Highland Lakes School
Spring Fling!
May 3, 2013
5-8pm

fun – games – rides – food – entertainment and much, much more!!

Ticket Pre Sale is April 18th-29th!

Wristbands are required for all students ages 3-18
and any parents who want to participate on the bounce houses.
Price includes all rides, games, cake walk, bounce houses,
dunk tank, slide, obstacle course, etc.

Wristbands are $15 each pre-sale or $20 at the door

(Raffle tickets and food are additional)

Pre-sale order form is available here if you need.

Volunteers are needed to help run the spring fling!  Please click below to sign up for a time slot! 

Raffle Baskets

We also are in need of donations for the raffle baskets. 

These are done by grade level and each grade level has a theme.  All donations need to be turned in to your child's home room teacher by Tuesday the 30th in order for them to be put together in time for the spring fling.

Themes by grade level are:
Pre-K - Play Room
Kinder - Arts & Crafts
1st - Summer Fun
2nd - Family Game Night
3rd - Spa/R&R
4th - Family Movie NIght
5th - Book Lovers
6th - Outdoor Fun & Sports
7th & 8th (combined) - Gift Cards/Money Tree

Thank you to all who have helped out with the Dance, Book Fair and Teacher Conference Dinner!  Everything went very smoothly and was a success!    Dance photos will be available soon.  Be on the look out in your email if you took a photo at the booth.

This week we have a meeting on Wednesday the 20th at 6:15pm in the library.  See you there!  

Magazine Fundraiser!
Please remember to continue selling magazines for our current fundraiser.  If you have any questions please let us know.  If you need more order forms email ashley.plum@dvusd.org and she will get them to your student.  The magazine fundraiser is due on Wednesday the 20th.  (be sure that checks are made out to Great American Opportunities, not HLS or HLS PTA)  We are still collecting the postcard booklets.   

There will be no spring fling meeting tomorrow.  It needed to be rescheduled due to other school events.

Spirit Wear Orders - We are going to be putting in an order this week!  Be sure to turn in your order form and money by Thursday. 

Remember EVERY Friday is Spirit Wear Day!  

We have some sizes and styles in stock. Here is what we have:
(Y = Youth size, A = Adult size, numbers are quantities)
(Bling shirts are fitted unless otherwise noted)  
T-shirt - Green - 1 Y-toddler, 1 YXS, 2 YS, 1 YM, 3 YL, 3 YXL, 6 AS, 2 AM, 1 AL, 6 AXL, 1 AXXL
T-shirt - Navy - 2 YM, 4 YL, 3 YXL, 1 AS, 4 AM, 1 AXL
Bling LOVE - 1 YS (Standard t-shirt), 1 YM, 2 YL, 1 AM, 6 AL
Bling Peace, Love Paw - 1 YM, 2 AS, 2 AM, 1 AL, 1 AXXL
Bling Paw tank - 1 YS, 1 YL, 1 AM, 1 AL
Hoodie - 3 YS, 3 YM, 3 AXL
FlexFit embroidered Hat - 4
Rhinestone Hat - 1
Tumblers - 21
Bling Decals - 2
Sticker Decals - Many!

December is a very busy month for everyone, including PTA!  We have 2 events coming up that will be fun for all.  Our monthly Spirit Night is on Tuesday December 11th from 4:30-7:00pm at Great Skate!  It is a PRIVATE party just for Highland Lakes families, teachers, staff and anyone we want to bring. Admission is only $1 and includes skate rental (roller blades extra).  Come skate, have some dinner, and enjoy watching your teachers try to skate! 

We are also having our annual Kids Secret Holiday Shopping Store December 10th-14th.  The kids LOVE to come and shop for family members and friends (even themselves some too).  They get gift bags for the gifts that they can then bring home and wrap the items with.  When it comes time to open the presents the kids are so excited and proud of what they bought.  The memories are priceless! 

In order for those memories to continue we will need volunteers to help work this event.  You can sign up by clicking on the volunteerspot link here.  Let us know if you have any questions on this event. 

The November 19th PTA meeting is being canceled.  Because of it being so close to break we are going to reschedule it.  Also since November and December are so busy with all the holiday's we are going to combine our November and December meetings into one.  We will let you know as soon as we figure out the new meeting date and time. 

Thank you!

Now that we have finished the talent show and silent auction we are on to our next thing!  On Thursday the elementary PE teachers are hosting a family bowling night and PTA is host the concession stand.  We need volunteers to work the stand.  Below are the shifts, please let me know if you can help out.

Set up: 3:30-4:30pm - Need 3-4 volunteers
Shift 1: 4:30-6:30pm - need 3-4 volunteers
Shift 2: 6:30-8:30pm - need 3-4 volunteers
Clean up: 8:00-9:00 - need 3-4 volunteers

It's that time where we start begging for volunteers again!  We have a lot of stuff coming up in the next few weeks and we need people to help with everything!!!!  Below is a general list of what we need help with, some have more specifics.  If you can help with ANY of these please email Ashley Plum ASAP!   ashley@hlpta.com 

If you know anyone else who likes to help out please be sure to share this with them.

Tuesday 10/23
Talent Show:
We need to set up the stage for the talent show!!! Will start at 8:30am and go through the end of the day unless it's done earlier.  Please let me know if you can come ANY TIME on Tuesday!!

Monday - Friday 10/22-10/26
Book fair all week:
Before school from 8:30-8:45
After school from 3:30-4:00
All day Thursday until 8:00pm (might only be 7:30)
Friday clean up at 1:00

Thursday 10/25
Spirit wear and concession stand at book fair - all day starting from 11:45-8:00 (might only be until 7:30)

Thursday 10/25
Teacher conference dinner:
Set up starting at 3:00
Keep an eye on food/drinks from 4:45-6:45
Clean up at 6:45
Donations needed:
Soda, cans & brand name please
Bottle water
Desserts, home made or store bought, need delivered on Thursday

Thursday 11/1
Fundraiser Pick Up
This is going to be busy!!! We need at least 4-6 people to help.
Set up starts at 1:00pm
Pick ups from 3:30-6:30pm

Thursday 11/8 & Friday 11/9
Talent Show and Silent Auction
Talent show - please email me if you can help, I'll let you know what we need specifically
Concession stand (both days): 
set up 3:30-4:45
1st shift 4:45-6:00
2nd shift 6:00-7:00
3rd shift 7:00-8:00 (maybe 8:30 depending on show length)
clean up 8:00

Silent Auction (both days):
Set up 3:30
Monitors shift 1 5:00-7:00
Monitors shift 2 7:00-9:00
Clean Up 9:00
We still need donation items for the Silent Auction!

Don't forget to come out to Jump Street at 57th Ave & Bell Road tomorrow, Monday Oct. 8th!  It runs all day, from 11:00am-9:00pm.  Meet your friends there and jump around! 

$10 per participant for 2 hours unlimited access to the main trampoline courts and dodge ball courts
$13 per participant for 2 hours unlimited access to the main trampoline courts, dodge ball courts, and all fun pass activities.  Must be at least 4 to participate in any fun pass activities.

Must be 8 years or older or accompanied by someone 12 or older to participate on the main trampoline courts and/or dodge ball courts.  Anyone under 8 that does not have someone 12 or older will have unlimited access to our Earthquake kids zone.

All participants must have a fully completed waiver signed by their parent/guardian.

This year PTA has the privilege to run all the concession stands at all sporting events that HLS is hosting.  Starting in October we will have the stand up and running, but in order to do this we need your help!  We need parents to help work the stand during games and meets.  We are using volunteerspot.com again this year to help us organize the days & times and all the volunteers that we need.  Please check out the link below and hopefully you can sign up for a time slot. 

Great turn out last night at Barro's!!! Thank you to everyone who came out, picked up, or ordered in.  My favorite moment of the night was when there were a bunch of Highland Lakes families having dinner, the parents were sitting at their own tables and the kids from all the different families were sitting together at a kids table.  They were all having so much fun, laughing, talking, eating and (lets be honest) running around the restaurant playing together.  It was great to see how our school is truly one big family and has such a great sense community. 

We are still working on our next spirit night for October.  We are hoping to have a fun activity to do! 

For those who are wondering, the fundraiser orders will be delivered in the the middle of October.  We should have an exact date either by the end of next week.  A letter will come home with that information as soon as we get it.