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May 2017 Meeting Minutes

5/4/2017

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Call meeting to order - Introductions
Approval of minutes - Deater
Treasure report - Mandy - Most expenses lately has been the PE equipment and Teacher Appreciation. Not much else.
Teacher report - Mrs. J. Defever & Mrs. Bender - We have a lot of field trips coming up, will PTO cover the cost for chaperones/volunteers?? YES!! Mrs. Defever will be teaching K next year and needs a rug. We can use Scholastic Dollars, Amber will send the link. Thank you for the extra Hokie stools and beans for the beanbags, the kids have really appreciated them!! The field trip forms are still the same for teachers to submit to PTO. Mrs. Bender has CDs that can be read with books and is looking to get a system for the kids to have a CD player with headphones. We can get this with Scholastic Dollars as well!!
Principal report - Academics reporting - We are in the last round of assessments, 3rd and 4th Grade are doing the MStep now. The kids are getting a little more of a break in between testing this year, which is nice. We won’t see results from that until the fall sometime. The teacher had some professional development over the last early release day.
Old Business:
- Mr. Miller PE Stuff - Assembly reveal? The equipment is already being used, Mr. Miller is super excited about it all as well!! Maybe over Health and Fitness Day we will do a “reveal” of some sort.
New Business:
- Box tops - Maggie - We did receive a check from Box Tops. Maggie’s son will be moving up to 5th grade and she won’t be able to do Box Tops next year. Katie has volunteered to do Box Tops next year.
- Shop-A-Roo - Katie - Nothing new. Mandy will check to see when we received the check last year. It doesn’t seem like we have many users. Maybe have a receipts basket for people to drop receipts. Or a table at the Walk-A-Thon to help people sign up.
- Labels - Becky
Pavilion Meeting - On hold
Field Trips -
- K - GR Childrens Museum - $1285
- 1st Grade - John Ball Zoo - May 25 - $3 per student - 55 students
- 2nd Grade - Howard Christensen Nature Center - $620
- 3rd Grade - Fifth Third Ballpark - $1200
  - Cranhill - $300
- 4th Grade - Little Rivers Schoolhouse - $425
  - Mrs. McKenna needs $31 for Artworks to cover cost from previous event
  - GR Public Museum - $1651
- Total $6310 - Already spent $1206 on field trips this year. Our budget was $8000, so we aren’t too far off. Is anyone opposed to approving all field trips. No! All field trips approved!
- General fund requests
  - Mrs. Zocco - Writing Practice Magnet board - $300. Approved.
  - Mrs. Hayes - Garden prep - Each grade will have it’s own raised bed - $180 - Raised bed, soil, mulch, garden tools, etc. Who will maintain the garden over the summer? Mrs. Hayes is willing to. Already $145 donated to the cause. Approved.
  - Mrs. Horvath - We need some ear covers for thermometer. We can order them on Amazon. We can maybe purchase a thermometer that doesn’t need replacement parts.
  - Super Teacher Worksheets
Health and Fitness Day - May 26 - This will start right after lunch - maybe we can do the P.E. Stuff after lunch. 10:30 or 11:00 for bounce houses since K goes out early.
Book Fair BOGO - Amber - May 15th (8-3 & 5:30-7:00) & 16th.(8-3) We will need help packing up Tuesday as Amber won’t be able to be here. Set up will be after school the Friday before (May 12). Sign ups are going around. During BOGO Book Fair, we can’t use the deal for Scholastic Dollars. We have to sell $2000 worth to make any money, but we are using this as a kick-off for Summer Reading.
4th Grade Clap Out - June 1 - The T-shirts will have a cardinal on the front and all the students names on the back. We have 150 cookies also.
Para Day - This Friday May 5 - We have gift cards to the Raven/Blue Cow - Maybe some balloons and a We Appreciate You on the white board. Cooley will handle it.

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April 2017 Meeting Minutes

4/6/2017

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Call meeting to order - Introductions
Approval of March minutes - Deater
Treasure report - Mandy - Assembly and Book Fair was last month. And we also had some Professional Development as well.
Teacher report - Mrs. Fox - March is Reading month was a great success. Field trips are starting. Thank you for approving the third grade field trip coming up! The kids did enjoy all the books that were from book fair, so thank you for that!
Principal report - Ms. Kent - Academics report. We had a great month, we got in a lot of reading, and the school looked great! The assembly went well, the presenter was impressed with the energy of our school, and he complimented our student body.
Old Business:
- Book Fair - We bought $2000 worth of books for the students and teachers. We still have scholastic dollars left. There are still a few teachers that haven’t used their Christmas gift money yet. We do have a BOGO book fair coming up - that will be May 15 & 16 in the gym. Monday evening would probably be the best night if we are going to do a night time event - 5:30-7:00. If we sell $2000, we will get $1000 in Scholastic dollars back.
- March is Reading Month
- Bean bags/Stools - We refilled some of the beanbags for the school, it was kind of a big mess!!! We still have some to fill, but perhaps in the future we will just purchase new bean bags to avoid the hassle.
- FSU Engineering Class - Some of the teachers attended this event - they loved it! It is to help with STEM learning. Ferris may become the national hub for this STEM learning - so that may be an advantage for us!
New Business:
- Box tops - Maggie - No news - need to collect soon
- Shop-A-Roo - Katie - no news
- Labels - Becky - not much going
- PE request - Mr. Miller - Is requesting some new equipment for P.E. Gopher is the go to brand for equipment, though it may be a little pricier, but they are high quality materials, so it may look expensive, but it should last! There is an assortment of balls, discs, scooters, etc. This equipment will STAY at Riverview. We are working on storage, and some new shelves as well. This is a great way for ALL of the kids to benefit from some of the Walk-A-Thon money raised!! We will vote on a maximum of $3300 and then Ms. Kent and Mr. Miller can get together on some of the details. Approved! Can we do a big “opening” and show all the kids assembly style??
- New Benches by Bus - There has been a request to have the benches redone on the buses side of the building. It seems that they are very rarely used other than to jump off of. Let’s have them removed if needed.
- Pavilion Meeting - The Pavilion is a little more involved than we initially thought, this is something that we are going to continue to work towards, but it is going to be awhile before it comes to fruition.
- Health & Fitness Day - May 26 - We have reserved the inflatables through Jak’s already. We will need to reconfirm.
- Family Picnic - May 19 - The menu is always hot dogs and the families can bring in any food the want. We will just keep the food out of the classrooms this year.
- 4th Grade Clap out - Are we having cookies?? Yes!! Mandy will order the cookies. Emily will order the T-shirts. Any suggestions for Tshirts?? A shirt with all of the classes names in the shape of a cardinal maybe? Or Class of 20--?
- Para/Staff Day - Friday April 28 - Gift cards & balloons (Latex free) and decorations
- Teacher Appreciation - May 1-5
- Last day of School - June 8 tentatively

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March 2017 Meeting Minutes

3/2/2017

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Call meeting to order
Introductions
Approval of February minutes - Deater
Treasure report - Mandy - Very light month, there were some refunds from the Dollar Store and the purchase of the padcaster.
Teacher report - Mrs. Zocco, Mr. Posey, Mrs. Lamar - Science and Social studies night, great kick off to reading month today - we had NO snow days in February
Principal report - Ms. Kent - Academics report. The video from the padcaster equipment was AWESOME!! We got a green screen that came with, and we will add more to our supply. A new green screen has been ordered and it will be much larger and will be more versatile. Thanks to PTO for getting that for us!! Our staff was amazing for the start of March is reading month. We had a lot of special people in the building today to for celebrating. Science night was a great success again. If you would like to be a guest reader, let us know! This is a big month for us. Testing is all done for now.
Old Business:
- Science fair
New Business
- Box tops - Maggie - Just submitted the last one, we should get around $330ish dollars. It will be the last check we will get for the year.
- Labels - Becky - We still have points, becky has a current catalog to pass on to Mr. Miller or whoever may need anything from it.
- Shoparoo - Katie
- Assembly ideas - Reading committee has an assembly picked out for March 17 that will incorporate March is reading month. $650 approved.
- Spring book fair - Amber - March 13-17. There will be a sign up sheet going around for anyone who will be able to help out. For family night, we do not have any food or extras going, so we will just need a few people to help inside the book fair. Family night is from 5:30 - 7:00. We have been contacted about doing the BOGO book fair again this year. We sold about $1500 last year from this event, is anyone interested in doing this again. It is a little difficult scheduling this event?? Maybe we could run in over a couple days and do it during the daytime so everyone can get a chance to see it all? Let’s do it! Amber and Ms. Kent will get together and find a couple of options for dates.
- Health & Fitness Day -
- Field trips - This is floating along. Pass it on to the teachers!!
  - K went in the fall, they usually go to the Children’s Museum in the spring?
  - 1st - Usually goes to the zoo
  - 2nd - Howard Christensen nature center
  - 3rd - Fifth Third Ballpark education day in May - school kids day - the game will last 1.5 - 2 hours. Phys ed style events on the side. $8 per child for lawn seats packing their own lunch. We have 3 classrooms, so they would need 2 buses. Either May 17 or 24.
  - 4th - Grand rapids public museum and School section lake schoolhouse
- K team reading training - There is a reading training for K teachers, Mrs. Scheible and Mrs. Quinlan has already been through it. It involves some new teaching techniques, it goes through GVSU. It would be $150 per teacher and we would send 3 teachers. This would be a great opportunity for our K teachers! We approve!
- Auto Owners - Science fair event
- Mrs. Defever 2.0 beanbags and tippy stools - The third grade did a persuasive writing project and they really like the tippy stools and their beanbags need some refill beans. They were asking us if we could fund those upgrades. We can use some Scholastic dollars for some of those items! We will get 6 new stools and we can get beans for anyone who needs them in all the classrooms. The stand up desks are still going well too!
- On March 17 there is an all day training at the University that would include 2 tool kits for them to use in Engineering projects in the classroom. It is related to the women in Engineering event that we ran last year. If there are any teachers that are interested it would be $598 for two teachers. Anyone interested can talk to Angie Mishler. Angie will pass on the info to Ms. Kent.
- Is there any interest for our school in doing a 3D printer? We would have to check with our tech guy to see, but it is something we would consider in the future. We will take any opportunity to get some new technology in our kids hands!!
- Mrs. Lamar - Looking into getting some new instruments for the school. Would love to have instruments that wouldn’t have to be shared between us and Brookside and have a cart to transport the instruments. We definitely want to help out with this!!
- Teacher appreciation
- 4th grade clap out is June 1st probably 1:45-2:45ish.

We need bus drivers!!! If you know anyone, pass it on!!

Next meeting is April 5.

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