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Welcome to a New School Year!

August 23, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

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Goooood morning and welcome to another school year!  A new year of school.  A new year of school sports. A new year of school clubs. A NEW YEAR TO VOLUNTEER!:)

Our kids started back to school last week and I’m already running in 40 different directions between swim, XC and PTC.  I was more determined this year to make out my fundraising/community/volunteering schedules and get them approved early… Well, I did my part. I’m just waiting on the “getting approved” part.  I’m sure a lot of you know what I am talking about – but that’s for another post, another time!:)

Tonight, we are having our back to school night at the Middle School/High School. I just went to Aldi (don’t judge!) and stocked up on cookies, printed off my sign-up forms, and now working on some catchy phrases to post around our table. I have signed up for a service, Remind.com, so that parents can sign up on the spot and be made aware of what all is happening on the school front – family events, volunteer opportunities, fundraising, etc.  We use it for our swim team and also for Open Swim nights.  I think it’ll be a great addition for the organization this year.

Did/are any of you do anything big to kick off your new year?  Did you add anything new to your sign up process this year? Let us know!

take care!

 

Filed Under: Building Community, Events Tagged With: PTA, PTC, PTO, school, school year, sign-up, volunteer, volunteering

Milk, Cookies and Mustaches!

April 11, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

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The Volunteer Parent - Milk, Cookies and Mustaches

Several years ago, I was looking for something a little different to do for our teachers/staff during Staff Appreciation week.  We did not have a huge budget at all and at this point in the year, teachers really don’t have a lot of time to stop and sit and visit. The closer to the end of the school year, the crazier it gets for everybody.  I wanted to create something fun.  I had just bought some really cute mustache stamps and I knew that’s the theme I wanted to go with. I just had to find something fun.

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Filed Under: Latest, Teacher/Staff Appreciation Tagged With: budget friendly, cookies and milk, crafty, cute, Fun, milk, mustache, PTA, PTC, PTO, quick, staff appreciation, stamping

Harlem Wizards Update

April 10, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

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The Volunteer Parent - HW Update

Good morning:)

I wanted to give yall an update this morning on our First Top Picks from the PTO Expo – Harlem Wizards Fundraiser Show.

This last Thursday, I sat down with your AD and we talked about what it’d take for us to put this together. The last time we spoke, he said I should do it for the swim team because it’d be a great fundraiser (I was heart was dancin’ at this prospect!).  Thursday, when we sat down to look it over and look at the specifics of what we needed it wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be for us.

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Filed Under: Fundraising, Latest Tagged With: Basketball, financials, fundraiser, good time, Harlem Wizards, PTA, PTC, PTO, show basketball, sports, update

PTO Expo – Our 3rd Top Pick:)

April 5, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

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Volunteer Parent - 3rd Top Pick

Here we are at our 3rd Top PTO Expo Pick!!

I have to say I’m really excited about this one:)  I actually presented it to our Middle School Principal yesterday and he loved the idea.

First of all, I have to give my sweet husband credit for this one.  We found the booth and I thought it was really cute but almost dismissed it until he stopped me and told me his vision for this product:)

 

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Filed Under: Building Community, Educational Enrichments, Latest Tagged With: Fun, giving back, organizations, PTA, PTC, PTO, PTO Today Expo, Spirit Monkey, Spirit Sticks, Student Incentives, Students, top pick

PTO Expo – Our 2nd Top Pick:)

April 2, 2016 by admin Leave a Comment

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Volunteer Parent Top PickAs I previously posted, I wanted to bring yall our 3 top picks from our first PTO Expo event we attended a couple of weeks ago. We haven’t dealt with any of these companies previously but they piqued our interest the most.  Here is our second top pick:)

This pick is not a fundraiser but an educational enrichment.

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Filed Under: Educational Enrichments Tagged With: Assembly, Educational Enrichment, For the Students, Fun, PTA, PTC, PTO, Science, The Science Alliance

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