Fundraising

Amazon Smile

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Calling all Amazon.com shoppers! Please consider supporting the PTA and start shopping at https://smile.amazon.com/ and .5% of your purchases will be contributed to the Olive-Mary Stitt PTA. Smile.Amazon.com offers the same selection and same prices as Amazon.com, so there is no cost to you, and a charitable donation to the PTA is made! AmazonPrime benefits apply. Click here to learn more: “About AmazonSmile“.

To sign up, it is simple! Log on to Smile.Amazon.com, select “Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers Olive-Mary Stitt PTA Inc” under charitable organization, and you are set.

Thank you for your support!

Amazon Smile

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Calling all Amazon.com shoppers! Please consider supporting the PTA and start shopping at https://smile.amazon.com/ and .5% of your purchases will be contributed to the Olive-Mary Stitt PTA. Smile.Amazon.com offers the same selection and same prices as Amazon.com, so there is no cost to you, and a charitable donation to the PTA is made! AmazonPrime benefits apply. Click here to learn more: “About AmazonSmile“.

To sign up, it is simple! Log on to Smile.Amazon.com, select “Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers Olive-Mary Stitt PTA Inc” under charitable organization, and you are set.

Thank you for your support!

Spirit Wear Sneak Peak

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Stop by the PTA table at curriculum night and check out some samples of Olive’s spirit wear! We have a variety of shirts, shorts and sweatshirts that your children would love to wear. We will begin to sell the items on Friday, September 7th. We will be posting more information soon on the TWIG.

Box Tops Results Are In!!

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The Box Tops have been collected, clipped and counted….Olive-Mary Stitt collected just over 3,200 Box Tops! That’s $320 for our school! Amazing job everyone!

The winning homerooms are Mrs. Vittore’s 1-2 with 329 Box Tops turned in and Mrs. Grimm’s 4-4 with 413 Box Tops turned in!

This school year we have made about $650 for Olive…just by cutting a label off of products that we use everyday…SOOOO EASY!

Please continue clipping and saving, and even recruit your family, friends and neighbors to clip too. We have 8 months til our next challenge so start saving today. I think we can double what we made this year…if anyone can, Olive-Mary Stitt can!

Also, a great big thank you to all of the clipping and counting volunteers! I truly appreciate all of your time and effort.

Thank you!

Just Move It! Challenge – Registration Open

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Register for the Just Move It! Challenge 2018!

RUN, WALK, DONATE OR HELP! JUST MOVE IT!

Registration, Volunteering, and Event Details: http://www.jmichallenge.org or sign up directly at https://www.signmeup.com/site/online-event-registration/124029

When: Saturday April 21, 2018
Where: South Middle School
7:30 – 10 AM Health and Fitness Expo
8:00 AM 5K Run/Walk Start
9:00 AM 1 Mile Run/Walk Start

Not going to run or walk? We need volunteers!
You can cheer on friends and family while helping out for education.

Contact your school representative, Bridget Stannis with questions or suggestions.

If you own a business or know of a business that would like to be a sponsor for the Just Move It Challenge, go to www.jmichallenge.org for more information, or contact your school representative asap.

Coins for Charity Water Counted!

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The Owl Way is excited to announce that we broke the record for our annual charity water coin collection.

Our grand total was $452.39, much higher than the previous years. What a fantastic way to start 2018!

Caring hearts and outstretched wings ready to help those in need. Your contributions will impact lives greatly. Clean water access means less disease, healthier children and more girls get to go to school instead of collecting water.

Thanks for being global thinkers with a passion for service learning.

Ladies’ Night Out – Nov 30th

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Come join other Olive moms at a wine tasting at Vintages Wine Shop! It will be on Nov. 30th from 6-8pm. It will be a great way to socialize and meet new people at Olive. The cost of the event is $20 and it includes: a wine tasting, appetizers and a raffle. You can use this link to pay online with a small processing fee: https://oliveptaladiesnightout.eventbrite.com (password is ‘Olive’) or you can print out this form and pay via check with no processing fee. Plan on stocking up on your wine and beer for the holiday season! 15% of all purchases during the event will be donated back to the OMS PTA. We hope you can join us!
Please feel free to contact Becky Hany at beckyhany@yahoo.com or Liz McDonnell at mcdonnell.elizabeth@gmail.com with any questions.

PTA Budget Update

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When the PTA completes its annual budget in July, it does so knowing that two things are true – predicting the future isn’t always flawless, and no two years are identical. The budget process is pretty simple – the PTA takes budget requests from committee chairs, combines those expenses with operational obligations, and then balances our expected expenses with planned income and fundraising. Any surplus income goes through the excess funds process each year, and how we spend surplus money is voted on in the spring meetings.

This year our fundraising chairs wanted to do something new – to step away from traditional sales based fundraising and toward community building activities. The Executive Committee all agreed these new events – Just Jump and the Trivia Night to be held in the spring – were a welcome exciting change. We were also aware these activities were unknowns.

As we happily noted last week, Just Jump exceeded our expectations. This year’s House Hop was so successful; the hosts welcomed 50 people per house instead of the estimated 30. Because of these successes, the lower than average participation in some of the other ongoing fundraising activities are covered. We have built in flexibility with other planned events, and – more importantly – we are able to cover our expenses as they occur without concern.

We still need to raise an additional $3,700 to meet our budgeted obligations this year. Our fundraising team expects to meet this goal. Which is why when we received an $1,100 check from the school supplies supplier – unexpectedly – the school supplies committee brought up the idea of getting it back into the classrooms right away, this year, so the teachers who were inconvenienced by the school supply company’s delivery delay this fall could benefit from this unexpected money. At the end of the school year, any further budget surplus would go through the excess funds process. Please email ideas for this $1,100 to olivetreasurer@gmail.com before December 5; any ideas will be brought to the PTA Executive Committee and teachers for review, the voted on at the January 31 meeting.

Thank you all for your generosity this fall and we look forward to seeing your ideas.

JUST JUMP – Thank You!

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Dear OMS Families and Community,

Thank you for your support and generous donations to sponsor your children for the PTA’s JUST JUMP fundraising activity at school last week. This new fundraiser was a big success, raising over $6800 for the PTA. The money will be used to fund many of the PTA’s programs, clubs and activities for the students (such as Family Bingo Night next Friday night).

We also want to give a big thank you to our two P.E. teachers, Mrs. Pusateri and Mrs. LaRoe, who made this event successful and fun for all OMS students. The students had fun trying new jumping activities and should be very proud of their hard work.

Sincerely,
Liz McDonnell and Becky Hany, Co-VPs of Fundraising

October Box Top Challenge

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The Box Tops have been counted up and the classroom winners are……Mrs. Wilson 4-2 and Ms. Vittore 1-2! They will be able to vote with their teacher on a class reward. We will be receiving a check for our school for over $300, which is great, but let’s try to double that next time!

Now is a great time to start saving for the next challenge in February! Get everyone involved…grandmas, grandpas, aunts, uncles, coworkers, even neighbors!

Remember, Box Tops are found on everyday items that you would buy at the grocery store like cereal, granola bars, snacks, Kleenex and much much more. If you want to know specifically, go to www.boxtops4education.com to check it out!

JUST JUMP Sponsorship and Schedule

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Thank you to the many families who have supported this new fundraiser! Monetary donations are still being accepted until next Friday, October 27. Please return the sponsorship form to school via back pack mail. You can submit cash or checks made payable to “OMS PTA”. Please have your child wear their blue JUST JUMP t-shirt on the day they jump next week. The schedule is below by day and teacher. Thank you for your support! Please reach out with any questions: Liz McDonnell or Becky Hany.

Students should wear their JUST JUMP t-shirt on this day:
Tuesday, 10/24: Klimas, Martens AM/K-1

Wednesday, 10/25: Alberti, Christoforou, Helmann, Muhr, Nordman, Range, Vitorre

Thursday, 10/26: Beck, Fowler, Martens PM/K-4, Molnar, Mueller, Musich, Naughten, Pietrzak, Trantor, Wilson

Friday, 10/27: Brinati, Brown, Edstrom, Grimm, Netzel, Orlando, Stevens, Wilhelm, Yarbrough

Just Jump Letter to Families

Just Jump Sponsorship Form

Box Tops October Challenge: Monday, October 16th – Friday, October 20th

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It’s finally starting to feel like fall so that means its time for our October Box Top Challenge! Let’s take a break from raking leaves so we can rake in the cash for Olive Mary-Stitt!

Please send in all of the Box Tops that you have been clipping and saving, anytime next week. At the end of the week, each classroom’s Box Tops will be counted and the top 2 classrooms will get to pick a class prize (PJ day, extra recess, etc.)

Introducing JUST JUMP Fundraiser!

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The OMS PTA is launching a new fundraiser this year called JUST JUMP which will engage all OMS students and their families. Students will be jumping for 10 minutes during P.E. class during the week of October 23-27. In order to support the meaningful activities the PTA sponsors each year, such as The Owl Way, Bingo Night, Activity Nights and many more, we are asking family members to sponsor their children with a monetary donation. All OMS students will have the opportunity to participate in JUST JUMP and sponsorship is optional.

Every OMS student will be coming home today with a JUST JUMP bag which includes the following:

1) JUST JUMP t-shirt (to be worn on the day your child jumps),
2) informational letter and
3) sponsorship form.

Please review the information and contact us with any questions: Liz McDonnell or Becky Hany. Thank you for your support to make this a successful new fundraiser for the OMS students!

just-jump-letter-to-familiesLetter to Families

just-jump-sponsorship-form Sponsorship Form

Yearbook – Now Available to Order

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Olive-Mary Stitt is using TreeRing to make our yearbooks. Last year we made the switch to TreeRing for two reasons:

  • Custom Pages: Every student gets a one-of-a-kind printed copy of the yearbook, containing two free pages that they can customize with personal photos.
  • Buy a Book, Plant a Tree: TreeRing plants a tree in our school’s name whenever someone from our school purchases a yearbook. (And here’s a bonus: They print on recycled paper).

Our book this year will be forty-two pages, including the two free custom pages, printed fully in color. The cost is $13.00. Orders placed by September 30 receive a 15% discount.  October orders will receive a 10% discount.

In order to buy your book and start your custom pages, visit https://www.treering.com.  If you had a TreeRing account last year, you can use the same password to log into your account. Please add any new children that did not attend last year. If you do not have a TreeRing account from last year you will need to create one. You’ll want to have our school passcode handy. That number is 1014636724843184.  Please purchase a yearbook for each child so they can each have a book to sign the last week of school.

We’re looking forward to a year full of great memories—and capturing them in the yearbook!

 

Please contact Kate Halley or Jeannie Glasstetter if you have questions.

P.S. If you run into any trouble at all while setting up your TreeRing account, they have a great support team. Please contact them at support@treering.com.

Olive-Yearbook-Flyer

WHOOO’S WHO?

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House Hop 6th Annual Progressive Dinner

HOUSE-hop-info-sheetWe hope you can join us at this awesome Annual Event! Swoop from house to house as you enjoy an evening of laughter, hors d’oeuvers and drinks while you meet and reconnect with fellow Olive-Mary Stitt Parents.
If you have not attended before, we start by having you meet us at the school for house assignments, then off to your first house at 7:00 to enjoy and at 9:00 you travel to your second house. This is one of the Olive’s biggest fundraisers and a great time is had by all! You can now also sign up online! https://househop.eventbrite.com password: Olive The processing fee is 2.92 per ticket if purchased online.

4th Annual Progressive Dinner

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Please join us on Saturday, October 17, 2015 for our 4th annual Progressive Dinner. Enjoy food and drinks as you meet new OMS parents and reconnect with others. Come with a friend, spouse or yourself. Please use this form to register for the event. RSVP BY OCTOBER 2, 2015 by returning form to main office or backpack mail.

Please contact Kerri Grabowski at grabowski@ameritech.net or Katie Stawicki at katiestawicki44@gmail.com  with any questions.

Spirit Wear Sale

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Olive PTA Spirit Wear Sale begins today and runs through September 18th. There are a lot of items to choose from! Be sure to visit our online store at http://www.headsupapparel.com/collections/olive-mary-stitt-2015. Orders will be taken online only and your items will be delivered to your child’s classroom early-mid October. Samples will be on display in the OMS Commons and also at Curriculum Night (September 2nd). Please click here for our product descriptions. For more information, please contact Sarah Klancnik – klancnik@comcast.net or Jolinta Voelker – jolintavoelker@yahoo.com.

Book Fair

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A BIG thank you to everyone who attended the Book Fair. It was a great night! Your efforts generated profits that will benefit future PTA programs. A special thank you to the MANY volunteers that assisted during the fair. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Book Fair

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Please join us on Wednesday, April 22 from 6:30-8:30 for the annual book Fair. There will be a great selection of books from Anderson’s Book Fair Company. A portion of the sales will go towards future PTA programs. Your child will have an opportunity to preview the book fair and make wish lists during the school day. You will also be able to donate books to your child’s classroom. In conjunction with Earth Day and the Earth Fair, please consider donating gently used books which will be given to Andrea’s Angels.

Just Move It Challenge

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The Just Move It Challenge is this Saturday April 11th. We are in desperate need of volunteers. We need lots of people to make this event as fun and safe as it can be. Thank you!

Sign up here for the race: www.jmichallenge.org
Sign up here to volunteer:
Sign up here to volunteer in a leadership role:
Registration closes on April 8th at 8pm.

Rebecca Linscott & Angie Frye

Co-Presidents OMS PTA

Book Fair

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Please join us on Wednesday, April 22 from 6:30-8:30 for the annual book Fair. There will be a great selection of books from Anderson’s Book Fair Company. A portion of the sales will go towards future PTA programs. Your child will have an opportunity to preview the book fair and make wish lists during the school day. You will also be able to donate books to your child’s classroom. In conjunction with Earth Day and the Earth Fair, please consider donating gently used books which will be given to Andrea’s Angels.