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PARK SCHOOL CAMPUS - 400 W. TOWNLINE ROAD - ROUND LAKE, IL 60073 !Spooktacular! A Scream! Boo-tiful! Boo-ys and ghouls, did you have a fun October? The PTO held a number of events for you to participate in. Was your favorite Munchkins with Mom? Or the Ice-SCREAM social? Did you enjoy checking out some new reading material at the book fair? Or watching a movie with your friends? Whatever you enjoyed most, we thank you for your participation!!
Our 6th-8th graders enjoyed the annual Halloween Dance! It was a fun night and everyone looked great! The winners of the costume contest (pictured here from left to right) were: Kiara Schmitt & Mia Morello (Cutest - Mike & Sully); Annie Reilly (Funniest - Cat Lady); Harrison Starzec (Scariest - Scary Face); and Alyssa Valenziano & Jadie Kissner (Most Creative - Queen of Hearts).!
Be sure to join us for Movie Night - tonight! You won’t want to miss Disney Pixar’s Inside Out. Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Wear you pajamas and bring your blanket. Come watch Riley’s emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school!!
We hope to see you at our General PTO Meeting on Wednesday, November 11th and Donuts with Dad on Friday, November 13th. Spiritwear and Scrip Gift Cards will be on sale this month - they’re a great gift idea! Also, look for the Mitten Tree in the main office later this month. Pick up a mitten or heart and help a Park family in need this holiday season! !
Don’t forget to like us on Facebook and check out our website! We encourage you to send us your comments !and suggestions - we love hearing from you!! Happy Thanksgiving!!! ! ! NOVEMBER EDITION STAY CONNECTED Around Campus 2 Your Park School Campus PTO is on the web. Check us out on HOLIDAY SHOP 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! ! Book Fair President Irena Braun! Vice President Marjorie! Bianchi Secretary TBA
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! Dinner Treasurer
Appreciation Appreciation David Northern! Staff Liaison Elsa Barrett! Movie Night Ways and Means Conrad Santos Elena Santos ! Munchkins with Mom Event Coordinators Meghan Cripe Jennifer Garraway Nicole Stanley! Volunteer Coordinator Crystal Northern ! Halloween Holiday Shop & Winter Wonderland It’s almost that time of year again! The week of November 30th, we will be sponsoring a Holiday Shop during lunch for students to choose !gifts for friends, family, and teachers!! On Thursday, December 3rd from 6:00 until 8:00pm, we will also be hosting “Winter Wonderland”. The Holiday Shop will be open and crafters/vendors will be available for parents to get some of their holiday shopping done too! In addition, a number of fun activities are being planned for your whole family to partake in. Look for more! information in the coming weeks!! ** Volunteers are needed! ** Please see the Campus Classifieds for more information and sign-up at http://tinyurl.com/ptosignups.! WHAT’S HAPPENING ON CAMPUS
MOVIE NIGHT 11.6.15 7pm! FROM THE PTO! We are always looking for Put on your pajamas! Grab some blankets and pillows! Get some snacks from volunteers to assist us with our fun events. the concession stand and enjoy the movie - Inside Out - with your family and A little of your time can make a big difference to the PTO. friends! Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Don’t forget all the easy ways to help like Francisco. Come watch Riley’s emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness ordering Scrip gift cards , using your Target - disagree over how to best navigate a new city, house, and school! RedCard, or collecting Box Tops and Labels for Education. PTO GENERAL MEETING 11.11.15 6pm! If you can’t spare your time, we’d be happy to also accept Please join us in the Media Center for our general PTO meeting. Learn about donations for raffles or monetary upcoming events, what we’ve done, and how you can get involved. Cast your gifts to enhance our school. vote for the secretary position and get your questions answered. Give us feedback and offer suggestions. We love hearing your input to help make Park the best!! Can’t make it that day? Join us at our next meeting on January 6th! BIRTHDAY BREAKFAST 11.12.15 8:50am! Attention all 1st through 5th graders with birthdays in November! 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.
DONUTS WITH DAD 11.13.15 7:50am! Dads, Grandpas, Uncles - 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. Volunteers are need to help serve and clean-up. Sign-up at http://tinyurl.com/ptosignups. Thank you! SPIRITWEAR ORDERS - COMING SOON!! Look for your winter Spiritwear order forms soon! Remember - Wolves Wear makes a great gift!! Items will be delivered before winter break. Don’t forget - show your school spirit by wearing Spiritwear every Friday!
SCRIP GIFT CARD ORDER FORMS - COMING SOON!! Scrip is just another way to pay for everyday purchases using gift cards instead of cash, checks, or credit cards. Purchase your gift cards from us at face value and we order them at a reduced price. The difference is an instant rebate for our school! A paper order form with some of the most popular stores, restaurants, and vacation destinations will be sent home soon and will be delivered in time for the holidays. In the meantime, you can buy gift cards online (see attached) and have them delivered right to your inbox! Buy them as gifts, use them to help stay on budget, and more. It’s an easy way to raise money for our kids! HOLIDAY SHOP 12.1.15 - 12.4.15! The Holiday Shop will be open during all lunch periods for students to secretly shop for friends, family, teachers, and pets! Look for the gift planning envelope in your child’s backpack and make sure to send it back to school with your child so they can shop. Volunteers are needed to help the students choose and wrap their gifts. Please contact us at [email protected] to help or sign up now at http://tinyurl.com/ptosignups. Please consider donating just a few hours of your time to help make this a wonderful memory for all the kids! The kids need YOU!! WINTER WONDERLAND/CATALOG ORDER PICK-UP 12.3.15 6-8pm! WINTER BREAK 12.21.15 - 1.1.16! CHUCK E. CHEESE DINNER NIGHT - VERNON HILLS 1.20.16 3-9pm RUMMAGE SALE 1.23.16 LOOK WHAT WE DID! 10/2 - National Custodian’s Day! Lunch, gifts, and posters can’t thank our custodians enough for all their hard work all year long! Mr. Bob Smith, Mr. Manuel Soto, and Mr. Justin Wiseman - Thank you for all you do for all of us every day!! 10/2 - Movie Night: Home! What a great night! Everyone enjoyed watching Tip and Oh embark on the road trip of a lifetime as the fugitives realized that there’s a lot more at STAFF SPOTLIGHT stake than intergalactic relations. This movie really had everyone’s ! attention, but the gym was open for anyone that wanted to take a little break! Missed it?! Don’t worry! Our next Movie Night is tonight!! Katlyn O’Brien 10/2-10/8 - Book Fair! ! Thank you to everyone that came out to support us during conference week and ordered online, too! A HUGE thank you to all our wonderful What do you do at Park? volunteers that helped all week long. Without you, the book fair would not 4th grade teacher! have been a success. We greatly appreciated the countless hours you spent at the cash register, organizing shelves, helping students shop, setting up, and How long have you been in your packing up! Mrs. Pickens was able to select $500 worth of books off the position? First year as a 4th grade teacher! Book Fair for the library. Stay tuned for updates on what else we are able to contribute to Park as a result of your purchases.! Favorite part of your job: 10/8 - Birthday Breakfast! My students :)! 10/8 - Staff Appreciation Dinner! Other job you would like to try: Our hard-working staff enjoyed a Mexican dinner from Garden Fresh in Round Lake Beach during their late night of conferences. Fajitas, tamales, Event planning! stuffed poblano peppers, apple pie a la mode, and much more, helped the staff refuel for the next round of conferences. What would we do without Fun or interesting fact about you: all our wonderful Park staff?! Our kids are lucky to have you! Thank you I like to be outdoors as often as I can!! for all you do every day!! 10/16 - Munchkins with Mom! Your favorite place to go: What a great turnout! We love to see so many families involved! Thank Sporting events/parks! you to everyone that came out to learn more more about their child’s school, meet their classmates and other parents, and walk them to class. Hobbies or interests: The kids LOVED it! Remember - “When schools, families, and community Reading, spending time with family/friends! groups work together to support learning, children tend to do better in school, stay in school longer, and like school more” (Anne Henderson & Favorite dessert or candy: Karen Mapp). Thank you to Starbucks in Grayslake for donating the coffee!! Chocolate peanut butter ice cream! 10/20 - Dave & Buster’s Spirit Night! 10/29 - Picture Retake Day! Favorite band/singer: 10/30 - Halloween Events! Jack Johnson! K-4th Grade Halloween Parades – We don’t know who enjoyed themselves more – the kids walking in the parade or the parents watching?! Great job Favorite book: on so many new and creative costumes! ! So many… Matilda! 5th Grade Ice Cream Social – After watching the parade, 5th graders had some delicious frozen goodies and had an opportunity to take a picture with One word that describes you: their friends. It was a great way to end the day and begin the weekend!! Energetic! 6-8th Grade Halloween Dance – The 6-8th graders had a spooktacular time at their annual Halloween Dance! DJ Dracula played everyone’s requests and Bears or Packers? the costumes were a SCREAM! A special thank you to all the volunteers Da Bears! that helped make this a special night for all our middle schoolers, especially the GCHS NHS students who spent hours decorating before the event. CAMPUS CLASSIFIEDS
HOLIDAY SHOP FUNDRAISE WHILE YOU SHOP TRASH TO CASH HELP WANTED • • • COLLECTION NEEDED • • •! Purchase Scrip Gift Cards! Scrip is • • • Love the Holidays? We need YOU! just another way to pay for Box Tops. Labels for Education. Ink Our Holiday Shop held December everyday purchases using gift Cartridges. Small Electrics. Don’t 1 thru December 4 requires all cards instead of cash, checks, or forget to send in all your “trash” hands on deck! Students will be credit cards. Purchase your gift to school. All your “trash” earns secretly shopping for family, cards from us at face value and money for our students! Keep in friends, teachers, and pets during we order them at a reduced price. mind that Box Tops have an their lunches - they need our The difference is an instant expiration date, so please keep help! Come help them shop or rebate for our school! You can sending them in! wrap their gifts. Please contact even buy them online and have ! us at [email protected] them delivered right to your SHOP AT TARGET or sign up using our calendar at inbox! Buy them as gifts, use • • •! http://tinyurl.com/ptosignups. them to help stay on budget, and Link the Target Red DEBIT Card to more. It’s an easy way to raise your checking account! Helping our ! money for our kids! See the school earn money is as easy as GET INVOLVED IN 2015-2016 attached documents for more SHOPPING at TARGET with the HELP WANTED information. Target Red Debit card. Next time • • •! you’re in Target, bring a blank Now is the time to think about check with you, and set up your joining the PTO! Interested in ! Read 20 minutes account right there with the learning how to get more cashier! It’s easy, it saves you involved in the 2015-2016 school ! tonight 5% on all purchases, you get year? Several Board and FREE shipping online, AND it Chairperson positions are still ! earns the school 1% back on all available and are open to all Park ! purchases. Just make sure you staff, parents, and guardians. sign up online at target.com/tcoe Commitment times very from ! 2+6=8 and choose our school to have all just a few hours once a year to your purchases count toward our regular year long responsibilities ! earnings! and duties. There is something ! ! for everyone and we would LOVE ! ! VISITORS WANTED to have you! For more ! • • •! information, please contact us at ! ! We want to help you stay informed. [email protected]. ! Visit us at ! www.parkcampuspto.com to ! ! learn more about events, sign up I to help, get copies of flyers and School ! J order forms, order products, and is ! ! Wolves Wear much more. You can also like us cool ! on Facebook - Park Campus PTO - ! to get regular updates on school www.parkcampuspto.com! happenings. ! ! ! Park Campus PTO Presents
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Friday, November 6th 7:00pm
(Doors open at 6:30pm)
Admission: $1.00 per person ! ! *!Rated!PG!for!mild!thematic!elements!and!some!action.!*! ! Bring your PJ’s, blankets, and pillows and join us for the 2nd 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 http://tinyurl.com/ptosignups. Thank you!!
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