And Carnival Planning is Underway!

Members present Teresa Wenstrand, Missy Torbett, Katie Schmid, Sonia Kunze, Barb Sims, Gayle Allensworth, Missy Stickland, Melanie Sifford, Amanda Serna, Leah Mensen, Dawn LeRette, Jackie DeVries, Kelly Jones, Arryn Blomstedt, Melinda Smits, Becky Dolch

1. Meeting called to order at 4:59pm by President Christy Bennett

2. Any updates other than Carnival?

a. Fun Run update

i. Having a fun run in April, Melanie Sifford will contact Jen Bruce to set this up.

ii. Inman only, Washington participates in Track and Field Day in May

3. Carnival Committee updates

a. Missy Torbett and Teresa Wenstrand-Prizes

i. Prize table this year opposed to each game having a prize

ii. A handout was given to show break down of # of tokens with price for items

iii. Students can purchase prize if necessary (ex: student has 5 tokens but wants something that is 8 tokens the student could pay $X for the difference)

iv. Quote from promotional concepts on tokens

1. 500 tokens, 1,000, etc

2. Could we reuse the tokens?

a. As tokens are turned in to prize table could send back to games

3. Plastic bag to keep prizes in

a. Bag with sponsors names on the back

b. Give bags for every $10 worth of tokens?

b. Games-Sara Johnson and Angie Brittan

i. Letters have been sent out to service organizations and an email has been sent to Jen Bruce to forward to staff members

ii. Pretty much same games

1. Every grade level has a game, specials together on a game

2. 1 ticket/game

c. Food-Linda Guerra and Missy Stickland

i. Hy-Vee and Fareway are donating all food

ii. Pork Producers will cook for us again

iii. Christy to ask Jedd Westover to cook

iv. $8/pizza by Pizza Hut

v. Price listing the same

vi. Adding a walking taco or sloppy joes

1. Linda asked Sharon Foote about prices for items through the school.

a. Not this year, possibly next year

2. Volunteers at the door to not allow food and drinks out of the cafeteria

a. 4-H groups help with this?

vii. Needs plates, napkins, cups, spoons

d. Donations-Dawn LeRette and Jackie DeVries

i. Raised about $500

ii. Letters have gone out for donations

iii. All donations given, let Jackie DeVries know who donated so it can go on the Thank You list

e. It was brought up as to why we were purchasing supplies from Sam’s instead of local when all of these businesses are donating so much

i. Will ask about price matching by local businesses

f. Volunteers-Heather Hall

i. It was discussed that one person or committee by in charge of contacting people for volunteers and Heather volunteered to head this up

ii. The IPS office staff will help with this as well

iii. A note will go home asking for volunteers, cakes to donate, etc

iv. Ask HS groups such as Letterman’s Club for volunteers

v. Whenever activities, food, etc knows how many volunteers they need, let Heather know

g. Baskets-Jen Bruce-Shelly Spotts gave update

i. Will get started after Spring Break

h. Activities-Melanie Sifford and Abby Couse

i. Tatoos

1. $180 for 2hrs and $80 for an additional hour

2. We need to charge at least $3/tattoo, have done $5 in the past

ii. Frisbee art-no charge other than cost of frisbees, can do 4 frisbees at a time

1. Our fee is $2/Frisbee, charge at least $3

iii. Tammy McFarland is DJing/Karaoke

1. If you have music selections let Abby or Melanie know

iv. Optimist is doing Bounce House and Plinko

v. Carmen for Hair

vi. Cheerleaders for nails-still need to ask

vii. Watkins for Bounce House

viii. Football players are doing obstacle course

ix. Plenty of coloring pages, but no crayons

1. We can find crayons

x. Abby has donated her time for making play dough

xi. Possibly another obstacle course from the National Guard

xii. Have we ever auctioned off cookies or pies, etc that the students have decorated?

1. Stanton has parents purchase supplies, HS FCS makes the baked goods, and the elementary students decorate them

2. Not in conjunction with carnival, but another activity

3. Let’s keep this as a possibility for a different event

xiii. In another school there is a “hospital”

1. They had nurse beds, gauze, fake blood, etc

2. Brian Couse could donate gauze and wraps if we wanted to do it

xiv. Toilet Toss

1. Toss toilet paper into the toilet

xv. Teresa Euken will have the classes create signs for all games

xvi. Flyers have been created and need to be colored

1. 4^th grade will color the flyers this year

2. Flyers will be given to Barb and need to be out in the community by the end of April

Any other comments?

None.

April 10^th is the next meeting at 5pm.

Meeting adjourned at 5:53pm

2012 Carnival Kick-Off!

The PTO was back in action on Tuesday evening with a very important agenda before them-Carnival planning. Below you will find the minutes from the meeting. If there are any questions, if you would like to volunteer for any of the open carnival chair positions, or if you would like to donate food for parent/teacher conferences please contact any of the PTO board members and we would be happy to help!

A special thank you to Kim Walford for stepping in and helping with the child care for the evening!

Thanks to those who could make it last night! Please mark your calendars now for the March 13th meeting! See you then!

PTO Meeting

Jan. 10, 2012

Attendance-Barb Sims, Mark Hauffle, Joe Erickson, Missy Stickland, Melanie Sifford, Linda Guerra, Kim Walford, Jen Bruce, SueAnn Crouse

1. Carnival

· Date- Friday, May 11^th

· Chairpersons:

· Baskets – Kelly Maynes / Need 1 preferable an IPS teacher

· PR – Need 1

· Donations – Dawn LeRette & Jackie DeVries

· Food – Linda Guerra & Missy Stickland

· Games – Angie Britten & Sara Johnson

· Activities – Melanie Sifford & Abby Couse

· Likes/Dislikes from past

o Plan inside and if it is too beautiful to pass up, then we can move it out.

o More room-use more hallway space, other areas in the building that we could use?

o Food chairs would like for the food to stay in the cafeteria

o AnimalLand-didn’t make much last year, large extra expense for parents

§ Decision was made to not have Animal Land this year-Melanie and Abby will look into possibilities of activities in place of Animal Land

o Bounce house was awesome!

o Designating space more specifically so we don’t have kids walking through games—orange cones, etc.

o Having specific set up and clean up time slots separate from working the games

§ Maybe the first shift and last shift could be teachers to ensure there are enough hands for set-up and clean-up

o Having a committee that can just find volunteers for all things

§ In the past parents have been called multiple times by different chairs, don’t want parents to feel pressured and don’t want to overbook parents/volunteers

2. Conferences

· Date~ Mon. Feb. 13^th

· Sign up sheet

o Those in attendance volunteered to bring food and supplies for conferences, if interested please contact Christy Bennett

3. BOX TOPS update

· IPS- fall collection $1741 (saving for rock wall)

· WIS- fall collection $836 (saving for swing set)

· Collection boxes also at HyVee (Inman) & Fareway (Washington)

· Next collection-March 1st

4. Winter Activity?

· During conferences a survey will be made available to parents, and all members of the community, to gather data about beliefs and opinions of the ROCSD. Could PTO volunteers be at the schools to encourage parents to take a few minutes and complete the survey?

o Computers could be set up ready to go

o Possibly offer a cookie, or a coupon for a free ice cream cone from a local business?

· Capri Sun and Lunchable trays-both of these can be collected and the companies will pay schools, much like box tops.

o Is this something we might want to begin?

· Start looking for next Oct/Nov for an activity-start planning 6mo ahead (i.e. doing a game night/reading night/etc. next Oct./Nov. but start planning now?)

· Fun run-much like jump rope for heart, but would be running instead of jump roping

o Fall vs Spring

o Ask Karen Subbert and Roxanne Lamb what their thoughts are

o YMCA-use track and expose children to the YMCA rules and expectations

o This February??? send packets home at conferences and that could be the kick off

5. Other

· Box top store-kids can purchase supplies or etc for so many box tops

NEXT MEETING- Tuesday, March 13^th 5:30 @ IPS Media Center

**NO FEBRUARY Meeting due to Valentines & Conferences*