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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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January 2016 Meeting Minutes

1/7/2016

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  • Call meeting to order
  • Approval of December minutes - Deater
  • Treasurer report - not much going on - Drama donation and Holiday Shop
  • Teacher report - Ms. Stickler & Mrs. Scheible - Thank you for gift certificates!!  March reading month, book fair will be the week of March 16 and the reading night will be the same night as book fair night.  Science materials is something that the teachers may be looking for.  Let’s do 3  bunsen burners, one for each fourth grade class. There may be some other requests for the science fair coming up in February as well.  
  • Principal report - Ms. Kent - Academic report - The holiday shop with the help went well.  Maybe bags for everything next year? Let’s make a parent event of a Cran-Hill Ranch day, thinking sometime in early February. They will open up a few different events for us to do there.  What the cost to us?  Let’s do it!!  

​​Old Business:
  • Holiday shop recap - Stefanya has some pros and cons - Bags and tags - some suggestions:  make sure the kids have lists of who to shop for, maybe have fourth graders pair with the kindergarten, more high schoolers, and maybe more selection, more guy stuff.  Cap the total to $10, keep the $1 per item.
New Business :

  • walk-a-thon money - We have to get this going!!  We have some playground items that we are looking at.  The items are pogo and spinning seats and we are thinking 4 for primarily the upper elementary.  We will do 4.
  • We just got the title money in so we do not need to order any Chromebooks!!
  • Hokie stools - Ms. Cole would like 2 or 3 of them and they are $200 total.  Approved.
  • Standing desks - Deater and Mrs. Zocco - 4 standing desks for total of $862. Approved.
  • Roller rink - We have a free party in February.  When can we do this??  Not on the early release day.  We can’t do it during their regular business hours?  Can we do the party as Valentines Day bash for everyone?  Maybe Friday Feb. 12, leave it just as a dance party with no skates.   Mandy will call and talk to the people at the rink.  Could we do 12:30- 2:30? - We have extra roller rink passes that we can give out at book fair and science fair.
  • Science Fair - Angie - We had said about $20 per group, also maybe a small donation for Card Wildlife center.  The robotics kids want to do something with magnets this year, and may need a little more money to invest.  
  • Assemblies - Mandy - We talked about doing a science fair/magic assembly the week of science fair.  There is a star lab through the MOISD that we could maybe set up.  Can we approach anyone at Ferris?? February 22 would be a day open for an assembly. Also, maybe a local author that we could bring in during March.  The book fair is a 70s groovy theme. Angie has a contact with a Girls and Engineering event that we could bring to the school as well.  Mrs. Zocco will connect with Angie on this, take place on a Monday or Tuesday so the gym is available.  Maybe for 3rd and 4th graders.
  • Box Tops - Deater is taking over the Box Tops
  • Book Fair - Family dinner - we are doing the nachos again.  Heather Butts and Megan Knopf will take this over.  Do we need honor students for this?   
  • Teacher Appreciation - May 2-6 - ideas? 
  • Mr. Shewan - Set assembly date for end of the year - Can we incorporate it into the Family Picnic, May 20 (early release day as well) This is a pretty crazy day, so a different day would be better. How about Friday May 27? - Make joke book from the kids
  • Budget - still a work in progress
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December 2015 Meeting Minutes

12/3/2015

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  • Call meeting to order
  • Approval of November minutes - Deater
Treasurer Report
Emily - Moby max refund came through, you also see the BWW lunch, and Walk-A-Thon check came through. Drama donation due to Suessical error from last year.

Teacher report
Miss Cole - A few parents and teachers have asked about the tippy stool, would we be able to get more?  We will resend the link to the teachers so they can access the Google drive and get a request form. The date has been sent for science fair.  There is some need for more chromebooks, or to replace the netbooks with the chromebooks.

Principal report

Old Business
  • Walk-A-Thon - finalized with Brookside, the check came in.
  • Movie night - everything went well
  • Roller Rink Party - It went really well, it went really smoothly.
  • Themometer - Tanya has taken care of it. She will bring it in!
  • Match Day - Thank you to everyone who sat at the table!

New Business
What to spend Walk-A-Thon money on?

Upper el classes need some upgrades on the playground.  What can we put in on the playground for them? Megan will look into some options other than climbers.  We need to get a move on. If we look to replace the netbooks with some chromebooks, how many would we need?  Most classroom has 4 or five netbooks. Maybe if we can replace some every year? Let’s look at replacing 2 for every classroom and then filling out the ipad cart so there is an even 30 for the cart.

Second roller rink party - This will happen in February.  Amber Davis coordinated this.

Holiday shop - December 14 &15, Monday and Tuesday.  Our order should arrive tomorrow.  We ordered through the dollar store.  Everything will be $1.  We will need to request tables.  Set up will take place Sunday evening.  Can we give out an envelope for the students who don’t have money, so they are not pulled out seperately to shop?  Or maybe if the teachers could make a list of those who may need assistance to shop? We did feed the high schoolers last year, and we can do that again. Check for meal restrictions with the high schoolers.  

Teacher Christmas gifts - Amber has an idea!

Box Tops & Labels - Tanya - Octobers batch went in.  We just sent in another batch. We are doing away with sending home the worksheets every week.  Box top challenge is still in the works.

Budget -
Standing desks - Deater and Mrs. Zocco have interest in purchasing standing desks.  Some of the standing desks have stool options, and a fidget bar for their feet.  Some have shelves or pockets.  They usually run from $200-300 a piece.  Could we try these out to see if these will work for some of our more active students?  If we do two or three of these, we can reevaluate later to see if they work well.  We could also get more of the hokki stools too.

Science Fair -  February 23 will be the day! Ferris students do a small presentation, can we give the $20 per group to pay for their expenses?
Assembly - let’s get a science assembly going in February

Mr. Shewan - We need to get a move on some ideas for him.  Let’s do a surprise assembly as well. Let’s do this starting in January, we talked about giving each grade a month to do something special.  Give him a joke book, letting the kids write the jokes.

January 6 will be the next meeting!!
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October 2015 Meeting Minutes

10/8/2015

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  • Call meeting to order - introductions
  • ​Approval of September minutes
Treasurer report 
Anything on the report with a star is split with Brookside, lots of little things from Walkathon and Gaga Pit, etc.


Teacher report -
Mrs. Zocco - We have had a lot of great safety drills.  Walkathon was a huge motivator for the kids, and everyone was really excited to monitor it in the classrooms.  Some of the testing going on has been going really well.


Principal report 
Ms. Kent - Academic report - Drills have been going really well.  Lockdown drills have gone over well.  We had police on site for this.  Everything went silent right away.  We had a fire drill today, overseen by Mrs. Fox, which also went well.  Everyone is getting really riled up to throw water balloons!!! There is a public safety team that is doing a mock child abduction that will be simulated at Brookside, the child being “abducted” is an officer's child.  They have a specific procedure they will be following.  In this situation, we would remain in lockdown but continue with classes. This is a great practice for them.


Old Business
-Walkathon - was a GREAT success!!  Friday is the last day for collections.  We can change the time for deadlines.  Our deadline will be midnight.  $100 buckets will be filled on Tuesday.  It was too disruptive to do this during the day.  We can change this for next year.  Everything will be done before the assembly on Thursday.

-We are in the middle of Tshirt sales, but it is going over well.  We are selling the Tshirts at cost, meaning we are NOT making a profit. Deadline for orders is Friday.  


-Ice machine - thank you Parks family

-Gaga pit - also a HUGE success

-Kindergarten went on a field trip to the apple orchards this week.  We did cover the expenses for this.

-Homecoming - we bought a bubble machine for the float that we will use in the future.  Elsa was fabulous.

New Business
-We are going to do a survey this year, it is already started.  We will NOT consider changing companies, and we will do the walkathon again next year.  Otherwise, we are looking for feedback about PTO and walkathon and what parents would prefer us to do with the money.

-Incentive run down - the lanyards are pretty much all handed out.  We will have only one prize per student no matter how many times their names are drawn.  We are having a little blip with Great Wolf, they did not donate so we will have to pay out of pocket for this.  We are also having some push back from the roller rink, so we are going to approach them with another way.  We can rent it for a specific day perhaps.  Amber Davis is going to look into this for us and find out all the details.


-Halloween gift - we have given glow sticks or other things in the past. Do we want to do this this year?  Let’s not, we are doing a lot of other small things, so let’s pass on this.

-Mobi Max - there is a lot of interest in this, so we will do this for $699 for the whole school.

-Movie night - the licensing company contacted us.  We had a great turnout last year, let’s do it again this year.  We are looking at Fri. Nov 6 and we want to show the movie “Inside Out”  We do have concessions for this event as well.  Angie Mishler can send an evite notice out to honor students, which was a great help with concessions.

-Wreath sales - can someone please take this over?  Stefanya will take this over.  Megan has done this in the past and can help out. We are NOT doing this as a money maker.  We do this because of the demand.  We charge just enough to cover the cost.


-Parent Teacher Conferences - We serve the teachers dinner. Jennifer Ames is going to take this over.  We have 13 teachers, maybe plan to serve 15.  We could also do a desert sign up.  

-Box Tops - does anyone want to take over Box Tops from Amber?  It requires collecting them, cutting them, sending them in, etc.  Amber can still help.  We make about $2000-$3000 a year off of this.  We do have a deadline at the end of the month which will result in a check in December.  Amber Davis and Tanya Parks will help with this.  

-Holiday Shop - We did not like the Reindeer Lane company last year.  Tanya has a contact with a company that does this.  We may need to order stuff through catalogs, but we would need to move now if we went that route.  The Dollar Store may be a great way to go.  That way we can make everything just a dollar or two at most.  We did check to make sure that we can resell these items last year.  Emily has room to store.  We can contact the dollar store people to see what kind of inventory they have and what our options are.

-Book Fair - Our theme is Monsters.  This is our next big thing.  It will be Oct. 28, Wednesday night, from 5-7pm.  We need help serving the ice cream, tidying the book fair, selling books.  We also have sign up times during the week.  Amber will send out a link to show those who sign up how to use the register.  It is super easy to use. If you volunteer you get 10% off.  This is our smaller one, the spring one is bigger.  We do get scholastic dollars that we get to choose items from a catalog with.  We used these funds to buy lots of things for the classrooms.  We spent $7700 in books and classroom stuff last year.  We are considering setting up a table at our Book Fair night for everyone to pick up their loot from the Walk-a-thon and the Tshirt sale.  We will still send items out to those who can’t attend.  Can we do a wish list for book fair items too?  We can send this home with the book fair letter, or have the teachers have the wish list for the students as they tour.

-Match Day - Tuesday, November 10 from 11-6.  We bring in all of our money and since we are non-profit, you get a certain % of money back.  Someone has to sit at the table all day and we have to decorate our table - the theme is Black & Silver.  All of the non profits in the county are there and donations are made.  

-Budget - We have started working on this.  What we have so far is on the google drive, so look at it and see what you think.  We are trying to develop it, but as of now, we don’t have a guideline.  We want to spend the money.  We want the kids that are in the building this year need to reap the rewards of what we have made from the walkathon.  We spent around 85% last year, and we need to spend it on the kids.

-Thank yous to the corporate sponsors.  Let’s have the kids make some!

-Mr. Shewan - our custodian will be leaving after this year.  We missed custodial appreciation day!!  We want to do some fun things to show our appreciation for everything he does in the school.  We could make a movie.  We could give each classroom a month.  Maybe a flash mob, or the marching band at the end of the year.
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February 2015 Meeting Minutes

2/5/2015

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Treasurer Report 
-After all other expenses, we paid out $40+ dollars for the Holiday shop, which is great! Money from Box Tops and Match Day as well.  January was a pretty quiet month.  

-Playground-Meeting on the 10th to go over playground info.  We are anticipating being asked to pay for a structure of some sort on the playground.  Ms. Kent prefers a K-2 unit and also a gaga pit. Are they considering eliminating anything on the playground?? There have been a lot injury's on the monkey bars.

Teacher Report - Mrs. Scheible 
- Teachers needs - K could use another iPad to facilitate centers or in-class academic time. 

-Field Trips-K, 2, & 3 are looking at field trips.  K wants to go to The Childrens Museum in GR. 2 wants to go to a Nature center in Cedar Springs.  3 wants to go to a place in Howard City.  4 does a lot of little things in April/May usually.  

-Scholastic resources and the catalog - the teacher are all looking at it.  After the next book fair, we should be sitting on about $5000.  K teachers looking at a listening center for the ipads, we should go ahead and order them now.  They do not have ipads through scholastics however.  Have not heard from some of the other teachers yet as to what they are interested in.  We want to let the teachers know that we want to get these things for them, we don’t want them to be afraid to ask!!  All the teachers got $250 and $1500 worth of books for classrooms and $1000 for the library.  Want to do a reading night on the book fair night.  Have a bigger book fair night and a dinner on March 18th.  Do the center hall for the reading night.  We can give a gift certificate to the book fair for the raffle.  We ran the math night from 5:30 - 7:30 and will run the same times for the reading night.

Old Business
-Super Teacher worksheets - we will not pair with Brookside 

-Technology - 30 iPads for the cart, 10 iPads for K, and 5 Chromebooks

-We have bought 10 chromebooks but we have yet to see them.  We are also waiting on the soccer nets, though we are waiting for the playground info to come back before moving forward.  

-We have a logo for walk-a-thon sponsored items.

-Calling all Moms coming up.

New Business
-Dads day - Perhaps around St. Pattys “We’re lucky to have you” maybe with some shamrock cookies, etc.

-Movie night - Honors kids will have their sign up tomorrow, so we will know how many to expect.  If we have enough, we can do a drop off event.  Big Hero Six will be the movie.  

-Book Fair - what are we gonna serve? We have done both nachos and spaghetti in the past.  Walking tacos??  Our theme is something to do with music.  We do not have to go through the school for the food.  Nachos were a big hit last year.  Ms. Kent may have an idea of how many we served.  We did brownies for dessert last year, and it worked well.  Let’s keep everything through the food service to keep things simple.  

-We have qualified for a premium book fair this time around, so it will be bigger.  It worked really well to have library cancelled for the week last time, we will shoot for that again.  

-We will need to get the gym reserved and secure about 15 tables.  

-Recycle week in April: Going to put a reminder on the board for ink cartridges.  We are also going to do smencils, and markers as well.  What about recycled batteries??

-Walk-a-thon - Ms. Kent has brought up the idea of a Read-a-thon.  Would it be a conflict with our initial “one ask”??  We don’t want to confuse parents and the community about our “one ask.”  Should we consider a Buffalo Wild Wings night??  Emily will call them and set up a meeting with the BWWs person.  Mrs. Scheible will get us a reliable contact.  Does Pizza Hut do a Book It??  Amber will look into the Book It.  These will maybe be a better approach for this years reading month.

-We are also collecting Aunt Millie’s and Tysons labels.

Next Meeting March 4th at 6:30! 

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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January 2015 Meeting Minutes

1/8/2015

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Approval of December minutes
Teacher Report - Mrs. Defever
-Thanks to PTO and parents for everything you do!  Teachers request for Super Teacher Worksheet.  Last one done by Cathy Klarecki.  Cheaper if both schools (with Brookside) do it.  Maybe join together? Emily will contact Katie Thomas to see if they are interested.  We did do it singly last year. $100 cheaper per school to do it together. Can use it now, will expire in May.

-Field trips for teachers - trying to encourage every teacher to take a field trip.  Field trips have not taken as many recently because of low funds. Teachers are on board with getting it to happen.

Principal report - Ms. Kent
-Had a great end of year (2014).  Everyone was very calm and tired yesterday!  Reflex was not happening during Christmas break.  Remember that it is a good tool when school is not in session.  

-Cart and ipad airs come Monday.  Looking to put apps onto the ipads to use.  Title 1 school - when we buy reflex ($3000-4000), we need to show how we are using it and taking advantage of it.

-No other major happenings this month.  Valentine party next month.  New kitchen staff.  Getting more chromebooks as well.  Total of 36 ipads - 26 on the cart. Ms. Quinlan just got a projector and smartboard as well.  We are very fortunate to have these technologies!!

Old Business
-Holiday Shop - It was a little chaotic!!  The company we went through has been a little difficult, we have not paid in yet.  Though, we still be ahead though.  Do we want to go through this company again?  Maybe, just buy our own stuff from the Dollar Store, etc? The company we went through last year was of a better quality.  Could we involve community members in terms of homemade scarves, pot holders, etc?   Should we make everything $1 next year? Or a table for $1 and $5 items.  Brookside does it that way, we should check with them to see what they do.

New Business
-Soccer Nets? - we will revisit again later

-Problem with BWW meals for walk-a-thon.  We will probably need to just purchase the meals and hand them out.  We have 46 that we need to hand out.  Let’s just buy them for this year and will figure out a better plan for next year.

-Gaga pit - can we look at donations to get that going?  What is going on with the playground?  Draining issue with the playground - it will be in our best interest to wait.

-Valentines day
-Something for Dads - a big sign like “You the Man”
-Calling all moms - a little celebration of moms that happens at Valentines Day.
-Calling all dads maybe in April?  Doughnuts for Dads?

-Book Fair - week of March 16th.  Book fair theme is Under the Sea.  But the schools reading month theme will be different.

-Box Tops, etc - Just received check for $1800+ dollars!!!  We collect them year round, so keep sending them in!!!  Maybe release the amount we made at the end of the year.  

-Next Movie Night - Feb. 13th??  Optometry students that need hours, could we do a Parents Night Out and leave the kids with the optometry students in the gym? Only school age kids then?  Big Hero Six out Feb. 23.  Could we reserve the gym and have a fun night there? Donations optional? Charity event?  Angels of Action?

Let’s do February 27th movie night with Big Hero Six and charity donations for Angels of Action.  Pre-register so we can see how many we will have?  98 people at the first movie night and we fit comfortably in our gym.  Keep it here at Riverview.

-Teacher Appreciation Week - first week of May.  The teachers would really like to see new chairs for the lounge.  Can we redo the lounge?? We also have a bunch of labels points that we can use for gifts as well.  Lounge wish list??

Next Meeting Feb. 4th!!

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November 2014 Meeting Minutes

11/6/2014

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  • Call meeting to order.
  • Principal/academics report: Teacher committees next week, start looking at first round of data collected in Sept.  Goals for the school to submit to the state.  Thanks to all for the work the PTO did to help make Walk-a-Thon successful.
  • Treasurer report: walk-a-thon total more like 19000
  • Smencils order was incorrect - emily to keep 50 to even out personal cost of ink/paper
  • Old business:  
           -Walk-a-thon was a HUGE success
           -Still working on incentives
           -Brookside never came through with meals from BWW & Wendys 
           -Lunch with Ms. Kent - 18 kids - ride Dial-A-Ride $2 /student - inexpensive                  kids meals at BWW , have Big Red come and collect the kids, Nov. 19
           -Homecoming also successful
           -Box Tops - $1,800 coming Dec!!  
           -Book Fair - 500 less than this time last year, still good. We bought about                  1000 in books for teachers/library
           -Smencils - went over well, a little confusing having it next to the Book                      Fair
           -Sucker questions? - some new laws to consider - regulations on snacks                      and etc. during school hours
  • New business:  
           -Emily to meet with Brookside to wrap up walk-a-thon
           -Change the dance party - make it bigger and better
           -Definitely want to keep it inside - expand hours
           -Keep it mostly the same, but a little bigger and better
           -Keep it to the first Saturday in October
           -Need to keep the momentum going into the second year
           -Want to keep the parents in the know about what we want to do with the                  money raised from the walk-a-thon
           -Hype up the prizes that were earned this year
           -We don’t want to lose momentum going into the second year!!!
           -Try to grow with incentives
           -Will need to revamp our corporate letters and price points for next year
           -Match Day - need people to cover 10-6.  Takes place on November                           11. takes place in a ballroom at the Holiday Inn. Miracle in Mecosta theme.
           -Biggby night - November 10th. 4-7pm Coupons to pass out.  Can also                         share on social media to spread the word.
           - Movie Night - November 21 - show Mr. Peabody & Sherman - info to go out                on Friday the 18th.  To start at 6:30pm
           -Holiday shop - Dec. 16-18 - same process as before.  Will need people to                   man the shop througout the day.  Want to sponsor those who cannot afford               to shop.  
            -Wreath sales kicked off last week.  
            -Tyson chicken - 24 cents/label.  Jar to collect labels will be in the office.
             Want to send out an email to keep everyone informed as far as                                 boxtops/labels/tyson/shoparoo.  Have envelopes attached to the bulletin                  board so it is easy to have parents drop them.
            -Grant writing team - Erin & Dave - working on grant writing to benefit the                school.
            -Recycle week - sometime in the spring to do a recycle week which could                  include funding factory, crayola, and smencils.  Milk jugs in April.  Some                  kind of treat reward with that.  Have buckets for each in the school.  Put up              fun facts about recycling to put up on the board.
            -March is reading month.  Will also have book fair that month as well.  
            -Riverview Rocks shirt in the spring?  Trophy & shirts place said he would                    donate shirts to  class with the winning design.  Perhaps doing shirts again                in the fall.  Put out a last call for T-shirt orders again as well.  
            -Back to Walk-a-Thon.  Make it bigger!!
        -Need to encourage teachers to take field trips.  They usually take one per        class.
            -Ipad airs ordered through the tech department.  Cart for the ipads.  The                  cart is not the hold up. They run around $1200.  Looking for a less                            expensive option.  
            -Chrome books are a hot item around the school.  Small laptop that runs the              reflex math, reading and etc.  Teachers use them all time.  
           -Put out a notice for Art volunteers??  Several parents may be able/willing to
            volunteer for art time.
           -The playground flooding issue should hopefully be covered by the sinking                  fund.
           -We want to use the money for something visible, so everyone can see where              the money goes.
           -Gaga pit?  Pictures of kids in the halls?
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November 2014 Agenda

11/6/2014

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  1. Call Meeting to order.
  2. Approval of last meeting minutes.
  3. Treasurer Report.
  4. Principals Report
  5. Old Business:
  • Walk-A-Thon!!!
  • Homecoming
  • Box Tops
  • Book Fair
  • Smencils
   6.  New Business:
  • Walk-A-Thon money - Suggestions? Momentum for next year!
  • Match Day!
  • Biggby Night - Nov 10th!
  • Movie Night-Nov 21st
  • Holiday Shop - Dec 16-18 (sign up)
  • Wreath Sale kicked off last week.
  • Tyson?
  • Grant writing team
  •              Erin and Dave
  • Recycle Week:
  •              Funding Factory - Shannon
  •              Crayola
  •              Smencils?

Next Meeting December 3rd @ 6:30!
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