Dear Room Parents:
Thank you for volunteering! I’m very excited to serve as your 2012-2013 Room Parent Coordinator and hope that we have a fun and satisfying year helping out in our kids’ classrooms.
Some of you have served as room parent before, and we have many new parents as well. Like last year, we will continue our role as liaison between our teachers, parents, and the PTA, helping organize class parties and helping facilitate volunteers and donations for classroom activities. With the new year, we will also have changes and look for more opportunities to assist with classroom activities:
1. We will see some positive changes in the approach to class parties where we will have more flexibility scheduling parties and tie the party themes to the current classroom curriculum.
2. Assist the PTA in collecting and spot checking the fundraiser order forms for our classrooms.
3. Expand our Favorite Things lists to include teaching assistants and many of the specialist teachers. Each classroom will sponsor one of these assistants and teachers during the holidays and teacher appreciation week.
4. Start a room parent blog where we can share ideas and reach out to each other for support and collaboration.
I’ll be sending out an EVITE shortly to our Room Parent Kick-Off meeting on Thursday, Oct. 4 @ 7:00 pm in the CCES Library. I realize we all have busy schedules, but hope most of you can make it. If you have a conflict and cannot attend, we’ll send out all of the information electronically and I’m available to answer any questions that arise.
Look from an EVITE for our room parent kick-off meeting as well as an email and sign up to assist with the school fundraiser collections.
In the meantime, let me know if you have any questions, suggestions or concerns.
Cheers!
Samantha Peele
CCES Room Parent Coordinator
