8:30-11:00am every Wednesday in the Parent’s Center at Parkwood Elementary.
Provides parents and community volunteers the opportunity to help teachers prepare classroom materials, while getting to know each other. There are toys available for younger siblings, who are always welcome to come with you.
Parkwood PTA was recognized from the Shoreline PTA Council for our Cut-n-Chat program. I think this would be a great time to give you all a little bit of background about the Parkwood PTA Cut-n-Chat program.
It first started about 11 years ago. There were some Mom’s that had children in the school and younger ones at home. They wanted to help out in many ways. Though their time was limited with the younger ones. With the encouragement from the Family advocate and Principal, the Family Advocate decided to share her office space with these moms so that they too could help out in the school. They brought in toys to keep the little ones busy and the moms, dads, grandparents, and all that started coming started the weekly Cut-n-Chat. The teachers loved it as it freed up lots time for them.
The District has always shown there support also. We are still going strong with it now. We love it when we get a room full of helpers or just a few.There is always something to do.
I want to say THANK YOU to all of you for helping out. It is a great program. I am thankful for it, as it helped me feel more a part of my children’s school, so that I could help out and still bring my littlest ones in too, and not interrupt the learning’s in the classroom.
If you have any questions about Cut-n-Chat please feel free to come by on any Wednesday Morning 8:45-11:00, or contact Joan Desrosier. Any helping hands are always appreciated!
