Minutes from February 23 Meeting

Welcome
Special welcome to Sheila Hinderks for coming to our meeting.
Last month’s minutes were approved.

Treasurer Report
$2294.85

Parent Volunteers
We are still looking for parents to volunteer to help at the Elementary School. Please call Sindy Bonestroo or contact Laura if you have any time you can come to school and help.

Completed Items

• Sindy B. popped popcorn for the 3rd grade classes for a treat after they completed ITBS tests. – A BIG THANK YOU!
• A HUGE Thank You to Cheri Brunsting and Nancy Rolfes for taking care of the set up for teacher meals during P/T Conferences. Also a great big thank you for all who were able to donate items for the success of the meals.
• Middle School/ Jr High Book Fair was a success. We are working on the final numbers and will be included in our next month's minutes.
  

Future Fund Raisers

• Reach for the Stars is in full swing with one week done – kids are doing great. This year the students are coming up with suggestions as to “what” Mr. Kerr will need to do. Mr. Kerr has the final say – but the suggestions are interesting. We will include “what” Mr. Kerr had to do in next months minutes. The 3 local banks have agreed to each donate $100 to this project. We are designating the money to go towards the new A/R Testing Program which will allow the students to have 126,000 different books to read and take a test on. The current A/R Testing Program has about 3100 tests.
• Elementary Yearbook: Mrs. Francis is working on this project with her TAG students. A few problems have occurred and Mrs. Francis will be working with Greta G. and Crystal R. to work out these issues. PTO was billed for the CD Program to complete the yearbook.
  

Newsletter
Pam W. will be submitting the information for the March Newsletter.

Principal Report

• Dr. Suess Week will be March 2 – March 6. The schedule has been set and the students are excited about this. They will have popcorn, balloons, fun clothing week.
• Parent/ Teacher Conferences were well attended.
• The second round of CBM Testing has been completed with very good results.
• The ITBS Tests will be back in about one month.
• The 4th graders will be taking the National test the week of March 2.