Blythe Park PTA Happenings 03/02/2015

February fitness logs for the Bulldog Challenge are due by this Wednesday, March 4th. March calendars will be coming home and are also available on the website (www.blytheparkpta.org). Keep exercising —it helps you keep warm!

    

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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Blythe Park Student Council Helping Hands is sponsoring The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Pasta for Pennies program.

Here are the details:

*Each child will receive a box to collect spare change.
(The box can be reused for the entire program.)

*Children can bring their change to school March 9th-25th.

*Every time a child brings more than $1.00, he/she will be able to add their name to a raffle. (Only one raffle ticket will be issued per student/per day.)

*On March 26th, we will pick 35 names from the students entered in the raffle to attend a pasta lunch at school from the Olive Garden!!!!!! Date of Olive Garden lunch to be determined.

So, go look under your sofa cushions and car seats to find all your loose change!

It’s that simple to help a great cause!

Oh…and every student will be bringing home a letter with his/her collection box that has a coupon on the bottom for a free kids meal at Olive Garden!! YUM!!!

Any questions? Send them to Mrs. King at kingr@district96.org.

    

The Blythe Park PTA Schwan’s Fundraiser is running for the next 45 days. Last week, the Schwan’s catalog came home in the child’s backpack. On all orders placed by April 9th, 20% of the product and 40% of eGift Card sales will go back to Blythe Park PTA. In addition, Schwan’s will contribute 5% of all orders to PTA for the rest of the year. Click on the links to place your order.

    

Save the afternoon….head on over to Fleetwood Roller Rink after early release on Monday, March 16th for some rollerskating! Look for all the details in the next Happenings.

    

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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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.