Carson Elementary PTA 5.7.3

05/27/2026

🏆 𝓒𝓞𝓝𝓖𝓡𝓐𝓣𝓤𝓛𝓐𝓣𝓘𝓞𝓝𝓢 🏆

Congratulations to our Golden Acorn Award winners for the 2025-2026 school year!

👏𝙿𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚎 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚖𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚋𝚒𝚐 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚠! 👏

🐾Our categories are:
𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧: Presented to a Volunteer in recognition of their dedication and service to the students during the 2025-2026 school year.
𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞: Recognizes an individual for their commitment to help create policy relating to health, welfare, safety and education of children.
𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫: Presented to an individual (Staff, Teacher, Assistant, Specialist, Support Staff, Administration, or Community Member) who has made significant contributions in their community to enhance educational outcomes of all children.

🐾 Our winners are:
𝐆𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧: Amanda Rollins and Andrea Morrison
𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐝𝐯𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞: Christina McDowell and Taryn Bowman
𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫: Nyla Dwiggins and Anthony Mason

Thank you so much to all of our amazing volunteers, Carson Staff and the community for all that you do!

05/18/2026

If you are interested in helping out at Field Day please see the flyer below!

Field day is a school sponsored event - if you have any questions please reach out to Emma L. Carson Elementary, directly!

Thank you!

05/10/2026

Submissions are still being accepted - please take a moment to nominate someone for an Acorn Award!

Emma L. Carson Elementary

🏆𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐍 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒 🏆
Golden Acorn Awards are coming up and we ask that you send in nominations for the below categories by May 8th!

You can send in nominations to Taryn at: [email protected]
𝐎𝐑 submit them here: https://forms.gle/bAsDs5WSuQ5HbnGN8

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬:
❤️Golden Acorn - Presented to a Volunteer in recognition of their dedication and service to the students during the 2025-2026 school year.
❤️Outstanding Advocate - Recognizes an individual for their commitment to help create policy relating to health, welfare, safety and education of children.
❤️Outstanding Educator - Presented to an individual (Staff, Teacher, Assistant, Specialist, Support Staff, Administration, or Community Member) who has made significant contributions in their community to enhance educational outcomes of all children.

📣𝐈𝐟 𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞:
1. Nominee first & last name:
2. Nominee email address:
3. What category you're nominating them for:
4. A blurb about why you are nominating them:

𝓟𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓮 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓬𝓱 𝓸𝓾𝓽 𝓲𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝔂 𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼!

05/09/2026

We are celebrating our amazing Carson staff next week for Staff Appreciation Week - if you would like to help us show appreciation the Falculty "All About Me" information is available now!

Our Binder with hard copies will be in the front office.
Please do not remove sheets from the binder, thank you!

🍎You can also check it out here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qy5e-YgaUDMyb6g2SVv2SDD2dsDiks-C?usp=sharing
🍏Also available on our website: https://carsonelementarypta.givebacks.com/w/allabout

Can't find who you are looking for?
Email Taryn at [email protected]

05/07/2026

Tomorrow is the last day to get those orders in!

Popcorn orders support our amazing 6th graders!

🍿POPCORN TIME!🍿

Our Carson 6th Graders are raising money for their celebration!

Order NOW through the 10th to help them meet their goal!

🍿Order here: https://popup.doublegood.com/s/vr4b2g69

05/05/2026

See you today!

🐾 MEMBERSHIP MEETING 🐾

Please join us May 5th at 𝟑:𝟑𝟎𝐩𝐦 in the Carson Library!

We are hoping to elect our new board - to vote you must be an up-to-date PTA member.
(Join PTA here: https://carsonelementarypta.givebacks.com/shop or reach out to Taryn at [email protected] to check your membership status!)

If you are interested in being on the board please plan on attending our meeting to nominate yourself / be elected (you can also nominate yourself early by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/fWcTUh1RT3TyLA3A6)

See you there!

05/02/2026

🍿POPCORN TIME!🍿

Our Carson 6th Graders are raising money for their celebration!

Order NOW through the 10th to help them meet their goal!

🍿Order here: https://popup.doublegood.com/s/vr4b2g69

04/29/2026

🐾 NEW PTA BOARD 🐾

We have 3 amazing volunteers who have stepped forward to fulfill some of our open board positions!

We are hoping to elect a complete board at our May 5th membership meeting!

If you are interested an executive board position or co-chairing please reach out to us at [email protected] , comment below or fill out our form!

Those wanting to run for the 2026-2027 Executive Board - Please plan on attending our next meeting, May 5th at 3:30pm, in the Carson Library!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1H83TKgvPcGShO8vFb5u9gqbH_Okqqxq876CBSl2kRkA/edit

04/25/2026

🐾 MEMBERSHIP MEETING 🐾

Please join us May 5th at 𝟑:𝟑𝟎𝐩𝐦 in the Carson Library!

We are hoping to elect our new board - to vote you must be an up-to-date PTA member.
(Join PTA here: https://carsonelementarypta.givebacks.com/shop or reach out to Taryn at [email protected] to check your membership status!)

If you are interested in being on the board please plan on attending our meeting to nominate yourself / be elected (you can also nominate yourself early by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/fWcTUh1RT3TyLA3A6)

See you there!

04/23/2026

We know who we nominated! 🫶🐾

🍎✨ TEACHER APPRECIATION GIVEAWAY ✨🍣

Teachers deserve it ALL… so we’re showing up the Trapper’s way 💙
We’re giving away TWO catered sushi lunches — one for a school in each region:
📍 Arizona
📍 Washington

🏆 The schools with the MOST nominations win!

HOW TO ENTER:
👇 Nominate your school in the comments
📣 Tag your fellow parents, students & staff to vote
❤️ One Comment per person!
Let’s show some love to the teachers who do it all 🍎✨

📅 Nominations close April 29th 🍣💥

** Trapper's will NEVER ask for financial information or send you to another website to claim a prize.