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Join the Ross Elementary PTA! Make Things Happen for Your Kids! For just **$6** you can support our school’s efforts  to make these and many more programs part of __your__ child’s educational experience. Ross Elementary has a wonderful history of parents and teachers working together for the education of our children. I am looking forward to seeing you at school activities this year. Many of you are already involved in planning and implementing many great things for our school. If you are not, you may wonder

“What can I do to help?”

 * **Volunteer and Join a Committee**! School Committees need parents who can participate in all different ways. Some require that you be available for events and activities and others simply hope that you can trim box tops or provide clerical support.
 * **Participate in Fundraisers**! Each year the parent teacher organization contributes the equivalent of $63 per child to the school. That money pays for buses for field trips, assemblies, field day, Author’s day, assignment books and many other activities to support our school and teachers. Be sure to sign up at local stores like Target and Giant Eagle so that a portion of your purchases can go to our school (Last year we acquired 6 digital cameras this way). Clip Box Tops (raised more than $2000 last year). Our Raffle fundraisers in the Fall and Spring raised more than $8,000. By managing our own fundraisers we kept administrative costs very low and more than 90% of funds raised go to the school compared with the 40-50% of third party product sale fundraisers.
 * **Enjoy School Community Building and Enrichment Activities**! Each year the PTA sponsors a number of after school clubs for our students. These include Dance, Chess, Lab Ratz, Little Linguists, and Theater. We host family activities like book bingo nights and family fun events.

 As you can see, we have a lot of fun and exciting things planned for this school year. We need your help. The more help we have the easier it is to have a great fun event and no one feels overwhelmed. Please take a minute and go to the PTA website and find out more about how to volunteer, participate and enjoy the many activities of your parent teacher organization.

 Respectfully,  Janet Lukac, President

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