Highland View PTO: So much to know!

Hello Highland View Families!

October has been so busy!  Here's a quick recap of what's going on and what you can be a part of!

1)  Continuing a Highland View tradition, the PTO will provide FREE child care in the Highland View library during conferences.  (4-8PM 11/3 and 11/24)  There's no charge--just drop off your student on the way to your conference and (please!) pick them up before you go home.  If you can stay and help keep an eye on the kids, please sign up here.  It's super important to have more than one adult in the room!

 2)  Speaking of conferences, we can still use some extra help setting up the teachers' conference dinners in the teacher workroom on 11/3.  Check out the sign up page here to see where you're needed!

3)  And in case you missed it last time, make sure to visit the Amazon.com smile page for Highland View to lock us in to receive .5% of everything you spend on Amazon--at no cost to you at all!   Just click that last sentence!

4)  Highland View Phone Books went into teacher mailboxes today!  So expect yours to come home between tomorrow and Friday (if it didn't come home today.)  If the weekend rolls around and you didn't get a phone book even though you think you remember ordering one, let me know.  I'll double check your PTO membership form and get one sent right home for you!

Finally, with so much going on, there are a lot of people to thank:

Thanks to Kristi Settle and so many Highland View volunteer families for an AWESOME family dinner night!  It was a great way to spend a Friday night--wonderful food, and getting to know our fellow Highland View families.  If you see her around, make sure to thank her for her hard work.

Also, a big thank you to Cheryl Dewalt and all the volunteers that helped run the fall Book Fair.  I know we were able to get a lot of books from teacher's wish lists!

The appreciation keeps on rolling with Christie Kleinowski and our RIF volunteers who just wrapped up the first half of our RIF book give away (PM 4K, and 3-5th grades got their books on Monday.   AM 4K and 5K-2nd grades get their books on Friday.)  Reading IS Fundamental, and it's wonderful to be able to let the kids pick out their very own books for keeps!

And we HAVE to thank Mrs. Flater for being willing to get dunked 29 times (!!!) by students who registered for the Step Up To Better Health Fun Run.  Thanks for giving our students that extra fun experience.  I hope you're warmed back up in time for next year's run!  (Also, thanks to Colleen Thiel who organized everything for Highland View and to everyone who registered for the run and won Highland View  the big trophy.)

Finally, a big thanks goes to Bonnie Randow for her work getting everyone through the picture retake day today.  If your student got their picture taken today, and they look great--thank Bonnie!

And thanks to you who read this far!

Aleks Skibicki