The yearbook comittee needs your help! We are requesting photos from the first day of school, Movie Night and the Fun Run. Please upload your photos to our Google Drive HERE or email them to irving-yearbook@googlegroups.com and we will use as many as we can for this year’s yearbook.
Thanks for your help and please reach out to our yearbook comittee chairs, Elizabeth Holst Schinazi and Isabel Bogarin with any questions or if you’d like to help get involved!
This year’s Fun Run will take place on Friday, October 14 to help us work towards our BIG goal of raising $25,000 for Irving School! This funding will support many programs that are not currently funded by District 97 but are necessary to enhance the quality of education for both our students and teachers.
Find out ALL about the Fun Run HERE (including run times schedule) and don’t forget to sign your student up for an account at MyBooster.com so they can start to collect “sponsorships” from their family, friends, neighbors and relatives to support their school! We will also be offering prizes & incentives for collecting donations, including a schoolwide dance party if we reach our total school goal of $25,000! Stay tuned for more info, and reach out to FunRun@irvingpto.com with any questions.
We’ve still got a few weeks left of getting our hands dirty at Garden Club! Every Friday after school, join us in the Irving garden for about an hour (approx. 3pm-4pm). We’ve got a wonderful schedule for the remainder of the fall season:
Friday Sept 30: Let’s get ready to celebrate Dia de los Muertos/ Day of the Dead! This week’s garden club features special guest Senorita Zaragoza, who will read us a special Dia de los Muertos story. Then we will plant coriander seeds, mums, and lots of marigolds, which students will harvest to be used in our school and neighborhood ofrendas. We will add extra color to our Dia de los Muertos bed with decorations, some of which we will make.
Friday Oct 7: What’s that smell??? Taste that Tea!! We will explore the power of our cranial nerve #1 by testing what botanical smells we can identify. We will also harvest herbs and tea leaves to take home to make your own tea.
Friday Oct 14: Tis the season to harvest … seeds! We will gather, clean, and label various seeds from the garden to plant for next year. Beans, flowers, dill, and herbs are just some of the seeds you need only buy once. We will find the hidden celery to cut up and taste right out of the garden. Special guest Ms. Koransky will guide us in making botanical mendalas, a peaceful art form that is a delight to behold.
Friday Oct 21: Bugs and Book Bike for a Halloween Spooktacular Garden Club! Come celebrate our last garden club of the season with OP’s Public Library Book Bike and story time. We will plant garlic, explore decomposer bugs, track down the hidden potatoes, and do the final garden clean up and send our garden beds to rest and rejuvenate over winter, until it’s time to play again in the spring. This week’s tasting may also include eating gourmet crickets! Special guest Ms. Mura will lead us in this super gross tasting.
Email alix.strunk@gmail.com or denisefrank1@hotmail.com with any questions!
ALL are welcome at our zoom meeting on Wednesday, September 28 at 6:30pm! Irving’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee (“DivInc”) helps to coordinate events and programs that promote a diverse and inclusive educational environment for all Irving students. We are also seeking a Co-Chair for this year; no other school committee experience necessary! Please reach out to Laura Reeb with any interest at divinc@irvingpto.com, and either way, we hope to see you on zoom!
Link to the DivInc Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81805082702?pwd=bytwU0JFSUs3ZUM5cXBxQ2N1RmVuUT09
Meeting ID: 818 0508 2702
Passcode: 742802
This community event is organized by the Family of one of our D97 Mann Mustangs, Owen Petrzelka, who in October 2020 lost his brave 6-month battle against DIPG, the deadliest form of childhood brain cancer. Since 2020, his family has organized a virtual 5K run, in conjunction with the ChadTough Defeat DIPG Foundation, to raise funds for childhood brain cancer research. This year’s 3rd annual virtual 5K run is scheduled for Saturday, October 1 and it’s not too late to sign up! But whether or not you are interested in running, we have great news!! This year, there will be an even bigger community event in order to try to live up to one of Owen’s mottos: “making someone happy is our job”. To that end, on race day, the 900 N Grove block in Oak Park will be turned into a community fun zone where community members, whether they are running or not, can stop by throughout the day for some fun kids’ activities, food/drinks, and live music. Visit the Event Webpage for more details and logistics information.
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