We had our biggest book fair to date and sold over

$13,000 worth of books.

Based on those sales, close to $7300 worth of books will go directly to our library, classrooms, and reading specialist.  We have already gifted over $1300 worth of books to the library.  They were delivered to Mrs. Bieschke during the actual book fair so our students should have access to them now if not shortly.   The PTO raffled off close to $100 worth of books to the Central students as a thank you to them for participating so fully in the book fair this year.

We would like to send a BIG THANK YOU to Central students and their families for so generously providing their spare change to the One for Books initiative.  We collected close to $600 of which a big portion went back to helping Central’s own students.  These students might not otherwise have been able to participate in purchasing books from the book fair.  We were also able to donate $270 worth of books with the extra One for Books change to the Infant Welfare Society of Chicago.

Scholastic matches our change collection with an equivalent donation of books that go to various national non-profit organizations dedicated to helping families in need.  So our $600 change collection has the philanthropic value of almost $1200!

Congratulations to Ms. McCarthy’s 5th grade class who collected the most change for One for Books. They are the recipients of a pizza party on Friday, May 21st compliments of The PTO’s Kids Care Commiteee.

What a successful fair

The Book Fair translated directly into great things for our students!  Again, we couldn’t have done it without the over 75 volunteers who participated!  Thank you and we hope that you will consider participating again next year.

2010 Book Fair Chairs:
Beverly Aieta
Amy Jacksic
Kim Macchia

Please contact next year’s book chairs:  Angela Izzo, Amy Jacksic, or Kim Macchia, if you would like to be a part of the book fair.

The 2010 Book Fair Chairwomen
Beverly Aieta, Amy Jacksic and Kim Macchia

would like to recognize and thank the many, many volunteers who contributed to the success of this year’s book fair. We are still finalizing the finances but are confident that this year was even more successful than last year. We look forward to sharing with you what we will do with the earnings to benefit the school. We have already gifted to the Central School Library close to 100 books on the library’s wish list from the profits from the book fair. The books were delivered to our library last Friday.

Our Book Fair subcommittee chairpeople were:

Cheryl Dowling

Karina Esparza

Nancy Hopkins

Angela Izzo

Katie Leander

Michelle Marconi

Patrick O’Laughlin

Jennifer Talbot

Lisa Veon

We had many volunteers walk through the doors asking how they could help and many others who officially signed up. We are sorry if we do not personally recognize you but please note that your time spent was greatly appreciated.

Some of those who helped out were:

Cheryl Bennett, Nancy Berger, Sandy Briolat, Melinda Brom, Vilma Brown, Michelle Burton, Molly Carl, Peter Carl, Nancy Connelly, Monica Degand, Virginia Dorenbos, Kathy Dudek, Erin Durkin, Samantha Durst, Nikki Epstein, Karina Esparza, Nadine Esposito, Anne Flynn, Carole Fortman, Patti Friend, Jennifer Gentile, Jeannine Glavis, Dawn Gmitro, Deann Gruber, Nikki Hajer, Michelle Hejna, Nina Henderson, Nancy Hutchings, Mary Komperda, Cathy Louthen, Karen Maher, Michelle Marconi, Mary Ellen Meindl, Jacqueline Miller, Lynda Murphy, Stephanie O’Brien, Patrick O’Laughlin, Jennifer Pacourek, Allyn Pilewski, Andrew Pilewski, Mary Robertson, Mary Jo Robling, Chris Rocco, Tracy Sloan, Jeannine Vaia, Lisa Veon, Jane Wilhelm, Vanessa Wilkowski and Deanna Zalas

Many of you saw first hand the amount of effort and volunteers it required to make this book fair a success.

It took close to 75 volunteers to make this fair a great one. If you would like to be involved in some way next year in any capacity, large or small, please email Amy Jacksic.

The Central Leadership Team and the PTO planned an exciting school-wide writing project to support Central’s new writing initiative.

Author and teacher, Esther Hershenhorn, is leading writing workshops with all Central Students grades 3 – 5 April 16th, sharing the writer’s journey, and the reader/writer connection, inspiring our students as they work to create a grade-level book. Ms. Hershenhorn was at our school for the K – 2 graders on February 12.

Ms. Hershenhorn will highlight the philosophy of Regie Routman and her own experiences as a children’s book author. Her website is: www.estherhershenhorn.com.  Her book S is for Story: A Writer’s Alphabet is available for purchase at the Book Fair.  If you would like a signed copy, please buy a copy of her book at the book then bring it to the library on the 16th after the 11:30 dismissal for her to sign.

This residency is made possible through a generous grant from District 96 to support our Residency Programs.

Join us for the event of the year . . . .the PTO-Sponsored

ICE CREAM SOCIAL

Free for all Central School families

Thursday, April 8, 2010 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. Central/ Hauser Cafeteria

Enjoy your sundae before or after you browse the Book Fair located in the Central/ Hauser Auditorium.

Hungry for a good book?

come to the Scholastic Book Fair Diner this week for all you can read!

Central School Auditorium

Tuesday, April 6th – Friday, April 9th

8:00 am – 3:30 pm

After Spring Break, your child will bring home a wish list during the week for you to see. If you decide to purchase any of the books your child picked out from the fair, he/she may return the wish list, along with payment, back to school. If you prefer to look at the books yourself with your child, feel free to stop by before or after school hours when you can shop together. We are also open during the Ice Cream Social in the evening of Thursday, April 8th.

Every $10.00 you spend at the book fair is worth $5.00 in free books for our school. The books we earn go to our school library and classrooms, to end-of-the-year rewards for all children who make their AR goals, and to book grants for Central School students in need.

Whether or not you purchase a book, we hope your child enjoys the fair!

Volunteers needed for the Ice Cream Social on Thursday, April 8.

Thank you all who volunteered to staff this event. However, we still have a couple of slots that need to be filled.

6:50 – 7:20 p.m. 2 slots open
7:20 – 7:50 p.m. 6 slots open

We are also in need of baked goods. They can be dropped off in the Cafeteria between 3:05 and 3:30 p.m. or brought the evening of the event.

Please email Mary Jurgens at jurgensm@centralptonews.org if you are available to help.

Thanks for all who volunteered to staff

The Book Fair.

However, we still have a couple open slots that need to be filled:

Wednesday, April 7
10:30a-12:30p (one slot open)

Thursday, April 8
10:30a-12:30p (two open slots at this time)

1-3pm (one slot open at this time)

3-4pm (one slot open at this time)

Friday, April 9
10:30a-12:30pn (two slots open at this time)

E-mail Lisa Veon if you can help.

The Book Fair Needs You!!

Hungry for a good book?

After Spring Break….

come to the Scholastic Book Fair Diner for all you can read!

Central School Auditorium

Tuesday, April 6th – Friday, April 9th

8:00 am – 3:30 pm

After Spring Break, your child will bring home a wish list during the week for you to see. If you decide to purchase any of the books your child picked out from the fair, he/she may return the wish list, along with payment, back to school.  If you prefer to look at the books yourself with your child, feel free to stop by before or after school hours when you can shop together. We are also open during the Ice Cream Social in the evening of Thursday, April 8th.

Every $10.00 you spend at the book fair is worth $5.00 in free books for our school. The books we earn go to our school library and classrooms, to end-of-the-year rewards for all children who make their AR goals, and to book grants for Central School students in need.

Whether or not you purchase a book, we hope your child enjoys the fair!

The book fair is coming and KidsCare is helping children in need with the One for Books program.

Please donate $1 or loose change and sign the Kids Care Donation Slips with your child’s name and return it to the classroom by April 8th.  All signed book slips will be displayed at our Book Fair.

The classroom raising the most money will win a pizza party!!!

The One for Books money will stay in our community.  They will be used to pay for books for students at Central School needing assistance, buy books for the classroom libraries and donate books to the Infant Welfare Society in Chicago.

Then scholastic will match the funds and donate books to Toys for Tots, National Center for Family Literacy and Kids in Distressed Situations, Inc.

This is a great program! Thank you for your support.

KidsCare

Book Fair Diner…all you can read!

Have an appetite for reading?

A great Book Fair can never have
too many cooks in the kitchen!

If you have not signed up as a volunteer yet, but would like to do so, there is still time. Simply contact Lisa Veon, who is making up the volunteer schedule for the Book Fair.

The Fair begins with set up on Monday, April 5th and ends with tear-down on the following Monday, April 12th. Choose the day and hour that you would like to participate, and don’t miss the fun of…