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OCTOBER 2016NEWSLETTERThursday, October 13th
Meeting at 7:00PM in APMS Library
Please join us in planning events that benefit our children!
The 2016-2017 PTO Board OCTOBER PTO EVENTSBarbie Exline, President 5th – Roller Skating
Sharon Daufenbach, Vice President 13th – PTO meeting
Linda Rana, Secretary 18th – Chuck E. Cheese Night
Dana Chudzinski, Treasurer 20th – Wendy’s Night
JoEllen Martin, Asst. Treasurer 28th – Halloween Bash!
PRESIDENT’S MEMO
Happy Fall!
Boy, do I LOVE this time of year!! Visiting pumpkin patches, going apple picking, playing in the leaves with the kids and starting to plan new events at the school for the children!
What an AWESOME first month of school! We've held 4 events this past month including Roller Skating, Chuck E. Cheese, Wendy's and let's not forget the packed Back to School Bash! Our Back to School Bash had a huge turnout and raised over $1,000 through memberships and the sale of snacks. This is phenomenal since we gave away the Pizza, Hot dogs, White Castles, Chips, and Drinks to our members! AND talk about games...To be with the 'new age' we had Wii bowling challenges on the Pro Board, Bingo, Win Lose or Draw, and Bean Bags. I loved seeing all of the children smiling and having so much fun! It is our goal to continue to provide fun events throughout the year for students and their families and to continue to provide necessary funding to the schools as needed for various programs and supplies. We are going to do that this year by adding a couple of FUN nights out for the parents! We will have 2 Bingo nights! Mark your calendars for Wed, Nov 16th and Wed, March 22nd. Depending on how successful they are, will determine if we will do more. Another exciting adventure is creating and selling a " ONE OF A KIND" Monopoly board in which our local businesses are the real estate spots on the board! Can you imagine someone
looking at your business on the board every time they play the game??? How Cool is that? We will be selling these spots soon. Contact me if you're interested.
Our first delicious fundraiser the PTO is sponsoring is the sale of Butter Braids! Hopefully, some of you had a chance to sample some at the Back to School Bash. Not only are they delicious AND you will have them in time for the Thanksgiving holiday, BUT... We will make $5.00 profit for each Butter Braid sold! Please ask your friends and family if they would like to purchase some, they will love them! All orders are due by 10/15. If your child did not bring home an order form, please visit our web site to print one. arborparkpto.com<http://arborparkpto.com>
Come see all of the rest of the exciting things we have planned for the school year! Please join us at our next PTO meeting on Thursday, Oct 13th in the Arbor Park Library at 7PM. Not only will we update everyone on various events that we have planned, a representative from the district will update us on each school. Please come voice your ideas or concerns and see where your money is spent.
Attached below are some supplies Katelyn Schuit, a Speech Therapist at Kimberly Heights bought with money she earned from attending our PTO events. She even roller skated with the kids at Tinley Park Roller Rink. Way to go Katelyn!
A wise woman and a great friend once told me parents have many different ways to help the PTO, schools and the children and we must share them!
No Time, No Money... Join the PTO and you can go to most PTO sponsored events with your family "FREE" all year! Ask us for a Food 4 Less card so the PTO can earn 5% on all of your purchases, Purchase gift cards for Christmas through our Manna program so we can receive rewards, save Coca Cola points for us to purchase soda for our events.
Little Time, No Money... Attend our PTO Meeting once a month and volunteer to help at some of our events
No Time, Little Money... Purchase some of our fundraising items like Butter Braids, Fannie Mae and Little Caesars. Attend our fundraising events such as Roller Skating, Wendy's, Chuck E. Cheese, Fun Fair, Holiday, Shop, and 5K Run.
Things, I'm looking forward to... Our 2nd Annual Halloween Bash which will be held on Friday, October 28th, 5-8PM!!! We will start organizing and planning soon... If you have any ideas or want to be on our team, we'd LOVE to have you! Please meet with us before the PTO meeting on 10/13 at 6PM. We could definitely use some help to make it AWESOME for the children!!!
LOOKING TO RECYCLE SOME HALLOWEEN COSTUMES? BRING THEM TO THE BASH! WE WILL SELL ALL DONATED COSTUMES AND USE THE PROFIT FOR OUR SCHOOLS!
" At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of the parents." Jane D. Hall
Hope to see you at the meeting!Barbie Exline, PTO [email protected] 708-655-0825
visit us at arborparkpto.com<http://arborparkpto.com> or on facebook @arborparkpto
Sincerely,
Barbie Exline, PTO President
TREASURER’S REPORT
Wow, hard to believe it is already October! Here are the September fundraiser figures: Chuck E Cheese $248.14Food for Less $795.69 (for the months of June - August)Roller Skating $61.00Back to School Bash $1,006.04 Allstate and CNB Bank have also signed up to be PTO Business Sponsors! We are off to a GREAT start this year!
Looking forward to seeing you all at our upcoming PTO Meeting!
As always, if there are any questions, comments or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Dana Chudzinski – Treasurer
BUTTER BRAID FUNDRAISER
Butter Braid Fundraiser flyers went home on September 30th!All orders and money for these tasty pastries are due by October 17th!Order pick up will be on November 15th.Extra order forms can be found on the PTO website.Please do not hesitate to contact Dana Chudzinski with any [email protected]
HALLOWEEN BASH
“Wickedly FUN Halloween BASH”
FOOD. Music. Games. Fun!!!
Mark your calendars… the pto will be sponsoring our second annual Halloween bash that will be a night to remember…
Join us at arbor park school on Friday, October 28th, from 5-8pm.
Don’t forget to wear your costumes!!!
This is a family event! Pto members “free”, $1.00 others
Please call Barbie if you want to volunteer in planning or at the event
708-655-0825
ROLLER SKATING EVENT “BLACK LIGHT” Roller Skating
DO YOU LIKE TO ROLLER SKATE?
We have a FUN night planned to skate with your friends!The PTO is sponsoring a roller skating night on Wednesday, October 5th, 6PM-8:30PM.This will be a “BLACK LIGHT” Skate, which means you wear a WHITE shirt and you will GLOW! It will be $4.00 to skate and $2.00 more if you need to rent skates. Come out and enjoy the FUN! It also pays to come out and skate, with EVERY paid admission, you receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win a FREE ROLLER SKATING party for 10 with food and drinks included!!! How Cool is that???
Any Questions, please call Barbie Exline 708-655-0825
CHUCK-E-CHEESE
This is a great fundraiser that helps us raise money for the schools while having FUN!!!! Your support helps fund activities for all of our schools. Our next Chuck E Cheese night is Tuesday, Oct. 18th from 3p.m. - 9p.m. Each child gets 10 FREE GAME TOKENS! We hope to see you there! If you have any questions, please contact Elizabeth Wyllie – [email protected]
WENDY’S NIGHT Costume Night at Wendy’s
Our first Wendy’s night of the year was a success! We made $325.00!! Not bad for 3 hours of FUN with the kids! We had about 50 children throughout the night, played lots of games and had tons of FUN! The “big hit” of the night was BINGO! While having all this fun and eating great food, we make 15% of the sales between 5-8PM.
I am so excited about our NEXT Wendy’s night. This will be our Halloween “Costume Night”! Come in your costumes to win prizes. We will also be playing Spooky Bozo Buckets, Creepy Spider Web Throw and Scary Witch Hat Toss among other games. EEEIIKK!!!
Please come out with your family and friends for this spooktacular evening on Thursday, Oct. 20th. Let’s see how much FUN we can have and how much money we can make for our schools!!! More details will be coming home in the Friday folders as the date draws nearer…
MANNA GIFT CARDS
Just a reminder - we will be doing a Christmas Manna this year - you will have 2 chances to purchase gift cards for the holidays. Remember.......gift cards are great stocking stuffers, teacher gifts, or just that hard to buy for person. Dates that forms will be due are Friday, December 2nd with delivery December 9th and again December 9th with delivery December 16th. So start
thinking about Christmas shopping. If you have any questions, feel free to call JoEllen Martin at 708-822-3609.
HOLIDAY SHOP VENDORS
The holidays are quickly approaching!Be on the lookout for Holiday Shop vendor registration in the next couple of weeks!Vendors will have (3) options this year:Platinum Vendors $45.00 - Includes table located in the Cafeteria Gold Vendors $35.00 - Includes table located in the HallwaySilver Vendors $25.00 - Includes table located in the LibraryIf you know anyone outside of the district who would be interested in participating as a vendor, please feel free to pass along my contact information!Dana Chudzinsi – [email protected]
PTO MEMBERSHIP
What a year so far…we have 234 paid family members and 141 paid staff members as of September 30th. If you have not become a member…please contact JoEllen Martin at 708-822-3609 and she can send you the form needed. It is a one-time a year charge of $10.00. We are still accepting memberships. Remember….PTO members receive a laminated calendar and also a green apple which entitles you to attend all “free” PTO sponsored events at no charge. Non-members pay $1.00 per person.
So come on……….join the fun….BECOME A MEMBER
KMS NEWSPAPER
Another school year has started and the KMS News printing presses are raring to go! Permission slips have been coming in this past week with eager 3rd and 4th grade reporters that are ready for their assignments on our school newspaper. We have many reporters that will be writing articles and interviewing teachers throughout the year. Also included in the paper will be writing samples and drawings submitted by the teachers of Kimberly and Morton Gingerwood Schools.
This is a PTO sponsored project and we will have 3 editions of the newspaper, one for every trimester. I am once again excited to be working with the children on this endeavor. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me…
Liz Novak [email protected]
SCHOOL REPORTS:
KIMBERLY HEIGHTS Welcome to October!
KHS had a very busy September! We are looking forward to the colorful changes autumn brings.
We kicked off a very successful "walk for tech" on September 29th. The students had a wonderful time cheering for each other. Thank you to all of the parents who volunteered their time to make this walk very successful. We will share the total amount we raised in our November news. We are humbled by all of the donations we have received and are still receiving. The money raised will be used to purchase one Ipad charging station for each classroom as well as STEM materials for all of our preschool and kindergarten classrooms . Your support in helping our fundraising efforts is greatly appreciated. We will be posting pictures on our KHS school website very soon!
Please make a note of the following important dates in October:
October 4th: Kindergarten field trip to the County Line Apple Orchard. Please be sure to send your child with a lunch if their lunch card will not be used for the day.
October 5th: Preschool field trip to Forest View Farms. A reminder will be going home on Monday so please be sure to check your child's backpack for field trip details.
Taffy apple information will be sent home on Friday October 7th. If you are interested in ordering these delicious apples please turn in the form and money in an envelope no later than Friday October 14th. Orders after this date cannot be accepted. Apple order of 6 or less will be sent home on the 26th. Order of 6 or more will need to be picked up by an adult.
October 10th: Columbus Day: No School
October 13th: KHS book fair 5:30-7:00pm. Come join us for an evening of fun! Vote for your favorite classroom pumpkin in our pumpkin decorating contest, listen to stories read by our guest reader, and purchase chocolate caramel covered pretzels.
October 28th is an Early Release Day: Kindergarten students will be released at 12:30pm. Preschool Session 2 does not have school on this day. Preschool Session 1 will attend at their regular times. It is extremely important that you be at your child's bus stop on time. Students who are not picked up are taken to the next receiving school. Please be sure you mark these dates and have arrangements made for pick up.
October 31st: Happy Halloween! Preschool Session 1 parade will take place at 9:15am. Preschool Session 2 and Kindergarten will parade at 12:45pm. Please be on time. We will begin at the exact times listed.
We look forward to seeing all of our families throughout the month of October!
Happy Fall!
Principal Lopez and the KHS Staff
MORTON GINGERWOOD Thanks to everyone who helped us to raise nearly $2,700 through our Choice Club Fundraiser. The top selling students were Jada Townsend, who sold $1116.50, Joe Schmitz, who sold $352.00 and John McGinnis, who sold $271.00. Proceeds from the fundraiser will be used to enrich our educational programs.
MGS Spirit wear will be delivered to us soon. When items arrive, the office will distribute the clothing to students to take home. Can’t wait to see all the MGS Owls show their school pride!!
Students will learn all about fire safety when the OFFD visits MGS on October 14th. Firemen will show students a video and discuss creating a plan with family members in case of a fire in the home. Students will also get to tour one of the fire trucks with their class.
Our Halloween Parade will be on October 30th at 10:00 am, rain or shine. The parade will begin at the main entrance. Students will walk across the blacktop along the north side of the building and reenter the school through Door 5 on the building’s west side. Cones will be placed outside to show parents and guests where to stand so that they can easily see all of the wonderful costumes. Come a few minutes before 10:00am to get a good spot! If weather forces us to host the parade inside, parents will line up in the gym and in the hallways to see the students. Let’s hope for beautiful weather.
Session I of After School P.E. will begin on October 6th. Mr. Flynn will contact those families who made the sign-up deadline to let them know which session they are in, so this week’s Friday folder for his letter. After School P.E. is held on Tuesdays after school through January. There are a total
of three sessions, each four weeks long. Students are dismissed to their parents in the main hall at 4:30 pm.
Happy Fall!
Ms. Hogan and the MGS Faculty and Staff
SCARLET OAK
Dear Scarlet Oak Community:
Thank you for supporting our school with the Great American fundraiser! Spirit wear orders were also a great success. A second spirit wear order will be available on Monday, November 21 at our first parent conference night.
During the week of October 3rd-7th donations will be accepted for P.A.W.S. A letter was sent home regarding the items acceptable for donation.
October 5th is National Walk to School Day. SOS will be participating; students will be dropped off at the police/fire station complex and walk to school.
October 12 will be our second all school fitness walk. Parents are welcome to join. The walk will begin at 10am. Thank you to all who participated in our first walk.
Red Ribbon week will start on Monday, October 24th and conclude on Friday, October 28th with our annual Halloween parade. This will also be SOS spirit week.
Winners of the Fire Prevention Art Contest from SOS were Jenna Mizyed, Joshua Williams, and Maria Carrillo. Thank you to Mrs. Kuzel for helping with the contest.
Have a safe Halloween!
Principal Scot Pierce and the SOS faculty and staff
ARBOR PARK Changing SeasonsParents and students, we are in full swing as we officially exited summer and began the Fall season. As I’ve mentioned elsewhere and to our staff, it takes 21 days for a behavior to become a habit. Reflection is a strong learning tool and I’m asking every reader to reflect on the year so far. We are off to an incredible start to our school year. Student behavior has been some of the best I’ve ever
witnessed and the passion from our staff to deliver their best for our students is commendable. However, we have just started our race to June.
Student Council’s Back to School Bash was attended by over 300 students who were treated to a professional DJ, games, food and excellent company. Thanks to all of our organizers and volunteers!
Below are a few pictures from the Student Council’s “Back to School Bash”.
PBISOur PBIS team met for the first time in early September and our meetings will be held every first Wednesday of the month at 7:10 am. Below you will find our average referral rate per day.
APMS is currently averaging 0.43 referrals per day with puts us in the 95th percentile of PBIS schools with our student population. While we are excited for such great momentum, it’s typical for schools implementing PBIS to see a spike as we refine our data collection and analysis process
APMS on Social MediaSo many great things occur here at APMS so we are trying to document as many of those moments as possible. Through newsletters, website content, social media Alert Now messages, we are seeking to increase our communication with our families and the communities we serve.Visit us on Twitter:https://twitter.com/arborprincipal
Website ChangesPLEASE NOTE: We have added some new tabs to our website that list our main dates for the building on the Monthly Calendar tab as well as adding our new newsletter format that is evolving under Panther Principal News.
Key DatesTrimester One Midterm-10/3 PTO Roller Skating Party-10/5Columbus Day (No School)-10/10 Lifetouch Picture Retakes-10/12Girls BBall @ Kolmar-10/12 8th Grade Field Trip Meeting-10/13Girls BBall @ Independence-10/13 PTO Meeting-10/13Girls BBall @ Prairie-10/17 PTO Talent Show Tryouts-10/17
Girls BBall @ Hille-10/18 8th Grade Springfield Trip-10/20Student Council Fall Fest-10/20 Girls BBall vs. Hamlin @ APMS-10/24Girls BBall vs. Central Park @ APMS-10/25 Girls BBall @ Kolmar-10/27Early Release Day (1PM)-10/28 PTO Halloween Bash-10/28
Have a great month of October!
Principal Ron Murabito and the staff of Arbor Park Middle School
THANK YOU TO OUR PTO SPONSORS