September PTA/PAC Meeting

The PTA/PAC meeting will be held this Friday, September 30th at 11:00 a.m. in the media center. If you have volunteered to serve on the board and have not yet recieved your volunteer folders, they will be handed out at the meeting. We hope to see you there. Thank You!!!

Back to School Open House

We will hold our annual Back to School Open House on Wednesday, August 31st from 11:00am to 1:00pm. This provides a great opportunity for students to meet with their new teachers and check out the classroom prior to the first day of school. Please bring all your school supplies to the Open house.

Welcome Back 2011-2012

Welcome back Chubbuck Panthers! Register for school August 18, 12:00-6:00. Hope to see you all there.

Mintues for April Meeting

Chubbuck Elementary PTA Meeting Minute
April 15, 2011 1:00 pm Chubbuck Media Center
Treasurer’s Report: Passed around, see attached. Katy wanted to know if we were done with Teacher Appreciation since we are over budget there, Jessie will call Andrea Richardson.
DARE Graduation: This went well… there was cake after. Thanks to Anna McDonald and Maggie Gardner.
Spring Fundraiser update: The kickoff went well, the kids are excited about it. The kids will jump next Wednesday and Thursday. The Modern Woodmen will be there to help on Wednesday, we need volunteers to sign up for Thursday. The kids will jump a whole grade at a time, except for Mr. Muckerman’s class, who will jump with the Kindergartners because of a field trip. Keep collecting pledges and make sure checks are made out to Chubbuck Elementary PTA.
Parent Teacher conferences are April 21, from 3-6 pm. The book fair will be that same day from 2:30-7:00 pm. We need to send a reminder e-mail since some of the parents will not be attending conferences. We may also set up a sign in front of the school as a reminder. This is the buy-one-get-one-free book fair, a good time to stock up for summer reading.
Carnival is coming up, Mika Jenkins is in charge. We are aiming for more active things to do and less candy… things like jump rope, hula hoop, relay or sack races, and sidewalk chalk. We will also have cotton candy from M’Lisa Chevalier and popcorn. Let Mika know if you are interested in helping.
5th Grade Graduation is coming up… Mary Kae Ryner and Marinda Dunn are in charge. They have met with the 5th grade teachers, the graduation is May 31st at 1:15, it will be 5th graders by themselves. There will be a breakfast the next morning, and we need the help of a 4th grade mom who would be willing to take this over next year. Marinda is in charge of the gift and activities. The kids will be able to purchase invitations for 25 cents each.
We will have a thank you board luncheon at Costa Vida Friday, May 20th at 11:30 am. Lesli will send out reminder invitations.
We had some discussion about the fundraiser for next fall. Some of the options include going with Cherrydale or Victory fundraising, doing some kind of opt-out, a dinner style fundraiser, or doing restaurant fundraiser or discount cards. Most likely option is going with Cherrydale again, if we sign on soon we get all kinds of bonuses.
This is our last board meeting for this year, see everyone at the luncheon!

Chubbuck PTA Officers 2011-2013

Congratulations to our new Chubbuck PTA Officers for the next 2 school years! They are: President, Julie Bigler; Vice-President Cori Spillet; Secretary, Shelby Kunz; and Treasurer, Jennifer Gunter.
Thanks for volunteering to keep our PTA running smoothly! We look forward to next year!

PTA Meeting Minutes – March 18, 2011
1:00 pm Chubbuck Media Center
Treasurer’s report is attached
Elections: Voting was in the unanimous. Our officers for the next 2 years are: Julie Bigler, President; Cori Spillet, Vice-President; Shelby Kunz, Secretary; Jennifer Gunter, Treasurer.
Upcoming in April:
Art Week: This will be April 4-8th. Parent training will probably be March 30th at 8:30 am. This is the last one of the year!
DARE Graduation: This will be April 6th, Anna McDonald is in charge. We will probably buy 2 cakes from Costco and use left-over soda.
Spring Fundraiser: Kick-off will be March 31st, kids will receive jumpropes from the Modern Woodmen. We will send a note home with the pledge sheet on the back. Those who pledge will jump for 1 hour one day at school… we will need to schedule the gym. We will try to give the kids some choices for prizes and then buy them after the pledges are in so we don’t over or under-buy. We had some discussion about class parties.
5th Grade Graduation: May 31st at 1:15 pm, the breakfast will be the next day at Stuart Park. We will offer parents the opportunity to buy announcements for 25 cents each.
Regional Reflections Banquet will be in May and will honor school, regional, and state winners.
Mika Jenkins is taking over the carnival planning… we are thinking of running this a little more like a field day, but we are aware that PTA Insurance does not cover sporting events. We will plan carefully! But we are looking at doing basketball, sack races, hula hooping, that kind of thing… things that will get the kids to be active. Also still doing cotton candy, balloon animals, etc. We may try to get milk or water donated.
Laurie Zahm spoke to us for PAC – she gave us information about the Title One events that happened this year. That information is attached.

Meeting Minutes for February

PTA Meeting Minutes – Feb. 18, 2011 1:00 pm Chubbuck Media Center
**Treasurer’s Report passed around, see attached. We did well at the book fair… we sold almost $6100 in books, $1450 will go to the school library. It was very successful to have it during Grandparent’s night.
Katy Mottishaw moved and Kris Mullen 2nd that we should spend 20-25 dollars on sealable deposit envelopes for the bank.
We also have $100 credit to our account with our t-shirt company for next school year.
**District Levy: Our PTA has voted to support this. Early voting has already started, March 8 is the election day. We may be asked to pass out flyers again this year.
**Legislatve day: Get informed about the new education bills going through the house and Senate. You can find the bills, info. about our representatives at legislature.idaho.gov Be very specific in your feedback. It is important for us to be informed.
**Teacher appreciation luncheon: This is scheduled for March 4th at noon, Andrea Richardson is in charge. Costa Vida will cater again this year. We need to invite the instructional aides since they are not scheduled to work that day.
**Spring Fundraiser: We will kick off Thursday, March 31, give the kids a week to jump rope, and then a week to collect money. Money will be due back to us on April 15th. Parents can count the number of minutes that their kids jump, and then the kids can collect pledges or flat donations. We plan to give individual awards for the kids that jump the most and collect the most money, also the classes that collect the most, jump the most, have the most participation. Most of the prizes are being donated… we are hoping to find area businesses that would be willing to give us matching donations, maybe send a note home with parents to encourage that. We may also keep a daily tally of class jump totals to encourage some competition.
**PAC: we need new playground equipment! We may try to find some room in the budget to buy monkey bars now, buy other stuff later. We may also be able to find some businesses or organizations willing to help (Chubbuck Fire Dept. is willing to help).
**From the Region: There will be a vendor fair March 17 in Blackfoot for more information about fundraising.
WE NEED TO TAKE NOMINATIONS FOR NEXT YEAR’S PTA OFFICERS. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SERVING NEXT YEAR, PLEASE CONTACT JESSIE NATE AT jnate96@yahoo.com
THANKS FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT!

Meeting Minutes for January

PTA Meeting Minutes, Jan. 21, 2011
1:00 pm Chubbuck Media Center
**Art Week: The 4th and 5th grade art projects will be displayed at Grandparent’s night, as will the reflections projects. We will use ½ the gym for an “art walk”, the other half will be used by the kindergartners. The younger grades will display their art work in their rooms.
**Book Fair: Cori and Allison are setting up today. The library will actually get more money because we are combining this with Grandparent’s Night. The hours will be 2-4 pm on Wednesday, 2-7 pm on Th
**Valentine’s Day Parties: KG party is Friday the 11th, others are on Valentines Day, Monday. They are scheduled for 1:00 pm for a half hour. PTA will provide pink cookies from Smith’s and a drink.
**Box Tops: We just got a check for around $970, and that was just for those collected through November. We will send in another batch in the next couple of months. Josi will type something for the March chatter to help parents take advantage of the website and other promotions
**SD 25 Levy: To see the information handed out at the meeting, see attached or go to www.d25.k12.id.us and click on the orange button on the left hand side that says “Supplemental Levy Election”. Kris Mullen moved and Allison Boyer seconded that we agree to officially support the levy as a PTA. Motion unanimously passed.
**Legislative Day: Feb. 10th in Boise. This is our chance to meet with our local legislators and voice our opinions. See Lesli or Brandi Barnes for more info.
**Treasurer’s Report: See attached…this was passed around. Our taxes have been paid. Candy Gram expenses were posted to “service Projects”… we were able to raise about $1500 and help 10 families with the candy gram money!
**Spring Fundraiser: Cindy and Emy are working on picking a date, possibly in April, so the jump-a-thon can be outside. We talked about maybe having local celebrities find sponsors and jump with us.
**Other Fundraisers: Do we want to help with the Curtis Family Fundraiser? Tenley Curtis is a first grader with a life-threatening brain tumor. A fundraiser is scheduled for sometime in February at Gold’s Gym. Maybe we can send information home with the kids about this to help publicize it… Jessie will find more information.
Jann answered a question about the class size numbers put out by the State Superintendant’s office this week… those numbers include staff like counselors, PE and music teachers, so the numbers seem low, but we can go up to 30 in the upper grades and 25 in the lower grades, we are almost there with our classes now. Classroom size is also a concern for us, we don’t have room for many more desks in many classrooms.
**PAC: Patti Mortensen from the district and Jackie Cranor from the School Board came to talk to us about the levy. Jann also mentioned that our monkey bars did not pass inspection and we will need to purchase new ones as soon as possible.

Minutes for Nov. Meeting

Minutes for PTA Meeting, 11-19-10 1:00 pm Chubbuck Media Center
Treasurers Report Passed around… we have paid our dues to State and National PTA and our Insurance, so we are a PTA in good standing. Report showed almost $3000 in t-shirt sales, we also paid our $2000 donation for reading aids.
Spring Fundraiser: Sara Bohney and Bob Scovil of Modern Woodmen of America came to talk about helping with our fundraiser. They are willing to help with donations (like jump ropes for a jump-a-thon or copies), also will match funds up to $2000. We will need to write a check to them for the amount of the match and then we will get double that amount back. We discussed several ideas for a fun run or a jump-a-thon. We will need to get information to the MWA a month or two ahead of our fundraiser. We could also get people from the community to come and jump or run to help.
Red Ribbon Week was great, Start the Arts went well (but volunteers need to tell Kris when they are scheduled with their teachers so there are adequate supplies available).
Reflections: We had 79 entries in 4 categories. Some are already judged, others will be judged by Monday or Tuesday. The winners will get ribbons and $2 bills. Winners will go in the Chubbuck Chatter.
Fall Fundraiser Distribution: This will be Nov. 29th, Monday, starting at 4:00. We will need to organize each student’s order, then start pick-ups around 6:00.
Candy Grams: Will be Mon-Thursday, Dec. 13-16th, sold during lunch (and some available from the teachers to sell in their classrooms) for 50 cents each. We already have some forms and candy canes left over that we can use to get started.
Advocacy Day: PTA set its legislative priorities, including Education funding and support of a texting while driving bill. Legislative Day is set for Feb. 10th in Boise.
Early Morning reading is coming up! We need a volunteer to read for January, March and April.
An idea for a PTA project: Emergency kits for the classrooms that teachers could take with them during evacuations.

Agenda for November Meeting

Chubbuck PTA Meeting Agenda – Nov. 19, 2010

*Treasurer’s Report
*Spring Fundraiser – ideas and matching donation?
*Recap: Red Ribbon Week, Start the Arts, Reflections
*Upcoming Events: Fall Fundraiser product Distribution, Candy Grams
*Advocacy Day, Idaho PTA
*Evaluation Sheets
*PAC

Chubbuck PTA Meeting Minutes
October 15, 2010 1:00 pm Chubbuck Media Center
*Fall Fundraiser: Our numbers are down over last year, we have so far raised about $3000 (last year was closer to $6500). There was some discussion about the fundraiser, the product selection. We may change next year, we’ll see once the orders are all in and counted from this weekend. In the meantime, we need to look at trimming our budget.

Katy Mottishaw moved that we change the Spring Fundariser budget to $350. Kris Mullen seconded, passed unaminously. Katy Mottishaw also moved (Kris Mulled second) that we charge a $6 returned check fee to cover our cost when checks bounce. Passed unanimously. This means that we will need to make notification on all PTA items that involve money, fundraisers, membership, t-shirts, etc.
Ideas for the Spring Fundraiser? Maybe a jump-rope a thon, a walk-a-thon… also could we find companies to match funds? We will continue to think of ideas.

Red Ribbon Week: Oct. 25-28… Red dog tags are coming that say “Panthers are 2 smart 2 do drugs”… those will be handed out on Monday. A letter to the teachers is going out next week to explain the theme days, and each teacher will be given a bag of red tickets. The students that participate will receive a ticket and then placed in a drawing for prizes at the end of each day. Monday will be Red Day “Panthers are 2 hot 2 do drugs”… Tuesday will be Extreme Pride Day “Take pride in yourself, don’t do drugs”… Wednesday will be silly hat or hair day “Its OK to be one of a kind, don’t do drugs”… Thursday will be lounge wear, “Don’t Sweat it, don’t do drugs”.

Start the Arts will start the week of Nov. 8th, the parent meeting will be the week before that. The younger classes will do a lesson with lines. They will draw pictures with soap. The older classes will do a lesson on contrast, and will draw “blind” (white crayon on white paper) and then paint over it.

Halloween parties: We are still thinking of ideas for treats, these are scheduled for the 28th for kindergarten and the 29th.

Reflections kick-off will be Nov. 1st… Volunteers will go to each class to explain the program… entries will be due back the week of the 15th.

Mr. Keller, Mr. Garcia, and Mr. Muckerman will represent our school at the lottery “Scratch for Schools” at ISU. All the money we scratch from lottery tickets will go to our school!

PAC: Mrs. Noorda

Chubbuck PTA Meeting Agenda
October 15, 2010 Chubbuck Media Center
*Fall Fundraiser Update
*Red Ribbon Week
*Class Halloween Parties
*Start the Arts
*Reflections Kick-off Coming up
*PAC

PTA Meeting Minutes 9-17-10
1:00 pm Chubbuck Media Center
*Treasurer’s report passed around… so far we are at about $1100 for membership (we had $1258 last year), $947 for snack fee ($1300 last year) and $2377.97 for t-shirts (we had $1070 last year). See attached for report.
*Start the Arts: Arts week starts next week. We had our parents meeting on Thursday. Supplies are in the cabinet under the volunteer sign-ups. For any questions call Kris Mullen.
*Fall Fundraiser: Kick-off is Sept. 27. We are still working on prizes… maybe a donation of ice cream for those who participate, big prizes for the top 3 sellers… maybe class parties, pizza for the top class or a play and trade party? If anyone has ideas for businesses that might be willing to donate, let us know. At the same time, we should be thinking of ideas for the Spring Fundraiser and make sure we don’t double up on donations from a single business. Most at the meeting favored an “a-thon” type of fundraiser for Spring, we will keep discussing.
*We will be doing T-shirt Tuesday for the T-Th kindergarten students since they don’t attend on Fridays.
*Volunteer lists were handed out today, and room mothers have been assigned. Please use the people on your lists to help you.
*Carnival… we are trying to think of some ideas that might save money, maybe a field day or end of the year class parties. Let us know if you have any input on this.
*PTA take over early morning reading club? We are working to find someone to help co-ordinate volunteers and maybe take this over, we will see. We might be able to work with the Portneuf Valley Library on this.
*Picture re-takes will be on a Thursday to help accommodate Kindergarten students.
PAC: Title One
What a parent should know: How do we receive money? It comes from the federal government, then to the states, then to the schools based on income (reduced and free school lunches). We are a school-wide title one school, so all students can benefit. Title One does the following each year:
*Identifiy the students with the greatest need and in what areas based on testing.
*Set goals for improving the child’s skills
*Train the teachers
*Allocate Money
*Review.
Parents are needed for planning and input. Several parent nights are scheduled this year. We may change the times, right after school or in the mornings?

PTA Meeting Agenda 9-17-10
1:00 pm Chubbuck Media Center
**Report: Treasurer, Membership, T-shirt sales, class party fund
**Start the Arts
**Fall Fundraiser
**Volunteer List/Committees
PAC: Title One Team

Chubbuck PTA Meeting Minutes for 8-27-2010
Chubbuck Media Center 1:00 pm
**Standing Rules were read and approved unanimously. A copy will be sent to the regional director, copies are available for board members.
**Budget was read through and approved unanimously, copy attached.
** Audit report: Katy has a copy of the audit. All our records match up. We gave Brent Grigg a $50 gift card as a thank-you. Our beginning balance for the year is $4072.98.
Back to School day: Sept. 1 from 11am to 1pm. We will need the following committees there: Fundraiser, t-shirts, Membership, Girls on the Run, Start the arts
T-shirts shipped today, should be here on Monday. We have 144 of various sizes to sell at back to school day. We will charge $7 a shirt, same as last year, to help cover shipping and taxes and copies for order forms. We will take money for the shirts, but not for membership at back to school day.
Girls on the run: Need one more adult volunteer to help. This will be Wednesdays and Thursdays from 2:45-4:00 at the school. We have only 15 spots available for girls in 3-5 grades. You need to sign up at the health department and you can download the form from the internet.
Fall Fundraiser: We have budgeted $350 for prizes, publicity, etc. We will need to further discuss the incentives, etc. This is the Idaho Preferred Fundraiser. All items are $10, $4.25 goes to the school, the other goes back to the Idaho farmers and producers of the products.
Chubbuck PTA now has a facebook page! It is under chubbuckelementaryschoolpta on facebook. We will post information there as well as our blog.
Lunch for the teachers is scheduled for March 4th.
Some ideas for increasing membership: A raffle at back to school day? We will definitely set up a table with information about why PTA is important.
Book Fair: We will plan one for Grandparents night (to set up Jan 26th and leave up through the 28th) and have a 2nd book fair during the carnival at the end of school to encourage summer reading. This will be May 26th and 27th.

August Meeting Agenda

Welcome back! It's hard to believe that it's already time for school to start again! We will meet Friday, Aug. 27 at 1:00 pm in the Media Center to begin planning for next year.
Here is the agenda:
*Business:
Approve Standing Rules and Budget
*Discussion
Back to school Day
School Facebook page
T-shirts
Back to School packets

Hope to see you there!

Meeting Minutes for April

This is an abbreviated version of the minutes... for the full document e-mail leslischei@yahoo.com

Laurie Zahm and Korby Vaughn came to update us on our Title One programs for the year. Our funding is down 13% for next year, but with Stimulus money we have 5 title one employees for one more year. We will also use stimulus money to purchase new computers for classrooms and a smartboard for 4th grade.

Field trip update: We will be allowed to fund a field trip for Kindergarten and 2nd grade since they haven't had one yet this year. We voted to pay for those trips as long as we can afford them, we are still waiting on the final cost for those.

Carnival: We plan to have cotton candy, popcorn, dad's baseball game, popsicles, possibly Reel theatre tickets. We have put an announcement in the Chubbuck Chatter for donations of candy, prizes, drinks, etc.

5th Grade Graduation: We will make a 6th grade survival kit for all students. They will also have pizza in the park and the lip sync.

T-shirts: We have found a new vendor that we are excited about! We are hoping to have mock-ups of two designs and let the students vote which one they like the best. The shirts will be about $6.50 each. We plan to order an initial 144 to sell at back to school day and then make additional orders as needed. Mary Kae Ryner will be in charge of this.

No meeting next month.

We discussed the Idaho Preferred Fundraiser. This is about a dozen local products sold for $10 each. We would get $4.25 from each product. We would need to sell about 1300 items to earn about what we did last year. We would need to separate products when they arrive, do an assembly, and provide prizes. It would be more work for us but would be great to support Idaho products. We will keep discussing.
For next year the school needs new playground equipment, increased teacher scholarships, and possibly more money for reading aides.

Jill Serpa and Shannon Allred, district reading specialists, talked to us about summer reading and writing. E-mail me if you'd like the list.

Agenda for the April Meeting

Here are the items we will be discussing at our meeting on Friday:

*Minutes from the last meeting
*Treasurer's report
*Field Trip Update
*Carnival
*Yearbooks
*5th grade graduation
*T-shirts
*Setting goals for next year... fundraising, etc.

PAC: Laurie Zahm and the District Reading Specialists

We really need as many people as possible to be at this meeting! We will be talking about our fundraisers for the fall and how we hope to spend our money next year. We will also need to fill some available board positions. Please make every effort to attend! If you can't make it but have an opinion about any of these things, please comment or e-mail one of us.
Thanks so much!

March Meeting Minutes

This is an abbreviated version of the minutes... for a full version e-mail leslischei@yahoo.com

It was moved and seconded that we add field trips to our budget for next year. Since the state will not be funding these next year we can either find sponsors or provide funding for these.

We have also set aside $2000 for reading aide hours for next year.

DARE Graduation was great, thanks to Jodi Corrington. Box tops were sent off in February, we should have $700 or so coming in April for playground equipment.

We have purchased a projector, projector screen, notebook computer, and audio equipment for the gym with our fundraiser money... it came to about $3700. The sound system will be installed over spring break.

PTA State convention is coming up in Boise April 15-17, please let us know if you are interested in going.

Start the Arts is coming up the first week of April. Sign ups are in the teachers lounge, and the info. should be coming out soon. Parent meeting will be March 31st at 8:15am.

Watch for yearbook signups

Kindergarten Registration is April 8th... the district should make a decision about all-day kindergarten on March 30th

The District Math Specialists were here for PAC... see www.eduplace.com for help with homework! The reading specialists will be here next month.

March Meeting Agenda

**Treasurer's Report
** Recent Events -- Book Fair, DARE Graduation
** Fundraiser Update: What are we buying for our school?
**Upcoming Events: Start the Arts week, Yearbook Sign-ups
PTA State Convention is coming up in April

PAC: District Math Specialists on the new math program