I'm not familiar with breaking up by grade level. We have our meetings and events for the entire school. In the past we've had spaghetti dinner & I guess that started to get old. We have family movie night - that's pretty popular. This year we're trying something new - family game night.
We have had a couple of family things. A reading night that was broken into two groups - Arthur for the younger kids (K-3)and Harry Potter for the older grades (4-6).
Our school goes to 8th grade. We got the older grades to read aloud to the Arthur group. We had three stations that were set up in three rooms. Each room was decorated to go along with the book theme (sleeping bags, a tent etc) Each station had 15 minutes then they all met for cake and drinks. We also had a book raffle. Each child got a raffle ticket and we gave away a bunch of books.
The Harry Potter room was decorated like Diagon Alley with four stations where the kids made hats, wands, owls and ate Bertie Botts every flavor beans.
I AM A NEW PRESIDENT TOO. WE HAD OUR FIRST MEETING AND SINCE NO ONE CAME TO OUR RE-ORGANIZATION MEETING IN MAY, I CAME UP WITH FIVE STANDING COMMITTEES ON MY OWN. I USED ALL THE INFORMATION IN THE PTOTODAY MAGAZINE AND I MADE A PROPOSAL. OUR PTO HAS BEEN HORRIBLE FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS AND I TOLD THEM THAT. THEY ALL AGREED WITH ME! I HAD NO PROBLEM GETTING CHAIRPEOPLE, THEY VOLUNTEERD! I WAS SHOCKED. I TOLD THEM WE NEEDED A NEW OUTLOOK, AND WE SHOULD FOCUS ON FAMILY/COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND NOT SO MUCH ON FUND RAISING. I PROPOSED THAT EACH GRADE LEVEL HAVE THEIR OWN MEETING COMBINED WITH A "FAMILY" ACTIVITY. THEY ARE ALL READY FOR A CHANGE, I THINK THEY WERE JUST LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY TO STAND UP AND SAY IT! NOW THAT I HAVE I DON'T HAVE A CLUE WHAT TO DO!! DO ANY OF YOU HAVE THESE TYPES OF FUNCTIONS? WHAT ARE SOME GOOD FAMILY ACTIVITIES THAT THE TEACHERS WILL PARTICIPATE IN AND THE FAMILY WILL ATTEND??
