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Friday Sept 5th 9am-4pm, Saturday, Sept 6th 9am-1pm
Ascension
Lutheran Church
400 Nuttall Road - Riverside
(across from Ames School near DesPlaines & 27th St)

All plants 2 for $5.00.
Stock up, and have beautiful blooms next spring/summer!

Posted in 2008-2009, Community, September 2008 

Attention Parents! The Innisbrook Wrapping Paper sale began Thursday, Sept. 4th. This is a HUGE fundraiser for our PTA AND the products are awesome! Nice, thick paper with many many yards per roll! There are also great gift items available for sale.

Your child will bring home his/her packet on Thursday. All of the instructions are inside the envelope. Please take the time to read about our sale AND register your child on-line. All orders placed on-line will be credited to your child for prizes after you register him/her on the Innisbrook website. On-line orders are shipped directly to the customer and are extremely fast and easy!

Thanks for your help with this great fundraiser!

Posted in 2008-2009, Fundraisers 

To those 6th grade parents who may still be receiving news from our elementary school PTA/PTO websites: You are invited to sign up for Hauser PTA’s “Feedblitz” service. If you haven’t noticed already, you’ll see that not as much information comes home from Hauser. Please go to the Hauser website at www.hauserpta.org. Enter your e-mail address in the left column under “Newsletter Sign-up.” As you have been accustomed to at the grade schools, you will occasionally receive news items relating to Hauser. Please feel free to subscribe everyone in your family who would like to receive updates. Contact Nancy Hopkins with any questions.

Posted in 2008-2009, September 2008 

Hauser Junior High will host the performances of Jane Lauritsen, Bill Howes, Brian Collins, Jim Colomobo, Laura Lynch and Patty Gill. Please we join the for an enjoyable night of music.

Posted in 2008-2009, September 2008 

Have you signed up yet to help Ames School at the Box Top for Education Website. Filled with fun facts, recipes, sweepstakes to earn extra points for our Ames School, and much more. Just takes a few minutes and if you stop by daily from now until Sept 1 you can increase our chances of winning.

Heres our stats:
ALBERT F AMES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Ranks 29,734 out of 96,819 schools | Last year’s earnings: $467 | This year’s earnings: $0
State percentile: 64 | National percentile: 68 | Ave. school across the U.S.- 07-08 earnings: $411

TOP 10 NATIONAL SCHOOLS 2008-2009 Last year’s earnings
1. NAVAJO LUTHERAN MISSION SCHOOL, ROCK POINT, ARIZONA $31,195
2. RED BIRD MISSION SCHOOL, Beverly, KENTUCKY $27,968
3. ST ALOYSIUS SCHOOL, PEWEE VALLEY, KENTUCKY $11,875
4. ST MARY SCHOOL, GREENVILLE, WISCONSIN $10,914
5. PINEWOOD COMMUNITY SCHOOL/PTA/PTO, Eagan, MINNESOTA $10,747
6. WALLENPAUPACK NORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL, HAWLEY, PENNSYLVANIA $10,256
7. BRIDGEPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, VALENCIA, CALIFORNIA $10,000
8. ST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL, ASHLAND, MONTANA $8,823
9. W J ZAHNOW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, WATERLOO, ILLINOIS $8,801
10. ST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL, CHAMBERLAIN, SOUTH DAKOTA $8,645

At no extra cost to you….Ames could be among Next years Top Ten earing schools.
Click here for the full list of box top earing products
Sign up for the newsleter and Ames will receive 5 extra points in the month of August

Posted in 2008-2009, Box tops For education, Fundraisers 

With school starting right around the corner, our very own Life newspaper has some excellent suggestions for preventing younger children from feeling excluded as older sister or brother start school. They also have some do’s and don’s for getting off to the right foot with some great tips on Parent-teacher etiquette.

Posted in 2008-2009, Getting ready for School, In the News 

11:30-12:15 PM
AMES SCHOOL GYM
BRING A BLANKET, TEDDY BEAR & A LUNCH
THE KINDERGARTNERS WILL GET A TOUR OF THE BUILDING & THEN EAT LUNCH IN THE GYM!!!
QUESTIONS: CALL PRINCIPAL- MRS. LIEGGI- 447-0759 OR E-MAIL HER AT- lieggic@district96.org

Posted in 2008-2009, Getting ready for School 

Our next sale at St. Mary’s is coming up on September 20th!
same time, same place: 9-noon in the Parish Center.

However, -no kids or strollers will be allowed into the sale! Sorry for any inconvenience that causes.

The clothing drop off will be a bit later as we probably won’t get into the gym til 3:00 on Friday–so we’re asking sellers to drop off their stuff between 5:30 and 7:30 on the 19th. Any volunteers who work 3 hours are permitted into the pre-sale at 7 am Saturday morning. We always need help! Plus we’re so much fun to be around, right?

Hope to see you all in September!–Katie

Posted in Community 

Another way Ames is making attempts to “GO GREEN…Renew-Reuse-Recycle.” Candy Ekstrom is in need of newspapers to cover the tables while the students work on their art project. Please bring your stacks of old papers to the art room before or after school. Thanks for your support.

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