Sunshine Committees 2012-2013 Fall POPS: Burdette, Fernandez, Rogers, Smith,

Keating, & Middleton

Spring POPS: Bratcher, Blackshear, K. Davis, Lemons, Fischer, & VanBuskirk

Showers: Bleasdale, O’Keefe, Waggoner, A.White, Coldwell, & Aguillar

Cards & Flowers: Almanza, Richter, Tyree, S. Bratcher, & Walker

Fall Secret Pals: Locke, Adams, Rojas, Willard, & J. Davis

Spring Secret Pals: Callier, Lopez, Lundgren, Hays, & More

Speical Recognitions: Tunnell, A.Davis, Haywood, Patterson, T.White, & B.Williams

*Christmas Party & Eat Day Schedule: Lewis, Price, Benavidez, J.Davis, McClain, Winters, & Buie *Non-rotating committee... office group will always take care of these!

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FUNDS: Please pay your sunshine dues to Shelley McClain as soon as possible. This money is used throughout the year to assist in showers, special recognitions, flowers, and other special events for the faculty of our school. Our campus is small, so we depend on donations from everyone. Please submit dues as soon as you can. (Cash or check made out to McKenzie Elementary.) Professional Dues: $20.00 and Para, Interns, and part time employees: $10.00 Sunshine will now be a ROTATING committee. Each section has been divided up and all faculty will be on the committee serving on one of the groups. Each year the groups will rotate to another section. Flowers ($35.00 limit) in event of death: spouse, parent, grandparent, in-laws, sibling, or child Sent to: All faculty including: custodial & cafeteria personnel Shelley McClain will let the group know, flowers will be ordered and billed to McKenzie Card, Flowers, Contributions, or Care Baskets (depends on situation): ($35limit for flowers) Provided in the event of serious illness, confinement, hospital stay, & new babies (including employee, spouse, parent, in-laws, or child). Shelley will let this group know if someone has a need and your group will order the flowers or collect contributions if needed. If a care basket is needed then you will be in charge of getting the information out and putting this together. Showers: Showers are provided for FIRST babies, weddings, and retirements. If an individual in your grade level is getting married, having a baby, or retiring, it is the responsibility of your grade level to let the shower committee know and help choose a date for the shower. The grade level will be responsible for making and hanging up the invitations. The Sunshine Shower group will provide the refreshments, paper goods, and cake. (Be sure to schedule the day and time with the office and Mrs. Coldwell.) Submit your receipts to Shelley McClain for reimbursement up to $60 for baby and wedding showers and up to $80.00 for retirements. *Committees would be set up to help in coordinating retirement parties and collecting donations for a faculty gift.

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Secret Pal’s (Optional): Secret Pal names will be exchanged in the FALL and SPRING. We will have pals for Halloween, Christmas, for the fall and Valentines and Easter for the spring. New names will be drawn for each time! You can choose to participate in one or all four secret pal opportunities. Names will be drawn 3 weeks in advance and you will give your pal 2 – 3 small gifts a week. (Under $5.00... The final gift should be a little bigger… such as $7-10.00) On the final reveal we will either meet in the library to reveal our pal or sign the final note with who it is from. The committee will decide this. Please remember to write your pal a thank you note each time! You can tape it up by the mail boxes in the office work room.

Special Recognition Days: Gift cards to show our appreciation for principals’, secretary’s, counselor’s, librarian’s, nurse’s, speech, and diagnostician’s days. ($25 for each Principal and $20 for all others.) In addition, grade levels or individuals may choose to do something special for these days. For example, you could have your class write cards or draw pictures to express their thanks. ALL STAFF is recognized each May for TEACHER/STAFF APPRECIATION week!

POPS (Power of positive staff): Two separate POPS committees will be assigned. One for the fall and one for the spring. The committee will have 3 activities to plan for their semester. It will be after school and can be games, build your own sundae, scavenger hunt, etc. (If you need ideas, I have some that I can share, or you can research some ideas with other friends from other schools) *If you need to purchase anything for your activity, please see Shelley McClain!

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usually be around Pay day. Assigned groups are responsible for planning their luncheon. You can do a sign up sheet for people to bring items or opt for doing a “take out” in which you organize and have order forms for the staff to order out with several choices and price ranges. *Teams are responsible for making sure the lounge is clean and picked up at the end of the day. You will be given a sheet to turn in to the office so we know what your grade level/group will be doing! PLEASE DO NOT WAIT until the LAST minute to organize your eat day! See schedule below:

Office - August 2nd 3rd- September 27th or 28th 4th- October 25th or 26th 5th- November 29th or 30th PTA- December Specials- January 6th-February 28th or March 1st K- March 27th or 28th 1st- April 25th or 26th 2nd - May 30th or 31st

Christmas Party will be after school towards the beginning of December at Aimee’s house! Sunshine will provide drinks and paper goods! Each grade level will bring an appetizer or dessert! We will assign this closer to the time! :0) *We will do a toy exchange for the Santa Cop toy drive if you want to participate & it does go to a good cause! AND optional ornament exchange for those who want to participate in that as well!

*More details will follow closer to Christmas!