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Welcome Back!

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Fireside PTO

Creating and strengthening our village while working with parents and teachers.

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Who we are

Co-chairs: Dilek Eccles & Samantha MacMillan

Treasurer: Bob Burnham

Programs Co-chairs: Laura Meese & Stacy Payne

Communications Liaison: Trish Vasquez

Secretary: Rebecca St. Ores

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PTO by the numbers

~$60,000 of expenses

~50% towards staff support
~15% to grades/teachers
~15% to clubs/activities, community events, small projects and capital
~10% to departments
~10% to small projects

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Where does the money come from?

Box Tops, Moo Caps for Moola, Amazon Smiles
Spirit Nights
Corporate sponsors
Reloadable Grocery Cards- King Soopers and Safeway!
Jog-A-Thon!!!

Samantha-

Now that we’ve talked about how we spend the money - let’s talk about how we RAISE the money.

-We get some funding each year from programs like box tops, moo caps, and amazon smiles. These programs don’t cost us anything to participate in.

-Throughout the year we have spirit nights at local establishments, they give us anywhere from 15-50% of purchases on the day of our event. Be on the lookout for more information about these spirit night dates/locations.

-Our JAT committee and PTO board has reached out to local businesses and secured almost $10k in corporate sponsorships this year! If you know a local business, that would like to support our school please let us know.

-How many of you use our grocery card program? How many of you know about the program? This is ALSO a no cost to you program but with some BIG potential. See our table in the entryway for more details. Essentially, you load a gift card with money and then 5% goes back to our school. Last year we made about $8,500 from this program! If 300 families loaded their cards every month with $200, we would make over $21k for Fireside. Did I mention that you can use it for gas too?

Last but not least is our biggest fundraiser of the year, the JAT.

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Jog-A-Thon

Largest fundraiser for Fireside
Taking place FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14th
Celebration: Friday, September 21st
Prizes for top runners, top earning classes and students showing PRIDE

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Jog-A-Thon and you

Goal for 2018-2019 Jog-A-Thon: $50,000
Suggested donation is $125 per student

Give what works for your family!
One-time or scheduled donations work
Ask family and friends to contribute, allowing you to more comfortably reach, or come close to reaching, your goal
How your donation is spent

Samantha-

We are so excited about this year because its our 3rd annual Jogathon!

Same suggested donation @ $125 a student. Whether your kids helps raise that money, or you just write a check.
$125/student may seem like a lot, we understand that. Families are encouraged to give at a level they are comfortable with. If you aren’t able to give to our fundraiser, that is okay; please have your child return their envelope so that they will still be entered into the raffle for a prize.
Should you choose to write it, to make it a little easier we’ve provided a PayPal 10 month payment option if desired. For example: One child at $125 is $12.50 a month for 10 months. Three kids at Fireside is just $37.50 a month.
Kids have two weeks from last Friday to turn in the money all leading up to the JogAThon - cash/check in an envelope to their teacher, full payment on PayPal or payment plan on PayPal. Don’t forget about the online entry form, as it is important in helping us log all the entries we get!

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How you can help

Attend our monthly meetings

FREE CHILDCARE!

Volunteer!!

Help At School! (New volunteer platform for PTO and classrooms. Also, our student directory!)
Opportunities are available that suit working and at-home parents

Share your comments or concerns
Help us raise funds

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Going forward/Staying in touch

Follow us on Facebook!
Check out our recently revamped website: firesidepto.org
Read up on upcoming PTO events in school e-mails
Volunteer
ATTEND MEETINGS!

We want to hear from YOU!

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Ambassador Program

WHO ARE THE SCHOOL AMBASSADORS:

Group of parents - stop by and say hello at our table at the front desk tonight.
Join our Mailing List
Place your pin on our diversity map

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Introductions

New Fireside Falcons 2018-2019

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Introductions

24 years in education
All means all
Community
Continuous learning

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Fireside Is...

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Fireside Is...

Academic Excellence

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Where are we headed?

Brain + Behavior + Physical Spaces= Personalized Learning

SEL

Physical Spaces

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Four Different Personalized Learning Spaces as described by Thornburg in his book, From the Campfire to the Holodeck.

Campfire
Cave
Watering Hole
Life

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Personalized Learning at Fireside

Digital recording studio

Maker space

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New BVSD Literacy Adoption

Interactive Read-Aloud: Children engage in authentic discussion about texts. Books will spark inquiry-based learning.
Shared Reading: Children join us in reading a large-print book or chart aloud
Reading Mini lessons: Whole class lessons on topics of management, literary analysis, skills and strategies, and writing about reading.
Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study: Children are engaged in OG instruction grades K-2 and are integrating the new Fountas and Pinnell and Fundations programming. All K, 1, 2, 3, sped and 1 teacher at grades 4 and 5 having have been trained in this kinesthetic phonics program.
Guided Reading: A small group of children read a challenging text at their instructional level with the teacher.
Book Clubs: A small group of children choose a book to read and come together for a discussion that expands their thinking about texts.
Independent Reading: Students read texts of their choice independently, allowing them to enjoy books, practice the reading processes, and share their thinking about the books they are reading.

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