From the PTO
First Semester Fun Lunch Deadline THIS FRIDAY – September 27th!
Fun Lunch will be catered by California Pizza Kitchen (CPK). The cost for each Fun Lunch is $5.75 and includes a choice of an individual cheese pizza, macaroni and cheese; or a salad with grilled chicken, ranch dressing and goldfish crackers. All lunches include a bottle of water, carrots, applesauce, and dessert (Oreo cookies or Rice Krispie treat). CPK lunches are peanut free.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide refunds if your child is absent on a Fun Lunch day.
If participating in Fun Lunch presents a financial hardship for your family please contact Stephanie Haupt in the Richards main office (414) 963-3951. Fun Lunch scholarships are available and the PTO makes an effort to include every child who wants to participate in the Fun Lunch program. Please contact Fun Lunch chairs Ann Marie (amprekop@gmail.com) or Kristi (kristientwistle@yahoo.com) with any questions.
FIRST SEMESTER FUN LUNCH DATES: October 18, 2019, November 8, 2019, November 22, 2019, December 6, 2019, December 20, 2019 and January 10, 2020
How to Place your Fun Lunch Order:
- Login to your Membership Toolkit/BuzzBook account and click on Store in the main navigation, or on the Richards PTO Store icon. All Fun Lunch orders must be placed online via Membership Toolkit. Need to create an account? Visit richardspto.membershiptoolkit.com. Creating an account is free, easy, and only takes a minute. For more information visit richardspto.org/how-to-join1
IMPORTANT: If your child is opting out of Fun Lunch altogether, we still need you to submit an order form! Please select "Not Participating on This Day," for each of the Fall Fun Lunch dates. You will need to go through the checkout process, and will not be charged for any of the lunches.
- Please select a menu item for each Fun Lunch date. If your child is not participating in Fun Lunch on that date please select "Not Participating on This Day." You will not be charged for Fun Lunches your child is not participating in.
- After you have made your menu selections click "Add to Cart." The system will not let you proceed unless you have made a menu selection for each Fun Lunch date.
- Repeat steps 1-3 for each of your children in grades K5-5th. To pay for your order(s) click on the shopping cart icon. Please make sure to check out even if your child is not participating in Fun Lunch.
Please note that CPK is continuing to generously offer a free meal to Richards students when they dine-in with their family. Students who participate in the Fun Lunch program will receive a free kid’s meal when their family is dining. A raffle ticket will be given to each dining student for a chance to win an embroidered chef coat. Raffle tickets will be randomly selected and chef coats will be presented at Fun Lunch. Students that wear their chef coat to CPK will be allowed to make their own pizza. Please note: Only students dining with THEIR families will be discounted and an adult entrée must be purchased for every kids’ meal. This offer is not valid with any other offers or discounts (including the CPK Rewards Program), and is not valid to groups or sports teams.
Family Fun Night and Scholastic Book Fair
Save the Date! Wednesday, October 16th from 5-8pm for Family, Food, Friends, Ferrets, and Fun! The Richards PTO invites all Richards families to Family Fun Night- featuring Streetza Pizza, Meat on the Street and Cupcake-a-Rhee Food Trucks, Animal Quest Petting Zoo, and the Scholastic Book Fair. Look for more information about the event in next week’s Thursday folder, on Richards PTO Facebook page and on richardspto.org.
Box Tops Due October 25th
The Box Tops for Education program is changing the way we can earn cash for our school! Over the summer, participating brands have begun to change their packaging from the traditional Box Tops clip to the new Box Tops label.
Going forward, instead of clipping from packages and checking expiration dates, all Box Tops will be earned digitally by scanning your receipt. The Box Tops for Education team has worked hard to build a NEW-and-improved, user-friendly Box Tops mobile app, available now. The new app features state-of-the-art technology that allows you to scan your store receipt, find participating products and instantly add Box Tops to our school's earnings online. Visit BTFE.com to see how to download the app!If you still have traditional Box Tops clips at home, make sure to send them to school. We will still earn cash for all clipped Box Tops until they expire. Better yet, you can “double dip” during the packaging transition by clipping traditional Box Tops AND scanning your store receipt containing participating products.
MEMBERSHIP TOOLKIT
This message applies to you if you still need to:
- Confirm/update your contact information listed in the BuzzBook, and/or
- Have not created a Membership Toolkit account.
Every Richards family needs a Membership Toolkit account. Membership Toolkit is the service the PTO uses to manage the BuzzBook, Richards school directory. It is also how parents will send and receive Room Parent communication, place orders for Fun Lunch, Spirit Wear, Yearbooks, etc. Without a Membership Toolkit account, you will not have access to any of these things. Please take a moment now to create your account!
Just go to: richardspto.membershiptoolkit.com
- Create a new account in Membership Toolkit (if needed)
- Update your student(s) teacher
- Review your household information - did you move, get a new phone #, want to add a different e-mail address?
- Determine what information you want displayed in the BuzzBook
- Join the PTO (optional)
Membership Toolkit accounts are free and will grant families access to Room Parent message boards, and allow you to order Fun Lunch, Spirit Wear, Yearbooks, etc. through the PTO store. ONLY PTO MEMBERS will have access to the online BuzzBook. Membership for the 2019-2020 school year is $20. Joining the PTO does not automatically sign you up to volunteer for anything. It’s a financial contribution to the PTO.
Membership Tool Kit is the system the PTO uses to manage the BuzzBook. The BuzzBook is a service provided by the PTO to its members. Everything you need to know about the BuzzBook and Membership Toolkit is on the Richards PTO website: richardspto.org.
Visit richardspto.membershiptoolkit.com to create your account and/or update your BuzzBook information.
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