PTA Newsletter October 27, 2013

 

In this issue: Harvest Festival planning meeting 10/29/13, 8:00am, room F103 Kula PTA welcomes new secretary  Is Kihei Charter School really more active than Kula School? Help Kula School Win the Fire Up Your Feet Challenge!  Plan now for Nov. 23rd Harvest Festival, 8am - 3pm  Harvest Festival Silent Auction Update Please donate these items to the Harvest Festival: Participate in the Harvest Festival Country Store Baked Goods Competition Volunteer to work during the Harvest Festival Win $100 & other cash prizes --Kula PTA Store Amazon Fundraiser Contest   Volunteers are needed to help with morning and lunchtime recess Mahalo Nui Loa to... Upcoming calendar items...

Harvest Festival planning meeting 10/29/13, 8:00am, room F103 Details about the event are being added daily to http://www.kulapta.org/harvest-festival.html. If you cannot attend the planning meetings, contact event coordinator Tori Olaitiman or the chairperson of the committee you are interested in. Committee chairs, donations needed and other information is posted on the Harvest Fest page of the PTA web site. Back to top.

Kula PTA welcomes new secretary  At the October PTA meeting, Tammy Ramos was voted in as the new PTA secretary. Outgoing secretary Karen Worthington is now co-chair of the membership committee with Lisa Racoma. Back to top.

Is Kihei Charter School really more active than Kula School? Help Kula School Win the Fire Up Your Feet Challenge!  Kula School is participating in the Hawaii Fire Up Your Feet Challenge. Kula PTA has an opportunity to win an overall prize of $1000 plus weekly incentive prizes if we keep our participation levels high.   Prize money is based on how many participants log activities every week through November 5, 2013. Every participant needs to log activity at least once per week through November 5, 2013.   If you haven't signed up, go to http://hi.fireupyourfeet.org/ and sign up now. Kula School won $100 in the Week 2 challenge by signing up 63 participants. Kihei Charter School won the Week 3 challenge by signing up 134 participants. As of today, Kula School has only 83 participants. Teachers, staff, parents and guardians can sign up--spread the word! We can win this! If you have any questions, please contact Mary Nees at 283-6338. Back to top.

Plan now for Nov. 23rd Harvest Festival, 8am - 3pm  With 27 days to go, lots of help is needed! Opportunities are described below. Back to top.

Harvest Festival Silent Auction Update Thank you to all who have donated to the Harvest Festival Silent Auction! Please visit  our auction donations page to see who has donated and thank those businesses. We need parents to: Contribute to your child's class basket that will be sold in the auction. If you haven't received a flyer about it, check with your room parent. Ask businesses, artists, crafters and others with special talents to donate items or services to the silent auction. The auction donation form is online. Contact Ku’ulei at 269-2440 or Desilee at 357-8960 for questions about the silent auction.

Please donate these items to the Harvest Festival: Cases of drinks can be dropped off before or after school in the drop-off chute or on the sidewalk by the office. The drinks will be sold at Harvest Fest. Small gently used toys and leftover Halloween candy can be dropped off at room P-9. These will be used as prizes for the games. The Country Store needs fruits, vegetables, flowers, plants, and baked goods. These items can be delivered (or can be picked up) during the week before the Harvest Festival.

Participate in the Harvest Festival Country Store Baked Goods Competition Enter your pies, cookies, cakes, and other baked goods into this year's competition. Entries are due November 22. Entries must be labeled with all ingredients and cannot contain cream or custards or anything that needs to be refrigerated. The baked goods will be donated to the store to be sold. For more information call Emily Ventura, 808-264-8598.

Volunteer to work during the Harvest Festival We hope every Kula family will contribute a few hours before, during or after the Harvest Festival. We are using an online tool called VolunteerSpot to coordinate volunteers for the Harvest Festival. Watch for an email in the next week inviting you to sign up for a shift during the festival. To volunteer to work, you can also email the PTA or call Nikki at 808-876-7614.

Win $100 & other cash prizes --Kula PTA Store Amazon Fundraiser Contest   November and December are big shopping months and Kula PTA Store wants to reward our families for switching as many of their shopping habits as possible this winter. Look for the Kula PTA Store Contest Envelopes being sent home with students.   Your family could win up to $100 cash for first prize in our Kula PTA Store Contest! Contest packages will include a Shopping List Helper, and a "Help Us Win" Contest sheet to share with friends and family. Additional sheets will be available for download or pick up on request, so remember to make a list of who may be able to help your family win the contest and share the opportunity to help Kula School students.   Contest Dates:  November 1, 2013 - January 9, 2014   The PTA is very excited since this is the first contest with so many possibilities like these:   Amazon shopping has endless options for kitchen, bath, fitness, beauty, office, electronics and apparel Movie Rentals from Kula PTA Store via Amazon Instant Video  Gift Cards (free shipping) for stores like Sephora, Dominos, PetCo, Subway, and Forever 21 Regular household and gift shopping from stores like Walmart, the malls, Longs, Office Max, and Whole Foods Our #1 goal is for every family to participate and be entered for the Lucky Winner Drawing sponsored by Professional Business Services.   Our second goal is to sell 3,000 items through Kula PTA Store during the contest.     Since everyone will be shopping, why not help Kula School PTA make this contest a huge success and get the chance to win one of our great prizes?   Mahalo to our other Corporate Sponsors:   2nd Prize - $50 Cash sponsored by Destination Resorts Hawaii 3rd Prize - $25 Amazon Gift Card sponsored by Eurotech Maui. Visit Kula PTA Store today and get ready for the contest to start November 1st. Remember:  The key to winning will be planning your shopping ahead of time at Kula PTA Store.  Start your shopping list today! Back to top.

Volunteers are needed to help with morning and lunchtime recess Recess supervision help is needed! If you are available from 9am - 9:45am and/or 11am - 12:30am, please contact Nikki Janssen (808-876-7614) for more information. Teachers would love more eyes and ears when the students are out at recess.

Mahalo Nui Loa to... Mr. Bachaus for opening up Kula School every Saturday during AYSO season for additional parking. All the parents who attended the October 19 work day and helped move PTA items into the container.

Upcoming calendar items... October 28: Last day of Box Top Classroom Competition October 29: SCC Meeting at 5:30pm October 31: Costume Parade, 8am at school (review the Student Council flyer for details)   November 1: School is closed November 7: School picture retakes (volunteers needed) November 14: Kula School/PCNC Book Swap (6-7:30pm in cafeteria) (volunteers needed)