Jingle Bell Rock & Holiday Bazaar

Last night was the Jingle Bell Rock and Holiday Bazaar. For those of you that attended, THANK YOU!!! It was a great night and the kids had a blast. We hope you all got a chance to have your picture taken with Santa!!! And maybe purchased a few Christmas gifts or things for yourself.

The PTA really appreciates the continued support of all the Hunter Families. Without all of you we would not have the great success we do.

Thanks again!
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Help Needed for Jingle Candy Grams

The PTA is looking for volunteers for selling the Jingle Candy Grams. It is just like the Halloween candy grams, they are for sell for 3 days. The schedule is as follows:

Monday 12/14/09, Tuesday 12/15 & Wednesday 12/16

Morning: 8:30 - 9:15 am

Lunch A: 11:30 - 12:30
Lunch B: 12:30 - 1:30

After school: 3:30 - 4:15

If you can help out the PTA with a little of your time, please contact Melissa McCormick ASAP at 884-5254 or melissa@mccormick-idaho.com

Thank you all for your continued help and support of the Hunter PTA!!!!!
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Jingle Bell Rock Family Fun Night & Holiday Bazaar

Friday December 4th

6:00 pm - 8:00pm

Come Rock Around the Christmas Tree at Hunter PTA's Holiday Family Fun Night. There will be a DJ playing some good Oldies music and some great snacks like Kettle Corn, mini smoothies, coffee, hot apple cider. There will also be a Holiday Bazaar with all your favorite vendors. Come Mingle & Jingle with your fellow Hunter families and get some Holiday shopping done while you're at it. Hope to see you all there, it is sure to be a blast!!!

If you or someone you know is interested in being a vendor at the Bazaar call Sara Weber 208-860-8805 ASAP, booths are filling up fast.

Don't forget to place your Hunter Spirit Wear order before December 1st to get your FREE Hand Sanitizer spritzer!!!!

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Hunter is now collecting Campbell's Soup Labels

As most of you know, Hunter has been participating in the Box Tops program. And we are now participating in Campbell's Soup Labels. Everyone uses a little Cream of Mushroom soup right???? So please cut off the back portion of your Campbell's soup can and save them. Just as you would do with the Box Tops. Hunter will be collecting the soup labels through out the rest of the year. We ask that you turn them in to your students classroom and their teacher's will pass them onto the PTA. We have a great mom that is volunteering to take on this task, Katie Baker, so a big Thank you to her. And if you have any questions about the soup labels please call Katie at 208-888-9498.

If you are not familiar with how the Soup Labels work or how they benefit Hunter please click on the link below to go to the Campbell's Labels for Education website.

http://www.lablesforeducation.com/
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Results from Fuddrucker's

We hope everyone who attended the Fuddrucker's Family Food night had a GREAT time. We love that place. Good food, good atmosphere, and good prices. Hunter families brought in $743.00 in sales, and Fuddrucker's gave us 20% back, which was $148.79. Not bad for a few hours of eating. The PTA thanks all who attended and helped us earn this money. If you were not able to attend, there will be a few more of these events through out the year.

If you were not aware of the event, we have come up with a new way to remind parents the week of AND the day of the event. There will be stickers stuck to the students shirts reminding us all of the event that is taking place. Wish we would have thought of that BEFORE Fuddrucker's. But we are still learning. If you have any ideas or suggestions please let us know. We love getting good advice.

Thanks again to all the families and to Fuddrucker's for giving us 20% back!!!!
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Reminder for Fuddruckers this Tuesday

Just a reminder that Hunter's November Family Food Night will be held at Fuddruckers on Eagle Rd. next Tuesday November 10th from 5:00pm - 9:00pm. Fuddruckers will be giving 20% of the profit from Hunter families back to the school.

And remember, Get a FREE kids meal with the purchase of an adult combo meal.

Hope to see you all there. What a fun night to look forward to. And one less meal that mom has to plan. Tuesday night is taken care of!!!

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Reflections projects DUE Monday

Just wanted to remind any students that are participating in the Reflections contest that your entry is due this Monday, November 9th. Please turn it into the office. There is still time to participate, especially with the short week this week. You have a 4 day weekend to work on it.

We look forward to your participation.
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Another Big Thank You

The PTA and Hunter Elementary would like to send a big Thank you to Edwards Cinema in Boise for donating all the yummy popcorn for the Halloween Family Fun night that was held last Friday night. It was delicious!!!!

Thanks again for your support in Hunter Elementary!!!!
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This week at Hunter........

Hello Parents & Teachers,

Just wanted to remind all of you that this week at Hunter we have our monthly PTA meeting, tomorrow 11/3 at 4:00pm in room 30. We welcome all who would like to attend. We will be discussing several topics and events that are coming up. So if you would like to voice your opinion or have any questions or would like to participate in the planning of events please attend the meeting. We would LOVE to see you there.

Also this week. Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday Mrs. Lyons is hosting the Book Fair in the library.

November 2nd - 4th 8:oo am - 4:30 pm
November 5th 8:00 am - 8:00 pm
November 6th 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

What a great time to buy Christmas gifts or stocking stuffers for your students and others. And what a great way to support the Hunter Library. All proceeds of the Book Fair will go back into the Library.

Hope to see you all at both of these functions.

Have a great week!!!
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Results

Hello Parent's & Teacher's,

Just wanted to inform everyone that Hunter has received $1537 from all the Box Tops that everyone turned in. The profit from the Halloween Candy Gram sale is $155.

Thank you all to everyone that helped out with this, including the parent volunteers that helped sell the Candy Grams, and the parents that helped sort, organize and turn in all the Box Tops. The PTA can't do all this with out the help from the parents. So thank you again. And keep up the good work!!!! And keep volunteering!!!!!

Remember you are the "P" and the "T" in PTA!!!
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Halloween Candy Grams

Just a reminder.....

Halloween Candy Grams are on sale Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday this week. Before & after school AND during lunch time. They are being sold in the front hallway by the office. If you the parents want to come in and purchase some for your students OR send money with your student to purchase during lunch time for their friends and teachers.

Candy Grams are being sold for $ 0.25 each.

Thanks a bunch!!!!
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Fall Family Fun Night

This Friday, October 30th is Hunter's Fall Family Fun night.

Time: 6:00 - 8:00

Halloween Double Feature - "It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown" & "The Adventures of Ichabod"

Bring blankets, sleeping bags, pillows, bean bags, low back chairs to the multipurpose room.

Come dressed in your costumes, There will be a Costume/Trick or treat parade

Parent's bring candy/treats to pass out during parade.

Enter a Pre-carved or decorated pumpkin to enter in the "Jack O' Lantern Raffle. Winners at each grade level for the most creative Jack O' Lantern

Teacher Jack O' Lantern Raffle - Win a Jack O' Lantern created by your teacher. Tickets will be sold for $1.00 each.

Snack Bar Sale - Popcorn $ 0.50 Water $1.00

Hope to see you all there. It will be a fun night for all. And another opportunity for the kids to wear their costumes!!!!

Trick Or Treat!!!!
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Upcoming Hunter Events

Hello all, just wanted to list a few events for Hunter. These events are for the school in general not to be confused with the PTA calendar of events, although there may be some similarities.

Oct. 19 - Hunter's bus evacuation drills

Oct. 26 - 30 Red Ribbon Week

Oct. 29 - Picture Retakes 8:30 - 9:30 am

Oct. 30 - NO SCHOOL (staff development day)

Nov. 1 - Daylight savings time ENDS (set your clocks back 1 hour)

Nov. 2 - 6 Book Fair!!!

Nov. 3 - PTA Meeting at 4:00 pm in the library

Nov. 4 - Kindergarten Parent/Teacher conferences

Nov. 5 & 6 - K - 5th Parent/Teacher conferences


Also Hunter is still accepting TV donations. A 27" tube TV fits well in our TV hangers. For more information please contact the office or Mrs. Clark.

(The PTA Calendar of Events in located at the very bottom of the blog page)
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November's Family Food Night

Hunter's second Family Food Night will be held at Fuddruckers on Eagle Rd. on Tuesday November 10th from 5:00pm - 9:00pm. Fuddruckers has graciously agreed to give us 20% of the profit. That is Fantastic!!!

Also a HUGE BONUS, Kids eat FREE with the purchase of an adult meal. So you can go out to a family dinner and give mom a break from cooking and help earn money for Hunter and get a few FREE kids meals out of it....everybody wins!!!!

Hope to see you ALL there!!!!

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Hunter PTA 2009/2010 Calendar of Events

We have posted the 2009/2010 PTA calendar of events on the blog. It will ALWAYS be at the very bottom of the blog page. Please scroll down to very bottom to view. We have also added a comment in the right column in RED that will stay there as a reminder to those looking for it. As always if you have any comments, ideas or questions please feel free to contact any member of the PTA board at any time.

Thank you for your support in the Hunter PTA!!!
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New for October

Hello Parents, teachers, and students,

October is starting off to be a great month. We have tons of activities planned for the month, starting with the Jog-a-thon which will be held this Friday 10/9. If anyone is interested in volunteering for this we can still use the help, please contact Sara Weber for more details. Her number and email are listed in the upper right hand corner of the blog.

Next we have the Halloween Candy Grams. These can be purchased at the school on 10/26, 10/27, and 10/28 before school, at lunch time and after school. You can come by the school and purchase the candy grams for your student or your student can bring money and purchase the candy grams themselves for other students or their teachers. The Teacher special for Candy grams will be $5 for fewer than 26 students OR $6 for 26 students and up. We are also looking for volunteers to help sell the candy grams in the following time frames:

Monday: 8:30-9:15, 11:15-1:15, 3:30-4:00
Tuesday: 8:30-9:15, 11:15-1:15, 3:30-4:00
Wednesday: 8:30-9:30, 11:15-1:15, 3:30-4:00

Please contact Melissa McCormick at melissamccormick26@yahoo.com if you would like to Volunteer.

The PTA membership drive is going great. We have 100+ memberships so far. If you have not joined yet, you can click on the link to the right to join and pay your membership dues of $10 for the family online.

The Family Food night at Red Robin last month was a great success. Hunter earned $125 from the restaurant. Mrs. Aholt's kindergarten class won the challenge for most students in attendance. Her class will receive FREE milkshake coupons from Red Robin. Yummy!!!!!

The PTA would like to send a HUGE Thank you out to Dr. Payne & Dr. Whitt for the wonderful FREE T-shirts they donated to each student on Back to School Night. A HUGE Thank you goes to Natalie Day for taking on the running of the PTA membership drive and for printing and delivering the PTA membership cards. Also a HUGE Thank you to Jason Pimentel for donating FREE labor to building a storage pull cart for the PTA supplies. WOW, what a help that will be!!! So a BIG Thank You to all of you!!!!

October 30th is Family Movie Night at the school, 6:00pm - 8:00pm. There will be a costume parade and a pumpkin contest (note: please carve and/or decorate your pumpkin at home!). The Kindergarten and First grades will be sponsoring this event. They will be looking for volunteers for this event from the kindergarten and first grade parents. There will be a meeting Tuesday 10/13 in room 12 at 3:45pm to help plan and discuss the event. If this is something you would like to help with, please contact Melissa McCormick at melissamccormick26@yahoo.com

Keep your eyes on the blog, it is updated regularly with new and exciting information. As always, if you have any questions or concerns or comments please feel free to contact any member of the PTA board, our contact info is in the upper right hand corner of the blog. Don't forget that you can order the new 2009/2010 Hunter spirit wear, water bottles, and refillable hand sanitizer spritzers online. Click the links to the right of the blog.
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PTA meeting

Hello all,

Just wanted to remind everyone that our October PTA meeting will be held tomorrow (Tuesday) at 4:00 pm at the school. We welcome all and would love to see you there. Do you have any questions or concerns about anything PTA? Come on in for the meeting and we can answer them for you. If you can't make the meeting and have a question, please feel free to contact one of the board members. Our contact info is always up in the right hand corner of the blog!!!
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Questions about PTA

It has come to our attention that some parents have a question about joining the PTA.


Question: "I want to join PTA and contribute $10 for my family, but I am way too busy to go to meetings. Can I just contribute $10 and NOT join?"

Answer: "Great Question! Being a member of PTA is vital to the growth of Hunter Elementary. And, your membership cards enable you to get automatic discounts at many local vendors in the Treasure Valley. However, while the PTA advertises meetings and events, it is not mandatory that you attend meetings." (Although PTA encourages it) So come when you can, we would love to see you there.

If you have any other questions please feel free to email us or call us. Our contact info is always posted in the top right had corner of the blog.
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Get Ready for Back to School Night

Hunter Elementary is having Back to School Night Thursday, September 24th from 6:00 to 7:30 pm. This is a night that the teachers ask for the children to stay home if possible. This allows parents to really focus on what our children are learning and what the coming year will bring.

The teachers are working really hard to prepare for this night and I am sure are eager to share this year's curriculum with us.

Also don't forget to stop by the PTA table to purchase your PTA membership and buy your 2009/2010 Spirit Wear. For your convenience we take cash, check, Visa & Master Card We will have samples available. There will be hooded sweatshirts and two toned raglan jerseys and available on line are crew neck sweatshirts, short sleeve t-shirts, and long sleeve shirts. You are going to LOVE our NEW logo!!!

Hope to see all the parents there!
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Results of the Red Robin Family Food Night

Thank you to all who were able to participate at our first family food night at Red Robin. It was so much fun and we saw a lot of families there. The energy was buzzing with a very fun kid friendly atmosphere. The staff was wonderful and did a great job.

They earned $1250 from Hunter families, which means the school was given (10%) $125. We are hoping to have more successful family food nights at different restaurants around town. We want to make sure that we give you all as much notice as possible so we can all plan for them in our budgets. We are all being effected my these hard economic times, so we are hoping that advance notice for planning helps out all of us.

Keep checking out our blog for more upcoming events at Hunter, and as always if you have any questions or concerns please contact us by email or phone. Our contact info will always be posted in the top right hand corner of the blog.

Thanks again Hunter Families!!!!!
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What's happening this week...

Tuesday September 15th: Red Robin Family Food night 5-8 PM! Bring the flyer received last week and sign the child's teacher on it. The class with the highest attendance will receive a prize!

Tuesday September 15th: Picture Day!

Friday September 18th: Reflections contest begins (click Reflections Flower at the right)

Membership contest continues. Click the Hawk on the right to help.

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Join the Hunter Hawks PTA!

JOIN THE PTA! click here to register and pay online.

Sep. 1- Oct. 5- PTA Membership contest (the two classes with the highest percentage of families joining will win a party) click below to learn more.

Sep. 18- Reflections contest begins. click below to learn more

Sep. 24- Back to School Night and PTA membership open house. 5 minute presentations about the PTA will be given on the hour and half hour. We will also have a membership raffle for those who join! Stop by the library to see us!!

Oct. 1-2- No school

Oct. 5- Membership drive ends

Oct. 6- PTA Meeting- 4PM

Questions? e-mail President Sara Weber at weber25@cableone.net



Membership contest- Membership dues are $10 for a family membership.

Dues can be turned into your child's class or the office.

Or you can take advantage of our new online payment system. For your convenience you can use your debit or credit card and pay online. Click here to pay online.

Make checks payable to Hunter PTA.

Reflections Contest- 2009-2010 theme: "Beauty is..."

The 5 categories include: dance, visual arts, literature, photography and musical composition

Craft Warehouse is offering a 20% discount on supplies for the contest when you show your PTA membership card.


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Sep. 1- Oct. 5: PTA Membership Contest ( the 2 classes with the higest percentage of families joining will win a party)! click below to learn more


Sep. 18- Reflections Contest Begins. Click below to learn more


Sep. 24- Back to School night and Hunter PTA membership open house. 5 minute presentations will be given on the hour and half hour. We will also have a membership raffle for those who join! Stop by the library to see us!!


Oct. 1-2- No school


Oct. 5- Membership drive ends


Oct. 6- PTA Meeting- 4 PM
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Reflections

The 2009-2010 Reflections Theme: "Beauty is..."
Kick-Off Date: Sept. 18
Deadline: Nov. 9th

Choose from 5 Categories: Dance, Visual Arts, Literature, Photography, Musical Composition

To learn more, go to http://www.ptareflections.org/

Rules & Entry Form, go to http://www.ptareflections.org/cs/rules_and_documents

Questions? Contact Vicki Johnson at vicki_derek@hotmail.com or 846-9375

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How to help the Hawks

How to help the Hunter Hawks...



1. JOIN THE PTA. click here to join online


2. Turn in Box tops tops to your student's teacher. Go to http://www.boxtops4education.com/ to get coupons & to earn extra box top points for Hunter Elementary.


3. Turn in ink cartridges at school lobby.


4. Click here to regsiter your Albertsons reward card to Hunter Elementary http://www.albertsons.com/cp/cp_partner-login.asp?s=


5. Purchase Hawks water bottles. click here to buy online.
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