How Can I Get Involved In Small Ways to Help? Meet Your Room Mom!

One of the moms at PTF asked a great question - "How do I get involved at school without having to run a committee?"  When you are new to a school, any school,  it seems like everyone knows everyone else already and that there are lots of people helping out.  Not true!  There are so many ways to get involved and because we are a small school sometimes the needs are greater than you would expect because we have the same activities but fewer parents to share the load.  A great contact person to get to know is your Room Mom.  If you haven't heard from them yet, you will soon.  The Room Moms will be reaching out to you probably through an email to introduce themselves and to let you know about upcoming parties in your classroom.   RMs are in charge of organizing the holiday parties and getting people to help run them.  You can sign up to help at a party and also to donate goodies for the class.  The RM is in regular contact with your teacher, asking about specific needs that they have in each class.  There may be supplies that your teacher needs purchased, special projects coming up where it would be nice to have a parent assist, upcoming field trips that you can chaperone, etc.  If you don't know who your RM is, call Valerie W (4th grade mom) and she'll let you know.  Thank you to all the Room Moms - we appreciate your leadership!