What do Room Parents do?
Room parents help teachers with organizing volunteers for field trips and classroom parent volunteer hours. They help with organizing for their class PTO activities like the fall fair booth and spring auction art project. The room parents also often organize teacher gifts in Dec and June. Ideally, all the parents help with the room parent as chief organizer. Also, room parents organize the parent potluck. The goal of Room Parents is to organize. Most Merriam parents volunteer for some Merriam or class events. Our wonderful Room Parents get the volunteers organized.
Here is the list of needed Room Parents:
| Year | Teacher | needed |
| K – Full | Trish Underwood | gold |
| Grade 1 | Lauren Bova | gold |
| Grade 1 | Melanie Walsh-Mager | blue |
| Grade 2 | NettaTrumble | gold |
| Grade 3 | Colm McDermott | gold |
| Grade 3 | Sarah Underwood | gold |
| Grade 4 | Stephanie Holland | both |
| Grade 5 | Alyson Whatcott | blue |
| Grade 5 | Kate Shiebler | gold |
| Grade 6 | Vanessa Mann | both |
| Grade 6 | Molly Horan | gold |
| Grade 6 | Tasha Peterson | blue |
Any parent can be a Room Parent. Time is flexible and totals ~ 0 – 2 hours most months. Room Parents get e-mail instructions and templates from the PTO Room Parent coordinator over the year and access to a drive of sample communications and event details.
Questions: leahabraham@gmail.com
