PRESIDENT: MEGAN VERNAK VICE PRESIDENT: AMY WILCOX CO- TREASURERS: GRACE VERANO AND THIO JENKINS JFK PTO SECRETARY: MARIANNE LUBRANI September 23 Family Game Night 7 pm 29 No School October 12 Fun Night and PTO 10 No school Meeting 15 Fall Festival and Vendor Night 24 28 Red Ribbon Week November 10, 11 No School 17, 18, 21 22, 23 ½ Day 24, 25 No School 30 - Bookfair December 1, 2, 3 Bookfair 3 Breakfast with Frosty 16 - Family Game Night 23 30 No School January 2 No School 16 No School 20 - Spaghetti Dinner and Vendor Night February 9 PTO Meeting and Healthy Dance 17 20 No School March 2 Read Across America April 2 6 No School 27 Family Game Night May 7 10 NJASK 28 No School Please keep this newsletter as a summary of this school year. We will not be providing a calendar magnet this year. If the event requires registration or volunteers, please use the flyers that are in this newsletter. No papers will be sent home during the school year. We will be using the e-blast system. Here is to a fantastic school year! We look forward to your children enjoying the PTO events held throughout the year. If you are new to the school and would like to assist in any way, please contact me at jfkptoraritan@gmail.com 17 Fun Night and PTO Meeting 1 - Megan Vernak
Market Day Market Day will be held every month throughout the school year. Market Day can be ordered at any time throughout the school year by ordering on-line at www.marketday.com and connecting your order to John F. Kennedy School. Every month there are specials check the website for these specials. Orders can be shipped out-of-state or can be picked up at JFK on a monthly basis. Please look for the first pickup date! Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Box Tops 4 Education. Every person who signs up can make a huge impact. So, thank you for your efforts. Hope you saved Box Tops throughout the summer. Remember, they are on a multitude of items including paper towels, tissues, and plastic bags. Please keep your eye out for the Box Tops and clip and save them! Last year we received $799 from Box Tops 4 Education. This year our goal is nearly $1000. Currently, online, there are 85 people signed up to help JFK. Let s strive for 100 people this year. Last year, based on the amount of Box Tops we earned, we were ranked at #815 in NJ for earnings we dropped nearly 400 slots this year. Can we make it higher this year? Let s all do our part in helping. This is a simple way to raise money for JFK. If you shop on-line, consider using www.boxtops4education.com in order to access a variety of common stores and websites. Some stores included on this website are: -Crate & Barrel, Famous Footwear, Kohl s, Dell, Staples, and Best Buy, just to name a few. There are over 100 stores on-line, accessible through this website. -Barnes & Noble and Box Tops have teamed up to make it easy to earn cash for your school. Earn up to 6% of all qualified purchases by simply starting here and then shopping at America s #1 bookstore. Visit www.boxtops4education.com for more information. Won t you consider joining and helping JFK? Ask your friends and relatives to save them for you!!! 2
Enjoy the City This is one of JFK s biggest fundraiser. Please support the school. Enjoy the City is a coupon book for area restaurants, stores, and services. Enjoy the City will be sent home through your child s backpack. You will be required to either send in the payment for the coupon book or to return the book. The book must be returned in the original condition or else you will be asked to pay for the book. Thank you! Did you know that if you have a Target Charge Card or Debit Card, you could link the card to Target s Take Charge of Education program? If you link your card to JFK, we will receive a donation from Target based on the items you purchase. Some Target charge cards can be used anywhere. So, if you have one, please link it to JFK. Currently, we have 20 people linked to JFK. Let s strive to hit 25 this year! Class parents have been chosen. Class Parents will need to communicate with the parents via email. Please make sure your class parents have your email please provide it to them at Back to School Night. The Stop and Shop A+ Bonus Bucks program will begin again on October 7 and ends on March 29, 2012 that s over 5 months of food shopping. Have you re- registered your card with the program? Ask your family members to register also. If you registered your card last year, you have to reregister the card this year in order for JFK to benefit from your purchases. Our goal this year is to receive over $600 from this program. The best thing of all you don t have to do anything different just keep shopping at Stop and Shop with your registered bonus card. It is almost soup season! Save your Campbell s Soup Labels for Education and send them into school! http://www.stopandshop.com/our_stores/bonus_bucks/index.htm?linkid=sn 3
Vendor Night If you know of anyone who has a local home- based business, we will be having Vendor Night on October 15. Please have them contact the PTO at jfptoraritan@gmail.com Registration is due by October 1. There are limited spaces for vendors. Each vendor will be asked to pay a registration fee of $30 which will provide the vendor with a table and large variety of attendees at our Fall Festival. You will also be asked to donate one item somehow related to your business which will be used at our Family Game Night. [Type a quote from the document or Family Game Night the summary of an interesting point. Game Night a/k/a/ Bingo held throughout the year. It is a fun night for You Night can pis osition the text box the entire family! anywhere Gifts and Gift are provided the winners. Our first in tcards he document. Use tothe rd Game Night will be held September 23to.change Come out Text on Box Tools tab the and have fun!!!!! This is not a fundraiser, but rather a oway tophave good-ole -fashioned fun! formatting f the ull quote text box.] Our Fall Festival will be held on Saturday, October 15. We are in need of volunteers to work our various activities. Please email Do you drink Coca-Cola products? If you do drink bottles or cans, please save the Coke Rewards and send them in to the PTO jfkptoraritan@gmail.com if you can offer 30 mailbox. These rewards are valuable to the minutes, 1 hour, or 2 hours. PTO as they can be redeemed for school supplies that our children can use on a daily basis. JFK PTO NEWSLETTER - http://www.orgsites.com/nj/jfkpto/index.html 4
DIRECTORY & MEMBERSHIP Please take note Your name will not appear in the family listing if you are not a PTO member. Therefore, the $8 fee is to be a PTO member and to receive a printed version of the directory. If you require additional copies of the directory, please note that each additional copy is $3. Please complete the form in order to ensure that you are included in the Directory. The Membership form is required to be submitted to the PTO by September 23, 2011. Please send it to school via backpacks. Parent/Guardian s Name: Child/Children s Name(s): Address: Phone #: Email Address: # of Directories: Total $: By signing below, I am giving permission for the above information to be included in the JFK PTO Directory. Without payment, your name will not be included in the directory. Parent s Signature: Volunteer form I would like to assist with working at the following events: Fall/Winter Bookfair Spring/Summer Bookfair Fall Festival Breakfast with Frosty Spaghetti Dinner Name: Email: Phone: Child: 5
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