Koala Talk January - Indian Prairie School District 204

JANUARY

2012

Koala Talk

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Important Numbers: Office: (630) 428-6100 Fax: (630) 428-6101 Attendance: (630) 428-6114

HAPPY TO INTRODUCE THIS MONTH......

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Hello all, I am Lakshmipriya Sukumar, 2nd vice president of the PTA. I am very happy to serve

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2 the organization, which acts as a bridge between the parents and teachers. I am married to Dr. Sukumar, a scientist at ANL, Argonne. We have a sweet daughter, Sahana,

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studying in fourth grade. I received two Master degrees, one in Chemistry from Regional Engineering College, India and second in Information Technology &

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Management from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. I am a consultant for a 4 reputed computer firm at Chicago.

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4 I am responsible for the membership. To increase membership of the PTA, I reach out

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to parents of our school at the PTA events. It would be my responsibility to distribute

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5-6 the updated list of PTA member's information to the chair of the different committees

who is organizing the event at our school. In November, every PTA family would have

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7 received a directory. The student directory chair Jeanne Kern along with her team of volunteers and me were working on the project.

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8 I sincerely appreciate your valuable support to PTA and sure that it would make our

9 bonds with the school stronger. Wish you all a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year.

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THE 2011 HOLIDAY SHOP!!!

A Big Thank You to all who helped at this year's Holiday Shop!

We hope everyone had a great =me coming out to shop for their family and friends.

We love seeing all the students with their smiles aBer they have giB wrapped their giBs for their families and friends. This year we had

the help from the Girl Scouts, they helped with walking the students around who wanted to shop alone and helped the students wrap their giBs.

We would also like to thank Ms. Walton who also helped at the giB wrap table, the students love having you help them and thank you also for leFng us borrow your radio to play some holiday music.

We would also like to thank Mrs. Chmielecki for helping us setup for the shop and puFng the prices by items at each table.

Thank you also to all the Parent Volunteers we could not have done this without you.

Carol Borowski, Jessica Stanley, Sco? Toole, Danielle Thurman, Henna Dojki, Jacinda Lewis,

Jim Jacobson, John and Danielle Benton, Jurgita Antanynaite, Ritu Agrawal, Ryan Clifford, Sheri Brown, Sowmya Prasad, Stacy Sitowicz, Suman SebasJan, and Vidhya Bharathy Chandrakumar.

Special Thank you to our Members of PTA Board and Commi?ee Chairs:

Usha Iyengar, Jackie and Tom Cuculich, Jennifer Billadeau, and Paul Drayton.

Thank you once again and we hope to see you at next year's Holiday Shop,

Dana and Jessica

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Box Tops/Labels Contest Ever want to roll out of bed and head right to school in your PJs? Send in your Box Tops and Labels for Education labels to school. Each classroom will have a collection box and the the classroom with the most

labels/box tops at the end of the contest gets to wear their pajama to school! The contest will start December 1st and run through January 31st. Lets see which classroom can collect the most!!

Visit the following websites for participating products and coupons...

Shop the Box Tops Online Marketplace

In more Box Tops news... if you are shopping for the holidays online, consider going through the Box Tops website "marketplace". Your online orders to websites including Gap, Target, Best Buy, Current, Expedia, Shutterfly, Lego, Disney and much, much more!!!

Here's how you do it... 1) Go to the website... 2) Type in your zip code and locate 'Mary Lou Cowlishaw Elementary PTA/PTO' from the list. 3) Create an account (name, birthday, email and password). 4) Go under the tab "Earn" and select "Shop Marketplace." From there you can see all the stores/catalogs available. 5) Select your store/catalog of choice and you'll be taken to their website. 6) Then, SHOP SHOP SHOP and your purchases will count as box tops for Cowlishaw!!

This is a great way to make money for the school without spending anything additional. Tell your friends, neighbors and family who are online shoppers as well. Together we can raise money to help the PTA programs for our school. Manna gift cards (available through Cowlishaw PTA) can be used online at some of these sites as well to increase your fund-raising efforts for the PTA.

If you have any questions or problems, please contact Katy Loo (ribbit2@). Thank you for your support!!

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Reflections News!!

We are proud to report the names of the students whose Reflections entries have advanced from the IPPC level to District 36.

Visual Arts

Shaili Banerjee Sanchali Banerjee

Music

Siya Agarwal Sabbie Agarwal

Literature

Roman Newhouse Abhav Garde Shazaib Dawood Apurva Iyengar Jeevisha Shukla

These children will receive an additional certificate at the ceremony to be held at Fry Elementary on Jan 31, 2012. Congratulations

to the children and to their parents for encouraging them!!

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Thanks to Lisa Gangi, Bianca Ballard and Jeanette Fitzgerald for helping with the

Dinner Nights Out Program.

The Jet's Pizza night had 45 orders for a profit of $200.

Thanks to those that came out to our Dinner Night Out at Culver's on Wed Dec 14. We made $204 for the PTA!!!

Thank you to the following for helping with the Cowlishaw Elementary School PTA Directory this year!

--- Jeanne Kern Jill Fuchs

Zainab Imran Sirisha Koneru Priya Sukumar

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Manna Card Fundraiser

Due: Thursday January 12.

Please consider getting gift cards through the PTA to pay for your normal purchases. They don't have to be for gifts. Think of it as a credit card. For example: you're buying gas, paying at the pump and you're going to swipe a card. It could be your MasterCard or Visa, or a prepaid Speedway card for $100! The PTA earned $5 from your purchase of that $100 card. Don't think you'll remember to use it? Just keep it in the car. Need groceries? We all do! Get a card from Dominick's or Jewel and the PTA earns $5 from each $100 purchase. Don't think you'll remember to use a Jewel gift card? I keep that in my wallet behind the Jewel Preferred card.

Order forms are printable from the Cowlishaw website cowlishaw.. Click on "PTA" on the left side of the screen, then "Documents," and "Manna Order Form."

Gift cards will be returned on the following Friday in backpack mail when you mark the box on the form. If you prefer, they can be picked up at Jen Phelan's house on Thursday from 5:15 pm-7:00 pm or by special arrangement.

The Manna Schedule for the Year

Return completed orders by 3:30pm on this Pick up gift cards at Jen & Howard Phelan's home,

date to school with your payment

816 Livingston Ct, on this date,

Between 5:15 PM ? 7:00 PM

Thursday, January 12

Thursday, January 26

Friday, February 10

Thursday, February 23

Friday, March 9

Thursday, March 22

Friday, April 13

Thursday, April 26

Friday, May 11

Thursday, May 24

For specific company information on gift cards, click on "Vendor Guidelines" on the Manna website at . If you can't find a specific company, there are more choices on their website. Please contact me to order one not on the list.

Direct questions to: Jen Phelan, home 630-548-2518 phelanjh@

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