Blue Grass Elementary - PTA Overview

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Blue Grass Elementary School's Office is open everyday from 7:30 am until 3:15 pm.

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PTA

Welcome to the Blue Grass PTA Website! http://pta.bluegrasses.knoxschools.org

Safety Patrol/Car Rider Help!

Our Safety Patrol program has immediate openings for Parent Patrols! As Blue Grass parents we are needed to support our Safety Patrol students and fill 2 morning and 2 afternoon shifts on a daily basis. This only takes 30 minutes of your day!

Here is an ‘invitation’ to join us at www.volunteerspot.com. It is a very simple process! Go to www.volunteerspot.com and register as a volunteer. Please take a few minutes to see if you are able to volunteer—you have 4 shift options per day! This process makes it easy for you to choose a spot and sends automated confirmation and reminder messages - which most parents appreciate. The calendar is wide open and we need your help to make this work!

So, as a reminder, the schedule for the rest of the year is posted on www.volunteerspot.com. If you have already signed up on Volunteer Spot, you don't need to register again -- the site will remember you by your email address.

Your time is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions at all, please contact us.

Thanks so much for your time!

Kristin Massengill

Transportation Co-Chair
kristin.massengill@comcast.net

Michele Waak

Transportation Co-Chair

waaktwins@comcast.net

Thank You for your support!

PTA would like to offer a huge thanks to O'Charley's Downtown West for donating their restaurant, time, talents & pancakes to our school! On this rainy morning, nearly 300 Blue Grass families attended our first Pancake Breakfast! Everyone was greeted by our Principals & PTA volunteers & waited on by some cheerful & hard working Teachers! What a fabulous morning for our school community. Thank you to everyone for your support!

Getting Ready for Eagle Strut! Please see our flyer in the folders below!

Jason Jablonski Memorial Project Heart Cart(Feb. 6th-10th) (Peanut Butter Challenge)

January

Jan. 21st: O'Charley's Downtown West Pancake Breakfast (9-10:30am)

February

Feb. 6th-10th: Project Heart Cart (Peanut Butter Challenge)
Feb. 13th: Health Fair at 6pm in the school gym

March

Mar. 6th: Student Holiday
Mar. 13th-16th: Teacher Appreciation Week
Mar. 16th: Eagle Strut Pep Rally
Mar. 16th: Talent Show
Mar. 19th-23rd: Spring Break
Mar. 30th: Eagle Strut

Blue Grass Elementary PTA News

Volunteers

Eagle Strut
We are looking for parents to help us find business/corporate donations! Please contact Vaiden Taylor at vaidentaylor@gmail.com . Also check out our flyer in the folders below!

Health Fair
If anyone is interested in participating in the Health Fair, please have them contact Jennifer Orler at jjo9003@hotmail.com . Our Health Fair will be on Feb. 13th @ 6:00 pm.

Safety Patrol
We are needing Parent Volunteers to get in touch with Kristin Massengill (kristin.massengill@comcast.net)to volunteer for Safety Patrol duty for the 3rd 9 weeks. Thank you for your help!

Yearbook
The Yearbook committee need you! If you love to take pictures of your child and many others at school and on field trips, please share those pictures by downloading them to a safe and secure website that only BGES Yearbook Committee can access! 1. Simply click on http://dropbox.lumapix.com/?a529-a8c2-2806 , on the far right/top of screen click on "add images", browse through your hard drive, choose pic and add it!

PTA - Media
There is one board position open for this year and it is Media! This Chair would be responsible for creating short video clips to enhance our school's programs, such as Eagle Strut. If you are interested in the above or would like to help out with something else just contact Jennifer Orler at Jjo9003@hotmail.com .

PTA - Grants
We are searching for volunteers who would be interested in helping to write Grants for our school. Contact Jennifer Orler at Jjo9003@hotmail.com with any questions.

Clinic
If you are interested in volunteering for the clinic, just contact Maretta Magnetti at mag04@bellsouth.net !

Extra

Car Pool
Adults who pick up car riders can purchase additional car tags for $1.00 in the office!

Clinic
Don't forget the clinic! The clinic uses many supplies to minimize our illnesses. Just send in donations with your child marked for the clinic!

We have a need of these items!
1. Purell
2. Boy and Girl shorts & pants sizes 4-8
3. Boy Size 5/6 Underwear
4. 4 oz Dixie Cups
5. Individual Packets of Alcohol Swabs

Math Superstars

Don't forget to get print out your worksheets!

All worksheets & due date list are in the marked folder below (click here)!

The Math Superstar program runs from August until March, during this time it is never too late enroll! Just fill out the Math Superstar enrollment form found in the folder below and give it to your teacher. Kindergarten starts in January. Hope that everyone has a great year!

Help Blue Grass Earn Rewards

Target card holders can earn money for Blue Grass by registering your card with the Take Charge of Education program. Blue Grass Elementary receives 1% of purchases made with your Target card at the store and at Target.com! Enroll our school at www.target.com/tcoe

A great way to help our school is to link up your Food City Valucard to Blue Grass Elementary! Extra barcode sheets can be picked up in the front office or you can register your card here: http://www.foodcity.com/community/school-bucks.

Start gathering up all your labels for our contest! All of your labels bring money into Blue Grass and it gets used to purchase new equipment!

Office Depot will give our school 5% back on qualifying purchases! At the store just give them our school #70093048. For previous purchases go to http://www.school.com/back_to_schools.html

Donate points to your school, so Blue Grass can receive rewards such as art supplies and sports equipment! Just go to www.mycokerewards.com/schools to donate!

Tyson Project A+ gives back to the school 24 cents per label! Parents just need to clip the Project A+ label on either Tyson boxes or bags and send them in! We'll collect them in the PTA drawers outside of the front office. Please go to http://www.tyson.com/projectaplus for more information.

With the Campbell's soup label program you can sign up and link your Shopper Card (from Kroger, etc) and each participating product purchased earns 1-point that is credited to your school's Labels for Education account automatically. You can still clip and redeem the participating product UPCs to earn additional points for our school.

Newsletters, Math Superstars, & PTA Information

2011 - 12 Newsletters

2011-12 Math Superstars

Welcome to Math Superstars! Enrollment form and worksheets for you to print out are in this folder!

IMPORTANT! Don't forget your TEACHER'S NAME on all worksheets (or staple sheets together)!

All the sheets get put in together with all the different classes in the entire school and it is hard to figure out worksheets without a teacher's name.

Grades 1st-5th may start on the 25 worksheets at any time. The only due dates are the prize and end of the year medal due dates.

Kindergarteners will receive a letter in January, as they only complete 10 worksheets.