EES PTO Information Highway

Bingo Night Friday, November 6, 2009

We are looking forward to a great night for EES Families to have fun eating dinner and playing bingo and visiting. We have some great Bingo Callers coming that evening!! We have EHS Cheerleaders, Mr. Ben Snead (The Puppet Man) and Brad Means and Jennie Montgomery joining us that night!! Of course we will have great prizes too!!

We are looking for donations for prized.

 

Watch for more information!

The Tire Mulch is Here!!

Our rubber tire mulch arrived and we conquered that job like champions. All thanks to our awesome parents, Applebee's Neighborhood Gang, some Air Force Sergeants from Fort Gordon and a group of students from Evans High School.

Click here to see pictures!

Upcoming Events:

Santa's Secret Shop:

Friday, December 4, 2009 and Monday through Wednesday, December 7th - 9th.

Watch for shop hours!

Breakfast with Santa

We will have breakfast with Santa on Saturday, December 5th, 2009 at Applebee's.

More details to follow!

Car Magnets and Water Bottles for Sale

Car magnets are available for purchase through PTO for $5.00 each.

Water bottles are available for $4.00 each.

Just simply write a note requesting one, enclose your $4 or $5 and address to PTO.

Be sure to include your child's name and teacher.

Popcorn Friday

Popcorn Fridays are going strong. We invite any new volunteers who would like to meet some new friends and have some fun making popcorn on any Friday morning beginning at 8:30 AM.

Come and have some fun!

Dining for Dollars at Applebee's

We are proud to have Applebee's as one of our business partners. We are having our first Applebee's night on October 13th.

Applebee's will donate 10% of your total ticket back to Evans Elementary! Just tell your server that you are from EES and your ticket will be marked "Dining for Dollars."

Save your Capri Sun Pouches

Can you believe that we can earn money for EES by saving our Capri Sun pouches? You may start collecting them at home an send them in to school at your convenience.

We will be setting a collection container in the cafeteria for all those who bring Capri Suns for lunch!

We will also have a container in the front hall.

All pouches must be empty and flattened with NO straws. We earn .02 per pouch.

How great is that?

T-Shirt Update

We still have a few outstanding t-shirt orders. We are held to a minimum of 12 with our supplier. We would love to get some additional orders so that we can place this order with the company.

Please consider ordering one for yourself as a parent. It is always fun to wear your shirt on Friday's to show some school spirit!

There are forms available at www.ccboe.net/ees then click on PTO. The form links are found at the bottom of the page.

Box Tops for Education Contest

We are into the last half of our Box Tops contest and it is going great. We have collected over 4,000 Box Tops in the first two weeks, that is AMAZING!

The classroom with the most box tops turned in by October 15th will gt a free lunch from Applebee's served to them at school!

The standing as of September 30th, 2009:

• 1st Place Mrs. Majors - 602
• 2nd Place Mrs. Davis - 593
• 3rd Place Ms. Ayers - 568
• 4th Place Mrs. Wedereit - 447
• 5th Place Mrs. Kozlowski - 438

PTO Membership

Wow! We have 180 families who have joined the PTO this year! Each family should have received a free EES water bottle as their "Thank You" for joining the PTO. It's not too late to join us in making a difference at EES. Forms are available at www.ccboe.net/ees click on PTO then the membership form link on the bottom.

Kindergarten Classroom Books Delivered

We, EES PTO, have purchased the set of storybooks that accompanies our new SRA Reading Program. Kindergarten was the first to receive their books. We are working with the rest of the grade levels to get their lists of books to help them as well. These books were not part of the start-up collection from SRA.

The kindergarten teachers were so grateful to have received them!

The New Digital Piano

Mrs. Kitchen, our music teacher, has been playing her new digital piano that the PTO purchased for music and loves it! She has sent her thanks to the entire PTO.

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