The PTO provides for programs designed to enhance each grade’s current curriculum, provides teachers with additional
materials not covered in the school’s budget, and hosts many family-fun and community events.

Friday, May 29, 2015

Highland View PTO:  Five Announcements! (Awesome!)


Hello Highland View Families!

I'll keep this short, so in chronological order:

1)  Don't forget, today (Friday May 29th) is Highland View Day at Chik-fil-A. Between 5:30 and 8:00, if you tell the person at the register you're with Highland View, Chik-fil-A will donate 10% of your total to the Highland View PTO!

2)  The Panther Track fitness sheets are due on Monday.  So make sure your student fills in those tracks and brings the sheet to school for their prize.  If the whole school turns in 300 or more sheets the whole school will get a treat, and if your student's classroom turns in the highest percentage of sheets, they'll get a prize too!  (300 sheets is almost 5000 hours of exercise!)

3)  Olympic Day is coming up June 8th!  Blue sheets should have come home with most students already.  Please return them and let Mrs. Muschinski know if you can help out, and if your student will be doing the Olympic Day fun run (emphasis on the FUN!)

4)  The Highland View Garden is fully planted (woohoo!) so please sign up to help keep it alive during summer.  If you can spare just a few minutes over one week this summer to make sure the garden stays watered, we can make sure the kids come back in September to a living growing green garden!  You can sign up here:  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4fa5ad22a13-highland3 .  You can also see the criteria that'll be used to determine which school wins this year's garden contest!

5)  Highland View PTO is now a tax exempt organization!  That means that if you want to donate, or if you are making purchases for the PTO, no more taxes on it!  Contact us if you need more information.

That's all for now--thanks for reading this far!

Aleks Skibicki

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Highland View PTO:  High Interest Day Supplies (Please!)

Hello Highland View Families!

First:  Thanks to all the families that have signed up to bring High Interest Day supplies for our 3rd-5th graders this Friday!

Second:  There are still a few open spots, so if you haven't yet, please check out the list here:

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4fa5ad22a13-high1

VERY Appreciatively Yours,

The Highland View PTO

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Highland View PTO:  May meeting agenda (This Monday!)

Hello Highland View Families!
Here's some May trivia:  When there's a life-threatening emergency and you hear someone call "Mayday!" they're not referring to the month of May at all--the word they're using is actually derived from the french "M'aidez!" which means "Help me!"

And speaking of "M'aidez" we'll be talking about lots of ways to help at our meeting on Monday.  Here's the agenda!

Highland View PTO
Agenda 5-11-2015

1)  Call to order
2)  Approve/Amend Agenda
3)  Approve Minutes 4-20-15 (Attached)
4)  Treasurer’s Report
5)  Grant Committee Report
·    Nothing new to report
6)  Election of Officers for 2015-2016
·    Nominations from the floor (Article V Sec. A)
·    Vote (Ballot if contested, voice if uncontested)  
8)  Old Business
·    High Interest Day
·    Staff Appreciation Week
·    May Fitness Activity
·    Bruce Paprocki Distinguished Volunteer Award
·    Theresa West Scholarship
9)  New Business
·    Sample Day May 15
·    Read and Roll May 18
·    Olympic Day June 8
·    Known empty event coordinator positions
9)  Principal Time
10)  Announcements
·    GEF Celebration of Education
·    GEF Kickball Tournament
·    Chik-fil-A Highland View Day

Thanks!  Hope to see you there!  (Same bat-time, same bat-channel.  In the library at 6:00!)

Aleks Skibicki

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Highland View PTO:  May Need-To-Know's

Hello Highland View Families!

This Monday always makes me feel like a Jedi...I can tell people:  "May the 4th be with you!"

Moving along, there's a lot to know for May from Highland View.  The top three, in no particular order are:

1)  High Interest Day is almost here!  If you have a talent, hobby, activity, or career that you think the kids might like to learn about, and if you're free during the day on May 15th (Friday) there's still time to contact Christine with questions and to find out how you can share it with the kids.  (Please!)

If you just want to help out with some of the materials we need for High Interest Day, a sign up genius page is here:  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4fa5ad22a13-high1

The cooking, and scrapbooking sessions are material-intensive and could use whatever you can help with!

2)  May is Fitness Month at Highland View!  I bet there have already been some panther tracks filled in for Highland View's May fitness activity!  On Thursday you should have received a "Get Your Panther Home" worksheet.  For every 30 minutes of activity, or 3 servings of fruits and vegetables your student gets in a day, fill in one track.  When all the tracks are filled in, return the sheet to school for a prize!  (We'll send the prizes home at the end of May.) Hopefully we can get 300 panthers home again for a nice treat on Olympic Day!

3)  Officer nominations for the PTO.  It was reported in the minutes sent out and posted back in April, but here's one more note that this month's PTO meeting will include election of officers for 2015-2016.  Nominated candidates are:  Aleks Skibicki (President), Chandra Comiskey (Vice President), Cheryl Kelly (Treasurer), and Shawn Schlieve (Secretary)

The meeting this month is May 11th, same Bat-time (6:00), same Bat-station (in the Highland View Library) see you there!

Aleks Skibicki

P.S.  Don't forget to get your tickets to the prestigious Celebration of Education event put on by the Greendale Education Foundation May 22nd.  Everyone who's anyone will be there!  (And you're someone, right?  Yup!  You sure are!)  Reply to this email and I'll get tickets to you.  Tickets are $35 apiece and the proceeds go to grants for our schools, teachers, and students.