Fundraising Opportunities

Dear CES Families,

The Clarksville Elementary PTA recently learned about a program in Howard County called Blessings in a Backpack. This program provides food over the weekend and days off to children in our county who might otherwise go hungry. The program is currently looking for over $20,000 in funding and our PTA would like to help and have a little competitive fun while doing it.

Starting October 28th, the PTA is excited to announce a partnership to provide a digital reading challenge to our community called, Read for My School. Fast to setup and easy to use across any mobile device, Read for My School provides parents and students a fun and engaging way to share their love of reading while understanding the importance of giving back.

Through your community support, we would like parents to read with their children and/or have their children read to themselves. Please track their progress on the Read for My School web page. We would also love parents to share our reading challenge as well as their child’s reading achievements with friends and family to generate pledge donation support.

Your support will make our school reading challenge a success AND help neighboring children.

Here’s what you need to do:

• You should be receiving an email from your grade team lead. Follow the links, create an account and share your page with friends and family.
  • OR Go to https://www.readformyschool.com/register/ and select sign up as a student. Then, please insert your team invite code listed below.
    • Kindergarten: 2618B
    • 1st Grade: EB508
    • 2nd Grade: 81E37
    • 3rd Grade: 4B2B2
    • 4th Grade: 7B51B
    • 5th Grade: DEA35

If you have multiple children participating, create the account for one. Then click on MANAGE MY PROFILES and add another reader to the existing account.

• Each time your child reads, record the minutes. Each time your child finishes a book, record the book. This can be done directly on your child’s personal web page.
• The program will run for 2 weeks and end on November 10th.

As a small incentive, we will be offering the grade with the most minutes read a switch day. In addition, the child with the most books read and the child with most minutes spent reading will also get a small reward.

We are extremely excited to share this opportunity and look forward to working with you in support of our greater community. If you do not wish to participate in the program but would still like to contribute to the Blessings in Backpack through our school, we have set up a donation page on our website. We will add this amount to the total donated to the Blessings in a Backpack program.

Sincerely,
Clarksville Elementary School PTA

The Hive Vintage & Handmade Market is pairing up with Mary’s Land Farm for a weekend of fall family fun! In addition to the market featuring local artist, including HoCo kid vendors, Mary’s Land Farm will offer educational tours of their 160 acre estate, carry out hands-on activities for kids to learn about farm life, and have live animals for kid interaction, all with the aim of promoting knowledge and fun.

The Hive Market will give CES PTA 20% of each ticket sold that is specified for our fundraiser and kids under 12 are free!

The Hive Vintage and Handmade Fall Market
Fri, Sep 27, 2019 10:00 AM – Sun, Sep 29, 2019 4:00 PM EDT

Tickets
‘Bee First’ Friday Admission – $10.00
Bee the first in to grab the nectar!
‘Bee First’ Friday admission grants market-goers all-day access to shop Friday for first choice of vintage items and handmade goods at The Hive. ‘Bee First’ tickets also give shoppers entry into the event all weekend (Friday, Saturday, & Sunday) to enjoy rotating vendors, fresh hands-on demonstrations, and new live bands each day.

Saturday, General Admission – $5.00
Sunday General Admission – $5.00
Child’s Ticket (age 12 & under) – Free

1. Go to https://tinyurl.com/hivemarket (an event on Eventbrite).
2. Select the adult and kid tickets you wish to purchase
3. For each ticket, select CES Fundraiser (free).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

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Clipping Box Tops is an easy way to help CES buy what it needs. Box Tops are worth 10 cents and they quickly add up to real cash for our school!! The class with the most box tops collected each month will win a lunch “switch day.” Get your kids involved in the clipping so they can earn a “switch day!”

• Step 1: Find Pink Box Tops on hundreds of products
• Step 2: Clip Box Tops from each package
• Step 3: Send Box Tops to your school with your child. Use the collection sheet attached or just put them in a baggy with your child’s name and teacher noted. Make sure to check the expiration date. General Mills will not accept expired box tops.
• Step 4: You just donated 10 cents per Box Top to CES!!!

For more information on the Box Tops for Education program, including a list of products and our school’s progress, visit Box Tops for Education. Be sure to become a member to receive exclusive coupons and recipes and learn about extra ways for our school to earn.

In effort to to increase participation in Box Tops for Education, CES will now offer “switch days” for the class with the most box tops.

Box tops will be collected by the last Thursday of the month.

It is very important that each submission has the child’s name and teacher on the form. You can use any form or submit your box tops on a blank sheet of paper or in plastic baggies.

Bee Form for January.

Sham-Rocks Collection Sheet for March.

Chemistry Collection Sheet for April.