Summit Road Elementary PTO

May 2019

Welcome

Agenda

• Principal’s Report
• How We Helped
• Current Events
• Upcoming Events
• 2019-20 Budget
• Help Needed
• Join the Board
• Open Discussion

Principal’s Report

How We Helped

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We’re Sending Sarah Barlow to Secret Agent Society Training!!!!

https://www.sst-institute.net

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Secret Agent Society (SAS) Small Group Program is an evidence-based, multimedia program to help children improve their social and emotional resilience.

This breakthrough social skills approach is used with 8 to 12-year-old children with a range of social and emotional challenges.

• High functioning Autism / Asperger’s
• Anxiety Disorders
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Anger management difficulties
• Other general challenges with friendships, team work, conversations or staying calm

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While they’re having fun developing ‘secret agent’ skills, children learn how to recognise and manage their own feelings, cope with change, detect other people’s emotions, talk and play with others and deal with bullying.

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Books for the Literacy Club

We ordered 20 copies of “Secrets of American History: The Founding Fathers Were Spies”.

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Lynne Kluding found that kids really enjoyed this last year and requested these copies to encourage reading.

Seeds and Soil and Cups for Kindergarten

We provided the Kindergarten classes with bean seeds, soil, and cups for their planting project!

Headphones for the 4th Grade

We bought 12 more pairs of headphones for the 4th grade to help with online lessons and mandatory testing.

4th Grade Celebration Shirts Ordered and Delivered!

We bought one copy of Writing Strategies for each grade level to improve the writing strategies that teachers use with students!

• develop individual goals for every writer
• give students step-by-step strategies for writing with skill and craft
• coach writers using prompts aligned to a strategy
• present mentor texts that support a genre and strategy
• adjust instruction to meet individual needs with Jen's Teaching Tips
• demonstrate and explain a writing move with her Lesson Language
• learn more with Hat Tips to the work of influential teacher-authors.

We bought 4 refills of butterfly kits

for the 3rd grade!

Current Events

Spirit Wear Discontinued

• Price point too high
• Turnaround took too long
• Quality began to suffer

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Summer Camps

• List of summer camps is up on the PTO website and updated frequently

Upcoming Events

May 7 - Ruvane Kurland at Summit

Ruvane is a musician and the parent of 2 Summit Road Elementary students.

We are bringing him to Summit Road Elementary on May 7th for an interactive assembly involving live looping.

• 25-minute sessions will be held in the music room, 50 children each
• Final end-of-day assembly for the entire school
• All grades will participate

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https://ruvanemusic.com

Upcoming School Events - May

Assembly with Ruvane K

• May 7

Teacher Appreciation

• May 6 - May 10

4th Grade Camping Trip

• May 13-14

4th Grade Celebration

• May 22

Kindergarten Celebration

• May 22

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Field Day

• May 23

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Upcoming PTO Events

Teacher Appreciation Week

• May 6th - May 10th

Ruvane Kurland Assembly

• May 7th

Field Day

• Last day of school - Thursday, May 23

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Help Needed

Help Needed

Field Day Volunteers

• Respond to flyer that came home or respond to the Signup Genius on the PTO Web site.

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Field Day Equipment

• Respond to Signup Genius on PTO Web site.�

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2019-20 Board Nominations

2019-2020 PTO Board

Open Positions:

• President
• Vice President
• Treasurer
• Secretary
• Corresponding Secretary

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Open Discussion

THANK YOU