You will be invited to attend an orientation meeting at the beginning of the school year where you will receive an overview of the room parent role.
Head room parent.
Finding a co room parent can make the job a lot easier meet with other room parents and or the school s room parent organizer on a regular or occasional basis.
A room parent s main task is to facilitate communication between other parents and the teacher the school parent group and occasionally school administration.
For the most part as a room parent you ll solicit donations paper goods.
At most schools the class parent organizes a group gift for teacher appreciation week as well as an end of year gift.
The teachers may have other ideas or expectations to take in account when planning your celebration.
So you survived back to school and you have a few class parties under your belt.
Recruit other parents to help in the duty of room parents e g start a telephone chain or maintain an email database.
This can vary widely from class to class teacher to teacher and sometimes even district to district.
Head room parents please contact your teacher as soon as possible to discuss each of the three parties you are responsible for organizing.
Next is a survey the room parent can give the teacher to fill out and then pass along to parents or just use as a reference for buying group gifts through the year.