Thank you for cleaning out your book shelves and donating 1,500 books to our book swap!  The kids had such a great time shopping for new books and were already asking when we could do it again.  Hopefully they got some good reading material for our Read-A-Thon!

Thank you to Lorrie McDonough, April de Haan, and Kathy Shields for your help counting books, sorting them, and setting up the room.  Another huge thank you to Cynthia Knight and Lisa Fiore for helping the students shop during the actual swap. 

The fall Book Fair will take place Oct. 9th - Oct. 12th.  We need many volunteers to help students shop during the day as well as people to help during family night.  Family night will be held on Thursday, October 11th from 5:30 - 7:30 pm in the library. 

BINGO will be going on in the commons from 6:15 - 7:30.  We have a lot of good prizes including free pretzels from Auntie Ann's, free ice cream from Coldstone, Free Hot Dog meals from Dogfather, Free kids meals from Red Robin, Sonic coupons, Buffalo Wild Wings coupons, and haircut coupons for Great Clips.  At 7pm will we be doing a parent BINGO game for front row seats at this year's Holiday Sing!  Come and shop the Book Fair and then join us for BINGO!

Main Event will also be in the entry way with their wheel of fun and giveaways.  Stop by and say hi to them!

READ-A-THON
Our fundraiser for the year will be happening this month!  Our Read-A-Thon will officially begin on Monday, October 29th in your child's classroom.  We will start collecting donations the week before.  Information packets will be going home on Friday, October 19th.  Your child will be wearing a green bracelet to remind them to talk to you about the Read-A-Thon.  We have many awesome prizes and incentives!  Set up your reader dashboard right away and start asking for donations.  If we hit our goal of $22,000 Mr. Flatley will sit on the roof of the school for the whole day.  Daily updates will go out during the Read-A-Thon so you can keep track of our progress.

Thank you to the McBrearty family for their donation of our collection envelopes, Eileen Lima and Becky Rauen for their amazing skills gathering prize donations, Tara Tonti for the designing of our book marks, and Sherry Shannon and the Drama Kids Club for our kick off video! 

Limited sizes of Prairieview sweatshirts and tee's  will be on sale during the Book Fair on Family Night.  Stop by the table and stock up on your cold weather gear!

FAMILY EATS
FIVE nights on the calendar when no one has to make dinner and one family fun night!  Dine out at the following establishments and part of your spending will come back to Prairieview!  Our Urban Air night is a Thursday before a day off of school.  20% of all our ticket prices for the night will come back to the school.

October 16th - Café Zupas
October 29th - Chipotle
November 5th - MOD Pizza
November 27th - Portillos
December 4th - Potbelly
February 28th - Urban Air
More to come!

So far we have collected 3,300 box tops, which is 20% of our goal.  The deadline to turn in box tops for our November submission is Friday, Oct. 12th.  Please turn everything you have by that date - especially any with a Nov 1st expiration date.

Incentives:
Top Class - Silly String War at the end of the year
Classes that hit 75% of their goal - celebration picnic during their lunch/recess period including music and games.

Keep clipping!

OPEN COMMITTEE CHAIR POSITIONS
 

We have a few open committee head positions that were are looking to fill.  You don't have to do it alone!  You can co-chair with a friend if you would like.  We have all the info to help you! 

Mom/Son Night: This event usually takes place a the beginning of May.  You can choose the event that you want to plan.  In recent previous years we have had a laser tag company come and set up a battleground in the gym and we have also held a bowling night at Wheaton Bowl.  The time commitment in planning depends on what event you choose to plan. 

Fun Fair Chair: This event takes place in March.  This is one of our biggest fundraising events.  We have multiple people that help out and help plan different aspects of the fair and our past chair lead is willing to help the day of setting and executing everything.  We are looking for someone to be the official chair of the event. 

School Supply Kits: The PTO offers the opportunity to pre-order your school supplies for the next year.  The school supply kit chair coordinates with the teachers to get their school supply lists and then works with Carlson's to get the different kits pulled together.  An order from will be sent out to parents in April and then the committee chair will coordinate delivery from Carlson's and a pick up date for the parents.  It is a very small time commitment position in the spring.

For over half a century, community and parent bolunteers that live within Illinois School U-46 boundaries have served as liaisons between their schools, the CAC, and the school district.  We identify our children's needs and bring ideas to the District.  CAC representatives attend monthly meetings and are strongly encouraged to join a committee.

The goal of the CAC is to advise and assist the Board of Education and Administration in the ongoing effort to provide the best possible educational opportunities for the students of School District U-46. 

Prairieview needs 4 CAC members to have any voting rights for our school on important topics such as boundary lines.  If you are interested, the time commitment is one meeting a month during the school year.  Please email Mr. Flatley if you would like to volunteer.

SHOPAROO
Download the Shoparoo app today!  Such an easy way to earn money for our school by only snapping pictures of receipts.  We currently have 17 people using it and we already earned $10 for our school in one month.  Imagine what that number could be if more people started using it!  We could get a really nice check at the beginning of next year.  More details can be found on the app!

AMAZON SMILE
Did you know that you can donate money to Prairieview just by doing your normal shopping at Amazon?  If you are a big Amazon shopper please sign up for Amazon Smile.  Once you sign up you shop at www.smile.amazon.com and a portion of most things you purchase will be given back to our school!

POP TOPS
Did you know that we collect Pop Tops for the Ronald McDonald House Charity?  There is a collection box in the foyer across from the door to the office.  Save them and bag them and send them in with your kids.  In year's past we have collected over 60 lbs of pop tops!  Let's give back to the community!

• Go to www.prairieview.shutterflystorefront.com
• Click on Shop Shutterfly or Shop Tiny Prints
• You will be sent to your normal sign in screen to complete your purchase.