Meet Our Room Parents!!

Meet Mrs. Rivera’s Class Room Parents:

Brett & Heather Norman

 

(Jacob Norman’s Parents)

 

Dear Fellow Classroom Parents,

We are excited to be classroom parents for Mrs. Rivera; she’s a pretty fantastic teacher who is clearly invested in the growth and development of our children!  We all got lucky to be in such a wonderful classroom.

Please allow us to introduce ourselves.

We are Brett and Heather Norman, the proud parents to 3 awesome children; Lindsay (19), Katie (14) and Jacob (6).  

As our children grow older, we realize that there is a very narrow window of opportunity when your children want you to be active and present at school functions and when they just wave to you in the football stands from a distance - only acknowledging you when they need money or a ride home. We stepped up into the role as class parents in order to spend a little more time with our son.

Brett is a Pre-Sales Engineer at Oracle and his interests include hiking, camping and kayaking. His lovely wife volunteered him for his role as classroom dad and he couldn’t be more excited about that. That’s me…. I’m Heather, the lovely wife, and when I’m not bossing around my husband, I’m the Chief Nursing Officer at HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Northern Virginia in Aldie and share the same outdoor interests as my husband in addition to crafting and reading in my spare time.

We look forward to getting to know you and your children over this school year.

October 31^st is the classroom Fall Party – that’s our first project to tackle together and right around the corner. I’ve begun pinning fun activities for our children on Pinterest and starting to get organized with everything. I wanted to reach out for a little help from you and ask that you please save the date on your calendar if you have some free time to volunteer in the classroom during the party. More details to follow….

I’m a nurse and I’m not professionally good at asking for help or fundraising, I actually really dislike asking people for things ……  so, please accept this as my humble attempt.

 

In addition to your time, I would like to ask you to consider making a donation to the classroom funds if your family budget will allow for that. Our balance is currently $0 .

The classroom will have 3 parties this year and will purchase a gift for Mrs. Rivera during Teacher Appreciate Week. The scale of each party and classroom gift will be dependent upon the classroom budget. ( I will be sharing the accounting balance monthly with Mrs. Rivera and would be happy to have full disclosure of the finances with all parents as well.)

We have 21 children in the classroom and if each family is able to donate $20.00, that would give us $420 to spend through out the year.

 

Proposed Spending:

Party 1 =  $123    ( aprox $ 5.85 per child)

Party 2 = $123     ( aprox $ 5.85 per child)

Party 3 =  $123     ( aprox $ 5.85 per child)

Teacher Gift = $50

 

If you’re able to make a contribution to our classroom account, please send a check to school with your child made out to Heather Norman. For accounting purposes, it will be helpful to include your child’s name in the memo line. Payments can also be submitted via PayPal to heather.norman@hotmail.com  - If you prefer to contribute with your time or in other ways that’s great too! Keep your eyes out for a sign up list for things that would help make the parties a great success and tons of fun for our children.

We greatly appreciate your generosity and support.

 

Respectfully,

Brett & Heather Norman