Our "cubs" steal the show!
Our "cubs" steal the show!
Visit the National PTA Visit the State PTA
President: Susan
Devine
knack4hire@ao
1st VP (program):
Jodi Ethridge
jodiethridge@yahoo.com
2nd VP (fundraising): Sandy Powell
donnypowell@sbcglobal.net
3rd VP (communications):
Principal: Kathleen
Honsal
honsalk@eurekacityschools.org
Secretary: Stacy Moseby Stace1_m@sbcglobal.net
Auditor:
Parliamentarian:
Treasurer: Eric Schunneman
Reflections:
Membership: Traci
Day traci.day.ituy@StateFarm.com
Box Tops:
Bike Rodeo/Rhody Parade:
Lion Mascot: Gary Stillman
PTA Membership is only $5.00
and your money does so much
for our school. It helps fund classroom field
trips, Musical Theatre Club,
Running Club, Golf Club, Jump Rope Club, Science
Night
and all the other PTA supported events.Thank you!
PTA hosts several events throughout the school year, including important fundraisers that are used to provide support school-wide projects or in classrooms. Some ways the PTA helps to make THIS school strong include:
Hosting the School-Wide Carnival
Sponsoring the Musical Theater Club
Sponsoring 5th Grade Promotion
Sponsoring the Reflections Arts Program
Funding Classroom Field Trips
Hosting an annual Ice Cream Social
Founder's Day Celebration
Supporting the Running Club
Promoting Red Ribbon Drug Education Week
Contributing supplies for teachers and the library
Publishing the Lion's Roar School Newspaper
Family Game Night
Rhody Parade Participation
Jump Rope Club
And MANY, MORE fun and exciting things!
PENCILS
– There is a pencil machine in the cafeteria.
The pencils are 25˘ each and come in a variety of designs.
We now have a Recycle Account set up at Eureka Community Recycling Center on Hawthorne Street and also at the Arcata Community Recycling Center! They are sister companies. The account number is 381. Anyone can drop off recyclables that have CRV value and either ask them to deposit the money in account 381, or Lafayette Elementary School PTA. They will mail us a check quarterly. So pass the word around to neighbors, friends, and relatives that often recycle but don't worry about the money.
RECYCLE your old cell phones and ink cartridges by donating them to the PTA. A collection box is in the LIBRARY and also in the OFFICE. Thank you!
Please save your "Box Tops for Education" coupons. They are on most General Mills products. Lafayette uses them to receive money for playground equipment. Before turning them in, please trim them down to just the coupon only. They can be turned in to your child's classroom or the office anytime!
BECOME A PTA MEMBER .. it's not too late to join and help achieve our goal of 200 members! Anyone can join for $5.00. No commitment required. Extra envelopes are in the office. Becoming a member of PTA helps support your child.
PTA is a national organization dedicated to the welfare of children, at home, at school, and in the community. It strives to develop a closer relationship between parents and the school community. Research shows that students and schools succeed with parent involvement. Watch for your membership registration information to come home with your student, invite your entire family to participate (grandparents, aunts, uncles), and return it quickly to show your support of Lafayette School.
Information regarding REFLECTIONS ENTRIES:
Reflections 2007/2008 ..... "I can make a difference by...." |
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1. Theme 2. Student eligibility through local
PTA A student may develop an entry in or
outside of school. 3. Grade divisions
If students do not fall under specific
grade divisions, National PTA suggests that they be grouped as follows:
It is the responsibility of the local
PTA/PTSA to determine the appropriate division if necessary. 4. Arts areas
National
PTA does not limit the number of entries a student may submit. |
5.
Children with disabilities 6. Deadlines 7. Judging The Reflections Program makes no
restriction on content or subject in artwork. Students who are submitting
entries need to meet school and/or local and state PTA standards. Judges
review entries based upon creativity, artistic merit, and interpretation
of the theme. Each PTA determines its own judges for
the program. Under no conditions may parents or students contact the
judges to dispute the status of an entry. All decisions of judges are
final. 8.
Award recipient notification 9. Further information You
can contact Susan Devine for more information: 445 - 0715 or knack4hire@aol.com
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What is FOUNDER'S DAY?
Founders Day is a perfect time to renew the dedication to the Purposes of the PTA that were defined by PTA’s Founders more than a century ago. Each year in February, PTA honors the three founders as well as past and present PTA leaders. Through special programs and events, PTA also attempts to increase the awareness of its members and the community by highlighting achievements, activities, projects and goals.
The Founders Day celebration was created in 1910 by Mrs. David O. Mears, a charter member of the National Congress of Mothers founded by Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst in Washington, DC, February 17, 1897. The Founders Day observance has continued through the change of organization names in 1925 to the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, and the uniting in 1970 with the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers, founded in 1926 by Selena Sloan Butler, to become the National PTA (A Brief History: Working Together for Children Since 1987, 1.1.6, 4).
Issues concerning immigrants, homeless children and families, the unemployed and the uneducated, and numerous health and safety concerns still need attention. However, through PTA advocacy to enact and enforce laws, children’s health is better protected and children are better fed, housed and educated, with parents more involved in their upbringing. The vision of PTA’s founders has been realized in many ways, and now it is up to present PTA members to continue the vision.
THE FOUNDERS DAY FREEWILL OFFERING - "PTA BIRTHDAY GIFT"
Donations collected during Founders Day observances benefit the entire
organization: unit, council, district PTAs, State and National PTA.
California State PTA returns one-fourth of its offering to the district PTA and retains one fourth for its work throughout the state. Half of the offering is sent to National PTA (Unit Remittance Form 5.1.7f, 219; Forms 421).
PTA's HONORARY SERVICE AWARDS
While paying tribute to the three Founders and all who worked with them, it is also an appropriate time to show appreciation to those in your own PTA and community who have been dedicated advocates for children.
The Honorary Service Award, Continuing Service Award, Golden Oak Service Award and Very Special Person Award are bestowed on very special people to honor them for their outstanding efforts on behalf of children. Donations may also be made. (Note: Awards may be presented throughout the year.)
Object of the PTA
To promote the welfare of children and youth in home, school, community, and place of worship.
To raise the standards of home life.
To secure adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth.
To bring into close relation the home and the school, that parents and teachers may cooperate intelligently in the education of children and youth.
To develop between educators and the general public such united efforts as will secure for all children and youth the highest advantages in physical, mental, social, and spiritual education.
Mission Statement of the California State PTA
The mission of the California State PTA is to represent our members and to empower and support them with skills in advocacy, leadership, and communication to positively impact the lives of children.
(adopted by the California State PTA Board of Managers, March 1999)
