Benny Bengal's News Brief

Thank you all for attending our first Spirit Night fundraiser! What a success!! Benny wanted everyone to know how excited he was to see your smiling faces and enjoying ice cream on a warm summer day. We hope to see all our Boggess dads, grandfathers, and male role models at the upcoming WatchDOGS Pizza Night. Please remember to RSVP so that we have a count. And move quick if your student is ready for some Mad Science experiments like Dr. Frankenstein (just kidding!). We have a few spots left for our Mad Science after school program.

We are ordering free Boggess t-shirts for every student soon so please submit your student's shirt size to their teacher or at the PTA website by this Friday, August 26.

If you haven't joined PTA yet this year, what are you waiting for? Your membership supports the many exciting family events we have coming up, like Family Movie Night and Fall Fling!

Thanks,

Sylvia Roy

Mom to Archer (2nd grader), Knox & Hunter (1st graders)

AUGUST

• 25: WatchDOGS Pizza Night & Sign Up (6:00 p.m.)
• 26: Deadline to submit your student's T-shirt size to their teacher or at the PTA website
  
• 31: Mad Science After School Program begins

SEPTEMBER

• 22: Family Movie Night (more details to come)
  

Look who's front page news! Check out Benny and his friends at the first day of school in the latest Murphy Monitor. Grab a copy at a newsstand near you.

We have 167 Boggess PTA members. Can you get us to 200?

Membership starts at $10.50 for the year, and all funds directly support our students, teachers, and numerous family events throughout the year. Sign up today!

Only a few spots left so register now!

WHEN? Wednesdays, 2:45-3:45 p.m., starting August 31 for 8 weeks

WHAT? Your student can get hands-on learning, exciting demonstrations, and fun creations to take home with our Mad Science after school program. Grades K-2 will enjoy "Bubbles, Smoke & Chemistry." Grades 3-5 will do "Mad Machines & 3D Inventions." See the flyer sent home with your student for more information.

COST? $140 per student

HOW? Register here.

Every year, Boggess PTA proudly hosts the PTA Reflections Arts Contest. Students can enter their original work in one or more of the categories: Dance, Literature, Music Composition, Visual Arts, Photography, and Film Production. Boggess winners advance to the Plano ISD district competition and potentially all the way to nationals!

2022 THEME: Show Your Voice

DEADLINE: Friday, November 4

ELIGIBILITY: Students must have a PTA member in their household by October 31 to enter. Join now!

MORE DETAILS: View rules and entry form.

2024 THEME CONTEST: Students can also dream up a theme for our future PTA Reflections contest. Winners receive $100! Deadline is November 5, 2022. Submissions can be made here.

If you plan to attend, please RSVP here so we know how much pizza to order.

WHEN? Thursday, August 25, 6:00 p.m.

WHAT? Dads and male role models (grandfathers, uncles, and more) who are WatchDOGS (Dads of Great Students) get to spend an entire day volunteering at school and mentoring students. Come learn more and sign up for your day of WatchDOGS duty while enjoying a pizza dinner with your student.

WHERE? Boggess Gym

Big thanks to third grader Giuliana P. who helped hand out Boggess yearbooks to last year's graduating class, promoted our Baskin Robbins spirit night with Benny during carpool, and raised the flag with Mrs. Edie this week. Great job!

Thanks also to Bengals (and a future Bengal) Isla and Wyatt M. and Michael and Katy P. for helping to hand out yearbooks, and to Shannon, Hudson, and Lachlan C. and Stephanie and Jaxin M., who worked hard to install those awesome tiger eyes on the fence that greeted everyone on the first day of school.

Thanks for bringing the Bengal spirit!

Thank you to our student helpers for the flag raising and lowering ceremony each day, including Juliana L., Adair and Calla V., Ellie B., and more.

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