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PARK SCHOOL CAMPUS - 400 W. TOWNLINE ROAD - ROUND LAKE, IL 60073 ! !“Falling Back” Into the Routine… It seems like we have all easily fallen back into the daily routine of the new school year. We’re waking up on time (for some of us, maybe not) and replaced cartoon watching on the couch with solving math problems at a desk. The PTO is here to make a change for our school, just like a tree goes from green to golden yellow this time of year.!
As you’ll read on to find out, we had a number of successful and entertaining events sponsored by our PTO last month. Our goal is to unify our students, their families, and the Park School Campus staff, while helping raise funds to enrich our children’s education and overall school experience. This past month was proof that we’re unified! By attending an event or donating your time to assist, you’re helping us get one step closer to reaching our goals. Thank you for your support!!
A huge thank you to everyone that attended the PTO meeting last month! Please join us in welcoming our newest Board members - Meghan Cripe and Jennifer Garraway. !
We have some great events planned this month - Movie Night, Book Fair, Staff Appreciation Dinner, Munchkins with Mom, Dave & Buster’s Spirit Night, 5th Grade Ice Cream Social, and the Halloween Dance. Look for more details in the coming weeks!!
Don’t forget to like us on Facebook and check out our website. Not only can you find a wealth of information on our website, but you can purchase Spiritwear items, send a surprise message to your child with a scented pencil, sign-up to volunteer at an event, find copies of forms and flyers, or make a donation! We encourage you to send us your comments and suggestions - we love hearing from you!!
It’s time to start unpacking the winter gear and enjoy the fall festivities! Happy fall!! - Park School Campus PTO ! OCTOBER EDITION STAY CONNECTED Around Campus 2 Your Park School Campus PTO is on the web. Check us out on Welcome Wagon 2 Facebook, email us, or visit our website where you can shop for Spiritwear, plan for events, download flyers, and more! What’s Happening 3 ! Look What We Did 4 www.parkcampuspto.com! Staff Spotlight 4 Campus Classifieds 5
Park Campus PTO ! [email protected]! AROUND CAMPUS PTO BOARD MEMBERS! ! Taste of Park President Irena Braun! Vice President Marjorie! Bianchi Secretary Genna Walker! Treasurer David Northern! Staff Liaison Elsa Barrett! Ways and Means Conrad Santos Elena Santos! Event Coordinator Meghan Cripe Jennifer Garraway Nicole Stanley! Volunteer Coordinator Crystal Northern !
WELCOME WAGON: Helping New Families Adjust
The Welcome Wagon is supported by the PTO and offers guidance to those new to Park School Campus. Coming to a new school can leave you full of questions and concerns. We will give you insight from parents with K-8 experience here at Park. Want to know more about drop-off and pick-up? Where is the Media Center? How do I volunteer? What is Inspiration Day? Don’t worry, we have the answers! Contact us to meet for coffee and chat or ! exchange emails with us - [email protected].! ! Your Welcome Wagon Members are here for you!! WHAT’S HAPPENING ON CAMPUS
NATIONAL CUSTODIAN’S DAY 10.2.15! FROM THE PTO! Please make sure to let our custodians (Bob Smith Jr., Manuel Soto, and Justin We are always looking for volunteers to assist Wisemen) know how much they mean to all of us at Park! They always keep us with our fun events. A little of your time everything running smoothly. What would we do without them?! can make a big difference to the PTO. MOVIE NIGHT 10.2.15 7pm! Don’t forget all the easy ways to help like ordering Scrip gift cards Put on your pajamas! Grab some blankets and pillows! Get some snacks from , using your Target RedCard, or collecting the concession stand and enjoy the movie - Home - with your family and Box Tops and Labels for Education. friends! Watch Tip and Oh embark on the road trip of a lifetime as the fugitives realize that there’s a lot more at stake than intergalactic relations. You won’t If you can’t spare your time, we’d be happy to also accept want to miss it! Don’t forget to bring in your Box Tops, Labels for Education, donations for raffles or monetary gifts to enhance our school. and printer cartridges to earn a free popcorn and/or juice box. See you there!
BOOK FAIR 10.2.15 - 10.8.15! Reading is the most important skill you can teach a child. Visit us at the book fair! Purchase affordable books for your child and their teacher, while supporting your school. Last year, we were able to purchase a new SmartBoard and provide over $2,500 in books to our school with the money raised at the book fairs. Look for exact days and times in the attached flier. Can’t make it to the Book Fair at school? No problem! Visit our online Book Fair through Thursday, October 29 at http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/parkcampus. ! Volunteers are still needed! Please sign-up at http://tinyurl.com/ptosignups. All volunteers donating 2 or more hours of their time receive a $10 Book Fair gift certificate. Please help us get more books in the hands of our children! Thank you! BIRTHDAY BREAKFAST 10.8.15 8:50am! Attention all 1st through 5th graders with birthdays in October! Look for your invitation next week to join Mr. Melamed and Mr. Dinsmore for a special breakfast in the multi-purpose room after the Howler broadcast. STAFF APPRECIATION DINNER 10.8.15 5pm! Our hardworking staff will be treated to a Mexican dinner from Garden Fresh during their late night of conferences next week. Thank you for all you do for our students and school every day! MUNCHKINS WITH MOM 10.16.15 7:50am! Moms, Grandmas, Aunts - join us for FREE donuts, coffee, and juice! Meet other parents, let your kids show you off to their friends, and then walk them to class. Due to the popularity of this event, RSVPs are required and late RSVPs may not be honored. RSVP online at http://tinyurl.com/ptosignups or return the attached flyer by Thursday, October 8th. See you there!! DAVE & BUSTER’S SPIRIT NIGHT - VERNON HILLS 10.20.15! PICTURE RETAKES 10.29.15 HALLOWEEN CELEBRATIONS 10.30.15! After the K-4th grade costume parade at 1:50pm (AM Kindergarteners will have their costume parade at 10:55am), we invite the 5th graders to join us for some delicious frozen goodies with their friends. You may not be able to dress in a costume to school anymore, but you’ll be the only ones in the school with spooktacular sundaes!! Parents - please sign up to help setup, serve, and cleanup at http://tinyurl.com/ptosignups.! Then, it’s time for the annual 6-8th grade Halloween Dance (7-9pm)! Information about costume guidelines and contests will be sent home soon. You won’t want to miss it!! Parents - please sign up to help at http://tinyurl.com/ptosignups. Thank you! MOVIE NIGHT - INSIDE OUT 11.6.15 7pm! GENERAL PTO MEETING 11.11.15 6pm! DONUTS WITH DAD 11.13.15 7:50am LOOK WHAT WE DID! 8/21 - Back to School Pool Party! It was a perfect evening to catch up with old friends and meet new ones at the Round Lake Area Park District Aquatics Center. Thank you to everyone that helped make a splash into the new school year!!! 8/25 - School Supply Pick Up/Popsicle Welcome! The popsicles were a hit, as always! Thank you to everyone that supported our first fundraiser this year. We raised $1500 for our students!! STAFF SPOTLIGHT 8/27 - Boohoo/Yahoo Breakfast! ! We always love seeing our Kindergarten parents at this event! We met so many new families and truly enjoyed helping you get your questions Kelli Sibigtroth answered. A huge thanks to the Hainesville Starbucks for donating the ! coffee for this event!! 9/3 and 9/10 - Back to School Nights! What do you do at Park? Thanks for stopping by to visit the PTO sponsored tables before you met 6th Grade Math/Literature/Language Arts! your children’s teachers! Our new Spiritwear was a huge hit! Your orders will be delivered to your child’s classroom the week of Oct. 12th. Missed How long have you been in your this Spiritwear order? Don’t worry! We will have another Spiritwear position? 9 years! order soon with delivery in time for the holidays.! 9/4 - Welcome Back Packets! Favorite part of your job: There was a wealth of information in the Welcome Back Packets! From Watching my students learn and grow! what we do to our “trash to cash” program to how you can get involved in your child’s school, it was all there for you. Oh, and a little gift for you... a Other job you would like to try: Park Wolves photo frame/calendar magnet! We hope the calendar magnet I would like to be a florist.! helps you keep track of some of the wonderful events at Park this year. Park staff also received a personalized “dry erase board”. We hope Fun or interesting fact about you: everyone has a great year!! I know how to arm crochet. 9/9 ! - General PTO Meeting! Thank you to all the teachers and parents that joined us at our first general Your favorite place to go: PTO meeting! Congratulations to Sheri Sato (2014-2015 Parent Survey The beach! winner). Congratulations also to our new Board members - Meghan Cripe and Jennifer Garraway (Event Coordinators). Welcome aboard!! Hobbies or interests: 9/10 - Birthday Breakfast! Crocheting! Students in grades 1-5 enjoyed celebrating their August and September birthdays with Mr. Melamed and Mr. Dinsmore!! Favorite dessert or candy: 9/18 - Taste of Park! Starburst! Thank you to everyone that supported this wonderful community event! Did you enjoy the games/prizes? Try the bungee run? Get an airbrush Favorite band/singer: tattoo? Watch the K-9 demonstration? There was something for Rascal Flatts! everyone! Thank you to all our vendors - Jimano’s Pizzeria (Mundelein), Danita Ward’s The Kitchen (Palatine), Lucky Emma’s (Round Lake), The Favorite book: Sweet Shop/Cindy’s Petite Sweets (Winthrop Harbor), Balloon Artist (Amber Burkey), Love Me Knots/Scentsy (Jennifer Agostinho), Oasis for A Very Hungry Caterpillar! Orphans Jewelry (Tiffany O’Malley), and Thirty-One (Esther Emmons). Thank you also to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, Round Lake Fire and One word that describes you: Police Departments, Friends of Sam Yingling, Brad Schneider, Kumon Enthusiastic! (Grayslake), Goddard School (Round Lake), Nature Walk Montessori School, and the Science Olympiad. Last, but certainly not least, thank you Bears or Packers? to all our wonderful parent, student, and teacher volunteers! We could Bears not have done it without each and every one of you!!! 9/22 - Picture Day CAMPUS CLASSIFIEDS
SPOOKTACULAR FUNDRAISE WHILE YOU SHOP TRASH TO CASH DONATIONS NEEDED • • • COLLECTION NEEDED • • •! Purchase Scrip Gift Cards! Scrip is • • • We’re always looking for decorations just another way to pay for Box Tops. Labels for Education. Ink to help us spook-up the Halloween everyday purchases using gift Cartridges. Small Electrics. Don’t Dance. If you have anything to cards instead of cash, checks, or forget to send in all your “trash” donate from lights to cardboard credit cards. Purchase your gift to school. All your “trash” earns decorations that hang on the cards from us at face value and money for our students! Keep in wall, we will gladly take them off we order them at a reduced price. mind that Box Tops have an your hands! The difference is an instant expiration date, so please keep ! rebate for our school! You can sending them in! GET INVOLVED IN 2015-2016 even buy them online and have ! SHOP AT TARGET HELP WANTED them delivered right to your • • •! • • •! inbox! Buy them as gifts, use Link the Target Red DEBIT Card to Now is the time to think about them to help stay on budget, and Helping our joining the PTO! Interested in more. It’s an easy way to raise your checking account! school earn money is as easy as learning how to get more money for our kids! See the SHOPPING at TARGET with the involved in the 2015-2016 school attached documents for more Target Red Debit card. Next time year? Several Board and information. you’re in Target, bring a blank Chairperson positions are still check with you, and set up your available and are open to all Park account right there with the staff, parents, and guardians. ! Read 20 minutes cashier! It’s easy, it saves you Commitment times very from ! 5% on all purchases, you get just a few hours once a year to tonight FREE shipping online, AND it regular year long responsibilities ! earns the school 1% back on all and duties. There is something purchases. Just make sure you for everyone and we would LOVE ! sign up online at target.com/tcoe to have you! For more and choose our school to have all information, please contact us at ! your purchases count toward our [email protected]. 2+6=8 ! ! earnings! ! ! ! ! ! VISITORS WANTED ! ! • • •! ! ! We want to help you stay informed. School Visit us at ! is ! I www.parkcampuspto.com to ! learn more about events, sign up cool J! ! to help, get copies of flyers and Wolves Wear! order forms, order products, and ! much more. You can also like us ! on Facebook - Park Campus PTO - ! ! to get regular updates on school !www.parkcampuspto.com happenings. ! ! Park Campus PTO Presents
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Friday, October 2nd 7:00pm
(Doors open at 6:30pm)
Admission: $1.00 per person !
! *!Rated!PG!for!mild!action!and!some!rude!humor.!*! ! Bring your PJ’s, blankets, and pillows and join us for the 1st Movie Night of the year with your family and friends! Concessions will be available for purchase.
All children MUST be accompanied by an adult!
! ! ! ! Kids, help us recycle and earn money for your school! Bring in your old ink cartridges, small electronics (e.g., cell phones, GPS devices, iPods, etc), or 25 Box Tops/Labels for Education, so we can turn your “trash” into cash for the kids at Park! Your first piece of “trash” earns you a FREE juice box. Bring in a second piece of “trash” and get a FREE popcorn. Limit one free juice box and one free popcorn per child.
Interested in helping at this event? Please contact us at [email protected] or sign up at https://goo.gl/8IlD3r. Thank you!!
Dear Parents and Families:
Reading for pleasure inside and outside of school has real and long-lasting benefits. It unlocks the power of information and imagination and helps children discover who they are. Here’s what you can do to help children develop stronger reading skills and a love for reading:
• Set the example. Let children see you read. • Have a collection of books in your home. Update this collection routinely to keep pace with changing tastes and reading skills. • Support our school’s Book Fair. Allow your children to choose their own books to read.
Our Scholastic Book Fair is a reading event that brings the books kids want to read right into our school. It’s a wonderful selection of engaging and affordable books for every reading level. Please make plans to visit our Book Fair and be involved in shaping your child’s reading habits.
Book Fair dates: Friday, October 2nd through Thursday, October 8th during Movie Night and Conference Week Shopping hours: Fri. 10/2 6:30-9pm (during Movie Night), Mon. 10/5 9am-4pm, Tues. 10/6 9am-4pm, Wed. 10/7 11am-7pm, and Thurs. 10/8 11am-8pm
Before you visit the Book Fair, be sure to download the Book Fairs app to help you find the right books for your child. For more information, visit scholastic.com/apps/bookfairs. And, if you are unable to attend the Fair in person, we invite you to visit our online Book Fair at http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/parkcampus. Our online Fair is available from Thursday, October 8th to Thursday, October 29th.
We look forward to seeing you and your family at our Book Fair! Remember, all purchases benefit our school. Also, please consider donating just a couple hours of your time to volunteer at this event. Any amount of time you can spare helps tremendously and is greatly appreciated! See back for more details.
Sincerely,
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Principal!
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Volunteers Needed!!
Volunteer to help kids enjoy our Book Fair! We need YOUR help to make this another fantastic event. You can help kids and families shop, keep shelves stocked and neat, cashier, setup and/or pack up. Every volunteer that works two hours or more receives $10 towards a purchase at this Fair. We especially need volunteers on Thursday evening! It is our busiest time and we pack up the Book Fair when the last conference is done that night. Please consider donating just a couple hours of your time! " Dates/Times*Volunteers*are*Needed:**Thursday,*October*1st*6<10pm*(Setup*Fair)* *********************************************************************Friday,*October*2nd*6:30<9pm*(during*Movie*Night)* ********************************************************************Monday,*October*5th*from*8:30am<4:30pm*for*classroom*visits* ********************************************************************Tuesday,*October*6th*from*8:30am<4:30pm*for*classroom*visits* *******************************************************************Wednesday,*October*7th*from*11am<7pm* *******************************************************************Thursday,*October*8th*from*11am<8pm*(Pack*up*Fair*8<9pm)*
" Please let us know when you can help! Return this form to school, contact us at [email protected], or sign up online at https://goo.gl/Qge1TR. Thank you in advance for all your help and support!
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