Birthday Boards:
This committee honors all of the student and staff birthdays on the bulletin board in the hallway outside the office. Great opportunity to show off your creativity!

Book Fair:
There are many varied opportunities to help with this multi- day and night event in the spring. Volunteers are needed to set up, decorate, and plan the schedule for shopping and related events with classroom teachers, cashier, assist shoppers, and take down. Working parents can do some scheduling at home.

Brick Pavers:
Promote the brick paver dedication program in front of the school during the fall and spring with flyers

Central 100% Fund:
Promote and monitor participation in the PTO’s most lucrative fund- raiser! Solicit tax-deductible contributions (primarily from the Central School community) to provide funds needed for budgeted PTO programs and activities. A good job for working parent since most can be done from home with few, if any, meetings required.

Cultural Arts, Artist-in-Residence Coordinator:
One person to investigate and coordinate the Artist-in-Residency programs for the school. Volunteers will be needed to help execute the program, once chosen.

Cultural Arts, Classroom Presentations and Field Trips:
The Cultural Arts coordinator(s) is responsible for organizing the parent volunteers for the classroom presentations and Field trips.

Get a chance to teach your child’s class! Volunteers (ideally 5-7 per classroom) take turns giving monthly presentations about selected artists and pieces of art and supervising a hands-on related art activity. Hard copy, CD ROM, and/or on-line resources are available. No previous art knowledge needed!

One or two volunteers are needed to coordinate the annual Cultural Arts field trips.

Family Night Programs:
Plan, organize and execute one or two family social events. (Fall and Spring event)

5th Grade Activities:
You will coordinate the ordering of the Central school 5th grade T-shirts. Together with volunteers from the other elementary schools, you will help plan the Spring Social games night for the year’s future 6th graders at Hauser Junior High. In addition, you will plan the End of school year picnic. All 5th-Grade parents are encouraged to assist in this fun event.

Flying Carpet Club:
This is a fun format for introducing children grades 1-5 to stories of literary merit from around the world selected by the Great Books Foundation. Using “shared inquiry” method of discussion, plus a healthy dose of creativity, we lead small groups of 6-8 children once-a-week on literary adventures during the lunch/recess hour. The club meets 10 weeks between return from Winter break January until Spring break in March.

Garden Gurus:
This committee does Fall and Spring clean up of the front yard landscaping as well as Summer watering. The chair coordinates the summer watering schedule.

Grant Writer:
Are you a writer? Do you have a way with words? Do you enjoy a challenge? Assist with research, writing and editing all grant applications.

Halloween Festivities:
Assist in the planning and execution of the Halloween day celebrations, which is usually a Halloween program presented by parents.

Halloween Windows:
Coordinate Central School’s participation in the district Halloween window painting program. Help coordinate business participation, taping windows, and assigning windows for children to paint.

Hike and Bike to School:
Plan and promote a week of awareness and activities promoting walking or riding bikes to school. (Fall Program)

Ice-skating Party:
Involves reserving an ice rink, sending out promotional fliers and coordinating volunteers to provide baked goods and refreshments in February on an early release day.

Ice Cream Social:
A great job for working parent who is not available during school hours! This event occurs one evening in the Spring, coinciding with the book fair. Involves organizing volunteers to scoop and provide baked goods, scooping ice cream and having fun!

Innisbrook Wrap and Gifts:
Coordinate and organize the promotion of this fall fundraiser. Many people are needed to assist in the distribution of orders.

Kids Art Fund-raiser:
In the fall, students create a single colorful drawing during Art Class that can be reproduced on various items and purchased by parents. Items included are aprons, potholders, note cards, night-lights, coasters, kitchen trivets and many other choices. Committee members assist with compiling student orders to send to the artwork vendor and distribute final products to the student.

Kids Care:
Organize child-involved, charitable activities for the needy children and families in Riverside and surrounding communities.

Kindergarten Welcome:
Coordinate the event for incoming kindergartners to see their future classrooms, meet the teachers and parent informational meeting. This takes place during the lunch hour in April or May. Organize a Summer group get together for parents and incoming kindergartners.

Library Chair:
One person to organize the lead room parents in staffing the library during each class’s weekly library time.

Little Symphony:
Be the Central representative to the district Little Symphony committee. This committee decides on three musical presentations to bring to our students each year.

Living Classroom:
The Centennial Reading Garden is replanted with bulbs each October by the 3rd grade classes with the assistance of 3rd grade parents.

PE Helper:
Help the Physical Education teacher with Presidential Fitness testing during your child’s gym class twice a year.

Preschool Screening:
Assist children with the screening program, usually at Ames in February.

P.R./Communications:
Prepare fliers for all PTO meetings or any programs that require notification to go home. This individual works with school administration to assure distribution to students.

P.R./Media Coordinator:
One person to inform media of school events for the purpose of getting photos and articles into the local paper.

Program Chair:
One or two people needed to select and schedule 2-3 all-school day assembly programs per year.

PTO Webmaster:
One person needed to maintain and update the Central PTO web site.

Read to Succeed:
Promote, distribute forms, and prepare certificates for free admission to Great America for students who read more than 360 minutes. (This typically occurs in the Winter.)

Recycling:
This is a year-long event that promotes and monitors the collection of cell phones and printer cartridges at drop-off sites in Riverside. This is a flexible job that can be done on your own schedule.

Roller Skating Party:
PTO-sponsored party in the Fall. Chair needs to reserve the rink and prepare the flyer to be sent home.

School Supply Sale:
As a convenience to parents, we offer prepacked supplies custom-ordered for each grade. Requires ordering supplies from a company and distributing them at school.

Science in a Can:
A weekly commitment for 10-12 weeks during January through March to check in cans and replenish supplies for the experiments. Usually requires 30-45 minutes/week at school.

Soup label and Box Top program:
Promote and sort the collection of labels and box tops, redeemable for items used at Central School. Much of this can be done at home on your own schedule.

Spirit Wear:
Research vendors, prepare flier, take orders, and distribute Central School sweatshirts, T-shirts, etc. Spirit wear sale takes place early in school year.

Student Directory:
Are you Excel savvy? If so, this may be the job for you!! During the first 2 weeks of September, you will arrange for the typing, printing, and distribution of the school directory.

Talent show:
Organize a student spring talent show.

Teacher Appreciation Luncheon:
This special event takes place in early May. Involves ordering of food, setup, and cleanup for the luncheon, or one hour of cafeteria and recess monitoring so that faculty and staff can attend.

Teacher Appreciation Week:
Help plan and implement a weeklong event in May to recognize our teachers.

Yearbook:
The “Roadrunner Express” is published at the end of the 08/09 school year. This job requires picture taking at school events, assisting with layout, and printing.