Fall at RAE is filled with fun and activity! 

• Today is the last day to create an account and make a donation for our Peace, Love, Run fundraiser. Our 4th and 5th graders in Photography Club will be taking pictures at the Fun Run, a club made possible by a grant from the PTA. With your generous support, we'll be able to award another grant this spring – these programs truly impact the students! We're also raising money to complete a new art installation in the gym that will help show off our gRAEt school spirit! 
• Sign up to help with some super fun experiments during your child's Hands on Science lab! This is another program funded and run by the PTA. 
• Join us for a PTA & school co-sponsored Lunch n' Learn about cyberbullying with our amazing counselor Ms. Rice. We will provide MOD Pizza. 
• Reflections Art Contest entries are due soon. 
• Souptakular is back! This is a RAE staff favorite – please sign up to help feed them. Best recipe wins a prize!

Have a gRAET week and see you Friday at the Fun Run!

– Gretchen Smith, PTA President

Let's show our RAE staff how much we love them by 'treating' them to a nice chili/soup lunch! Sign up and bring your best recipe – a panel of judges will determine the winner who will receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card and bragging rights for the year. 

We also need volunteers to help contribute items, set up, serve, and cover lunch duty so our teachers can enjoy the event. Sign up below!

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY

We still need parent volunteers for our 5th grade classes! Link sign-up below.

• Oct. 15(Spahr, Teehan, Franden, Carr)
• Oct. 16(Hansen, Clifford, Risinger, Cain)

UPCOMING DATES:

• 2nd Grade – Oct. 22 (Volunteer link below!)
• Kinder – Nov. 5
• 1st Grade – Nov. 19
• 3rd Grade – Dec. 3 (Just added!)
• 4th Grade – Dec. 18 (Veintimilla, Chimenti/Nunnikhoven, Elgar/Rainosek); and Dec. 19 (Edwards/Adams, Newport/Vanacore)

FRIDAY, 5-7PM @ RAE

Time to celebrate! Wear your RAE Fun Run T-shirt and House accessories, and join us for a 1-mile "dash" through our Grand Lakes neighborhood with photo ops along the way! We'll keep the party going at the RAE playground with a DJ, food trucks & inflatables!

OCTOBER 24, 11:30AM - 12:30PM

Join us for a Lunch n' Learn led by school counselor Ms. Rice about cyberbullying, David's Law, and how this legislation can help you identify and navigate online bullying situations.

MOD Pizza will be provided courtesy of PTA.

WEEK OF OCTOBER 21-25

Red Ribbon Week highlights the importance of being kind and living a drug-free life. This week, we will reinforce anti-bullying and drug-free messages and renew our commitment to live a kind, healthy, and drug-free lifestyle!

OCTOBER 24, ALL DAY

Mention this fundraiser or order online through the MOD app or website using the coupon code MODGIVES25 and MOD will donate 25% of your bill to support RAE PTA!

Theme: Accepting Imperfection

Students of ALL ages and abilities are encouraged to create and submit original works of art in a variety of categories. Visit our website to learn more.

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Volunteers Needed!

We need help accepting and organizing entries, readying winners for Morning Announcements, and displaying & removing artwork. Sign up below!

Congrats, RAE! Texas PTA has recognized our school with the Early Bird Award, given to those whose PTA membership is 100% of last year's membership total. This is a big achievement and a testament to the commitment and involvement of our RAE community. Thank you!

Fun Fact: On October 19, 1909, the Texas Congress of Mothers formed at the State Fair in Dallas, eventually merging with the Texas Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers into one Texas PTA. Since then, Texas PTA has increased in size to nearly 500,000 members from over 2,200 school PTAs, and is the second largest state PTA in the nation!