WOW!!!

You guys are AMAZING! We sold over 1,079 items during our Cookie Dough Fundraiser! We can’t thank you enough for your support!

For those of you that sold 10 items or more, your kiddo earned the coveted GAME TRUCK prize. The game truck has yet to be scheduled, but usually takes place around the second week of November. All other prizes will be included with your order on Cookie Dough Order Pick Up Day.

Speaking of Cookie Dough Order Pick Up Day…..

All products will be delivered to us on Thursday October 10th and will be available for pick up from 2:35-6pm that day! Please, please, please make arrangements to pick up your orders that day.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at mirageptsa@gmail.com

Cookie Dough orders/money are due THIS Monday Sept. 16th!! Be sure to put those envelopes in your child’s backpack this weekend, so you don’t forget!

Do you like the new items we had available this year?! Give us your feedback at mirageptsa@gmail.com

As always, we APPRECIATE your support!

Hopefully everyone has had the chance to look over our new brochure! Awesome new items for sale this year!

Some things to remember:

• Orders/Money are due on or before Monday Sept. 16th
• Checks need to be made out to Mirage PTSA
• Credit card payments are available this year
• Any 10 items sold gets your kiddo on the coveted Game Truck!
• Order Pick Up will be on Thursday Oct. 10th 2:35-6pm in the Music Room

Please contact us with any questions or comments mirageptsa@gmail.com

Happy Selling!

Box Tops Fundraiser runs the whole month of September…. Box Tops has gone digital! Just download the app and scan your receipt! It’s easy, peasy, lemon squeezy!

Our Fry’s Community Rewards program is in full swing and runs all year long! Be sure to ENROLL or RENEW asap.

Go to https://www.frysfood.com/topic/new-community-rewards-program

Create an account or log into your existing one, enter 81734 and click on the bubble for Mirage Elementary School

Our COOKIE DOUGH fundraiser starts on August 29th! We are so excited for you to see our new brochure, there are so many amazing, new options to choose from! Orders and money will be due by September 16th and Parent Pick Up will be on October 10th from 2:30-6pm.

Super huge THANK YOU to all those that came to see us last night!

We approved our working BUDGET for the year, our BYLAWS and STANDING RULES, and went over our upcoming FUNDRAISERS and EVENTS!

If you couldn’t make it last night, the meeting minutes our posted here on the website! Just click on the General Meetings tab at the top of the page and you’ll be up to date in no time!

As always, WE APPRECIATE OUR MEMBERS!!

Welcome Back Mirage Families! We have missed you.

Hope all the kids had an amazing first day back!

Be sure to check for some important flyers coming home in your Take Home Tuesday folders in the next few weeks:

1. Box Tops
2. Fry’s Rewards Program
3. General Meeting Reminder (August 20th at 6pm- in the Media Center)
4. Business Membership

As always, we appreciate your support! mirageptsa@gmail.com

Join us at the Back to School Bash TOMORROW from 10am-12pm! Students can get a backpack, school supplies, a dental check up and a haircut – all at no charge! We’ll be there too….. Be sure to stop by and help us get a jump start on our goal of 300 members strong!

Cost to become a member of Mirage PTSA is $6/person….. Anyone can become a member – students(8yrs+), parents, teachers, grandparents and neighbors!

See you there!

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer break
Here is what we have going on

All 6 of our governing board members attended AZ State PTA convention this year! Lots of great information and ideas were shared.

Our transition meeting will take place in a few days. We will welcome Wil Johnson and Nik Martin to the Mirage PTSA board, and we will say goodbye to our dear Janine White who served 2 years as Vice President. But don’t worry, she’ll still be around as a volunteer!

Back to School Bash will be on Saturday 7/27 from 10am-12pm! We will be there, serving some food and talking membership goals. We hope to make it into the 300 club this year!

Meet the Teacher Night will be on Monday 8/5 from 5:30-6:30pm! We’ll have a table set up in the cafeteria, so be sure to drop by for some cookies and get some info on our awesome organization.

First Day of School is on Wednesday 8/7! Gates open at 7:45am and school starts at 8am!

We can’t wait to start the school year!

We had our general elections meeting last night! We are excited to announce our 2019-2020 governing board of Mirage PTSA:

President – Monique Nieto

1st VP – Margaret McFadden

2nd VP – Wil Johnson

3rd VP – Nicholas Martin

Secretary – Nicole Martin

Treasurer – Lance Lester

It’s going to be an amazing year! Check under the General Meetings tab to review the minutes of last night’s meeting!

Our Election/General Meeting has been moved to Tuesday May14th. Join us at 6pm in the media center. You may only vote in this election if you became a Mirage PTSA member by March 2019. See you there!

We would love to hear from you! Comments, questions or concerns about any of our events or fundraisers? Come to the meeting on May 14th OR email us at mirageptsa@gmail.com

PRESALE flyers went home last week. Please be sure to include that $5 fee or we will not reserve your game times. Mr. Lance will be at the PTSA window Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week from 2:35-4pm for additional presale sign up. Our first two game times are filling up fast so please consider a later game time and come eat some pizza first.

This event was a huge success last year and we can’t wait for this Sunday!! Event starts at 5:30 and ends at 8:30.

If any of our members or friends of members have some photography skills….WE NEED YOU! Please contact us ASAP for more information.

Our Mother Son Laser Tag Event is coming soon!

Sunday April 28th from 5:30-8:30pm at Laser Quest Phoenix!

Please be on the look out for these 2 flyer coming home with your kiddos in

their Take Home Tuesday folders!

Cost is $5 PRESALE and At The Door

PRESALE is strongly advised to be sure you get the game times you want!

                          SEE YOU THERE!

PreSale this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday! 2:35-4pm at the PTSA window. PreSale cost is $3, price will be $5 At The Door. SEE YOU THERE!

We snuck another General Meeting into one of our events again! We had our Member’s Only Spaghetti Dinner on March 14th, which was super fun. You can check out what was discussed by clicking on the General Meeting tab on our homepage.

Butter Braids were successfully delivered to all! Thanks again for your support! We’ve noticed a decrease in orders over the last few years, so if you have any suggestions for a new Spring Fundraiser, feel free to contact us via email at mirageptsa@gmail.com

Our next big event will be our Father Daughter Sock Hop on Friday April 12th from 5:30-7;30pm in the Multi Purpose Room! Presale will be the Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday prior to the event, at the PTSA window. Tickets will be $3 presale and $5 at the door.

Next we will have our Mother Son event at LASER QUEST AGAIN!! Last year was a huge success and we can’t wait for this year! The event will be on Sunday April 28th 5:30-8:30pm. More information coming soon!

Thank you to all of you for supporting our spring fundraisers. We got more Box Tops this year than we did last year! Mrs. Dwight’s first grade class brought in 992! That’s amazing!

We just submitted the Butter Braids orders, those will be delivered Thursday 3/14! Pick up will be available in the Music Rom from 2:35-6pm! Please remember to grab your orders as Spring Break is the following week and we won’t be able to get them to you!

Thanks again for all your support! We love our Mirage families!

Whataburger Fundraise was so much fun! Thank you to all of you that came out to support Mirage PTSA!

We want to see your photo booth pics! Post them on our Facebook page!

Here’s ours- Lance, Monique and Nicole….(we were missing our Prez and VP- Margaret and Janine)

Be sure to join us for dinner tomorrow night at Whataburger on 43rd Avenue and Bell Road from 5pm-8pm! 20% comes right back to Mirage PTSA!

No School = No Cooking

We got to hang with some future kindergarteners last night!

The kiddos were more interested in the cookies we were handing out than the information, but hey, what do you expect?

We still need 11 more members to meet our goal of 200! just click the JOIN tab and make all of our dreams come true!

Thank you to everyone that came out to play with us! This is our favorite event of the year, it’s totally free for our Mirage families to come eat pizza and play BINGO. We gave out a lot of great prizes, including some whole pizzas we had leftover and our I (Heart) Mirage PTSA t-shirts!

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, we’d love to here them! Contact us on Facebook or at Mirageptsa@gmail.com

It’s time to turn in those Box Tops! Our Box Tops Drive runs the whole month of January and ends February 18th.

The class from Pre K – 3rd Grade and 4th – 6th Grade with the most Box Tops will earn an Ice Cream Party!

Second place will win a Cookie Party!

Remember to download the app to earn BONUS points for our school!

We appreciate your support!