Author: eakocs

Box Tops For Eagles

It is time once again for a Box Tops For Education collection sheet challenge! Going home with your children this week will be a ‘Hooray For Snow Days’ collection sheet that holds 10 Box Tops coupons (full directions on the reverse side) During winter break help your child complete the sheet and return it to the front office between Monday January 9th and Friday January 13th to receive a prize. Fill in as many as you like! Each sheet earns $1.00 for Irving and each completed sheet earns your child one prize. You can pick up more sheets from the front office or download them from digital backpack. please note: after January 13th we will be returning to the regular monthly drawing.
Questions: contact Michele Greco-Blonski BTFE coordinator at grecodrama@sbcglobal.net  Thanks for supporting BTFE and Irving!

Box Tops For Education

Have you tried E-Box Tops Yet?
1) Register at www.boxtops4education.com (see below)
2) Click on Shop Marketplace in the ‘earn’ folder-look for the green mouse icon (or begin your shopping at www.btfe.com/marketplace if already registered)
3) Click on the store you would like to shop at (there’s over 100 retailers listed!)
4) You will be re-routed to that store’s web-site and e-boxtops will be automatically donated to our school with your qualifying purchase

Not sure how to register?
1) Go to www.boxtops4education.com
2) On the home page, in the top left corner click JOIN BOX TOPS (pink letters)
3) Answer 8 simple questions to register
*Our school is listed as Irving Elementary oak Park

How does clipping Box Tops work?
1) Buy Box Tops Products (see complete list of products at http://www.boxtops4education.com/Image.aspx?id=3878 )
2) Cut out the Box Tops Coupon from each package
3) Write your child’s first and last name and teacher’s name on the back of each Box Top
4) Send them to school with your child or drop them of at the front office
5) For each Box Top turned in, your child will be entered in a monthly drawing for a chance to win one of four $1 certificates to the Irving School Spirit Store!
6) Our school earns 10 cents for every coupon collected

*December’s drawing will take place on December 23rd due to the winter break (the drawing is done at 8am and the winners announced over the PA with morning announcements
*We have earned $683 thus far-more than half way to our goal of $1000!
*Look next week for the new winter break collection sheet challenge!

Thank-you everyone for supporting BTFE and Irving Elementary!
Questions? Contact Michele Greco-Blonski at grecodrama@sbcglobal.net

Winter Indoor Recess Volunteers Needed!

When the temperature falls below 20◦F, students stay indoors during recess.  They can watch a movie in the auditorium, or they can choose to come to the Community Room to just hang out, play with a few items, draw, etc.  On some days, some classes will be assigned to the gym or perhaps the library.  Due to staffing requirements and safety issues, these are the only choices currently.

WE NEED PARENT VOLUNTEERS TO HELP MANAGE THE CROWDS! (and interact with the appreciative and lively students J)

If you can be available between 10:50 – 12:05 even once a month, twice a week, or anywhere in between, we need you.  The weather was prohibitive less than 15 times last year, so some volunteers were not needed.  Others, through their usual generosity, were prevailed upon several times.

PLEASE CONTACT ME TO ADD YOUR NAME TO OUR VOLUNTEER ROSTER.  We need at least four people a day (one in the auditorium, two in the Community Room, one in the gym/library) to work with the staff supervisors.

Over the Winter Break we will begin crafting the schedule, so please examine your January through March calendars and let us know when we could count on you to facilitate a happy winter indoor recess experience.

Mariannell Bassett-Dilley, co-coordinator   (bassettdilley@gmail.com)

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District 97 – Agreement reached in TIF litigation

During a joint board meeting held at Percy Julian Middle School on December 13, 2011, District 97, District 200 and the Village of Oak Park approved a settlement agreement that resolved the TIF litigation related to the 2003 intergovernmental agreement. Additional information about the settlement agreement can be accessed via the links below.