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Family Fun Night planning meeting

Monday, Jan. 10 at 7 pm in the cafeteria

At the Dec. 16th meeting, some class representatives selected class basket themes and area games. Please click on the tabs above to see what classes have signed up for.

If you would like to sign up you class for a class basket theme or game, please click here to send an email to Tina Anderson.

Volunteers Needed to Help Solicit

Although it is months away, we need volunteers to help solicit area merchants starting now. You can do this as part of your regular shopping or errands routine – just drop off our flyer to the owners or managers of the businesses you normally frequent. You can ask friends, family members or neighbors who you know may own a business or would like to donate an item or service to the fundraiser.

If you would like to volunteer or donate to the 2011 Silent Auction, please click here to send an email to Tina Anderson.

 

Family Fun Night: 6-9 pm, March 12

CLICK HERE FOR A FORM FOR YOUR ADVANCE TICKETS NOW!
Only children pay to enter, and admission includes wristband to play Fun Fair games, loot bag, and food & drink vouchers at the Watering Hole (cafeteria). Adults enter for FREE! Tickets are $10, $30 maximum per family.
Pizza ($2 a slice) and drinks ($1 can/bottle) will be available for cash purchase at event on March 12.
Popcorn, lemonade and water in cups are FREE for everyone, all evening.

You can also purchase through the advance ticket order form:

Fox Mill Favorites raffle tickets: Students get a chance to win an outing or activity with that special Fox Mill teacher or staff member. Fox Mill Favorites buckets located in auction area. To see what teachers have donated, click here to visit the Fox Mill Favorites page . Advance tickets are $5 for a set of 5; single tickets will be sold on Family Fun Night.

Great Wolf Lodge raffle tickets: Enjoy a family getaway at an indoor water park with gift cards in the amount of $600 — enough for a two-night stay on a weekend of your choice. Tickets are $10 each or 3 for $25.

Click here for Baja Fresh order form. All Baja Fresh orders must be preordered – no sales at event on March 12. Baja Fresh orders MUST be received in the school office no later than Wednesday, March 10.

Volunteers Needed!

Family Fun Night is on March 12, 6 – 9 p.m. We have a new theme this year:  An African Safari. Mark you calendar now. Ticket order forms will be online soon.  Many favorite games are returning again this year. We’ll also have several new games. Plan to come on out and have a good time!

Each homeroom will be supplying volunteers to staff all of the games and activities we have at Family Fun Night. We need 275 – 300 volunteers, working in shifts to make this a successful event. Room parents have already begun to contact parents you for donations and to volunteer your time. Please be generous, especially with you time, when your room parent(s) contact you. We need everyone’s help.

In addition to donations and volunteer help that the room parents are requesting, we have some other needs.  If you can help out with any of these, please contact annferraro@aol.com.

• Old wildlife calendars. I’m looking for pictures of African wildlife.
• Make new theme-related flags for the cake walk and stuffed animal walk.
• “Sanitize” the donated stuffed animals for our Plunder the Jungle game (a cake walk – only with stuffed animals).  Pick up donations from school, run them through your dryer, and wipe off with a Lysol sheet.
• Event security.  We need several people at Family Fun Night to be identifiable as Event Security during the event, 5:45-9:00. There will be a short training meeting on March 4 at 7:00.  We must have at least 4, but others can combine duties with BEA managers. We need 5 people, 1 in each BEA plus the gym, to answer questions or resolve problems for shift volunteers.  BEA managers will spend the evening in the designated area, 5:45 – 9:15. Moms who are reading this, please also think “Dads”.  We especially welcome dads to help out as BEA managers and security.

Having trouble with SignUp Genius?

Some parents have indicated they’ve been having trouble signing up for Family Fun Night donations and game shifts through their invitation.

Here is a workaround, but you’ll need the e-mail of the person who created it — and you should know who that is via the invitation!

1. Go to www.signupgenius.com
2. Click on the green “Find a Signup” tab at the top
3. The next window will ask for the e-mail address of the creator of the signup. Type in the address.
4. The next window will list your signup. If the creator has made more than 1 signup, click on your class.
5. Click on the “Sign Up” button next to the item you wish to donate or shift you wish to volunteer for. If you wish to sign up for more than 1 item, you can do so using the pull-down menu under the “Qty” column.

Still having problems? Please e-mail Therese Howe at theresehowe@hotmail.com with details about what you’re doing and what’s going wrong.

Thank you for your patience!

Next Family Fun Night Meeting: Wednesday, Jan. 20th

The PTA sponsored Family Fun Night will be held on Friday, March 12 this year. This is our biggest social of the year. We have a Fun Fair for the kids with games and activities throughout the school building, a Food Court in the cafeteria and Silent Auction and Raffle in the library. New this year, the Silent Auction bidding will be online. Raffles will be live at the event.

All Fox Mill parents are invited to come the last Family Fun Night planning meetings on Wed. Jan. 20 at 7:00 p.m. in the library.

If you haven’t been to Family Fun Night before, come to one of the meetings to find out what Family Fun Night is all about. Seasoned families, come find out what’s new this year. You’ll especially want to learn about the new bidding process for the Silent Auction. Family Fun Night is a huge undertaking. We ask all of our families to pitch in help make this a success. Room parents, please make sure that at least one representative from each class attends one or the other meeting.

Preschoolers (with quiet activities) are welcome to tag along. Questions? annferraro@aol.com