Cougar Catch 3/15
Jake Jorgenson, Principal at Millburn Middle School
Backpack Items:
click here to go to Virtual Backpack
Millburn Madness Online Auction Fundraiser
PTO Family Fun Run Registration, Information
PTO Family Night at MES
PTO Kids Resale – Pricing guidelines, Registration form
PTO Crafting Day Out 4/6
Echo Day Camp
Red Apple Preschool Letter and Registration
Rolling Thunder Volleyball Info, Summer League, Packages
Grayslake PD Volleyball 3rd -8th
Warren Youth Football
Warren Township Cheer and Poms
Gurnee PD Camps, Soccer, Spring Break, Swim Lessons
WTGS Softball
Online Teacher Auction!! Starts Very Soon!
Millburn Choir Takes First Division at NIMCon
This group also performed for the Millburn Community at their Spring Concert on Wednesday of this week.
Great job Choir!
Kids Resale Looking for Student Volunteers
Looking for volunteer hours? Interested in helping out your school?
The Millburn Kids Resale is looking for student volunteers to help set-up, work the sale, and clean-up from April 11th-13th.
It is important to sign up using your parents email address, as we cannot email you using your school email address. Also, confirm with your parents that you’ll have a ride before signing up.
If you are interested please sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090f48afa92ea4ff2-spring
If you have any questions while signing up, you may email the committee at millburnkidsresale@yahoo.com.
Thank you for your consideration!
Spring Fever Theme Shorts and T-shirt Day
We were thinking of baseball today throughout the building. All we needed was an organ, hot dogs and the 7th Inning Stretch!
Next Friday is Shorts and T-shirt Theme Day. We are willing the warm weather to settle in upon us!
Onederful Kids
We will be meeting once a month to discuss and share our experiences with type 1 diabetes. We are meeting at Brainstorm- 625 Bridgeport Terrace in Lindenhurst, Illinois. We will meet in the rental room located inside of the store. We will be meeting on March 21st and April 25th from 6:30-7:30 PM. If you have any questions, please contact Meghan Konicki at konimf@gmail.com.
New! Translator Feature on Newsletter
PTO Recognized the Staff with PIE
7th Grade Celebrates Pi Day with PIE
During Math class on 3-14 the students worked on math problems using formulas involving Pi. At the end of these lessons, the teachers treated the students with a piece of PIE. Thanks to all the 7th grade parents that helped support this effort. It was greatly appreciated by all!
Millburn Middle School Has a Twitter Account!
Currently have 75 Followers
So easy to start!! Click this link and follow today!
Illinois Assessment of Readiness
Dates for this assessment are April 9th, 10th and 11th.
Millburn District Choir Performs Spring Concert at MMS
The choirs each sounded amazing but when they combined into one group, they were just incredible!
Thank you Choir for a great performance!
Important Dates:
click here to be directed to the full building calendar
3/15 Foundation Auction Starts (See Backpack)
3/21 NJHS Induction Ceremony 6pm
3/22 Theme Day - Shorts and T-shirts
PTO News:
o Family Fun Night
o Spirit Wear
o Activity Night
o Fun Run
o Scrapping Day
o Kids Resale
o Book Fair - Elementary
Family Fun Night - Animal Show
Our last Family Fun Night for this school year is tonight! Join us for our ANIMAL SHOW on Friday March 15.
*6:15 Doors Open: Find a seat, get a snack, donate outgrown spirit wear, preview Millburn Education Foundation's teacher auction
*6:45-7:30: Animal Quest Presentation
*7:30 See the Animals up close and take a coloring sheet home
Come experience this interactive and exciting show for the entire age spectrum.
Spirit Wear
Want to swap out Spirit Wear your children may have outgrown for something new (to them)? Drop off a Spirit Wear Item and get a ticket for a different item at the Swap Shop. Don’t have any to swap? Join us at the Swap Shop – all items $5.00!
2 Spirit Wear Events:
RECYCLE DRIVE (DATES BELOW)
Spirit wear will be dropped off at the below listed school activities. In addition, you can drop off items at MES or MMS in the front office or email spiritwear@millburnpto.com to coordinate a pickup (before April 5). For every item donated to the recycle drive, your will receive a ticket for our “Swap Shop” for the exclusive shopping time.
DRIVE DATES
-Family Fun Night (March 15 from 6:30-8pm at MES)
SWAP SHOP (APRIL 6 AT MMS)
Swap Shop
Saturday, April 6 at MMS in conjunction with the Millburn Family Fun Run. Exclusive shopping time from 8-9am for those who donated and received a ticket. Remaining items go on sale from 9:30-11am for $5 per item.
QUESTIONS OR VOLUNTEER: SPIRITWEAR@MILLBURNPTO.COM
Activity Night at MMS
The last Middle School Activity Night for 2018-19 is on Friday, April 5th. The theme for the night is DISCO. Survey will go out next week to the students for song recommendations.
Students may choose to dress for the theme by wearing their most creative interpretation of the theme. This is a chance for them to be creative, however, please adhere to the dress code regarding short/skirt length, no masks, and no showing of any undergarments. Failure to abide by these rules will result in the student being asked to return home to change.
There will be a DJ & NITRO BALL!!!!
THE DROP OFF/PICK UP PROCEDURE IS VERY IMPORTANT!
DROP OFF
6th grade-6pm, MAIN entrance
7th/8th grade-6:30 pm, MAIN entrance
PICK UP
6th grade-8:30pm, MAIN entrance
7th/8th grade-9:00pm ACTIVITY entrance
For PICK UP, please pull in and find a parking spot. You can meet your child at the canopy area. You can also use the pick up late, but if everyone does this, the line of traffic will stretch out to Route 45! No students will be allowed to walk or ride a bike home.
Admission to the event is $2.00. Drinks, candy and pizza will be available for purchase.
All students attending MUST have a current student ID to show at the door. NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE. Students CANNOT go to their lockers to retrieve forgotten ID’s, as the hallway doors are locked. Also, all students must have a permission slip to attend Activity Night on file. If you need to leave before the Activity Night is over, YOUR parent must come inside the building and sign you out!
The rules are NOT negotiable!
MMS PTO Activity Night Volunteers Needed!
We are looking for volunteers to help us, so please join us, Friday, April 5th for a night of crazy chaotic fun (without phones or electronics)! We can use all the help we can get: serving up food & drinks to the masses, coordinating Bingo and just watching all the rooms of activity. Please sign up at millburnpto.com. For more information, reach out to Rimi Singh and Becky Varga at activitynight@millburnpto.com
Fun Run
Scrapping Day
Kids Resale
1 MONTH TIL THE SALE!!
Next Friday March 22 is our first raffle drawing to get 75% of your sales.
If you haven’t registered yet but you intend to, please find the registration form in the backpack or email us at millburnkidsresale@yahoo.com to get the form, so that you don’t miss out on the raffles to receive 75% of your sales proceeds.
• We are still accepting seller registration forms until April 5th!!
• We are still accepting donations.
• We are also still seeking Adult and Student volunteers for various times.
Volunteers are able to shop the presale at 3:15pm on Friday April 12th before we open to the public.