Current Box Top Totals

Here are the Spring Box Tops Competition Totals:
Kindergarten-299
1st Grade-692
2nd Grade-165
3rd Grade-186
4th Grade-215
5th Grade-252
6th Grade-41

Way to go! Watch for an update right after Spring Break!

Class Pictures

Class Pictures will be March 30th. Look for more details to come!

New Spring Box Tops Competition

The spring competition for box tops collection has already begun! Work with all the students in you grade level to collect box tops. The grade level with the most box tops will win a pizza party! Competition ends May 14th. Check back periodically for your grade's numbers.

Winter Box Top Competition Results!

Each grade had a class winner for the Winter Box Tops competition. Here are the results, with the winners of each grade listed first

Kindergarten:
Smith AM- 410
Smith PM- 55
Vandegraff AM- 221
Vandegraff PM- 330

1st Grade
Mecham- 442
Chandler-223
Godwin-246
Jeppson-137

2nd Grade
Davis- 628
Bigler-276
Dalrymple-221

3rd Grade
Stevens- 1164
Hunter-134
Whitten-336

4th Grade
Kingston-369
Miller-125
Edwards-162
Lefevre-266

5th Grade
Patterson- 437
Mahmood-60
Woodward-237

6th Grade
Mills- 615
Boom -198
Earnshaw-247

Thanks for all the great collecting! Keep up the good work!

Dr. Suess Family Morning

Celebrate Dr. Seuss Day!

Come read with your family at school on
Tuesday, March 2nd, 8am-8:45am
Refreshments will be served in the gym.

PTA is wondering if you would like to help out make next year Extraordinary??

I am looking for people who would like to fill positions in the PTA next year. This is a great way to volunteer and help out the school. The positions below are still available, so please take a look at them and see if any of them could be filled by you or someone you know that may not be looking at our site.

PRESIDENT ELECT: Shadows the President; attends all board meetings; jumps in where and when needed; attends the Utah PTA convention and job training; selects a nominating committee to determine 2011-2012's board

TREASURE: Keeps the PTA's book balanced; issues the checks with appropriate documentation and signatures; attends all function where money has been collected ( afterwards needs to be present to count final total: like carnival, book fair, membership, T-shirts, etc.); follows up to make sure that the checks that are suppose to be coming in are; prepares books for final audit at the end of year

SECRETARY: Takes minutes at the meetings or if not going to be attending finds someone who will take them for you; reminds everyone of upcoming meeting, events, etc.; keeps a current directory

REFLECTIONS COMMISSIONER: Oversees the reflection contest; sets the deadlines for them to turn in completed projects; publicize the theme and encourages students to participate; sends home information with students of the official rules and deadline dates; arrange for judges to judge the projects; sets up an award and participation ceremony at the school; see if possible to have them displayed in school library or at city hall for all to see.

VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR: Reminds parents to sign in the office when volunteering so the school can get credit for the hours; makes sure the volunteer sheets in the office for parents to sign in are available; keeps track of volunteer hours and send them to council each month; Coordinates Room Parent Tea(who is the head room mom and reminds them two weeks before the Halloween party and Valentines Party); find out if teachers need help and fill that position if possible; have a volunteer list to be filled out at back to school night so we can get volunteers for things like Carnival, Red Ribbon week, book fair, etc.

SAFETY AND HEALTH COMMISSIONER: Meets with Safety committee to help plan evacuation drills; coordinates dates for eye exams, hearing test, and Maturation program, and gets the volunteers set up if need for these functions; helps with fire safety day, walk to school day , etc.

RED RIBBON WEEK: plan and carry out activities for Red Ribbon Weekwhich is in Oct; makes out flyer's to go home to encourage participation for this week; makes sure kids understand the importance of why we have Red Ribbon Week

6Th GRADE GRADUATION: most likely a parent who will have a sixth grader next year because they will be attending their son or daughters graduation; they need to help get it coordinated with the teachers and school; plan out refreshments;

FIELD DAY: this is the last week of school you get games and supplies; reserve some blow-up toys if budgeted; fill in volunteers for the times you need them; make sure all teachers have a time that works for them to attend the activities

AR VOLUNTEER: works on a committee with Mrs. Teel and some other teachers and parents to make sure the books in the library are marked correctly with the testing points and reading level; makes sure periodically that all grades are having testing grades coming in; comes up with an incentive program for kids to participate

TEACHERS BIRTHDAYS: be available once a month to pick up something for the teachers who's birthdays are that month lunch, nice gift, etc. Make sure that the teacher/student/staff birthday bulletin board is updated monthly with the birthdays

BOOK FAIR: in Nov and Feb during SEP conferences; coordinates with the book people to have the books delivered at appropriate time; set-up and take down book fair with a committee; make sure book fair is posted for all to know that it is going on; be available to set-up volunteers to fill in times to help out where needed; be available at the end to count money;

CARNIVAL: plan and prepare a carnival in Sept for students and parents to enjoy; be able to make any contacts needed; plan on setting up and taking down; make sure it is well publicized for all to attend and be aware of

NEWSLETTER: collects all news articles for the letter, ; makes sure everything is included that needs to be; types it and puts it onto the computer so it can be distributed to the blog and school web site; updates it monthly or bi-monthly whatever the PTA votes on

SCHOOL PICTURES: comes to school on the day of the pictures, (2 times a year once at the first and then the other around fe.-mar.); work with Bell Photography to bring up the individual classes to have their pictures taken; coordinate 3-4 volunteers

TEACHER APPRECIATION: coordinate a week long worth of activities the first week of May for the teachers and/or students; plan a luncheon on Tuesday for Teachers only for National Teacher Appreciation day and them another luncheon again on Friday for the whole teaching staff.

T-SHIRTS: design and find a distributor who will print the t-shirts; make flyer's and send home with kids; advertise t-shirts at different events (back-to-school night, carnival, etc.), fill orders and distribute them to students when they are available;

MOVIE NIGHT/SWIM NIGHT: work with Mrs. Teel to get a school approved movie and then set up a fun night with snack bar for families to purchase; set up swim/skate night with Rec center in Jan; advertise both of these events and make sure parents know when they are and what their options are

LITERACY NIGHT: help coordinate a fun night of reading with the reading teacher; see if PTA help is needed at where for this event; maybe have some fun reading activities going on for a week to promote reading

IF ANY OF THESE INTEREST YOU PLEASE CONTACT ME. MEGAN ELLIS THROUGH A NOTE TO SCHOOL, CALL ME AT 801-296-2370, OR EMAIL ME AT my3dragonflies@yahoo.com TELLING ME WHICH JOB YOU ARE INTERESTED IN YOUR NAME AND PHONE # SO I CAN CONTACT YOU BACK

The Book Fair is coming

Everyone at the school is getting excited for the spring bookfair from Scholastic. There will be several new selections along with some of the popular selections from the fall fair. Please visit the bookfair homepage for our school to check out the hours and some of the fun things happening.

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

Hope to see everyone there at the fair.