2014-15 Editor: Pamela Rineer
Table of Contents 2 Walk-a-Thon Art Fair Picture Stay Connected Dine & Donate New PTA Email Yearbook Photos 3 Book Fair Photos 4 Donaldson Discovers 5 Battle of the Books 6 Dine & Donate Flyer Chick-Fil-A 7-8 Rewards Shopping 9 PTA Committee List
10 PTA Membership 11 How to Print Newsletter
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April 2015 Issue 8
From the PTA President Hoppy Spring!
Warmer weather has arrived at last! Lately, I've been thinking a lot about about change. The change in the seasons, change in our kids as they have grown this school year, change in the policies and practices of our school district under a new superintendent. Change can be very good! It makes me wonder - what change do we as a PTA need? On April 9, we will hold our last PTA General Meeting for the school year. We will elect some new officers, discuss budget items, and consider which programs should be continued. We will also hear from a special guest about the change in required volunteer clearances. If you would like to be part of the change, please join us that night! We are also looking for volunteers to help wrap up our remaining activities - the 5th grade picnic, Track and Field Day, Fun in the Sun Day, Scholastic BOGO Book Fair, the Walk-a-Thon and much more! If you are interested in helping, please contact me at kristigundy@gmail.com. Kristi Gunderson
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The 2015 Donaldson Walk-a-Thon will be on May 22nd on the Donaldson Campus. We’d like at least one parent volunteer per class, please email Pamela at p-rineer@hotmail.com if you’d like to volunteer! Thank you for coming to the Art Fair!
Stay Connected Watch your email for event dates and signup info. Stay connected through Facebook by liking our page at Facebook.com/ DonaldsonPTA. Get notifications through Remind: text the code @cf21b to phone number 724-565-8456 or download the Remind app and enter class code cf21b.
NEW PTA EMAIL PTA officers can now be reached at donaldsonptalistens@gmail. com The former address is no longer active.
Dine & Donate Success We had a great fundraiser at TGI Fridays totaling $86.41. Thank you for participating! We hope to see you at Chick-Fil-A on April 28th, 5:30-7:30!
Thank you to all of the parents and teachers that took pictures and submitted them to the yearbook. Without your help, the yearbook would not be possible. I appreciate your time!
Thank you! - Jessica Marshall
The Spring Scholastic Book Fair was very successful! We earned over $5,000 Scholastic Dollars!
Mrs. Shultz with the winning crazy hair!
Donaldson Discovers
BATTLE OF THE BOOKS
WINNERS
for the donaldson elementar y pta
April 28, 2015 • 5:30 – 7:30PM Come out and support your school during Spirit Night. Donaldson Elementary PTA will receive 20% of sales from the evening
Chick-fil-A Robinson (412) 490-0177 121 Costco Dr www.chick-fil-a.com/robinson www.facebook.com/chickfilarobinson © 2014 CFA Properties, Inc. Chick-fil-A Stylized® and the Chick-fil-A Cows® are registered trademarks of CFA Properties, Inc.
Grocery Shopping Supports Donaldson! Shop, Scan and Support Your School with Giant Eagle! For more than 25 years, Giant Eagle® has supported local schools through our Apples for the Students™ program. Through this partnership with our customers, Giant Eagle has donated over $31 million in educational equipment, including classroom technology, recreational and playground equipment, science materials, art supplies, music enrichment items, nutrition programming and more. This year, Giant Eagle will donate $1.1 million to area schools for purchases made with registered Giant Eagle Advantage Cards®. Shop and earn points October 1, 2014 through March 17, 2015. How the Program Works Make the most out of this one-of-a-kind educational award program! Simply register your Giant Eagle Advantage Card with Apples for the Students and use it each time you shop at Giant Eagle to earn points for your school. Earning points is simple! With every scan of your registered Giant Eagle Advantage Card at the cash register, points are automatically credited to your selected school. It’s Easy to Register! Sign in to gianteagle.com or create an account. Register your Giant Eagle Advantage Card® online.Visit the My School Programs page and enter the code 4071 for Donaldson Elementary. You’re done! Be sure to encourage your family and friends to register, too.
S.E.E.D. Program - Support Your School with SHOP’n SAVE! SHOP 'n SAVE has hosted the "Students Extra Educational Development (S.E.E.D.)" program for nearly 30 years, bringing assemblies from The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, Carnegie Science Center and Carnegie Museum to children of all ages. Use Your SHOP 'n SAVE Perks Card to Support a Local School Now instead of collecting receipts, you can link your Perks Card with the school of your choice to help to bring an assembly to students. After you link your Perks Card to your local school, just swipe your Perks Card anytime you shop at SHOP 'n SAVE and your purchases will be automatically added to your school's total. A total of $250 spent is required for each student attending the assembly. Go to http://shopnsavefood.com/Perks/PerksCard/PerksCardRegistration.aspx to register your card. Donaldson's ID is 226.
Earn Donaldson Rewards When Shopping! Did you know that by taking a few seconds of your time, Donaldson PTA can earn extra money? Above you read how switching your Giant Eagle and SHOP’n SAVE card can support our school, but other locations do it as well!
GFS, Target & Amazon Smile At GFS it’s as simple as mentioning that you’d like a portion of your sales to be donated to Donaldson Elementary while you are checking out. Easy! If you have a REDCard,
Target will donate up to 1% of your REDcard purchases to
Donaldson Elementary. Just follow this link: 1. http://www.target.com/redcard/benefits-target-rewards 2.Click on the ENROLL button below the paragraph “Take Charge of Education” 3.There are three options next: sign up, updating your school, and searching for your school. Donaldson is listed under Donaldson Elementary in Oakdale PA, 15071. School ID: 119980
How does it add up? The most recent Target donation to this school (August 2014): $201.87 Total of all Target donations to this school through August 2014: $1586.69 Amount accumulated toward the next Target donation:* $64.21 Number of REDcard holders who have designated this school: 16 I know we can get more then 16 REDcard users to designate Donaldson!
Amazon Smile will also donate a portion of your sales to the Donaldson PTA.
Simply
go to www.amazonsmile.com and sign in under your existing Amazon email and password. Under “Your Account” click on “Change Your Charity”. It will then prompt you to type in your organization, “Donaldson PTA”. Select Donaldson PTA, Oakdale PA by clicking the yellow “Select” button on the right. It will then thank you for selecting Donaldson and 0.5% of your purchase price will go directly to Donaldson PTA! Still confused on how to sign up? I’ll walk you through it! Send an email to Pamela at p-rineer@hotmail.com
Donaldson PTA Committee List 2014-2015 Executive Board President
Kristi Gunderson
724-695-0456
donaldsonptalistens@gmail.com donaldsonpta@hotmail.com kristigundy@gmail.com
Vice-President
Sherry Romano
724-695-8580
sromano6743@yahoo.com
Treasurer
Jen Wolfe
724-624-1813
jenwolfe10@comcast.net
Secretary
Dana Chandler
412-889-7791
ektchandler@yahoo.com
Committee Chairs Art Fair
Sue Wingert
Book Fair
Anne-Charrisa Halkias Kristi Gunderson Tracy Pustover * Sue Betta Leah Vestal Grade Lead Teachers Tracy Pustover * Patti Guira *
484-769-3672 724-695-0456 724-695-3170 724-695-5007 724-695-5201 ext 6163
ACagape@aol.com kristigundy@gmail.com tpustover@verizon.net susanbetta@gmail.com lvestal@westasd.org
724-695-3170 724-695-8348
tpustover@verizon.net patty@newageenviro.com
Kristi Gunderson Patti Guira * Lori Rankin Lori Rankin Beth McMullen Kim Morton Kristin Tisdale
724-695-0456 724-695-8348 412-417-3512 412-417-3512
kristigundy@gmail.com patty@newageenviro.com lori.rankin@fedex.com lori.rankin@fedex.com bethlincoln@hotmail.com Kmorton172@gmail.com closingpros@gmail.com
Sue Betta Sherry Romano Sue Betta Erin Clay Mindy Rose Lori Rankin Pamela Rineer Colleen Finkbeiner Lori Rankin Lori Rankin Melissa Gnoth Sherry Romano Melissa Gnoth Tracy Pustover *
724-695-5007 724-695-8580 724-695-5007
susanbetta@gmail.com sromano6743@yahoo.com susanbetta@gmail.com
724-695-9276 412-417-3512 717-203-1021 412-417-3512 412-417-3512 412-719-6969 724-695-8580 412-719-6969 724-695-3170
mjzrose@verizon.net lori.rankin@fedex.com p-rineer@hotmail.com butterfly5_79@yahoo.com lori.rankin@fedex.com lori.rankin@fedex.com Gnoth.Melissa@pti.edu sromano6743@yahoo.com Gnoth.Melissa@pti.edu tpustover@verizon.net
Walk a thon Webmaster
Sherry Romano Jessica Marshall Melissa Gnoth Pamela Rineer Leah Vestal
724-695-8580 724-695-2947 412-719-6969 717-203-1021 724-695-5201 ext 6163
sromano6743@yahoo.com jessicamarshall777@gmail.com Gnoth.Melissa@pti.edu p-rineer@hotmail.com lvestal@westasd.org
Welcome/New Family Liaison
Vicki Danzik
724-695-2315
vdanzik@gmail.com
Donaldson Discovers Fall Festival Field Trips Fifth Grade Picnic
thewingerts@comcast.net
Fundraising Mall Coupon Cards Sarris' Christmas Candy Sarris' Easter Candy Otis Spunkmeyer Cookies Grant Writer Health & Safety Junior Achievement Labels & Receipts Box Tops Shop N Save Seed Assembly Giant Eagle Apples for Students Campbells Labels Pie SaleDay Market Membership Newsletter Polar Pajama Party PTA directory Reflections Santa Shop Spirit Wear Variety Show
Teacher Appreciation
Yearbook
412-480-8009
Jessica Marshall 724-695-2947 Tiffany Mangan Note: * = 5th grade parent, will need new committee chair the following year.
jessicamarshall777@gmail.com tmangan@westasd.org
To achieve these goals, we need your voice. We need your ideas and we need your input. Wonʹt you please consider becoming involved in our PTA? Together, we CAN make a difference in our childrenʹs lives and potentially many future generations. We hope you will want to be an active part of Donaldson PTA this year. Donaldson PTA is an association of faculty, parents and our community supporting each other to improve the education of our children. The PTA is the largest, non-profit, volunteer, child-advocacy organization in the nation. There are two easy steps that you can take to help promote the welfare of our children. 1.
Volunteer for a commiWee or any of the many PTA sponsored activities.
2.
Give the PTA your suggestion, thoughts and ideas. Make your voice heard.
Thank you for your continued support. We look forward to working together. Please note that clearances are needed to volunteer for most PTA activities. However, if you have not moved and have your clearances on file at Donaldson, you do not need to redo them.
PTA Sponsored Events/Programs
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Here at Donaldson we provide many wonderful programs at school to help enhance the learning environment that our school district provides. Some examples are parties, field trips, birthday books, teacher appreciation, yearbooks, recreational equipment, cultural programs in the arts, school assemblies and so much more! We’ll keep you updated on what our National PTA is working to achieve. Weʹll keep trying to come up with ways to meet the needs of our children, our teachers, our school and our community.
PTA MEMBERSHIP $6.00/person
Thanks to your support, Donaldson ElementaryPTA finances, provides volunteers and organizes the following events for our children:
__________________________________________ Art Fair Assemblies Book Fair Donaldson Discovers Family Fun Night Field Trips Fifth Grade Picnic Fundraising Health & Safety Hospitality Labels & Receipts Market Day Membership NewsleWer
Polar Pajama Party PTA Directory Reading Program Reflections Talent Show Santa’s Workshop School Apparel Sales Teacher Appreciation Welcome CommiWee Yearbook For more information on any of the PTA’s commiGees or programs, please visit us on the web at www.westasd.org/webpages/dpta/
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__________________________________________ Father’s Name
__________________________________________ Address
__________________________________________ Zip
(_______)_________________________________ Phone
__________________________________________ Email
__________________________________________ Child’s Name/Teacher
__________________________________________ Child’s Name/Teacher
__________________________________________ Child’s Name/Teacher
*Please aGach an additional sheet of paper for any special circumstances.
# of Memberships at $6.00/Person __________ TOTAL ENCLOSED
$__________________
Make checks payable to Donaldson PTA ! I would like to be listed in the 2014-15 PTA Directory (Membership not required) ! I would like to sign up to receive emails from the PTA about upcoming events/news
www.westasd.org/webpa
Donaldson PTA Commi/ees I would like to volunteer for the following commi4ees:
20142014-15 PTA Officers Kristi Gunderson, President 724-695-0456
! Art Fair ! Assemblies ! Book Fair ! Donaldson Discovers ! Family Fun Night ! Field Trips ! Fifth Grade Picnic ! Fundraising ! Health & Safety
Donaldson Elementary PTA
kristigundy@gmail.com donaldsonpta@hotmail.com
20142014-2015 Membership
Sherry Romano, Vice President 724-695-8580 sromano6743@yahoo.com
Jen Wolfe, Treasurer
! Hospitality
724-624-1813
! Junior Achievement
jenwolfe10@comcast.net
! Labels & Receipts ! Market Day
Dana Chandler, Secretary
! Membership ! Newsle4er ! Polar Pajama Party ! PTA Directory ! Reading Program ! Reflections ! Talent Show
For questions about PTA Membership, contact:
! Santa’s Workshop
Lori Rankin
! Spirit Wear
412-417-3512
! Teacher Appreciation
lori.rankin@fedex.com
We Are Family Join Our PTA Family Today
! Welcome Commi4ee ! Yearbook
For more information on any of the PTA’s commiEees or programs, please visit us on the web at hEp://www.westasd.org/webpages/dpta/
www.westasd.org/webpages/ www.westasd.org/webpages/dpta/
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