THANK YOU!

5/17/2024 1:10 pm

The 23-24 Monroe PTO could absolutely not function without the generous time and talent of our community parents. Over the next few weeks, we would like to express our deepest THANK YOUS to wonderful parents who help so much! These jobs are time consuming and sometimes thankless- we appreciate you!

Thank you SUSIE THORPE and ELLEN DUNLAP for chairing the Staff Appreciation Committee! Susie, Ellen and their committee provide lunch for our staff every single month, and make Teacher Appreciation week, Principal Appreciation Week, Crossing Guard Appreciation Week and Bus Driver Appreciation week very special! You do a wonderful job for our teachers, who deserve the special treatment!

Thank you LINA BANKERT for chairing the Season of Science Committee this year! Lina and the Science Fair committee did a last minute pivot and came up with some awesome ideas, sharing parents in STEM with our community, sending home awesome take home kits and booking wonderful assemblies the kids are still talking about!

Thank you EMILY BLASKO and LIZ SCHIEBER for chairing the inaugural Kids Care Club Committee! This committee has done unbelievable outreach for our community and beyond this year; the kids are learning how to be charitable and kind humans while helping others.

Thank you DANA REKO for running the fall Charleston Wrap sale! Charleston Wrap is a quiet yet hugely successful fundraiser for our PTO, and keeps our community's holiday presents looking beautiful in the Charleston paper.

Thank you TAMSYN PEQUET for yet again running our Living Garden program! We are so lucky to have the Living Garden at Monroe School, and Tamysn is doing all the work behind the scenes to keep it beautiful for our kids to enjoy and learn!

Thank you to LAURA RAINE for chairing the Brick Paver committee and overseeing the install of memorial bricks for Monroe families!

SaveTheDate

5/12/2024 3:40 pm

Friday, May 17th

• Monroe Cafe - Culver's
• Family Fun Fest, 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Monday, May 27th

• No School - Memorial Day

Wednesday, May 29th

• Kindergarten Sneak Peek (incoming Kindergartners only)
• Field Day (AM Kindergartners attend in the afternoon - 12:15-3:05)

Thursday, May 30th

• Last day of school for Kindergarten
• Monroe Cafe - Home Run Inn (make up day from January)

Friday, May 31st

• Last Day of School (early dismissal)
• 5th Grade Culmination and Clap Out

Field Day Reminders - 5/29

5/12/2024 3:38 pm

Hi Parents! Remember the Watch us Grow t-shirts your child received in the fall as a thank you for registering for the PTO? It is time to dig through your drawers to find them! Monroe staff have asked that students wear color coded shirts so they can be easily identified at Field Day on 5/29.

As a reminder, colors by grade are as follows!

Fifth- RED
Fourth - ORANGE
Third- YELLOW
Second- GREEN
First- BLUE
Kinder - PURPLE

Can't find the t shirt? No worries! Just send your child in a color that matches their grade on Field Day!

Volunteer for Field Day - 5/29

5/12/2024 3:38 pm

Field Day is back! Field Day 2024 is on Wednesday, May 29th - 12:00-2:45.

CLICK HERE to volunteer for Field Day.

Mrs. Marcucci needs 30 parent volunteers to help run the stations on Field Day. Parents will be assigned a station the day of the event and students will move with their class from activity to activity. Please arrive at 12:00 to get your station assignment and only sign up if you can stay the whole time.

Questions? Please email mmarcucci@d181.org

5th Grade Pool Party - Last Chance for Tickets!

5/12/2024 3:33 pm

Calling all 5th Grade Parents! Pool Party Tickets Sales close this Wed. May 15th!

Don't miss out on this 5th grader Monroe tradition! Celebrate with an EPIC pool party on Friday, May 31st from 3pm-5pm at the Hinsdale Community Pool.

CLICK HERE to purchase your tickets today! MUST purchase tickets by May 15. NO tickets will be sold at the door.

See INVITE for more details.

Library Books are Due May 17th

5/12/2024 3:32 pm

The classes are in a contest to see which classes can return all their library books (or pay their lost/damaged fines) the fastest.

Please help your child find their missing library books by Friday. Notices will be sent the following week.

5th Graders - School Supplies for CHMS

5/12/2024 3:32 pm

Back to school supplies are made easy to order for 6th grade too!

Order your 6th grade school supplies by June 2, 2024. Supplies will be delivered to your home before the first day of school. Please list your home address and not the school's address. Please use the CHMS school ID: CLA217.

CLICK HERE to order today!

Brick Paver Sale! Now taking orders...

5/12/2024 3:30 pm

Our annual sale has begun! Please submit orders “HERE”.

You have seen these custom bricks in the sidewalks of Monroe, and now you can have one installed for your student or family. It’s a great way to honor your graduate, recognize your child, or leave a legacy for the whole family on school grounds!

Bricks are $35 each for 4x8 inches OR $85 each for 12x12 inches. Up to 3 lines of print (each line no more than 15 letters/spaces). $5 of each sale will be donated to the PTO. Don’t miss your chance to order before the end of the school year your student can see it on the first day next fall!

Some past examples include: Student’s name & Class of ????, The ????? Family, Congrats or Way to go! & your child’s name.

Evereve Burr Ridge is Hosting a Monroe School Shopping Event on Thursday, May 16

5/12/2024 3:28 pm

Get ready for summer and join us at Evereve Burr Ridge on Thursday, May 16. Evereve is generously donating 15% of all Monroe designated purchases on this date from 5-7pm.

Evereve
490 Village Center Dr.
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
630.995.3529

Thank you to our Monroe Families

5/12/2024 3:27 pm

Thank you for the AMAZING Staff Appreciation Week. We appreciate our families and all you do for us. A special thank you to Staff Appreciation Committee for their thoughtfulness in planning this fun week!

Your Monroe Teachers and Staff

Monroe School Loves Our Staff!

5/12/2024 3:27 pm

THANK YOU!

5/12/2024 3:22 pm

The 23-24 Monroe PTO could absolutely not function without the generous time and talent of our community parents. Over the next few weeks, we would like to express our deepest THANK YOUS to wonderful parents who help so much! These jobs are time consuming and sometimes thankless- we appreciate you!

Thank you MIRA BONEVA-COLEMAN and LESLEY DAWARAVOO for organizing an exciting One Book One School event! Students and their families are raving about The Wild Robot, and loved all the work you put into Fine Arts Night!

Thank you SHAUNA PHELAN AND VANESSA FAVIA for not only chairing hot lunch, but making it possible to have it every.single.Friday!!! It is a lot of work to coordinate and a weekly time commitment for you both; but parents have rejoiced at the option of not having to pack lunch 1x a week!

Thank you JEN CARMODY AND HOLLY DANCER for organizing the monthly birthday lunch! The students love to feel special on their birthdays with Mrs. Eder!

Thank you ELLEN DUNLAP, DIEM TOM, BECKY BACOGIANNIS and CATEY WHITE for chairing the 2024 Family Fun Fest! This is a huge undertaking, and an event Monroe loves so much! We can’t wait for this year's Fest and appreciate all you have done for it!

Thank you JAMIE YAMMINE AND BEA HARNOIS for curating and selling our Monroe spiritwear, supporting our school and showing school pride!

Thank you KRISTINA GLEESON, MIRA BONEVA-COLEMAN and NICOLE STAPLETON for being our 5th Grade Culmination team! This is a bittersweet time for 5th grade parents, and you have done a wonderful job celebrating our 5th graders as they move on to middle school! There were a large group of parents helping this team, an additional thanks to the DARE team of DENNIS COLEMAN AND CHAD WRIGLEY, pool party committee of JAMIE YAMMINE, JEN CARMODY and LESLEY DAWRAVOO and Greenery Sale team SARA CLARY AND MEGAN MADURI!

Save the Date

5/5/2024 8:59 am

Monday, May 6th - Friday, May 10th
Staff Appreciation Week

Tuesday, May 7th
Monroe Milers, 7:55am

Friday, May 10th
Monroe Milers, 7:55am
Monroe Cafe - Home Run Inn

Friday, May 17th
Family Fun Fest, 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Monday, May 27th
No School - Memorial Day

Wednesday, May 29th
Kindergarten Sneak Peek (incoming Kindergartners only)
Field Day (AM Kindergartners attend in the afternoon - details to come from Mrs. Oliva)

Thursday, May 30th
Monroe Cafe - Home Run Inn (make up day from January)

Friday, May 31st
Last Day of School (early dismissal)
5th Grade Culmination and Clap Out

THANK YOU!

5/5/2024 8:57 am

The 23-24 Monroe PTO could absolutely not function without the generous time and talent of our community parents. Over the next few weeks, we would like to express our deepest THANK YOUS to wonderful parents who help so much! These jobs are time consuming and sometimes thankless- we appreciate you!

Thank you AMI MEHTA and MIRA BONEVA COLEMAN for editing this Mustang Minutes you are reading week in and week out! We would be lost without you sharing important school information every Sunday!

Thank you ZARA KINSELLA, GRAINNE NAPLETON and MALLORY SITKOWSKI for handling the tremendous task of creating and ordering our fabulous yearbooks! The kids (and parents!) cherish the memories created inside.

Thank you JULIETTE BRADLEY and MEGAN MARTIN for chairing Community Partners! Partnering with fun businesses to raise money for our school, by either getting a fun dinner on the table, beautiful holiday cards or getting us tan for spring break, we appreciate you building important community relationships while raising money for our PTO!

Thank you COURTNEY HAARLOW for being the Enrichment point person! The PTO no longer coordinates enrichment, but Courtney did an amazing (and tough!) job advertising offerings and keeping parents informed!

Thank you JESSY CHOI YUN for organizing locker photos and photo days; keeping the kids lockers identifiable for staff and coordinating fabulous fall and spring picture days with Monroe staff!

Thank you ALIFYA KAGALWALLA for researching and booking some awesome assemblies this year for our students!

Off to the Races - What a Night!

5/5/2024 8:53 am

A big THANK YOU to all of the Monroe parents who attended and supported this year's fundraiser, Off to the Races. What a fun night supporting our school!

We'd like to give a special thanks to all of our sponsors - CHT, Martin-Chevrolet, Builders Asphalt, J.Jordan Homes, Style Strategy, Tracy Fussaro for Coldwell Banker, Just Lift Fitness, Level Up Academy, Hummingbird Therapy & Enrichment Center, Stretch Lab, and Pure Skin by Peg. We appreciate the community support.

Thank you all for your generosity and commitment to our kids and school! Go Mustangs!

- Lara Massouras and Dana Reko

24/25 PTO Committee Volunteers Needed!

5/5/2024 8:52 am

Hello,
If there's a PTO Committee you are dying to be on, now is your chance! Check out the sign up genius below and sign up for your favorite committee. It's a great way to meet other Monroe parents and help coordinate all the favorite activities of your kids!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080B4EA8AF2FA3FF2-202223#/

Book Fair Success

5/5/2024 8:52 am

Thank you for supporting the book fair. It was our largest Spring Book Fair since I've been your librarian. This is a great investment in your child's education, but most importantly, supporting their life long love of reading.
Thank you also for adding to the classroom libraries. The students are going to love reading these new titles.

Truly,
Mrs. Wodka

Check school supplies off your to do list while supporting the PTO!

5/5/2024 8:50 am

Don't miss the opportunity to take the stress out of school supply shopping while supporting the PTO. If you haven't already, please consider placing your order today for next year's school supplies. Supplies will be delivered to your child’s classroom for the first day of school.

There are two easy options to place your school supply order. First, use this LINK to register for the 2024/25 PTO and order your school supplies. You can also order directly from EPI by clicking HERE.

Please use School ID MON090 (Please note, the last 3 digits of our school ID are numbers.)

5th Graders - School Supplies for CHMS

5/5/2024 8:48 am

Back to school supplies are made easy to order for 6th grade too!

Order your 6th grade school supplies by June 2, 2024. Supplies will be delivered to your home before the first day of school. Please list your home address and not the school's address. Please use the CHMS school ID: CLA217.

CLICK HERE to order today!

Paver Sale is ON!

5/5/2024 8:47 am

Our annual sale has begun! Please submit orders HERE

You have seen these custom bricks in the sidewalks of Monroe, and now you can have one installed for your student or family. It’s a great way to honor your graduate, recognize your child, or leave a legacy for the whole family on school grounds!

Bricks are $70 each for 4x8 inches OR $125 each for 12x12 inches. Up to 3 lines of print (each line no more than 15 letters/spaces). $5 of each sale will be donated to the PTO. Don’t miss your chance to order before the end of the school year your student can see it on the first day next fall!

Some past examples include: Student’s name & Class of ????, The ????? Family, Congrats or Way to go! & your child’s name.