PTA News
PTA Parent Notes Week of December 3, 2018
Nominations for PTA Board
Are you looking for a great way to help provide fun activities and educational resources for WES students, teachers and staff, and to meet new people?...
Consider being on the PTA BOARD!!
For more information and nominations please contact Jennifer Fiore at Jenfiore@msn.com.
We’d love to see you next school year on the PTA Board at WES!!
Holiday Shop
We are having a Holiday Shop on December 10 until December 14!! The Holiday Shop is a chance for your students to shop for presents for their family and friends. It will be during the school day from 9am to 1pm on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The Holiday Shop will be open on Tuesday from 10:30 am until 2:30pm. The flyers will be coming home by next week. Please fill out the shopping list and sign it, to give your student permission to shop. Then send the list and money on the day that their class is assigned to shop. Their class assigned shop day and time will be written on the flyer. They will only be allowed to shop once, unless the student forgets their list and money on their assigned day.
If anyone is willing to volunteer and help out that week, please fill out the volunteer slip on the flyer and send it into school! We also have a sign up genius link for volunteers to sign up on. The link for volunteer sign up is below:
www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0e4eadaa2ba2f58-holiday
Amerigas
We are collecting Amerigas receipts for their School Days Program. We receive $0.02 per gallon!! This year we are having a contest per semester. The class with the most gallons sold at the end of the semester will get a ice cream party!!! The First Semester Amerigas Contest ends on December 14, 2018!!
Amazon Smile
Don't forget to use Amazon Smile when you are ordering gifts for the holidays!! All you have to do is join Amazon Smile and chose Wilderness Elementary School PTA. Every time you use the site and shop, Wilderness Elementary School PTA get 0.5% of the purchase price of the items that you buy. Thank you for your support and happy shopping!!!
Box Tops
The Second Quarter Box Tops Contest ends on December 17, 2018!! Our goal this year for Box Tops is to raise $1,800!! So far we have raised $898!! So keep clipping and send those Box Tops into the school!!!
Spirit Night
Our next Spirit Night will be on December 11, 2018 at Malawi’s Pizza at Spotsylvania Towne Center. It will start at 5pm until 9pm!! Please show your paper or digital flyer to the cashier when you order, that way we get credit toward the proceeds!!
Hospitality
Thank you all for your help and donations for Conference night, we were able to provide a nice dinner for our teachers
Membership
Thank you to those of you who have already joined our PTA! We have over 240 members! If you have not joined yet, please consider it as it is a very easy way you can help our school. Joining does not obligate you to volunteer in anyway; however, we do love our volunteers and there are many different areas in which you can help. An annual membership is $6 for an individual or $10 for 2 adults and either cover as many children as you have at Wilderness.
This year, the PTA is not mailing out membership cards. After joining, you can go to www.pta.org and log in using the email address you provided when signing up. Online, you can print membership cards and see the many benefits to joining. If you do not have online access, please let us know and we will provide a card.
When classrooms have approximately 50% of student families who have joined the PTA, the entire class earns a Popcorn Party! We have a number of classes that are very close to this goal.
Spirit Wear
Hoodies and Long Sleeves will be in before winter break and will be sent home with your child. The PTA will have a very limited inventory if you are still interested and/or missed the deadline.