Blythe Park PTA Happenings 03/09/2015

Just a reminder, all Blythe Park students in grades 3 through 5 will be taking PARCC tests this week.  Make sure your 3rd, 4th and 5th graders get lots of sleep and good breakfasts!

Due to the fact that directions and student transitions took longer than anticipated on Monday, lunch and recess break will be pushed back ten minutes from 11:40-12:40 PM.  The adjusted lunch break schedule will be maintained from March 10th through March 20th. All students in 1st-5th will be following this schedule.

    

Please join us for the Blythe Park PTA March meeting to be held this Friday, March 13th at 9:00am in the lunch room.  Come find out about PTA’s April and May events.  The nominating committee will nominate officers for the 2015-2016 school year.

Refreshments will be served!  We look forward to seeing you!

The agenda and minutes have been posted.   Please click on the links below to review them.

Meeting Agenda/Minutes for Approval: http://www.blytheparkpta.org/?page_id=22

    

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.

    

Save the afternoon….head on over to Fleetwood Roller Rink after early release next Monday, March 16th for some rollerskating!   Blythe Park PTA has rented out Fleetwood Roller Rink located at 7231 Archer Ave. in Summit. Bring your own roller skates or rent for $3.00. Blythe Park PTA will pay for your families’ roller rink admission. Come skate the afternoon away!

    

The Blythe Park PTa Schwan’s Fundraiser is running for the next 45 days.  Place your order today!  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 below to place your order.

Schwan’s Ordering Instructions
Schwan’s On-Line Ordering Page

Place Order By:
Sunday, March 15th
Order Delivery Date:
Monday, March 16th

Place Order By:
Monday, March 16 - Sunday, March 29
Order Delivery Date:
Monday, March 30

Place Order By:
Monday, March 30-Thursday, April 9 (fundraiser end date)
Order Delivery Date:
Monday, April 13th

    

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.