Hello friends,

The 2008-09 PTA group hopes you will all attend this first meeting of this school year! We promise to be timely, organized and enthusiastic. We’d love to have you all in attendance.

If you can, please forward this reminder to some of your BV friends and encourage them to get involved this school year. We have many fun plans for the year – but it only happens if we have parental involvement.

See you Tuesday, Sept 9th at 6 PM in the School Library. Cookies will be served! Homework Club next door in the GT Room supervised by a Coronado HS Students

Regular meetings will be the second Tuesday of each month at 6 pm

Best regards,

Beth Roalstad
VP, of the BV PTA

Our Open House will be held on Tuesday, September 16 from 6-7:30 p.m., in the Gym.

Visit our PTA table, join for $10, and your new PTA membership will include a meal ticket for your immediate family.

There will be sub sandwiches, chips and drinks.

Best of all, along with a musical presentation by the students, there will be a Tiger Jumping House located just outside the Gym

—we look forward to seeing you all there!

Please join us on Saturday, October 4, in Old Colorado City for the annual Coronado Homecoming Parade.

Students and their families are encouraged to participate in this parade and show their school spirit.

We would like to have a small flatbed trailer if possible to decorate. Please contact Natasha Walker at 282-2868 if you are able to assist with this.

PTA will provide streamers and balloons for decorations.

The PTA will be holding the second annual garage sale on Saturday, October 25th. If you have any gently
used items that you would like to donate, please bring them to the gym on Friday, October 24th.

If you have any large items, can volunteer to help or have any questions, please call Kathy New at 719-634-7342.

We will continue to host Family Movie Night each month with students choosing the feature presentation by voting on a pre-screened selection of family rated movies.

Please bring a chair or blanket and join us for popcorn and drinks along with other snacks.

It’s a great time to kick back and enjoy a favorite movie on the big screen.

We received so much positive feedback that we will be selling Dutch Mill bulbs again.

Look for all the information in your child’s Friday Folder. The money raised will support student enrichment activities and the Back Yard Project.

For new parents, the Back Yard Project is a long-term undertaking to improve the playground and other areas of the school grounds for the benefit of the students and the entire neighborhood. One of our improvements from last years fundraising are the two “spinning seats” added to our playground last spring.

Order forms are due back to the school by Friday, September 19.

A pizza party will be awarded to the class that returns the most completed order forms and also to the
class that has the highest in sales.

Welcome to yet another incredible school year here at Buena Vista!

We, the PTA board, are excited about all the wonderful activities planned for the 2008-2009 school year!

Most importantly, we are looking forward to seeing both old and new faces at our monthly meetings. Regular PTA meetings will be held the 2nd Tuesday of every month from 6-7 p.m. in the school library.

We have started something new this year to accommodate families attending PTA meetings. We will host a homework club for children of all ages in the adjoining classroom. There will be an IB student from Coronado High School present to help with homework, reading and oversee activities for younger children. It is our primary goal to expand our PTA community. We hope this accommodation will encourage PTA participation.

We thank you in advance for supporting your children and their school through your participation in PTA! We will see you at our first meeting on September 9!

Your PTA Board—
Natasha Walker, President;
Beth Roalstad, Vice President;
Kathy New, Secretary;
Ruth Roland Treasurer.