Fundraising

Irving Book Fair – Monday, October 7th through Friday, October 11th

Hours:  M-Th from dismissal until 6:30 p.m., Friday from dismissal until 11:45 a.m.

It’s a Reading Oasis! An amazing selection of books is headed our way! We will be accepting pre-orders for Diary of a Wimpy Kid 8, which will be released on November 3rd (students will receive forms and book fair flyers the week before the sale). On Tuesday, October 8th we will be receiving the latest in the Percy Jackson series, The House of Hades.  Teacher wish lists will be available at the sale to help build classroom libraries.
On Thursday, October 10th at 1:00, our very own Queen of the Nile, Ms. Noonan will grace our fair with a special book reading for students. Enter a land of pyramids, deserts, and palm trees. All participants will be entered in a raffle to win a free poster from Scholastic.

If you can’t make it to our fair, the online book fair runs from October 10-October 30. It’s a great way to get your holiday shopping done early or find a special gift for a special teacher! http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/washingtonirvingelemschool1

We need volunteers to help work the fair during classroom preview hours and the sale.  We’d love to have you, even if you only have 45 minutes to spare at dismissal!

Thanks!
Stephanie Hartman, Book Fair chairperson, gremlin44@gmail.com
Meredith Farster, Book Fair co-chair

Love to cook? Want to find a way to jump into Irving?
In October parents get together and provide staff a Soup/Chilli lunch. This year it will be on October 10th (first day of conferences).
Below is the sign up for the event…please remember we try to make everything homemade, it is such a gift to the staff that we take the time to do this, while they take the time to talk to us about our kids.  Please consider helping out in any way you can…we need help from buying stuff, to making stuff…anything will work…

Here is the sign up:

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F0845A8AB23AA8-irving2

Thanks,

Talley Hann, 847-567-3517 or talleyhann@gmail.com

Irving Trivia Night – November 14th, 7:00 PM

SPONSORED BY IRVING PTO

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2013 – 7:00 PM

TRATTORIA 225,  225 HARRISON STREET, OAK PARK

$40/PP 0R $320 FOR A TEAM OF 8 (INCLUDES UNLIMITED HOUSE WINE, BEER AND SELECT APPETIZERS FROM 7:00PM-10:00PM) 

SPACE IS LIMITED – REGISTER EARLY!!!!!! Return registration by October 11th to PTO Mailbox or Main Office

CONTACT Nick Sakellaris at nsakellaris@op97.org or Kara Sakellaris at ksakellaris@op97.org

Please return the bottom portion of this form. MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO IRVING PTO.

5th Grader Tribute in Irving Phone Directory

Interested in putting a tribute to your 5th grader in the Irving Phone Directory?  Wonder what a 5th grade tribute is?  How much does it cost?
Please read the FLYER for details!  Deadline is THIS FRIDAY so don’t delay!

To all 5th grade Parents:  We think it would be memorable to include tributes in this year’s phone directory to your 5th grader before they go off to Julian Middle School next year. The tribute could say anything you like such as: “Great work Joe!  You’re the big kid now!  Have a wonderful year.   Love Mom and Dad”.  The cost is $10 and will go to the Irving PTO.  All of the tributes will be printed in the back of the phone directory.  Please consider placing a tribute to your fifth grader and making their last year at Irving memorable.

Tributes should be sent by this Friday September 20th to be included in the directory.  Please e-mail your tributes to Barbara Metric at barbarametric@comcast.net. Tributes should be no longer than 2 lines (about 15 words/line).  Please send payment (cash or checks accepted) to school with your child in an envelope labeled “5th grade directory tribute”.  Checks should be made out to Irving PTO.