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

Highland View PTO: Set the wayback machine to 6:00!

Hello Highland View Families!

Quick correction:  The PTO Meeting today starts at 6:00, not 6:30.  If you can't make it until 6:30, that's OK though--we'll see you then!

Happy Monday!

Aleks

Highland View PTO: 5 Tips for a Super Spring!

Hello Highland View Families!

I hope you got to enjoy some of the beautiful weather we had this weekend.  WOW!  I've been missing it for sure.

I know the subject said "5 Tips..." but because it's so beautiful outside, we're going to knock it down to three:

1)  AWESOME PTO meeting Monday 4/18.  On the agenda:  Meet our new Greendale Schools Superintendent, High Interest Day, the May fitness event, Village Days games?, an End-of-the-Year Fun event, and Room Parents.  6:30 PM in the Highland View Library--Be there!

2)  All your school supplies in one click?  WHAT?!?!?!??  Try something new this year!  The Highland View PTO is working with a local company, School-Pak, to let you buy all your school supplies online and have them delivered right to your door in one click.  The lists were drawn from the teachers' own supply lists, and include brand name products bundled for a great price.  Check out the Highland View page here for details and to place your order:  http://www.schoolpak.com/catalog/highland-view

3)  It's time to NAME NAMES!  Seriously, there are only a few days left to nominate great Highland View volunteers (maybe even yourself!) for the 2016 Bruce Paprocki Volunteer Award.  Every nominee will be recognized, and one outstanding Highland View volunteer will have their name added to the plaque in the office.  Just send a note to the office at school, to this email, or to Mrs. Flater saying who you think should be recognized as a great volunteer and why.

Also, we're still looking for names of folks who would consider stepping into a leadership role on the PTO next year.  The PTO at Highland View operates a $10-20,000 per year budget, and funds, promotes, and runs just a crazy amount of programs and projects at the school.  Each position is an important part of maintaining the amazing environment we've created here at Highland View.  Interested in keeping this great organization moving?  Know someone else that might be?  Email back and we'll talk!

Thanks for reading this far!  See you Monday!

Aleks Skibicki