Saturday's Social Event

Saturday's get together will be at my parent's house (Mrs Turnbull). Her address is 157 Belle Grove. If your child needs a ride we can arrange that. They will be cooking hamburgers and hot dogs for dinner. If you would like to donate chips, drinks (cans) or a few dollars please send it by Friday to school. We would appreciate it!

Announcements September 28

Fundraisers:

We are asking students to sell 6 squares each for the LSU game. So far the majority have been able to sell them easily and we would rather do 2 pools and cut out a smaller fundraiser. If you are a parent of two students and you are going to have trouble selling the 12 let me know. I can see if some of the students with larger family members can sell a few extra to help. I know its hard with two kids involved in multiple things

Oct 16th - Elementary Tournament. I need help at 3:15 PM setting up and then proctoring tests, putting them in order and deciding on winners. Students should bring a change of clothes to school and plan on staying right after school.

Oct 17th- ACT math workshop. MAO students are welcome to come but this is a fundraiser/opportunity to raise ACT scores. They do not have to come. However, we ask that they spread the word to their friends and even other schools.

October 9th there will be a bake sale

October 25 there will be a doughnut sale benefiting nationals students. Order forms will go home later this week.

We are sending out order forms for calculator covers this week. As I get orders I will start passing them along with a prototype to those who volunteered to sew.

Nationals

Please get students' contracts in as soon as possible. Even if you are lacking the deposit I need to start making arrangements. To clarify: the summer practices are planned around student's schedules. If they are involved in sports and other activities we work around that. There are three of us leading practices so we have a lot of flexibility. We are greatly in need of younger students to go. We need Geometry and Algebra II level students at this point in time.

Tournaments

Permission slips went out for Lafayette today. Please return them by Thursday October 1.

There will be another get together after Lafayette location TBA. Depending on the number of people attending it will either be at my house or my mom's house. It is STRONGLY encouraged that students attend our social events. We have to get to know one another to work as a team.

November 7th we have a tournament at De La Salle

November 14th we have a tournament at Ben Franklin

Miscellaneous

We are looking for candy/gift card donations for incentives for individual placements. A king size candy bar or a $5 to $10 dollar gift card will be great.

Please remind your child to look over their material for a tournament. We do as well as each person so it is important to review before competing. Also students need to be sure they bring their pencils and graphing calculators to every tournament.

St. Paul's Placements

Congratulations!

4th Place Geometry- Zach Sparcella

5th Place Potpourri - Alex Tir

1st Place Potpourri - Sarah Robert

4th Place Adv Math - John de St. Germain

3rd Place Potpourri Team Test - Ricky Johnson, Alex Tir, Sarah Robert and Ryne Trosclair.

New as of September 21

Fundraisers:

Students will get their information for the LSU vs Florida pools today. They have to sell three $10 squares and we also need 7 additional squares sold. If anyone works somewhere or has family that likes to participate in football pools please let me know. This is a fundraiser for regional competition fees.

There will be a bake sale on Friday, October 9.

Our 5th - 8th tournament is on Friday, October 16. We need all students and parents that can work to work the tournament.

On Saturday October 17 me, stephen and jordan will be running a math ACT prep workshop. The cost is $20 and it is from 9 - 12:30. Students will take a practice ACT and will then be broken into small groups to go over the test and some testing strategies. The money raised goes toward the club. We will create flyers and publicize this and anyone can take the workshop.

I have requested Sunday, October 25. As soon as it approved I will post here. Students make 4 - 4.50 per dozen depending on tax and how many free dozens we get. This will be for those attending nationals.

Please get t-shirt sponsors in no later than Weds. We have to get our artwork in to the printer.

The Monday of Thanksgiving week we will have a pastalaya dinner in order to raise money for nationals.

Tournaments

Permission slips have gone out for St. Paul's this Saturday. This year we have different procedures and forms that have to be filled out through the school. They are due by Weds. It is imperative they are in on time as the administration needs to see them. I also need a copy of their insurance card front and back. Following St. Paul's we will have a team get together at Mrs. Carrie's house. Any parents interesting in providing snacks or drinks please let me know. I strongly encourage all team members to attend our team functions. We have to get to know each other in order to work like a team therefore these are important events. We also have a lot of fun hanging out and playing games.

October 3rd is our next tournament. We will be leaving very early as it is in Lafayette.

Incentives

We are looking for a few donations of incentive items for our tournament placers. Items include baking brownies for the whole class one day during the following week, pizza, any food that can be shared with the whole class, $5 gift cards to fast food chains or blockbuster, large candy bars and or bags of candy. Please let me know if you can donate any of these items. We have set up the current incentive system.

Placement Goals:

2 individual placements

2 top ciphering team placements

Interschool Placement

Sweepstakes Placement

All individual placers will get a food item or gift card. If we place in Interschool the whole class gets a treat such as brownies, pizza or whatever is donated. If we get sweepstakes we will draw several team members to receive additional items and they will get a day to play a game in class.

Nationals

Nationals information and contracts were given out in class today. Please contact me with any questions. We have changed the contract this year so please be sure that both you and your child have read and understand the requirements. We will be chartering the bus through Hotard as they have given us the best quote.

If you have any fundraising suggestions please let me know. We will be doing several fundraisers a month in order to help raise funds quickly and easily.

Miscellaneous

We are still in need of a bus driver. Please let me know if you are available to get a CDL. The school will pay for you to get the CDL and we have nine saturday tournaments that we need transportation to. You don't have to work the tournaments and could simply bring a book or some work to do.

This Thursday September 24 is our first mail in tournament. Any thetas that can stay after school to take the test are encouraged to let me know. I will only stay if there are enough students to take the test.

News Sept. 17

Students can still turn in T-shirt sponsors. Some suggestions: Italian Pie, Bill Hubbard's office, Nicki Monica's office, River Parish Physical Therapy, Dr. Favalora, Dr. Danos, Dr. Accuri, Sicily's, Gregg's, Curves, Latter and Blum, First American, etc. The absolute last day for the sponsors is Weds. Take advantage as this money goes straight into their accounts.

Football pools for the LSU v Florida will be on sale starting next week. Each student must sell 3 $10 squares.

We are in need of a parent who has a CDL or who is willing to get a CDL to drive our club. The school will begin charging us 16/ hour for a bus driver plus a 50 dollar bus fee. We really can't afford this increase in the spending budget for our club as we have 9 tournaments and this adds considerably to the cost of competing.

It appears that we will be chartering a bus to nationals as the price to travel with such a large group for airfare is around 500 dollars plus baggage fees and a taxi to get us to the hotel. I hope to have everything written up by Monday for prices. We will charter the bus and share with different schools to decrease the cost as much as possible.

Please talk to any teachers at schools with 5 - 8th grade. We need a good showing at our tournament to make money for nationals.

We will have a bake sale on Oct 9.

We are looking for several students that will commit to staying after school one day a week to work on the Log 1 tournament. We missed out on over 3000 last year by 50 points or so. We really want to win that money as it will be very helpful for nationals.