Kentwood Explorer Elementary PTC

05/20/2026

Congrats to our Raising Cane's gift basket winner!!

Suji S. We will be in touch!

05/06/2026

Off to Camp!! A huge THANK YOU to our sponsors who made this trip possible for our very excited 5th graders: Schuler Books, Legend Roofing LLC, Louis Nail Kalamazoo & 68th, Heinz Orthodontics, Meijer, Big Apple Bagels and Peppino's South Kentwood. Shout out to Target for keeping our students fed & hydrated while they make memories today. We appreciate your support of our community, so community make sure you show some love back!

04/13/2026

Friendly reminder that we have a PTC meeting in the Library tonight at 6:30 for all who are interested! See you there!

04/01/2026

A Huge THANK YOU and congratulations to those who participated in our Read-a-Thon. We had almost 5K hours read and raised about 1K to help restock our book vending machine. If you participated, be sure to log in and choose your prizes while the store is open (the next 10 days!)

03/28/2026

Thank you to all the teachers, staff, parents, and high school volunteers for all your hard work last night! We absolutely couldn’t do Carnival with out you!!!! Thank you to all the families who showed up to support the school while having a great time! Once again you ALL made this year a huge success! Until next year! ❤️🖤

03/20/2026

🎪 Calling all Volunteers — we still need help with the Explorer Elementary Carnival!

Parents, grandparents, families & friends — we still need these volunteer shifts covered for Friday 3/27:

Obstacle Course (1st Shift)
0 Volunteers currently

Kitchen / Food Service
1st Shift: 0 / 12 filled
2nd Shift: 1 / 8 filled

Tattoos Room
1st Shift: 1/4
2nd Shift: 0/4
We still need an adult supervisor for this room for both shifts.

Even one shift makes a big difference. We appreciate any help you can give to make this a great night for the kids!

03/17/2026

‼️We need your help!‼️

We’re running low on cake and cereal for our Cake Walk and Cereal Walk—two of the kids’ favorite events at next week’s carnival—and we’re not even close to having enough yet.

Help us “stuff the cupboard” this week and next so we can make this carnival as fun and exciting as possible.

We can’t wait to see everyone there!

03/16/2026

It's Read-A-Thon launch day! 🚀 Let’s Read + Raise BIG for our school! 📚💰
1. Go to: www.read-a-thon.com/readers
2. Enter Code: 3403673
3. Create and share your page.

02/19/2026

🍿 Tomorrow is POPCORN Friday! 🍿

We could really use a few more volunteers to help make it happen! 🙌 If you have an hour or two to spare in the morning, please sign up and jump in — we can’t do it without you! 💛

Sign up here:

We’d love for you to join us from start to finish—it makes everything run smoother and is always more fun together! But we also know schedules don’t always allow for that. That’s why we’ve broken it into 4 slots. If you can’t stay the whole time, please sign up for the slot(s) that work ...

02/18/2026

Please consider signing up to volunteer and help make this event a success!
This event can’t run without your support — please sign up today and help us make it an amazing experience for everyone involved.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0F4FADA628A2F94-61472185-explorer #/