November Parents' Council Minutes

AIS PC Meeting Minutes
November 8, 2018

Welcome (Sara Glaser)

Treasurer’s Report (Heather Niedland)
•Checking $114,140.72
•Savings $55,932.07
•Please sign up for Amazon Smile and choose AIS as the charity recipient - to date, Amazon Smile has generated $67 for the school

Upper School Division Coordinator (Sharon Shaver)
US Highlights from Lisa Webster:
•The last of the lounge furniture including the senior sectional has arrived. Again, thank you!
•Big/Little Sisters will have breakfast this Friday (11/2) as part of the monthly scheduled events for this program.
•Friday Forums began on October 19. The first Forum, attended by 65 girls, was on the Kavanaugh hearing. Last week and this week will be on upcoming elections.
•Clubs are up and running.
•Student leadership has been decided.
•SSP trips are set.
•Inaugural sophomore sleepover went well with plenty of opportunity to discuss kindness and treating others with respect. There will be continued conversations leading up to a pledge signing on how to treat others.
•Speak Up was well attended and included successful break out sessions.
•Freshmen Movie Night with Haverford originally scheduled for October 19 was rescheduled to November. Exact date and details to be announced.
•Faculty has been notified to be aware of upcoming musical week and requests were made for light homework and observation of stress level for participating girls.
•A major college application deadline was November 1. There have been application workdays hosted by College Counseling and treats including a meditation/yoga session compliments of senior parents.
•Seniors have voted on graduation dresses, and the dresses have been ordered.
•Juniors have been fitted for their blazers. Sophomores have been sized for rings.
•Prom details are in the early planning stage. Class parents have been included and given their support.
•Parents can expect quarterly comments by the second week of November.
•AIS/EA Day details have been announced in a From The Sidelines email.
•Themes for AIS/EA Day have been announced: Marvel Monday, Toddlers and Tiaras Tuesday, Pink Wednesday, Time Travel Thursday and Blue and Gold Friday.
•Haverford has been encouraged to support AIS on Friday events.
•Jenn Fiorini’s leave of absence has been extended.

Important Dates:
10/29 - MS/US Can Drive going on now
11/2 -11/9 - Spirit Week and AIS/EA Day
11/7 - Junior Parent College Night
11/15 -Yearbook due date for Senior Parent Ad Pages
11/15-17 - US Musical, 9-5
11/21-26 - Thanksgiving Break
11/27 - French Week
12/4 - CAG/AIS Athletics Leadership Workshop
12/12 - Winter Holiday Concert
12/21 - Winter Break begins at noon
1/18 - 9/10th Grade Coffee
1/25 - 11/12th Grade Coffee

Middle School Division Coordinator (Sharon Mankovich)
MS Topics and PCEC Discussion:
•No updates/new news from Cintra Horn or Deans beyond key dates
•Confidence Code (Katty Kay) curriculum ends with “confident posters” for AIS/EA Day
•6th Grade October Trip to Camp Mason was a success
•MS Hay Fair Dismissal Forms – Missing student name/Could we send in/submit electronically similar to Lower School?
•MS EA Dismissal Form – Could we also have these be electronic similar to Lower School for easier tracking by the school and timely submission by parents

Important Dates:
11/8 - Big and Little Sister Games
Evening Pep Rally/Dinner (SLC and MS/US Gym)
11/9 - AIS/EA Day @AIS (11:00am MS dismissal)
MS/US Can Drive ends
11/21 - 11/26 – Thanksgiving Break/No School
11/27 - School Resumes
12/1 - AIS Basketball Clinic - Grades 6-8 (Registration Required)
12/5 - End of MS Trimester 1
12/12 - MS Holiday Concert
12/14 - Free Dress Day/MS Service Bazaar
12/21 - Free

Lower School Division Coordinator (Delia Biddison)
Notes from Donna
•Programmatic Highlight: 2nd Grade Thanksgiving Day Parade.
•Project involves math/coding/art/mapping/reading/writing/Language Arts.
•Girls will read a book about Tony Sarg, who created the first balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1927.
•The girls will then plan a route for their parade (requires measuring doorways so balloons will fit). They will design many routes for their parade but decide on one. They will build a robot to make sure the route works.
•In Art class, the girls will be grouped in 2s and 3s and each group will pick out a theme for their balloon. They will need to decide on the size of balloons as they can’t be too big or too small as they will flop over. They will design their balloon and attach a stick to the balloons. The practice run is Monday afternoon of Thanksgiving week. The final parade will end at the all student Thanksgiving assembly 10am on Tuesday of Thanksgiving week. 2nd grade parents will be invited to the Monday practice round or the final. That date is to be decided. This is 3rd year of the 2nd graders creating parade balloons. This is the second year including a parade.
•3rd Grade Field Trip to Highland Orchards (October 30th).
•This field trip starts off a social studies unit about natural resources.
•The girls will go on a hayride and watch the production of applesauce. This will lead into discussions at school about resources such as when they are in excess or constrained and how that can affect the cost of an apple.
•The students will create on google slides demonstration of farm to table examples - oranges to orange juice, wheat to cereal etc.
•Blocks and Mud Kitchen for Prek and K are here. The girls LOVE them. Donna will send pictures that we can post on social media if we would like.
•Health Screening (vision/hearing/weight) require by the state will take place at the school on November 12th. Parents only hear if their child fails the vision or hearing test.
•Lunch Dates officially start this week. There is a process that the girls must follow and Donna to send details.
•Mult-cult group is still getting organized for their once a month mix it up lunches so start time is tbd. The plan is still for this to be once every other month.

Events (Alison Hastings)
•Hay Fair (Nov. 2)
•Thank you to all who volunteered, attended or bid on auction items at Hay Fair - we saw a 25% increase in profits over last year!

•Owlidays (Nov. 14)
•Eagle Village - most shops offering 20% discount with Owlidays ticket
•$45 ticket covers cocktail party and shopping all day - please buy tickets in advance so we can plan appropriately for food and drink
•Volunteers needed - sign up via online Sign Up Genius

•Staff Appreciation Lunches (MS/US - Feb. 6; LS - Feb. 13)
•Email solicitation to come for volunteers and donations

New Business (Sara Glaser)
•Communications
•Please like AIS Parent’s Council on Facebook and Instagram

No December Parents’ Council Meeting - next events are January Class Coffees

No Packages in Catalog November Parents' Council Minutes