News from Central Wildcat Pride - September 6th Meeting

Room Parents - Teachers will be in charge of getting and working with their room parents. Party Dates will be set soon and we will get those out! Please contact me if you need a phone number or email for someone.

Walk-A-Thon - Looking at October 6th or 13th. A planning meeting will be held September 13th at 7:00 PM in Central’s Cafeteria. Interested in helping: Tyann Marcink, Beth Reed, Ben and Dawn Butler, Phil and Karen Hamilton, Jennifer Phelps, Dotty Harker, Angie Wilson, Ann Marie Hoerr.

Funds from the Walk-A-Thon will assist with the following:

• $5.00 per student to grade levels to help with fieldtrips.


• Teachers are given 125.00 to use in their classrooms.


• Special area teachers receive $200.00.


• Building technology and playground equipment are also purchased with these funds.

Movie Night – We are going to move Movie Night to January

Fall Festival – October 21st from 6 pm to 8 pm. Planning will be Donnie Schuttenberg, Ben and Dawn Butler, Angie Wilson.

Angel Tree - Michelle Prewitt, Lisa Braun, Alicia Ruessing, Dotty Harker, Angi Wilson.

Holiday Boutique – scheduled for December 15th with December 19th as make-up day. Planning will be Valerie Howland, Amanda Bequette, Angi Wilson, Phil and Karen Hamilton.

We are adding Donuts with Santa this year! Scheduled for December 3rd. People interested in planning: Angi Wilson, Jennifer Phelps, Ann Marie Hoerr, Phil and Karen Hamilton.

We will look at 2nd semester activities as we get closer to that time.

Communication - We will send an agenda email before meeting and notes from the meeting after they are done. They are also posted on Facebook.

Goals!
All activates need to be for families - cheap, if not free.

Dates for meeting are the first Tuesday of the month at 6:30 pm in the cafeteria. Our next regular meeting is schedule for Oct. 4th.

Aaron Jones
Principal, Central Elementary
jonesa@union.k12.mo.us

PICTURE DAY!

PICTURE DAY IS TOMORROW!! September 9th!

Parents if you are dropping off your child and they are eating breakfast here at school, could you please have them here by 7:30 so they have enough time to eat and be in class by 7:50.

Last Night’s CWP meeting:

They will be giving $5.00 per child to each grade level to help offset the cost of field trips.

Family Movie Night is scheduled for this Friday night rain or shine. If it does rain we will move it into the gym.

The Fall Festival is on track for October 22nd.

Soccer Goals - Mr. Fennessey is working with a few people to make some soccer goals for the upper playground. He asked if the CWP could help with any cost in this project.

The next CWP meeting is October 5th at 6:00 PM.

Aaron Jones
Principal, Central Elementary

Tonight's Meeting Agenda

CWP 9/7/10

Fieldtrips - $5.00 per student like last year
Fundraiser kicked off Friday the 3rd – Help for pick-up on the 23rd at 4:00
Movie night update -
Mascot costume - on hold (we want to cover field trips first)
Fall Fest update
T-shirts - We are working on the slogan and design - Mollie said she will help put this together.

Standing Room Only!

Yes, it was! Thank you to all the parents and teachers who attended the CWP meeting Tuesday night. It took a very long time to push through all of the items in the agenda, but we made it before 8 p.m. and survived. Thank you for your patience and for participating in the meeting. We received many wonderful ideas that we are moving forward with!

Please look for the minutes of the meeting to be posted on the blog soon. If you can't wait, feel free to give any parent involved with the CWP a ring on the phone.

We'll see you at Movie Night!

Meeting Agenda for September 1st

Following is the agenda for our September 1st meeting. We encourage all parents to attend and be a part of CWP!

September 1, 2009
Meeting Agenda
Introductions
Explanation of Communication Tools (Blog, Forum, and Facebook) - Tyann Marcink
Update on TREND providing childcare – Tinecia Schuttenberg
Update from CCT on room parents and parties – Amber Eads
Update on field trips - Teachers
Financial update – Julie Duvall
Update on Movie Night and pass out sign-up sheets for concessions – Traci Canby
Need volunteer for Public Relations (press releases and photo ops) - Tyann Marcink
Need library volunteers - Dr. Stephens
Kiwanis Circus – Tyann Marcink
Signature Fundraiser – Donnie Schuttenberg
Update on Fall Festival and pass out sign-up sheets – Donnie Schuttenberg
Holiday Boutique sign-ups and need a chair(s) - Tinecia Schuttenberg
Trivia Night sign-ups - Tyann Marcink
Open question and answer

September Newsletter

The CWP September Newsletter went home with students last Thursday. In case you did not receive it or have misplaced it, here it is (just click on the image, and you will see the full version as a pdf)!


Don't forget to come to the meeting Tuesday night at 6 p.m. We would love to have you there!