Greenwood PTO Minutes 02/08/2007
PTO
Officers:
President:
Kelly Bean Co-Vice
Presidents:
Wendy DeMand, Cathy
Strobl
Treasurer:
Peggy Dell Secretary: Diane
Hinze
Co
Historians:
Laurel May, Melissa
Momper, Julie Raymond, and Cindy
Venditti
Principal:
Diane Hickens
Teacher
Representative: Mrs. Cole, Mrs.
Weber
Also
Attending:
Brooke Goodnough,
Kim Ludwig, Laurie Allen, and
Brenda Tyree
Thank you
for making Greenwood School and
its PTO your priority!
Meeting
called to order at 7:00 pm by
President – Kelly Bean
Treasurer’s
Report – Approved with the
correction of the cost of the
cork strips for the hallways at
$600.00 not $100.00.
Secretary’s
Report – Approved
Teacher’s
Report – Mrs. Weber expressed
gratitude to all parents who
have helped within our school.
She is amazed at how much all
parents do! Thank you Mrs.
Weber!! Mrs. Cole stated the
teachers are in the midst of
planning the ‘Tin Can Raffle’.
We are in need of donations!!!!
Raffle is to be held on March 9th.
Discussion of ‘Reading Month’
also. Theme this year will be
‘Reading Pays Off’. Each child
will donate 1cent per book read
during the month of March, all
money received will be donated
to the library to purchase
books. There will be opening
and closing events explaining
the prizes. Teachers would like
to keep simple and keep emphasis
on reading and giving. Planning
is still in the works. $1500.00
was approved for reading month.
This money will be used for each
child to receive a book and
prizes throughout the month.
Principal’s
Report – Mrs. Hickens expressed
the 100th day of
school is being celebrated today
by some classes and Monday will
be other classes celebrating
because of the snow days. Proud
to announce that Anthony Abate
was 1st in the
Spelling Bee and David Bean was
2nd place. February
17th is the Macomb
County Spelling Bee.
Citizenship assembly has been
rescheduled for Tuesday,
February 13th.
Stressed that the walking logs
still need to be returned to
school so Greenwood can get the
trophy back! Thank you to
Brooke Goodnough for keeping
track of the minutes on the
walking logs. MEAP scores were
sent out with report cards for
our 3rd, 4th,
and 5th graders.
Greenwood students performed
well, up significantly from last
year. Mrs. Hickens was informed
that the writing portion of the
MEAP will be sent back to the
building so the teachers can
review. This has never happened
before and they are excited to
see. There was an assembly as a
Kick off for Black History Month
on February 7th. The
children really enjoyed it.
Coming up events – February 14th
is count day, be sure students
report to school, February 19-23
is Winter Break, and return to
school February 26th,
March 28 will be Spring
pictures.
Old
Business
Tin Can Raffle: is in
need of volunteers and
donations. To clarify for some
parents this is a variation of a
silent auction. Tickets are
5/$1.00, you will be given a
number, you will need to put
that number on each ticket you
buy, you walk around and put
tickets only in items that are
of interest to you, the more
tickets you buy and put in the
cans the better your chances of
winning that prize. Raffle will
be on Friday March 9th.
New
Business
1. Popcorn
Machine:
some complaints on how
long the popcorn takes to pop.
Because it is so late in the
year, this issue has been tabled
until absolutely necessary to
replace.
2. 5th
Grade Graduation:
Committee to
be established. Laurie Allen
will send out flyers with a
meeting date.
Sock Hop:
Expected to have over 150
guests.
3. Meetings
During The Day:
It has been
suggested to have every other
month during the day due to some
parents that are unable to come
to night meetings because of
daycare. Providing daycare for
the evening meetings was then
suggested to get more parents
involved in the meetings. Will
discuss further in next meeting.
4. March 12th
8:45am will be our next PTO
meeting – this is our regular
Monday morning meeting. This
meeting will be for our board
nominations for 2007-2008.
Wednesday April 4th
at 7:00 pm, will be a PTO
meeting and PTO board elections
will be held at that time.
5.
Play Ad:
$25.00 was approved for the ad
with Greenwood play participants
for the Wizard of Oz.
6.
Vendor
Fair: scheduled for April 19th
7. Science
Olympiad:
The Science Olympiad
parents will be having a meeting
with Mrs. Dzubak to have a
discussion of
8. Science Olympiad
held at Jefferson on March 31st.
Talent
Show: scheduled for April 24th.
More info to come.
Culvers
Night: February 28th.
15% of sales are collected for
Greenwood. The ice cream flavor
for this night will be
‘Greenwood’s Rainbow’.
Movie
Night: scheduled for March 2nd,
movie to be determined.
Meeting
closed at 8:53pm by president –
Kelly Bean
Next PTO Meeting is
March 12th at 8:45
AM
**A NOTE TO ALL GREENWOOD
FAMILIES**
If at any
time there is hardship in any
family, please contact Mrs.
Hickens. The PTO is here to
help whenever possible. All
names will be kept confidential.
Submitted
by: Wendy DeMand, Greenwood PTO
Co-Vice President, 2/9/07
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