Welcome Laker Families and Staff!
Welcome to the 2008-09 school year at Emerald Hills Elementary (EHE). We are so lucky to have such wonderful teachers, staff, parents, students and Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) all working together to create an outstanding learning environment for our children.
Your EHE PTO is a voluntary organization helping bring together parents and teachers at Emerald Hills Elementary. We help to build parental involvement and community at school and conduct fundraisers and other activities that raise much needed funds for the needs of our teachers and students.
We have formed this website to help keep you informed of all the PTO is doing for you and your Lakers!
What's going on?
On the Agenda..
Keep yourself up to date!
Don't forget to bookmark our site and check back often!
Here's, "What's Going On" in January:
January 8th
Sport Jersey Skate Night! @Tiffany's-6-8pm
January 13th
PTO Meeting-6:30pm
January 19th
No School-Martin Luther King Day
January 23rd
Family Fun Night-6-8pm
We Love Our Community!
A HUGE Thank You to:
all the people and businesses in our community who have so kindly donated products, services and/or discounts to EHE for various events. We can't THANK YOU enough for helping us make all our events so successfull!!
Please visit: Our community appreciation page for a complete list of our supporters!
HELP US WIN!!!
Here's a list of current contests and promotions..
The Wal-Mart Recycle Challenge has begun!!
This is a fun and educational program that teaches our Lakers the importance of recycling while earning money for our school at the same time!
The low down:
We earn $5.00 for every 60-gallon collection bag we fill with plastic shopping and grocery bags and deliver to our local Wal-Mart store for recycling by March 31, 2009.
Rewards: The top three schools to bring in the most collection bags win additional rewards: 1st Place: $3,000 ~ 2nd Place: $2,000 ~ 3rd Place: $1,000.
Please send in your plastic shopping bags The bags do no have to be from Wal-Mart. You can recycle plastic shopping and grocery bags of any color and type except black (black printing on the bags is ok - black bags are not).
Remove everything from the plastic bags prior to recycling - including register receipts. They need to be clean, dry and empty. Don't forget to include plastic from other items such as shrink wrap from toilet tissue, paper towels, etc.
PLASTIC BOTTLES/CONTAINERS CANNOT BE ACCEPTED!
Thank you!!
Did you know?? Your recycled plastic is being made into new products such as clean new plastic shopping bags, outdoor decking and railing products, park benches, garden and lawn edging, & decorative tiles to name just a few!
Don't forget to ask friends and relatives to donate as well. It's something everyone has and usually wants to get rid of!
Silent Fundraisers
The easiest way to show your support.
There are so many easy ways to help earn funds for our school. Just click on any of the links below and get all the information you need! We will keep you updated on our totals and what is purchased for our school! Big thanks to those who are already doing their part to make our great school even better!
- Box Tops For Education
Our school could earn up to $40,000.00 this year! There are 2 ways to start earning.
1. The Original Box Tops for Education.
Clip Box Tops. Find Box Tops on hundreds of your favorite products. Each Box Top is worth 10¢ to our school, up to $20,000.00 per year! Don't forget to leave the expiration date legible or we can't use it! Look for counter sheets to come home soon. Prizes for classes bringing in the most box tops each month! To view participating products,
Click here!
Need additional counter sheets or want to make a collection box? Just visitThe Box Tops Activity Center
2. The Box Tops for Education Marketplace.
Sign up free with Box Tops online. Get more ways to earn cash for our school-at no additional cost to you. Start every online shopping trip at the Marketplace. From Walmart, KB Toys, Limited Too, Nick Jr. and Gap to Cabelas, Home Depot, Target and Sears, there's a store for all your needs! Our school receives a donation of up to 22.5% from your qualifying purchase, up to $20,000 per year!! Start shopping here at,
The Marketplace!
Wanna Save BIG on your favorite Box Tops Products? Click here to print valuable money saving coupons on the products you love!- Welcome to eScrip!
Register your Safeway grocery club card, your debit, ATM and credit cards at www.escrip.com.
Here's How it Works:
Participating merchants will make contributions to Emerald Hills Elementary (Group ID# 8562198), based on purchases made by you, just by using the cards you have registered.
Your purchases are tracked and available to you online, allowing you to see just how much you are earning on your child's behalf! To sign up now, Click here!- Project A+
We have an exciting opportunity to share with you. We are taking part in a national fundraising program sponsored by Tyson Foods, Inc. called Tyson Project A+.
Through this program, we can raise as much as $12,000 for our school this year! The money we raise can go towards buying books or computers, making improvements to our buildings, or
anything else that we want.
All we have to do to participate is clip and save the entire Project A+ label from participating Tyson products. Each label we collect is worth 24¢ for our school.
A collection site has been set up at the school where you can drop off your redemption labels.
Let's support our school! Clip and save Tyson Project A+ labels today! To view a list of participating products,
Click here!- Campbell's Labels for Education - Save Labels - Get Free Stuff For Your School
Our School can obtain free educational equipment in exchange for labels from various Campbell's products.
With their new collection guidelines, earning points for your Labels for Education program is easier than ever! Remember, you no longer need to clip the entire label - just the UPC code itself!
Clip and save UPCs and lids from eligible products. They are worth 1 and 5 points each! To view eligible products,
Click here!
- Take Charge of Education with Target!
We've discovered a terrific way to raise funds for our school. It's super-easy, and all you have to do is use your Target® Visa® or Target® Card. We will receive a percentage of the amount of each purchase in the form of a cash donation from Target through the Take Charge of Education® program. To apply, Click here!or call 1-800-316-6142 to designate our school (ID # 106716).
If you would like to participate in Take Charge of Education but prefer an option that doesn't involve credit cards, you can choose the Target Check Card. It links directly to your existing checking account, with all the ongoing rewards of a REDcard credit account. To get it now, Click here! or to view our schools progress,Click here!- Albertsons Community Partners
Albertsons is proud to offer the Community Partners program, giving back for youth one shopping cart at a time!
Earning money for youth and education is now easier than ever - we've linked the Community Partners Card to the Preferred Savings Card. Shoppers will earn money for Emerald Hills Elementary - just by using their Preferred Savings Card. To register your Preferred Savings Card, Click here!- My Coke Rewards
To see our current point total, Click here now!
My Coke Rewards is the place to get rewards for drinking Coca-Cola products. Simply send your codes to school, drop them in the Coca Cola collection bin and we'll take care of the rest! For each code we enter, we'll collect points and redeem them for cool rewards for our kids!
Helping Hands
Lend a hand & volunteer @ EHE!
Help create a border to go around our school!
This year your PTO will recognize volunteers with our new Helping Hands Program.
Here's how it works:
Each time you volunteer your time at EHE,
Get a pre-cut "hand" from the office, near the volunteer sign-in book.Fill one out and deposit it into the collection envelope.The PTO will hang hands weekly!
Thank you for lending a hand to our teachers and students!!!
Laker Fitness Center @ EHE!
Some great things are taking place this year in our P.E. Departement!
Did you know your child has gained 15 extra minutes of class??? In the past, classes had two days of fitness @ 30 minutes each. This year each class will have two 45 minute classes! That's the equivalent of three regular fitness classes! Mr. Holme is very excited about this new change and the opportunities that it presents.
Don't forget to check out Mr. Holmes' new website packed with fun and informative information for you and your Laker!
Year Book
Year books are a great way to create a lifetime of memories of your child's school years.
and we are already thinking of this important project!
If you:
*Help in class
*Attend skate nights/Family nights
*Go on field trips
Remember to take a camera and snap pictures of these precious times.
Any pictures of classrooms, recess, etc., will be greatly appreciated.
Please sent your photos (marked Yearbook Photos) on a disk to the school office or email photos to:
chuck_eychaner@sumner.wednet.edu
Thanks Mr. Eychaner for taking on this project!
Reader Feedback
Parents, Staff and Students...
If you have any burning questions, brilliant suggestions, constructive criticisms or would just like to leave some words of encouragement, please leave us feedback, your input is very important to us!
Thanks!
Chuck Eychaner wrote
Congratulations on a terrific website, good information and a lot of fun. Our PTO is a Big Reason why it's Great to be a Laker!
Posted October 31, 2008
Jennifer Alex wrote
What a wonderful website!
Posted September 29, 2008
Shannon Wise wrote
Great Job on this site. Thank you for all your hard work!! This sure is helpful!
Posted September 26, 2008
Melissa Johnson wrote
Great site you guys - you have done an awesome job with getting so much information here! Love it!
Posted September 02, 2008
