Deer Park Elementary PTA

📚✨ Calling Our Community for Support! ✨📚

Due to budget cuts this year, our school will unfortunately be unable to provide the Sunshine State Readers for classrooms next year. These books are such an important part of our students’ learning and reading joy, and we’re hoping our amazing community can help us bridge this gap!

We’re looking for individuals, families, or businesses who would be willing to sponsor a classroom or a reading pod by helping purchase these books. Every contribution—big or small—makes a meaningful difference for our students.
If you’ve ever wanted to directly impact young readers and support education, this is a wonderful opportunity to get involved! 💙📖

Who can help sponsor a class or pod? Please reach out or comment below—we would love to partner with you!

Let’s come together and keep the love of reading strong for our students! 💫

📚✨ Help Our Deer Park Bucks Keep Reading Strong! ✨📚
At Deer Park Elementary, we have always been focused on strong foundations—because we know that reading is fundamental to student success. One of the ways we support this is by purchasing Sunshine State Young Readers Award (SSYRA) books each year for our students.
✅ We provide each intermediate classroom with a SSS set (one per 3–5 classroom)
✅ We provide each primary pod with a set (shared across the team)
Note: In our primary grades, these books are often used as class read-a-louds, as some titles are above students’ independent reading levels—ensuring all students can experience rich, engaging texts.
💡 Why this matters: Reading common books across classrooms allows us to:
Build a shared, schoolwide reading culture
Engage students in meaningful, standards-aligned discussions
Strengthen comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills
Increase student engagement with high-interest texts
Create excitement and connection around reading across grade levels
🎉 Incentive Alert:
Intermediate students who read all 15 SSYRA books are invited to a special end-of-year celebration party
Primary classes that read all 15 SSYRA books together will earn a fun ice cream party during their lunch time! 🍦
💰 This year, we are reaching out to our community for support for this supplemental program that we do as a school.
We are seeking businesses, partners, and individuals who would like to help sponsor our students’ access to books.
💵 Sponsorship Opportunities:
Sponsor all SSYRA books for the whole school: $1,970.56
Sponsor one intermediate classroom set: $143.35 (10 sets needed)
Sponsor one primary pod set: $179.02 (3 sets needed)
🌟 All sponsors will be recognized!
Your name (or business) will be displayed on the book baskets in each classroom, and we will proudly share your support with our Deer Park community, so everyone knows who is investing in our students.
📖 How to Help:
Contact school administration, OR
Purchase directly through Rycor
Every contribution—big or small—helps us continue building strong readers and a strong future for our Deer Park Bucks. Next year, our schools’ theme will be camping theme with the slogan “Learning is an Adventure.” We want to ensure that reading is the easiest and most exciting way to take an adventure, so please help us by supporting our students!🦌💙

It is almost time for our last day of Kona Ice here at Deer Park Elementary School. Please make sure you pre-order, there will be no day of orders allowed.

🍧🍧🍧🍧 Mark your calendars May 20th is the day!!!!

Deer Park Families------Don't miss the final visit from Kona Ice this school year......... Must pre pay- NO PURCHASES DAY OF ALLOWED......use QR code below to prepay. Lets make this the best day ever!!!!!!