Fundraising

Annual Cookie Dough Fundraiser

It’s Cookie Time!

Today kicks off our annual Cookie Dough fundraiser.  Look for the flyer here and an order form in your child’s backpack today.  The highlights:

·         Sales will begin Tuesday, October 11th
·         Our goal this year is to sell 1300 items (about 3 items/child) – a pizza party will be awarded to the top 3 classes with the most sales!
·         Return order forms and money by Friday, November 4th
·         Cookie dough (popcorn and lava cakes too!) must be picked up on Monday, December 5th, between 3PM and 6PM
·         Email Jen Andersson at jlandersson@att.net if you have any questions

Book Fair is coming!

Calling all Irving Readers!

Book fair is here and Reading is Out of This World!  Now we need your help to make it even better than last year!  Below is the schedule of when we need volunteers.  We sold approximately 1200 books last year and we are shooting to sell over 1300…every hour you can help will get us closer to our goal!  Let me know when you can help…feel free to work more than one shift if you can. Please arrive 30-15 mins. ahead of time so you can get settled.  I will email you the day ahead so you are reminded of your shifts.

Email me back ASAP…we need 1 person during school hours and 3-4 people after school to make this happen!  We will even have 2 checkout lanes again!  Yeah!

Talley Hann, talleyhann@gmail.com

Monday, October 17
3:00 – 5pm
5 – 6:30 pm

Tuesday, October 18
1:00 – 3:00 pm
3:00 –  5:00 pm
5:00 – 6:30 pm

Wednesday, October 19
9:00 – 11:00 am
1:00 – 2:00 pm
2:00 – 4:15 pm
4:15 – 6:30 pm

Thursday, October 20
11:00 a – 1:00 pm
1:00 – 3:15 pm
3:15 – 6:30 pm

Friday, October 21
11:00 a – 12:00 p

*Breakdown from 12:00 – 1:30ish (if people can stay)

BOX TOPS FOR EAGLES!

Welcome to the 2011-12 Box Tops For Education fundraising year!

It’s not too late to participate in the summer collection. At the end of last year, your child should have come home with a baggie with the following instructions:

Help your child collect as many Box Tops as possible over summer break. Every child who turns in a bag to the front office during the first week of school will win a prize and all Box Tops collected over the summer will be entered into a drawing for a chance to win movie passes!
Look for the official coupon on any Box Tops for Education product, cut it out (along the dotted line please) , write your child’s first and last name and teachers name on the back, and place it in the ziploc bag. Return the bag to the front office anytime after August 24th.
Be sure to register on-line at http://www.boxtops4education.com to see a full list of products, find out promotions and sales and enter contests

*If you are a new parent, you can pick-up a baggie from the front office or use any snack/sandwich size baggie from home!

The drawing will be held on Friday September, 2nd at 8am. The winner will be announced during morning announcements.

After Friday, 9-2, we will be going back to our original BTFE monthly drawing (see below for details)
first drawing for school spirit store certificates will be held on Friday September 30th

Box Tops must be turned in to the front office by the end of the school day on the last Thursday of each month
Box Tops winners will be drawn in the morning of the last Friday of the month and will be announced with morning announcements

Here’s how it works!

1) Buy Box Tops Products
2) Cut out the Box Top coupon from each package
3) Write your child’s first and last name and teachers name on the back of each Box Top
4) Send them to school with your child or drop them off at the front office
5) For each Box Top turned in, your child will be entered in a monthly drawing to win one of four $1 certificates to the Irving School Spirit Store!
6) Our school earns 10 cents for every coupon collected

To see a full list of Box Top products register at http://www.boxtops4education.com!

Not sure about that one either?
1) Go to http://www.boxtops4education.com
2) On the home page in the top left corner click JOIN BOX TOPS (pink letters)
3) Answer 8 simple questions to register
*Our school is listed as Irving Elementary Oak Park
4) SHOP and CLIP!

We will be holding more exciting new promotions this year…stay tuned!

Thank-you to everyone for collecting Box Tops and supporting Irving!
Michele Greco-Blonski, Box Top coordinator grecodrama@sbcglobal.net

Shop Online for Irving

Don’t forget to support the Irving PTO whenever you shop online! Take a look at the Donate page for more information.

The PTO will receive a percentage of your shopping total whenever you purchase from Amazon or any of 100+ online retailers. Just be sure to start shopping with the links on the PTO website first, and some sites ask you to sign up in advance. Details are on the Donate page.

Please share this information with friends and family so they can help support the Irving community from wherever they live! Thanks for your support!