Register your kindergartner Here!!

Here is some great information to check out for incoming kindergartners!

Please visit our Kindergarten Orientation Google Site to learn more about our Kindergarten program and prepare for Kindergarten Orientation.

The district's current outstanding fee balances on active students is $934,826.84. If we add in outstanding fees for inactive students, the district's total is $1,012,031.89. Deerfield's outstanding balance for active and inactive students is $20,270.19 and $65.00 respectively.

Fees assessed to a student dated prior to May 1, 2023 will be sent to collections on June 15, 2023. March statements included a sticker with this deadline to make families aware of this date.

Districtwide, we have 1,354 students who qualify for free or reduced-priced lunches whose families have not submitted a Consent for Disclosure form. The Consent form is not required, but if it is completed and on file in the business office this allows certain fees to be waived.

President-Angela Wilson

Vice President-Melissa Pam

Treasurer-Christina Terfler

Secretary-Brooke Hesler Ramsey

Come to a PTO Meeting or Follow us on Facebook

TUESDAY, March 21, 2023, 7 p.m. in the music room. You can also join via our Webex link below.

awilson@usd497.webex.com

Come learn about the ways PTO supports students and staff, find out how you can help, and VOTE on issues that matter to you, including how PTO spends its budget.

Want to stay in the know?

Follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/deerfieldPTOlawrence

We also share all of our events and announcements in the Deerfield Parents & Guardians Facebook group. Join the group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1559532244201069 and invite all your Deerfield Facebook friends!

Remind (sends text reminders)

Text 81010 with the message @dfpto

Calling all Carnival Volunteers!

The Deerfield Carnival is back! It is scheduled for Saturday, April 29. If you are interested in planning and/or volunteering, please email ksdeerfieldpto@gmail.com

Parent/Teacher Conference Meal Sign-Up

Deerfield Parent/Teacher Conferences are March 8 and 9. Deerfield PTO is asking for donations to provide teachers with a catered meal and some sweet treats. Sign up here to donate!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F054DACAF23A6F49-2023

Help us Sell Some (Cookie) Dough to Raise Some Dough!

This Spring, Deerfield PTO is bringing back the Eileen's Colossal Cookie fundraiser! We are selling dough from Eileen's Colossal Cookies. Order forms will be sent home with students before Spring Break. Orders are due Tuesday, March 21. Please turn in order forms and payment to the Deerfield office. Payment due with order, cash or check only. Checks should be made out to Deerfield PTO. Dough pickup will be in April at Deerfield. Details on date and time for pickup will be provided at a later date. All cookie dough boxes are $17 each (each box makes 2-3 dozen cookies). To learn more about flavors, ingredients, and nutrition information visit: https://www.eileenscookies.com/products/flavors-nutrition-facts/

PTO Volunteer Opportunities

Deerfield PTO needs you! We have several committees who need chairpersons for the 2023-2024 school year. We'd love to secure some of those now so that the new chair can shadow the current chair. If you are interested, please email:

ksdeerfieldpto@gmail.com

We are only as strong as our volunteers and we'd love to be able to continue to support our students, staff and families as much as we do now!

Committee chairs are needed for:

Marathon Club

Deerfield Family Outreach

Book Fair

Fundraising Chair and Co-chair

Penny War Co-chair

Kindergarten Orientation

Penny Wars to Take Place April 3-7

Start collecting coins to support your student’s classroom April 3-7 in a Battle to Fight Hunger! Pennies (and paper bills) earn “positive points” for the classroom, while silver coins can be donated to competing classrooms as “negative points”. No worries, all money raised will be a huge PLUS for Just Food — each $1 donated helps them provide 2 meals in our community.

Students can win daily mini-prizes if their classroom is in the lead, and the classroom to collect the most positive penny points over the whole week wins a Topper’s Pizza Party!

2/28-3/3: Joy Harjo

3/7-3/9: Jazz Jennings

3/21-3/25: Grace Vanderwaal

All parents/guardians must come into the school to sign out their child if checking them out during school hours. This was our policy prior to Covid and we are now following this procedure again.

A-D: @deera-d

E-K: @deere-k

L-Q: @deerl-q

R-Z: @deerr-z

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