Students will be coming home with a brown bag for our annual OMS Character Counts Food Drive. Donations can be brought to classrooms
Monday, May 8th through Friday, May 12th. This food drive project helps students understand the ‘Character Counts’ pillars of Caring and Citizenship. Working together, we raise awareness about the issue of hunger and inspire empathy for those facing it. As a collaborative school community with responsible students, we see this as an important opportunity to help others.
Summer is a critical time for the food pantry, because donations drop dramatically during summer. Your generosity will help to sustain the 471 families that depend on the food pantry this summer. The pantry is in need of all types of non-perishable foods.
Click here for Pantry needs. Please no glass bottles or jars!
PLEASE NOTE: There will NOT be a human chain after school (5/12) this year! The third and fourth graders will load bags onto the truck during morning recess. This change is at the request of the Township, so that they have ample time to receive donations and get them into the pantry.
We thank the fifth grade Service Learning Club for helping with tagging the bags, delivering bags to classrooms and maintaining the incoming donations.
Volunteer Thank You Night - Thursday, May 11th at 6:30
We would like to honor and say thank you to all of our outstanding Committee Chairs, Room Reps, 5th Grade parents and all of our volunteers. Please join us in the commons before the PTA meeting. All parents are invited to attend. Please contact
Brenda Larson with any questions.
PTA Meeting - May 11th at 7:00
Please join us in the school commons at
7:00 for our last PTA meeting of the year. We will be voting in our new Executive Committee. Everyone is
welcome! We would like to invite you to celebrate a great year at OMS following the meeting at Jimmy D's. Please contact Lisa Roudabush or
Kelly Gabrione with any questions.
School Supplies - 2017/2018
It is that time of year to place your online order for 2017/2018 school year.
Online orders due by June 11, 2017. School supply kits will be in placed in your child's classroom by the first day of school if you choose to order. You are also welcome to purchase supplies on your own.
Please
click here for the attached flier with instructions how to order your supplies and prices. Please review and make sure you are ordering the correct grade for your child. Note: school supplies are notebooks, pencils, etc. requested by each grade. This is
not the same as the annual school fee paid during registration.
If you have any questions, you can contact
Kerri Grabovski or
Nilima Nanisetty. School Supply List
PTA Volunteer Form - 2017/2018
Would you like to get involved and help out on a committee, volunteer as a room rep or work in the LMC next year? Please use this form to volunteer your time. We truly appreciate all of you! Email
olivepta@gmail.com if you have any further questions.
PTA Volunteer Form 2017/2018
OMS Recognized by Keep America Beautiful, DC
On Arbor Day, Keep America Beautiful featured Olive Mary Stitt and its Plastic Film Drive initiated by the Ecology Club last fall. In the weeks leading up to America Recycles Day, OMS students collected bagel bags, dry cleaning bags, plastic shopping bags, packing pillows and shrink wrap from paper towels, water bottles and tissue packs. All of this material was then taken to Jewel on Rand Rd for transfer, meltdown and reuse. Many families continue to collect this material at home and bring it to Jewel, Target, Trader Joe's and Best Buy for proper recycling. Great job OMS families!
Final Ecology Club Meeting - Mon, May 8th after school until 4:45pm
May is a busy month but we have to stop...to plant a tree! Join us
on Monday for a tree planting lesson with the Village of Arlington Heights Forestry Division. We also plan to "herb it up" and host our end-of-the-year award ceremony for all of our active members. Hope you can attend! Contact
Judi Schuch with any questions.
Thanks for Sharing your Soles
Character Counts & the Ecology Club would like to thank all the Olive families and staff that donated to the shoe drive. The 5th grade Service Learning Club demonstrated fantastic teamwork as they sorted, counted and bagged shoes. Updated total:
872 shoes were donated! A Hoot goes out to Katie Murray who donated her time to deliver those shoes to the "Share your Soles" Warehouse
on Monday.
Click here to see photos.
Scholarship Award Recipients
Congratulations to the following students selected to receive the Arlington Heights Council of PTA's 2017 Scholarship award. Each student will receive a gift of $1,000.
Click Here to see the complete list of award recipients.
Yearbook Co-Chair Needed
We are still in search of 1 or 2 people to take over this committee. Please
click here for a list of responsibilities. If you are interested in chairing this committee, please email
olivepta@gmail.com.
