Freedom Elementary Parent Activity Committee

PAC Meeting Agenda for Monday, March 20, 2023 5:30 PM

*Principal’s Report

*Treasurer Report

*Skate City Report

*Playground Items

*Bake Off—Pictures due tomorrow

*Shout Out Program- 3^rd Quarter

*Artist in Residence

*Fun Night May 17

*Staff Appreciation Week

*Administrative Professionals Day April 27

*Student Appreciation
May popsicles/chalk for field day and fun night?
ABC Countdown?
Anything else?

*Teacher/Staff Reimbursement and Requests

*New Business/Ideas

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Erin Lenhardt at freedompac1@gmail.com

*Principal’s Report

Mustaches for Max Friday

1st grade concert at FES Tuesday 28th

Dr. Seuss and 1 book next week

Artist with pinch pots the week of March 6 

*Treasurer Report

Amount Available to date $28,942.40

Left to Spend $13,920.59

A lot of teachers made use of teacher reimbursements

Items in Progress/done past years:

*Artist in Residences (March 6-10) and (May 1-5 and 8-12)

Volunteer slips are coming in…we will figure out when parent schedule matches 

with their child’s class

We will get lunch for the artist

Hotel is set for artist

*Skate City (March 17 5:30-7:30)

Slips, newsletter, and facebook will inform families of the evening

* Bake Off

This will take place in March

Book for all participants

Gift card for judges

Prize for top 3 winners in each category

*Staff Appreciation Week (May 8-12)

Look into companies for donations (Walmart, Cosco…)

Different ideas suggested. Will look into for next meeting

*Fun Night – May 17 (4:00-7:00)

Food Trucks–Mary reaching out to food trucks

Jump Around $953.70 for two jump houses and generator

Suggestions: Face Painting, Chalk, Bubbles, Tatoos

Drinks as PAC fundraiser

Ask NHS for volunteers

*Trivia Night

Still looking into this event

*Ball/Book Drive or Classroom Wish List items?

Playground Drive–Mrs. Lipsey making a wish list from Amazon (Kris will contact Tammy)

Walkway through the woods

Reports from recent items:

*Parent/Teacher Conferences (Feb. 15)

Leftover food from last conference–keep as the same number because spring conferences teachers may not ‘fill’ their plate and just come back to snack if they are hungry

*Beach Party Dance (Feb 10 6:00-7:30)

Need to let parents to know school rules still apply…teachers will also reinforce that school rules still apply after school the week before

Kids had a good time

Clean up food a little earlier to alleviate kids taking too much at the end

*Spirit Wear Fundraiser

The second round did not go over as well

No paper orders next year

Orders open at open house and end 2nd week of September

Older kids will do design

*Shout Out Program 2nd Qtr winners

Winners received $20 gift cards. The winners were…

Mrs. Tietz

Mr. Riesterer

Mrs. Wilson

Mr. Maronek 

*Community Fundraiser Nights

Tom’s and Culver’s cheese curd gift cards suggested

New Items:

*Teacher/Staff Reimbursement and Requests

*Flexible Seating

look at this as an option for 4K next spring

*New Business/Ideas

–Jake’s Network of Hope 

Website that gets bulk donations and 501C3 can go and purchase materials for teachers

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Erin Lenhardt at freedompac1@gmail.com

*Principal’s Report

*Treasurer Report

Items in Progress/done past years:

*Artist in Residences (March 10-14) and  (May -15 and 8-12)

*Skate City (March 17 5:30-7:30)

* Bake Off

*Staff Appreciation Week

*Fun Night – May 17 (4:00-7:00)

*Trivia Night

*Ball/Book Drive or Classroom Wish List items?

Reports from recent items:

*Parent/Teacher Conferences (Feb. 15)

*Beach Party Dance (Feb 10 6:00-7:30)

*Spirit Wear Fundraiser

*Shout Out Program 2nd Qtr winners

*Community Fundraiser Nights

New Items:

*Teacher/Staff Reimbursement and Requests

*New Business/Ideas
–Jake’s Network of Hope

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Erin Lenhardt at freedompac1@gmail.com 

Principal’s Report

• Mrs. Bougie is the VFW teacher of the year
• Ms. Wall is the positive dog
• Report cards will be coming home soon
• Yearbook prices went up they will be $18 this year
• Wednesday is the PBS celebration
  • K-2 will be at school watching a magician and doing grade level activities
  • 3-5 will be attending the Herd game

Treasurer Report

• Funds to spend $15,164.74

Parent/Teacher Conferences (Feb. 15)

• We will order food from Buzz’s for staff

Beach Party Dance (Feb. 10 6:00-7:30)

• There will be student volunteers (2 shifts so we can include set-up and clean-up)
• There will be snacks in the MPR

Artist in Residence (March 10-14)

• Volunteer sheet will be sent out when the date gets closer
  • Volunteers will be needed when the artist is at FES
  • Volunteers will also be needed to help with firing all the pieces
• We are looking into having a second artist in residence this year
  • This would be the artist we were scheduled to begin with when COVID shut everything down
  • Start saving your newspapers because the artist will be doing paper mache

Shout Out Program

• There were 16 shout outs total submitted
• There will be 4 $20 gift cards purchased to be randomly selected for the shout outs

Bake Off

• We will be having the Bake Off again this year in March watch for more information to come

Fun Night May 17

• We will be contacting Food trucks soon for availability and decide which to have
• We will sell water and soda 
• Discussed offering $5 coupons as we did last year for food
• Will look into other cost effective activities

Trivia Night/Skate Night

• We will look into setting up a Trivia Night at Irish Waters and another Skate City night

Spirit Wear Fundraiser

• Waiting for 2nd order to come in

Community Fundraiser Nights

• Buzz’s $150 in November and $250 in December

Officers

• Mary Chapin and Krisie Lamers will be Co-Presidents
• Sarah Kranksi will be Vice President
• Missy Baneck will be Treasurer

No New Business

*Principal’s Report

*Treasurer Report
–reminder staff reimbursements due 1/31

*Parent/Teacher Conferences (Feb. 15)

*Beach Party Dance (Feb 10 6:00-7:30)

*Artist in Residence (March 10-14)

*Shout Out Program

* Bake Off

*Fun Night

*Spirit Wear Fundraiser

*Community Fundraiser Nights

*Officers

*Teacher/Staff Reimbursement and Requests

*New Business/Ideas

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Erin Lenhardt at freedompac1@gmail.com

Principal Report

• 18 Kids received positive pups
• Girls on the Run wrapped up with their 5K
• 4K and K have their Christmas concert in December
• Staff jean day
• There will be a 12 day countdown to Christmas
• Freedom Elementary State report card shows FES is Exceeding Expectations

Treasurer Report

• There is $15,805.21 left to spend after budgeted items are deducted

Cookie Dough Fundraiser

• 170 students participated
• $12,153.53 profit from fundraiser
• Class with the highest sales was: Bougie (having their reward Wednesday at 1:30)
• Class with the most participation: Wilson (having their reward Tuesday 1:30)
• Prize drawing (participants received one ticket for every 10 items sold): Madison Bombinski→she won a hoverboard

Spirit Wear Sale

• Items tentatively coming in the week of December 5, but not certain
• There will be a sign-up genius sent out to help with sorting when items do arrive
• Sorting will take place at Buzz’s mid week of Dec 5- will send out sign up
• Set up pick up at tentatively Buzz’s Dec 12  3-7  The rest to school to send home with students or for those that chose not to send them home we will contact as we had in the past

Shout Outs

• There were 30 shout outs put on Facebook–some were duplicates making a total of 23 names
• 5-$20 gift cards will be drawn for the 23 names

Skate Night

• 137 skaters
• $140 profit

Teacher Wish List

• Teachers are being sent a google doc so they can continually update
• This link will be shared with classroom families
• In the future PAC may place a tree in entryway at conference time with ornaments with items requested by staff

Student Appreciation

• Color changing water bottle option high cost–we will consider at another time
• Reusable snow bag with Freedom logo–thoughts of too many bags that are the same may confuse students
• $1 book from scholastic–may consider this in the future
• snack–December 23 we will hand out candy canes to go with the Count Down to Christmas Candy Cane day

Dance **Family event**

• February 10 6-7:30
• Beach party theme
• TJ the DJ is booked for this night 
• Google Form or Survey Monkey will be sent out to find out participation numbers to help figure out how much food to purchase
• Budgeted $2,000 

Fun Night **Family event**

• May 17
• TJ the DJ is booked for this night
• We will begin contacting the food trucks in January
  • Fox Valley Food Trucks Association–look into this option because they will arrange the food trucks for the event
• Let local restaurants know about this event so they can prepare just in case
• PAC will sell water and beverages

Bylaw Review

• There was no need to change anything at this time

Officer Positions

• Please keep in mind the three officer positions will be open for next year–consider taking on a leadership role

Requests that have come in to approve

• One School, One Book–approximately $3 per family→PAC will purchase the books for this event
• The book will be a Paddington book (PAC bake off will happen around the same time as the event)
• The guidance counselor and art teacher will be teaming up to create a “Kindness Rocks” rock garden→PAC will purchase the rocks for this activity 

New Business

• John Seegers will be receiving a card with $50 and a framed wordle
• Different grade levels will be asked to stock the break room for different months (4K November, K December, 1 January…) →Judy will email the grade levels each month to let them know
• Book Fair appreciation→Pat sent a kind thank you email regarding all the help received from PAC during the book fair
• Artist in Residence will need volunteers to help the week of and to help with firing all the clay pots in the kiln

Next Meeting: Monday January 16 at 5:30 in the staff lounge

**PAC does not meet in December

Babysitting will be provided by the National Honor Students in room 125

*Principal Report

*Treasurer Report

*Cookie Dough Fundraiser

*Spirit Wear Sale

*Shout Outs

*Skate Night

*Teacher Wish List

*Student Appreciation

*Dance

*Fun Night

*Bylaw review / Officer Positions

*Requests that have come in to approve
            -One School, One Book – approx. $3 per family

*New Business

Next Meeting: Monday January 16 5:30 in the staff lounge
PAC does not meet in December

–Principal’s report

• Field trips have started (4K went to the pumpkin patch, K went to the fire station, and half of 2nd grade went to Madison–the other half will go later in the month)
• Parent teacher conferences are this week Tuesday and Wednesday
• Red Ribbon week is coming
• October 31 the middle and high school band will be coming to play at the elementary school
• In January grades 3-5 will be attending a Herd Game and K-2 will be watching a magician show

–Treasurer Report

• Current balance…$23,688.71
• Left to spend after funds are set aside for yearly activities…$618.78
• Voted on continuing to give $1500 to the elementary school for guided reading books
• Voted on increasing the PBS funds from $500 to $1,000

–Updates

• Student Directory…Makayla edited this document to be sent out it will be sent again later in the year with updates
• Cookie Dough Fundraiser…No update at this time
• Parent/Teacher conference meals…Tuesday night will be catered by Buzz’s, Wednesday night will be a walking taco night
• Shout Outs…Sara is taking shout outs and will give prizes quarterly instead of monthly
• Skate night…This week Thursday will be the Skate City night
• Artist in Residence…
  • Mrs. Osowski has Jennifer Stevens coming in March to make clay pots
  • Mrs. Osowski applied for and received a SEED grant to cut costs so we may have an author come later in the year
  • Volunteers will be needed in March when Jennifer comes

–New

• Teacher Wish List…
  • We will set up the typical Wish List as have done previously
  • possibly adding a teacher wish list for flexible seating (wait until after cookie dough fundraiser)
  • Add a wish list for the book vending machine
• Student Appreciation-discussed ideas. Will decide at later meeting
  • Water bottles–cost is a bit more than we were thinking of spending…looking into local business or Lion’s Club to ask for donations
  • Stress ball in the shape of a shamrock
• Spirit Wear Fundraiser
  • We received 2 bids. After discussion, we decided to work with Shamrock Graphics. We expect the sale to begin later this week
• Dance/Fun Night
  • DJ has been booked for both. Mary will coordinate the Dance. 

–Bylaw review/Officer Positions- decided to discuss at next meeting

Next Meeting: Monday November 14, 5:30 at Freedom Elementary School staff lounge

–Principal’s report

• Field trips have started (4K went to the pumpkin patch, K went to the fire station, and half of 2nd grade went to Madison–the other half will go later in the month)
• Parent teacher conferences are this week Tuesday and Wednesday
• Red Ribbon week is coming
• October 31 the middle and high school band will be coming to play at the elementary school
• In January grades 3-5 will be attending a Herd Game and K-2 will be watching a magician show

–Treasurer’s Report

• Current balance…$23,688.71
• Left to spend after funds are set aside for yearly activities…$618.78
• Voted on continuing to give $1500 to the elementary school for guided reading books
• Voted on increasing the PBS funds from $500 to $1,000

–Updates

• Student Directory…Makayla edited this document to be sent out it will be sent again later in the year with updates
• Cookie Dough Fundraiser…No update at this time
• Parent/Teacher conference meals…Tuesday night will be catered by Buzz’s, Wednesday night will be a walking taco night
• Shout Outs…Sara is taking shout outs and will give prizes quarterly instead of monthly
• Skate night…This week Thursday will be the Skate City night
• Artist in Residence…
  • Mrs. Osowski has Jennifer Stevens coming in March to make clay pots
  • Mrs. Osowski applied for and received a SEED grant to cut costs so we may have an author come later in the year
  • Volunteers will be needed in March when Jennifer comes

–New

• Teacher Wish List…
  • We will set up the typical Wish List as have done previously
  • possibly adding a teacher wish list for flexible seating (wait until after cookie dough fundraiser)
  • Add a wish list for the book vending machine
• Student Appreciation-discussed ideas. Will decide at later meeting
  • Water bottles–cost is a bit more than we were thinking of spending…looking into local business or Lion’s Club to ask for donations
  • Stress ball in the shape of a shamrock
• Spirit Wear Fundraiser
  • We received 2 bids. After discussion, we decided to work with Shamrock Graphics. We expect the sale to begin later this week
• Dance/Fun Night
  • DJ has been booked for both. Mary will coordinate the Dance. 

–Bylaw review/Officer Positions- decided to discuss at next meeting

Next Meeting: Monday November 14, 5:30 at Freedom Elementary School staff lounge

Babysitting will be provided by the National Honor Students in room 125

*Principal Report

*Treasurer Report

Updates:
*Student Directory
*Cookie Dough Fundraiser
*Parent/Teacher conference meals
*Shout Outs
*Skate Night
*Artist in Residence

New:
*Teacher Wish List
*Student Appreciation
*Spirit Wear Sale
*Dance/Fun Night

*Bylaw review / Officer Positions

*Requests that have come in to approve

*New Business

Next Meeting: Monday November 14 5:30 pm