Thursday, April 23rd- Student/Faculty Basketball Game

Get ready for the Mega Mountaineer All Star Game!

Thursday, April 23, 6:30 p.m. in the gym

Student/Faculty basketball game and silent auction. All proceeds will go toward our school marquee and other PTSA programs that will benefit all students.

Tickets are $1.00 at the door - other donations are welcome.

Great halftime prizes!

Fun for the whole family!

Parents are strongly encouraged to attend with students!

Everyone is invited! Students, teachers, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins.

Hope to see you all there!

PTSA Board Meeting Minutes April 7th

PTSA Board Meeting - April 7, 2009

**Budget - Traci handed out the budget and gave everyone a copy. She has it itemized as to what we have spent this year and what we will still be paying for.

We will for sure leave $2000 as carryover for next year. We will see how the fundraiser goes and then decide on our donation to the community council and also see about saving more than $2000 to function properly next year.

We have paid for all t shirts, sweatshirts and memory books, so any money that comes in will be added to our budget. More discussion at our next board meeting. This was not really an amendment, but a more clear explanation of what our budget has been all year and an update for everyone.

**Nominating committee is Chantel Brown, Shannon Green and Julie Bosch. They will be contacting people to staff our board for next year. Sheri will submit the names to them and we will get it taken care of.

**Fundraiser - Melissa and Sheri will make some posters to put around the school. Sheri will email the info to everyone.
-April 15 at the assembly we will make an announcement to get the students and teachers excited about the game and also to give them more information.
-The Bee from the SL Bees will be coming from 7:00-8:00
-We have donations from Stampin’ Up, Forever Young, Fairfield Inn, Udi Granola, Regis Hair, Bees Tickets, Real Tickets, Interior Elements, McGraths, Kay Jewelers, Deck The Walls, Jewelry, Scrapbook Materials, Notebooks from Mr. Goodman and other things that we are waiting on.
-The Real tickets were donated by Wendy and will be our door prize at the game.
Everyone will get a ticket when they enter.
-LaDena will see about making a sign with butcher paper and laminating it for outside the school
-Sheri will work on fliers to staple to the progress report for next week
-LaDena will email the teachers and ask them to staple them in their CLIMB classes
-Volunteers are needed at the fundraiser and we are planning to arrive at 5:30 to set everything up.
-There is a microphone but no sound equipment. Troy will bring his to do the announcing, music, etc.
-We will meet Monday, April 20 at 9:00 to assemble the baskets and decide on prices, etc.
-Any other donations we are able to get before then will be great!

**Teacher Appreciation Week - May 4-8
Monday - Bagel’s breakfast in the faculty room, attend faculty meeting and give them back massagers “We got your back!”
Tuesday - Have a cold one on us! Cold drinks in the teacher lounge (Wendy)
Wednesday - Need chocolate? We’ve got your back (big bowl of chocolate candies)
Thursday - Cookies and cookie dough (Sheri will talk to Terry Parkin who got these donated). Traci and anyone else will put together bags of cookie dough and we will also bake cookies for them.
Friday - Appreciation lunch (big sandwich from Macy’s (Sheri), chips (Melissa), Vegetable Tray, Fruit Tray, Dessert, Drinks

Wendy will work on making a form for students to do a write up about teachers. (What they like about them, what makes them special, etc.) We will see what we get handed in and then maybe read them at the faculty meeting on Monday (May 4), but want to recognize everyone collectively. We will make an announcement about the forms on the 27th.

Any other ideas or suggestions are welcome!
We will decide about our next meeting after April 20th.

A Message from Sheri Tait: Mount Jordan PTSA President

Happy 2009 from the PTSA!

Here are some of the fun activities we are planning for the rest of the year. Please mark your calendars and make plans to support your students and our entire school. We can't do it without your help and participation. You can keep up with all our happenings by visiting our website at http://mountjordanpta.blogspot.com

Harmon's PTA Day is February 10, 2009
Save your weekly grocery shopping until Feb. 10th. Our PTA volunteers will be helping out at the store and will have games, activities and prizes for the kids from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. At the end of the day Harmon's will donate 5% of their total sales to the schools who have participated. Our PTA will be at the Bangerter Crossing store @ 125 East 13800 South in Draper. Please come and support our school and our PTA and shop, shop, shop! See you there!!!!!

Mega Mountaineer All Star Game! April 23 at 6:30 p.m
This is our PTSA fundraiser. We are still trying to raise money for a marquee outside our school. Mark your calendars for the faculty/student basketball game. We are planning a fun evening for everyone. You won't want to miss it!

Mountaineer T Shirts & Sweatshirts
Mt. Jordan Spirit Days are coming! Get your t shirts ($12.00) and sweatshirts ($20) from the main office!


Calling all Parents!!!
There is still time to join the PTSA as a member ($4.00) or as a volunteer. We are always looking for volunteers and have many activities coming up for the students and teachers. We need your help! Please contact Sheri Tait (#576-0567) if you are interested in helping. We are planning our fundraiser (April 23), teacher dinners for Student Led Conferences in February, Spirit Days, Harmon's PTA Day (Feb. 10), Teacher Appreciation Week (May 4-8). We are always in need of helping hands.

Next Year's PTSA Board
The PTSA Nominating Committee is looking for willing parents who would like to help on the PTSA Board next year. Please contact Sheri Tait (#576-0567if you would like to help out or know of anyone who would be a great addition.

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PTA Meeting Minutes from January 6, 2009

January 6, 2009 Mt. Jordan Middle School
PTSA Meeting Minutes

*Minutes from Last months meeting, December 2nd were read by Sheri Tait.

*The following were in attendance; Sheri Tait, Traci Folkerson, Melissa Neilsen, LaDena
Saxey and Heidi Clark. Ben Lems and Misty Suarez joined us a for a few
minutes at the end of the meeting.

*Harmon’s Days is Tuesday, February 10th. More information to follow, after our next
meeting Tuesday, January 13th at 9:00 am. Need to get more information from Heather Winters at Harmon’s.

*Budget: We are in need of more money! We need to sell the school spirit shirts. A
PTA table needs to be setup at school activities, to sell shirts. Also we will send out a flier with school spirit shirt info. We will give school spirit shirts to the SBO’s to help with advertising. Fridays will be school spirit shirt day, students wearing school shirts will get a treat at lunchtime. We need to get Teachers and faculty to purchase shirts as well.
We have raised about $9,000 for the Marquee at this time, but we still need more money.

*PTSA NEEDS a PTSA newsletter. Sheri has been trying very hard to get a sponsor for
the postage, but to no avail! We will keep working on this. Parents need to be informed about the many things going on with the PTSA and sending fliers home with students is not working! Parents do not get them. So if you know of someone willing to sponsor this let Sheri know.

*PTSA Membership: Our membership is very low and quite an embarrassment! It was
decided that a note and enrollment form needed to be put in all of the teacher’s boxes, to encourage them to join the PTSA! A flier needs to go home to encourage more parent involvement as well.

*Fundraiser: It was decided that the Fun Run would not raise enough money. Next year
we will try to do the 5K run as a community event. (We do not have enough time or the funds to pull this off this year.)

The “Mega Mountaineer All Star Game” will be April 23rd at 6:30 pm. This will be the annual Student vs. Faculty Basketball game. The game will be held in the evening instead of during the school day. Students will be encouraged to attend with parents and family members. Wristbands will be sold during the week of the game, for a dollar. We will also hold a silent auction, tickets will be one dollar. Each Climb Class will be asked to assemble a gift basket for the auction, also PTA members will work on getting donations for movies, dinners, hotels… We will be checking with Harmon’s about donut or cookie coupons for anyone wearing their school spirit shirt. We will have a kickoff assembly on April 2nd.

*Teacher Appreciation week is May 4-8th.

*Student led Parent Conferences are February 24th and 25th – PTSA will be providing meals again.

*Next Meeting: Our next meeting will be Tuesday, January 13th at 9:00 am to discuss
Harmon’s days, and teacher dinners for Student led Conference.

PLEASE TUNE IN! TO THE UTA PTA BROADCAST

When: Friday, January 9th

Time: 2:30 PM

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Show Topic: The show this week on Friday January 9th will be on Parent Involvement and my guest will be Sue Carry our Family Life commissioner on the State PTA board.

Call in to participate: 866-535-0841