Annual PTSA pledge-based fundraiser centered around student fun-run event

This year, Samantha Smith Elementary PTSA is collecting Box Tops to fund our school's programs. Clipping Box Tops is an easy way for you to help our school buy what it needs. Box Tops are worth 10 cents each and they quickly add up to real cash for our teachers to use in the classroom – directly impacting your student!

Purpose-built program to raise money to replace the play structure on the main playground and the play structure in the kindergarten play area.

Annual yearbook of portraits and candids

WATCH D.O.G.S.®, a K-12 program, invites fathers, grandfathers, uncles, or other father figures to volunteer at least one day all day at their child’s/student’s school during the school year. WatchDOG volunteers perform a variety of tasks during their volunteer day including monitoring the school entrance, assisting with unloading and loading of buses and cars, monitoring the lunch room, or helping in the classroom with a teacher’s guidance by working with small groups of students on homework, flashcards, or spelling.

Recruiting event for WatchD.O.G.S. with Reptile Man. He will present at an assembly at the school during the day and at an evening event.

Event where grandparents are invited to eat lunch with their grandkids at school.

School logo clothing sold at the start of the beginning of the school year.

The PTSA is an organization of Parents, Teachers and Students working together with teachers and staff for the benefit our our students at Samantha Smith Elementary. The PTSA organizes volunteers, fundraises, advocates for children legislatively, funds many of the educational enrichment programs at school and more. Programs we provide include Nature Vision, Explore Art, Math Challenge, Watch D.O.G.S., Health Screenings and Yearbook. We also host numerous social and educational activities throughout the year, including STEM Night, Winter Wonderland and International Night. Funds raised by the PTSA are used to conduct these programs and purchase supplies and equipment for the school.

Math competition open to all Smith students. Space limited.

Each year, PTSA coordinates with the teachers at Smith to publish the list of school supplies required for each grade the following year. The items may then be purchased in convenient kits put together by EduKit. Parents may purchase these kits rather than having to buy items separately themselves.