Reminder

The purposes of the PTA are:

• A powerful voice for all children,
• A relevant resource for families and communities, and
• A strong advocate for the education and well-being of every child.

We would like to remind you that our principal, Mrs Fletcher serves as the Administrative VP of our PTA board. Mrs Fletcher cares about each child at the school. She cares about their success both in and out of the classroom.

Please know that Mrs Fletcher's door is always open. If you have any issues or concerns with your child's experience at West Bountiful Elementary, please share them with Mrs Fletcher.

Let's all continue to work together to make West Bountiful Elementary, the best school it can be.

Way to go BEARCUBS you have collected just over 3,100 Cream of Weber milk caps for the school. This is spectacular. Keep up the good work and fill up our milk man.

Reflection Winners

Congratulations to the following winners for Reflections. The winners and all that participated will be recognized at an assembly on Monday, December 7th.
Thank you to all that entered.

Preschool- Grade 2

Drew Vanderstek -Beauty is Colorful (Visual Arts)
Luke Sowby-Wildlife (Visual Arts)
Kate Strong-Untitled (Photography)

Grades 3-5

Brianna Hall-Beauty is a Colorful Leaf (Photography)
Brooke Strong-Untitled (Literature)
Sydnee Gunnarson-Beauty Is (Literature)

Grade 6

Jennifer Magana- Bring Back the Beauty (Literature)
Ashley Venn- October Eve (Music/ Composition)
Marisa Folland- Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beholder (Photography)
Kennedy Smith- Beauty is the Earth (Photography)

Newsletter

We are excited to announce our first online newsletter.

There are links to the PTA newsletter on the school homepage.

Or use the link below.

http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/schools/wbountiful/ptanewsletter.html

Davis County Clipper

The Davis County Clipper is offering a fundraiser incentive for our PTA.

For every household that begins a NEW subscription to the Clipper (and marks West Bountiful Elementary as the school), the Clipper will donate $7 to our school. This $7 will continue each year the subscription is renewed.

For every household that RENEWS a current subscription to the Clipper (and marks West Bountiful Elementary as the school), the Clipper will donate $4 to our school. This $4 will continue each year the subscription is renewed.

In addition to the money given to our school, our school will be featured in the Clipper up to three times per school year (number of features depends on number of subscribers).

If you would like to sign up or renew please contact us at westbountifulelementary@gmail.com and we will send the form home with your child.

Thanks for your support.

BOOK FAIR A SUCCESS!

We wanted to thank everyone for helping to make this years Book Fair a smashing success. We were able to bring in $1775.42 in cash and Scholastic dollars (product) for our school.

Because of the success of this book fair, we have a February Book Fair (during SEP conferences) in the works.

We have set up a Labels for Education box by the office please be sure to save them and send them to school with your kids.



Also there is a new addition; a milk jug man waiting to be filled up with .05 cent milk caps. Please send them to school with your children with their class room marked on the back of the lid, this way we can keep track of who's class is collecting the most

Please Help Us

Until December 1st, Box Tops is offering our school 5 Box Tops for every member that signs up. This is a VERY EASY way for us to give back to our school. Five Box Tops per parent(s) is a lot of money. (Why not invite grandparents to help out too?)

Please take the time to visit the following link and follow the steps.

http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/bonus/Default.aspx

(You can go back in later to unsubscribe from any emails they may send you that you aren't interested in.)

THANK YOU for helping us. Raising money for our school helps us fund all the wonderful programs and traditions that our students and families love.

Great job on our fall fundraiser!

Thank you to all the students and parents who participated in our fall fundraiser. You did awesome! You earned over 5000 dollars for your school! The money will go towards all the excellent programs we have at West Bountiful Elementary and will help meet the needs of the teachers in their classrooms.

The top sellers were Shawn Stucki from Mrs. Earnshaw's class and Austin Stucki from Mr. Edward's class. Their orders totaled 432.25! Way to go guys! They will receive 50.00 in cash for being the top sellers.

The top sellers for each class are as follows:

Drew Vanderstek-Mecham

Kayla Christensen-Jeppson

Sam Webster-Chandler

Christina Williams-Smith (AM)

Ashley Hill-Kingston

Hannah Anderson-Dalrymple

Harrison Read-Woodward

Brielle Sessions-Davis

Sienna Pack-Godwin

KC Arbuckle-Boom

Brooklyn Rasmuson-Van De Graaff (AM)

Bailey Jenkins-Whitten

Mikayla Bangerter-Mills

Dallas Bangerter-Hunter

Jace Jensen-Stevens

Jeralyn Jensen-Mahmood

Erin Dalrymple-LeFevre

Jobi Einerson-Miller

Ivy Warren-Van De Graaff (PM)

Melanie Ellis-Bigler

Cassidy Smith-Patterson

Bryce Bird-Smith (PM)

They will receive their prize in class on Wednesday Nov. 4th.

We had two classroom winners this year. Mrs. Earnshaw's class sold 1411.25 in product and Mrs. Smiths (AM) class sold 1410.65 in product! Awesome job everyone! They will get the pizza or icecream parties!

We appreciate everyone who either sold product or donated money to our school. All students that sold or donated will receive a bear cub award and a small treat in class on Wednesday Nov. 4th. Thank you for your support of our great school!

Some students picked up their wrapping paper orders today November 3rd. Any remaining wrapping paper orders can be picked up in the gym before school on Wednesday, November 4th from 8:30-8:45 and after school from 3:25-4:00. The Lehi Roller Mills orders will be in next week and I will post which day to pick it up as soon as possible.

Good Job with Box Tops

Box Tops Totals for Fall Competition ending Oct 23!

Kindergarten

Smith AM- 520

Smith PM- 94

Van De Graaff AM- 335

Van De Graaff PM- 299

1st Grade

Chandler- 729

Godwin- 230

Mecham- 754

Jeppson- 934

2nd Grade

Davis- 965

Bigler- 496

Dalrymple- 212

3rd Grade

Hunter- 322

Whitten- 874

Stevens- 408

4th Grade

Miller- 212

Kingston- 250

Edwards- 49

Lefevre- 789

5th Grade

Mahmood- 273

Patterson- 434

Woodward- 388

6th Grade

Earnshaw- 303

Boom- 122

Mills- 148

GRAND TOTAL=10,140 Box Tops

That's $1,014.00 earned for our school in only 2 months!!

The Winter Competition Begins now and goes till Feb 23 so you have longer time to try and be the top class in your grade level. One class will win from every grade level so don't hold any back--turn ALL your box tops in NOW to help give your class a jump start on the next Box Tops Competition!!

Scholastic Book Fair

We are getting so excited for the upcoming Scholastic Book Fair being held during SEP this November 9-12. We would love for you to visit the new website.

If you find that you'll have time to volunteer to help us out, please fill out the form on the website.

http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/westbountifulelementary

This is not a buy one get one free. They will be full price, current release books.

A quick note: We are trying out a student preview this year. It will be held on November 9th during school. There will be NO MONEY that will be exchanged on that day. The fair will begin on November 10th-12th from 1:30-6:00.

Welcome!

We as your 2009-2010 PTA Board are trying something new... A School Blog.

In the PTA Parent survey sent home last Spring, we had many parents tell us they "didn't know" or "weren't informed" about particular events, activities, projects, etc. One parent said, "You can never tell us too many times." We would like this blog to fill that need...

Feel free to leave comments to let us know how and what we can do to serve you better. We invite you to set this page on your 'favorites setting' and visit us often.

Thank you.