Maricopa
Elementary
School
Diamondbacks PTO Survey
We
would like to get some feedback on this years PTO sponsored events. We
are encouraging our children’s parents to help us make MES better and provide
fun events for 2008/2009 school year.
Please look out for the form and fill it out or take our Online Survey
(same questions) by May 21st; the class with the
highest percentage of surveys completed will win an Ice Cream Party!!
Do
you feel you can be an asset to the board next year?
Please
attend the May 15th, 2008 Board Elections
at 7pm in the
Media
Center
. If you have any questions please give us a call.
President Brandy
Griffith 520-568-6676 Co-President
Leslie Maldonado 623-341-5007
Thank you for all of your help with our 1st Spring
Carnival
The
MES-PTO would like to thank all of the parent volunteers, The Key Club and the
High School students for volunteering their time to make our carnival a success!
We would also like to thank all of the families that donated items to the
baskets for the silent auction.
We hope that you all had a great time while you were at the carnival!
The carnival was such a success; we are already planning for next year. .
Spring Carnival (April 5th)
Attention Parents, Friends and Family members:Maricopa Elementary School will be hosting its first Spring Carnival on Saturday, April 5th. There will be flyers going home with students next week with all the details. The event is from 10am-2pm in the back field at the school. We need volunteers like you to help facilitate the event. We need assistance with setup, booth attendants and clean up to name a few things. Any time commitment you could make would be appreciated, 30 minutes to all day long, whatever you can contribute!
We are also in need of tables and chairs for folks to eat their refreshments, as well as heavy duty extension cords, coolers, and 10x10 pop up tents. If you have any of these items that you can lend to the school for the carnival, please let me know right away!
Please contact me as soon as possible so we can accommodate your time commitment and/or item to borrow.
On behalf of all the students, staff and PTO,
Thank you!
Gehrig Stone-Awong
Cell 480-703-2697
gehrigst@maricopapto.org
Please see the book fair webpage for further details. MES Spring Book Fair program!
Let your voice be heard!
Review proposed MUSD 2008-09 & 2009-10 School Year Calendars
MUSD is seeking parent and community input on the two options
proposed for the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 school calendars. Comments can be
registered by calling 520.568.5142 or by emailing
tbeckett@musd20.org.
The only difference is
Option 1
starts one week earlier than
Option 2, and it also has a fall break in October (one week).
Call or send your emails to Tom Beckett (link above) and place your vote - let
your voice be heard!
Valentine Candy Gram!
2nd Annual MES Student Council Valentine Candy Grams.Student council members will be selling these for 50 cents on Monday, February 11th through Wednesday, February 13th. In the cafeteria from 7-7:20a, and also during lunch. The grams will be delivered to classes on Thursday, February 14th. Send a happy message to your child from your family, and at the same time help support the student council.
MES
Families - You Are Number
One!!
As of December 21st, MES families had
registered purchases over $215,500 at Fry's
Marketplace, putting us NUMBER
ONE IN ARIZONA! This means that MES Diamondbacks PTO will
receive the maximum $2,000
donation from
Fry's VIP Cool Cash
program! Prescott High School, leading for
most of the school year, is listed in 2nd place.
Thanks to all the participating MES families and friends
who registered!
As of December 16th, 83 MES
participants have raised $322.80 through
Bashas'
Thanks A Million program, which will pay out 1% of
our registered purchases through March 31st, up to
$2,500!!! If you haven't signed up for
this program in person, please do so the next time you
visit a Bashas' shopping center. Ask any cashier
to link your Thanks a Million card to ID# 28234,
benefiting the MES Diamondbacks PTO. In October,
Bashas gave MES a special $100 incentive bonus in
recognition of our innovative and unique promotions for
this program.
Keep up the great work,
Diamondbacks!!! Check out our
FUNdraising page for more
easy ways to benefit MES and the Parent Teacher
Organization.
Introducing...Slither!
The Diamondback's Mascot
now has a name: Slither! Thanks to all students,
parents, teachers and staff who participated in the
"Name the Diamondback" contest in November. The winning entry was
submitted by two classes - Mrs. Rakoci (4th Grade) and
Ms. Zimmer (5th Grade) - and was chosen from a great big
pile of 29 Super Suggestions! Students in the winning classrooms
received a certificate good for an ice cream cone at
Baskin Robbins.
Everyone can be proud of Slither!
Adopt-A-Classroom invites the
community into the classroom in support of teachers
and their students. By adopting a classroom, donors
form partnerships with specific classrooms providing
financial and moral support. The result is a
meaningful contribution to education in which donors
experience the impact of their efforts and celebrate
in a classroom's success.
Find out
more...
Family and Friends Can Make a
Big Impact on Maricopa Elementary and receive AZ State
Tax Credit!
The Arizona Department of
Revenue offers an excellent way to help your school(s)
by designating a portion of you Arizona state
withholding tax directly to the school. An individual
may claim a tax credit for making contributions to
public schools for extra curricular activities...
read more
“Free Money” for MES
Thanks to those of you who
stopped by our PTO table during the Parent-Teacher
conferences. By linking your Fry’s and Bashas' cards to
the school a portion of your routine purchases will be
going to support Maricopa Elementary! On your next
visit, ask a cashier to link your card to the MES...
read more
Volunteers Needed
Feel free to just show up at the school and ask what
you can do. If you have not yet attended the mandatory
volunteer orientation, there’s still an array of things
that can be done up at the front for the staff and
teacher’s. Don’t be shy!
- Come to the PTO meeting and be entered into our
monthly drawing!
- Help pop popcorn on Thursdays & Fridays for
“Popcorn Friday.” Without parent volunteers “Popcorn
Fridays” may cease to exist!
- Please contact a PTO member if you need
suggestions on what you can do to help!
- Committee Leadership: Parents are needed to lead
& participate in making MES the best school possible
for our kids!
Go MES Diamondbacks!!!
Brandy Griffith
PTO President
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