Please note that The Cougar Bank will be closing for the 2011/12 school year on Wednesday, April 25. The bank will re-open at Mountain View in the fall. If you have a Cougar Bank account, that doesn’t mean you have to stop saving! You can continue to make deposits (and withdrawals) into your account at Virginia Commerce Bank’s Manassas locations:

10830 Balls Ford Road
(703) 366-3351

9161 Liberia Avenue
(703) 366-3584

Mountain View would like to thank business partner Virginia Commerce Bank for their ongoing support and commitment to The Cougar Bank. The bank provides a wonderful real-life learning experience, while teaching students the importance of saving from a young age.

We’re sure Santa and relatives brought many new and exciting electronic gadgets and devices to the families at MVES. What’s a kid to do with the old, unwanted systems?

RECYCLE THEM! It’s a fabulous tax deduction, helps MVES, and protects the environment!

Donate your used consumer electronics and unwanted, broken or mismatched jewelry at the MVES Recycling Station in the front lobby. Your used item(s) may be tax deductible and will be recycled in accordance with EPA regulations. 100% of the proceeds will help fund our Encore Programs!

We are currently collecting the following items: Cell Phones, Laptop Computers, Inkjet Cartridges, MP3 Players, Digital Cameras, Digital Video Cameras, Handheld Game Systems, GPS Devices, Radar Detectors, Electronic Book Readers, Gold, Silver & Platinum Jewelry. We’ll be mailing these in soon, so don’t delay!

Please drop off any items you would like to recycle at the MVES Recycling Station outside the office door and/or send in to school with your child for recycling.

We greatly appreciate your support!
* Used cell phones bring MVES up to $350 in FREE MONEY!
* MVES receives up to $300 on used laptops/netbooks!
* Used ink jet cartridges earn MVES up to $5 each!
* MVES earns money for EVERY item turned in!

Spread the word in your office and help us earn BIG BUCKS simply by recycling!

Want to know more details about what we’re collecting, go to www.recyclingfundraiser.com/documents/pricelist.pdf.

Click here to download the Tax Donation Form.

Teachers can always use books for their classrooms. In fact, it was a top item selected when the PTO surveyed MVES teachers this summer. Here’s a great way you can earn free books for your teacher and your MVES student:

1. Enter codes from specially marked Kellogg’s products (only available at Walmart) at www.scholastic.com/kellogg. 
2. Receive a $5 BookCoupon for every 2 Kellogg’s codes.
3. Follow the instructions to choose your free books. This includes purchasing through Scholastic online, purchasing through the Scholastic flyers sent home by your teacher, or submitting BookCoupons to your teacher to redeem for books.

There is no limit – you can enter as many codes as you want.

What a great way to encourage reading!

This info was passed on by a MVES family. Have ideas to share? Email the MVES PTO at info@mountainviewpto.org.

The MVES PTO Free Money program brings in thousands of dollars each year for our school. And the best part…it doesn’t cost you a thing!   Here are the ways you can help MVES:

• Box Tops: Just clip and turn in! Check all the items you purchase for the Box Top label. Cut out neatly around the dotted line and send in to school in a ziplock bag labeled with your Teacher’s name and the number of Box Tops. MVES receives 10¢ for each box top.

• Capri Suns: Drink all of the juice, toss the straw, and place in a ziplock baggie with your teacher’s name and the amount in the pouch. MVES earns $.02 for each pouch turned in.

• Tyson Chicken Box and Bag Labels: Another clip and turn in! Check all the Tyson Chicken products for the Tyson Project A+ label, cut out neatly and send in to school. MVES receives 42¢ for each label.

• Phones & Ink: Send in your old cell phones, used ink cartridges, video game systems, laptops, MP3, digital cameras, digital video cameras, or GPS devices. They’ll be recycled and we earn free money—up to $350 per item! Good for the environment and good for us. This program is being offered through Cell Phone, Laptop, Gold & Silver Jewelry Recycling Fundraiser.

• Good Search: Change your web browser to Good Search and we earn free money every time you search the internet. Go to www.goodsearch.com and link to MVES. Use Good Search for all your future internet searches. Click here for MVES GoodSearch Info.

• Bloom: Sign up your Bloom Breeze card at www.shopbloom.com (school code 01034) and shop as usual. We earn free money just from your regular grocery purchases!

• Giant: Sign up your Giant store card at www.giantfood.com (school code 01945) and shop as usual. We receive free money from their A+ School Rewards program.

• Harris Teeter: Harris Teeter has been a dedicated sponsor of many PTO events including our PTO Social at Meet the Teacher this Friday. Please support our sponsors and sign up your Harris Teeter VIC card at www.harristeeter.com (school code 6871) and shop as usual. We receive free money from their Together in Education program.

• Target: Sign up your Target REDcard at www.target.com (school code 110752) and shop as usual. We receive up to 1% of your purchases from their Take Charge of Education program.

BOX TOPS and Capri Suns competition coming in September.

Keep collecting! 

We have an exciting opportunity to share with you. We are taking part in a national fundraising program sponsored by Tyson Foods, Inc. called Tyson Project A+™. Through this program, we can raise as much as $12,000 for Mountain View this year! The money we raise can go towards buying books or computers, making improvements to our buildings, or anything else that we want.

All we have to do to participate is clip and save the entire Project A+™ label from participating Tyson products. Each label we collect is worth 24¢ for our school. A collection site has been set up in the lobby where you can drop off your redemption labels (or send to school with your child).

Let’s earn more FREE MONEY for  MVES! Clip and save Tyson Project A+™ labels today.

GoodSearch is an easy way to earn FREE MONEY for MVES simply by searching the web.  In fact, the more you search the Internet at GoodSearch.com, the more money we make!
It’s simple!

• On the GoodSearch.com homepage, enter  Mountain View Elementary School (Haymarket, VA) in the big white box, click “search,” and follow the prompts.
• After you’ve registered, search the Internet just like you normally would — the site is powered by Yahoo!, so you’ll get high-quality search results.
• MVES earns about 1 penny for EVERY search!

This is an easy way to support MVES and it doesn’t cost  you anything.  The money comes directly from GoodSearch advertisers. Nearly all of your searches will count toward donations (see the GoodSearch website for exclusions).

Want to know how much is being collected? Click here or go to GoodSearch.com and enter Mountain View Elementary School in the “Who do you GoodSearch for?” box.  Click on the “Amount Raised” button and you’ll see the real-time number of searches and money raised.

We GoodSearch, do you?