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October 2017 Meeting Minutes

10/5/2017

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Call meeting to order
- Introductions
Approval of September minutes
Treasure report - passed around - Mandy not present today
Teacher report - Mrs. Zocco - YK and K went on an amazing field trip to the apple orchards, thank you for that!! We are on the final push for the WALK-A-THON.
Principal report - Ms. Kent not present today
Old Business:
- Teacher gifts went well
- Homecoming - THANK YOU to everyone who helped!!
- First field trip
New Business:
- 4H - Angie
- Box tops/Shop-a-roo - We mailed out 4,554 boxtops today! Going to put out a brochure and info at a table at the Walk-A-Thon. We also have the trophy somewhere for the classroom winners.
- Basketball hoops -
- Bookfair - Amber - Oct. 23-27 - sign-up going around for during the week in the library - night time book fair event sign up going around as well. Molly Galloway is also helping Amber as she will be taking it over next year.
- The Bond Proposal - Josh Bull, Mrs. Defever, Mrs. Zocco, Pete Kent - They are here to present the bond issue information
  - Passed around brochure with info about what the bond issue will cover, also a FAQ sheet.
  - The board started by asking how to keep our district at the top, asked for input from every branch within the district buildings, and then took input from the community. The top three
    - Investment in infrastructure - replace roofs at every building - just under $3 million - improve the auditorium - new multi use stadium, our home track and football cannot use the current stadium - structural and drainage improvement on outdoor fields, tennis courts and baseball/softball fields
    - Health safety and security - air quality improvements - security camera upgrades at all buildings - new buses - door access improvements
    - 21st Century Learning improvement - existing classroom remodeling at all levels, additions to the building - 1:1 technology devices for all students - Overflow gym space/multi-pupose space
- WALK - A - THON
  - We don’t have nearly as many corporate sponsors as before - there was a little trouble with businesses receiving letters! We are only a few hundred behind what we were at this time last year.
  - We are continuing to make a good push this week! We always need help the day of, feel free to come. We start setting up 8 am. Glow walk from 11-12. There will be apples and bananas, no coffee this year.
  - 4th Grade - the classrooms have received a grant and have requested another $188 from the PTO to help cover the costs for current news and newspapers for the 4th Graders this year. Agree.

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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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January 2017 Meeting Minutes

1/5/2017

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Call meeting to order

Introductions
Approval of December minutes - Deater

Treasure report

Mandy - copies passed around. Mostly Holiday shop expenses, etc. Teacher report - No teacher representative

Principal report - Not present
Old Business:

Holiday Shop - how much money did we take in from the Holiday shop? It was really busy and seemed like everything went over well. We had to go back and get more items everyday. We are not sure how much we brought in in total. We are still waiting on all expenses and total money brought in before we have settled up. Will have a total by next meeting. Should we make any changes for next year?? How many kids did we sponsor this year?? Next year, let’s add to the envelope a spot to donate for kids who couldn’t bring in their own money. We definitely ran out of bags.

New Business:

Box tops - Maggie - We skipped December for the traveling trophy, so December totals will be added to January. The December check totaled to $763.20. We can post a reminder to Facebook for parents to bring more in too.
Labels - Not present
Shoparoo - Katie - We should have received a check in November for just over $100.
Signs - We will need a new sign for Jillaine (Cole) Defever and Mrs. Hearth also needs a sign.
Money spending committee - On hold for the moment.
Assembly ideas - We talked about doing something with reading night/March reading month. The theme is something to do with heros. “Every story has a hero, every hero has a story.”
Spring book fair - Amber - Week of March 13. Are we doing an ice cream/popsicle night? Have to check back with Renee.
Cran Hill Ranch day - is this happening??
Teacher appreciation ideas -Discussed at length. For the purpose of keeping this a surprise, the notes are not shared online. See PTO member with questions.
Should we do a Facebook event for the PTO birthday party? Deater will put invitations out for teachers. Jan. 28th at 6:30 at the Holiday Inn restaurant.

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October 2016 Meeting Minutes

10/6/2016

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Call meeting to order

Introductions
The board
Approval of September minutes

Treasure report

Mandy - copies of the newest report are being passed around, there are Walk-A-Thon expenses and also beginning of the year teacher gifts

Teacher report

Mrs. Garner - Spelling city is something that the 1-4 teachers would like to have. The cost is $25 for 25 students and a little additional expense for each added student. Some teachers have already purchased this, but it is something that the kids can use at home as well. There may be a group/whole school rate. Maybe we can reimburse the teachers now and get the school rate next year. No one opposes covering this for the teachers. Deater will find out who has already purchased and report back to Emily.
The teachers now have to put their standards on their lesson plans, this is a new state requirement that requires a lot of extra time for the teachers. Planbook.edu.com is a $25 annual subscription is something that can assist the teachers in making these plans. It will take care of some of the legwork for the teachers. This will have to be renewed every year. No one opposes.
Nikki Jorgensen had mentioned to Ms. Cole that she would be interested in coming in to do art with the students. Would the PTO be interested in paying for some of the expense of art supplies. Ms. Kent will have to be consulted about this before we move forward. Deater will talk to Ms. Kent.
4th Graders - We pay for a newspaper subscription for the 4th graders so that they can read it and use it in their curriculum. Do we want to do this again? Yes. No opposition.

Principal report

Ms. Kent - Academics report (None this month)

Old Business:

First assembly and field trip were a success
Homecoming - Huge success!! Thanks to all the members who helped out!!
Vote to adopt the bylaws as written

New Business;

Box tops: Maggie - Have collected about 1500. They need to be mailed in by Nov. 1. There is an app for Boxtops as well. You can scan receipts and it will tell you exactly which items qualified. We did set new, lowered goals this year for each classrooom. Feltman may need a new bucket. How about a traveling trophy instead of having a monthly goal? The goal for each student is 90 boxtops per year.
Labels: Becky - no changes
Shoparoo: Katie - All you have to do is scan receipts. The app is free. Plan to do a bulletin board with info on this and boxtops after Walk-A-Thon is over. Remember that we bring in money with these things, but we are not using these are fundraisers.
Book Fair: Amber - Book fair is the last week of October. We have a pirate theme. We will have an activity of some sort for the kids to do. There will be no ice cream. We are open during the day as well as the Wednesday night event. Amber will pass around a sign up sheet, if you can help during the week, talk to Amber about running the cash register. This is NOT a fund raiser. We get scholastic dollars for this which we give all back to the teachers and students in book and classroom needs. Can we make everyone aware of the wishlists for teachers too?? Maybe a Facebook post or a message in the lounge to remind teachers to fill out their wish lists.

Walk-A-Thon!!! OCTOBER 8

We raised over $47,000 in 2015 and over $26,000 in 2014. Last year at the day of the event we were at $16,000.
ONE ASK!! We are almost to $21,000 currently.
Positivity is the name of the game!! Bringing the Energy Bus!!
Angels of Action - we are working together. They will have a booth at the event and anyone who brings a donation will be entered for a BWW raffle basket.
Closing Oct. 28th - It will be around 2 or 2:30 because it will be messy!!
Incentives committee is ordering on the 10th.
Fruit kabob station will now be just apples and bananas.
Sign up sheet is going around, please sign up to help!!
Dr. Garlic has the toothbrushes and toothpaste - We can have a sign for the business and a table to pass out the goodies.
We have booths for Spectrum, Chemical, Dr. Garlic, and Angels of Action

Parent teacher conferences

Meals for the teachers - Mr. Scheible - October 18th and 20th by appointment.
Holiday Shop:
Abby is heading this up already. Please get in touch with her if you want to be on this committee.
Last year, we did everything is $1. The committee needs to decide what we have in the shop. We were short on supplies last year. We also need to have a cap on the amount each student brings in. We will do a $10 cap. Abby has been checking into dollar store purchases already. We also need to order the bags for wrapping. Emily still has some stuff from last year as well. Contact Abby is you want to help. Erin and ??? will help. We usually have high schoolers that come help with this as well. We do also have some volunteers we can tap into at Ferris as well.

Other Items:

For reimbursement - there is a form on the website to submit receipts.
We didn’t renew our movie license. Are we interested in doing a parents night out where parents can drop off kids at the school so the parents have some free time? There may be Ferris students that we could ask about volunteering. If we know far enough in advance, the honor students at Ferris are usually able to volunteer. Is this a liability issue?
Angie Maury - She has started a 4H club with a focus on crafts and science experiments. Meetings will be the second Tuesday of every month from 4-6. For ages 5-19.
Can we do a Tshirt sale similar to what the high school did with the 2 for deal. We did Tshirt sales last year and we ended up just being the middle man. We are going to make Tshirt sales available, but we are going to send people into the Tshirt shop. They are going to make an order form for us that will be available for parents to order right at his store.

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September 2016 Meeting Minutes

9/8/2016

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Call meeting to order
Introductions
The board - Emily, Mandy, Amber, Stephanie
Our purpose/mission, How we operate - we fund the fun!! We try to be positive, bring the energy, get things done.

Approval of June Minutes - Jenn Deater

The google drive is open to everybody - this is where you can find the minutes for our monthly meetings. Log onto: RiverviewPTO509@gmail.com Password: riverviewrocks509. Everything is on there!! Our website will also lead you there-www.riverviewrocks.org.

Treasure report

We had a breach in our bank account at the end of last year. We will pass around the bank account printout, but we will have a clearer account next time. We have just over $11,500.

Teacher report

Mrs. Maat - Ms. Stickler has some Smartboard requests. She has a $175 of smartboard things. Third grade will be able to use this in years following. Approved. There are 3 or more teacher who also have Mobimax requests. Mobimax is just a tool that the teachers can use in the classroom that the kids can use at home, and it meets them at their level. It would be $600-$800. Mrs. Scheible has the request for the Anderson and Girls apple orchard field trips for K. We have basically 2.5 K classes this year, so we will need two buses this year, so cost will be a little more expensive than last year. Also, the bus expenses has gone up this year as well. We want to try to fund field trips without having to ask parents to contribute additional money.

Principal report

Ms. Kent - The school is booming!! We love our kids, we try to work hard for our kids. They are going through a battery of assessments the first weeks of school to get baselines on them. We have 30-40 more kids in the building than last year, so it is tight. We are really shooting big for the walk-a-thon.

Old Business:

Health and fitness will not be rescheduled
Cartridges - Cooley was not here, will bring up during October meeting

New Business:

Food Allergy/Safe snack list- We have some parents who are available to let us know more about the food allergies in our school. Q&A with food allergy experts.
- There is a hotline available to those who have questions!
- Italian Ice, Lemonade, and popcorn are items most kids can participate with. Try to have events without food if possible.
- Allergies are a legal issue as well as a physical issue.
- Restriction of specific allergens for the classrooms is a top recommendation
- How can we be inclusive for those with allergies? Consider non food items for parties, open communication with teachers and school.
Box tops - Jenn Deater/Amber - We raise thousands of Scholastic dollars a year with this and book fair. We don’t consider these as fund raisers as this money just goes right back into the school and teachers. Maggie Ramsey has volunteered to take this over. We do also have honor students that help us process the boxtops too. Boxtops must be turned in before the expiration date.
Labels - Becky - this is still phasing out, if you have these you can still turn them in.
Book Fair - Amber- The packets come home through the week. We have a great event twice a year. We have traditionally have an ice cream night, which we will have to revise this due to allergies. Oct. 24-28 will be our first book fair. Sign ups will be at the next meeting. Our evening event will be Wed. Oct. 26.
Walk-A-Thon - Oct. 8
- The planning has started. To get involved just ask and we can put you on a subcommittee to help out.
- First letter home already went out.
- Kick off assembly is Monday the 12th at 8:30
- PTO members are the eyes and ears of this event!! We need to know if anyone has questions, confusion, or issues with anything!!
- This is a ONE ASK event!! We only ask our parents and community to donate to us ONE time a year!
- This is the third annual event for us. It has REALLY worked for us. We know this isn’t going to please everyone, but we do our best to make the most of our money.
- We spent 80%+ of our money that we made last year. We are trying to save toward a shade/pavilion for the playground. We keep almost all of the money we raise! This works because we get the teachers, parents, and kids excited about it. We have bought lots of playground equipment, assemblies, field trips, etc. IT was brought up that we use the money to buy beginning of the year supplies for the teachers. This was voted against as we are trying to bring fun to the school with playground, field trips, assemblies, etc and the money can be spent on those. Other parents like bringing that stuff in.
- Our theme this year is positivity/Energy bus.
- We want to know the feedback - the good and the bad. We need to know what everyone thinks so that we can fix what we can and just get better and better.
Homecoming - Oct. 1
- Sign up to help with this committee! Who wants to be in charge of this committee?? They will need to coordinate the float. There will be a theme. Megan Knopf will take charge. Rachel and Jody Lee will help.
- Meet with Renee
- More info coming
- Spirit week will be September 26-October 1
Parent teacher conferences
- We need someone to take the lead on this! We provide the melas for the teachers.
- Nick Scheible will coordinate.
Bylaws
- Mandy - We are still working on developing a budget and bylaws. The google drive will have a copy of the bylaws. We are doing our best to try to formulate this. If you have any amendments or thoughts, let us know! We will most likely vote this in next meeting.

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June 2016 Meeting Minutes

6/2/2016

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Call meeting to order
Approval of May minutes - Deater
Treasurer report - we have just over $17000 in our account right now, we are still having issues with our account due to our stolen card.
Principal report- Ms. Kent - Academics report - We are putting a lot of time into our state reporting. We have been talking to a lot of parents, and will be speaking to more to look at some of our documents. The family picnic went over really well, especially on the early release day. Health and Fitness day was canceled because of the weather, but we do plan to reschedule this sometime in the fall. We finished our Mstep at the end of May. The students and teachers are LOVING the field trips. Fourth grade clap out is tomorrow as well. Today was the day for negotiations for when school will start in the fall.
Teacher report - Mrs. Maat - Everything is going well, we have a lot of field trips going on right now. Thank you to the PTO for all the field trips. The testing has wrapped up and we are in the downslide.

Old Business:

Teacher appreciation - went really well!!
Family picnic - it was perfect weather, went well for early release
Health and fitness rescheduled - maybe do a back up day? Tough to schedule this time of year with all the kids out with field trips.
BOGO book fair - we sold around $1100, about $2200 value of books that went home. We didn’t have as much response to this book fair as before, but maybe because the kids didn’t see it at school, weather, etc. It was a great thing, just a tough time of year.
Playground - AWESOME! The kids seem to really like it, especially the spinner. There is a long line every recess for that one.
Mr. Shewan assembly - this was SO great!!! Thank you so much to the Elliot family for the bench!
Cartridges - Cooley cricut donation

New Business:

Box tops - Jenn Deater/Amber - Mrs. Feltman’s can for box tops is missing and we cannot locate them! Mrs. Maat’s class is the closest to making the goal and they are at 78%. We will need to adjust our goals for next year so that we can have an attainable goal.
Labels - not much going on here
Fourth grade clap out - this is tomorrow!! It starts at 2. Heather is going to pick up stuff - shirts, we have lemonade and Mandy is on the cookies.
Angel ride donation - we donated $50 to them in the fall to be on a sign. We have another donation option from them, the lowest amount for donation now is $250. Should we wait and donate in the fall or jump for the $250? Let’s do $50 in the fall.
Field trips - Our total for field trips this year is just over $4600, which is much lower than last year by about $2000. Total major purchases make up about $17,282. We have spent around 75% of what we have raised at the walk-a-thon this year. We have still spoken about putting in a pavilion similar to what is at the high school tennis courts. We also have talked about putting in a water fountain. We will have to make some inquiries into cost of these items. Maybe we could set aside some money towards these purchases in the future. We would like to encourage the third graders to take a field trip, we have heard from some parents that would like to see them participate. We have also talked about a storage shed for the future.
Walk-a-thon meeting - Brookside has had a change in leadership, we will have our initial meeting on June 22 at BWW at 7pm. We may look at breaking off into committees this year. We are possibly bringing in the middle school to participate and eventually even the high school. Elementary will keep the corporate sponsors money.
Do we want to renew or movie license? Our last movie showing we had a lot of rowdy kids. How can we enforce behavior? We need to address this for next year. We have had a lot of request for a carnival, or an international night, or a globe trotter night, sledding party. Maybe we will move to do this events next year instead of movie night and see what the response is.
Girls on the run - haven’t seen a bill yet
Officer elections - we are still working on bylaws. We are looking to break out the treasurer role from the president role. Emily would like to nominate Mandy for the treasurer position. Unless everyone has any objections, we can keep rolling with the positions we have. Everyone is in favor.
Budget in development

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May 2016 Meeting Minutes

5/5/2016

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Call meeting to order
Approval of April minutes - Deater
Treasurer report - Our credit card has been stolen, so there have been some issues with that. Otherwise, there hasn’t been much for the month of April.

Teacher report

Mrs. Defever and Mrs. Krebs - The teacher say PTO is totally awesome!! Thank you for making everyone feel special! Fourth grade has sent in forms for field trips. Fourth grade will be seeing the little red school house out at School Section Lake. Third grade will be going to Cran Hill soon as well. We will not be allowed to bring pizza. It will be weather dependent. Mrs. Krebs would like class shirts for her class when they go to field trips etc. 25 Lime Green shirts all adult small size. Mrs. Bender has a field trip request form to submit for 1st grade. May 31, Tuesday, they want one bus. We will cover the cost for admission and buses. 1st grade also wants to go to the Roller Rink on June 1 at $3 a student. They also want to walk the kids to Hemlock at some point, and are asking for $1 per student to get the kids ice cream at State Street Scoops. Mrs. Zocco has a request for a colorful carpet, we have Scholastic dollars that we can use to pay for that for her.

Principal report

Ms. Kent - Academic report/title - Today we finished third grade Mstep and K-2 literacy testing. We are trying to provide the best testing environment for our kids. Math night was awesome! We will do that event again next year. Family picnic will be May 20, it is an early release day as well. Weather permitting, it will be 12-1. The handout will go out in the next couple days. If there is bad weather, we will stay in the classrooms. K-1 spring concert is May 10. K will go to Spectrum Health to celebrate Nurses week. The BOGO book fair is on May . Health and Fitness on May 27/ Mr. Shewan assembly same day in the morning. Title - we have Mrs. Hearth and Mrs. Nagelbush full-time for reading and math. We collect data, and are on our last round of data now. Some will come in to review the data to decide if our program is working. We have a great Title team and they are working hard! They work with students that are behind or ahead. The goal is to have everyone at grade level.

Old Business

Teacher Appreciation - We’ve had some kinks….but it’s going okay!! Subway lunch for Thursday. Amber will pick up giftcards. Party at Emily's house on Friday after school.

New Business

Box Tops - Deater - We got a check for almost $800! We haven’t collected any from May yet. Is anyone getting close to the goals? Maat is the closest at 65%. Our lowest at Cole at 20%. Most classes are in the 20s. Maybe put the numbers on Facebook to hopefully spur on some more box tops coming in. Check in with the teachers May 20, before the next PTO meeting to see who has reached their goals and decide party days on a case by case basis.
Labels - Becky -
Playground - Mandy - Equipment will go in this weekend. Becky’s husband is in charge of the construction end of it. There will be 4 individual, spinning, bouncy chairs. There is a specific fall zone on these, but everything should be in and ready to go by Monday! The husbands/dads will meet at 6pm Friday. Saturday at 8am and Sunday at 9am.
BOGO Book Fair-This is a full blown book fair night. Everything is BOGO of equal or lesser value. One night only!! From 5:30-7:30 May 18. We cannot use scholastic dollars at this book fair. If we hit $2200, they will give us a 10% bonus on our last two book fairs, which should make us around $1000. We will be serving ice cream, Heather is in charge of ice cream. We have tables reserved, let them know that we would like a custodian here as well.
Health & Fitness day-Jaks bounce houses is all set
4th grade clap out-We need a new order form for the shirts. Janae will take this. Emily will discuss further with Ms. Kent and Janae. Cookies have been ordered.
Mr. Shewan- Stefanya? - They have some jokes collected, we plan to put hand prints on the banner, and get some gift cards. Maybe a Cabellas, or Barnes & Nobles, Blue Cow for ideas. Maybe $100 total. Let’s do two $50 gift cards. The Elliots are also making a bench. Emily will pick this up.
Family picnic - May 20
Working on developing a budget - still in the process
Font cartridges - we have been asked to buy these for the cricut. They are around $20 per cartridge, but can be more. We had one and it has been lost. Cooley is going to look into this.

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April 2016 Meeting Minutes

4/14/2016

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Call meeting to order
Approval of March minutes
Treasurer report - not too much going on here, besides $3000 for playground. There are some field trip/bus expenditures here as well.
Teacher report - Mrs. Fox - Mrs. Scheible was wondering about K field trip May 4 - The grant came through for Mrs. Garner for the children’s museum K field trip, so they will just need buses covered. It will be around $530. Approved. Third grade would like to take a big field trip as well. May 10 is agriculture day at Cran Hill Ranch. The main expense would be buses and lunch. Probably around 2 parent chaperones per class, will stick with pizza and etc. for lunch. Mrs. Maat would like a field trip to the nature center on June 2. There is a $5 entry fee and busing. Fourth grade is expected to do a robot field trip as well. Let’s just agree to approve any field trip that comes our way!! Testing is going on now. Third grade will start Mstep testing on April 25, it will take about 3 days. Parents will get some notes home regarding the testing soon. There is a make up time later on in May if anyone misses. We are trying to give the kids some warning that this is coming, but not any pressure, plus some supportive notes from parents. March is reading month was a huge success. We are looking forward to the spaghetti throw at Ms. Kent which is the “reward” for reaching March reading goals.
Principal report - Ms. Kent - Academics report- K&1 are working on the early literacy tests with Mr. Posey. Chromebooks are getting a lot of use. Testing is coming up and there is a lot prep going on for that. The dance for March reading wrap up was a big hit. Calling all Dads was a super success too, there was a bigger turn out this year!! It was pretty short and sweet but well received.
Old Business:
- Girls on the run sponsor - Thanks to Mandy and Dave to reaching out to Gary Trimarco!!
- Book Fair - We sold almost $4900 worth of books!! The best one ever...we spent $2000 on books for the kids and teachers, we have over $2000 left in scholastic dollars. They offered us a BOGO free book fair on May 18 5:30-7:30. It will be a one night event, we won’t make money off of this. We also talked about offering info on Khan academy and Grasp at the event. Grasp forms already needed to be turned in. If we sell $2200, we would make a little money. We will serve some ice cream that night as well. Heather will take care of the ice cream. Thanks to Heather and Megan for organizing the nachos and everyone who helped serve.
- Assemblies - We had the science assembly and the reading assembly. The reading assembly was a bust. It was 45-60 minutes and the guy just couldn’t keep the attention of the kids. The science one was a big hit though.
- Teacher conference - the food was a big hit!!

New Business:
- Box tops- everything is going well.
- Labels - no new news
- Mr. Shewan- Emily will meet with Stefanya later to hash through this - What if we did Mr. Shewan from 8;30-9:00 on May 26, then everyone can go out to do health and fitness stuff afterwards.
- Buddy Bench- thank you for the idea Leslie Green! A buddy bench is a bench where kids can go if they don’t have anyone to play with. There is a bunch there already….let’s talk about this later!
- Signs out front - We had an idea for a post that would we could put a vinyl sticker for the teachers name on the side. Will the groundskeeping have a problem with this? Renee will talk to Steve regarding it.
- Family picnic - We may move this to Friday, June 3. School will be extended until either June 6 or 7.
- Health and Fitness day - May 26 - We want the three bounce houses like last year! Can we get the bounce house up and ready by 10:30.
- Fourth grade clap out - June 2nd. Around 150 cookies- no oatmeal raisin! Chewy cookies please! Emily will do the shirts & keychains. What about having a t-shirt design contest?
- Playground - The new equipment will be here next week. Russ Curtis will help us out with installing so we will see when he will be available before we set a date to install it.
- Teacher appreciation - XXXX :)
Movie night - April 29 - Meet the Robinsons?

Budget - still a work in progress

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March 2016 Meeting Minutes

3/8/2016

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Call meeting to order
Approval of Feb. minutes
Treasurer report - Emily is still having trouble getting into our bank account, but we have had just a few little deductions and should have around $24,000.
Teacher report - Mrs. Garner - What are we doing with Mr. Shewans jokes?? Stefanya says she will volunteer to take this project over!! Everyone knows that something is in the works, but we need to communicate what is going on to all the teachers. The assembly will be May 27. K would like to go on a field trip to the Grand Rapids children’s museum. Mrs. Garner has applied for a grant from the museum, if it is not received, they will be asking for assistance for the the two K classes. Just like last years field trip.
Principal report - Ms. Kent - Academics report - we kept the small kids in for morning recess because of the ice and slush. It was a big slushy mess at the soccer field today too. Lunch recess we did not go out. The drainage is working well, though! We had the science fair, and had a lot of great feedback from that! We had 4 snowdays in February, we are as of now, making up 3. We have mostly finished our winter assessments. K-2 are taking a state test this year, similar to the Mstep. We are piloting that this year. We are getting 60 more chromebooks, this should help with 3-4 getting testing done a little sooner. The ipads were reinstated, we are getting 19 back. We are asking for a cart for the ipads. Book fair is coming up. We had a lockdown drill at lunch and it went super well! The whole district sets a day for lockdown drills. We have some Ferris people coming in to do some reading, lots of different groups coming in for reading month! March 29 is calling all dads.
Old Business:
- Charging cart - we approved this last meeting
- Rink Party - success
- Science Fair - success
- Assemblies - science/magic assembly was well received!!!
- March reading month

New Business:
- Girls on the run - we tabled the vote for this from the last meeting - this is a unique situation - there has been a miscommunication where it has been communicated that PTO will cover the cost of the shoes. There have been 31 girls signed up, and the cost would be $15 per pair. There is also a $45 registration fee. 7 for No and 6 for Yes. Is there a way that some of us could individually sponsor some of the students to make sure no one who has signed up will miss out? We need to say something to explain this situation. Maybe we can send a form out to the parents of those who have signed up that says PTO will not cover the costs, however, there are some parents/businesses who will sponsor those who are in need of shoes to participate for this program. Can we state that you do not have to have the specific pair of shoes to participate?
- Box tops - Deater is not here - it looks like we are receiving a check for $1000+
- Labels - the program is ending slowly, We can submit for a period of time, and we do have a point balance that we can redeem.
- Next book fair- next week- the sign up sheet is going around, the set up will be Friday at 6pm. It will be in the library until Wednesday, then to the gym for the nacho night, then back to the library for the rest of the week. Heather has everything arranged for the nachos.
- Fill-a-tub - We were approached to fill a tote for each teachers room with snowgear, boots, gloves, etc. Should we separate them by size? To be brought in book fair night, we will have the tubs set up in the hallway. Reading night is also going on that night.
- Teacher conferences - this is March 17. Make something light, Jenn Ames can order it if someone else can bring it. Appetizers would be best. Stephanie will take care of it!!
- Assemblies - We have one left, Reading Month Assembly March 15 at 8:30am
- Teacher Appreciation - XX
- Playground - can Curtis help with this project? Let’s do this!! We do also have a canopy catalog to look at if we are still interested in that. The company is out of Holland, WHPorter pavilion. Something similar to the pavilion near the tennis court. A water fountain too?
- Mr. Shewan - Stefanya will take this over - the joke book - surprise assembly
- Signs for the sidewalk - we have looked into this. Stefanya’s husband will volunteer to make them is reimbursed for supplies!! What kind of options do we have?
- Health & Fitness Day - somewhere around the 19th
- Family Picnic - May 20th - probably 11:30ish
Budget - still a work in process

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February 2016 Meeting Minutes

2/9/2016

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Call Meeting to order.
Approval of January Minutes - Cooley
Treasure Report- very little went out last month- paid for standing desks and stools. Paid deposit for science assembly.

Teacher Report

Mrs. McKenna/Zocco-She is very impressed with our PTO at Riverview! Kids are excited for the valentine dance party. Thank you for the bunsen burners. Science fair (Feb 23rd) participation seems to be down this year as it is optional. Consider sending a reminder to parents. Girls Engineering is also happening on Feb 22nd-this is a program through ferris which attempts to get girls excited about engineering. Teachers are looking for options for the boys. Calling all moms is Feb 22nd as well as the star lab. 2nd-4th grade will be attending the Middle Schools’ “The Lion King” Feb 18th at the High School.
Principal Report-N/A

Old Business:

Our purchases are in.
Standing Desks-Going well.
Hokie Stools
Scholastic dollars -books for rooms, rugs, and other supplies have arrived.
Cran Hill Field Trip-the weather and snow days have put a damper on this event. on hold for now.

New Business:

What to spend the Walk-Money on?
Do we want to spend money on a charging cart? Vote in favor of purchasing 1 charging cart.
We do have end of year field trips coming up, need to save about $5,000 for that.
Riverview is receiving $20,000 in technology early next school year, so it is advised to wait on spending any money on technology this year.
We will be purchasing about $3,000 is playground equipment for the upper elementary area.
Consider a canopy for shade on the playground-might have to save for a couple years.
New teacher signs for the sidewalk are in the works.

Roller rink rental:

Amber and Jamie will be representing PTO. We will raffle off roller rink passes that were left over from the walk a thon.
Extra party - Feb 12th from 12:30-2:30. PTO has 3 busses, they will take a group to the roller rink and then come back for more.
Any cute ideas? Play games like they do on skates.
Should we do cake? Cookies have been ordered and PTO will take care of water.
Need to clarify a few things with teachers and parents:
No outside food will be accepted
No siblings
We do not recommend taking children home from the skating rink.

Science Fair:

Feb 23rd 5:30-7:00, do we reserve tables? Science committee has taken care of that. Might want more for 4th grade “State Project”
Committed to the money to help. Angie Mishler is coordinating and PTO will reimburse.

Assemblies:

Put the down payment on assembly $50
Science or Magic-Keith Fields will be entertaining the school on Feb 29th from 1:30-2:15. Total is $550
Reading Month-Do we want an author or a Reading Assembly? or both? Maybe authors can go into individual classroom and we can do an assembly for the entire school.
Star Lab will be at the school on Feb 22nd for classrooms to visit.

Box tops:

Jennifer Deater-All updated and ready to go. Next box top submission date is March 1-please get in all box tops by then. We will continue to collect all year.

Labels:

Becky-New news from LFE-This program will be dissolving. Campbell's is pulling out of the program but it sounds like we can submit anything with a LFE logo until Aug 17. We currently have about 25,000 points.

Next Book Fair:

March 14-March 18th-sign up to help at next month's meeting or let us know your availability. Cooley can work Friday. Parks can work Monday.
Teachers will submit wish list.
Groovy 70’s theme
Wed March 16 Family Dinner
Keep Nachos -Heather and Megan are taking care of this.

Girls on the run-a program for 3rd and 4th graders.

Will we provide the $15 shoes for the girls who can’t afford them?
City offers scholarship programs for the entry fee, but not the shoes. PTO likes this idea, but will we be asked to help for soccer, basketball, etc? Let's get an idea of how many kids from Renee before approving at the next meeting.

Teacher Appreciation

We have idea, kept off the minutes for spying eyes.

Mr. Shewan:

Set assembly date (I was thinking… just do one at the end-March 27th)
Get notice out to the classes about their “special” tasks. Do the teachers want to “adopt” a month/week and do something special. Then jokes if they would like for the end assembly?

Movie night:

We would like to fit one more in at least. Ask Renee for dates in March (Feb has a lot going on).

Fill a tub:

Teachers expressed concern about the lack of gym shoes/outdoor clothing. We thought of doing a “Fill the tub” at the Book Fair family night. If your family brings in an item (boots, shoes, gloves, snowpants), you get a raffle ticket for a $25 scholastic gift card. Teachers could keep the tubs in their room.

Working on developing a budget
Still in the process

Our Mission is to instill in all Riverview students a healthy self-image, a love of learning and the desire to achieve their best in tomorrow’s world.

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