From: NeenaArora@aol.com
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 7:03 PM
To: merriam-parents@merriampto.org
Subject: MERRIAM SCHOOL PTO N2K -- HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Merriam PTO N2K ( Need to Know)

From the PTO Board: Neena Arora, Kristina Rychlik, Dianna McNeish and Eleni Digenis-Bury

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

 

Summary

Calendar Of Events

Camp Fair 1/26 – Save the Date and Help, Bake or Donate

Cashless Fundraising Update

Message From AB PIP

 

1/11 Theme Day

1/16   Monday  -- No School

1/23 Kindergarten Change Over

1/25 Wednesday – Donuts with Dad/Muffins with Mom ( 7:45 AM), PTO meeting (8:30 AM) with Camp Fair prep (9:00 AM)

1/26   Thursday – Camp Fair

2/10 to 2/17 Scholastic Book Fair

3/17  Saturday – Save the Date For Merriam School Auction

 

Save the Date   ~   Help, Bake or Donate

Mark your calendar for Thurs 1/26  ~  the Camp Fair Date

Please help on the 26th, bake or donate!

 

Camp Fair, Merriam’s 2nd largest fundraiser, raises huge funds for Classroom Assistants.

It’s the only fundraiser that earns money from businesses, not Merriam families.

 

It’s FAST and easier than ever to view ways to help and to sign up!  

No more emails back and forth!  Go to our new Camp Fair web site:  http://merriamcampfair.camp7.org/ and click on the Event Volunteer option:

After collecting your email address, our web site will display the different types of help needed at specified times on Jan 26 (Fair date), and the morn of Jan 25. You’ll sign up with a click!

 

  •  If you can’t help, please consider attending the Fair.  High Fair attendance keeps Camps returning year after year.  You’ll find great summer camps for your kids!

 

To share ideas or ask questions:  merriamcampfair@aol.com  Thank you!

     Thank you to all who have been diligently sending in your Box Tops for Education labels and Donelan’s cash register receipts! We are well on our way to having an excellent fundraising total for this school year. Remember that these small efforts on your part translate into valuable, FREE educational equipment and supplies for Merriam. So keep up the good work!

     Just as a reminder, there are two boxes in the school office to collect the Box Tops and receipts. You can send them in at any time during the school year. Please note that only Donelan’s receipts dated September 1, 2011, to March 31, 2012, will be eligible for this program.

     As in previous years, your participation in the Donelan’s program entitles you to enter a sweepstakes to win $500 in free groceries (for Mom and Dad) and an iPod Shuffle (for students)! It’s Donelan’s way of saying thank you for helping it enhance the education of its customers’ children.

     All you have to do is fill out the entry form that will come home in your child's Friday school paperwork packet send it back to school with your receipts by January 15, 2012. You’ll find the contest rules at http://www.shoppercredit.com/shoppercontest. If you have any questions, contact Sandy Cummings at sbcummings1@verizon.net.

The Acton Boxborough Parent Involvement Project will be hosting the annual Family Math Game night at the Sargent Memorial Library in Boxborough on Thursday January 19, from 5pm to 8pm. AB PIP STEM hosts a range of education enrichment events in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). Family Math Game Night features Domino Math Games, KenKen and Sudoku. Village Art will also be there with a craft activity connecting math and art. New this year is Legos! Come build from our plentiful supply of Legos. MIT-Lincoln Labs will be presenting a robotics demonstration.

 

If you are interested in helping with this event, email actonpip@gmail.org. For more information about AB PIP STEM visit actonpip.org.