Ames’ Family
Garden Work Day
Monday, June 29th, 9am-12pm

We need to dig up some flowers and bulbs to get ready for the reading circle and brick paver installation!

• Light weeding, trimming & cleanup
• No experience necessary
• Bring large shovels, dandelion pullers or large screw drivers, clippers & gloves, if you have them.
• Come for 1 hour or the whole time!

Family fun, prizes, popsicles, & butterfly education!

*Please respond to terri.lynne@novartis.com or call 708 205-8668 to let us know you will attend*

Date:  Tuesday, June 16^th
Time:  7:30 p.m.
Location:  Hauser Junior High School, 63 Woodside Road in Riverside
Board of Education Meeting Agenda:  Click Here

Just a reminder that Summer School (Session 1) begins Monday, June 8th and will be held at Ames School this year (NOT CENTRAL).  Ames is located at 86 Southcote Road in Riverside. If you have any questions, please contact Nancy Catrambone at catrambonen@district96.org.

The 2008-2009 Yearbooks have arrived and will be distributed on Wednesday at school.  If you didn’t get your order in or if you’d like to order additional copies, they’ll be available in the Ames school office or you can contact Mary Lescher.  The cost is $7.00.

Important information about Registration for Returning District 96 students for next year:

• If you haven’t already done so, please make sure you register your child for next year by Wednesday, June 10th.  Forms and information about early registration for returning students is available on the district website (www.district96.org).  Click on “Resources” and then “09-10 Registration-RETURNING student.”  You can print the form and fill it out by hand (Non-Fillable form in pdf) or type the information in the form and print it (Fillable form in Word).  The forms need to be signed and returned to the Ames School Office with a check for school fees. 
• Do not fill out the PTO/PTA directory forms on the district’s website.  The Ames directory form and other PTA forms are coming home today.  Check your child’s backpack for a large envelope if they are in Kindergarten thru 4th grade.  The forms can also be accessed on our website (www.amespta.org) under “Forms.”  Please fill out these forms and return to the Ames School Office with your District 96 registration materials.

Ms. Allen is looking for summer homes for one of her classroom hamsters (Newbie) and one of her classroom gerbils (Summer).  If you’re interested in taking care of one of them, please contact her.

Below is the link for the Suburban Life photos that were taken at our Ames School Talent Show on Wednesday evening, May 13th.  You’re going to want to order a coffee mug or a tote bag with picture #5 on it!
http://photos.mysuburbanlife.com/mycapture/enlarge.asp?image=23698238&event=754325&CategoryID=49445

The yearbook committee also has a lot of pictures from the Talent Show’s matinee performance, including group shots.  Please contact Mary Lescher if you’d like a digital copy of any pictures.

Attention Ames School Families, Alumni and Friends:

Last chance this year to order an engraved paver brick to be installed in the new reading circle at Ames this summer!  Send any new orders into the Ames school office by Thursday, June 4th.

We’ve sold almost 70 bricks.  See below for the names of families who have purchased bricks thus far.  Let us know if you sent in an order, but don’t see your family name listed below.

Tax receipt letters will be sent out in June.  Remember to check with your employer on possible matching funds and send in the appropriate paper work.  You can download an order form HERE.  Contact Terri Lynne-Culloden if you have any questions (708/205-8668).

Brick orders have been received from:
Alm, Andersen, Balin, Bartolone, Bednar, Browning, Buchman, Buckley, Buonomo, Buoscio, Catrambone, Centorcelli, Cermak, Coffey, Cub Scout Pack 24, Culloden, Dachota, Decosola, Dvorak, Filec, Franceschina, Funaki, Gentile, Georgopulos, Goletz, Gomorczak, Haley, Jones, Jurack, Kaiser, Lukas, McCloskey, Miezio, Moyer, Muldowney, Murillo, Nolan, Pell, Ranft, Rogers, Schulte, Schwarz, Scott, Shook, Sopocy, Strunc, Tkalec, Udelson, Wakely, Walz, Wang, Wolfer

A flyer went home last week about the annual school-wide teacher collection.  In addition to your child’s grade level teacher, there are many other teachers at Ames School that contribute to your child’s education.  These teachers (Mrs. Ekstrom, Mrs. Lauritsen, Mrs. Goletz and Mrs. Bieschke) along with Mrs. Sheppard, lunchroom aides, mid-day assistants, resource teachers, custodians and many others do a lot for our children over the course of the year.  To show them how much we appreciate everything they do, we usually pool our resources and get them gift certificates.
Participation is purely voluntary and no amount is too small.  Please send your contribution to the school in an envelope marked “Donna Jones, c/o School Office” by Friday, May 29th.  If you have any questions or if your contribution will be late, please email Donna at riversidefour@aol.com as soon as possible.
Thank you and have a wonderful summer.

Attention Parents! The Right Stuff School Supply kits will be delivered on Monday, June 1st.  If you ordered a kit, your child will be bringing it home on Monday after school.  Please keep an eye out for it!

Thanks,
Lisa Carlson