Pre-Order Your 2013-14 Memory Book Today

This year we have partnered with Picaboo Yearbooks to print and distribute the 2013-2014 school Memory Books. There are several new features we are able to offer:

• Online Ordering

• Personalized Back Cover

• Four Personalized Pages

• Free eYearbooks With Each Order

• Links in the Memory Book to additional photos and videos of school events throughout the year

How to Order 
The cost of each Memory Book is $25, to order please go online to: 

mountjordan.picaboo.com
Click the preorder button and then select your yearbook to place it in the shopping cart. Finish your transaction and your yearbook will be delivered to the school and distributed on yearbook day!  Pre-Order your book online now and Personalization will be turned on sometime in January after you’ve collected some great photographic memories! 

After Personalization is turned on you will be able to create a book personalized with your memories and the highlights from your year for FREE!  You can create a custom back cover and add 4 FREE pages to the book.  For those who ordered a Memory Book prior to the online ordering being made available, we will contact you in January with details on how to access your account and personalize your Memory Book. We will continue to accept payments dropped off to the office, just make sure you include an email address if you want an online account to be set up for you to make personalizations.

ALL ORDERS DUE BEFORE: MAY 7th

Little Caesars' Pizza Kit Fundraiser

We are selling Little Caesars Pizza Kits to raise money for programs sponsored by the PTSA. Each kit makes three pizzas and can be ready in less than 10 minutes. All orders must be turned in by the end of school on Monday October 14th. The orders will be available for pick up on Thursday November 7th.

Little Caesars Pizza Kits Details and Form Download

We have made it past our first month of the 2013-2014 school year and we are so incredibly proud of the teachers, faculty, staff and students of Mount Jordan for adapting so well to the changes of this year. On the first day of school, students walked the red carpet and were greeted by the cheers of teachers and the Real Salt Lake Soccer Mascot, Leonardo the Lion.

At the annual Hot Dog Hello, we ended up serving up over 425 Hot Dogs to Mount Jordan students and their family. A huge thank-you to those that donated their time and services to making sure we had enough hot food and drinks for all.

We look forward to seeing what the rest of the school year brings, we think it is going to be rather incredible!

Student PTSA Activity

We will be having our first Student PTSA activity after school this Thursday September 19, 2:45-3:45pm. If your child is a PTSA member they are welcome to come, if they have not paid their PTSA dues come with $6 and be ready for some fun. We will be providing monthly activities for Student PTSA members throughout the year. Please plan for transportation home after each activity.

If you are a parent and are looking to volunteer, this is a great opportunity to help and meet our great students.

Mountaineers Are Taking Over

I think we are settling in to our new location quite nicely.

MJMS PTSA Meeting Agenda

September 4, 2013

Attendance: Leslie M, Katrinia King, Lisa Hansen, Matt Watts, Sheri Tait, Stephanie Yorgason,

Amie Hughs, Susie Godfrey

Review Budget - Lisa

Total money in $1,276.00, memberships $240, spirit shirts $320, memory book $700, donations $16

Hot Dog Hello Follow-up - Leslie

Great Volunteer turnout - THANK YOU!

Suggestions for next year? more tables to serve from, make a U shape with BBQ in the middle or

hot dogs at the end. Remind people that they can pay for dues, shirts and memory books that night.

PTSA Memberships-

-Approx. 143 members district has set out goal as 224

-Make sure all PTSA board members are sign-up

-Some teachers want to donate the $6 but not be members. Teachers would like a list    given to Dr. Hart as to whom has signed up or donated.

Lisa will get check from Debbie and mail our fee to Utah PTA

Display cases -

Dr. Hart has asked PTSA to decorate the display cases

- Ideas? Memory book display, white ribbon week display. A few ideas were given, Wendy Harker will

work on first display case and board will assist.

Student PTSA Activity -

When is the first one? Anyone interested in helping? Leslie M. will head up the first meeting

Thursday Sept. 19th 2:30. Get to know the PTSA students, play minute to win it, treat. Need adult help, we will meet in the cafeteria.

Activity? We will plan on food drive and christmas exchange

P/T Conference-

November 5 & 7

Sheri - please add Jennifer Mergens to meal list      jenn.mergens@gmail.com

Sheri will send out email for volunteers for food. Talked about Texas Roadhouse and a surprise for teachers

Will need a membership and memory book table

Susie will have volunteers for the table

T-shirts and Memory books - Amie

Forms to go home

Forms went home thursday and all info is on the blog, due date is monday sept 9th

Mark Swenson - Herff Jones meswenson@herffjones.com

Amie looking into another company and will get back to us

EML - Committee

- We need one!

Keep looking for a volunteer for this position, Leslie M. will follow up on emails when they come

Reflections - Leslie and Raylene

make flyer to go home with students with info, talk with teachers to see if they would be willing to have an assignment  that could be used as a reflections entry. Have teachers show the district clip on reflections in the classroom. Have a small party at the end to hand out awards.

White Ribbon week - Katrinia

Katrinia will look into a date

Birthday Recognition - Jen and Cari

Granny B cookies - Aug & Sept. will be handed out sometime this week

Cari and Jen were working on getting the cookies out this week

Fundraiser - Leslie

Little Caesars Pizza Kits - End of October will run for about 1 ½ weeks pickup will be one of the night of back to school.

- Needs assessment Leslie M. will work on this, suggestion was to do a survey monkey and link it to the blog.

Teacher Scholarships - Wendy Jensen

- Not sure what we do? Leslie M. will get with Wendy Jensen and we will figure out grant forms, Amie was concerned about the write ups that teachers did last year. Teachers need to put in effort if we are going to award money.

Matt -

-New teacher VP Matt is working on getting us a teacher

- Old Mount Jordan Building Wednesday Sept 18, 5:30 meet and greet at the old building, will be doing a demolition and ground breaking also

Next Meeting-

- Wednesday October, 2 at 9:45am faculty room

NEW Spirit Shirts Available to Order

With so many changes this school year, we decided to add one more. The Mount Jordan PTA is proud to present the 2013-2014 MJMS Spirit Shirt. The front office will be accepting orders until Monday September 9th.

MJMS Spirit Shirt Download

PTSA Meeting Announcment

Our next meeting will be 9/4/2013 9:45 am in the teachers lounge.

Back to School Night Scheduled for Thursday August 29th 2013

The Mount Jordan Back to School night is a long standing tradition, sponsored by the PTA, for students and families to come together and hear about upcoming events for the new school year, meet with teachers, faculty and PTA board members, and learn about ways to stay informed about issues relating to the school.

A free hot dog dinner is provided for Mount Jordan Students and their Families from 5:30pm - 6:30pm. Following dinner, there will be a brief meeting in the school Kiva at 6:30pm where parents and students will have the opportunity to hear from select faculty members about the upcoming school year. After the meeting in the Kiva, families are invited to walk around the school and meet with teachers and faculty until 7:30pm.

As this year's PTA board, we are working to accomplish numerous goals aimed at enriching the learning experience of students in and out of the classroom by providing them additional activities, recognition awards and support to teachers through monetary and volunteer efforts. There are multiple ways you can support the Students and Teachers of Mount Jordan:

• Join the PTSA, we have Parent and Student memberships available
• Order a Memory Book
• Purchase a Mount Jordan T-shirt
• Sign-up for volunteer opportunities

We hope to see most of you there as we celebrate the start of the new 2013-2014 school year.

MJMS PTSA MEETING AGENDA

Introductions-

Lisa Hansen, Wendy Harker, Amie Hughes, Stephanie Yorgason, Katrinia King, Jen Wilkey, Susie Godfrey, LeeAnn Evans, Leslie McAffee

Review Proposed Budget-

Leslie will work on budget and email out.    

signers on the account?

Hot Dog Hello Thurs. Aug 29th- 5:30-8pm   dinner will be 5:30-6:30, PTSA buisness and then turn the time over to the school

what do we need? Student count 750  Planning on 480

Talked to Molly about using the pavilion behind the school. ($50)  We will be at the school, Matt will stake out the best shade for the tables.

Food pick up- Wendy and Leslie will work on this, will do pick and pull with Sam's club. Wendy will check with Mavrik to see if they are willing to donate.

set up- 4:00?  Meet at the school to set up 4pm

PTSA Membership table- Susie Godfrey will head up the membership table.

Committee's Needed

Health commission (Red Ribbon Week)-  Katrinia King and Jen Wilkey-  Talked about incorporating red ribbon week and white ribbon ( internet safety)  Wendy H. is contacting Maverik

Membership Coordinator- Susie Godfrey

Reflections-

Student PTSA Committee-

Individual Development/Birthday Recognition-

we did Granny B Cookies last year-  Jen W. and Cari G. will decide what to do, $1 or under per student.  Will do July and August.

do we want to change?

ideas?

Chick-fil-A Breakfast-

New Teacher VP?

Student Group-

we need a committee

Fundraiser-

Little Caesars Pizza kits- Just need date   Leslie will contact vendor to set up date, using Nov. 5th as pick up date.

Molly suggested before PT conference and use pickup day as PT conference-   Parent teacher conference date

Anything Else????

School t-shirts Harley Davidson  $6 boys cut, $9 girls cut. Talked about having different colors for grades, using Hot Dog Hello as last order date.  Amiee Hughes will check into prices on shirts.

Next Meeting- Tuesday September 10

Next Meeting Wednesday September 4, 9:15 in faculty room