Originally delivered on 10/13/2024 6:01 pm

SUBJECT: RAE PTA Newsletter – Week of Oct. 14 – FINAL DAY to donate! ☮️🩵🏃‍➡️

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WEEK OF OCTOBER 14, 2024

President's Message
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Dear RAE Families,

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

Fun Run Fundraiser Update
We're 73% to our goal!

🚨 TODAY IS THE LAST DAY of our Fundraiser! If you haven't already, this is your final chance to make a donation and share our fundraiser with friends and family on Facebook! Any amount you can give is greatly appreciated.

These funds are crucial to funding the PTA events and programs our students love AND contribute to our AWESOME gym art installation project!

Register for the Fundraiser & Donate Today
This Friday is our Fun Run!

☮️🩵🏃‍➡️ Join us from 5-7 p.m. at RAE! Wear your Fun Run shirt and House accessories, and get ready 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!

🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️🙋 We need volunteers  Help us decorate and make balloon towers, set up the course and decor, direct dashers, and clean up after the event. Sign up below!

Volunteer for Fun Run
Yearbook Cover Contest Winners

We had 44 students who submitted their beautiful art representing this year's school theme: Peace, Love, RAE. As is tradition, the artwork with the most votes will be featured on the front cover while the second to fifth-most voted artwork will be featured on the back. However, we have a tie for 5th place. So, there will be 5 cover artwork on the back this year! 

RAE teachers and staff voted anonymously (students' names were not shared.) Congratulations to Claire, Natalie, Ella, Janette, Mandy, and Effie! Thank you to everyone for working hard and submitting their amazing work. They will all be displayed in the school hallway next to the library for the month of October. 

  • 1st place: Claire Ge
  • 2nd place: Natalie Simonian
  • 3rd place: Ella Li
  • 4th place: Janette Mok
  • 5th place (TIE): Mandy Wei & Effie Hu


Thank you again to everyone for participating!

– Euijeung, RAE Yearbook Coordinator

Sign Up for Souptakular & Cook-Off
Cooks & Volunteers Needed for our Teacher & Staff Souptakular Lunch!

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!

Souptakular & Cook-Off Sign-Ups
Souptakular Lunch Duty Coverage Sign-Ups
This Week's Events
5th Grade Hands on Science

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)
5th Grade – Sign up to volunteer
2nd Grade – Sign up to volunteer

More grade-level sign-ups coming soon!

Fall Fun Run!

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!

Upcoming Events
Cyberbullying: What Parents Need to Know

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.

RSVP for Lunch n' Learn
Red Ribbon Week 2024

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!

RAE Spirit Day @ MOD Pizza

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!

Reflections Art Contest
The deadline to submit artwork is October 21-25

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!

Learn more about the contest
Sign up to volunteer
PTA News
RAE Receives Early Bird Membership Award

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!

Texas PTA Founders' Day

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!

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Looking Ahead
RAE PTA CALENDAR
Tuesday, October 15
5th Grade Hands on Science
Wednesday, October 16
5th Grade Hands on Science
Friday, October 18
House Rally Day
5:00p Fun Run
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