Agenda for 9-14-2015

Highland View PTO

Monday September 14th, 2015

Agenda

1)     Welcome and Introductions
        Name, favorite HV memory OR favorite school idea you’ve ever heard or seen done

2)   Review Minutes,
        May 11th, 2015,
        June 8th, 2015

3)  Treasurer’s Report                                                                                              

4)     Old Business                          
        Kickball
        Bike Rack
        Meet Your Teacher Night
        Welcome Back Breakfast
        4K Welcome Breakfast
        Sales Tax Exemption AND Income tax exemption

5)     New Business      
        Fundraiser                                                                                            
        Child Care at Parent Info Night
        Monetize website?
        Membership Forms
        Fun Run
        Picture Day
        Family Dinner Night
        RIF Need
        March Event
        June Event
                                                       
6)    Principal’s Time  

7)     Announcements:  Plugs, Raffle, Attendance Award

8)     Adjourn

Highland View PTO: T minus 24 hours and counting!

Hello Highland View Families!

See you soon!  Our first meeting is less than 24 hours away.  Time to hit the ground running.

We meet Monday September 14th at 6:00 PM in the Highland View library.

Bring your ideas--I'll bring mine.

Aleks Skibicki
Highland View PTO

Highland View PTO: P.S.

Ooops!

I forgot the other reason for that last email:

At Meet Your Teacher night, a lot of folks asked about membership in the PTO and ordering the school phone book.  Here are answers for everyone:

We'll be sending a paper form for both membership and phone book orders  home with students the first week of school.  Return it to school via "backpack mail" by September 14th, and we'll try to have the phone books go home in backpacks the first week of October.

If you already turned in, or still have the form that went home last June, that works just great too!

If you don't want a phone book, I'm also working on an online membership form for the PTO.

Thanks so much, and sorry to double-fill your inbox!

Aleks

Highland View PTO: Welcome Back Breakfast and Membership/Phone Book Answers!

Hello Highland View Families!

It was great to see so many excited faces at Meet Your Teacher night yesterday.  Thanks to School Board members Mel Kuzmanovic, John Comiskey, and Vicky McCormick and our superintendent Dr. Strobel for helping scoop and serve all that ice cream.  I heard their scooping arms are all sore today!

Also super thanks to the parents who braved the chill August night and stuck it out to the end of our Meet Your Teacher Movie Night!  It looked like everyone enjoyed themselves!

On to new business:

Coming back to school means it's time for our traditional Welcome Back Breakfast!

Breakfast will be served outside this year (where the ice cream social was) between 8:45-10:00 AM on September 1st.

If you'd like to bring something to share, we have a sign up page here:

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4fa5ad22a13-welcome1

Be the first to hear about new ideas for this year, or take the chance to have your ideas heard, or just come and share some time with other parents.

See you Tuesday!  Welcome Back!

Aleks

Highland View PTO: Meet Your Teacher Day news!

Hello Highland View Families!
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This is just a quick reminder that there's more to do at Meet Your Teacher Day than just meet your teacher!  And there's more this year than ever!

First:  As has become a tradition, the PTO will have a a free Ice Cream table set up by the playground for everyone to enjoy.  Greendale School Board members have volunteered to do the scooping, so make sure to say hi and meet the folks that set school policy in Greendale.

Second:  Just like last year, we'll also have an assortment of veggies from our school garden to enjoy.  I checked earlier and we are FULL of cucumbers, and tomatoes!

Third:  We'll have soccer balls and kickball balls out on the fields--stick around and play for a while!

Finally:  If you stick around until it starts getting dark we'll be playing an outdoor movie for anyone that wants to watch.  Sunset's supposed to be 7:38, so we'll start right around then.  Suggestions for a movie so far have been Home and The Lego Movie.  Email to let me know which I should choose!  Popcorn is on the PTO!

See you next week!

Aleks Skibicki

P.S.  Keep your eyes on your inbox--there's a lot more coming up in the next few days including a sign up to help with the Welcome Back Breakfast, and (with luck) an online membership form for the PTO too.

Highland View PTO: Correction and Major Highland View Parking Upgrade!

Hello Highland View Families!

Just a real quick correction and an announcement:

1)  I gave the wrong date for Meet Your Teacher Night in the last PTO email! That was actually the date for the Meet Your Nobody Night.  Sorry!  The correct Meet Your Teacher Night date is August 26th.  

We still need help scooping ice cream, and maybe arranging games for the kids?  Who knows!  Please let me know if you're interested in hanging out that evening and helping!

2)  And now the big announcement:  there's been a major parking upgrade at Highland View........for bikes!  I just finished putting together a brand new 18-bike rack for the front side of our school.  That doubles our bike parking space, and will make it a lot easier for students biking in from the east to follow the school's bike safety rules.  That was an idea that came in to the PTO from parents, and now it's a reality.  It's just one more example of how great it is to be involved!

Highland View PTO Important Summer Updates (Yes, it's still summer!)

Hello Highland View Families!

I hope summer is going great.  I was at the beach last week and would you believe there was a pig sunbathing there?  I walked by, and he sure was bacon!  (That joke doesn't work so well with our weather recently, sorry!)

In any event, there are a couple summer updates I needed to share with everyone, though if you were a fifth grade parent last year, they may not all apply to you (I'll make a new email list after we get our new membership list put together in September!):

First, we just got an email from Market Day which said that after being bought out by a different company, they're retiring the school-based Market Day program.   During the months of July and August, some Market Day products will still be sold at GFS stores, and they'll send 10% of the price to Highland View if you ask them to.  So, if you have Market Day favorites, move quickly, because this is the end of them.

Second, since we're losing Market Day, don't forget to save your box tops, Campbell's labels, and use your Target RedCard to support Highland View!  For the next couple days you can even enter to win the school 7500 Box Tops ($750!) at the site   And if you haven't linked your Target Card up to Highland View, click here to do it before you buy school supplies!

Third, Meet Your Teacher Day is coming up August 25th, and for the third year now the PTO is running a free Ice Cream Sundae bar for the evening.  If you can help scoop or serve, let me know!  Also, make sure to bring a dinner picnic and join other Highland View families for a fun time outdoors after you meet your teacher.  See you there!

Aleks Skibicki