Stanford Montessori PTO

What is Food Lion’s Lion’s Shop & Share?
Each time you shop at Food Lion and use your MVP card, a portion of your total grocery purchase will be donated to our school!!! This is a WONDERFUL opportunity that Food Lion is providing and a GREAT way for our school to earn money.

Listed below are details on how you can link your Food Lion MVP Card to our school and start earning Money for Stanford TODAY!

How do I register my Food Lion MVP Card under Stanford Montessori?
We have our school registered with Food Lion under Stanford Montessori PTO. We must have at least 25 MVP cards linked to our school to participate. However, the more cards registered for our school, the more money we can earn when shopping at Food Lion.

It is fast, easy and convenient to register your MVP card. You can register your card by the phone or on the Web.

Phone Registration:
Please contact customer relations at 704-633-8250, extension 3810. Please have your MVP card number ready to provide to the Food Lion Customer Relations Representative.

Internet/Web Registration:
Go to FoodLion

• Click the Select Organization Box
• Select TN for the State
• Select Nashville for the City
• Select Stanford Montessori PTO as the Organization
• Click the OK button. This will take you back to the main Register MVP Cards Page
• Click the Add MVP Cards button
• Enter your MVP Card Number, First Name, Last Name, Phone Number and click the Next button. **Stanford Montessori PTO should already be showing in the Organization box.

You will see all the information you have entered. Make sure everything correct, ESPECIALLY your MVP card number and our school name. Once you have confirmed your information, click the Finished button. You are done!

How much money can our school earn?
At the end of each quarter Food Lion will divide the funds proportionally among the LionShop & Share organizations depending on their total accumulated sales. There will be a cap of $350 per organization per quarter. Quarters run:
**January 1 – March 31, April 1 – June 30, July 1 – September 30, and October 1 – December 31**

What if you lose/damage your MVP card and are issued a new card?
You will need to link your new card number to our school via the website or by calling Food Lion Customer Relations at 704-633-8250, extension 3810.

Questions:
Please feel free to contact Victoria Collins at 268.7647 or victoriacollins07@yahoo.com

Please Register your Food Lion MVP Card today for Stanford Montessori

Join our student for a walk to school. Here is how it works:

• We will meet at the Food Lion parking lot at 7:20.
• We will leave at 7:30.

Why is Stanford participating? Walk to School Day is a simple activity with tremendous benefits:

• To experience the most accessible, enjoyable, and effective exercise – walking!
• To create a cleaner environment – fewer cars mean cleaner air.
• To teach pedestrian safety and identify safe routes to school.
• To raise awareness of good or bad walking conditions in our community.
• Local community leaders, parents, and children will spend valuable time together.

October 3rd. Don’t miss it!

Bring your cameras to help take photos for the yearbook.

I will post the time and meeting place later.

Friday night, October 19th 5:30 – 8:00

Theme baskets and Silent Auction

• Each year the primary and elementary classes choose a theme to represent their rooms.
• Parents are asked to donate items that correlate with the chosen theme of the basket.
• The baskets will be placed in both a silent auction and a regular auction.
• The baskets range in both size and price.

An important note will be sent home with basket details from the classroom contact parent.

Please contact Melissa Cheatham form individual donations to the auctions.

Spaghetti Supper

Tickets are going on sale soon. The spaghetti is provided by Ellendale’s Restaurant. The desserts are sold separately and worth every penny – they are delicious! Bring your family and friends and enjoy a wonderful meal.

HOW TO HELP:

• Real the information sent home
• Get in your volunteer hours (daytime or evening)
• Return the needed auction items in a timely manner
• Real the school sign for information

This PTO event is very important. The monies raised benefit our entire school. There are so many easy and fun ways to participate. Don’t miss this opportunity to support your child and Stanford Montessori.

Thank you!

What a deal! These books are selling for $20 and half of it goes to right back to help the Stanford Montessori kids.

Time is up. Get your money in!

Hello All,

I want to welcome Johnai Johnson as our New Secretary and Lisa Marasco as the Parent Contact. Our Next PTO meeting is September the 17th.

Thank you,

Christy Kipp

Greetings,

The McGavock Cluster had a meeting last month and here are a few highlights of the meeting:

• Greg Patterson is the Director for the McGavock Cluster schools
• Teachers must submit a monthly report to their Director
• Metro has about 16 schools with a single sex classroom- (a pilot test)
• Virtual campus – advance courses not offered at a school, students can take the class online
• Metro schools missed the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) by 1%
• Personal Learning Plan (PLP)- monitor students progress – plan follows student each year to the next grade level
• Cane Ridge High School is opening in 2008

Mike Hendrix (615-366-6272) has a lot of information on fund raisers. Fund raisers that were discuss were:

• Box top websites
• Chick Filet
• Kroger Cares
• Publix

Other things that are fun for the kids:

• Field trip to the recycle system
• TN critters (come to the schools)

I need to let the McGavock Cluster know if Stanford has any problems/issues that the Cluster can help us with. In addition, the Cluster wants to know about the good things or success stories that we have at Stanford.

Please let me know what you want presented to the Cluster from the above request.

Thanks and have a great day.

Geneva E. London