Hoffmann Lane PTA Newsletter S EPT EM B ER 2 0 1 4 PTA OFFICERS President- Jennifer Leslie 1st Vice President- Leslie Yura 2nd Vice President- Angel Turk Secretary- Heather Trevilion Treasurer- Monica Muennink MARK YOUR CALENDAR September 9th PTA Board Meeting at 9am in teacher’s lounge. All are welcome! October 2nd General PTA Meeting at 6:30 pm October 7th PTA Board Meeting at 9am in teacher’s lounge. All are welcome! October 17th Leopard Ramble- all day. October 23rd Pumpkin Night Welcome back to school HLES parents! The PTA is off to a swift start planning for the Leopard Ramble, our annual fundraiser that every student at HLES participates in on October 17th. We need PLENTY of help with Ramble as well as a co-chair, so if you are interested in volunteering, send me an email! Also upcoming is Pumpkin Night the week after Ramble and we need volunteers at that event as well. Parents and family members with young children have plenty of opportunities to help out throughout the year, as well as working parents. We do have two open chair positions. The first is Parent Education (putting together articles for the newsletter and Facebook page, and possibly organizing educational sessions for topics that interest parents i.e. bullying, handling social networking, etc.). The second open chair position is to welcome new families to HLES. If you are able to volunteer on a Friday, but cannot commit to every Friday, our PTA provides popcorn for each child in every class that has perfect attendance for the week. This is VERY popular with the kids! Finally, if you have not already joined the PTA, please do so. Membership forms should be coming home soon, as well as the Leopard Ramble information. Looking forward to making it a great year for our students, parents and staff! Jennifer Leslie [email protected] HLES PTA President LEOPARD RAMBLE VOLUNTEER If you are interested in volunteering please go to comalisd.org and complete an Online Volunteer Background Check Form as soon as possible. Please save Box Tops and Campbell’s Labels for Education to help HLES receive valuable educational material. This year’s Leopard Ramble will take place on Friday, October 17th. All money raised goes back to HLES for classroom enrichment. Sponsorships are available. Please contact Aimee Villanueva at [email protected] or 713-854-2884. WORKROOM We have a list of parents who want to help out in the workroom. Be looking for an email with information on upcoming training. We are excited to have you, and can always use more people! If you'd like to be involved with workroom, please contact one of us at [email protected] or [email protected]. Thanks! Lynn Reichert and Jennifer Felderhoff, Co-Chairs YEARBOOK A yearbook photo site will be set up shortly to allow you to submit photos for possible inclusion in the 2014-15 yearbook—thanks in advance for your participation! WATCH D.O.G.S. Join us on Facebook! Become a friend of the Hoffmann Lane PTA. Look for “HLES PTA”. The kickoff for our 2014-15 Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) program is scheduled for Tuesday, September 9, at 6:30 p.m. in the HLES cafeteria. Food and drinks will be served and lots of information regarding the Watch D.O.G.S. program will be shared. In order to allow everyone to devote their full attention to the program, this event is for adults only.