• Attendance: Kim Vincent, Amy Cengel, Julie Freko, Lisa Horner, Amanda Morris, Stephany Salinas
• Principal update: Paarc testing, end of year events, how to best communicate with parents/guardians; would like suggestions
• Teacher appreciation was a success; liked the theme
• Carnation sale made a small profit
• Field Day is June 4th: we have volunteers for kitchen; Food prep at 9:30 am; Julie to get subs from Caputos; Amanda to get rest of food
• Next year planning:
• Halloween Fun Fair
• Return to school picnic: date TBD: membership drive; spirit wear
• Open House: date TBD; membership, spirit wear, room parents
• Lisa/Rachel suggested a kindergarten “boo hoo and tea party” for first day of school
• Discussed improved ways to communicate next year
• Discussed how to improve PTO membership and volunteers
• Discussed ways to get spirit wear items sooner
• Next PTO date set: Thursday Aug 20th 6pm; place TBD
Some new ideas for next year: Rachel has offered to do all the PTO flyers for all events next year as this is her specialty!! She will design the flyer, Maria or Stephany can translate, Mrs Ruiz will copy and Rachel will place in teacher mailboxes! Thank you so much Rachel! I think this will be extremely helpful!
Spirit wear for kindergarten will be ordered this year and was will also place an order for shirts/sweatshirts/long sleeves to have on hand; will still place an order for what people want
Thinking about reducing fee for membership to either nothing or $5 and making sure to separate membership from volunteering; I put some further thought into that; asking the question what does membership really mean and honestly I didn’t have an answer to that question. With research, I came up with maybe membership means voting rights on big topics. I have been at South for 4 years and nothing has come up for vote….something to think about and discuss in August.
Thanks everyone for your commitment this year! You were all awesome and I have a small thank you gift for those who didn’t get theirs yet!!
Kim
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