Irving is pleased to announce that the Children’s Clinic of Oak Park
is offering a FREE dental clinic to ALL Irving Elementary students
from grade K-5th. The services that will be provided are dental exams,
cleanings, and application of sealants.

The dentists from The Children’s Clinic will come to Irving School
with portable dental equipment to provide these services during the
school day. The dates of the clinic are March 21st, 22nd and 23rd. In
order for your child to participate in the program fill out and return
the consent form sent home with your child by March 15th. The
classroom with the highest number of returned consent forms will win a
prize for the classroom. Please call Nurse Jamie with any questions at
708-524-3089.

Calling all families!

To do what?    Bake dog biscuits with your kids in your own kitchen using the attached recipes to benefit THE ANIMAL CARE LEAGUE!

Then what?    Drop them off, Saturday, March 10th from 11AM-1PM,  THE ANIMAL CARE LEAGUE, 1011 Garfield Ave.   Drop off your treats in Ziploc bags and we will do the rest!

Special treat! Join us at 10AM for a tour of THE ANIMAL CARE LEAGUE!  Please RSVP to chloe@neighborhoodgivingproject.org  The animals would love to see you there!

What else?

Dog Treat Sale!  Sunday, March 11th,  1-3 PM, Scoville Park (outside the Oak Park Main Library)

Tell your friends and neighbors to come purchase the delicious treats you made for their dogs. All proceeds go to The ANIMAL CARE LEAGUE.

We hope you have fun with this project and enjoy time in the kitchen with your children. Use this opportunity to talk to them about why you are baking to help the homeless animals, and inspire them to think of their own ideas about how to give back to their neighborhood and community.

Visit http://www.animalcareleague.org for more ways you can help, and http://www.neighborhoodgivingproject.org to learn more about our projects. Kids making a difference, one bone at a time.

Still seeking a volunteer (or two) for the Tasty Dog Challenge!

The Tasty Dog Challenge fundraiser for Irving is Wednesday, March 21, and we need a volunteer to get the word out to Irving families when the date gets closer.

For those who don’t know: Every year TD holds a fundraiser for D97 schools where each school gets a day, and a percentage of the profits that day go to the school’s PTO. There is also a raffle, in which the tickets are $1 each and the Irving PTO gets to keep *all* of the money. Prizes include Bulls tickets, Wolves tickets, hot-air balloon rides, and other cool stuff.

Last year, we raised nearly $600 from food purchases that day, and another $600+ from raffle tickets. A few Irving families won prizes too! The fundraiser is for the whole day, but most Irving families showed up for dinner and it was a really fun evening.

Duties include sending flyers home with students and posting them on the school doors, getting messages into the Irving Update and other email communications, and coordinating raffle ticket sales. I did this fundraiser last year so I can email you my files, including the flyers we used, so it shouldn’t be a lot of work–especially compared to the amount of money we can raise! Get a friend to share the work and it really won’t be much effort at all. 🙂

If you’d like to help out the school by overseeing the Tasty Dog Fundraiser on March 21, please let me know. Thanks!  Julie Chyna <chyna823@gmail.com>

We hope you can join us for the March PTO meeting, which is this week on Thursday, March 1, in the Media Center/Library. As always, free childcare is provided.

This month the PTO meeting is immediately followed by an important presentation by the Schoolyard Project Team to the Park District Board at the Oak Park Conservatory, something the PTO encourages people to attend. The PTO meeting will start and end promptly in order to accommodate those who wish to attend both meetings.