Blythe Park PTA Happenings 02/23/2015

Your Read to Succeed logs are due today February 23rd. Please turn all completed logs into the office.

Every Blythe Park student who completes six hours of reading and submits a signed reading log by MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23^rd will receive one free admission ticket to a participating Six Flags Theme Park this summer.

STUDENTS: Read for fun for a total of 6 hours, track your time, have your parent/guardian sign the reading log form, and return it to your teacher or have your parent/guardian email it to the School Coordinator, Debby Galloway at dastrama@gmail.com by MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd.

PARENTS: Print the reading log form listed below and help track your child’s reading, sign the form, and send it back to school or email to the School Coordinator, Debby Galloway at dastrama@gmail.com .

Tickets are expected to be arrive around May 10th.

Any questions, contact Debby Galloway at 312/519-4887

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Treat your kid(s) to a hot lunch and treat yourself to a day off from packing lunches!

The next Hot Lunch Fundraiser will be held on Friday, February 27th. 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.

Reservation deadline is Wednesday, February 25th. This program is only for children that have the option of staying at school for lunch.

If you have signed-up and paid for the entire year, no reservations are needed.

    

This year’s talent show will held this Thursday, February 26th at 7pm in the auditorium with the dress rehearsal on Wednesday, February 25th from 3:00pm-5:00pm in the auditorium. Make sure to come and check out Blythe Park’s talent! Any questions, contact Mary Smith 708-447-7436.

    

Blythe Park PTA will hold an Adult Social-” A Night to Come Together” this Friday, February 27th from 7:00-10:00pm at Marlins located at 7236 39th St. in Lyons. The ticket price of $40.00 per person will include food (burgers, chicken sandwiches, pasta & salad) and drink (domestic beer, well drinks and soda).

The evening will feature a split the pot raffle and some other fun raffles.

Grab your spouse, a friend and join us for a night out supporting Blythe and a local business.

Sign up on-line by clicking on this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18NFMgShVmQwTl8Q-qXp1YsEgXMABC9VOC0fXPtL-GCU/viewform?c=0&w=1 or complete and return the attached flyer.

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llinois largest waterpark, Raging Waves Waterpark, located in Yorkville is offering a fitness program for kids.

Children are invited to Plunge into Fitness this spring as Raging Waves Waterpark joins the battle against childhood obesity. The fitness initiative runs now through April 13th, and each child completing the program requirements during this time period will receive a free Raging Waves full day admission pass.

The Plunge into fitness program requires a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise each day, which totals 25 hours for the seven week period. Any activity that increases heart rate qualifies including: walking, running, biking, playing team sports, skateboarding, swimming, jumping rope and hopscotch. The fitness log that needs to be completed is attached. Once complete, a parent will sign it and the child will turn it into the school office by April 13th.

Any questions, contact Mia Stanovich.

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The Blythe Park PTA Schwan’s Fundraiser starts today. Please look in your child’s backpack for the Schwan’s catalog and ordering instructions. If you place an order by Sunday, March 2nd, your order should be delivered by Monday, March 9th.

Schwan’s Ordering Instructions

Schwan’s On-Line Ordering Page

    

Have any Box Tops sitting around? All Box Tops that we send in by March 1st will count toward this year’s check to Blythe Park PTA. So check and make sure you have turned all your family’s Box Tops in by Friday, February 27th.

Contact Laura Rubio at rubiolaura1@gmail.com with any questions.

    

Each term is one year. No person can serve more than two consecutive terms in the same position. Therefore, if an office holder has completed the one year term, he/she is welcome to apply for one more year in that same position. However, it is mandatory that office holders seeking a second term in the same position, office holders seeking a different position on the executive board, and general members seeking a position on the executive board submit a formal application to be considered by the nominating committee. Every person desiring a position on the Blythe Park PTA executive board must submit a formal application. All applications are confidential and will only be discussed between members of the nominating committee.

To make your decision easier, descriptions of the positions are listed following the application. Please complete the application form below and return it by Friday, March 6th to the Blythe Park Office PTA box, Lisa Gaynor, Rory Dominick, Chaza Schira , Margaret Ryzewski or Julie Stack. If more than one position interests you, please designate which position is your 1st choice.

Questions? Please contact Julie Stack at (773) 251-0168 or stackjulie@yahoo.com or Lisa Gaynor at 708-442-4509 or ltgaynor@aol.com.

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Throughout the month of February and early March, Blythe Park will be working on the school-wide Bulldog book challenge. The students will keep a reading log in their folder on which they will log the number of books they read, Please initial the log once a book is read. We will check the logs each Friday, so it is best if the sheet is kept in their homework folder so as not to be inadvertently forgotten at home. Blythe Park will keep track of our school-wide goal throughout the entire month, with the hope of meeting or beating our target number. Let’s make it happen! The tracking log for the Bulldog Book Challenge was sent home in your child’s backpack. Please note, PTA will also accept the Bulldog Reading Logs as proof for the Read to Succeed Program.

Any questions, contact Ms. Gorman at gormanc@district96.org.