Room Parent Round Table

It's coming! Mark your calendars for the

Room Parent Round Table
Thursday, October 1st
6:30 p.m. at Central Elementary

The room parent packets will be handed out for each class, so if you volunteered to help organize at least one of the room parties for your student(s), please come get the information and meet the other parents for your class.

After the packets are handed out, we'll have a time for parents to ask questions and give ideas for room parties.

If you have not turned in your form and/or $3 to your teacher yet, please do so immediately - we would really appreciate it! CASH ONLY, PLEASE!

A letter to the organizing parents will be going home very soon with this same information. If you have any questions about the Round Table, please don't hesitate to contact Kasey Straatmann at 636.584.0596 or email her at kaseystraatmann@sbcglobal.net.

Circus Tickets Winner and Movie Night Success!

For an attendance prize at the Movie Night, the Kiwanis gave the CWP 4 tickets to the circus! Gavin Mendez, Kindergarten, won the prize. Yeah, Gavin! Also in the picture is Mrs. Griefe, teacher and Kiwanis member, and Tyann Marcink and Valerie Howland, CWP supporters.

Don't forget to order your circus tickets with the order form that came home with your student last Friday - for every ticket that sells through the school, the CWP receives $1 to use towards the fun family activites that we're planning for this year!

We had an awesome turnout at Movie Night last Friday! Thank you to all the families who attended. And special thanks to Traci Canby and her crew for organizing the event, as well as our sponsors Pepsi, 7up, Great 8 Cinema, and McDonald's of Union.

Everyone had a wonderful time, every bit of popcorn was eaten, and clean up was finished in 10 minutes - wow! We look forward to possible having another Movie Night in the spring since this was such a success.

Next event is the Fall Festival, scheduled for Friday, October 23rd, at the school. We plan to have games, face painting, a cake walk, and even a teacher's pumpkin carving/decorating contest. We'll need lots of help with this, so contact Donnie Schuttenberg at donnie.64@live.com today to lend your assistance!

September Meeting Minutes

CWP MEETING MINUTES
SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

The meeting was called to order by Tyann Marcink at 6:10 pm at Central Elementary.

Tyann opened the meeting by introducing herself co-chair, Tinicea Schuttenberg co-chair, Amanda Bequette secretary, and Julie Duvall treasurer.

Dr. Stephens said hello and stated that this meeting had the biggest turn out from any other meeting.

Tyann went over how the CWP blog worked and what information would be posted on it. Items likes meeting minutes, meeting dates, activities, activity dates, activity chairs, and many more items.

Tyann also stated that the first CWP newsletter went out with the students and said that all newsletters will be sent home with the children each month. The letters will be printed on red paper so parents will know that it is from the CWP. These letters will be sent out on Fridays per the teachers requests.

Tinecia talked about the TREND program. We would like to have them come to our CWP meetings and provide a daycare like setting to watch our children during the meetings. This will help us run the meetings more smoothly and also help the club get their required volunteer time.

Amber Eads spoke regarding the CCT and room parents. CCT will not be picking the room parents. It was decided by both the teachers and CWP to have the teachers pick the parent(s). Amber will update the form so that it will resemble the new CWP and not the old PTO and hopefully the parents will look at it more carefully. On September 15, at 6:00 pm the CWP will get together and put the room parents packets together.

Dr. Stephens talked about the field trips for this year. The field trips are picked by the teachers and not the CWP. The field trips will align with the class curriculum.

Julie went over the budget. We have around $6,200 to work with until our Signature fundraiser is complete. It was decided that we will give each grade $5.00 per student to cover costs of the field trips. We will adjust the number of students as needed for each grade level.

The teachers will still be getting $125.00 per teacher to help with classroom items from the CWP.
Tracy went over movie night. It will be on September 11, 2009 at Central Elementary. The movie is free, but movie goers can purchase snacks. The movie will be Everyone's Hero and the theme is baseball so all should wear their baseball attire.

Tyann mentioned that we should have someone to do the public relations regarding all activities that the CWP will be doing and Donnie Schuttenberg volunteered for this.

Nicki Voss stated that library volunteers are needed. The office and teachers also need help so anyone interested please call the school and talk with her.

We had a representative from the Kiwanis's club talk about the circus coming up October 11 and mentioned a easy way to sell tickets and raise money for the school. The CWP has agreed that this would be a great way to raise money.

Donnie talked about the new fundraiser for Central. It is called Signature and we will start selling Friday September 4. It will be a 50% profit on what we sell and the Signature company will take care of all the deliveries and have everything set up for our parents to pick up. The money due date will be September 23 and the pick up date for the items will be October 21.

Donnie also noted that he will be calling parents to start on getting the fall festival going.

There will be a trivia night January 23 and Tyann will be chair this event.

Tyann thanked everyone for coming and the meeting was over at 7:30 pm.

MOVIE NIGHT

Preshow begins at 7 p.m., and the movie will begin at dark.

Wear your favorite baseball jersey and bring the lawn chairs! Come join us for a family movie night outside of school. We'll watch the animated Everyone's Hero on the big screen while munching on popcorn.

CWP will have popcorn and sodas for purchase, or bring your own snacks and drinks. Please, no alcohol or glass. Remember this is a family event - no drop offs. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

A special thank you to our sponsors: CWP, Great 8 Cinema, 7up, Pepsi, and McDonald's of Union!