Welcome To Mt. Union/Kistler Elementary PTO home page
About Us
The Mt. Union/Kistler Elementary School has a very active PTO! We try to have an activity for the students and sometimes their families at least once a month. Our meetings are held the first Monday of every month. Our officers are:
President - Michelle Shields
Vice-President - Brandy Carter
Secretary - Amanda Sechrist
Treasurer - Amy Jo Brumbaugh
Programs Coordinator - Shelia Goshorn
Hospitality Coordinator- Janet Long
Members at large- Melissa Cramer, Angela Crisswell, Alison Seiber, Heidi Getz
Current and upcoming events
Walk-a-palooza walks have ended and pledge sheets returned to you with laps walked recorded on them. Please collect as many pledges as possible!!! This is a MAJOR part of this year's fundraising efforts! We are behind last year's total, so we need to try to catch up!! Students will be entered into a raffle based on the amount of money raised. Every $20 raised is an entry. Raising the most money in your class earns another entry and the top money collector in the school earns three more entries into the drawing!!! The top money collector is also guaranteed a prize. We will be giving away a percentage of money that is raised by all students in the form of gift cards to Wal-Mart and Toys R Us. The class that collects the most money will earn a special treat as well! The drawing will be held the first week of November.
UPDATE: We have collected rougly HALF of the total in walk pledges compared to last year!! Our total collected for AutumnFest and Walk-a-Palooza is about $2000 behind last year's totals. If we do not raise much more, we will not be able to afford to go on a year end field trip (if given school board approval). If every child that has not contributed could send in just $10, we will catch up to last year's total.
Kistler Family Movie at the Clifton 5 in Huntingdon coming in Novmeber!! We will be seeing the animated film Planet 51 starring the voice of Dwayne 'the Rock' Johnson (rated PG for mild sci-fi violence) on Sat, Nov 21 at 4pm. Admission will be $3.50 per person (child or adult) including a small popcorn and soda!! What a bargain!!
December plans include...
Breakfast with Santa on Dec. 5 8-9:30 am
Santa Shop Tues, Dec 15 & Wed. Dec 16 during school (lots of parent volunteers needed!!!)
Mug on a Rug day- movie with popcorn and cocoa in school on Dec. 23. This will also be the first of the "Winter Blues days" as PJ day!
Continue to save your Box Tops, Campbell's Soup Lables, Tyson Chicken Lables, and empty ink cartridges!!!! We are no longer collecting Nestle water bottle lables.
Watch your child's mail for all the details to all the fun stuff we have coming up!
Our next PTO meeting will be held on Nov. 2at 6:30 pm at the school. Please come!
Please try to come!!! "The more parents and teachers that attend, the more we have to offer our children and make this school year a great success."
Mt. Union/ Kistler Elementary School
PTO Year in Review
AutumnFest 2009 was a GREAT DAY!! Everything was wonderful. The food was great, the vendors were unique and talented, t-shirts were AWESOME (check out the papers that came home!), entertainment was outstanding (loved "Kistler's Got Talent" hour!), games were great and prizes fantastic. The baskets for the basket raffle were super! Thanks to all who donated and all who attended!!
50/50 winner Vickie McMullen donated her $25 winnings back to the PTO.
The basket raffle winners were........
Anything Disney- Joshua Sechrist and Connie Homolash
Family Fun- Deb Shields and Teresa Westover
Man's World- Levi Burns and Daniel Atherton
Pamper Me!- Darlene Bumgardner, Autumn Ficus, and Dottie Wible
Baking/Cooking Together- Victoria Boozel and Judy Harshbarger
Shop Til you drop- Pat Rhodes, Doug Hassinger and Cookie Suders
PA Sports and Entertainment- Dylan Sunderland and Deb Walter
Country Crafts and Italian Charms- Melinda Craig
In-Home Parties- Heather Stapleton
Stampin' Up- Amanda Atherton
Kistler's Got Talent winners based on money collected- DaShantae Holderman- first place and Courtlynne Jaymes second. Also particpating... Madison Shields, Kady Madilia, Michaela Madilia, Tracy Welsh, Alivia Sechrist, Erica Getz, Hanna Dodd, and Kennedy Craig. DeShantae won a Kistler Trojans t-shirt and Dairy Queen gift certificate and Courtlynne won a DQ gift certificate.
Walk-a-Palooza winners will be announced in November. REMEMBER to collect as many pledges as possible to increase your chance of winning! The class that collects the most money will get a special treat. The winning class will be announced on the day that raffle winners are announced.
Thank you to all to attended the Kistler PTO Hoss's night on Oct. 7 or 8. We appreciate your help and support!!
Trunk or Treat night was well held on Thurs, Oct 22 from 6-7 pm. It was a perfect night! About 150 children visited the 13 cars set up in the parking lot. A panel of teachers did the judging this year and their votes went to Lacey Scott's and Katie Miller's families for first place with their haunted truck and second place went to Caylin Reeder's and Samantha Souders's families for their Wizard of Oz themed decoration in their van. Thank you to everyone who donated candy, brought their cars or attended. A BIG thank you goes out to Miss Tobie Miller, Mrs. Sally Steward and Mrs. Jamie Gearhart for volunteering to judge.
Our School
Teachers and Staff:
Assistant Principal - Mrs. Deb Goodman
Teachers
K - Vickie McMullen and Alesha Yocum
First - Cinda Imperioli and Barb Maurer
Second - Pat Smith, Emily Whitesel and Laura Hardy
Third - Tobie Miller, Sybil Miller and Katherine Harman
Fourth- JoAnn Keating, Courtney Aurand and Mrs. Schouppe-Wright
Fifth - Charleen Hartman and Erica Dell
Sixth - Kathe Posey and Mike Laskowski
Staff includes - Candace McNitt, Rex Goss, Renee Goodling, Melody Willobaugh, Sally Steward, Teressa Bilger, Mary Ann Kurey, Rick Wilson, Jeff Puhala, Gretchen Crouse, James Schneider, Denise Skipper, Kim Radle, Mary Ann Seiber, Heidi Getz, Joe Komir, Karla Cornelius, Caroline Miller, Deb Snyder, Patty Holesa, Herb Roberts, Mike Goodman, Connie Stimley, Susie Prough, Lorraine Drake, Nancy Henry...