The Brain Game Challenge for October is Book It! This reading initiative challenges your child to read every day. Teachers will be sending home a reading log this week. If your child meets the monthly challenge, they will receive a certificate for a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut AND a Bulldog Brain Games Prize!
Look for the reading log! Happy reading!
 The Original Works Art program is underway. Students will be in and out of the art room room to create their keepsakes this week and next. If your child misses their classroom’s date, there will be make-up sessions. Many thanks to the volunteers who are making this program work! Information on submitting additional work will be coming home soon.
Any questions, please contact Riia O’Donnell at riiao@comcast.net.
 The District 96 calendars have arrived! For those of you who have purchased a calendar, look for the calendar in your child’s backpack this week.
Have not purchased a District 96 calendar or Blythe Park School directory yet? You still can. Just fill out the attached form and send your payment to the school office. Once payment is received, your calendar and/or directory will be sent home in your child’s backpack.
Any questions, send a note to blytheparkpta@yahoo.com or contact Lisa Gaynor at ltgaynor@aol.com.
The Bulldog Challenge starts this week!
A description of the program as well as the fitness tracking sheet was sent home last week. Students can begin counting their fitness activity points on October 1st. Remember they get 1 point for every 30 minutes of activity, for example, football, soccer, tennis, swimming, yoga, dancing, climbing trees, raking leaves…anything that gets them moving! We encourage all students to particpate! Our first Wellness Wednesday will be October 9th and will feature volleyball! Please contact Jill Glawe, pjglawe@yahoo.com.
If you could not make it last week, this Wednesday, October 2nd our Library/Media specialist Katie Moroney will meet with volunteers from 3:10-3:45pm to review the library procedures. She will be giving an overview of Library Search and Destiny Quest, two programs the children (4th grade and up) are learning to use for their research needs. Come sign-up to read. The kindergartners through third graders love when their parents come to read a Monarch book.
Thanks again for you help!
 
The first graders are collecting yogurt lids and PopTops. The PopTops will benefit The Ronald McDonald House and the Yoplait yogurt lids will benefit breast cancer. Please drop your donations off at the 1st Grade classroom. Thank you!
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Keep clipping those Box Tops$ and sending them to school in a zippered plastic bag with your child’s classroom name on it. Each month, the classroom with the most Box Top$ turned in will receive a prize for all the students in the classroom. We also be keeping track by classroom for an end-of-the-year prize for the class that submits the most Box Top$. Here is a link to all the products that feature Box Top$http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/clip/Brands.aspx
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Help earn equipment to support our arts, athletics and academic programs at Blythe Park by clipping & saving your Labels for Education! Simply look for the label on participating brands, clip it out and drop in the “Labels for Education” drop box right outside the office. Click on this link to see the complete product list:http://www.labelsforeducation.com/earn/participating-products.aspx
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Please continue to bring in your used ink cartridges, empty chip bags and empty drink pouches. Collection bins are outside the front office. Lisa Gaynor @ 708-442-4509.
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Clip the “Support your School” label on the back of the Tyson Project A+ products. Drop your labels off in the collection bins located outside the office. Each coupon can be redeemed for 24 cents. Check out the program at http://projectaplus.tyson.com/
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To continue our recycling initiatives, Blythe Park PTA is now recycle unwanted crayons. All you have to do is bring your unwanted crayons to school and drop off in the crayon recycling bin located outside the office. Please leave the wrappers on the crayons.
 FUN FAIR is coming up quickly! We are looking for parent volunteers to help with Fun Fair on Friday, October 18th. Fun Fair will be held in the evening from 6:30pm-8:00pm. To make this event a success, we need lots of volunteers to run the games. If you are interested and available in helping, please sign up on-line by using the link below.
 Each year, our PTA holds a used book sales. It has been very successful thanks to donations from the Blythe Park and Riverside communities. We collect items all year long! If you have any of the following gently used or new items and would like to donate them, please place them in the drop box located outside the school office.
- Books
- DVDs
- Magazines (Children’s Legos, Highlights, Cricket, Martha Stewart Living, etc.)
Bargain Books and More Sale will be held at Blythe Park in April. It’s a great sale, everything is bargain-priced, and our PTA depends on this super fundraiser to help support our programs. Any questions, please contact Jan Ellen Eckardt, 442-7150.
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