Reminder – PTO Meeting on Friday, 2/17 at 1:30 PM.
Monday, 2/20 is a Student Holiday!
www.balfour.com
Yearbooks will be on sale for the low price of $30 until December 31, 2016. After December 31, the cost of yearbooks will be $35. Parents can order a yearbook and place ad/dedications for their child at Balfour.com. This year, the yearbook is offering QR codes that will link parents to videos of the grade level programs. Order a yearbook today!
Submit photos to the yearbook! Visit images.balfour.com to upload from your computer. Use project number 718770 and password Kaufman. You can also search for the “Balfour Image Share” app in your app marketplace to share pictures from your phone.
Upcoming Spirit Nights
January 12th – Spirit Night at Sk8Town
January 24th – Spirit Night at Kendra Scott
January 26th – Spirit Night Jerry Built Burgers
Box Tops – Several classes are close to the mark. Keep sending in Box Tops. Make sure to grab Box Tops from relatives during the holidays.
When you are at school check out the Box Tops poster board in the cafeteria to see how your class is doing.
Next submission dates:
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Friday, February 10, 2017
Thank you for the UPS Store Rayford Road/45 location for mailing in our Box Tops for free. Thanks to Michele Blair, Estera Kryshu, Jennifer Wiggins, Sarah Mabile, and Bianca Campos for helping clip, sort and count. If anyone else is interested in helping with the Box Tops Clip and Count Club, please contact KimberlyHolmes, Kaufman Box Tops Coordinator at [email protected]
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There’s still time to Shop & Volunteer through Thursday, December 8th. http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e084aaba729ab9-peppermint1
Please Vote for our very own Science Sisters in the 2016 Inspiring Curiosity Contest!
Vote daily through December 9th.
The Peppermint Village Holiday Store will be next week, December 5th-8th. This is a place where children can buy inexpensive items for the people on their holiday shopping list. Adult volunteers help the kids make their purchases and bag the items. We need many volunteers for a successful store!! Please sign up if you can. Your help is greatly appreciated! http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e084aaba729ab9-peppermint1
PTO will be catering an appreciation luncheon for the teachers and staff on Tuesday, December 13th. We are asking for donations of homemade or store bought desserts to complete the meal. Donated items will need to be delivered to the school no later than 10:00 that Tuesday morning.
We would also like to have parents volunteer to work lunch duty so that our teachers and staff can eat lunch together. This entails walking around the cafeteria and monitoring students during their lunch time and helping them open items as needed. http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e084aaba729ab9-teacher5
Yearbooks are on sale for $30 until Dec. 31st at Balfour.com. After the 31st, the price will increase to $35. Yearbook dedications/ads can also be designed at the Balfour website. This year the yearbook will include QR codes. These QR codes will link to videos of the grade level programs.
Submit photos to the yearbook! Visit images.balfour.com to upload from your computer. Use project number 718770 and password Kaufman. You can also search for the “Balfour Image Share” app in your app marketplace to share pictures from your phone.
Several classes are close to the mark. Keep sending in Box Tops. Make sure to grab Box Tops from relatives during the holidays. When you are at school check out the Box Tops poster board in the cafeteria to see how your class is doing.
Next submission dates:
Monday, December 12, 2016
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Friday, February 10, 2017
Thank you for the UPS Store Rayford Road for mailing in our Box Tops for free. Thanks to Michele Blair, Estera Kryshu, Jennifer Wiggins, Sarah Mabile, and Bianca Campos for helping clip, sort and count. If anyone else is interested in helping with the Box Tops Clip and Count Club, please contact Kimberly Holmes, Kaufman Box Tops Coordinator at [email protected]
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Generation Texas Week
November 14-18, CISD will be celebrating Generation Texas Week. This is a time we emphasize the wonderful possibilities for a child’s future. We encourage all students to think about college as the next step after high school graduation. To celebrate this week we invite you to participate with us:
Monday – Careers “Dress for Success” – Students dress up as their favorite career and teachers dress up as “If I hadn’t been a teacher, I would have been”
Tuesday – Back to Your Future Day – Wear your favorite college shirts, hats, socks, etc.
Wednesday – Transitions Day – so what’s after Kaufman? Wear a feeder zone shirt: Vogel, Irons, or Oak Ridge.
Thursday – Hats Off To A Successful Future! Wear hats to school.
Friday – No Dress Up.
Food Drive for the Montgomery County Food Bank
This week is also our annual food drive for the Montgomery County Food Bank to help feed families within Montgomery County. Students may bring items to place in the grade level bins that will located in the cafeteria all week. We appreciate your support for this wonderful organization!
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Spirit Day at Crust Pizza
Take a night off from cooking Tuesday, Nov 8th – Pick up a pizza from Crust Pizza on Rayford and mention Kaufman to raise funds for our school!
Box Tops
Don’t forget Box Tops are due, Thursday, Nov 10th!
PTO Meeting
General PTO Meeting this Friday, Nov 11th at 1:30 PM. Please join us to see how you can get involved with all that is going at Kaufman.
Food Drive
Pick up a few extra non-perishable food items when you grocery shop this weekend. Next week is our food drive, Nov 14-18.
Book Fair Volunteers Needed this Tuesday and Thursday Evening – http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090f4aa8a92ca7fa7-book
PTO Board Meeting on Friday, November 4th at 1:30 PM.
Mock Election Volunteers Needed on Tuesday November 8th – http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e084aaba729ab9-mock
Box Tops
Congratulations to Mrs. Cordaway’s 2nd grade class. They are the first class to reach the 50% mark for a Box Tops party. Several classes are close to the mark. Keep sending in Box Tops. When you are at school check out the Box Tops poster board in the cafeteria to see how your class is doing.
Next submission dates:
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Monday, December 12, 2016
Thank you for the UPS Store Rayford Road for mailing in our Box Tops for free. Thanks to Michele Blair, Estera Kryshu, Jennifer Wiggins, Sarah Mabile, and Bianca Campos for helping clip, sort and count. If anyone else is interested in helping with the Box Tops Clip and Count Club, please contact Kimberly Holmes, Kaufman Box Tops Coordinator at [email protected]
Red Ribbon Week- October 24-28
Monday – October 24 “Paws-itvely Proud To Be Drug Free”
Wear red or a Kaufman shirt
*Students will receive a Red Ribbon sticker.
Tuesday – October 25 “Turn Your Back On Drugs”
Wear shirts backwards.
Wednesday – October 26 “United We Stand Against Bullying and Drugs”
Wear red, white and blue.
*Students will receive a red ribbon friendship bracelet.
Thursday – October 27 “Make Drugs History”
Dress from your favorite decade.
*Students will receive a pencil or a bookmark.
Friday – October 28 “Your Choices Are the Key to Your Dreams”
Wear your favorite pajamas.
Chick-fil-A Spirit Night is Tuesday, October 25, 4:30-7:30 PM.
Kaufman parents
,
Thank you so much for participating in this year’s Lights, Camera, Cougars Fun Run at Kaufman Elementary!
As of right now we have collected 76% of what was pledged. That is great, but there’s still more to reach our goal for school improvement.
Please help us reach our 100% collection goal!
The second Due Date for pledges is Friday, October 14.
Checks can be written to the Kaufman Elementary PTO and turned into your student’s teacher or into the front office.
Also, sponsors are able to pay online if an email address was entered at the time of the pledge.
Thank you,
Kaufman PTO
Great job on the Fun Run🐾Kaufman Cougars🐾!
Of course, now we still have to get all our pledges collected. Our goal is 100% collected. 👍
Are you following PTO on Facebook?
🐾Kaufman Parents🐾,
With one night left before the Fun Run tomorrow, we still need 9 States for our Dancing on the Fly Challenge.
Here they are 👉: Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia.
Please reach out to one or two more sponsors tonight! If we meet our fundraising goal, we get to slime Mrs. Oliver!
Boosterthon
We are just 2 days away from the Fun Run! There are still a few volunteer slots open: https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/30e084aaba729ab9-lights/7342600.
Friday, October 7th
2nd & 4th Grade: 8:10-9:25 AM
Kinder & 1st Grade: 9:30-10:45 AM
4th Grade: 10:50 AM-12:05 PM
There is still time to get pledges in at FunRun.com
Box Tops
Reminder that Box Tops are due Monday, October 10th.
Books
The first A/R store of the year is coming and we need your help assisting the children with purchasing their rewards using their points they have earned. Please sign up for a shift. http://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090f4aa8a92ca7fa7-arstore.
🐾Weekend Challenge🐾
When Kaufman families get $90 or $3 pledge per lap or more in new pledges this weekend they’ll earn their regular rewards plus the bonus reward:
Your child brought home 📜flyers talking about the weekend challenge!
Student School Wide Incentive From PTO:
• Students hit the 50 State Challenge— Dancing on the Fly
• Hit the school’s $50K profit goal – Principal Oliver gets slimed!
• Students who collect $350.00 or more get a “STAR STUDDED RECESS”
with popcorn, movie style candy treat, and their very own hand printed
star
• Top student with the most funds collect in each grade level will receive
a $25.00 gift card to the movies!
You can also log into 📲funrun.com 💻for more information.
If some of your family & friends do not have online
access to funrun.com and want to pledge on behalf of your child, you can register the pledge for your family member and/or friend.
Just simply login to your child’s funrun.com account, choose a per lap or flat donation ,then add their name. You do not have to submit a payment on their behalf unless you choose to.
That sponsor can then mail in the check made out to Kaufman Elementary PTO with the child’s complete name in the memo area.
Have them 
mail their check to our school:
Kaufman Elementary School PTO
2760 Northridge Forest, Spring, Texas 77386
Hey Kaufman Family, Our Biggest Fundraiser has arrived!
Backyard Box Office Fun Run Video https://vimeo.com/162027419
Just for logging onto funrun.com, every student will receive a secret pocket band.
There’s a secret pocket in it :)
But wait, there’s more…
For every student that gets a pledge tonight, they’ll earn a halo disc.
So go online to https://funrun.boosterthon.com/auth/login and register your child before you go to bed today!
We have a few volunteer opportunities:
- Library – Mondays 11 a – 12pm
- Library – Thursdays 1 p – 12 pm
- PTO Meeting Signs – This person will put the signs out before each meeting and pick them up after. Please email [email protected] for information.
