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.

Who could you reach with $7,500?

Please help support the New San Juan School District Performing and Visual Arts Center to be built at El Camino High School. It only takes three easy steps:

Raley's has launched a community giving campaign entitled Raley's Reach, asking northern California communities - "Who could you reach with $7,500?"

Here's how you can help, right now: ECArts, the group organized to create the new center, is seeking a $7,500 grant from Raley's toward conceptual drawings and environmental studies. To win this grant, supporters need to log on to a Raley's web site and vote, once each day until May 12. Visit

What You Can Do Today!

1. Sign up to vote at Raley's Reach

2. Vote for The San Juan School District Performing Arts Center ONCE A DAY, EVERY DAY from April 21 to May 12, 2010.

3. Tell your friends, family and co-workers via email, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter to VOTE FOR THE SJSD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER!

Raleys Reach winners will be announced May 14, 2010. The Top 5 vote getters will receive a $7,500 grant to implement their idea.

Together, we can make field trips and memories possible for Sacramento students - Vote Today!

This is such an important addition to our schools and to those of us who live in this area, that we're passing on a request to help (at no cost) get the work started. This will be a huge benefit to the community and all you need to do is:

sign in, vote, and tell pass this along to all your friends!!!!!

What are YOUR Favorite Summer Programs??

This time of year, many of us are looking for good summer programs for our kids. Have your kids attended a program that you would recommend? PTA would like to assemble a directory to help parents find quality activities for our kids this summer. Please take a few minutes to recommend up to five programs that you and/or your kids have enjoyed, or that you’ve heard were good even if you haven’t tried them out yet. Send your recommendations to us, and we’ll publish the results. Because registrations are already underway for some programs, we’d like to do this quickly.

You may submit up to 5 recommendations by paper to the front office, by e-mail to box1@cushings.com , or by filling out the form at http://cushings.com/dpmpta/ . Please include:

- the name of the program
- who runs the program
- where it’s located
- a brief description of the program and why you are recommending it
- any other comments
- your name and e-mail address (preferred) or phone number

Your name, e-mail address, and phone number will only be used if we need to clarify your comments.

Please submit your recommendations by by next Friday, April 30th.

To save on paper and time, the finished directory will be available mostly by e-mail. Some paper copies can be printed for those who need them. Thank you for your recommendations!

Jog-a-Thon Wrap Up

Jog-a-Thon donations have now topped $7500!

In this tough economy, we are very grateful for your generosity. Thank you!

Congratulations to those students who won the drawing prizes for Sports Authority merchandise: Alex Pulido (grand prize bicycle, $130 value), Zachary Muilenberg and Elena Perez ($50 gift cards), Austin Mohamed, Ian Jones, Magnolia Appleton, Allie Cloninger, Peter Vickland, Logan Miller, Amanda Carroll, and Brendan Cushing ($25 gift cards).

And finally, congratulations to those students who ran the most laps in their classrooms: Noah Wavrin, Quintin Stpierre, Angelo Thompson, Matthew Capetillo, Skyler Owens,William Seubert, Kayden Bates, Zainulabdeen Jabbar, Alberto Amezcua, Adam Kroll, Louis Gallia, Sam Goodman, Trey Schlingmann, Jose Madrigal, Hannah Gonzales-Moore, Casey Fowler, lkaika Schulte, Connor Ettinger, Alec Londeree, lan Jones, Svibor Turkovich, Jose Betancourt-Mejia, Christina Kennedy, Zachary Muilenburg, Charles McMurry, Joseph Simpson, Ryan Marcoccia, lvan Partsey, Jaaziah Reese, Jack Baer, and Riley Tucker. Riley ran 24 laps (3 miles), a school best. Jack, Charlie, Joseph, and Zachary ran 21 laps (2.6 miles). These top runners will be invited to a special lunch. The Kindergarteners will receive a special snack back!

Please contact Mike Cushing box1@cushings.com with any suggestions on how to improve next year's Jog-a-Thon.

Teacher Appreciation Week May 3-7

We are planning a "SUPER TOP SECRET" surprise for our teachers and staff. If you would like to join in on the planning and execution of events for that week, please contact Laurie Clay at 916-607-1507 at dangsmom@sbcglobal.net.

April 24 is Crafting with our Kids Day

Only 1 more day to sign up!!!

We have a very exciting day planned, which includes a lunch with admission and a wide assortment of craft projects for both adults and children! Please look for the “Crafting With our Kids Day” Pre-Registration form that will be coming home this week. On the form you will need to pre-register for lunch as well as any/all craft project workshops offered. The [nominal] fees for the projects and admission cover the cost of the materials provided and lunch. All pre-registration forms/payments are due by Wednesday, April 21^st so the PTA can determine the amount of materials needed for each project as well as the number of lunches to provide. Please turn the registration forms and payments in to your child’s teacher. It will be a great opportunity to spend some “quality crafting time” with your kids and other DPM families! We are still looking for volunteers help supervise workshops, so if you or someone you know is interested, please contact Annette Evans or Deb Osfeld

Poem by Anna Chriss (3rd grade)

I believe I can achieve.

I am Anna Chriss

I hope to be sucessful in life.

I love to do gymnastics

I'm good at singing and dancing

I want to be drug free

I'm glad I am a drug free person

I think life is great?