McNear PTA Newsletter
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HELLO FALCON FAMILIES!
What does your distance learning setup look like? Maija (5th grade, Ms. Turko's class) let me take this photo of her "corner office". She chose a Star Wars and Harry Potter combo theme.
Does your kid participate in distance learning at a desk? In a fort? In a pod? Send me your pictures and I'll try to feature a few of our Falcons hard at work
Susan Spaulding
McNear PTA President
ANNOUNCEMENTS
AMAZON SMILE
Did you know that McNear is an Amazon Smile charity? That means that if you add our school to your Amazon account, Amazon will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of everything you buy on Amazon, at no additional cost to you. It doesn't sound like much, but it adds up fast if we all sign up as a community, especially during this time when many of us are buying more items online.
It's so easy to sign up: just go to https://smile.amazon.com/ and select "McNear School PTA" as your charity.
MEMBERSHIP
PTA membership signup is off to a great start. Thank you! We had a great membership drive last year, and we are already ahead of last year's numbers now. Above is our current membership, compared to last year. Let's keep it rolling!
It costs just $15 to join, and remember that more than one parent in a household can join. And not just parents. Have you asked the grandparents yet? If you can't afford $15 right now, don't worry about it, your kids still get the benefit of all the great programs that the PTA supports. That's the great thing about PTA, it benefits everyone!
SOME PTA HOUSEKEEPING
Our PTA bylaws expire this year. I am attaching a link here to our current (old) bylaws, and our proposed amendments to them. We will vote to approve the new bylaws during our October 5th PTA meeting at 6:30.
UPCOMING DATES
(All meetings will occur through Zoom platform at 6:30)
PTA Meeting
Monday, September 14th at 7:00 PM
via Zoom
PTA Meeting
Monday, October 5th at 7:00 PM
via Zoom