Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Volunteer Drawing

Want to be entered in a drawing? During the field trip today, a volunteer gave us an idea for a contest. You will receive one entry per day that you volunteer during the KSL contest, Jan 21-27. You can also earn an entry by making this pledge to give one hour a month of volunteer time to your school. Pledge below and we will put a card with your name on it on our volunteer sign and you will have one free entry.
We already have 323 hours of volunteer time in the last two days.
Go Southland volunteers!
 

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Mascot Naming Contest!

We are excited to announce the upcoming arrival of Southland’s Sabertooth Mascot! To celebrate, the PTO would like to have a Mascot Naming Contest. Everyone at Southland is welcome to enter a name of their choice for our new Sabertooth Mascot.
Starting, Wednesday, January 15th we will make an announcement that will explain the Mascot Naming Contest. After the announcement, there will be a box located in the main office for everyone at Southland to enter their suggestions. We will have until Thursday, January 23rd at 3 p.m. to drop off entries in the ballot box located in the main office. After that we’ll tally up 6 of the top recommendations and have students vote for their favorite name.
 As an extra Spirit Friday incentive, everyone wearing a Southland T-shirt or the color blue will get 2 votes that day!
We are so excited to reveal our newest addition to Southland and can’t wait to see his/her positive impact on our school.

Want a helicopter to land at Southland?

Let's show KSL that Southland has the best volunteers! For one week, Jan. 21-27, KSL is asking all elementary schools to document the hours parents and members of the community spend volunteering for their school. (This includes work done at home to assist a teacher or project at the school or babysitting for someone who is at the school). The school with the most volunteer hours will be treated to a SURPRISE ASSEMBLY. The assembly will include a visit by KSL-TV news anchor Nadine Wimmer who will arrive on Chopper 5, a pizza party for the school and live music. In addition, the winning school will be featured in a story on KSL-TV.

Make sure to record your hours in the Help Counter program, at the school or from home at:
https://www.helpcounterweb.com/update/sign_into_account.php?email=temporaryemail@email.com&aid=gzmzqmmnkp
Remember, the 6th grade field trip and Musical practice will count!

Looking for ideas of where to help?
 
Chess Club: Mon and Wed 12:00-1:20 1 parent needed weekly from Jan-April.
Follow this link to sign up:
www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C084DAAA628ABFA7-monwed/15069442

Jump Club:
4th-6th Grade Jump Club: Tues 12:00-1:20 4 parents needed weekly from Jan-April
1st-3rd Grade Jump Club: Thurs 4:00-6:00 4 parents needed weekly from Jan-April
If you would like to sign up to help with Jump Club, follow this link:
www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C084DAAA628ABFA7-jump/15069442

A few options from home:
Help the Resource and Speech teams with packets.  You do not need to have a student in participating in these programs to help.
Teacher of the Month: Enjoy collecting the students nominations and award teachers for being the teacher of the month.
Disaster Packets: Help our assemble packets of emergency supplies to be stored in each classroom
Education Chair:Communicate with Math Team Coaches, and Science team then report at monthly PTO meetings.
Enrichment Chair: Communicate with Chess Club, Jump Club Literacy Club, Musical leads and report at monthly PTO meetings.

Help with our school drop off problems by making signs to direct traffic or hold the signs in the morning to teach parents the correct way to use the drop off.

Is your student part of the Math Team?  Help with their grade:
1st Grade: Fridays 11-11;30
2nd Grade: Fridays 11:15-11:45
3rd Grade: Fridays 10:45-11:15
4th Grade: Thursdays 1-1:30
5th Grade: TBD
6th Grade: Wednesdays from 2-2:30
If you can't help next week but are interested in helping in the future try:
Science Fair Judges: Needed January 29th 4:00-5:00 and/or the 30th from 8:30-1:00
6th grade Renaissance Fair Jan 31
Chinese New Year Celebration: Feb 7th Events for the entire school.
Science Club for 3rd grade: 1/31, 2/21, 3/21, 4/18, 5/16
White Ribbon Week; We will be teaching students about internet safety.
Evening of the Arts April 10th
Grandparents Day March 27th
End of year slide show: We are looking for help with putting together a slide show to show the students as part of our Super Field Day.
Field Day Committee: It's time to start planning our Super Field Day and we would love your help! We will be having one field day for the entire school on June 3rd.
2014 Jog-A-Thon Committee: We are looking for anyone who would like to participate on the Jog-A-Thon team for next year's fundraiser. You could help with prizes, course, packets, assembly....there are several options!
Teacher Appreciation Committee: Do you want to help celebrate our teachers May 5-9?  We are putting our ideas together now.

Email us at Southlandpto@gmail.com if you would like to help!