Show your support - Wednesday June 2

Would you like to find out what is in the works for the next couple of years at DPM? Would you like to find out how you can help be a part of it? Join us for the PTA Meeting this Wednesday June 2 where Ms. Springer will be presenting the Site Strategic Plan. This is where the committees reveal what they have developed for the future of DPM. Join us at 6:00 pm in room 5 for this important meeting. Show your support!!

Book your summer plans through GoodShop.com and DPM earns money

As you start to make your summer travel plans, keep in mind that if you first go to www.GoodShop.com before booking your hotel or car rental, the online merchants such as Priceline, Jet Blue, Hotwire, TripAdvisor, Best Western, and Budget will donate part of every purchase to our school. It takes just a few seconds to go to www.goodshop.com, select DPM Elementary as your charity, and then click through to your favorite travel site or store and shop as usual. The retailer donates a percentage of each purchase to DPM PTA at no additional cost. You can even download their new toolbar to make it easier and faster!

Don’t start your Summer without a Grocery Card!

If you shop at SaveMart, FoodMaxx, Safeway, or Bel Air/Raley’s, please contact Shannon Larsen to get signed up for a grocery card. The grocery cards allow the businesses a way to make donations to benefit our school. These programs all donate a percentage of your purchases to our school at no cost to you. DPM PTA thanks you!

Box Tops / Campbell ’s Labels collection – LAST CALL!

As many Box Tops expire in June, please turn in your stash to the collection can in your classroom or in the Campbell ’s bin in the office lobby no later than Thursday, May 27^th. Thank you all so much for your collection efforts this year. We raised $1,250!!!

Teacher Appreciation Week Update

Monday marked the start of Teacher Appreciation Week and it has been a week full of surprises for our awesome DPM teachers. In appreciation for all of their hard work, the super secret surprise was revealed Monday morning when they came to school:

When they left school on Friday, the staff room looked like this:



But little did they know, the PTA had a plan....after some new paint, furniture, curtains, decorations and some teamwork the staff room had a whole new look.

When the teachers returned Monday morning there was a huge surprise waiting:





THANK YOU DPM TEACHERS FOR ALL YOU DO!!!

$5,000 GoodSearch Giveaway - Three Days Only!

GoodSearch will donate $1 (up to $5,000 total) for every toolbar that is downloaded between May 19th at 12 noon and May 21st at 12 noon Eastern! To help our cause benefit from this contest, please download our toolbar now by following this link - http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/del-paso-manor-elementary-school-pta


Our new toolbar is free to download and allows you to raise money for our cause virtually every time you search or shop online! Once added to IE or Firefox, each time you shop at more than 1,400 stores (from Amazon to Zazzle!) a percentage of your purchase will automatically be donated to our cause - at no cost to you (and you may even save money as the toolbar also provides you thousands of discount coupons and free shipping offers!). The toolbar also has a search box and each time you search the Internet, about a penny is donated to our cause.

Please hurry and do this now so that we can earn the $1 bonus per toolbar!

And, please pass this along to all of your friends. The two minutes it takes to add this toolbar to your browser can make a lifetime of difference for our cause!

Get the toolbar NOW! http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/del-paso-manor-elementary-school-pta

New PTA Officers Announced!!!

Congratulations to our new PTA officers for 2010-11!

Shannon Larsen - President
Annette Evans - Vice President
Diana Tomasetti - Treasurer
Tracy Hinojosa - Secretary
Doreen Adams - Financial Secretary
Julia Bilaver – Auditor

And to our outgoing officers Mike Cushing, Stephanie Miranda, Laurie Clay, and Deb Osfeld, thank you for your service to the school during 2009-10! We really appreciate your time and efforts.