Are you dreaming of sunshine and warm weather? Then now is the time to start planning your flower beds and gardens! The annual PTA plant sale is taking orders beginning
Friday, March 3rd through Monday, March 20th. Plants will, once again, be custom grown for each order by Tom's Farm Market in Huntley, IL. This year we will have a wide variety of flowers and plants, as well as an assortment of vegetables to start your garden.
Click herefor the order form, and
click here for a beautiful picture guide of the plants we will be offering and ideas to get you started! Please contact
Kim Lindberg or
Lonnie Sommerwith any further questions or concerns.
BOOKS ROCK! BOOK FAIR - April 19
Save the date for the Book Fair on
Wednesday, April 19 at 6:30pm. With our new larger common area, we have room for more books! We need volunteers for set-up, the Book Fair and tear-down. Please let us know if you can volunteer your time for one of our PTA's largest fund raiser. Contact
Katie Starzyk if interested in volunteering.
54 Days and Counting!
Please be sure to order your OMS Yearbooks by
April 25, 2017. Go to
TreeRing.com and enter school passcode
1014636724843184. The cost is $13.00 per book.
Remember to purchase a Yearbook for EACH of your children. Kids love to sign each others Yearbooks at the end of the school year. This will be your only opportunity to purchase Yearbooks as we will not have extra copies printed. You are able to customize two pages this year so order early to give you time to download photos.
Any questions, please contact
Erika Eng or
Megan Hill.
Tickets Still Available - ORDER TODAY - Wine Tasting Event
Tickets are ON SALE for the OMS Wine Tasting Event at Vintages Wine Shop on
Friday, March 10, from
6:00pm – 8:00pm! This is a special private event just for the OMS community, so grab your OMS friends and parents from your class to come out for a fun evening (OMS PTA fundraiser).
Please
CLICK HERE for the order form to purchase tickets ($20 per person). Please return your order form and check to OMS. Space is limited and tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Contact
Liz McDonnell or
Jo Voelker with any questions.
Spring Box Top Challenge Results
The Box Tops have been collected, clipped and counted....Olive-Mary Stitt collected just over 4,263 Box Tops!!! That's $426 for our school! That combined with our October Challenge means that from just buying groceries, we as a school community have earned almost $1200 for Olive. Amazing job everyone! The winning homerooms are Mrs. Netzel 2-4 and Ms. Pietrzak 3-3. Please continue clipping and saving, and even recruit your family and friends to clip too. Our next challenge isn't till October so there is plenty of time to stockpile all those Box Tops. They are found on a ton of products that you normally buy at the grocery store. Go to
www.boxtops4education.com to see them all.
Also, a great big thank you to Gina Groberski for chairing this PTA committee and all of the clipping and counting volunteers. Everyone did an AMAZING job this year! We truly appreciate all of your time and effort with this beneficial fundraiser. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
2017/2018 Executive Committee Slate Posted
Please take a moment and
click here to read the proposed slate of the 2017/2017 executive committee. We will be voting on this at the next PTA general meeting
April 11th. We hope you can attend.
Attention 5th Grade Parents - Slide Show Photos Needed
Help celebrate and memorialize the 5th grade class' time at OMS by submitting photos to be included in the end-of-year slide show. We're looking for fun photos representing school activities and events through the years — class parties, programs, PTA events, first/last day of school, etc. Group shots are great to get as many kids as possible included. (Please no photos from birthday parties, vacations, etc.) Send your photos in .jpeg format to
oms5thgrade@gmail.com by
March 31. Please contact
Carrie Loch with any questions.
2017/2018 Yearbook Chair Needed
Do you want to get more involved in the PTA? Our Yearbook Committee needs 1 or 2 people to take over this committee next year. Please email
olivepta@gmail.com if you are interested.
Here is a description of the responsibilities:
- Work with TreeRing to produce the Yearbook
- Promote Yearbook purchases/special offers to parents several times throughout the year via Twig, email and Facebook
- Facilitate the collection of group photos (Science Club, Ecology Club, Service Learning Club, Chess Club, Morning Announcements, Band, Music for Youth, Student Council, and Camp Fit)
- Collect candid photos from PTA sponsored events to include in the Yearbook (Back to School Social, Halloween, Activity Nights, Valentine's Day, etc.)
- Get class pages to teachers for review (Names, Spelling)
- Make sure the Yearbook is complete and ready for printing by the scheduled date
- Distribute Yearbooks
Thomas Middle School Spirit Wear Sale
Attention all 5th grade parents! Thomas Middle School is having their spring spirit wear sale. All orders can be placed online at
www.HeadsUpApparel.com.
Click here for the flyer and information. The sale will run
March 3 - 19. All orders will be delivered to your child's classroom at Olive. Please note "Olive" in the school section when you place your order.
ABC/25 Foundation In-School Raffle
Support the ABC/25 Foundation and have some fun participating in this year's in-school raffle! Your child will be bringing home a list of the fantastic activities that our very own OMS teachers and staff have offered as raffle items, along with a page of tickets. Raffle tickets are $1/per ticket and all proceeds go to the ABC/25 Foundation. If you would like more raffle tickets, please print them from the OMS blog or
click here. Raffle tickets are due
Friday, March 17th. The raffle winners will be announced on
Thursday, March 23rd at the end of the school day.
SD25 School Board & Local Elections - April 4
Local elections are coming up on
April 4. The elections will include positions on School District 25's Board of Education, as well as District 214's Board of Education and Village of Arlington Heights trustees. 4 positions are open on the D25 Board and 7 candidates are running to fill those positions. 4 of the 7 are current board members whose term is expiring, and the other 3 are candidates running for the first time.
CANDIDATE FORUM:
Saturday, March 11 from
9:30-11amat the Arlington Heights Village Hall. A Village Trustee forum will follow at
11am. This particular forum is sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the A.H. Council of PTAs. Please
CLICK HERE for more information.
Local elections impact us far more than federal elections, and these forums are great opportunities to become informed on the candidates that will directly affect policy in our school district, our local high school district, and our town of Arlington Heights. Please contact
Christina Perez if you have any questions.
ABC/25 Foundation Supports Our School!
Congratulations to the following Olive teachers who were awarded Foundation Teacher Grants:
Marsha Magnino- Apps for Education
Cynthia House- Microscopes for Science Club
Shannon Watanuki- Fun and Games and Learning,too!, The Domino Effect, Ozobots- Colorful Coding Bots for All Learners
Shannon Watanuki and Julie Nelson- Individual Engineering Toolboxes
Brenda Stevens- Let's Create
Nancy Brown- Large Screen Display Monitors for the LMC Lab
Meribeth Seisser- Bee a Learner in Our Hive
Alinda Wilhelm, Rebecca FitzPatrick- Enhancing Student Learning with an Active Learning Space
Teachers have been recognized with candy filled light bulbs to remind our District 25 Community that "bright ideas" pursued can impact the learning in our classrooms. Teachers will also be recognized at the
March 16th School Board meeting.
The Membership Incentive Grant of $2,500 our school received in the fall will fund two picnic tables on the new patio.
Your Support of ABC/25 Foundation fundraisers such as the Just Move it! Challenge, Membership Drive, and Yankee Candle have made these grants possible. Thank you.
The ABC/25 Foundation Needs YOU!
The Foundation Board has openings for the 2017-2018 school year: President (or 2 Co-Presidents) and Vice President. To learn more contact
abc25president@gmail.com.
