12/13/2022
The absolute BEST Santa and Mrs. Claus! From the moment they step out of their “sleigh” they are in character and greeting every child they pass by. So friendly and warm 🎅🏼 check out their website 4santaC.com, call them at 208-477-4819, or email [email protected]
12/12/2022
The PTO meeting tonight has been cancelled. We will resume in January. Happy holidays!
12/09/2022
We have so much to share about how wonderful the second annual Summerwind Festival of Trees was tonight! But to start - a huge THANK YOU to these three superstars for doing most of the setup! Thank you Didi Wallace Axtman, Samaria, and Alessi Photography!!
12/02/2022
All of the trees were delivered to the school today! You may have received some communication from your teacher regarding their possible needs for the classroom trees ♥️ 🎄 can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with!
11/29/2022
📕 🎄 ❄️ We hope to see you there! This year’s theme is Stories of the Season and each tree will come with the book that it’s inspired by! 📕 🎄 ❄️
11/22/2022
Have a happy (and healthy!) Thanksgiving break! No school this week, see you back on November 28!
11/16/2022
The PTO meeting last night was - as always - PACKED. Here’s what you need to know:
📚 The book fair was a huge success! Thank you to everyone that volunteered, made decorations, made purchases, etc.
🏬 We need your help running the school store! Are you able to volunteer for an hour or so on Fridays? If so, please contact Didi Wallace Axtman (tagged in the comments).
🎄 Our second annual Festival of Trees is Thursday, December 8. This year’s theme is Stories of the Season and each classroom’s tree will come with the story it is inspired by! All of the trees this year are brand new, pre-lit, and available for purchase as a silent auction. Santa and Mrs. Claus will be there, a photo booth will be ready to capture your memories, and hot cocoa and candy canes will be provided. The event goes from 5:30pm-7:00pm but the auction will only be from 5:30pm-6:30pm. Please be prepared to take your tree home that night 😊
🎰 Lastly, it’s never too early to start talking BINGO NIGHT. It’ll be April 13, 2023. We will need volunteers and items to raffle. If you know of a business that would donate goods or a gift card, please let us know!
11/14/2022
PTO meeting tonight in the library at 6:00pm!
11/13/2022
‼️‼️6:00pm TOMORROW in the library! Please come join us, there’s lots to talk about! ‼️‼️
11/10/2022
Mrs. Stewart is the West Ada Principal Pride spotlight!! You’re a rockstar, Mrs. Stewart! Summerwind is lucky to have you 😊
11/07/2022
LOTS going on this week at Summerwind!
1️⃣ STEM night is this Thursday evening! Flyers went home with students last week 😊
2️⃣ Book Fair is this week! You can send money with your student(s) for them to shop during their usual library time or you can attend the parent shopping hours.
3️⃣ For the third and fourth graders, there’s a Veteran’s Day Program on Friday from 1:45pm-2:45pm. Families of the students are welcome to attend.
None of these are PTO events, so if you have specific questions, please reach out to your student’s teachers or call the front office 😊
11/04/2022
A big THANK YOU to our volunteers who have helped with preview week this week and an advanced THANK YOU to all of our volunteers helping with the actual book fair next week!
It’s not too late to sign up to volunteer!
10/30/2022
The Summerwind STEM PTO is the tops! Check out the decorations they made and helped set up for our upcoming book fair!
10/28/2022
The PTO and their families have been busy making decorations and helping decorate the library for the upcoming book fair!
Have you signed up to volunteer during the book fair???
10/26/2022
If you can, please sign-up to volunteer at the upcoming book fair! Mrs. Leighty is our fantastic librarian and she needs your help!
https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/9040945acad2da2f58-book1
10/24/2022
‼️T-shirt and hoodie orders are being placed THIS FRIDAY ‼️
Don’t miss your chance to get one (or both!) of these awesome Summerwind items! You can pay online or drop your money off at the school in an envelope labeled to the PTO or Tiffany Benke.
Order here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYe-OQE1Ry4fdi1zHJZX_ydc8Tcq5zk1CXUCLNeg_BqfNoww/viewform
10/21/2022
This was one of, if not THE, highest grossing years for the Track-a-thon! Thank you to everyone for contributing by pledging, donating raffle items, or supporting the students in their walking/running 🙏🏼 And thank you Mrs. Porter for organizing this awesome event (again!)
10/21/2022
The PTO provided lunch and dinner for staff tonight - Casa Mexico for lunch and Blimpie for dinner! Thank you to the people who donated to help pay for this and to the PTO for arranging everything 💗
10/20/2022
Thank you Holland's Bites and Brews for your generous donation of coffee and muffins for our teachers on this conference day morning!
10/20/2022
We didn’t get to formally introduce her earlier, but this is Didi Wallace Axtman! Didi is our amazing Volunteer Coordinator and runs the school store. She’s also someone the PTO can count on in a pinch - and today she picked up coffee and muffins from Holland’s Bites and Brews first thing this morning, picked up bread from my house, and delivered it all to the school! The teachers are thrilled to have coffee and breakfast first thing in the morning on conference day. Thank you, Didi!
10/18/2022
Don’t forget to order your hoodie! The link is in the pinned post 😊
10/17/2022
Please help us nourish the teachers!
We need your help!
🍕🍜Parent-teacher conferences are next week and our staff deserve some yummy meals! 🍝🥗
Please donate any amount so we can give them tasty meals during conference week!
10/15/2022
We need your help!
🍕🍜Parent-teacher conferences are next week and our staff deserve some yummy meals! 🍝🥗
Please donate any amount so we can give them tasty meals during conference week!
10/13/2022
Book fair details ♥️ please sign up and volunteer to help staff this event.
10/13/2022
🥶 HOODIES ARE ON SALE NOW! 🥶
Hoodies and t-shirts are now available on the same form, feel free to order both! Once we have 48 t-shirts/hoodies ordered, we can send it to the vendor. If you placed an order within the last week or so, it will be included in this batch. Thank you all!
Order yours today:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYe-OQE1Ry4fdi1zHJZX_ydc8Tcq5zk1CXUCLNeg_BqfNoww/viewform
10/12/2022
SignUpGenius - Mobile
There will be a book fair in November and Mrs. Leighty needs your help!
Please signup to help volunteer:
SignUpGenius - Mobile
10/11/2022
Major THANK YOU to Holland's Bites and Brews! They’re generously donating coffees and muffins for all of our teachers on the morning of parent-teacher conferences!!!
Please go show them some love at one of their locations this week ♥️
10/11/2022
@summerwindpto | Linktree
Thanks to a suggestion from fantastic PTO parent tonight - we now have Linktree! The Summerwind STEM PTO Venmo, Amazon wishlist, and t-shirt order form are all posted!
@summerwindpto | Linktree
Linktree. Make your link do more.
10/11/2022
The PTO meeting tonight covered a LOT of ground - and in the process I forgot to take a photo!
Here are the major things needed at this time:
💥 VOLUNTEERS…for the November book fair (details to come). We need parents to help students during the student’s shopping time and the evening parent’s shopping time.
💥 VOLUNTEERS…for the school store. It’s coming back October 28 and we need your help! Details to come.
💥 DONATIONS. We need monetary donations to help fund PTO provided meals during parent/teacher conferences next week. Any amount helps and Venmo payments are super easy! We also need donations to fund a new cart for the school store. The old cart could no longer be repaired, but a new one is expensive. Again, any amount helps!
Here are the topics discussed tonight:
🎥 Movie Under the Stars recap
👕 Summerwind tshirt sales and….HOODIES! Summerwind Supersonic hoodies will be coming soon! And, if you missed out on ordering a tshirt, you can order those again! Once we hit 48 tshirt/hoodie orders, we can place the order.
🏬 The school store returns October 28! And we need volunteers to help run it and donations for the new cart.
🏃🏻♀️ Track-O-Thon is THIS THURSDAY! The PTO helped obtain donations for the raffle for this event that benefits the PE program and recess supplies.
📚 This year Summerwind will have a book fair during Idaho Family Reading Week in November! Details to come. The PTO will be helping with advertising and volunteers.
☎️ Parent/teacher conferences are NEXT WEEK. The PTO is providing lunch and dinner for staff on October 20. We were also generously donated coffee and pastries for breakfast that morning from Holland's Bites and Brews!
🎄 Festival of Trees is December 8 at 5:30pm! Santa and Mrs. Claus will be returning, hot cocoa and cookies provided, and this year’s theme is “Stories of the Season”. Each classroom will have a brand new, 4’ pre-lit tree available for auction! There will be a mix of green and white trees.
Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=3376752621518848688
10/10/2022
PTO meeting TONIGHT in the library at 6:00pm!
10/10/2022
Reminder: PTO meeting October 10, 6:00pm in the library! Please join us 😊
10/08/2022
👕 Did you get your new Summerwind SuperSonics shirt? They got delivered to classrooms TODAY! If you didn’t, drop a comment or message us and we can send you the order form. Once we hit 48, we can place the next order! 👕
…sweatshirts coming soon 🥶
10/06/2022
There’s still time to shop the Amazon list and donate prizes for the kids to try to win!
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2DTPACM13N10L?ref_=wl_share
10/02/2022
Don’t forget! There’s still time! Tracking sheets have gone home and pledges can be collected until October 12!
09/30/2022
The Summerwind STEM Trackathon is TWO WEEKS AWAY! This is a fun event during the school day to promote healthy living and moving your body. The kids can earn raffle tickets by being sponsored to walk/run laps during a 30 minute period. The raffle tickets can then be entered for fun prizes that promote physical activity at home! This is one of the biggest fundraisers for the school and benefits the PE program.
🏃🏻♀️ 🚴 💃🏻 ⛷ 🏃🧎🏾♂️🚶🏿
To help Mrs. Porter with her event, the Summerwind STEM PTO created an Amazon wish list of things that would make great raffle prizes. Purchases from the Wish List ship to PTO President who will deliver them to the school. Any purchase or donation you can make would be greatly appreciated by students and staff.
❗️Link to the wishlist ❗️
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2DTPACM13N10L?ref_=wl_share
09/28/2022
Living in bliss remembering how many happy faces we saw this night ♥️
09/24/2022
Summerwind PTO’s amazing VP of media. Megan works tirelessly to bring all the amazing content of our FB and IG accounts! Thank you Megan!!