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Mark Your Calendar

February

12 One School, One Book

Kick-Off

13-15 Food Drive

14 Classroom Valentine’s Day

Parties

14 Board of Education Mtg. @

Whittier (7 pm)

16 Bowling with Grandparents

16 OSOB Recess Crafts

19 Presidents Day, NO SCHOOL

22 WWSNPTA Meeting @

Monroe (1 pm)

22 Mobile Pantry @ Lowell Elem

23 OSOB Recess Crafts

24 Fun Fair (11 am – 2 pm)

24 Trimester Ends

TBD: Me & My Guy Dance

RESCHEDULE

March

1 One School, One Book Finale

Event

2 Institute Day, NO SCHOOL

7 Kindergarten Round-Up (6:30)

9 Report Cards

14 Board of Education Mtg. @ Wheaton-Warrenville South

HS (7 pm)

20-22 Food Drive

21 ADK Registration Open (8 am)

21 PTA Meeting (noon)

21 Mobile Pantry @ One Church

26-30 Spring Break, No School

MUSTANG MEMO Pleasant Hill PTA Monthly Newsletter • February 2018

It’s Fun Fair time! Saturday, February 24

11 am – 2 pm

Punch Pass for Games and Food $10 for 25 punches PRESALE

($10 for 20 day of)

Raffle Basket Tickets $5 for 6 tickets PRESALE

($5 for 5 day of)

Buy early and get more value for your purchase! Forms will come

home in backpacks, or can be found on our webpage here: PTA Fun Fair Page Pre-sales end 2/21.

The Pleasant Hill PTA Fun Fair offers games for kids of all ages, a raffle featuring baskets of fabulous prizes, food, a cake/sweet walk, and NEW SURPRISES this year. Best of all, proceeds help fund

PTA programs like One School, One Book and Explore More Day. Bring the entire family for a fun day with friends at Pleasant Hill!

One School, One Book We need our families’ full

participation to help

ensure your children get

the most out of this

wonderful program. Read

the chapters with them, do

the activ ities, and if you

can, PLEASE come

volunteer!

See PTA OSOB Webpage

for more information.

Upcoming Activities

Fun Fair 411 This isn’t our first rodeo, and we know it takes MANY hands to pull off a

FABULOUS Fun Fair. Please join us in making this event super fun for our families!!

1. Volunteer to help with the event. Set-up, clean-up, concessions, games, activities.

We offer two shifts, leaving plenty of time to enjoy the event with your family:

10:30-12:30 or 12:15 to 2:15. Talk to Leona to sign up: [email protected]

2. Donate raffle items. Have tickets you can’t use or new gifts you didn’t get around to

returning? Restaurant gift cards? Unopened toys, games, crafts? If you are feeling

really generous, go in with friends to assemble and donate a finished basket!

Contact Katie [email protected] or Jodie [email protected] to

arrange your donation.

3. Bake sweet treats or a cake for the cake walk. Contact Katie

[email protected] or Jodie [email protected] to sign up.

Thank you from the Fun Fair Committee!

Katie Ekstrand, Leona Rochford, Jodie Sutton, Stephanie Korntheuer

Kindergarten AM 10:45-11:45 am Kindergarten PM through 5th Grade 2-3 pm

• Volunteers are allowed into the building to begin set-up at 10:30 for AM Kindergarten and

into the LLC at 1:45 pm for 1st - 5th grades and PM Kindergarten

• Please remember that only assigned classroom party helpers are allowed in the classroom.

• Party helpers are to sign in and collect their party helper badges in the LLC. Please enter the

LLC through door 2.

• Parents who were assigned to the party will be permitted to take their child(ren) at the end of

the party time, but will not be able to take “friends” unless a note from the other child’s

parent has been received. You will be required to sign your child(ren) out before leaving.

Teachers will have a sign out sheet available in their classrooms.

• If you prefer your child not participate, please let your child’s classroom teacher know and

alternative activities will be arranged. The parties take up about the last hour of the day and

the rest of the day includes reading, math, science, and all the fabulous things that happen at

Pleasant Hill School on a daily basis.

Upcoming Activities

DATES TO NOTE:

Monday 2/12:

Books came home

Friday 2/16: Recess Craft

3rd gr, ADK, and 2nd gr

Friday 2/23: Recess Craft

5th gr, 1st gr, and 4th gr

Thursday 3/1:

Family Bingo Night

“Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.”—Beverly Cleary

Upcoming Activities

We are more than halfway through competitions and our team has moved up to tie for 4th place out of 12! The remaining battle dates at the Wheaton Library at 4:00pm are: February 15, 20, and 26 Thinking about joining next year and will be in 4th or 5th grade? Come and see what it is all about and cheer on your school!! We will continue to have Friday morning meetings now through the end of February.

SNOW WAY!?

Me & My Guy Dance Postponed Our girls and their special guys had big plans for February 9th, but Mother

Nature had a different idea. We hope the kids enjoyed their snow day, and

we’ll let you know when we do what the NEW date for the “Masquerade Ball”

is.

Me & My Guy Dance is sponsored by Girl Scouts, but open to all Pleasant

Hill girls, siblings aged 3 to 12, and their

favorite “guys”.

Kindergarten Round Up March 7, 6:30 – 7:30 pm, In the LLC

• Learn about kindergarten options in CUSD200.

• Meet the teachers, the principal, office staff, and support personnel.

• Check cusd200.org for more information and a list of items required for registration (look for “Quick Links, Enrollment/Registration”).

• If you have any questions about

Round Up at Pleasant Hill, call the office at 630.682.2100.

District 200 Parenting Seminars

Tues 2/13 @ 5:30 pm: Thirty Million Words, Building a Child’s Brain (registration required)

Wed 2/21 @ 7 pm: How to Raise Resilient Children

For more info: https://www.cusd200.org/Page/359

Join online now at: https://www.schoolpay.com/parent/mip/Mcr4 Or, print a form and return to the school: https://www.cusd200.org/Page/6144

Pleasant Hill Needs YOU!

Donations needed for prizes for

Screen Free Week April 30-May 4 Contact [email protected] for more info.

Thank you!!

Yearbook Committee The yearbook committee needs your

help! Volunteers are needed to take

photos at parties, concerts, assemblies and

other school events throughout the year.

In the spring, yearbook volunteers also

assist with the selection of photos and

layout of the yearbook. Interested?

Contact Chrissy DeFalco

at [email protected] or Hillary

Mann at [email protected] for

more information or to volunteer.

Spring

Book Fair

We still need a

chairperson to work with

Mrs. Collins to plan and coordinate the

activities of the Spring Book Fair, which

coincides with Screen Free Week. Plus, it’s

a super-fun pet theme! The proceeds of

this sale benefit the Pleasant Hill LLC.

You will have the support of our librarian,

Mrs. Collins, as well as fall book fair chair

Christy Kozlowski. If you have any

questions: [email protected].

Thank You

to all of our families that

attended family night at

Chicago Steel!

YES, YOU! Are you good with numbers? Are you an avid

note-taker? Are you a people-person who can

motivate others?

Then PTA leadership may be perfect for you!

The Nominating Committee is in search of

next year’s board members. The Executive

Committee Positions are: Co-Presidents or

President, Treasurer, and Secretary. All

positions have 1 year terms. Please contact the

PTA if have any questions at

[email protected]. It’s a great

way to be involved and meet new friends.

Food drives take place

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday once a month:

February 13, 14, &15

March 20, 21, & 22

April 24, 25, & 26 May 22, 23, & 24

District 200

Mobile Pantries

2018 Dates February 22 at Lowell Elementary March 21 at One Church April 21 at Outreach Community Ctr May 16 at Washington Elementary June 16 at Villagebrook Apartments

Pleasant Hill Gives

January Thank You!! Last month was cold and short, and we donated 336 needed items to the Interfaith Food Pantry. Like Ralph and Ryan (OSOB), let’s look out

for our friends and neighbors and let’s try to DOUBLE our donations this in February! Tokens went to Youngblood AM, Powel, Forst (Herdrich), Murray, Lather, and Berringer. Thank you from the Food Drive Committee!

February Food Drive

February 13, 14, & 15

This month’s drive is Valentine’s week (going on RIGHT NOW!) If you are

coming in to help at a party, please consider bringing in some donations at

the same time (be sure to tag the bag with the teacher’s name). See below

for the list of items most wanted this month.

all donations are greatly appreciated!

HELP WANTED:

We can always use

helping hands at for

the Mobile Pantries.

Click to sign up:

https://tinyurl.com/D200Mobiles

In February, let’s stock the pantry with basics and some extras to warm up them up like: coffee, tea, hot chocolate, pancake mix, low-sodium soups and crackers, FRESH fruits and veggies, toothpaste, lip balm, lotion, shampoo, bar soap, toilet paper and baby products.

Other Ways to Help Pleasant Hill

You shop, PH wins! Shop and Give Updates

Amazon Smile It’s TOO COLD to leave your house to shop! When you shop on Amazon, don’t forget to make sure that you start out at using Amazon Smile. This costs you nothing, but Amazon donations a portion of purchases to your selected charity. Be sure to choose “Pleasant Hill PTA,” Winfield, IL (there are multiple Pleasant Hill listings, so be sure you are choosing ours!).

Shoparoo This is another great way you can make a difference without costing you an extra penny! Simply download the Shoparoo app. Use it to take a picture of ALL of your receipts as you shop (grocery, Target, Walgreens—where ever you may be shopping), and Pleasant Hill benefits.

Box Tops Keep on collecting those box tops. Our next contest is in the spring!

It’s here, it’s here!!

Electronics Recycling Drive Has Begun! Donate old, unwanted electronics in a secure and safe manner. Pleasant Hill receives a

donation for each item that is turned in. ReUp deletes all of your data, collects parts

and refurbishes useful items, and RESPONSIBLY recycles the rest.

Check it out HERE: https://reupfundraising.com/pleasanthillpta/

Save the Date April 11 Board of Education Mtg. @ Edison

(7 pm)

13 Spring Pictures

24-26 Food Drive

26 WWSNPTA Meeting @ Jefferson

(7 pm)

30 Screen Free Week Starts

30 Teacher Appreciation Starts

30 Spring Book Fair Starts

May

1 Fine Arts Night & Concert (7 pm)

1-4 Screen Free Week

1-4 Teacher Appreciation Week

1-4 Spring Book Fair

3 Ice Cream Social

3 Kindergarten Visitation

(9:30 – 10 am/ 2-2:30 pm)

9 Board of Education Mtg. @ SSC

(7 pm)

10 PTA Meeting (7 pm)

22-24 Food Drive

28 Memorial Day, NO SCHOOL

30 Explore More Day

Please note: Dates may be subject to change.

Pleasant Hill PTA

2017-18 Executive Committee:

President Terese Janik 1st Vice President Katie Ekstrand 2nd Vice President Jodie Sutton Vice President, Membership Christy Kozlowski Secretary Bridget Irving Treasurer Carolyn Hoopes

Email: [email protected]

Follow Pleasant Hill PTA

WWSNPTA Meeting

February 22nd at 1 pm

Monroe Middle School

The Wheaton Warrenville Special Needs PTA is a

district-wide PTA organization bringing together

parents and staff in the interest of supporting our

special needs students. Click here to learn more.