Important Details to Remember:

• Fundraiser Starts: Monday, January 23rd
• Fundraiser Ends: Monday, February 6th
• Cookie Dough Delivery Date: Tuesday, February 28;
• Pick up between 2:30 – 6:00 P.M. (Items must be picked up on the delivery date!)
• PLEASE INCLUDE THE SELLER’S PARENT CELL PHONE NUMBER ON THE TOP RIGHT-HAND CORNER OF THE ORDER FORM for DELIVERY REMINDER TEXT MESSAGE!
• All students in K-5 and 6-8 will have a kick off on Monday, Jan. 23rd and will be given a fundraiser packet to bring home at this time.
• Students in grades 9-12 will NOT have a kick off or receive packets. If they are interested in selling cookie dough they CAN pick up a fundraiser packet from the front office. These students can earn up to 10 hours of Community Service Hours.
• Prizes for ALL students in grades K-8
• Sell 5 items and be entered into the CA$H drawings for more opportunities to win!

Box Tops and Labels Program

Thanks to Everyone who collected and submitted Box Tops and Labels for Education during our 2nd collection period. During this collection we received 5,746 Box Tops, 1,629 Campbell’s Labels, 6 Tyson A+ labels and 212 Community Coffee Labels. 

We had 175 Elementary Students, 13 secondary students and 13 teachers and faculty members that participated.  Below are our winners for this 2nd collection

Elementary Winners – $10 Gift card/Target

Gabriela – 2nd/J. Taylor – 195 labels
Ashtyn – 4th/Jemison – 167 labels

Secondary Winners – $10 gift card/Target

Lexi – 6th grade – 561 labels
Taylor – 7th grade – 524 labels

We will have our 3rd – 5th grade Box Tops challenge beginning on February 20th.  Look for these challenge sheets to come home with students in these grades.  Each student who returns the completed sheet will be entered into a drawing to win a $5.00 gift card. We will also have a special "SILLY BAND" collection sheet for students in grades K-2 to fill out and return.  Every student who returns these completed sheets will each receive a SILLY BAND.  Look for these collection sheets to come home with students in grades K-2 soon. Our 3rd collection period is February 16th. Also, a special Thank You to Dennis, from Beef O’ Brady’s for giving us Kids Meal Coupons to give to students for our next collection period.

Alicia Cherry
Trevor Clark

Coke Rewards

Anyone can donate COKE points to our schools account…just follow the instructions below:

• Log into your coke account using your password.ID, click on the school tab, enter our zip code (32311) and click on our school name. Once directed to this page enter the amount of points you would like to donate and click the DONATE button. It will go directly into the schools account.
• If you are unable to enter your own codes, just send them to school with your child in a sealed bag and they can drop them into one of our labels collections boxes.
• These are separate from our Box Tops and Labels program and kids are NOT receiving credit/prizes for these.

FSUS Kids Korner Holiday Shop
The PTSA is hosting our annual Kids Korner Holiday Shop to allow students to do their own shopping for the holidays. Our Holiday shop will be located in the library and will be open from Monday, December 5th – Thursday, December 8th during the hours of 8:30am – 2:30 pm. All Elementary classes will be assigned a day that they will come with their class and shop. Days and times will be assigned and given to each teacher the week before the shop begins. Ask your child’s teacher for their assigned day or email me at: anc2@embarqmail.com with any questions.

If you would like to volunteer your time to assist with the Holiday Shop please click here to sign up.

Box Tops and Labels for Education
Our 2nd collection will be Friday, December 2nd. Remember to turn all labels into your teacher or a bin located in the elementary areas, library or front office. Remember to put your name, teachers name and grade on your collection bag. The challenge sheets for the K – 2nd grade students are due on Wednesday, November 30th and the winners will be announced and prizes given to them on Friday, December 2nd, Mrs. Wills will draw the winners on Thursday, December 1st. We will have a challenge for the 3rd – 5th graders that will start on February 20th. Thanks to everyone for turning in labels and supporting this great program!

Spring fundraiser
PTSA COOKIE DOUGH FUNDRAISER COMING SOON!!
ORDER DATES: January 23rd – February 6th
DELIVERY DATE: February 28, 2012
PICK UP: 2:30 – 6:00
WHERE: CAFETERIA

**Look for more details soon**

Box Tops and Labels

Thanks to everyone who submitted Box Tops and Labels for Education during our 1st collection period. In all we collected over 11,000 box tops, 7,958 Campbell’s labels, 34 Tyson A+ labels and 3,588 Community Coffee pt. labels.

The elementary students had a fantastic 1st collection with 235 students participating!  It was great to see all the collection sheets coming back filled with box tops and labels.  We also had 11 secondary students, 14 elementary teachers and 6 faculty members turn in labels.  As always, we would love to increase the amount of secondary students and Teachers and faculty members.  Please help us out by collecting and submitting these labels?  A lot of these labels can be found in your own classroom on items you use every day.  Please clip these labels and turn them in to one of our collection bins, it’s FREE MONEY for our school and it’s so easy to do!!

We would like to thank Krispy Kreme donuts for donating 150 free donut coupons for us to give to students who participate in this program!

Elementary Winners – $10 gift card/Target

Andrew – 2nd/Withrow  

Hannah – 3rd/Crowe

Secondary – $10 gift card/Target

Charlotte – 6th

I would also like to thank all the anonymous parents who drop off the various labels and all the Community Coffee labels just to support our school, we really appreciate your support!  We also have a few students and their families who are so generous in turning in Community Coffee labels and we can’t wait to see how we do this January when we make a submission; please continue to collect these for our school and watch this program grow!

We have started our Kindergarten Roundup Challenge and our 1st and 2nd grade challenges.  These collection sheets are due November 30th and the students names will be entered into a drawing to win prizes.  Look for more fun collection sheets and challenges throughout our collection periods.  Our next collection period will be December 2nd.

HOLIDAY SHOP

PTSA will be hosting our Annual Kids Korner Holiday shop again this year.  Look for flyers to come home with your elementary students next week.  The shop will be open December 5th – December 8th in the library from 8:30 – 2:15.  We will be looking for volunteers to help us during this week, so if you are interested please watch for details and volunteer sign ups.

Fundraising

The Fall catalog fundraiser incentive show will be Friday, January 27th .  All elementary and Middle school students who sold 5 items or $40 in sales will be invited to see the Extreme Dunk Team Basketball show.

Spring fundraiser

 PTSA will be having a spring fundraiser this year and we will be selling Cookie Dough.  The fundraiser will begin on January 23rd and end on February 6th.  We will send out more information soon.

PTSA kicked off our fall fundraiser with “Great American fundraising” on Monday, August 29th. All Elementary and Middle school students were given a fundraising catalog during our kickoffs. High School students will be able to pick up a catalog at the front office or may order directly online at www.gaschoolstore.com Please feel free to log on to this website and look at additional items and catalogs. Just register your student (whether they are in Elementary, Middle or High school, anyone can order online! Use the following online ID codes:

Online ID-1056373 – Elementary school students
Online ID-1056365 – Middle school students
Online ID # 1014513 – High school students

The fundraiser will run Monday, August 29th – Monday, September 12th with ALL money due by Thursday, September 15th ; we will NOT be extending the fundraiser past this date.

ALL students in elementary and middle school who sell 5 items or $40.00 in SALES will be invited to see the incentive show, “Extreme Dunk Basketball Team”, coming sometime in October…this will be a fun and exciting show!! High School students who sell 5 items will receive 5 community service hours and if they sell 10 items they will receive 10 community service hours.

Remember to ask Your family, friends and co-workers to help you reach your goal, This is not a door-to-door sale!

The money we raise will be used for: Teacher/Staff Appreciation, AR Reading Programs, Art Reflections, FCAT Snacks, Senior Scholarship Awards, Project Graduation, K-5 Bike Rodeo, Health and Safety Fair and other K-12 Programs

Thank you for your continued support of our PTSA fundraising programs!

Sincerely,
Alicia Cherry, Fundraising Chair – anc2@embarqmail.com or 445-7706

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Box Tops and Label for Education

Welcome back to another great year for our Labels program. We had a wonderful 2010-2011 school year with our collections and hope to increase our collections this 2011-2012 school year with everyone’s support!

Again this year we are collecting Box Tops, Campbell’s Labels for Education, Tyson A+ and community coffee labels. We are encouraging participation from ALL grade levels K-12 and everyone will benefit from collecting!

A parent letter and 2 “Back to School” collection sheets should have come home with ALL Elementary students this week explaining the programs and incentives. Secondary students did NOT receive a letter, but all secondary teachers DID and hopefully passed on this information.

All secondary students who participate by turning in labels will each receive small incentives and the 2 highest collectors will receive a $10 gift card to Itunes.

All Elementary students who participate will each receive a goodie bag and the 2 highest collectors will receive a $10 gift card to a book store or Chick-Fil-A.

If you haven’t already done so, PLEASE sign up and become a member of “Box Tops for Education” @ http://www.boxtops4education.com/ and Campbell’s Labels for Education @ http://www.labelsforeducation.com/. There are so many online chances for our school to win money and it only takes a few minutes to log in and click on the promotions.

There are 3 promotions on the Box Tops Website which include Totino’s Pizza and Hanes. After logging in click “EARN” at the top of the page and under this tab click “BONUS BOX TOPS” and enter for a chance to win.

There is one promotion on the Campbell’s website which is a chance to win $45,000 worth of computer’s, smartboards, and other things for our school.

Publix also runs promotions and there is one at this time. The website is http://clickcallmail.com/ Create an account and vote for our school (Florida State University School) and we could win 100,000 Bonus Box Tops.

If anyone would like to use the 1 pt., 5 pt. or 10 pt. collection sheets you can log on to the Campbell’s Website @ http://www.labelsforeducation.com/ and download any of these collection sheets. For every page filled we received extra points of the value; either 1, 5 or 10 pts.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Thanks for supporting!

Alicia Cherry, Fundraising Chair

SPRING FUNDRAISER
The PTSA would like to Thank everyone who participated in our Spring Magazine Fundraiser.  We appreciate everyone who supported this NEW fundraiser!  In all, our participants included 33 Elementary Students, 9 middle school students, 3 high school students and 9 teachers and faculty members.

Our elementary student winner is Jeffrey Sharkey who sold 10 magazines for a total of $261.00.  We will have a drawing to determine the winner of the $100 cash for the middle or high school student who participated by selling 4 or more magazines, Mr. Trafford will draw this name for us next week. Along with this drawing we will determine the teacher and faculty winners who will receive 4000 points from our Campbell’s Labels for Education merchandise catalog.
 
Prizes for all students who participated should arrive in 3 to 4 weeks and will be delivered at that time.

BOX TOPS AND LABELS PROGRAM
We just finished our 3rd Box Tops and Labels collection period and would like to thank everyone who participated.  We had 149 Elementary Students, 6 middle school students, 5 high school students and 13 teachers and faculty.

We collected 5240 Box Tops, 2294 Campbell’s labels, 19 Tyson A+ Labels, and 848 CC Label points.  We will be distributing prizes to students by the end of next week.

We are starting a Box Tops Challenge for our 3rd – 5th graders which will begin March 1st and end April 1st.  These collection sheets were given our on Monday February 28th, so look for these to come home soon.
Our 4th and final collection for Box Tops and Labels will be May 26th and our Class winner for the pizza party (K-2 and 3-5) will be determined at that time.

Thanks to everyone for your continued support!

Alicia Cherry, anc2@embarqmail.com

Trevor Brumbley, tbrumbley@csutelco.com

FSUS PTSA is launching a Special Magazine Fundraiser- February 14th – February 17th – 96 Hour Reading Rally! It involves NO door-to-door selling and NO handling of merchandise.  It’s a great opportunity to promote reading by renewing your current subscriptions and/or purchasing a new magazine for your child to read over the summer.  Our goal is for every family to buy 4 magazines.   We need everyone’s support to make this fundraiser a success for our school! 

• Middle and High Schoolers who sell 4 magazines/or renewals will be entered into a drawing to win $100 CASH!!
• Elementary students can earn prizes and the highest selling student will receive $25 CASH

Box Tops and Labels Program
Our school was 1 of 30 first prize winners in the recent 2010 Box Tops Challenge Collection Contest and we received 25,000 box tops which is $2,500 for our school.  Thanks to everyone who participated in the Publix challenge by entering codes or turning in the code and letting us entering them on the site at www.clickcallmail.com !!!

 We just submitted our Community Coffee Labels for a total of 3,346 points!  If anyone knows of any company or restaurants that use Community Coffee or Community Tea and would be willing to save these labels for us, please ask them or let us know?  You can submit these labels all year and your child will get credit. 

 Our 3rd Collection Period for Box Tops, Labels for Education, Tyson A+ and Community Coffee Labels is February 18th

Thanks to everyone for your continued support!

Alicia Cherry, anc2@embarqmail.com
Trevor Brumbley, tbrumbley@csutelco.com