Thank you!!!

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2nd & 3rd grade Winter Performance! We had a full house and it was great to see so many families attend.

A special thank you to those individuals that stayed after to help clean up!

Enjoy the winter break!

Movie night!

Horton Hears a Who!! Join us Friday, December 12th at 6:00PM. This movie night is being sponsored by the third grade. Admission is $5.00 and includes: chili dogs, drink and snack. You will also be given a raffle ticket with the chance to win a basket filled with candy & two movie tickets.

We hope to see you there!

Don't forget to turn in your See's candy orders

We hope everyone enjoyed the Thanksgiving break. When your child returns on Monday, please don't forget to send in your See's candy order form.

Canceled Movie Night

Please accept our apologies for Movie Night being canceled. Student Council was the host for this month's Movie Night and both of the advisors were ill the entire week and were unable to get things organized to ensure a successful event. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

See's Candy Fundraiser

The See's Candy Fundraiser should have been sent home this week with your child. If you did not receive one and would like to order please see the office.

All items are $5.00.

The fundraiser orders are due the day we return from Thanksgiving Break on Monday December 1st!!! We need to organize and place the order by Tuesday December 2nd so that we receive all of the orders before Winter Break.

Don't forget, these candy items make GREAT stocking stuffers, neighbor and teacher gifts or to have on hand for those unexpected visitors!!

Thank you for all of your support and Happy Holidays!!

Mina

Parent Teacher Conference Next Week (11/17-11/21)

Please remember that next week is parent/teacher conference week. This is a great opportunity to get to know your child's teacher and to learn about your child's progress in school. 8:22AM-1:21PM is the schedule for all students.

NO POWER READING this week.

We are starting a new trimester on December 1st. If you would like to continue your child (1st and 2nd graders) in the program, please let the office know. The donation is $30 a trimester.

Cookie dough still available for sale!!

Have you baked all of your cookie dough and unsure where you can get more?? We have the answer for all of your holiday needs! We still have cookie dough available for sale. Please see the office to place your order and we will send it home with your child.

Still available: chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, lemon cooler, snicker doodle, sugar and mint chip.

Quantities are limited so get your today. $14 for 4 dozen.

E-waste collection update

Thank you to everyone that came and participated in the e-waste collection at the school about a month ago. A total of 137 items were donated with a total weight of 5,220 pounds. With the help of Mather residents, we were able to raise a little over $350 for the school!

B Street Theatre

We will be having a special assembly on Thursday, November 13th to welcome the B Street Theatre to our school. They will be performing "Grimm and Bear It", a funny & musical collection of your favorite fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm. Assembly will be held from 1:00PM - 1:45PM.

Get ready for another fundraiser!!

Tomorrow flyers will be sent home to kick off the start of the See's Candy holiday fundraiser. All items are $5.00. These make great stocking stuffers, teacher/co-worker/neighbor gifts.

Please remember to return your orders after the Thanksgiving break (December 1st).

PTA Meeting This Thursday

PTA will be holding their monthly meeting this Thursday (November 6th) at 6:30PM. We will be discussing future fundraisers.

PTA Recycle Drive Reminder

Don't forget this Friday is the PTA's recycle drive. Please bring in your cans and plastic bottles to school. Look for the white pick-up truck (that is normally parked by the first grade classes). It is not only good for the environment but it will also earn the school some extra money!

Have lots and don't want to carry them? Email MatherRecycles@gmail.com to schedule a pick up.

Book Fair / Talent Show

Talent Show: Thursday, October 30th at 6PM in the gym. Stop by the library afterwards to see what books are for sale at the book fair. On Friday, October 31st we will hold two talent shows during the day. One at 9:15AM for grades K, 1, & 2 and one at 10:15Am for grades 3,4,&5.

Book Fair: Our book fair is this week and is located in the library. The book fair will run 8AM-4PM daily and on Thursday night it will be open until 8PM.

Spirit & Red Ribbon Week

October 27th - 31st

Red Ribbon week will be next week and will go along with our school's Spirit week. Be sure to dress up and show your school spirit throughout the week!

Monday: Pajama Day - wear your favorite pajama's, no slippers allowed!

Tuesday: Backwards Day - Wear your clothes backwards.

Wednesday: Crazy Hair / Crazy Hat Day - wear your craziest hat or style your hair in a crazy way the crazier the better.

Thursday: Twin Day - You and a friend come dressed the same!

Friday: School Colors / Spirit Day - Show as much school spirit as possible and wear RED, WHITE and BLUE.

Last Call For Box Tops

A huge thank you to all who have turned in their box tops. We have collected almost 4,000 box tops to submit! That's almost $400.00 collected for our school - one dime at a time!

Please send in the last of what you have and remember that you can just send them in a ziploc bag to make it fast. And then continue collecting for our spring time submission.

Great Job Mather Heights!

FALL Fundraiser UPDATE!!

We will be receiving the Fall Fundraiser items and cookie dough this week!! The non perishable things will be delivered tomorrow and the cookie dough will be delivered on Thursday 10/9. We will be sorting all of the cookie dough when it arrives We need EVERYONE who had cookie dough in their order to pick up their orders on Thursday after school as we do not have a cold place to store it!!!! We will also have approximately 50 additional boxes of cookie dough for sale for those who need more or who want EXTRA!!

ALL FUNDRAISER ITEMS WILL GO HOME ON THURSDAY WITH YOUR CHILD INCLUDING COOKIE DOUGH!!!

Thank you for all of your support!!!

Mina Robertson
PTA President

THANK YOU!!

I just wanted to say Thank You to everyone who helped us as well as everyone who attended this year's Fall Festival!! I know the countless hours that all volunteers, room parents and PTA members put in were crucial and instrumental and they were appreciated very much!! Once again Thank you for all that everyone has done- We couldn't have done it without YOU!!!

Mina Robertson
PTA President

SLIP Meeting- Spend the money!!

Hello Volunteers,

I am writing to inform you of our upcoming SLIP meeting Oct 14th at 3:00-4:00 in the Library. One of the main functions of the SLIP group is to decide what the best way is to spend the allotted monies for our school.

This meeting is open to all parents of Mather Heights students, and community members. I have attached a copy of our agenda. We would love to see all of you at the meeting. We need your input and ideas.

Hope to see you there.

Darcy Darcy Kennedy
Librarian/Parent Coordinator
(916) 362.4153 ex 123

Agenda: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dhghmhpp_12ts62gpf7

Fall Festival is HERE!!

Well I can't believe it but the Fall Festival is here!! All of the PTA, room parents and volunteers have put in countless hours making sure that you and your family have a GREAT time tomorrow night, Friday October 3rd. I want to thank each and every one of you for helping make the Fall Festival be successful!!
We are prepared in every area to have a wonderful Fall Festival rain or shine!! Of course shine is the perfect situation but we do have a back up rain plan just in case!!
I hope that you bring your family and friends out, have dinner, enjoy the class booth carnival games, listen to music by LSB the band, take a ride on the train, challenge your children to climb the rock wall, take part in the cake walk, check out the AMAZING Silent Auction baskets and last but not least, test drive a new Chrysler, fill out the form and Chrysler will donate $5.oo for every form filled out- The donated $850 last year- my goal this year is $1000!! That could pay for anywhere from 3-6 field trips that your children are going on!!!
Hope to see you tomorrow night, Friday October 3rd from 5-8pm!!
Let's hope that Mother Nature has plans until 8:00pm!!!

Mina Robertson
PTA President

Fall Festival Update

We had a great meeting on Monday evening at the second Fall Festival Meeting and things are progressing nicely!! Thank you to everyone who has volunteered their time to ensure a successful Fall Festival!! If you have not done so already, please let your child's teacher know which time slot you are able to fill for all of the class booths!! 4th and 5th grade parents need to volunteer time as well so that all of our food booths, ie main food in the Cafeteria, the Popcorn Machine, SnowCone machine as well as the Cotton Candy Machine have plenty of people to run them so that all of the food booths run smoothly!! No worries we will show you how, they are all very easy to operate. Please give all of your classroom basket donations to your child's teacher ASAP so we are able to have an idea of what still needs attention and are ready to assemble at the Final Fall Festival /Basket building meeting on 9/29 at 7:15pm. We will be sending out presale ticket order forms in your Wednesday folders next week as well as selling presale tickets in the front of the school on Friday September 26th and Monday and Tuesday the week of the festival from 1:30pm-3:00pm. Get you tickets ahead of time so you don't have to spend all of your time in line!! If you have ANY questions please feel to contact Amy Cramer with any Booth/basket questions or Mina Robertson with any other questions.
We also have Vendor tables available at the Fall Festival for a $50.00 fee OR a donated basket with a $50 value or product. Spread the word!!
Thank you again for everyone who is working hard to make this a successful event!! We couldn't do it without YOU!!

Box Top Time

Hi everyone! It's time to turn in your Box Tops. We need them to be turned in by October 1oth so that we have a little time to bundle them up and send them off. Here are a couple helpful tips:

-It saves me time and helps me count the box tops faster if they are somewhat trimmed.

-Only the "official coupon" that is bordered by a dashed line and states the 10 cent value counts. It will be found on the back or the bottom of participating products.

-You don't have to attach them to a collection sheet - you can just load them up in a ziplock bag and turn them in.

-You can visit boxtops4education.com for more information. You'll find a list of participating products, fun collection sheets to print, our school's collection total, coupons for participating products, and you'll learn about other ways to earn money for our school by shopping online.

We want to encourage all of our students to ask their neighbors, friends, and grandparents to clip and save their box tops for us also. Parents could also put out a collection box at work.

Box tops add up quickly. If we had 200 students each bring an extra 25 boxtops from family and friends our school would earn another $500.00!!! That's a lot of money for fieldtrips, class supplies, and needed items for our school!

Remember

Fall Festival is around the corner! We need to do our part and help out the best we can. Please remember to take the letters to local businesses for donations. These donations make a huge part of the festival. The more businesses we ask the more raffle prizes we will be able to offer. If we don't ask how do we know they will say no not today! Thanks,
Carrie Lange

PTA Meeting Rescheduled

The PTA Meeting that was scheduled for tonight 9/4 had to be rescheduled due to unforeseen circumstances. We have rescheduled it for next Thursday 9/11/08 at 6:00 in the staff lounge.
Come find out what we have planned on the calendar. We will be discussing the Fall Festival. We'd love to hear your input!!! Our next Fall Festival planning meeting will be Monday, September 15th at 7:00pm in the staff lounge. Feel free to post questions on this site or email us at the email addresses posted. Thank You!!

Mina Robertson
PTA President

Welcome to the Mather Heights PTA Blog!!!

There is a lot going on and we want you to know about it! In fact, we want your help! The Fall Festival is coming up and we need lots of volunteers. Soon, we will post the "class parent" volunteers for each class so you know who to contact for more information about your child's class assignments and to find out how you can help. We are looking forward to another great Fall Festival!