DrumBeat: Drummond LSC and PTO News & Views

All Early Childhood Students and Siblings are welcome to play at Wrightwood Park (2544 N. Greenview) on 09 Oct 09, 10:30 am to 1:00 pm.  There are bathrooms, playground, sandbox, some picnic tables and space. Bring a lunch if you want to picnic — snacks and drinks will be provded.  C’mon 100, 101, 104, 107!  Let’s play!  Balls, sand toys, and outdoor games welcome.  Brothers, sisters grandmas, and friends are too!  Hope to see you there.

Questions?  Please e-mail julie @ or Alyse Goodwin @

Hi everyone:

Due the Elementary 1 field  trips, the Orange shirts were delivered to the E1 classrooms this morning.  The rest of the Orange and all other shirts will be sent via back packs the week after our Fall break.  We are hoping for either October 13th or 14th.  So please be on a look out for them.

Thanks,

Grace
Drummond PTO

As some of you are aware, Kate has been leading an informal hoop gathering, with tunes, after school on Fridays, for kids and parents.   There’s a core group very interested in DIY hoops.

Kate has graciously offered her Bucktown home for a workshop this Sunday, 9/27 from 10-noon, and my friend, Rebecca who is an experienced hoop maker, will come teach us how to make adult and kids hoops.  We have space for 8 more people.   Please e-mail Kate at and Bonnie at to RSVP.   Kate will confirm and give you her address.
DETAILS:

Workshop cost:  $30–includes 2 hour instruction and all materials (including lots of color choices on tapes) to make a high quality adult sized giant hula hoop.   Option available to make additional hoops at $20 per adult hoop/ $15 child sized.   Please specify number and child/adult when you sign up, so we can estimate materials.
The initial workshop is for adults only, with the thought that we can pass on this knowledge to more families, and maybe have kids do the decorating of pre assembled hoops at a later date.   If you can’t make other arrangements, you can bring kids with you.

Hooping is great exercize and lots of fun.   These durable hoops will last.   Come join us and see what all the hoop-la is all about.   Friday Hoop Day will be a regular event directly after school.   We’ll meet in the green space, on the playground side, as long as weather permits.   We’re planning to move it in to the gym on rain days and throughout winter, if possible.

Hope to see you Sunday.   Come hoop it up with us.   RSVP soon as space is limited!

“This is terrific. Drummond should be on that list.” Mr Neidlinger said of the contest that will bring the top voted school $20,000.

And we are on the list. Thank you voters, Drummond is #93 of the top 100 schools with 79 votes.  The number one school has 7434 (!!!) as of this afternoon.

If you haven’t voted yet please do, & if you have please tell everyone you know to vote for Drummond.  The contest site has ways of linking to your Facebook, Twitter, etc, accounts.

Complete rules can be found in the link below, but basically anyone 13 (hello 7th & 8th graders )& up has one vote.  The contest ends Nov 8.  Other prizes are $5000, $3000, $2000, $1000, and one per week $500 prize to a random school. 

http://www.care2.com/schoolcontest/

It takes just a little bit of time to vote & doesn’t hurt a bit, thank you

Saturday September 26, 2009
Registration and Resource Fair 9:00-10:00am
Event 10:00am-1:00pm

Registration call: 312 564-4060
St. Andrews Greek Orthodox Church
No admittance without registration

See Attachment for more details!

Sherry Coleman will also put together a binder for parents to have access to information from this event. It will be available soon.

(This was posted yesterday but the email notice was not sent out.)

The LSC Budget and Fundraising Committee will meet Tuesday September 22nd at 6:00 pm, in room 007.

The committee will be continuing the discussion from Friday’s meeting about prioritizing expenditures. The LSC is considering a proposal to hire a parent worker TA to assist all of the classrooms, and to purchase new computers and technology for the school.

Childcare will be provided at the meeting. All are invited to attend.

Thanks,

Jonathan Goldman
LSC Chair

Drummond is “This Month’s Featured School” on the CPS Office of Academic Enhancement website. The site includes a nice article about Drummond from the Magnet Schools of America newsletter. <>

The LSC Budget and Fundraising Committee will meet Tuesday September 22nd at 6:00 pm, in room 007.

The committee will be continuing the discussion from Friday’s meeting about prioritizing expenditures. The LSC is considering a proposal to hire a parent worker TA to assist all of the classrooms, and to purchase new computers and technology for the school.

Childcare will be provided at the meeting. All are invited to attend.

Thanks,

Jonathan Goldman
LSC Chair

The 5th Annual Drummond Family Directory is in the works! Sponsored by the PTO, the Directory is a valuable resource for students, parents and teachers, and we hope everyone will participate. It’s easy - just follow these steps:

1. If your listing in last year’s Directory is still correct (even if your child has moved into another classroom), DO NOTHING. We will use last year’s info.

2. If you’re new to the school, or weren’t listed in the Directory last year, DO NOTHING. We will use the info on file in the school office.

3. If you want to CHANGE, ADD OR DELETE info from last year’s directory or the school records, fill out the form attached here (Directory Form 09-10) and sent home in your child’s backpack, and submit it to the school office by this WEDS, SEPT 23.

4. If you do not wish your contact information to be listed in the Directory, submit a note to the school office to that effect by WEDS, SEPT 23. Your child’s name will be listed with their classmates, but that’s all.

It is our sincere hope that all Drummond families will enjoy this resource and use the directory as a safe, effective way to communicate with classmates and the school community. The Directory is a private listing provided for internal school communications ONLY, and will not be loaned or sold to any outside party.

Sage, in room 207, had a sandwich bag with approx 10 Pokemon cards, which disappeared from under her lunch box on the playground after school on 9/21.   It included cards Donphan, Kadabra and Spearow, among others.  If anyone found it, (or if your child shows up with these cards) please return them to us, no questions asked.   Thank you!  

We intentionally didn’t bring Pokemon cards for an entire year, because Dugan’s most powerful card was stolen from a sleeve of his binder last year, when he left it with a friend, to get a drink of water.   Another EL1 boy showed up with the same rare, valuable card the next morning, and when confronted, claimed some other friend gave it to him outside of school.  Dugan (room 200) never got his Level X Mesprit back.   We’d accept that one, no questions asked, too.
Maybe it was an honest mistake that $5.00 of Sage’s cards have now gone missing, but if kids can not be trusted not to steal from others and take advantage of smaller children with unfair trades, I strongly feel Pokemon cards should be banned from the playground entirely–before and after school as well as during the school day.

We love Poke cards as much as anyone, but it saddens me that these are bringing out the worst in our children.    I’m sure my two kids are not the only ones to have Pokemon cards stolen from them.    If Drummond does make the call to ban Pokemon cards before/after school, I think it should be explained to the kids that it’s a concequence of a few people who can’t be trusted not to steal and take advantage of others.
Thanks,

Bonnie Kenaz-Mara