Photo by Cynthya Porter
Take Your Family to School Week, sponsored by the Goodview PTA, capped off a week of activities with a family game show that tested the trivia knowledge of family teams.
The game show incorporated trivia, Pictionary, silly physical tests and audience participation into an evening attended by nearly 200 Goodview students, staff and family members. |
Goodview Elementary was extra full last week as big people crowded into small chairs to spend a day at school with their youngest family members.
Moms, dads, grandmas and grandpas ate school lunch, made projects and played on the playground together during Take Your Family to School Week sponsored by the Goodview PTA.
But the Goodview PTA had a little help, help that was the envy of some 500 schools vying for a grant from the national PTA for the project.
Of the 500 applicants, Goodview was one of 30 to receive $1,900 towards programs to get families and parents involved in school, PTA member Laura Feller said.
To build hype among families for the week’s activities, PTA members set up a “coffee stop” in the elementary’s parking lot the week prior, catching parents as they dropped off students and sending them home with information about how to participate.
The response, Feller said, was overwhelming and led to a week-long air of excitement as children showed their family members the ropes of Goodview Elementary. Stickers that said “I had lunch with somebody special today at Goodview Elementary” were proudly worn by parents as they left, and parents, teachers and children alike built new bonds to make families feel more welcome in school than ever.
The week’s activities culminated in a spaghetti dinner and variety show Thursday in which family teams competed on trivia questions for laughs and prizes.
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