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Lamar Yahoo!! Group
Join the Lamar Yahoo!! Group and receive e-mail updates on school information.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LamarWAAG
LAMAR FUND RAISER, "ONE BLOOM AT A TIME"
LAMAR FUND RAISER, "ONE BLOOM AT A TIME" 6009 Burnet Road, Austin, TX 78757 Shop King Florist, mention Lamar PTA and we will receive 5% of the total order! Place order on Facebook and share with your friends and follow us on Twitter so that we can extend our reach! Opt to designate 5% to go back to Lamar PTA. Email design@kingflorist.com visit our website http://www.kingflorist.com/ Fax: 512.453.6762 Phone: 512.453.6633 |
Fine Arts Support was Fablous!
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| What a great group of parents and students at Lamar. The AISD Board room was packed last week in support of Lamar"s proposal to become a Fine Arts magnet! Students, parents, faculty and community were all present. Many spoke passionately about making Lamar a fine arts academy, including former and current students, parents and the Allandale Neighborhood Association President. The Board listened attentively and we hope they will take up the proposal for discussion in the near future. |
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Anne Drake Talks the Talk
| If you missed the PTA meeting on January 17, you missed some great advise and some good chuckles about living with a teenager. Annie Drake, family counselor and author of "Help Me, I Have a Teenager!" gave Lamar parents some great advise on how to talk to and live with your youth as they move through their teen years. If you missed the program, you might want to purchase her book, it's available on Amazon.com. |
February 17 Parnets CATCH on to Wellness
| Next PTA meeting -- Wed. February 17th 6:30-8:00pm | |
| Parents CATCH on to Wellness. What can we do at school and home to help our kids be fit, healthy and ready to learn? Join us for healthy refreshments from Jason's and learn how important eating healthy and being active can be to getting good grades. Share you thoughts and ides on how to make school and home healthier environments. Childcare will be available. Bring another parent and register to win dinner for 4 at Jason's. |
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March 3 6-8pm Lamar plans Family Fitness and Fun Night
Your CATCH team is in the process of planning an exciting, active and nutritious family event on March 3. Mark your calendars and watch for additional information in the next few weeks. You won't want to miss this fun evening. There will be food tasting, a rock wall, all kids of physical activities and information, demos on martial arts, yoga and more! AND and chance to win cool prizes! If you are interested in volunteering, contact Lisa Doyal at mrsdoyal@hotmail.com. |
PTA First Day of School Information Packet
Welcome to Lamar! All of the forms listed below went home on the first day of school.
There is a wealth of information about upcoming activities and events, ways to support Lamar, and
ways to get involved. If you did not get any of the forms, please download here!
Page 1- PTA Welcome to Lamar 2009-10 word / pdf Page 2 - Organizations Helping Austin's Students word / pdf Page 3 -Lamar Middle School PTA Roster, 2009-10 word / pdf Page 4 - Join the Lamar PTA word / pdf Page 5 - PTA VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES 2009-10 word / pdf Page 6 -Lamar Directory 2009-10 word / pdf Page 7 - Lamar Grocery Card Program word / pdf Page 8 - Lamarfest 2009 Volunteer Sign-up Sheet word / pdf Page 9 - JOIN THE LAMAR BOOSTER CLUB!!! Page 10 -Lamar Middle School Lunch/Bell Schedule2009 -10 word / pdf Page 11 - t-shirt order form word / pdf
National PTA - Six Media and Technology Tip Sheets Now Available
PTA has introduced six one-page tip sheets to help parents protect their kids and
promote responsible media and technology use in their families. These tip sheets, available in
English and Spanish, cover
Cell phones
Video games
Television
Music
Movies
Internet
Go to: <http://www.pta.org/topic_TV_and_video_game_safety.asp> to download these sheets.
Lamar Dawg Tales Newsletter!
Maria Person is our DAWG Tales newsletter chair.
Submissions for the next edition of the DAWG Tales should be in to her.
Holly can be reached by email at lamarptanews@yahoo.com.
PTA Board Meeting
The Second Monday of each month at 6:30pm in library.
PTA Member Benefits
| Texas PTA partners with organizations in order to provide discounts on services and products that PTA members might find beneficial. Please share this information with your members. For a PDF version of this Member Benefits Information, click here: http://txpta.org/members/Discounts/discounts2008.html |
| Aflac: Aflac's Accident Insurance policy is made available to members at a competitive rate. To apply for a policy, click here: https://www.chooseaflac.com/New/MainPage.aspx?Path=TEXASPTA For questions, please contact Aflac Agent Trish McMinn at p_mcminn@us.aflac.com. |
| BarnesandNoble.com: National PTA and Barnesandnoble.com have developed a discounted online bookstore for PTA members featuring over one million titles of books, textbooks, audio books, music, DVD's, and videos. Members will save 5% off all purchases ordered from this site in addition to any normal site discounts of up to 40%. Click here to learn more about this discount on the site of National PTA. You will need to reenter your username and password, which are username: families and password: involved. |
| Enterprise: Enterprise Rent-A-Car is pleased to extend a discount to all Texas PTA members on all rentals across the nation. To make your reservation and get your discount automatically, please click here. If you have any questions, please contact your Enterprise Representative Sunny Howard at 512-912-5332 or at sunny.c.howard@erac.com. Fiesta Texas: Members receive 15% off regular adult admission when purchasing tickets online. |
| La Quinta: Up to 35% off, guaranteed rate of $85.00 or less, no up-charge for king size beds, no upcharge for as many as 4 additional occupants, free up-grade to gold level in the La Quinta guest stay program, Returns, 15% off rack rate outside of Texas. Ask for the Texas PTA rate when booking by phone at 800-642-4271 or when calling the La Quinta location of your choice directly. Click on this link http://www.lq.com/lq/reservations/cobrand/index.jsp?cobrand=TXPTA to book online with your discount, or use discount code "TXPTA" when making your reservations at www.laquinta.com. To upgrade your La Quinta Returns status to Gold level, please contact: Sandy Clinton at Sandy.Clinton@laquinta.com. |
| Nationwide: Call the Fowler agency at (888-549-4922) or speak with your local agent. An Auto Insurance Benefit for Texas PTA Members. |
| Schlitterbahn: Corporate Code: uphillcoaster Members receive 15% off regular admission when purchasing tickets online. Note: For the system to recognize your discount code, you must use the link here: http://www.schlitterbahn.com/corp/partners/ |
| Sea World: Members receive 15% off regular admission when purchasing tickets online. Please follow this link: http://txpta.org/members/Discounts/seaworlddiscount.html?code=TexasPTA and click on "Worlds of Discovery." This will take you to Sea World's page where you can purchase your discounted tickets. |
| Sharp Electronics: The PTA/Sharp Electronics member store is now available to offer you valuable member discounts on Sharp AQUOS Liquid Crystal Televisions and some other home electronics products! Click here to learn more about this benefit on the site of National PTA. You will need to re-enter your username and password, which are username: families and password: involved. |
| Southwest Vacations: (1-800 423-5683) Promotion Code: PTATRAVEL Southwest Vacations, in partnership with Southwest Airlines, is offering PTA members a 5% discount on vacation packages of two nights or longer to any Southwest destination. Note: Official National PTA travel still will be booked through Omega Travel by following the directions issued by the national meetings department. |
| T-Mobile: Texas PTA members receive a 14% monthly discount on rate plans. Sign up today and receive a new FREE Samsung Gravity phone! Call-in offer only. 1-866-464-8662 (select option 3). Mentio n promo code 9397TMOFAV and the main Texas PTA number (512-476-6769) or your member ID for verification. The new G1 Google phone is discounted as well. Offer is NOT valid in stores. Members who sign up in stores will NOT receive the phone or rate plan discounts. No activation fees, no setup fees and no shipping charges. Rate plan discounts are for both new and existing customers/members. Existing customers wanting the rate plan discount should e-mail bj.durham@t-mobile.com for information on how to receive the discount. Click here for discount flier. |
PTA Membership
PTA membership form ($6 individual, $10 family) - return to
child's first period teacher or office ASAP. Checks payable to LAMAR PTA!
GETTING YOUR ANNOUNCEMENT IN THE NEXT WAAG
Need to see your announcement in the weekly WAAG? We'd love to put it here. Just contact
Deanna Goodson at dcgoodson@gmail.com by Thursday at 5pm CST for inclusion in Friday's
edition of the WAAG and by Monday at 5pm CST for inclusion in the Tuesday's WAAG!
LEAD PARENT PROGRAM
The purpose of this program is to provide one parent for each teacher, very similar to a Home Room Parent.
The idea is to help the teacher with specific classroom needs, materials, supplies; help keep other parents
informed about what is happening in class, home work, special projects, assignments via email, or by posting
information for the teachers on the Lamar Website or the individual sites development by some of the teachers;
recruiting parents with experience, expertise or talent to supplement the coursework; help the teachers organize
special presentations, class celebrations, field trips, etc.
Our hope is to give the teachers more quality time with our children, cut down on the teachers need to spend
conference times and weekends on "leg work" that parents could help with during the week. The Lead Parent
is the connection for the teacher to many extra "hands" for many different needs.
In addition to providing the teachers with much needed help, we hope to build the interaction between parents
and teachers, ultimately involving more parents with Lamar Middle School, both through the Lead Parent and
the parents recruited by the Lead Parent to help from time to time.
Teachers and Parents: Please feel free to be as creative as you want to be in developing how you want this
program to help. Please share your ideas with all of us and please share your successes
and "not so successful" strategies.
COMMUNICATION is the root of the program, and there should be communication about once a week between
the Lead Parent and the Teacher. We'll decide together on how to best communicate in person, phone or email.
Our choices might change from week to week on how we communicate. It might even be fun to plan lunch once a
month together to have "face time" and planning time!
Teachers: we are volunteers, ready to help you. Please use us; please view us as a PARTNER! It will take some
initial organization on both of our parts, but please be persistent. You might have to plan a little farther ahead so
that you can coordinate with your Lead Parent to get you "extra hands". It will be worth it. And, when we all settle
into a routine, everyone will benefit!
All of the children at Lamar Middle School will benefit from our efforts, not just the children of the lead parents.
All suggestions to improve the program or implement changes to the program are encouraged!
Bow Wow Buddies Reading Program 
The BWB program improves children's reading and communication skills
by employing a powerful method: reading to a dog. The dogs are
registered pet therapy animals who volunteer with their
owners/handlers. The Communities In Schools program at Lamar assists
by matching BWB volunteers with students in groups and individually.
To learn more about BWB please visit the Austin Dog Alliance web site
at www.austindogalliance.org or call Debi at 219-8793.
To learn more about the CIS program at Lamar please call Karen
McGarity at 414-4671
Donate Painlessly to Lamar!
Do you shop at HEB, Central Market or Randall's? Then order grocery cards through Lamar and
earn money for the school! We pool our orders with Brentwood Elementary and McCallum High
to get the best return on your investment. Order your cards. We'll mail them to you and then you shop!
- ORDER CARDS. Pay by the month. Mail your check(s), payable to Lamar MS PTA, to
Karrie Mannella, 1501 Cullen Avenue, Austin TX 78757. Payments must be received
by the 25th of the month. Payments received after the 25th will be credited towards t
he next month's cards. NEW:Try the new postdated check option: Send 6-12 check
s postdated to the 25th of each month. We will send the same card selection each
month, as ordered below. - GET CARDS. Cards are mailed by the 5th of each month. Checks are deposited as
cards are mailed. Randall's cards are active before mailing; HEB cards the day after mailing. - SHOP! Profits earned from the program go to the general PTA fund, usually 3-5% of
every card purchased.
QUESTIONS
Karrie Mannella, 420-8908, karriemannella@aol.com
| PTA Officers | |||
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POSITION |
NAME |
PHONE |
E-MAIL |
President |
Michelle Smith |
873-0322 |
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President-elect |
Lisa Terrell |
423-0793 |
lisa.terrell@greatercalvary.org |
Secretary |
Nina Faulkner |
459-3906 |
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Treasurer |
Jennifer Henry |
799-5327 |
Jennifer.Henry@GLO.STATE.TX.US |