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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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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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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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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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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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