Already planning your cookies for the holidays this year? Please consider baking a batch (or more) for Blythe. PTA is hosting our first annual Holiday Bake Sale on December 20 from 3 to 6 pm and we’d love to tempt the neighbors with your delicious treats – cookies, confectionery, candies, fudge, whatever sweets you share with your families, consider sharing with us!
Not a holiday baker? No worries – we hope to have lots of delectables for you to share with your loved ones over the holiday season!
Please sign up here to donate your delights for our first ever Holiday Bake Sale!
Volunteers are needed to help run this event, too! To have some fun, we’re encouraging all volunteers who help with sales to wear the ugliest holiday sweaters they have - a prize will be awarded for the worst! Ho Ho Ho! Use the VolunteerSpot above to sign up to volunteer as well.
 Treat your kid(s) to a hot lunch and treat yourself to a day off from packing lunches!
The next Hot Lunch Fundraiser is Friday, December 6th, The menu will include: slice of cheese pizza, seasonal fruit, cookie and a drink. The cost per child is $5.00. To register your child(ren), go to www.blytheparkpta.org and click on the hot lunch sign-up button located on the right side bar.
If you signed up for Hot Lunch for the remainder of the year, you are all set! No reservations are needed for the remainder of the year. Thanks for supporting the Hot Lunch Fundraiser!
The reservation deadline is Wednesday, December 4th. Reservations will not be excepted after Wednesday. Please make sure to make your reservation by then.
Questions, reply back to blytheparkpta@yahoo.com or contact Lisa Gaynor at 708-442-4509.
This week District 96 schools are celebrating Inclusion Awareness Week. Throughout the week, we encourage you to talk with your children about what inclusion means to them and how we can hold the idea that although each of us is different, we all fit together in this community. Students will be creating murals, hearing special announcements each day, and talking or writing about the Dr.Seuss story “The Sneetches” through the lens of inclusion.
Also, Wednesday, December 4th, is “Mix It Up Day,” when kids can really express themselves and further illustrate that we are more alike than we are different. Students are encouraged to wear creative, silly mixed-up clothing that day.
The week’s activities were organized in conjunction with R.A.I.N., the Riverside Area Inclusion Nework.
In addition, watch for information about screenings of the movie, “Including Samuel,” at the Riverside, Brookfield and North Riverside libraries.
For information about the national Inclusive Schools Week, visit http://inclusiveschools.org/inclusive-schools-week/.
 Bulldog Challenge fitness logs for November are due by this Wednesday, December 4th. Remember, the class with the highest participation will earn a free day in gym! Mrs. Goletz will also be raffling off prizes to students who turn in their sheets! You should have received a November log sheet, but if you need another click on the following link: http://www.blytheparkpta.org/?page_id=2760 and you can find one to download.
Look for December Bulldog Challenge Tracking sheets to come home this week in your child’s backpack. The next Wellness Wednesday is December 11th look for details in next week’s Happenings.
Blythe Park’s Holiday Program will be performed on Monday, December 13th at 7:00pm in the Blythe Park Auditorium. The K-3rd graders will be performing “The Elves Impersonator”.
Come enjoy the 5th Grade Band and Orchestra and the 4th/5th Grade Choir concert on Thursday, December 5th at 6:00pm in the Hauser auditorium.
All the 4th and 5th grade Blythe Park choir and band members will be performing. It should be a great show!
If you have not completed and turned in your November Brain Games - Art Appreciation, please turn them in by Friday to receive credit.
REFLECT on the theme. CREATE an original artwork. BE RECOGNIZED!
PTA Reflections pieces are due today. If your child has completed a piece, please turn into the school office with Reflections/Lisa Gaynor marked on it.
We do have a little wiggle room so if your child is still finishing their piece, please let them finish, just notify Lisa Gaynor @ ltgaynor@aol.com that it will be coming.
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 If you still have an Original Works magnet at home, please purchase or return your student’s magnet to the school office as soon as possible. A reminder and invoice will be coming home soon for any outstanding magnet orders. Thanks again for supporting your PTA
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