PTO

Volunteers provide a short presentation (~15 min) to their child’s class to talk about and look at art.  Volunteers prepare their presentation using PTO-provided portfolios with groupings of art by famous artists, including talking points.  You don’t have to be an artist or art historian, as all the information is provided.  Frequency and timing can be established with the teacher, but is usually once per month, Oct.-May.

Volunteers are needed during school hours to help collect labels and box tops from classrooms several times throughout the year.  Volunteers may also be asked to help trim collected box tops at home and return to the school.

Students get to bring a special adult to school for breakfast before the school day begins one of two days April.  Volunteers are needed to solicit donations, and about 20-30 people are needed to set up, serve food, and clean up.  You can volunteer for one or both mornings.

Volunteers may be needed to help transport donated items and promote or coordinate service projects with student and parent participation throughout the school year.  This committee meets during lunches.

Volunteers are needed to assist with projects that go along with the Dens / 7 Habits of Happy Kids lessons, throughout the school year.  These projects may involve cutting, copying, organizing, or putting together materials for projects.  Volunteers may help during the day or evening, at home or at school.

This is a 4^th grade activity-based workshop, but you do not need to be a 4^th grade parent to volunteer.  The emphasis is to help students become more aware of the needs of disabled people.  Many volunteers are needed throughout a day in March.

At least 50 adult volunteers are needed the night of this event in May to help with a variety of activities, including serving food and drinks, helping with face painting and crazy hair tables, and helping to run the cake walk.  Volunteers sign up for a 30-min shift at one of the stations.

This is our primary fundraiser that covers budgeting for our PTO activities.  Volunteers are needed to cheer on our students in all grades during a morning  in October, as well as for set-up and clean-up.

Students get to come to the Holiday Shop one evening after school in December to pick out holiday gifts for their family and friends.  Volunteers are needed after school and in the evening to set up, help the students shop, wrap gifts, take inventory, and clean up.

This committee coordinates the school-wide fundraiser of Little Caesars' Pizza Kit sales to families. Chairs are responsible for distributing flyers, receiving orders, and distributing the kits on arrival day.

Great organizational skills are needed for this committee. Some school-day time commitment is necessary but most of the work coordinated by email and spreadsheets.

This is a fun night in March where teachers read stories in their classrooms, and pajama’d students pick several classrooms to go to and listen to the story.  The evening ends with everyone getting milk and cookies.  Volunteers are needed to help set up the cafeteria around 5:45 p.m., serve milk and cookies after the reading, and clean up.

Anyone who attends this event in late January gets to experience food, music, clothing, and other forms of culture from a multitude of countries.  We need as many countries represented as possible, to match the global diversity we are fortunate to have at Novi Woods.  Volunteers are needed to take the lead on setting up stations for a country and to work at these stations during the event.

The National Red Ribbon Campaign encourages communities to educate youth on drug awareness and facilitate their participation in drug prevention activities.  Volunteers are needed to hang red ribbons outside the school a week in October as well as to help with other planned activities during the school days that week.

Volunteers are needed to help plan activities and prepare food and gift items for the Novi Woods staff.  Help is needed on any and all days during a week in May, mostly during school hours.

Volunteers help organize and create a directory of students with parent contact information that can be shared with all families.

Volunteers are needed to assemble summer reading and writing packets one evening in May or June.  Volunteers are also needed to help with the ice cream party, held one evening in August.

Volunteers are needed to help with catered teacher dinners, which take place on the afternoon/evening of fall and spring conferences.  Volunteers are also needed to set up, serve, and clean up.

Volunteers will be decorating their trunks for an evening of Halloween fun in the school parking lot in late October.  We also need a few volunteers to help with set-up and clean-up.

Volunteers are needed one morning in October to welcome community guests, and help with various activities leading up to the event.

Volunteers are needed to help organize photos for each classroom’s yearbook pages.  Volunteers will be asked to collect and organize a submission of photos for either their child’s classroom or another classroom, if willing.  No photography or editing skills required.