Friday, December 28, 2012
Volunteers Needed
The PTO is needing volunteers to help work the Junior High sporting events this winter. Please click HERE to help out just a little:)
Monday, November 19, 2012
A little help Please!!!
It takes a lot of volunteers to make a book fair a success. Please take a minute and click the link HERE to sign up for a shift or two.
The book fair is a great event to get books in the hands of every child in school.
The book fair is a great event to get books in the hands of every child in school.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Meeting Minutes From November 12, 2012
Meeting called to order at 7:03 pm by President Tonya Wilson
SmartBoards are here ~
Mr. Lane has purchased eight SB685 SmartBoards. Two workers from the ESU will begin working on installation on this coming Thursday.
Will PTO reimburse $8000 for SmartBoards?
Carrie Terryberry moved that the PTO spend $8,000 to help pay for SmartBoards ~ Amy Leibbrandt seconded ~ Motion was carried unanimously.
Treasurer’s Report ~
The PTO has $338.43 in their checking account after expenses and SmartBoard purchases.
Book Fair ~
Will be delivered the week of 11/26
Will be held 12/3 through 12/7
Lori Lane reported that we currently have $875 of book credit that can be used to purchase items from the Scholastic School Resource Catalog. We will also have at least another $100 of book credit for having the book fair and having a family event with it.
Lori Lane asked that we spend $200 book credit to make vouchers to be given to children in need and $200 to the speech department due to a request made by speech teacher Cyndi Bahler.
Tabitha Johnson moved that we use $400 of existing book credit to give to children in need and the speech department. Amy Leibbrandt seconded. Motion was carried. Discussion followed about who should be contacted to determine which students are most in need, and it was decided that we will ask Ms. Waggoner, the elementary counselor, to get a list of students who we will give vouchers to.
Angella Herbert moved that we set aside $500 of the available book credit for teachers. We will provide $25 vouchers to classroom teachers for purchasing classroom books. Tabitha seconded. Motion was carried. Discussion followed that if teachers do not use their vouchers, we can send out an email inviting teachers to spend the unspent balance.
Lori Lane will make up and have printed vouchers for both the students in need and also for the teachers.
Tiffany and Carrie will make the Classroom Wishlist board with Wishlists for the teachers to fill out. We will have a teacher preview day on Friday.
Discussion about possible alternatives to having the Book Fair in the Board Room due to the small size followed. Suggestions included the library and the stage. It was decided that the library is not secure and the stage will be needed by the drama and music departments. Amy suggested that we could have the Lunch with Someone You Love on Friday, and move the Book Fair out into the commons area so we won’t have to have so many people in the small board room. We will then leave it out for the basketball game that evening. We will be sure that the Book Fair is staffed by volunteers all day on Friday. We will ask high school study hall students to help out with moving all the stuff.
Discussion was held about how to best utilize all of the parent volunteers we might have. Mr. Lane will put information in the Lasso which includes the link to the volunteerspot. Tonya will send a message out to our email list which includes the link to the volunteerspot as well.
Angella Herbert is going to post the shifts that are available and needed to be covered on the volunteerspot website which is connected to the CCS PTO Blog.
Book Fair Schedule will be as follows:
Set up will be on Thursday, 11/29.
Teacher preview will be on Friday, 11/30.
Kids looking will be on 12/3 and 12/4 and kids buying will be on 12/5 and 12/6. Lunch with someone you love will be on Friday, 12/6 and the Community Event will be on the evening of Friday, 12/6 during the home basketball games between 4 and 8 pm.
Holiday Movie
PTO will be helping the 4th through 6th grades with their Holiday Movie on December 21st. Carrie, Terri, Tiffany, and Tabitha will work concessions.
Tabitha reported that for a family movie the cost would be $50 to rent the theater and also $15/hour for projection person. Concessions profit would go to the theater board, so this would be mainly a community service project for the PTO.
CRToys was already occupied and we will possibly do it another time.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:10 pm.
SmartBoards are here ~
Mr. Lane has purchased eight SB685 SmartBoards. Two workers from the ESU will begin working on installation on this coming Thursday.
Will PTO reimburse $8000 for SmartBoards?
Carrie Terryberry moved that the PTO spend $8,000 to help pay for SmartBoards ~ Amy Leibbrandt seconded ~ Motion was carried unanimously.
Treasurer’s Report ~
The PTO has $338.43 in their checking account after expenses and SmartBoard purchases.
Book Fair ~
Will be delivered the week of 11/26
Will be held 12/3 through 12/7
Lori Lane reported that we currently have $875 of book credit that can be used to purchase items from the Scholastic School Resource Catalog. We will also have at least another $100 of book credit for having the book fair and having a family event with it.
Lori Lane asked that we spend $200 book credit to make vouchers to be given to children in need and $200 to the speech department due to a request made by speech teacher Cyndi Bahler.
Tabitha Johnson moved that we use $400 of existing book credit to give to children in need and the speech department. Amy Leibbrandt seconded. Motion was carried. Discussion followed about who should be contacted to determine which students are most in need, and it was decided that we will ask Ms. Waggoner, the elementary counselor, to get a list of students who we will give vouchers to.
Angella Herbert moved that we set aside $500 of the available book credit for teachers. We will provide $25 vouchers to classroom teachers for purchasing classroom books. Tabitha seconded. Motion was carried. Discussion followed that if teachers do not use their vouchers, we can send out an email inviting teachers to spend the unspent balance.
Lori Lane will make up and have printed vouchers for both the students in need and also for the teachers.
Tiffany and Carrie will make the Classroom Wishlist board with Wishlists for the teachers to fill out. We will have a teacher preview day on Friday.
Discussion about possible alternatives to having the Book Fair in the Board Room due to the small size followed. Suggestions included the library and the stage. It was decided that the library is not secure and the stage will be needed by the drama and music departments. Amy suggested that we could have the Lunch with Someone You Love on Friday, and move the Book Fair out into the commons area so we won’t have to have so many people in the small board room. We will then leave it out for the basketball game that evening. We will be sure that the Book Fair is staffed by volunteers all day on Friday. We will ask high school study hall students to help out with moving all the stuff.
Discussion was held about how to best utilize all of the parent volunteers we might have. Mr. Lane will put information in the Lasso which includes the link to the volunteerspot. Tonya will send a message out to our email list which includes the link to the volunteerspot as well.
Angella Herbert is going to post the shifts that are available and needed to be covered on the volunteerspot website which is connected to the CCS PTO Blog.
Book Fair Schedule will be as follows:
Set up will be on Thursday, 11/29.
Teacher preview will be on Friday, 11/30.
Kids looking will be on 12/3 and 12/4 and kids buying will be on 12/5 and 12/6. Lunch with someone you love will be on Friday, 12/6 and the Community Event will be on the evening of Friday, 12/6 during the home basketball games between 4 and 8 pm.
Holiday Movie
PTO will be helping the 4th through 6th grades with their Holiday Movie on December 21st. Carrie, Terri, Tiffany, and Tabitha will work concessions.
Tabitha reported that for a family movie the cost would be $50 to rent the theater and also $15/hour for projection person. Concessions profit would go to the theater board, so this would be mainly a community service project for the PTO.
CRToys was already occupied and we will possibly do it another time.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:10 pm.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
PTO News
The October meeting will be held on October 16th at 7p.m. in the elementary art room. If you are new to this blog please add your email under the "Follow by email" on the right hand side of the page. You will be notified when there are new posts. Also please take a moment and click on the "Volunteers Sign Up" link to see if you are available to help. Thanks to a lot of hard work and organizing Junior High concessions by Angella Herbert we are well on our way to Smart Boards in every class. Over the last two weeks we made $1800.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Welcome!
Congratulations!!! You have found the PTO blog. This blog is here to facilitate Teacher, Parent, and Child activities and events using the web. Please use this site to become involved! There is a calendar of events tab. There is a virtual sign up sheet link because we are on our way to getting a smart board in every single elementary classroom, but to do that we have to do fundraisers. So, please make some time and volunteer to help with one of the ongoing events.
Don't forget to sign up via email. The link is on the right of this page. Your email won't be distributed to anyone, but you will receive a new email every time something new is posted on the blog.
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