Bobcat Bulletin
Week of February 22nd
From the Desk of Mrs. Schmid
Hello Bobcat Families,
Thank you to all who joined us for a night of fun celebrating STEAM with our family science night! Thank you to our STEAM Night Chair Person, Lauren Romero for organizing this fun night. I know we had a great time joining in at the Schmid household and loved seeing many of you learning and enjoying as well! We have also enjoyed watching our Brookdale Brainiacs in action and highlighting some videos in our morning announcements. We have extended the date to participate until 2/26. Information and a link to participate can be found below.
At this week's board meeting, increasing more in-person learning time will be discussed for our students in District 204. As decisions are approved by the board, I will be sure to share information as it pertains to Brookdale. You can watch the board meeting tomorrow, February 22nd at 7:00pm live.
We have a shortened week this week due to parent teacher conferences on Thursday and an in-service day for our staff on Friday. As a reminder, parent teacher conferences were based on requests only. Your child's teacher would have reached out by the 12th if he/she were requesting a conference; however, you can still request a conference. Please contact your child's teacher if you are interested.
We are ready to embark into a great week ahead with our learners!
Respectfully,
Keeley Schmid
Principal
REMINDERS
Yearbook/School Portraits
Hello Parents!
We know this school year has been a year like none other and we want to capture it. What better way to do that then in a yearbook but we can’t do it without your help. As of right now, we only have portraits for 12% of our students, we need at least 75% in order create a yearbook. We are asking all parents to send in their students portraits! Please see the attached flyer for tips and email portraits to brookdaleyearbook@gmail.com. We have extended the deadline to February 28th!
Also don’t forget to send in extra pictures to help us document this crazy year.
- First Day of School – Doesn’t matter how many first days we have had, send them all.
- Facemask Fashion – Show off your style! Have your student wear their favorite mask, snap a pic and email it to us.
- Pets at “School” – Have a new friend in class, show us your learning buddy.
Thank you to those who have already submitted, we are in the process of reviewing the images.
5Essentials Survey: Your Feedback is Important to Us!
It is that time of the year for our 5Essentials Parent Survey. We appreciate your feedback to support in making Brookdale the best it can be! The survey takes approximately 10 minutes.
Your participation is reflected in our school's summative designation. Thank you in advance for taking time to complete this!
2021 Illinois Parent Survey
Link to survey: http://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/
OPPORTUNITIES
Pledge of Allegiance
RESOURCES
Materials Pick-Up Days: Remote Learning Students Only
Future dates are only for our students learning remotely (R).
Next Pick-Up: March 15
Future Pick-Ups:
April 12
May 31
Attendance is Important!
During our hybrid instruction schedule, attendance will be taken during your child's live time with the teacher (in-person or live remotely). If your child will be absent, please call our attendance line at 630-428-6810. If your child is absent and you have not called your child in, you will receive an attendance call. If we do not hear back from you, the child's absence will be marked truant.
Brookdale Chromebook Device Support
PTA REMINDERS
Last Chance, Today Only: Brookdale Cookbook!
Brookdale Cooks!
Recipe submission has closed, but sign ups to order the cookbook is still open. The beautiful soft cover book will have nearly 100 unique recipes from our school community that can't be found anywhere else. Each book costs $10 and part of the funds support our students and teachers. Sign up here We need at least 100 books to meet the minimum order quantity from the publisher, so please don't miss out.
Thank you, Carol, and team for putting this historic piece together for our Brookdale Community!
STEAM Night and Brookdale Brainiacs
If you have pictures of your kids experiencing our first ever virtual STEAM Night, we'd love to have them for the yearbook! You can email them to brookdaleyearbook@gmail.com
We have loved seeing our Brainiacs in action at Brookdale! We're going to keep this Flipgrid open through next Friday, 2/26! This would be fun activity to engage in on Thursday or Friday!
Share your Brainiacs project here: https://flipgrid.com/happ3229
Stay Connected
Check out who is on the Brookdale Dream Team! Be sure to also check out the addition of Staff Photos and put a face to a name.
Email: keeley_schmid@ipsd.org
Website: brookdale.ipsd.org
Location: 1200 Redfield Road, Naperville, IL, USA
Phone: 630-428-6800
Twitter: @brookdalebobcat
Upcoming Dates
No School: Parent Teacher Conferences
February 25th 1:00-8:00
No School: Institute Day for Staff
February 26th
PDAC Discussion with Tyrone Howard: Talking to Children about Race & Racism
March 2 at 7pm
Learn more and register for this exciting free event here
District Calendar: