Childrens House Montessori - Little Rock Arkansas

Parents, below are a few items that we wanted to bring to your attention. If you have questions regarding any of this please contact myself or one of the other officers. Contact information can be found on the website www.chmlr.org.

• PTO dues – Due to many of you contributing in the fall, the money that we’ve raised from the silent auction and the economy, we are not asking for spring dues as originally requested. We do appreciate those that did contribute; some of you gave above and beyond the amount requested. Thank you all!
• Spring Open House – Many of you have expressed a desire to learn more about the wonderful learning that takes place at our school. For this reason and the fact that we’ve had new parents start since our fall open house, we have decided to host a spring open house. This will take place at our next PTO meeting on March 10th. The agenda meeting will be held the first 10-15 minutes, the remaining 45 minutes is reserved for the open house. Light refreshments will be served.
• Web site – Please be sure to check the Web site, www.chmlr.org, and sign up to receive alerts when items are posted. Thanks to Thomas Wallace, we are now able to sign up to receive feeds when the Web site is updated.
• Easter Picnic and Egg Hunt – Please mark your calendars for our annual Easter picnic and egg hunt. The date is April 4th, time to be announced.
• Annual Spring Clean-up – On April 18th we will have our annual spring clean-up day from 9 a.m. to noon. Plans are in the works to install fencing in the front of the building, paint and do some other work on the boat, as well as other clean-up projects. Please plan to join us and bring your outside tools and handy person expertise.

Babysitting will be provided during the meeting, so go ahead and bring the kids!

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Babysitting will be provided during the meeting, so go ahead and bring the kids!

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If you attended the Silent Auction, you probably had a wonderful time.  The planning committee, coordinated by Jennifer Davis and Mary Hall and consisting of Amy Duzan, Pearl Rodgers, Dede Lowe and Nancy Hall, did an outstanding job of organizing the event.  Some parents have already given feedback and said they experienced a sense of community throughout the evening.  Some have even suggested that we do something again that pulls everyone together for food, drink and fun.  So, kudos to you, planning committee, you guys provided a very enjoyable evening!

A large part of the success is also due, in part, to you, the parents. There were so many items to bid on!  If it weren’t for your willingness to find items to donate and then bid on, we would not have raised the money that we did.  Our total proceeds were $3,344!  Wow, kudos to you, CHMS parents!

Between now and our January meeting, we are compiling a list of ideas of things we would like to focus on purchasing for the school.  So far some ideas are: First, sending teachers to training classes; Second, classroom supplies (lesson materials and the like); Third, maybe some additional things for the classrooms … plants, animals, curtains, rugs, etc.  Please put some thought into it and send your ideas to myself or one of the other officers.  You can find our contact information on the website, www.chmlr.org.

Again, thank you planning committee and other parents. We should all be proud and excited for the success of the auction and what we can do for the school with the proceeds.

We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season.

CHMS PTO officers

The school year is off to a great start.

The School and PTO collaborated to pull together the wonderful Halloween Carnival last Saturday (extra thanks go to Ms. Amy and Ms. Dede), and we’re looking ahead to the Book Fair (Nov. 11 & 12) and the Silent Auction (Nov. 22). These events are made possible, in part, by the hard work of our teachers and PTO volunteers and the annual dues.

Thank you to all the families who have paid the dues of $25. For those of you who have not yet paid, please consider sending in your money. We’ll use the money to help fund the new mulch cover on the playgrounds (if possible), then we’ll throw a Christmas party for the kids, and give our wonderful staff well-earned Christmas gifts.

If you have questions about dues or how the money is dispersed, please contact me.  I’d be more than happy to give you the details.  We also have a financial summary/report at every PTO meeting.
Kim Romain — PTO President, Mother of William, Outside Class
Call me at 407-9312 or e-mail me at kim.romain@lrsd.org

Please join us for the monthly PTO Meeting at 6:00pm. Childcare provided. Download Agenda