsors:

Thanks to Golden Steer Restaurant (and owner/city councilman Jim Berrios), McClendon Hardware (Kent), Little Gym of Kent, Thai Destination (Fairwood shopping center) and Toreros (Benson Plaza) for providing us gift certificates for our upcoming Fall Carnival raffle…

Planning for the future…

Do you have ideas you would like to share? Do you have thoughts about future fundraising projects or materials that the school needs? Please share with us. We value everyone’s input.

Feel free to contact us at glenridgepto@gmail.com.