Blythe Park PTA Happenings 05/19/2014
Blythe Park Student Council is organizing a fundraiser to raise money for Blythe Park School’s Angel Fund.
The Angel Fund is for students at our school that may need help purchasing school supplies, cold weather clothing, field trips, etc.
*Every Wednesday in May, the students can play BINGO during their lunchtime recess.
*Student must pay $1.00 (cash only) to participate.
*Students bring their cash to the BINGO game.
*Students without money will not be allowed to play BINGO.
*Students may not pay in advance.
LUNCH TIME BINGO SCHEDULE
May 21
May 28
11:35-11:55- 4th & 5th grade
11:55-12:25- K-3rd grade
(Kindergarteners must have an adult from home come with them to participate in bingo.)
THANK YOU!!!
Questions? kingr@district96.org

Treat your kid(s) to a VARIETY lunch and treat yourself to a day off from packing lunches!
The Variety Lunch concept will be tested Friday, May 30th. The menu will include: Buona Beef Chicken Tenders, seasonal fruit, cookie and a drink. The meal will include four all white meat breaded chicken tenders with BBQ sauce. The cost per child is $5.00. To register your child(ren), go to www.blytheparkpta.org and click on the variety lunch sign-up button located on the right side bar.
Please note, the Variety lunch is not taking the place of the last Hot Lunch. The last Hot Lunch will take place Friday, June 6th. Everyone who would like to participate in the Variety Lunch must place a reservation and remit payment.
The reservation deadline is Friday, May 23rd. No Reservations will not be accepted after Friday, May 23rd. Please make sure to make your reservation by then.

The ACES walk will be held this Friday, May 23rd!
The ACES walk will be the culmination of this year’s fitness program. At 11:35am, all the Blythe Park students will participate in the ACES mile walk. After the walk, the students will eat lunch in the amphitheater and a short awards ceremony will be conducted. All parents are welcome to join us in the walk on May 23rd! Come to school at 11:30am and meet us in the parking lot on the south side of the school.
We still need a bunch of parent volunteers to help with the ACES walk. If you are available and interested, please click on the VolunteerSpot below. Thank you!

Blythe Park PTA will hold a meet and greet for the new Blythe Park principal Casimira Gorman on Wednesday, May 28th. Please join us at 8:30am in the lunch room. Babysitting will be available.


On Tuesday, May 27th Blythe Park will hold a flag ceremony in honor of Memorial Day. The Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts will be conducting the ceremony. Please join us at 8:15am at the flag pole for this beautiful program.
The last big PTA event, FIELD DAY, is coming up quickly! Field Day will be held on the last day of school Wednesday, June 11th. Please note is a date change from Tuesday, June 3rd as noted on the District calendar.
We will be looking for parent volunteers to help with Field Day. Field Day will be held in the morning from 8:45am-11:30am. To make this event a success, we need lots of volunteers to run the games. Please take a look at your calendars! To volunteer, click on the VolunteerSpot below. If you would like to volunteer and need to bring a sibling, please do. Just make a note on VolunteerSpot that a sibling will be attending. Thanks!

Any questions, contact Lisa Gaynor @ ltgaynoraol.com.

District 96 will offering two sessions of summer school this year.
Session 1 – Monday, June 16 through Thursday, July 3
Session 2 – Monday, August 4 through Friday, August 15
Registration for Summer School has been extended to June 2. Click on this link to the District’s summer school website - http://blythepark1.district96.org/~preblek/D96_Summer_School/Welcome.html
Make sure to check out Ms. Helfrich’s basketball camp which is being offered in Session 2. Below is a flyer with all the information.
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