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The PTA is run by volunteers. You can help on an on-going basis with a committee, serving on the executive board and/or working for one of the special events. Opportunities are available for both during the day and in the evening. No matter your interest or schedule — there is something for everyone.

For more information about volunteer opportunities, please contact the chairperson for the event or contact Volunteer Coordinator, Jan Sieben, at (847) 219-5097 or jansieben@aol.com

Volunteer in the Classroom

Room Parents are volunteers who work with the teacher and classroom parents to coordinate classroom parties, field trip chaperones, along with AR (accelerated reader) and "centers" helpers (for grades K-2). Any time during the year, you can email the Room Parent committee chair to request to be a room parent for one of your children's classrooms in the following year; room parent assignments are distributed the week or so before school starts.

Many classrooms appreciate parent volunteers throughout the year ... to run centers, read with students or help out during a room party. Contact your child's room parent to find out how you can help (even just once or twice!)

Volunteer for Individual Events

If you are interested in volunteering for one of the events below, please contact the chairperson for the event.

Note: Only the dates of the events are listed. The event chairperson will contact you for specific volunteer times or other needs as planning gets under way.

After School Specials (2/10, 2/17, 2/24, 3/2): Help teach or assist in 1 hour afterschool workshops (3:20 - 4:30). Share your talents, work, hobbies or special interests with our students in these fun interactive classes.

Back to School Picnic (8/25): Be part of the 2012 Back to School Picnic Planning Committee, set-up, games, entertainment, food, clean-up.

Birthday Book Club (8/23 & 8/31): Provide new books to the school library in honor of PH students' birthdays. This is an easy job- help sell books for an hour during Meet the Teacher Day or Parent Orientation night!

Book Fair (10/17-10/21): Help set up, sell books and take down the book fair for children and adults.

Cougar Carnival (2/3): Planning, running games, distributing food, setting up and cleaning up. Please consider volunteering for this very popular family event. There is an early shift and late shift so you can still spend time with your family.

Dads & Donuts (A-L 4/13) (M-Z 4/27): Moms help pass out donuts, coffee and juice to kids and their Dads before school.

Field Day (6/1): Fill up water balloons and/or help pass out water bottles, or run a game. Please help! Just like Cougar Carnival, it takes a lot of parent volunteers to make this all-day event a success.

Holiday Gift Shop (12/8): Work at this school store and help students select from a wide array of reasonably priced holiday gift items for their family or friends. (Most help needed 3:00-4:00.)

Moms & Munchies (A-L 10/7) (M-Z 10/14): Dads help pass out donuts, coffee and juice to kids and their moms before school.

MultiCultural Fest (4/20): Consider hosting a country. Help set up and cleaning up the event area, assist hot/cold food distribution to the booths, and help cultural group booths as needed. There will be early/late shifts.

Open Registration (2/15): Assist families who are registering students for the next school year with their

paperwork and questions.

Reflections (October): Help with the preparation and hanging of the Reflections entries for the Pleasant Hill

Art Gallery.

Roller Skating Party (2/23): A fun-filled night at the Orbit Skate Center for all PH families. Assist in checking in students and their families.

Run for Fun (9/30): Help with the PTA's only fundraiser by assisting the 2011 Run for Fun. If you can, help us out in the spring preparing for next year's fundraiser, too.

School Picture Day (10/6): Help make School Picture Day run smoothly. Retake day is 11/15.

Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities

Bakers - Show off your baking (or buying!) talents for special school events throughout the year.

Beautification - Help with planting & watering in fall & spring & with plant displays in winter.

BoxTops/ Campbells Soup Labels/Etc. - Help trim & package the labels to be sent to various organizations in return for cash & supplies. Work can be done in your home when you have time.

Care & Concern-Provide meals and practical support for PH families facing crisis.

Environmental Ed - Help at lunchtime with the once a month Waste-Free Lunch and Earth Club meetings. Assist with activities such as the Book Swap in spring.

Game Station - New! Coordinated by Sherri Thomas, Social Worker. Runs a few days a week 11:30-12 & 12-12:30. Volunteers get game cart, help students play games. You choose frequency of volunteering.

Make A Difference Club - A community service club for all grades that is run mostly during lunch hours. However, preparation for club activities can be done at all different times. Meets twice a month on Mondays.

Staff Appreciation - Help plan events throughout the year to show the staff how much we appreciate their efforts. Great for 1st timers because a lot of the work is done on a "when you can help" schedule. Bakers/food donations needed too!

Yearbook - Photographers and page creators needed. Yearbook is created using a web-based program, so page creators can work from home on their computers at any time, using the pictures the photographers take at school events (such as field trips, Halloween and Valentine's Day parties, Buddy events, etc.) to create the class/homeroom pages. You can volunteer to do both, and you can specify your child's grade!