Community Events

Garden Club!

Garden Club Starts This Week 

here is a schedule for the spring.

  • 4/26: Garden Club
  •  5/3: special guest Senorita Zaragoza will lead us in a celebration of tamales; we’ll read “May your life be Deliciosa,” sample tamales, and plant some ingredients necessary to make a tamal and accompanying salsa: corn, tomatillos, tomatoes, cilantro, and spicy peppers. (Grown ups, please check in with Alix if your child has any food allergies).  
  •  5/10: special guest Irving mom and cicada expert, Nancy Schroeder, will teach us everything we want and need to know about cicadas (bugs we’ll soon see a ton of in Oak Park).
  •  5/17: Oak Park Public Library’s Book Bike will stop by garden club for a fantastic story time, with fun books to check out; and we’ll plant of course!
  • 5/24: No garden club for the holiday weekend.
  • 5/31: last garden club of the spring. Come help send off the garden into summer.

Garden club is every Friday in the spring and fall, at 3pm; it is free and open to all. A grownup must accompany their student. Questions? Email Alix at alix.strunk@gmail.com

Join the PTO be a Hero!

Be a hero to the kids! We are accepting applications for the following roles for next year.

Will update this page with a information and additional links when available.

IRVING EAGLES EXTRA COORDINATOR! (more info to come)

Co-President: Shares the position with the current President Audra Fullerton, leads the Irving PTO meetings, works closely with our School Admin making our school a better place.

Vice President(s) Fundraising & Volunteering: Will work alongside Ausra. Coordinates fundraising activities, helps fill volunteer roles where needed by reaching out to people in the Irving community, and acts as a liaison to the committee chairpersons.

Co-Secretary: Co-secretaries attend monthly PTO meetings, run the Zoom component, and manage the minutes and slides. Will work with current Co-secretary Nicole Daniel.

Co-Treasurer: Shares the position with Heather Keenlyside. Leads the process of creating a new budget in August, and keeps our finances in-order, including making payments and deposits as needed, shares treasurer’s report at monthly Irving PTO meetings, and tracks actual numbers, using QuickBooks.

End of Year BBQ Party

Don’t miss our end of year party and unofficial kickoff to summer at Irving School on Friday, June 9! All proceeds will benefit the rising 5th grade class.

We are also looking for volunteers of people who can donate food/items or people who can help out during the event. Please sign up below if you are able to help!!
* Donate Food/Items HERE
* Volunteer to Help In-person HERE

Friday Garden Club

Irving’s Garden Club is in full swing! We hope to see you in the Irving Garden, right after school at 3pm on Fridays; garden club is free, all are welcome, and please bring your grown up to enjoy the garden with you.

This Friday, 5/19: Special guest Senorita Zaragoza will lead us in a celebration of tamales; we’ll read “May your life be Deliciosa,” sample tamales, and plant some ingredients necessary to make a tamal and accompanying salsa: corn, tomatillos, and spicy peppers. (Grown ups, please check in with Alix, alix.strunk@gmail.com, if your child has any food allergies or restrictions).  We will also plant our sunflower house, among other fun garden activities. 

Memorial Day weekend 5/26: Help us continue our celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander Month by celebrating and planting Chinese vegetables and reading “Ugly Vegetables,” a story about a Chinese American girl who makes soup from her garden that the whole neighborhood loves, bringing everyone together. Taste and enjoy satsuma oranges and roasted kabocha squash (let Alix, alix.strunk@gmail.com know of any food allergies). We’ll be planting seeds and plants, finding lots of insects, a nature craft and more!! 

Friday 6/2:   Help us prepare our garden for our summer send off. We will finish planting our garden beds with yummy summer veggies and beautiful flowers. And we’ll beautify our garden with a nature craft (nature mobiles to hang from our garden trees).