1. Volunteer in the classroom. The best way to reduce the
student: teacher ratio is to have parents helping. Take a reading group
out, help at Gonzo or other writing times, chaperone a field trip, help
teachers with projects/photocopying/etc! There are many ways to make a
difference!
2. Become a GATOR Aide for your
child’s classroom. GATOR Aides are “room
parents”. They help with recruiting volunteers, organization and
communication between the teachers and parents.
3. Join the PTA. The PTA puts on a multitude of community
builders and fundraising activities and always needs help making them a
success.
4. If you bank at Washington
Mutual, sign up your account for WAMOOLA. It’s easy, just ask a teller to sign
you up! Ask friends and family to sign up. In 2006-07 we made $783!
5. If you have a Target credit
card, sign up your card for Gatewood Elementary. Target will donate up to 1% of your
purchases to Gatewood. Call 1-800-316-6142 or visit www.Target.com/tcoe to sign up.
6. If you have a Safeway Card
sign up your card for escrip. You can go online to www.escrip.com and sign yourself up for Gatewood Elementary or put your
name (first & last), address w/zip and 11 digit Safeway club card number on
this paper, hand it into the office and we will sign you up! Note: Your
club card number is not your telephone number. Call 1-877-723-3929 to get
your club card number if you don’t have it. Ask neighbors, friends and
family to sign up!
7. Purchase and use Gatewood Gift
Cards. Gift
card order forms will go home with kids every other week, it is sold at
community events and Kristin Arvidson will be out back of the school most days
to sell the cards. A percentage of each purchase goes to the
school. This year all sales will benefit Operation Imagination. If
you spend $500 a month on groceries with gift cards the school would get $25/mo
= $300/yr!!! Imagine if everyone did this.
8. If you shop at Amazon.com,
enter the site through our link.
Our unique link is
http://www.amazon.com/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=gatewelemesch-20 You can
also access this link via the button to the left. Amazon gives Gatewood up to 10% of the purchases
made through this link.
9. Save Box Tops for Education
and Campbell’s Soup UPC
signs. Please
put these in the labeled box next to the office. Last year we made $368!
10. If you don’t use Thriftway
Gift cards, please save your receipts. Thriftway will give us 1% of sales.
Put these in the labeled box next to the office.
11. Choose a fundraiser to
participate in. The
PTA runs many fundraising events: Sally Foster sales, Cookie Dough,
Wreath/Poinsettia sales, the Auction, and the Walk-a-thon. You don’t need
to participate in all of them. Our hope is that you will find one or two
that you are happy to support. Gatewood PTA is a non-profit organization
so donations may be tax deductible and don’t forget employer matching!