9/12/2024 PTO Meeting & Agenda Minutes

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Quail Run PTO Meeting - Agenda & NotesQuail Run PTO Meeting - Agenda & Notes

September 12, 2024 6:00 pm Murf’s Grille

PTO Officer Attendees: Erika Kramer (Co-Chair), Tom Pasniewski (Co-Chair), Anna Landis (Co-Chair), Amy Shealy (Treasurer)

Quail Run Staff Attendees: None

Parent/Family Attendees: Emilia Donaldson (Beery, Lord), Tiffany Beard (Lord, Hunt), Stacie Schroeder (Smith), Madison Miller & Jenn Eakin (Boehm), Kyra Grabel (Keller), Sherene Haddad (King, Ferguson), Erin McElroy (Sikes), Alexandra Kondyli (Brothers)

Welcome, and thank you for coming!

- Please sign the attendance sheet and grab a nametag.

- A quick round of introductions. Name, child(s) grade, and committee of interest

- Feel free to order food and drink to support Murf’s as they generously provide our PTO meeting space!

- Murf’s Wi-Fi Password: Murfs3115

* The main goal for our meeting tonight is to plan for Fall class parties. *

Fall Class Parties:

SignUp Genius for party supplies ready for Oct 4 FF

- Activity

K-2: Pin the spider on the web (what does that look like? supplies?)
3-5: Pumpkin putt putt. Use pumpkin trick or treat buckets or carvable craft pumpkins for hole. Check with Lawrence MiniGolf tp user putters (Stacie) golf balls and one/two “holes” per class.

- Snack

Drink: honest juice boxes (Costco, Lauren Folkmann?)
Popcorn: who is checking on donation site: Southwind, Liberty Hall (Erika), KU Athletics. Add popcorn to SignUp genius or monetary amount to cover popcorn from Southwind movie theater ($35/bag)
Sweet: fruit cups, fruit snacks, applesauce pouches. Check the cost for clementines at Costco/Sams (Anna). If we do fruit cups we will need spoons/napkins

- Craft

K-5: Q-Tip skeleton

Skeleton stickers for heads or photocopies to cut and stick/decorate
Q-tips
Glue sticks or glue dots K-2. Liquid glue 3-5
Black construction paper

Committee/Misc updates:

- Treasury Update (Amy)

- Family Events (Stacie)

- Fall Fest plans: Oct 13, 2-4pm at Quail Run, mini golf course, food trucks, pumpkin decorating/craft, wear halloween costumes if you want, read-a-thon booth

- Read-A-Thon: Fall Fundraiser, Read a Coaster let reading take you on a wild ride. Oct 7-21. Prize distribution at Nov assembly.

- Student Shirts - quantity and sizes provided to the printer. Planning on delivery by 9/27 so shirts can be organized for distribution on the morning of 10/2 for assembly and all school photo. Short plug for RAT (Stacie)

Holman will be setting up a webstore for families to order additional shirts. More info to come on this

- STUCO & partnership with PTO. For 3-5th graders, 2 students from each class.. Mr Buckland, Mr King, Mrs Nichols, Mr Hess

- 9/6 - 9/9 applications sent home with students

- 9/20 - application deadline

- 9/27 - selected students notified

- 10/2 - 8 am first STUCO meeting

- Discuss possible events for STUCO and PTO to collaborate

- Landscape & Gardening

- Sunday, October 6th from 1-3pm. Kids are welcome, mine (7 and 4) will probably be joining too. Feel free to share with other QR families; many hands make light work, and there's a lot of it out there for us to do.

We will aim to:

-Clean out front kindergarten garden beds

-Clean out back garden beds

-Collect fallen hedge apples by garden area (safety hazard for walkers)

-Any landscape clean up needed by playgrounds, teacher's patio, entrances

Please bring:

-garden gloves, water bottle, shovel/hoe/rake directly.

Room Parents:

- in partnership with PTO - help to plan class parties, party prep night, and support PTO events

- Classes still needing a room parent:

- K - Yanek

- 1 - Nelson (Kodi SM)