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

Attention Riverside District #96 Parents…

The Pav YMCA and School District #96 have partnered to provide quality before and after school programming for the 2009-2010 school year.  Enrollment permitting, before and after school care will be provided at each of the four schools:  Central, Blythe Park, Ames, and Hollywood.  Our program is delivered in a positive YMCA environment of safety, support and care.  Children will be participating in arts and crafts, sports, kidz lit, large and small group games and much more.  Homework help will also be available for children in need.  Program will be offered every full day of school.  Separately, School’s Out Days and school break camps (institute days; half and early dismissal days; legal school holidays; and Thanksgiving, winter and spring breaks) will take place at the Pav YMCA.  Registration is currently open!!  Contact Mary Fehrman 708-749-0606 ext 34 for more information.

Payment Pricing-Annual Registration Fee: $25 per child

Full Time Schedule

Morning Care: $50 (every two weeks)

Afternoon Care: $125 (every two weeks)

Part Time Schedule (children must be signed up at least 2 days per week)

Morning Care: $5 per day

Afternoon Care: $13 per day

The registration process for all District 96 families returning for the 2009-2010 school year (not including first time registration) has changed.  In the past, registration materials were mailed home in July.  This year registration information and forms are now available on the District 96 website.  Forms can be printed and then filled out or you can use your computer to fill out the forms and then print them out.  This is not an on-line registration process.  At this time we are unable to accept an electronic copy, as we are required by law to have a parent or legal guardian’s signature.

Please visit www.district96.org to access the registration forms.  Click on Resources and then on 2009-2010 Registration – Returning Student.  A completed registration form is required for each student returning for the 2009-2010 school year.

To ensure your child will be included in the class assignment, registration forms and fees are due by Wednesday, June 10.  Registration forms and school fees received after June 10th will be processed during the week of August 10, 2009 when school offices re-open after summer break.

Registration forms not received by August 10th will be considered late registration.  Late registrations will only be accepted on Friday, August 14, 2009 during normal school hours.

If you have any questions or if you do not have access to the Internet, please contact your school office for the forms.

If you wanted to order school supply kits from The Write Stuff but didn’t get your form in on time, you can still order the kits on the website. Here’s what you do…
   Go to www.write-stuff.com
   Click on “Products”
   Then click on “School Kits”
   From there you will chose “state”, “city” and “school”.
The kits will be sent directly to your house.
Questions? Call Lisa – 447-5154

Save the date for Ascension Church’s Annual Perennial Plant Sale.  This Saturday May 16th (8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.) and Sunday May 17th (3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.) at Ascension Church, 400 Nuttall Road in Riverside, across from Ames School.  Most plants are only $5 and $7.  For more information, please click HERE to view a flyer.

If you didn’t get your yearbook order in today, please send it in by Wednesday morning.  The order needs to be placed Thursday morning.  If you need another form, please click HERE.

Order forms for the 2008-2009 yearbook went home this week.  The forms are due Monday, May 11th.  For more information and a copy of the order form, please click HERE.

A reminder for P.M. Kindergarten:  We will be taking the outside school pictures on Monday May 11th at 8:30 a.m.  A note went home on Thursday.  If you didn’t get the note or have any questions, please call Mary Lescher at 708-442-6964.