Everyday Ways to Help Holy Cross

The Entertainment Book sale has wrapped up. Please get your orders to the school office today, or return any books you were unable to sell. Thanks for your help with this school fundraiser!

There are a number of ways you can help raise funds for Holy Cross while just living your everyday life!  Let us know if you’ve got more ideas (just add a comment to this post!)

Goodsearch

You can raise 1 cent for Holy Cross for every Internet search you do. Just sign up at Goodsearch.com and designate Holy Cross as your choice for donations. Imagine if all our school families did searches with Goodsearch instead of Google or Yahoo. Those pennies would add up quickly!

Box Tops / Labels for Education / Best Choice UPCs

Holy Cross gets 10 cents for every Box Top collected. Plus, there are bonus Box Tops and other frequents specials with the program. Click here for a list of all the Box Tops products available. The school received more than $1,800 from Box Tops last year.  With your help, we can top that this year!  The money, which goes to the Special Projects fund at the school, which helps pay for things like bus transportation to the church for All-School Mass on inclement weather days.

The Labels for Education program is based on points, not actual money. Labels are generally marked for 1, 5 or 10 points. We can pick merchandise for the school with the points collected. The school used some of our Label collection points from last year to purchase 15 new playground balls. Click here for a list of products that carry various points of Labels.  (available also in Spanish)

Best Choice UPCs are worth 3 cents each to the school. Doesn’t seem like much, but that really adds up.  We made $120 last year from Best Choice UPCs. With your help, we could double that this year. Just look through your cupboard and see how many Best Choice items you have!

So, when you spot a Box Top, Label or Best Choice UPC, clip it! Keep a little bag of them in your kitchen, and drop them by the school when it’s full.

Paper Recycling

Don’t throw out all those newspapers, office papers and homework sheets! Keep a bin in the garage for them. When it’s full, drop it by the green recycling containers in the Holy Cross preschool parking lot!   As part of the Special Projects fund, the money raised from recycling helped pay for things like wall mounts for the SmartBoards and a new computer for our school secretary.

SunnyD Book Spree

This is a new one for Holy Cross this year.  Please save the UPC labels from SunnyD products (16 oz or larger).  For every 20 labels, the school gets 20 Scholastic books! You can send those in along with your other labels and UPCs, and they’ll get sorted.  Click here for more information on the program.

Scrip

Scrip = Gift Cards, pretty much.  Buy cards for face value, and the school gets a percentage.  There are loads of stores, restaurants and other businesses on the list. Use them for groceries, gas, gifts, etc.  And you get a cut of the deal, as well. A percentage of the school’s percentage can be used toward your tuition bill or to donate to the Guardian Angel Fund.  The whole program is just Win/Win.  The money raised from Scrip is part of the church budget.  Click here to take a look at the list of Scrip available, and figure out how you can use it for your family’s purchases.

Target REDcard

The Target card is another Win/Win proposition for you and Holy Cross.  Choose Holy Cross as your school. You get 5% off your Target purchases when you use it, and the school gets a 1% donation with your purchase, as well.  We just received a check for more than $800, which will be directed to the ‘Special Projects’ fund. (That fund pays for things like staff enrichment programs.)  Click here to find out how to get your very own Target REDcard.

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Formas diarias de ayudar A Santa Cruz

La venta de libro de entretenimiento se termina hoy. Por favor enviar sus pedidos a la Oficina de la escuela, o devolver los libros que no pudo vender. Gracias por su ayuda con la recaudación de fondos de esta escuela!

Hay varias maneras que puede ayudar a recaudar fondos para Santa Cruz día a día. Háganos saber si usted tiene más ideas (sólo agregar un comentario a este post!)

GoodSearch

Puede recaudar 1 cent para Santa Cruz por cada búsqueda en Internet que hacer. Regístrese en Goodsearch.com y designa a Santa Cruz como su opción para donaciones. Imagínese si todas las familias de nuestra escuela hicieran búsquedas con Goodsearch en lugar de Google o Yahoo. Los peniques se suman rápidamente!

Box Tops / etiquetas para educación / Best Choice UPCs

Santa Cruz obtiene 10 centavos de dólar por cada etiqueta mencionadas arriba. Además, hay también bonos Box Tops y otros especiales con el programa. Haga clic aquí para obtener una lista de todos los productos de Box Tops disponibles. La escuela recibió más de $1,800 de Box Tops el año pasado. Con su ayuda podemos lograr más este año! El dinero,  va al fondo de proyectos especiales de la escuela, que ayuda a pagar gastos como transporte en autobús de la escuela a la iglesia para la Misa durante todos los días de inclemencias del tiempo.

The Labels for Education .Las etiquetas para el programa de educación se basan en puntos, no dinero  real. Las Etiquetas generalmente marcadas para 1, 5 o 10 puntos. Nosotros podemos recoger mercancía para la escuela con los puntos acumulados. La escuela recogió unas etiquetas el año pasado y se ocupo para comprar 15 nuevas bolas de juegos infantiles. Haga clic aquí para obtener una lista de productos que llevan varios puntos de etiquetas. (Disponible también en español)

Best Choice UPCs .Mejor elección UPCs valen 3 centavos para la escuela. No parece mucho, pero  realmente cuentan. Hicimos $120 el año pasado. Con su ayuda, podríamos doblar esta cifra este año. Sólo mirar a través de su armario y ver cuántos elementos mejor elección tienes!

Por lo tanto, cuando usted detecte una etiqueta de Best Choice o de Label para Educacion! Córtelos y póngalos en una bolsa  pequeña  en su cocina y dejarlos en la escuela cuando está llena.

Reciclado de papel

No tirar todos esos periódicos, artículos de oficina y hojas de deberes! Mantener una bandeja en el garaje para ellos. Cuando está lleno, colóquelo por el contenedor de reciclado verde de  en el lote del estacionamiento  del preescolar  de Santa Cruz! Como parte de los fondos de proyectos especiales, el dinero recaudado del reciclaje ayudó a pagar gastos como el montaje para el SmartBoards y un nuevo equipo para nuestra secretaria de la escuela.

Libro Sunny D

Se trata de una nueva campaña este ano  para Santa Cruz. Guarde las etiquetas de la UPC de productos de (16 oz o mayor). Por cada 20 etiquetas, la escuela obtiene 20 libros escolares! Puede enviarlos junto con sus otras etiquetas de UPCs, y podrá obtener ordenados. Haga clic aquí para obtener más información sobre el programa.

Scrip

Scrip = tarjetas de regalo, Comprar tarjetas de valor nominal y la escuela obtiene un porcentaje. Hay infinidad de tiendas, restaurantes y otros negocios en la lista. Utilícelos para comestibles, gas, regalos, etc… Y obtendrá una buena oferta. Puede utilizarse un porcentaje del porcentaje para la factura de la escuela hacia su matrícula o donarlo al fondo de Ángel de la guarda. El programa completo es  ganar y ganar. El dinero recaudado de Scrip es parte del presupuesto de la iglesia. Haga clic aquí para echar un vistazo a la lista de disponible Scrip y averiguar cómo se puede utilizarlo para las compras de su familia.

Target REDcard

La tarjeta de Target es otra propuesta de ganar / ganar para Santa Cruz. Elija Santa Cruz como su escuela. El 5% en sus compras van para el destino de la escuela cuando se utiliza la tarjeta. Se obtiene ue 1% con la compra. Acabo de recibir un cheque por más de $800, lo cual se dirigirán al fondo “Proyectos especiales”. (Ese Fondo paga por cosas como programas de enriquecimiento del personal). Haga clic aquí para obtener información sobre cómo obtener su propia REDcard de destino.

Box Tops Contest

Info from Beckon Brown, Holy Cross Box Tops Coordinator -

We hope you’ve been collecting those Box Tops, Labels for Education and Best Choice UPCs this summer.  And, we’ve put together a contest to see who has been clipping the most!

Gather all the Box Tops you can, because the family who submits the most between now and the end of the school day on Friday, August 26 will win a fun, as-yet-undetermined prize.  It will be fabulous – trust us!

• Make sure that you mark your family name on the bag.

• Labels and Best Choice UPCs are welcome, but only Box Tops will count toward this contest.

• Feel free to leave the Box Tops in the blue box by the school office or in the Box Tops mail cubby at Holy Cross Church.

Contact Beckon Brown if you have any questions. (she’s in the school directory)

100 Bonus Box Tops

Our Holy Cross Box Tops, Labels for Education and Best Choice UPCs Coordinator Beckon Brown would like to spread the word about a great opportunity to collect bonus Box Tops for Holy Cross.  If you’re starting to stock up snacks and lunch items for school and you’re shopping at Price Chopper, you can help!

Just enter your Price Chopper card number online at myschoolmyrewards.com. (Make sure to choose Holy Cross as your preferred school.) Then show your card when you purchase 12 Box Tops items at Price Chopper.  Holy Cross will receive 100 Box Tops!

The special bonus program runs through Tuesday, August 9.

Also, we hope you’re collecting those Box Tops, Labels for Education and Best Choice UPCs this summer!  We’ll have more news about the summer collection contest @ Holy Cross next week in the blog. For now, just clip, clip, clip…

End of the School Year Tidbits

A few things to note -

• School dismisses at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow, Wednesday.
  There will be no After School Care.

• There is a change to the
  Name That Theme Contest…
  Celebration theme contest details can be found on the SCHOOL website (holycrosscatholicschool.com), not on the Celebration site.  Keep posting those great ideas!

• Used school supplies are still being collected through tomorrow at Mrs. O’Brien’s room. Thanks for your donations.

• Don’t forget to save those Box Tops, Best Choice UPCs and Labels for Education this summer! You can drop them off at the school during our summer hours or in the Box Tops mail cubby at the church. We’ll post final results from this year in a blog post soon. Thank you all for your work.

Almost @ Goal

from Marti Palmer, Holy Cross Box Tops & Labels Coordinator -

Thanks for all your help with collecting Box Tops, Labels for Education and Best Choice UPCs for Holy Cross!

Let’s make one big final push for the school year in April. We’re about 1,000 Campbell’s Labels for Education points away from our goal for the year.  We can reach this goal with your help. And, if we do, we’ll earn even more bonus points for Holy Cross.

Deposit your bags or sheets of Box Tops, Labels for Education and Best Choice UPCs in the light blue box in the front hallway at Holy Cross School, send by backpack mail to ‘Devin Palmer, 5NE’ or leave them in the Box Tops mail cubby at the church.  If you have any questions, please feel free to email me!

p.s.
Click here (or the image below) for a new collection sheet for Box Tops.
Have the kids color it, then attach 10 Box Tops and return it to school.

Check out these past blog posts about Box Tops, Labels & UPCs:

• Buying the World w/Label Points
• And the Winner Is…. (drumroll, please)
• Box Tops + Best Choice = Buses
• more posts regarding Box Tops
• more posts about Labels for Education

Box Tops Bonus

If you’re going to be buying some of the following products
this month (Feb 9 – March 2), please save
your UPCs and receipt for Holy Cross to use
for bonus Box Tops points.

To help us out, please submit in an envelope (send in backpack mail to Devin Palmer, 5NE) – your receipt(s) AND the UPCs from any of the following:

• Cheerios cereals
• Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal
• Lucky Charms cereal
• Kix cereals
• Betty Crocker cookie pouches
• Betty Crocker Frosting
• Bisquick baking mix
• Old El Paso dinner kits
• Hamburger Helper meals
• Betty Crocker Fruit Roll-Ups
• Betty Crocker Fruit by the Foot
• Betty Crocker Fruit Gushers
• Nature Valley Crunchy granola bars
• Pillsbury Toaster Strudel pastries
• Totino’s Pizza Rolls Pizza Snacks
• Pillsbury Grands bixcuits
• Pillsbury sweet rolls
• Pillsbury Ready to Bake cookies

Thanks for your help!

Box Top Bonus

Help Holy Cross win bonus Box Tops!

They’re giving away 1,000 bonus Box Tops per day in February.
It’s easy to enter. Click the image above,
sign in if you’re new to the Box Tops site
(choose Holy Cross as your designated school)
and enter daily.  Thanks for your help!

And the winners are…

from Holy Cross Box Tops and Labels Coordinator, Marti Palmer -

Thanks to all who contributed Box Tops during the collection drive.

We ended up with a total of 3295 Box Tops – that’s $329.50 for the school!

As you may know, there was a contest involved with the collection drive. The classroom collecting the most Box Tops won a cookie party. That was….  drum roll, please……  Mrs. Neuburger’s 5th-grade class!  They will be enjoying their cookies next Friday, along with Mrs. Miller’s 3rd-grade class. They came in a strong second place.

The preschool set a goal of 500 Box Tops for the collection drive. They blew past that goal and brought in a total of 625. Thanks!

Now, let’s follow up the success of the Box Tops drive with great numbers in the Labels for Education drive. Be sure to watch for Box Tops and labels as you do your holiday baking.  Send in your labels, along with your name, by Friday, Jan. 7.  High collector wins a Houlihans gift card.

Thursday Notes

Check out this link – http://hy-veesmartpoints.com/home/point_leaders.php.  We are still in first place to win the Smart Board in the Hy-Vee contest! Keep up the good work, and watch for a code on a special printout with your receipt (see below) when you purchase $20 in Proctor & Gamble products. Another 100 points is given if you spend $20 in Sara Lee products in that same grocery transaction. The contest ends Nov. 30.  Go Hornets!

Reminder: today is the final day to submit Box Tops for the fall collection drive contest. The winning classroom will enjoy a cookie party in the next few weeks! There’s been a last-minute push by a few classes, so it will be interesting to see who comes out on top! We’ll let you know next week.

Don’t forget that Friday is a half-day at Holy Cross for students.  Our teachers will spend the afternoon with the School of Faith program.

Don’t Forget Your Name!

Reminder from Box Tops & Labels Coordinator, Marti Palmer -