Room Parent
If you've never been a Room Parent before, or it's been awhile, here is a summary of the duties:

• Obtain phone number and email list of your Advisory class parents and give this list to the PTA Grade-Level Room Chairperson. You will then co-ordinate with the grade-level room rep to make sure your parents receive any announcements that the PTA and school send out.
  
• Each grades' Room Parents are responsible for calling/emailing their parents to get food donations (they must be store bought, individually wrapped with NO Nuts!!) and chaperons for the three school dances and the snack attacks.
  
• If you are fortunate enough that you are not the only Room Parent in your class, you may divide the calling list so each of you has fewer calls or e-mail reminders to make, or you could take turns doing all the calling/e-mailing month by month.

Dance Chaperon
You may help with as many dances throughout the year as you would like.There are three dances: The first is 6th grade only. The other two (one in December and one in May) are for all grades.

• In all, we will need a minimum of 10 chaperons for each dance. Chaperons should arrive about 10-15 minutes before the dance to sign in and get their assignments. Dances begin at 4:00 p.m. and end at 6:00 p.m.
  
• At each dance, parents provide snacks for the kids. They must be store bought, individually wrapped with NO Nuts!! 

Snack Attack
Purchase store-bought items (No snacks with nuts) for our periodic snack sales, and/or volunteer to work the sales tables during all or a portion of a sale. Check out the Snack Attack page for more details.

Parent Involvement Week
Throughout this week, Austin Academy teachers will sponsor a variety of activities to which parents will be invited.

Classroom Help Period
Times:
0: 8:00 - 8:40
1: 8:50 - 9:39
2: 9:43 - 10:32
3: 10:36 - 11:25
4: 11:29 - 12:18

Lunch Schedule - 11:29* - 12:53*
A: 11:29 - 11:59
B: 12:22 - 12:53
C. 12:53 - 1:25
D. 1:25 - 1:57
*sixth graders with first lunch attend 4th period after eating

5: 12:22 - 1:57
6: 2:01 - 2:57
7: 3:01 - 3:50

Other Volunteer Opportunities:

• Book Fair
  
• Field Trip Chaperon
  
• Teacher Appreciation
  
• Tutoring

If you are interested in helping, please view our PTA Board Member Roster and send your comments or questions to the appropriate committee chairperson. THANK YOU!!!

Record Your Hours

Each time you arrive at the school to volunteer, please check in at the school office and sign the Volunteer Log. Your volunteer hours help the school obtain grants, so PLEASE RECORD THEM!
 
If parents/students assist in any way at Concerts/Performances, that is volunteer time... making uniforms, costumes, delivering/transporting instruments or equipment, etc. is considered volunteer time as long as the individual is not being paid for the service being performed. If you chaperone a group of students on a trip for the weekend, your time is considered volunteer time. 
 
Please be sure you log your volunteer hours worked in the white notebook on the counter in the school office.  Austin Academy benefits from the hours worked in a direct and an indirect way.  The indirect includes some of these hours translating into the hiring of teacher aides.
 
Hours that can be put in the log include: