One Book One School: Sign up to help at Fine Arts Night!

4/6/2024 4:31 pm

Show your spirit for The Wild Robot with Animal Day - wear a shirt with an animal on it - on Tuesday, April 9th.

We need a few volunteers for Fine Arts Night (April 25th). Students will have the opportunity to make their own “Roz Sticker” and “Build the Nest”. We need 4 volunteers to help with the craft stations. Please Sign Up HERE and see for more details.

Reminder, we'll read Chapters 51-64 this week. Check out this week's Discussion Questions at this link to keep the conversation going at home.

Send your cool diorama pics to Meredith Wodka (mwodka@d181.org). Select pictures will be displayed for inspiration!

CHMS Pizza Wars!

4/6/2024 4:30 pm

Attention Rising 6th Graders!

Tickets for 2024 Pizza Wars are NOW ON SALE!! (Link https://www.chmspto.org/packet/2937)

Join us Thursday April 17th 5:30-7:00!
Your ticket gets you into the event where you can sample pizza from local chains as well as our Featured Vendors Sarpino's, Home Run Inn, Al's and Brama La Pizza! You'll get to vote for your favorites!

Enjoy the Talent Show put on by CHMS Students, and the Grand Finale Performance by After School Special!

Visit booths from our Platinum and Gold Level Sponsors - CHT Orthodontics, Achieve Sports Medicine, Band & Wire, and Barre3!

Make sure you enter raffles to win a pizza lunch party for your lunch table (1 per grade), and to be the lunchroom DJ (1 per grade) and to win a custom CHMS Stanley Cup!

This is a great way to meet other Rising 6th Graders and check out CHMS!

Hope to see you there!
CHMS PTO

PS - CHMS School Supply Kits are now on sale! Buy yours at http://www.educationalproducts.com/shoppacks
Use School Code CLA217

Community Speaker Series April 24th Presentation by Jeff Selingo: Who Gets Into College and Why

4/6/2024 4:24 pm

Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions

Wednesday, April 24, 2024
7:00pm - 8:30pm
In Person at the Hinsdale Central Auditorium
Register: http://weblink.donorperfect.com/CSSSelingo

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.

Save the Date

3/29/2024 6:29 pm

Monday, April 1st

• Last day to order yearbooks!

Friday, April 5th

• Monroe Cafe - Culver's

Sunday, April 7th

• Family Fun Fest tickets go on sale

Wednesday, April 10th

• Stuff the Squad - HCS donation day (info below)

Saturday, May 4th

• Off to the Races - Monroe Fundraiser (Buy your tickets now!)

Friday, May 17th

• Family Fun Fest, 5-8pm

Monroe Yearbooks - Last Call for Orders and Personalized Pages!

3/29/2024 6:28 pm

Order your yearbook today! LAST CHANCE! We have re-opened the ordering window through Monday, April 1st.

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. 

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.

One Book, One School Week 3: The Adventure Continues!

3/29/2024 6:27 pm

Show your spirit for The Wild Robot with Outdoorsman / Camo Day this Tuesday, April 2. 

Check out these cool dioramas! How is yours coming along? Continue building your diorama and add a wooden foot to Roz this week. 

CLICK HERE for more diorama details. Please send pictures to Meredith Wodka (mwodka@d181.org). Select pictures will be displayed for inspiration! 

Reminder, we'll read Chapters 35-50 this week. Check out this week's Discussion Questions to keep the conversation going at home.

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)