Irving’s Tasty Dog Challenge Was A Great Success!
Thanks to all of the Irving families, teachers, alum and friends who came out last Wednesday. And thank you to all of the ticket sales volunteers!
The raffle drawing is on Friday, May 23rd at 10:30 am at Tasty Dog, so there is still time to purchase tickets. Forms are going home this week, but you can also print the form and return your $$ and form to your child’s teacher by WEDNESDAY, MAY 14th for your chance to win.
By the way, White Sox tickets and a parking pass just added to the list of prizes.

 

RAFFLE TICKET FLYER & FORM

 

Irving Family Math Night – Monopoly Math

You’re Invited:  Thursday, May 22nd,  6:30 – 8:00

Come to this year’s Family Math Night and get ready to PASS GO AND COLLECT $200! Students and their families will work together to solve Common Core math problems in order to buy “properties”! You can then use those “properties” to “buy” items from our Monopoly Math Prize Shop! In order to reserve a spot for you and your family, please return the bottom portion of the permission slip to your teacher by Wednesday, May 14th.

Thank you and we hope to see you there!

PERMISSION SLIP

 

Olympic Day Volunteers Needed

My name is Josh Hancock and I’m the PE teacher here at Irving. I also am the organizer for our Olympic Day.

For this great event to be possible, we need volunteers! And this is where you come in. Unfortunately we only have a handful of teachers who are free to help out due to other school day obligations, so we rely heavily on parent help for this event. This year it’s going to be on Friday May 23rd. There is a morning session (grades K-2) that goes from 7:45-11:00 or an afternoon session (grades 3-5) that is from 11:45-3:00. You can choose to work one or both.

Volunteers are placed at one of the 12 stations around the school. As classes come to your station, you just have to explain and facilitate the activity. The classroom teachers and assistants will also help you out. So come on out and help Irving have another great Olympic Day!  Plus, you’ll have the chance to get some fresh air and hopefully sun!

Please email me at jhancock@op97.org if you have any questions.  Thanks again in advance for all that you guys do for this school. Without you Olympic Day wouldn’t be possible!

-Josh Hancock,  Irving PE Teacher

SIGN UP SHEET

 

Irving’s Tasty Dog Challenge 2014 is TODAY!!!! until 8:30 pm!!!
Today is our day! Hope to see you at The Tasty Dog anytime between 11am and 8:30pm. When you mention “Irving” they will donate 15% of food sales to our school. Raffle tickets are being sold on site also.
In terms of parking – great news…The OP Police Dept. WILL NOT BE TICKETING those cars parked ON EUCLID (the East side street) during the hours of 5PM – 8PM on THE NIGHTS OF THE TASTY DOG CHALLENGE!! (In case you need to park there)
See you tonight!

This event raises money for the PTO in two ways:

  1.                 Tasty Dog donates 15% of every sale that day when you say you are with Irving School. Plus, the school that raises the most money also gets additional $$$ from cash prize sponsors.

2.                 Raffle Tickets. For $1 you can have the chance to earn some great prizes.

Each $1 ticket gives you a chance to win one of many amazing prizes such as Chicago Bears, Wolves, Cubs and Fire tickets, School of Rock summer camp session, A2 night stay at a resort in Lake Geneva, Tennis and Fitness Center gift certificates, and much, much more!

 See the full flyer for prizes.

PTO Meeting This Thursday, May 1, 6:30 PM

We hope you can join us for the May PTO meeting, which is this week on Thursday, May 1 at 6:30pm in the Library/Media Center on the second floor. As always, free child care is provided.

Irving School PTO
Agenda for Monthly Meeting
May 1, 2014
6:30PM
Irving Media Center Library

    1. Welcome
    2. Presentation by Student Council members on their initiatives (15 minutes)
    3. Presentation by student representatives and Ms. Noonan on digital citizenship (15 minutes)
    4. Election of new PTO Board members* (10 minutes)
    5. Proposal to add a second PTO Treasurer Board member position (5 minutes)
    6. Principal’s Report (20 minutes)
    7. Treasurer’s Report (5 minutes)
    8. Committee Reports and Date Reminders: (20 minutes)
      1. Event evaluation: Spring book fair
      2. Event recap: Tasty Dog
      3. Event recap: Indoor recess
      4. Irving sleepover: May 2
      5. Ethnic festival and parade: May 3
      6. Other committee reports
    9. Eagle Extras Update (5 minutes)
    10. Vote to change date of final PTO general meeting to May 29, 2014
    11. Approve minutes from 4/3/14
    12. All other business

* Nominations for open positions may be accepted until the time of the vote. Nominations received to date are:
2 x Co-Presidents: Jeff Wallichs
1 x Vice-President (Volunteers): Hilary Klein
1 x Vice-President (Communications): Carmen Rivera
1 x Co-Secretary: Eduardo De Santiago

Next meeting: May 29, final wrap-up of PTO activities with an overview of summer budget planning and next year’s initiatives.

We hope to see you there. If you are unable to attend and would like to discuss anything on the agenda, please contact Laura Crawford at lauracrawford47@gmail.com, Jodie Ackerman at jodiepto@yahoo.com, or any of the other PTO board members (click here for contact info).