Special Meeting 3/19/24

3/29/2024 6:26 pm

Thanks to all who attended the PTO special meeting on 3/19/24.

Staff Appreciation requested an extra $2,500 in order to better fund their committee throughout the rest of the year; at the meeting, all attendees voted unanimously to approve.

Did you know that the Staff Appreciation serves a themed lunch to the Monroe staff once a month? This is in addition to different efforts to support teachers throughout the year, and making Staff Appreciation week in May as special as they can.

Thanks to stellar fundraising this year, we were able to fund this initiative! Thank you Monroe community, and thank you Monroe teachers for all you do!

Chess King's Cup Tournament / Congratulations to Monroe School!

3/29/2024 6:25 pm

Congratulation to Monroe Elementary for an amazing presence and dominance over the chess tournament on March 19 at The Community House.

Monroe Elementary won 1st Place Overall as the top school! 

The individual standings are listed below. A big thank you to all that participated!

K-1st Grade: 

• Gavin Pequet - 4th place

2nd Grade: 

• Sahaan Patel - 7th place medal winner
• Rhys Haarlow - 5th place 
• Neal Kiran - 2nd place
• James Grzelakowski - 1st place

3rd Grade:

• Vedansh Agarwal - 3rd place

4th Grade:

• Remi Coleman - 2nd place. (Note: Played a grade level up.)

5th Grade:

• Julian Malorny - 5th place
• Grant Omiecinski - 4th place

Stuff the Squad - April 10th

3/29/2024 6:15 pm

On Wednesday, April 10th, the Hinsdale police department will be at Monroe for their annual Stuff the Squad donation event. This is a competition between D181 schools! Let's show the community how generous we are at Monroe!

Please send your students with donations for Hinsdale's HCS Family Services on 4/10. If you would like to send donations on Monday, 4/8, or Tuesday, 4/9, there will be a spot to put the donations near the front office. We will ensure those items are stuffed in the squad!!!

CLICK HERE for more information about donations.

Save the Date

3/19/2024 1:30 am

Tuesday, March 19th

• Special PTO Budget Vote - 1:00pm (see below for Zoom link)
• Astronaut, Don Thomas, visit - PTO sponsored in-school event

Friday, March 22nd

• Monroe Cafe - Home Run Inn
• March Birthday Lunch

Monday, March 25th - Friday, March 29th

• No School - Spring Break

Monday, April 1st

• Final day for yearbook orders and personalized yearbook pages (see below)

Wednesday, April 10th

• Stuff the Squad HCS donation day (more info to come)

Student Council Spirit Week: March 18th - 22nd

3/19/2024 1:29 am

Monday - Tie-Dye Day
Tuesday - PJ day and bring your favorite stuffed animal
Wednesday - Sports Day
Thursday - Beach Day
Friday - Monroe Spirit Day

Special Monroe PTO Budget Vote: 3/19 @1:00

3/19/2024 1:28 am

Please join us virtually on Tuesday afternoon, 3/19, at 1:00pm for a special PTO budget vote. 

On the Zoom call, we will vote on shifting some of the PTO budget for upcoming staff appreciation events.

CLICK HERE for the Zoom link to join the call on Tuesday at 1:00pm.

Monroe Yearbooks: Orders and Personalized Pages due April, 1st!

3/19/2024 1:27 am

We've worked hard to capture as many moments as possible in this year's yearbook and we know all Mustangs are going to love it. Haven't ordered yet? No problem! We have re-opened the ordering window through April 1st.

Get started by creating your free Treering account (or if you have one, log in and follow the ordering prompts. Don't forget to add new students!).

Parents with an EXISTING Treering account:

1. Login to your account on treering.com
2. On the left side menu you will see your students, click in that section to 'buy yearbook'
3. If you need to add a new student (i.e. Kindergartener), Go Under "Kids", "Settings", and "Add Kid"
   
   

NEW MONROE FAMILIES without a Treering account:

1. Visit treering.com/validate
2. Enter our school code 1014404412984041
3. Follow prompts to set up your account and order
   
   

Personalized pages are also available - your book includes two free pages for you to personalize with your photos and your memories. It takes about 10 minutes to add photos and complete the two free custom pages included with your yearbook. Personalized pages are totally optional but if you love them and want more than two, you can add additional pages for $0.99 for each set of two pages. You can get as simple or as fancy as you'd like - just follow the prompts to create. Personalized pages are also due April 1st.

Please note that we are not able to order printed books to have 'on hand' for purchase at the end of the school year - if you do not order through Treering by April 1st, your student will not have a yearbook. Please contact Treering directly with any issues with ordering/personalized page creation at (877) 755-8733.

Student Council Spring Fundraiser

3/19/2024 1:26 am

What: Family Shelter Service of Metropolitan Family Services DuPage transforms lives by offering help and hope to those affected by domestic violence. Families need gift cards (Uber and grocery gift cards) and money to purchase cleaning supplies, soft bedding and basic necessities.

Please consider gift cards from: Uber, Lyft, Gas Stations, Walmart, Target, Jewel-Osco, Aldi, Dollar Store

When: Monday, March 18th - Wednesday, April 30th

Where: Bring gift cards or donations to your classroom

* This is a whole school fundraiser and the rewards we are working towards!
$1,000 - Outdoor recess equipment purchased by Mrs. Eder!
$1,500 Picnic outside for lunch!

If each student donates $5, we will have exceeded our goal! Let’s come together to make a difference!

2024-2025 Yearbook Committee Chairs Needed!

3/19/2024 1:26 am

Do your kids LOVE getting their yearbook at the end of the year? 

We need YOU to chair the yearbook committee next year to make the magic happen! 

Please let Jen (jkasmarickpto@gmail.com) or Catey (ctwhitepto@gmail.com) know if you'd be interested in volunteering for this exciting and fun committee! Thank you!

Don't Forget to Buy Your Tickets to Off to the Races!

3/19/2024 1:25 am

Tickets sales are still open for this year's fundraiser, Off to the Races!

CLICK HERE to register for the event, buy your event tickets, and view our amazing auction items and generous sponsors! 

Also, don't forget to purchase your Golden Raffle ticket ahead of time along with your Yeti tumbler, so Plume + Script can customize it live at the event!

Thank you for supporting Monroe School! Go Mustangs!

School Supplies Made Easy - Save Time and Money!

3/19/2024 1:25 am

Place 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.)

Glo Up Oakbrook is Partnering with Monroe School March 20-22

3/19/2024 1:24 am

Get ready for spring break with Glo Up’s famous airbrush spray tan and spa services during March 20-22! 

Glo Up is generously donating 25% of all Monroe designated services booked on these days to support our students. Make your online appts HERE.

See FLYER for more details.

Save the Date: Who Gets Into College and Why Presentation by a Jeff Selingo - April 24, 2024

3/19/2024 1:23 am

Wednesday, April 24, 2024
7:00pm - 8:30pm
In Person at the Hinsdale Central Auditorium
Register HERE

It’s the question on the minds of teenagers and their parents everywhere: how do colleges select their freshman class? For an entire admissions cycle, Selingo was embedded in three admissions offices and followed a group of high-school seniors through the process as well as players behind the scenes, including the marketers, the financial aid consultants, and the rankers.

Selingo dispels the entrenched notions of how to compete and win at the admissions game, reveals why families have much to gain by broadening their notion of what qualifies as a “good” college, and explains how the Covid-19 pandemic will impact admissions in the long run.

Please see FLYER for more details. 

Save the Date

3/11/2024 1:13 pm

Wednesday, March 13th

• D181 Current Student Online Registration Opens (2024-25 school year)

Friday, March 15th

• Monroe Cafe - Jersey Mike's

Monday, April 1st

• Final day for yearbook orders and personalized yearbook pages (see below)

One Book, One School is here!

3/11/2024 1:10 pm

Let the reading adventure begin! Join this community-wide reading event that provides every Monroe School family the opportunity to read the same book, The Wild Robot by Peter Brown. 

Copies of the book were distributed on Friday, March 8th, and sent home with the YOUNGEST student in the family. Each family received a copy, a bookmark with a reading schedule (chapters spread out across 6 weeks), a parent letter, activity guide, an order form for additional books in the series, and more. 

See this week's QUESTIONS to spark discussion. The whole family will go wild for this remarkable robot! 

Students also have the opportunity to create their very own diorama recreating scenes and characters from the book. CLICK HERE for instructions. Final dioramas will be displayed during Fine Arts night and at the Monroe School book fair this April 25th!

Student Council Spring Fundraiser

3/11/2024 1:09 pm

What: Family Shelter Service of Metropolitan Family Services DuPage transforms lives by offering help and hope to those affected by domestic violence. Families need gift cards (Uber, Lyft, Gas Stations, Walmart, Target, Jewel-Osco, Aldi, Dollar Store) and money to purchase cleaning supplies, soft bedding and basic necessities.

When: Monday, March 4th - Wednesday, April 30th

Where: Bring gift cards or donations to your classroom

* This is a whole school fundraiser reward!
$1,000 - Outdoor recess equipment purchased by Mrs. Eder!
$1,500 - Picnic day outside for lunch!

If each student donates $5 we will have exceeded our goal! Let’s come together to make a difference!

School Supply Kits for 2024/25 - Place orders starting 3/13

3/11/2024 1:09 pm

Back-to-School Supply Shopping Made Easy: Our school has again selected Educational Products, Inc. (EPI) for our 2024/25 school supply program to help you save time and money on back-to-school shopping. As the #1 provider of school supply packs for over 40 years, more schools choose EPI every year.

You can order starting Wednesday, March 13th. To order supplies, look for the link during the PTO registration process. Kits will be shipped to Monroe and in your child's classroom on the first day of school.
Our school ID for the ordering process is listed below:

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

See FLYER for more details.

Season of Science Wraps Up

3/11/2024 1:08 pm

We hope our Monroe students enjoyed the Season of Science this year! 

Thank you to the dedicated science committee - Lina Bankert, Neha Joshi, Samar Diab and Megan Steenman - who worked so hard to put a wonderful program together beginning to end, including take-home science activities and assembly coordination! 

Thank you also to all of our Monroe community parents in STEM who shared how they use science in their day-to-day life. Between our January kickoff assembly with Get Science and last week's closing assembly with the Museum of Science and Industry, we hope all our Mustangs learned a lot. Keep your eyes peeled for another "out of this world" assembly coming this month, and the return of Science Fair in 2025!

Flag Grant Success!

3/11/2024 1:07 pm

This week we wanted to share a bit of good news! 

Three 5th grade students noticed that not everyone felt represented by the flags hanging in the gymnasium and they took action! The students collected data from a student survey and came up with a list of missing flags. They worked with Mrs. Kaumeyer and submitted a grant request to the PTO; the PTO was happy to fund such an initiative. Thank you to Marlowe, Aria and Lana for taking action and promoting inclusivity! 

Keep your eyes peeled for the 23 new flags that will be hung soon!

Spring Raffle was a Success!

3/11/2024 1:07 pm

Thank you to all families who helped support Monroe by purchasing tickets for the Spring Raffle. 

Congratulations to our winners: the Burgstahler, Clary, Gartner, Kasmarick, Lewis, Massouras, Napleton/Chavez/Peterson, Qi, Sheehan and Yammine Families! 100% of proceeds from this Raffle will support the Monroe PTO Fundraiser this spring.