Windom Community School PTO

🐺Happy first day Windom! 🎉

🐺🎉 The first day of school is TOMORROW!! We're so excited to welcome the Wolf Pack. We need lots of volunteers to make it a safe and fun week for all. Please sign up below.
Email [email protected] with any questions.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uFwjVrWma_l5SsxkbNQALuyKgCH1T1olo4k8EC-RCHE/edit?usp=drivesdk

🐺🎉 The first day of school is coming up!! We're so excited to welcome the Wolf Pack. We need lots of volunteers to make it a safe and fun week for all. Please sign up below.
Email [email protected] with any questions.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uFwjVrWma_l5SsxkbNQALuyKgCH1T1olo4k8EC-RCHE/edit?usp=drivesdk

🐺Woooooooo

Your Windom staff is ready to go! We’re so excited to welcome our Wolves back. Have a great weekend and we’ll see grades 1-5 on Tuesday and our new little wolf pups on Thursday.

🐺🥪 Lunchroom volunteer sign up
Help in the lunchroom is always needed and appreciated! Just check in at the office and head down to the cafeteria.
Kindergarten and 1st grade: 11:50am-12:20pm
4th and 5th grade: 12:20-12:45pm
2nd and 3rd grade: 12:50-1:15pm

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19tSzfDxi1NdxQ398CG9v_MWRlCkWmxu48te2sjHh3Uc/edit?usp=drivesdk

🐺☕ Kindergarten families, please join us for coffee and tissues after dropping off on Thursday 9/7!
We'll be outside door 5 (there will be signs).

🐺🎉 The first day of school is coming up!! We're so excited to welcome the Wolf Pack. We need lots of volunteers to make it a safe and fun week for all. Please sign up below.
Email [email protected] with any questions.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uFwjVrWma_l5SsxkbNQALuyKgCH1T1olo4k8EC-RCHE/edit?usp=drivesdk

🐺🎉Keep celebrating all summer long with some amazing Great Gatherings!

Sign up here:
https://app.memberhub.gives/backthepack/Crowdfunding

Sept. 7: Back to School Happy Hour with Minnybar and Billy Johnson Music
ADULT EVENT
Thursday, September 7th
6-8 pm
Kurtz Family Backyard (near Windom)

Enjoy a back to school Happy Hour with Windom parent-owned Minnybar beverage catering company and a solo backyard concert with beloved Minneapolis singer/songwriter Billy Johnson. Please bring a chair or blanket if you'd like!

🐺🛒 Now is a great time to sign up for Box Tops! It's a simple app! Scan paper receipts or submit online receipts to earn money for Windom PTO all year. Please ask friends, family and neighbors to join as well. Make sure to check out the "Bonus Offers" to earn even more for your purchases.
https://btfe.smart.link/c2jjdifkw?referral_code=S9TG74RR

📣Last day to order supply kits!!
School code: WCS001
www.sproutsupplies.com

⚠️Hurry! This is your final opportunity to order school supply kits for next fall. Kits are delivered directly to school in August, so your child will be ready to learn on the very first day! Order your kit today. Sale ends 7/11/23.

Order now at www.sproutsupplies.com with our School Code WCS001.

🐺🚍Don’t miss the bus on ordering your child’s school supply kit! The deadline to order a Sprout School Supply Kit for the 23-24 school year is 7/11/23. Back-to-school shopping has never been easier with Sprout School Supplies! Get your child’s teacher-requested school supply kit delivered directly to Windom before the 1st day.

Order now at www.sproutsupplies.com with our School Code WCS001.

😎☀️ Happy Summer!
Don't forget to order your supply kits for the fall. Just a few clicks and you're ready for school in September!

🐺🎉Happy last day of school!
🎓Congratulations to all the 5th graders and good luck at Anthony next year!
💕Thank you to all of our Wolf Pack families for another wonderful year. We have such an amazing community. 💕Thank you to all the teachers and staff at Windom, you go above and beyond everyday for our students!

Tonight's our last dine out of the school year!

📣 Back by popular demand, The Lowbrow is our June dine out!

🐺🎓 Next Wednesday 6/14 is 5th grade graduation! Families are invited to come and celebrate! Please sign up to help setup, serve or clean up here:

5th grade graduation SignUp.com makes it easy to coordinate school events & classroom activities, fundraisers, snack schedules, potlucks & more!

Ready to make back-to-school shopping easier than ever? Order a Sprout School Supply Kit right now, from the comfort of your own home. It’s as easy as the push of a few buttons and your back-to-school shopping (FOR NEXT FALL) is done! No more running from store to store to find everything on your child’s classroom lists.

Order now at www.sproutsupplies.com with our School Code WCS001. ❤️✏️

📚🎉 The Scholastic Book Fair earned $3316.27 worth of books for our school!! Thank you to all the volunteers and all who purchased!

📝 Get ready for next school year by ordering your school supplies now!
www.sproutsupplies.com
School Code: WCS001

🐺📣Still a few spots on the 3-5 field day sign up!
Come early and have lunch provided by the Windom PTO and then enjoy a nice hot day outside with energetic kids!
https://m.signupgenius.com/ #!/showSignUp/60b0e44ada72ba0fb6-35field1/29186624

🐺🎉Keep celebrating all summer long with some amazing Great Gatherings!
Sign up here:
https://app.memberhub.gives/backthepack/Crowdfunding

🐺🖍️Hey Windom Families! Ready to make school shopping super easy and affordable? Order your Sprout School Supply Kit for the upcoming year now. Sprout School Supplies provides name brand school supplies that are teacher-approved and exactly match your child’s grade-level classroom list. ✏️✂️

Plus, we’re excited to share that this year parents have the opportunity to pay-it-forward by purchasing an additional kit to donate for a deserving child at our school.

Order now at www.sproutsupplies.com with our School Code WCS001 until 7/11/1023.

📚📣LAST DAY to shop our Scholastic Book Fair online!
https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/windom
Even more choices on the website!!
We earn books for our media center and classrooms with every purchase.

🐺📚Order from our Scholastic Book Fair until 5/28!
https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/windom
Need more of the very popular diaries?! There are even more choices online!
We earn books for our media center and classrooms with every purchase.

🐺🏟️ Field Day is Friday 6/2!!
All families are welcome to come and cheer on the students!

Volunteers are still needed for the older kids. All volunteers and staff are invited to lunch provided by the Windom PTO from 11:30am-1:30pm inside school near the main office.

Schedule
Kindergarten - 2nd graders:
10:15-10:30am Setup-meet at gym door 12 on the Wentworth Ave. side of school
10:30-12:30am Events
12:30-1pm Cleanup and lunch provided by PTO

3rd - 5th graders:
11:30am-12:30pm Lunch provided by the Windom PTO
12:45-1pm Setup-meet at gym door 12-on the Wentworth Ave. side of school
1-3pm Events
3-3:15pm Cleanup event equipment-return to gym

https://m.signupgenius.com/ #!/showSignUp/60b0e44ada72ba0fb6-35field1

📚 Just a few days left to shop the Scholastic Book Fair online!
25% of all purchases go to books for our classrooms and media center!
https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/windom

📣 Back by popular demand, The Lowbrow is our June dine out!

Hi Windom families! For your convenience, we’ve partnered with Sprout School Supplies for the upcoming year. Sprout offers prepackaged school supply kits customized to exactly match grade-specific classroom lists. Make back-to-school easier than ever and order your school supply kit today!

School Website to Order Supply Kits: https://sproutsupplies.com/order
School Code: WCS001
Order Deadline: July 11, 2023

🐺📚Scholastic Book Fair
Continue shopping online until 5/28 to raise money for classroom books!

It's Book Fair Time! Visit our school's homepage to get the latest Book Fair news, shop our Online Fair, and more!

🐺🎉Still a chance to join these amazing Great Gatherings!

•Monday, May 22
6:30-7:30PM
Let's see who is brave enough to sign up! Laser tag FUN at Tactical Urban Combat at the Mall of America.
$15/person
Maximum capacity: 18
Hosted by the Walter Family

•3rd-5th STUDENTS ONLY
Thursday May 25th
4:15-5:15 PM
Windom Gym
Join Ms. Bruun and Ms. Carey in the gym for an action packed P.E. game adventure where the best of the best games will be played.
Cost-$10/person
Maximum tickets sold (30)
Hosted by Ms. Bruun and Ms. Carey

Learn more at: https://app.memberhub.gives/backthepack/Crowdfunding

Please reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions.

Money raised from our BACK THE PACK event goes towards the follow PTO efforts:
-Teacher and staff supply reimbursements
-Field Trips
-Educational supports (apps and Scholastic news)
-Teacher and staff appreciation
-Community building events (school festival, science fair, etc)
-Fun first day of school festivities!
-Wolf pack shirts for all students and staff 🐺
-Yearbooks for all students and staff
-5th grade graduation

FUNdraiser for Windom Community School PTO's 'Back the Pack'  

🐺🎉WOW!! What an amazing celebration yesterday!
Thank you so much to the planning team Phil, John, Susan and Kellie. Thank you to the volunteers who signed up and to those that stepped in to help. It is a ton of work to pull off these events and also totally worth it to see all those smiling faces. Big thanks to our amazing staff members who came to celebrate and Mr Robert and Mr Loichle for getting soaked! It's so amazing to see how much this community has grown in 2 short years.💕
Thank you Windom Community and Bilingual Learning Center and the Windom South Park staff for all your help and support.
If you are able and would like to contribute to the Windom PTO for events like these in the future you can donate here:
https://wcspto.memberhub.com/store
(We are a 501c3 non-profit organization so please ask your employer if they will match donations, email [email protected] for details.)

🐺🎉 Tomorrow's the big day!
There's so much fun planned, we hope to see everyone there!
Windom Community will be collecting donations for VEAP!

🐺📚Book Fair TODAY 4-6pm!
Shop our Scholastic Book Fair and stock up for summer reading 5/15-5/20!

We still need volunteers to make this event a success. Please consider signing up to help!

https://signup.com/go/pTFcRCv

Windom will receive 25% of online and 50% of in person sales. Help us reach our goal of selling 800 books!

https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/windom

In person shopping events will be held Friday 5/19 4:00-6:00pm and Saturday 5/20 2:00-5:00pm inside the Windom Rec Center—look for signs and enter near the gym doors on Wentworth Ave.

Bookshelves already full? You can still contribute in the following ways:
·Stop in at our shopping events to donate to the All for Books program, a fund to purchase books for the library, classrooms and students unable to participate in the fair.
·Purchase books from your teacher’s wish list posted at in-person shopping events.

📣May PTO meeting is tonight at 8pm!
Next year's board and budget are both up for approval.
Link in the email:

May Updates Today, Tuesday, May 16th 4-9pm Cafe Zupa's - 1840 E 66th Street, Richfield  Please mention Windom when paying or use code FUNDRAISER25 online

🐺🎉 Windom Spring Celebration
Saturday, May 20th 2-5pm at Windom!
When you arrive check in at the Windom PTO table and get 4 tickets.
Red ticket = 1 hot dog (vegan available) and 1 bag of chips
Green ticket = 1 slushy
Blue ticket = 1 free raffle entry
Yellow ticket = 1 drink (Gatorade, juice box, sparkling water, etc)
Sign up to help: https://signup.com/go/VHWyowB
4th and 5th grade students can help with games and prizes, sign up here: https://signup.com/go/YQCaLCH

🐺🎉 Windom Spring Celebration is this Saturday from 2-5pm at Windom Park!!
Don't miss the chance to soak your favorite Windom staff in the dunk tank!
Sign up to help: https://signup.com/go/VHWyowB
4th and 5th grade students can help with games and prizes, sign up here: https://signup.com/go/YQCaLCH

🐺📣 There are still spots available for the family great gathering event: Laser Tag FUN at Tactical Urban Combat on May 22nd! Whether kids take on caregivers or other kids, it’s sure to be a blast! Let's see who is brave enough to sign up!

FAMILY EVENT

Monday, May 22nd
6:30-7:30PM
Tactical Urban Combat @ Mall of America
$15/person
Maximum capacity: 18
Hosted by the Walter Family

https://app.memberhub.gives/backthepack/Crowdfunding/Details?ReturnUrl=%2FCampaigns%2FSetup%2Fdf1910%2FCrowdfunding

Money raised from our BACK THE PACK event goes towards the follow PTO efforts:
-Teacher and staff supply reimbursements
-Field Trips
-Educational supports (apps and Scholastic news)
-Teacher and staff appreciation
-Community building events (school festival, science fair, etc)
-Fun first day of school festivities!
-Wolf pack shirts for all students and staff 🐺
-Yearbooks for all students and staff
-5th grade graduation

🐺🎉May's Dine Out for Windom is today at Zupa's in Richfield!
Tell them you're with Windom or use code FUNDRAISER25 at checkout.
https://cafezupas.com/locationcopy/info/Richfield

🐺🎉Windom Spring Celebration is going to include a FREE RAFFLE!
Along with the fun things pictured there will be tickets to Can Can Wonderland and more! Everyone will get a ticket and a chance to win this Saturday!

🐺🎉Busy week at Windom!

5/15 Monday-Scholastic book fair starts online! https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/windom
5/16 Tuesday - Dine Out at Zupa's in Richfield (near Target/Cedar Ave)
5/18 Thursday - May PTO meeting 8pm (look for the Zoom link in our email)
5/19 Friday - Book Fair in person shopping at the Windom park recreation room
5/20 Saturday - Windom Spring Celebration! 2-5pm at the Windom park.

📚Shop our Scholastic Book Fair and stock up for summer reading 5/15-5/20!

https://bookfairs.scholastic.com/bf/windom

Windom will receive 25% of online and 50% of in person sales. Help us reach our goal of selling 800 books!

Visit the book fair website to shop and set up an e-wallet for your child to use at our in-person shopping events. Note: links to your student’s e-wallet can be shared with family & friends to contribute to as well!

Students and teachers will visit the book fair on Monday 5/15 for a preview and will be invited to create wish lists.

In person shopping events will be held Friday 5/19 4:00-6:00pm and Saturday 5/20 2:00-5:00pm inside the Windom Rec Center—look for signs and enter near the gym doors on Wentworth Ave.

Bookshelves already full? You can still contribute in the following ways:
·Contribute to your teacher’s e-wallet (ask them for the link!)
·Stop in at our shopping events to donate to the All for Books program, a fund to purchase books for the library, classrooms and students unable to participate in the fair.
·Purchase books from your teacher’s wish list posted at in-person shopping events.

We still need volunteers to make this event a success. Please consider signing up to help!

https://signup.com/go/pTFcRCv