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.

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Highland View PTO:  People went to a meeting and you won't BELIEVE what happened next!

Hello Highland View Families!

Thanks to everyone that came to our meeting last night.  As always, there's a lot of good stuff going on at Highland View.  Here's what you should know about:

1)  Daddy Yo's Highland View Day THIS THURSDAY!  Make a custom frozen yogurt sundae at Daddy Yo's this Thursday 4/21 any time between 11:00AM-9:00PM and 10% of your sale will be donated to Highland View!  ( 4874 S. 74th Street, Greenfield, WI )  You should have received a flyer in your take home folder last Friday.  (They also serve soup if the weather keeps cooling off!)

2)  The May Fitness event is coming up again!  Time to get active and healthy.  Keep an eye out for a Panther Paw worksheet to come home.  During May, every time your student eats 3 servings of fruits and vegetables during a day, or gets 30 minutes of exercise, mark off a pawprint on the sheet.  Get 31 pawprints marked and tun in your sheet for your student to earn a prize and help the school earn its way to a great prize too.

3)  We have the option to run a games booth for the kids at Village Days again this year.  Before we commit, I'd need to see if we'd have enough volunteers to do it.  If we don't, then we won't, because we can't!  Here are the details:  We'd have a 10'x10' area with some carnival style games in it (in the past we've had throwing games, catapults, and wheel-of-fortune style games) we'd supply the games, prizes, and volunteers and charge kids to play the games, then keep the receipts.  Volunteers would have to be at the booth at Village Days (August 12-14) for 1-2 hours per shift (enough shifts to cover Friday evening, all day Saturday, and Sunday) and would have to collect money, hand out prizes, and supervise the games.

So, to get a tally of whether this is even an option for us:  Who could spend an hour or two at a Highland View Games booth at Village Days?

4)  Box Tops--Turn them in!  Box Tops for Education need to be turned in by next week!  This can be a big fundraiser for our school, and can make a big difference when it comes to deciding whether we can do things like continue to pay for field trip buses for our students, extra buddy benches, and things like that.  Every Box Top counts, so please send them in.  If you're able to use scissors, contact Michelle Persike or Caroline Roberts about helping trim the Box Tops for submission too.

(Or, to be extra awesome, please make sure the box tops you turn in are trimmed to the dotted lines!)

5)  Looking for ballers! KICKballers! The Greendale Education Foundation is putting on another kickball tournament during Village Days (8/13-14).  There'll be a Highland View teacher team again this year (They made the finals last year!) and I'd love to have a Highland View parent team too.  Reply to this email if you're interested in playing and I'll get you on the list and keep you up to date on details as they come out.  (Don't worry--you won't be committed yet, just interested!)

Thanks for reading this far, I'll see you at school!

Aleks Skibicki

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