Please note: This document is a
work-in-progress, and as such is incomplete.
It will be updated as the information becomes available.
“Research has shown that when parents are involved
in their child’s education, student achievement increases. Students earn higher grades, test scores,
have better self-esteem and are more likely to graduate from high school. At Kennesaw, we encourage parent involvement. Many of our parents have attended our Parent
Orientation Night which focused on ways to help students be successful in
school.” Dr. Kathie Elliott
Committee
Info & Volunteer Opportunities
Accelerated
Reader:
Many of the books in the
media center are designated as Accelerated Reader (AR) books. These books are given a point value based on
their difficulty. When a student reads
one of these books, they may then take a test and earn points based on the test
results. These points are then traded in
for goodies at the “swap shop”.
The PTA helps purchase the swap shop prizes as well as additional AR
tests. The AR Committee works with Beth
Finnegan, Media Specialist, to run the AR program. The committee’s
responsibilities include running the AR store and painting children’s
names on the wall outside the library. The committee chairs are
responsible for inventorying and stocking the merchandise for the store,
organizing volunteers to work at the store, setting up and taking down the
store and painting names on the wall.
From the school’s main website, click
the link on the left (AR Test Links) to access the AR book search tool, which
allows you to search AR books/tests available at KES.
Volunteer Opportunities: Volunteers are needed to work approx. 1 hour shifts
at the AR store when it is open, four times a year. Volunteers are also
needed to do the stenciling and painting of names on the wall.
Co-Chair: Susan Dubocq, sdubocq@kennesawptsa.org
Co-Chair: Marny McAllister, mmcallister@kennesawptsa.org
Book Fair:
A book fair is held both in the Fall and the
Spring. The event serves both as an
event that encourages reading and gets kids excited about books, and as a PTSA
fundraiser. All funds are used to
purchase books and Accelerated Reader quizzes for our students.
The Book Fair Committee is responsible for securing book fair volunteers to
help with decorations, as well as the running of the book fair. The Media
Specialist and her assistant do much of the paperwork, but the committee chair
is responsible for recruiting and scheduling volunteers.
Volunteer Opportunities: Decorations for the book fair begin months in
advance, so any increment of volunteer time would be well used to color and cut
decorations for the event. Working at
the book fair involves helping children write their wish lists, and
straightening and stocking shelves.
Chair: Jackie Jordan, jjordan@kennesawptsa.org
Community Outreach:
The Community Outreach Committee is responsible
for the following activities:
- Clothing
drives throughout the year; clothes are taken to the Tom Mathis Council
Giving Tree in Acworth
- Canned
food drive for Thanksgiving for our families in need
- Angel
Tree for special holiday needs and wishes
- Working
at The Giving Tree for one of the monthly shopping days
- Assisting
the school counselors in meeting any special needs as they may arise
during the school year
Volunteer Opportunities: Assist
chair with the above events. All year
long, we accept new or gently used clothing.
For Angel Tree gifts for Christmas, we ask for new clothes. If you are interested in
ways to help out, or if you have items to donate, please contact Kelly Donahue,
kdonahue@kennesawptsa.org.
Chair: Kelly Donahue, kdonahue@kennesawptsa.org
Cultural Arts:
Volunteer Opportunities: see above.
Chair: Erin Wagoner, ewagoner@kennesawptsa.org
The focus of the
Exceptional Children Committee is to give the students, staff and families of
the school an opportunity to acquire knowledge and understanding about disabilities.
Our goals are to help the student, staff and families:
- Explore and understand attitudes
toward disabilities.
- Learn empathy for persons with
disabilities.
- Learn respect and appropriate
response to persons with disabilities.
- Learn how to reach out to other schools and the community with knowledge and understanding of disabilities.
Volunteer Opportunities: Volunteers are mainly needed during Exceptional
Children week in March to organize events that achieve our goals.
Co-Chair: Kim Perez, kperez@kennesawptsa.org
Co-Chair: Sandra Kulynych, skulynych@kennesawptsa.org
Environmental Awareness:
Volunteer Opportunities:
Chair: Kim Meacham, kmeacham@kennesawptsa.org
Fall Fundraiser:
The Fall Fundraiser Committee chair is responsible for
coordinating the fundraiser and acts as a liaison between the company and the
school.
Volunteer Opportunities: to distribute the selling
materials, collecting orders and monies, and distributing the items.
Chair: Lori Calandra, lcalandra@kennesawptsa.org
Family Involvement:
The Family Involvement Committee is responsible
for ...
Volunteer Opportunities:
Chair: vacant
Greeter Desk:
Volunteer greeters check parents in and out of the building and may help with a small amount of clerical work as time permits.
Volunteer Opportunities: see
above.
Chair: vacant
Health/Safety/Nutrition:
Description
Volunteer Opportunities:
Chair: Nancy Cobelli, ncobelli@kennesawptsa.org
Hospitality:
The hospitality committee exists mainly
to show our appreciation to our teachers and administrators throughout the
school year. They accomplish this
important task by sponsoring and hosting special events for them.
Volunteer Opportunities: contact
Kelly Hall, khall@kennesawptsa.org
Co-Chair: Kelly Hall, khall@kennesawptsa.org
Co-Chair: Carrie Anderson, canderson@kennesawptsa.org
Labels and Grocery:
Committee chair communicates to parents, the
benefit of collecting grocery labels, and describes which labels the school
collects. Children are encouraged with
Box Top Contests, where the class designated as the top label collectors in
each grade level earns a popcorn party.
$960 was earned for the school, with the first Box Tops Contest held in
mid-October. Click here to see results of the last
contest.
Volunteer
Opportunities: Volunteers
meet once or twice per month, at
Chair: Sheila Plunkett, splunkett@kennesawptsa.org
Legislative:
Description
Volunteer Opportunities: Contact Erin Wagoner, ewagoner@kennesawptsa.org if you
are interested in chairing, or serving on this committee.
Chair: vacant
The Media Center Committee
is responsible for scheduling classrooms to volunteer on a weekly basis.
Volunteer Opportunities: The Chair, while coordinating with the Media Specialist, schedules
parent volunteers from specific classes on a rotational basis. Classes are assigned specific weeks (by
teacher), and the media center chair sends a sign-up sheet for the room parent
to coordinate volunteers for his/her class’s week. Additional volunteers are welcome at any
time, and any increment of time is very much appreciated. This allows the Media Specialist to
concentrate on preparing curriculum and teaching the children.
Chair: Jackie Jordan, jjordan@kennesawptsa.org
Membership:
The Membership Chair/Committee is responsible for promoting
and increasing PTA membership and giving everyone in the community an
opportunity to belong. The Chair is
responsible for organizing a membership drive, keeping records of all members,
and distributing membership cards.
Volunteer
Opportunities:
Chair: Candace Cole, ccole@kennesawptsa.org
Newsletter:
The PTSA publishes a newsletter which is sent home in your child’s backpack. The newsletter will include school and PTSA activities, including a thank-you to local businesses for donations or services provided to our schools. The newsletter is also available for viewing on the PTSA website. (www.kennesawptsa.org).
Volunteer Opportunities:
Chair: Patrick Riley, priley@kennesawptsa.org
Public Relations:
Our schools do many wonderful things
for our children and our community. We
want to keep the community informed about our efforts by utilizing local media
and the internet when appropriate. All
submissions will be approved by the principal before release.
Volunteer Opportunities: Contact
Erin Wagoner, ewagoner@kennesawptsa.org
if you are interested in chairing, or serving on this committee.
Chair: Vacant
Reflections is a nationwide
PTA-sponsored program to celebrate children’s gifts and talents. Projects
falling under the following categories are judged by grade level: visual arts,
literature, photography, film and dance/choreography and music. Winners at the school level may advance to
district, state, and national levels. All
participants are honored with special recognition.
Volunteer Opportunities: In 2008-2009 this committee will
need new chairs. The chairs of Kennesaw, Big Shanty, Awtrey, and North
Cobb usually work together in getting judges for the 6 categories and in
coordinating due dates and dates of their ceremonies. This committee has
one chair or two. Chairs are responsible for sending out an initial flyer
to all students in early September with that year's theme. Interested
students are sent packets containing rules and a registration form. Projects must be submitted by a specific due
date.
The schools work together to find
judges for all 6 categories. Projects are judged, winners are
announced, followed by a breakfast banquet for all participants. Parents,
students, and administration attend to honor the reflections winners. Projects by first and second place winners in
each category are packaged and sent away for
council level judging. Volunteers could help the chairs with any
of these events.
In 2007-2008 the only people on
the "committee" were the co-chairs. However, we have done this
for 7 years, so it was really not a big deal. NEXT year, we are not
planning to return.
Co-Chair: Amy Geil, ageil@kennesawptsa.org
Co-Chair: Lea Anne Perez, lperez@kennesawptsa.org
Room Representative:
The Room
Representative Chair coordinates the room representatives for the 2007/2008
school year. Essentially, each class
should have at least one room representative (a.k.a. “room parent”).
The room representative’s role is to assist the teacher in
coordinating activities, finding class volunteers and acting as a communicator
of important info between PTSA and the parents of the class. The role of the chairperson is to help ensure
that each class has a room representative, to help them to understand their
jobs, and to disseminate information that may assist them in those roles.
Volunteer
Opportunities: See
above.
Chair: Sandra Kulynych, skulynych@kennesawptsa.org.
Secret Santa:
This committee hosts a fun and safe environment for students to purchase holiday items for their family members. This year, items ranged in price from $0.25 to $11.00.
Volunteer Opportunities: The
2007 event has passed (took place on December 1st); however, this
would a fun committee to sign-up for the next school year. On the day of the event: Volunteers help
set-up tables, assist the children in selecting their gifts, read stories in
the media center during “story time”, ring-up purchases, wrap gifts,
staff the bake sale table, assist with tear down at the end.
Co-Chair: Meghan Vella, mvella@kennesawptsa.org
Co-Chair: Robin Houck, rhouck@kennesawptsa.org
Spirit Wear:
Show your
Kennesaw Elementary Pride with a variety of KES items. Spirit wear is sold at every PTSA event, as
is also available for purchase throughout the year. Stop by the PTSA office, to see sample
merchandise. Currently, you may pick up
a Spirit Wear form from the PTSA office, submit your order with a check for
payment enclosed in an envelope labeled “Spirit Wear Order”, and
submit in your child’s folder.
Merchandise will come home in your child’s
backpack. The ability to see available
merchandise, and purchase on-line is coming soon.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Chair: Carrie
Anderson, canderson@kennesawptsa.org
School Savings:
Kennesaw
Elementary PTSA in conjunction with Washington Mutual Bank provides an outstanding
opportunity for your child to learn the life long lesson of saving money.
Instilling
good saving habits in your child now will teach them to become life long savers
and empower them in adulthood to be financially responsible.
KES
Washington Mutual Bank will be open for business on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday
of each school month. The
Washington
Mutual will deposit a $0.25 into your child’s savings account to get them
started on the road to finical freedom.
Your child will be rewarded with prizes for exhibiting good saving
habits in addition to seeing their money grow.
What
you the parent needs to do;
1.
Fill
out a Washington Mutual Application Form.
All applications must have your child’s social security number and
signature.
2.
Send
the completed application to school with your child.
OR
Bring the completed application to any WaMu bank.
3.
Every
WaMu Day send your child to school with their WaMu deposit book and money in an
envelope labeled WaMu.
4.
A
receipt will be printed out and sent home so you the parent can verify all
transactions.
5.
Your
child can make deposits at any Washington Mutual bank in addition to making
deposits at school.
NOTE: Only Deposits can be made at school
additional transactions can be performed at any Washington Mutual Branch.
Volunteer Opportunities:
Chair: Sandra O’Reilly, soreilly@kennesawptsa.org
Spring Carnival:
Description
Volunteer Opportunities:
Chair: Karenda Willson, kwillson@kennesawptsa.org
Spring Carnival Auction:
The Spring Carnival Auction Chair (S.C.A. Chair) provides a list of basket themes early in the fall, so that room parents know their theme and can start collecting for it throughout the year. Prior to Spring Carnival, the S.C.A. Chair collects assembled themed basket donations from room parents. As well, donations are sought from local merchants throughout the year. Most donations are included in the silent auction, while some are raffled on the day of the event. The S.C.A. Chair assembles a team of volunteers for the day of the carnival.
Volunteer Opportunities: Assist
chair in seeking donations from local merchants, staff auction tables on the
day of Spring Carnival, assist in setting-up auction tables (and packing up at
the end of the event).
Chair: Lisa Laposata, llaposata@kennesawptsa.org
Volunteer:
Description
Volunteer Opportunities:
Chair: vacant
Website:
The website chair is responsible for
collecting/editing/writing web content; ensuring that content is approved by
KES administration, and designing and publishing the site. The chair serves as the registrant and
administrative contact for the registrar of the domain and point of contact
with the hosting company.
Volunteer Opportunities: There
is an immediate need for the following:
·
1-2 web content authors: A KES Glossary is in the works, and we are
seeking a seasoned KES parent knowledgeable about KES lingo for the
project. Also, a recurring article
titled “Faces of KES” will also be forthcoming on the News Tab of
our website. This article will feature
different KES staff members, and volunteers at the school, so that we can learn
more about the folks who serve our school.
Please contact Candice Hale, chale@kennesawptsa.org
for details.
Chair: Candice Hale, chale@kennesawptsa.org
Yearbook:
The Yearbook Committee Description: “Memories
of a lifetime, for a lifetime.” We photograph, design, create, and
promote the KES 84-page full color, hardback yearbook which is a lasting memory
of your child’s elementary school years.
2007/2008 Yearbook Committee Members (in alphabetical order):
Chair: Megan Bell, mbell@kennesawptsa.org
Susan Bussiere, Admin Lead, Kindergarten
Nina Chung, Design Lead, First Grade
Amy Gerdes, Admin Lead, Second Grade
Candice Hale, Design Lead, Kindergarten
DeAhna Hall, Admin Lead, First Grade
Sandra O’Reilly, Montage Photo Lead/Marketing
Assistant
Kim Solomon, Design Lead, Second Grade
Michele Stearns, Design Team Lead
Volunteer Opportunities:
- Marketing
Manager: Manage all yearbook sales promotions. On the job training provided. No prior marketing experience
necessary. Must be a self-starter
and like being in the spotlight!
- Marketing
Assistant: Works directly with the Marketing Manager to
promote the yearbook.
- Accounting
Manager: Maintain a list of all yearbook sales,
coordinate directly with PTSA Treasurer, and provide receipt of sale for
each purchase. No experience
necessary. If you like a
behind-the-scenes job that you can complete on your own timeframe, this is
the job for you!
- Design
Lead: Work on your computer at home designing
several pages of the yearbook. We
provide you with the necessary software.
Computer experience is necessary.
Design experience a plus but not required.
- Photographer: Work
directly with the Montage Photo Lead to take necessary pictures of all 2nd
graders for the special 2nd Grade Montage Page in the yearbook.
Chair: Megan Bell, mbell@kennesawptsa.org
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