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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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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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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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