DrumBeat: Drummond LSC and PTO News & Views

Please join us from 5 - 8 p.m. in the Drummond Campus Park for Drummond Cooks!  The event will be held in the gym if it rains.
Please bring the following*:

-Favorite dish representing your family history or cultural heritage
(or something your family loves to eat, enough for 10 people) and serving utensil. Please put your child’s name and room # on the dish and utensils.

- Recipe to share (for our upcoming Drummond Cook Book)
- Picnic blanket or chairs for your family
- Plates, eating utensils, napkins

Drummond PTO will provide lemonade, water, ice and cups.

Can’t bring a dish? Forgot your utensils? Please come anyway - there will be plenty to go around!!!!

We will be outside on the pre-k, EL1 side of the building (swing side).   2:45-3:15 everything is a suggested donation of $2 per item.   Everything is FREE after 3:15 today.

There are lots of great clothes to choose from.   Come on by!

Keep our kids hydrated!!!  If anyone has a 5 gallon (or larger) insulated beverage jug with spigot to use at “Drummond Cooks!” on Thursday, please contact me at .  You can drop it off at the main office - just make sure to put your name on it so we can get it back to you!

Thank you!!!

Rachel Kelley-Gross

Please don’t forget to bring your recipe to share for our upcoming

Drummond Cook Book

Drop off in the recipe box Thursday, September 2 5-8

or email

Parents and Students—
Let your fingers do the walking by phoning relatives and friends NOW to secure donations for your walk on Thursday, September 23rd.
Rock the Block is designed to get our Drummond community out walking in the neighborhood for some exercise, enjoy some entertainment, and encourage us all to make healthy choices, but it doesn’t stop there! We need EVERYONE to participate in asking friends, neighbors, co-workers, business owners, EVERYONE to support our terrific school with their dollars. Please schedule a few minutes today or during this week to gather donations with your child. The money we raise will provide PTO sponsored programs and activities that we all use and enjoy. If you didn’t receive a Rock the Block brochure/donation sheet, please contact Cindy Nicita @ 773-860-7228 or email . Donations are due to the main office the week of September 18th.

Parents and Students—
Let your fingers do the walking by phoning relatives and friends NOW to secure donations for your walk on Thursday, September 23rd.
Rock the Block is designed to get our Drummond community out walking in the neighborhood for some exercise, enjoy some entertainment, and encourage us all to make healthy choices, but it doesn’t stop there! We need EVERYONE to participate in asking friends, neighbors, co-workers, business owners, EVERYONE to support our terrific school with their dollars. Please schedule a few minutes today or during this week to gather donations with your child. The money we raise will provide PTO sponsored programs and activities that we all use and enjoy. If you didn’t receive a Rock the Block brochure/Donation sheet, please contact Cindy Nicita @ 773-860-7228 or email . Donations are due to the main office the week of September 18th.

Many of the supplemental programs will start later than expected due to new CPS requirements for afterschool vendors.   We have worked through many of these issues and will start French Language, French Drama and Yoga next week.  Please be on the lookout for those registration forms and an informational table at Drummond Cooks!.   The afterschool committee will offer additional programs in the 2^nd and 3^rd quarters of the school year.   
The afterschool committee has many supplemental activities (both tuition-based and free activities) planned for this year and wish to get parent feedback  Please click on this link http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DRPXSRL  and provide your feedback regarding after school programs at Drummond.  Aug 30^th is the last day to provide feedback.
We look forward to providing exceptional afterschool activities.  Please feel free to contact Misty Drake @ or Margaritha Rodriguez @

Have you got a pile of school clothes your kids have outgrown?   Look for the big, brown box marked SWAP DROP on the East (swing side) of the school and drop ‘em in.   It’s easy!

Next Monday through Wednesday we will be running the Uniform Swap.   Everyone should have a backpack stuffer with the full scoop, but here are the hours and details again:

Location:  Basement lunch room–enter at the back SW corner of the school, off the playground side.

$$:   If you donated, pick clothes free–even trade–swap up to the number you donated.

**Disclaimer:   Donated clothes are a donation.   We usually have loads of early childhood clothes and can’t promise you will find a larger size, for your bigger kids.

Additional clothes (or if you had nothing to trade in) are a suggested donation of $2.00 each, to help Drummond PTO put on fun events like Family Reading Night and The End of the Year Picnic.

Swap Hours:

Monday–2:45-3:15 right after school (first dibs for families that have donated clothes ONLY) *donations are still accepted during swap hours

Monday–1/2 hour before the EL1 Open House 5pm-5:30.   Parents of younger and older kids are welcome to shop during this evening slot, too, even if you are not coming to attend the open house.   Open to all.

Tuesday–2:45-3:15 (everyone)

Wednesday–2:45-3:15  Any remaining clothes will be FREE and out on the swing side of the playground.   Anything remaining after 3:15 will be donated.   See me if you have a charity you’d like to deliver to & want to take any remaining bags.

****Clothes still accepted throughout the swap, but earlier is better so volunteers have a chance to organize everything by sizes.

Thank you,

Bonnie Kenaz-Mara

Bonjour,
French Academy Inc. offers 2 After School Programs at Drummond Montessori School:
1.     French Drama Classes                    ages 5 and up
If you like to sing, act, dance, play and dress up, Atelier-Théâtre is for you!
 

Monday  2:45 until 4:30p.m.                      Fee: $273 ($13/hour)

Start: Monday, August 30, 2010                 End: Monday, January 24, 2011

We offer:
ü     structured Drama Classes taught by Native French Actor
ü     a play, in French, for parents and friends on January 24, 2011
ü     21 hours of fun and theater experience
ü     15% discount for siblings
ü     snacks
ü     2 free slots for low-income students.
2. French Language Classes       no age limit
Every Tuesday and Thursday, from 2:45 to 4p.m. students will have an opportunity to learn French through games, songs, arts and crafts, poetry, comics and movies.

We offer: 

* structured French Classes with experienced, Native French Teacher

* snacks

* 15% discount given to siblings

* 2 free slots for low-income families

Start: Tuesday, August 31, 2010                End: Thursday, January 27, 2011

To register, please fill out the following form and return it to Ms. Grondal ASAP.
 

For more info, please call 312-315-4545 or email:
 

A bientôt!