PTA Newsletter 8/28/24

9/9/2024 2:20 pm

🗓️ PTA CALENDAR SNAPSHOT 🗓

Thursday, 8/29 - Back to School Night - Volunteer Fingerprinting, bring checkbook for classroom budget donations
Friday, 8/30 - Volunteer TB Risk Assessment hosted by SUSD
Sunday, 9/01 - Deadline to order Spirit Wear for 9/23 delivery
Sunday 9/01 - Deadline to fill out the PTA Volunteer Interest form.
Monday, 9/02 - Labor Day - No School
Wednesday, 9/04 - 🍦Deadline for members to vote on flavors for the Ice Cream Social
Thursday, 9/05 - Volunteer TB Risk Assessment hosted by SUSD
Friday, 9/06 - Deadline to register for Math Olympiad
Friday, 9/13 - 🍨 Ice Cream Social and 1st PTA Association Meeting

We’ve got a fun year planned. Check out the one-page tentative 2024-25 Calendar of Events.

🚧 UPDATES TO ARGONAUT PTA WEBSITE

Check out the updated Argonaut PTA website! We’re making the PTA website your one-stop shop for all registrations, volunteer opportunities, classroom connections, and more! Construction and updates are ongoing. Please report any issues to info@argonautpta.org, and we appreciate your patience and cooperation through this update! Keep reading to find out more.

REGISTER AND JOIN PTA

Head to the Argonaut PTA website to register for a free account so you can volunteer, shop, and register for events. While you are there, become a PTA member ($15). Becoming a PTA member allows you to vote on PTA matters such as ice cream flavors for the Ice Cream Social, programs and events sponsored by the PTA, and much more.

JUST DO IT DONATION

Argo PTA asks all families to Just Do It and make a tax-deductible donation of $195 per student to fund the programs and events that enrich the lives of students, staff, and families in our community. See if your company matches and double or triple your donation!

📣 CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS!

The Argo PTA is a 100% volunteer-run organization. Head to the Argonaut PTA website to volunteer in your student’s classroom and for programs and events. All volunteers must be SUSD cleared. The easiest way to start is to do your fingerprinting for free at BTSN and attend one of the TB Risk Assessments hosted by SUSD. Questions? Email info@argonautpta.org.

🗳️VOTE ON FLAVORS FOR THE ICE CREAM SOCIAL 🍦

PTA Members, it’s time to exercise your right to vote! You get to decide the menu for our Ice Cream Social on Friday, 9/13. Vote on flavors by Wednesday, 9/04. Want to vote? Becoming a PTA member ($15) is affordable, fast, and now delicious!

👕 SPIRIT GEAR ON SALE

The Argo Spirit Wear Store is open! If you placed your order by Monday, 8/26, you will be notified to pick up your order on Thursday, 8/29 at Back to School Night (subject to stock availability on a first-come, first-served basis). Orders placed by Sunday, 9/01 will be distributed to classrooms on Monday, 9/23.

📚BIRTHDAY BOOK CLUB

Celebrate your student’s birthday AND help stock our school library with new books. It’s a WIN-WIN! Visit the Birthday Book Club website for the book wishlist and participation form.

🧮 MATH OLYMPIAD REGISTRATION OPEN

4th and 5th Grade Families - Argo Math Olympiad Registration is now OPEN! Visit the Math Olympiad webpage to find details and to register. Registration closes 9/06. Further information will be sent to registered families. Expect a Google Meet call to go over the program details during the week of 9/09.

🤖 ROBOTICS REBOOT

We are reimagining the Argo Robotics program and need your feedback. Put your name under Robotics in the Volunteer Interest form by Sunday 9/01, and we will be in touch.

📱 WHATSAPP ARGO FAMILIES! 💬

Want to connect with other families in your students' grade and class? Head to the Argo Families WhatsApp Community. This allows the PTA to easily send announcements and reminders to the Argo community. Group names are visible to the entire community, but members and conversations in each group remain private to the group’s members. The Argo PTA does NOT monitor conversations in the Argo Families WhatsApp Community. (Our FOMO is not that intense.)

🧠 DID YOU KNOW…

School-wide assemblies are held every Friday at 8:45 AM in the MPR. After drop-off, parents are invited to attend and see which students earned 🐻 Bear Paws 🐾 (sponsored by the PTA) and which class walks away with the coveted Golden Apple 🍎. Maybe you’ll meet some PTA Board Members! 👋🏻

Saratoga Education Foundation – SEF

WHAT IS SEF?

It’s all of us! Saratoga Education Foundation (SEF) is district families that work together to provide our children with enrichments that make their education more valuable and competitive. This year SEF is funding the following programs for all students at Argonaut Elementary, Foothill Elementary, Saratoga Elementary, and Redwood Middle School: