HART News January 2013
January 10th Dibels Testing k-4
January 11th Act 80 day-----No School
January 14th-17th Dibels Testing K-4 (2nd
benchmark)
January 21st Teacher in Service Day-----No
School for students
January 22nd End of Marking Period
January 23rd Wacky Wednesday K-4
January 30th Report cards sent home
Please continue to send in the
Box Tops and Labels for Education as they provide many things for the
students. Also please remember to put
your students teacher’s name on the envelop since each classroom gets credit
for all that is sent in.
Remember to dress your children
appropriately as they do go out for recess even on cold days.
Remember to double check your calendar
as there are several days off in the next couple months.
Pennies for our Playground next
fundraiser is Pajama Day January 25th. Also save your old books that you would like to
get rid as there will be a book sale at the Winter carnival with proceeds going
to the committee!!
Watch papers coming home for
information on the upcoming Winter Carnival!!!!
Thank you to those that attend
our monthly HART meetings and for those that have volunteered their time to our
various school events.
Please join us fort he next HART
meeting which will be held on February 6th @ 6:30pm in the Elementary Library.
Amy Snyder
HART Secretary
January HART Meeting Minutes
The meeting was called to order by President Terry Genners
at 6:38pm .
In attendance Lynn Madden, Angela Charnosky, Roxanne Zuber,
Sherry Humphrey, Karen Wojtowicz, Loni Burkland, Tia Brown, Kim Levan, Susanne
Kuijpers, Dawn Knoebel, Amy Snyder, Susan Griscavage, Linda Hoy, Terry Genners
and Joe Shirvinski.
The meeting started with the Vice President report with Sue
Griscavage having nothing to report.
Linda Hoy gave the Treasure’s report. The general fund balance stands at $9,899.67
as of December 31 2012 . The class funds are as follows.
Kindergarten: $100
1st Grade: $844.16
2nd Grade: $1315.49
3rd Grade: $2843.68
4th Grade: $2164.68
The Treasure’s report was approved with a motion by Dawn
Knoebel and a second from Lynn Madden.
Amy Snyder gave the Secretary’s
report which consisted of the review of the December minutes.
They were approved by Tia Brown and a 2nd by Dawn Knoebel.
Next Mr. Shirvinski gave the
principal’s report. He discussed the
precautions that have been taken to ensure our children feel and are safe due
to recent happenings in the news. A
lockdown drill was done, at that time there was also amble staff to talk with
student if they had questions or concerns.
Mr. Shirvinski also mentioned that Sandy Hook
school is similar in size to our district.
He also just wanted to reinforce that our children are safe at school
and many precautions are taken. Mr.
Shirvinski asked how parents in attendance handle the issue with their own
children and if they came home with questions.
Lynn discussed that she
tries to shield her children from things like this but it was not to in this
case since it was all off the T.V. and news.
Terry also mentioned that after the drill at school her son came home
and had questions. Mr. Shirvinski also
mentioned that during a lockdown no one is to open their doors until law
enforcement arrives.
Tia discussed that she was alone
during the drill but still followed the lockdown procedure and tried to imagine
what would happen if she had to fit 20plus students in her
closet. She also mentioned when and if
she sees someone that she doesn’t recognize she does approach them to find out
their information and where they should be.
Mr. Shirvinski also mentioned
that there was a suggestion made by a parent to look into doing a snowflake
submission for Sandy Hook students. It was done and students were just told they
were sending snowflakes to another school for winter greetings. Students put just their first name on the
snowflakes; teachers also decorated the envelopes that the snowflakes were sent
in. He mentioned some teachers even put
glitter into the envelopes. He also expressed
how very proud he was of the student and teachers and all effort but into
sending the snowflakes.
Mr. Shirvinski mentioned he got
the Box Top check from the last submission.
There is a letter coming home with information on the Act 80 days and
make ups days. Lynn
asked why we are getting so many days off and is due to try and save
money. Mr. Shirvinski just mentioned the
days off.
January 11-off
18-make up
21st-no school for students.
Feb 1-off
8- Make up
15 & 18- No school for students
A box top form will be sent home
to be returned for Pajama day on January 25th.
DIBELS testing for K-4 is 1/10
and then 11//14-17
Blizzard day is set for 1/9
Act 80 day 1/11
School in Session 1/18 which is a
make up day
No Classes/Teacher In service
1/21
Wacky Wednesdays, kids can dress
up in crazy unmatched clothing 1/23
End of marking period is 1/22
Report cards are to go home on
1/30
Act 80 Monday no school 2/1
Next we moved on to Karen
Wojtowicz, chairperson of the upcoming Winter Carnival. She said the first meeting is set for January
8th at 6:30 . Everyone is to come with lots of ideas. If you need further information please
contact Karen.
Next we moved onto the spring
fundraiser, fit for funds, which will be held May 1st. Linda asked if we are going to do shirts
again. Art class could design the shirt. They also discussed that the children can
wear their ROAR tee shirt for the event and they would get their donation shirt
after the event. Loni Burkland mentioned
that she was new to the district and asked if we could fill her in so Linda
discussed with her the specifics. Last
year $11,000 was raised; the cost for shirts was $1000. Mr. Shirvinski discussed that it’s a great
event to encourage fitness and wellness with students. Linda also mentioned that we had to pay 10%
last year and we will have to pay 10% this year and then every year after this
will be 100% profit. Linda also
mentioned she will work on a letter for donors.
Pennies for our Playground was
discussed next. Sherry said the last
drop brought in $1,092. They are trying
to reach out to other donors. She asked
each member of the committee to prepare 20 envelopes to possible donors. She
also mentioned that she sent Henry Hynoski an email to see if he would sign a
football to be raffled. Discussion was
made about possibly doing a jersey instead of a football. Also discussed was where to sell tickets,
possibly basketball games, winter carnival etc.
Lynn asked about Playworld
being a donor and Sherry said she has a meeting with someone to discuss options
for equipment and what their contribution if any. The next fundraiser is January
25th which will be Pajama day.
$1 donation from high school students and $2 donation from teachers, if
they participate. Elementary students
can wear them pajamas without a donation.
Sherry also mentioned that $537.46 was raised from the Brewser’s
fundraiser and they mentioned it was one of the best yet for Breswer's. Another is being planned for March. Used book sale for the winter carnival is
being organized. The committee discussed
50 cents a book. Also a bulk clothing
drive is in the works as an upcoming event.
A bus trip to Cherry blossom in April is also another possible
fundraiser. Sherry has been working with Mr. Shirvinski and Angela Charnosky to
work on grants. They have submitted to
Geisinger, Lowes and Sheetz. So far 25 letters
went out to bigger corporations. The
total raised so far is $4329.34. Sherry
mentioned that Tia got a picture of students on the playground for a thank you
to be sent out to donors. American
Legion donated $1000 to the committee. Tia
asked about the old equipment and who would be responsible for taking it down. Mr. Shirvinski mentioned Tim George would be
the person to take down but he is unsure what would happen to the old
equipment. Sue Griscavage asked if
anything was ever mentioned about the black top which is cracked and
uneven. And also the issue of the orange
equipment which some felt is unsafe.
Terry asked about sending out a general information letter about the
committee since it had come up that a parent wasn’t aware of the current events
and felt they had been missed with the information. Mr. Shirvinski said that all information is
sent home to everyone and parents need to make sure they are reading
everything. And also that the
information is also send threw several hands and up to the children ultimately
to get home to parent.
Sue mentioned that a Vice
President and Tresausure’s seat will be open in the next year if anyone was
interested.
Mr. Shirvinski asked for the rest
of the money due for the upcoming programs.
First motion from Sherry Humphrey and second by Roxanne Zuber.
Next Mr. Shirvinski mentioned
that there is a Title 1 event coming up that he needs some volunteers to watch children
while the parents attended a meeting. The
meeting is set for February 5th from 6:30-7:30 .
If anyone is able to help please contact
Mr. Shirvinski.
Sherry also mentioned that Mrs. Hildebrandt
brought up an idea on doing a cook book as a possible fundraiser for Pennies
for our Playground.
Teacher’s week is set for May 6th.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:53pm with a motion from Karen Wojtowicz and
a second from Lynn Madden.