PTO Carnival Planning Meeting

6:00 Monday night (October11th) in the auditorium. Make it a point to be there and help make our fall carnival successful!

PTO Board Meeting Postponed

The PTO Board Meeting and Carnival Planning Meeting has been rescheduled for next week.
Several of us have had last minute conflicts, so the new date will be Thursday, September 23, at 6 p.m.

First Meeting of the 2010-2011 School Year

The first meeting will be held at school at 8:45 a.m. Feel free to bring children, we will have some toys available to entertain them.
Meeting notes will be posted on Tuesday night if you'd like to see what's on the agenda. If you'd like to see something added, email Amy Gerts at ammonpto@gmail.com

We hope to see you there!

Next Meeting Date

Thursday, June 3 at 10:00 at Amy's House - call or email ammonpto@gmail.com for directions. Janae will be providing the snacks for everyone. Feel free to bring the kids, they can play on the playground in our backyard. This will be a very informal planning/brainstorming meeting, we will also get started on planning the PTO calendar for 2010/2011. PTO meetings have been growing in attendance and from the sounds of things this one will have quite a few people attending. Take a moment to RSVP in the comments sections at the bottom of this posting. I'll start with the commitments I already have.

Things to ponder before this meeting:

A. School supplies fundraiser
1. can you help with the buying or assembly over the summer?
B. Back To School Night
1. Take a look at spirit wear items we might be ordering
2. Car magnets
3. Volunteer Signups - active vs passive
4. Selling extra school supply kits
5. Silent Auction - getting donations NOW!
6. What else should we be doing?
C. Calendar for upcoming year
1. Start filling in tentative dates
D. First major Fundraiser
1. What should the date be?
2. Ideas?
E. Family night at a local restaurant
1. Once per month
F. Volunteers
1. Back to first priorities
2. What we can do over the summer - a good time to engage
G. Halloween carnival
1. Why we do the carnival?
2. What are our objectives? Theme?
3. What we won't be doing
4. Idea log
5. Best or worst advertisement for PTO for the school year
H. Committee Heads
1. Who leads
2. Who gets the work done
I. Due out's