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Fundraising
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Committee Chairs:
Auction Event Coordinator:
Jennifer Ghai
Auction Solicitations Coordinator:
Michelle Walker
Auction Event Coordinator:
Carrie Wilkin
Join the Auction Committee and help make the auction a great success and a fun party! We need several volunteers for each of these areas. Work with your friends and have a good time.
· Pre-Party Planning: help finalize venue, theme, menu & special events (wine toss, raffle)
· Decorations/Set Up
· Auction Item Solicitation: use contact list & bring creativity for new & exciting items
· Publicity: Thursday folders, marquee messages, listserve, etc.
· Communication: prepare thank you letters to donors
· Check In
· Check Out
· Class Art Project Coordinator (grades K-2)
· Class Art Project Coordinator (grades 3-5)
· Teacher Treasure Coordinator (grades K-2)
· Teacher Treasure Coordinator (grades 3-5)
· Tickets: collect money & track attendance
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Committee Chair: Nancy Stallcup
Event Date: Tentative Spring
Kids Love CARNIVAL!!!
The Forest Trail Carnival is an annual event held on a Saturday in Spring.
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Committee Chair: Edye Giordano, Deirdre Kilgard
Event Date: September 24th 4:45-8:00pm
General help is needed the night of Bingo to assist during the event including help with promotions, Bingo card sales, setup & take down.
Concessions - General help is needed the night of Bingo to assist with the concessions. This will include working a 30-45 minute shift on Bingo night to sell refreshments.
Also Needed - Do you have an extra large or coffin cooler you can loan us for refreshments?
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Committee Chairs: Lisa Embree
This committee will primarily work via email and it’s great for parents who work as the collection, counting and reporting of the Box Tops can be done in the evenings and weekends. The boxtops are found on many food products and are turned in by the students and exchanged for cash with the company.
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Committee Chair: Lori Kennedy
Volunteers will work with businesses who wish to donate part of their profits to Forest Trail.
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Committee Chairs: Amy Lickteig, Maureen Barnett, Mary Firme
Volunteers are needed to help pop and distribute popcorn on Thursdays. Each volunteer will work one time per month on a Thursday morning. You can find the open timeslots on VolunteerSpot.
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Committee Chair: Elizabeth Swallow
Each grade level has an adult-only dinner hosted by a group of Forest Trail families. Families will be able to buy spots to the progressive dinners at Bingo Night (September 24) this year.
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Teacher Support
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Teacher/Staff Appreciation
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Committee Chairs: Lisa Barton
The Teacher/Staff Appreciation Committee provides food (preferably home cooked) for a number of events throughout the year, including the Back to School Breakfast in August, 3 lunches during parent/teacher conference half-days in October, and 2 meals during Teacher Appreciation Week in May. Committee members volunteer to bring one item (i.e. salad, side, dessert, drinks, etc.) for each of the events. This is a wonderful, fun & easy way to say thank you to our fantastic Forest Trail teachers and staff for all that they do for our kids!
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Homeroom Parent Coordinator
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Committee Chair: Nancy Stallcup
General Duties:
*Help collate homeroom parent notebooks.
*Assist in preparing & updating Back to School sheets for each classroom.
*Distribute sheets to appropriate committees after Back to School nights.
This position is generally busy the first couple of weeks of school.
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Committee Chair: Ky Camero
Sign up will be in your child’s class on Back-To-School Night
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Grade Level Science Coordinator
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Committee Chair: Scott Luke
Several of the larger Science projects students do involve purchasing supplies and making sure the right materials are available. These Booster club volunteers will help purchase supplies a few times each semester for a grade and keep science cabinets organized with supplies. Ideally, the coordinators will work together to purchase supplies in bulk when possible. You may also be asked to help organize other volunteers to help with setting up, cleaning up or assisting with classroom projects. These coordinator will also be asked to help at their convenience with Science needs at the school, such as supply cabinet inventory and science fair. No science experience is required.
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Staff/Teacher Coordinator: Teresa Bowerman
Curriculum Coordinator: Leyla Ali
Operations Coordinator: Jana McKelvey and Cami Dato
Volunteers contact parent or outside speakers and help coordinate their presentations. On event day, volunteers provide light breakfast/lunch and drinks, manage the speaker sign in table, escort speakers to their rooms if necessary, and take classroom pictures of the event.
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Community Service Coordinator
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Committee Chair: Liz Seade
Community Service volunteers assist in the coordination of our various community service projects. Last year our projects included food and clothing drives in the fall and a campus clean up in the spring.
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Parent-Led Programs
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Committee Chair: Nicole Perry
The transition from home to Kindergarten can be a time of both stress and excitement for both students and parents. With this in mind the "Bus Buddies" Committee targets parents of students who will be entering kindergarten in September of 2011. The Bus Buddy Committee hopes to ease the stress of riding the school bus for the first time by pairing Bus Buddies (4th and 5th grade students) with Kindergarten students as they ride the bus to and from school. A friendly face who can answer questions and head your child in the right direction can make the first few days in a new school seem easier.
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Committee Chair: Valerie Hanby (vhanby@mac.com; 426-0962)
James Watts (748-6681)
Help keep our Forest Trail Campus beautiful!
The committee helps coordinate and implement landscape maintenance and improvements surrounding Forest Trail. Please indicate your preferences for the type of help you would like to offer, such as hands-on (weeding, watering, etc.), planning, buying supplies, coordinating, etc. Suggestions are welcome! Thank you – your help is greatly appreciated!
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Committee Chair: Kristin Paull, Rose Fisher, Sandra Blair and Lisa Embree
Regular Garden Volunteers & Helpers
This committee helps tend the garden, turn the compost, and anything else we need to do to assist the classes in their garden projects. If you like to get dirty this could be the place for you.
Special Garden Projects
This committee helps complete special projects from clearing the forest to hauling soil to creating signs to working on rainwater collection and more. If you like to get dirty this could be the place for you.
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Committee Chairs: Sherri Bowen
Gallery Greats is a program where volunteers speak to students about artists and discuss the impact of these artists and their work. Volunteers are given support material via the Gallery Greats website. This includes a biography, links to artist works, and suggested classroom activities.
Sign up will be in your child’s class on Back-To-School Night
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Committee Co-Chairs: Alissa Horrigan and Stephanie Rousseau
Assist in preparations for the celebrations for the last year at Forest Trail for this year's Fifth Graders, including 5th grade graduation, party and the 5th grade service project/gift to the school. Most events take place in the Spring."
Here is a list of specific sign-up areas. There are chair and committee member spots for each of these
VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH THE CEREMONY
· Teacher Gifts-
· Video
· Student Slide – (this is a slide that is shown as each student walks across the stage with their picture and quote)
· Photographer
· Hallway Decorations (silhouette of each student – you would be in charge of coordinating parent volunteers)
· Printing (program and certificate design)
· Stage Decorations, Seating
VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH THE 5TH GRADE PARTY
· Food/Drink
· Decorations
· Music
· Games
· Chaperones
· Clean Up
· General Help
VOLUNTEERS TO HELP WITH THE 5TH GRADE SERVICE PROJECT
For the Service Project this year the fifth graders will be clearing and mulching the path down to the outdoor classroom, as well as, refurbishing the outdoor classroom. The new glow to the benches by the school entrance is a testrun for the refinishing work to be do
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Back to School
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Committee Chair: Stacey England
Help order the kids’ school supplies in the spring and prepare for distribution on Muffin Morning.
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Extras
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Committee Chair: Lori Wescoat
Assist with sorting and distributing the EISD Directories to each classroom.
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Committee Chairs: Diane Anderson
Help our directory committee sell ads and distribute our Forest Trail Directory!
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Volunteers are needed to work in the school store mornings before school for short shifts. The school store hours will depend upon parent interest. There will be 2 shifts on Friday’s, Lunch A 11:00 – 12:00 and Lunch B 12:00 – 1:00.
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Specials & Other Support
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Committee Chair: Penny Deal
Event Date:
This event is organized and sponsored by our PE department. Help set-up, run games, clean-up, etc. the annual Falcon Frolics – a day when each grade level gets to spend time out on the upper field playing games, having races and other fun.
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Finance
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Committee Chairs: Amy Young (treasurer) and Rebecca Joseph (treasurer-elect)
Volunteers are primarily needed to help as cashiers at various Booster Club events such as the Silent Auction. In addition, help may be needed at various times throughout the year on an ad hoc basis for other fundraising events. Finally, if anyone has an accounting background and would like to share their expertise, the Booster Club Treasurer and Finance Committee can find a more substantive role for your assistance.
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Pinch Hitters/Volunteer Coordinator
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Maybe you don’t want to commit to any particular project but you may have time to help out sometime this coming year. If so, the pinch hitters list is the list for you. The Pinch Hitter list is a list of parents who we can call at various times throughout the year to check on their availability to help out or fill in on various projects/programs as the needs arise.
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Other School Volunteers
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Help our art teachers with various art projects all year long. This committee includes helping to mount and hang art for our big art show during back to school! Please sign up at muffin morning.
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If you can help assist our teachers and staff with work in the copy room we would really appreciate it!!! Please sign up at muffin morning and a staff member of the school will contact you for help.
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Please see the Librarian in the cafeteria during Muffin Morning to Volunteer or call the library.
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