Family School Partnership News
Your 157c Parent Teacher Organization
FSP Would Like To Wish You a Very Happy Holiday Season!
Coming up in December is our Monthly FSP Meeting, Holiday Shop, Dine and Donate with Panera and the remainder of our Dine and Donate with Chili's.
What's Going On?
Our Next Meeting is this Tuesday, December 6th
157c Holiday Night with Holiday Shop is this Thursday, December 8th at 5:30pm
This year FSP will be running Holiday Shop ONE EVENING only. This will be an entire district event with shopping available at Grand Prairie (but all district students are welcome to come). Holiday Shop provides little students an opportunity to shop on their own for their family. We have low cost items that range from 25 cents to $15. In addition to the Holiday Shop we will have some fun activities going on. A photo booth and crafts are in the plan. Watch for more details to come out soon!
If you want to volunteer to help the planning committee please contact Corrie Gleason at fitzgleason@yahoo.com
WE NEED LOTS OF VOLUNTEERS TO HELP THE CHILDREN! Please see the Volunteer Opportunities and SignUp Genius link below.
Remind 101 FOR 157c Booster Events!
If you would like that extra reminder via text the day of or the night before you can now sign up for the 157c Boosters Remind 101. This will include reminders for Booster events like Hot Lunch as well as Family Nights and Fundraisers. To get these reminders please send a text with the following: @157cb to: 81010
Dine and Donate Going On At Chili's until December 16th!
Dine and Donate is a fundraiser where we coordinate a date with a local business and then publicize it to all of our 157c families. The families then go in and get dinner, desserts, snacks, etc on that day. A percent of the sales for that day or days will go to the FSP. So, since we know everyone eats, and we picked great places, we think it will be a great success.
Our current Dine and Donate is with Chili's. You have a whole month! Stop by November 16th - December 16th and grab a bite to eat. You can go more than once too. The number they need to know is 99999000007115. There are 5 local Chili's that you can go to, New Lenox, Orland Park, Shorewood, Chicago Ridge, and Homer Glen.
Watch for a flyer coming out before the Holiday Break for the Panera Dine and Donate. This event will be December 20th and 21st.
Looking ahead we will have Dine and Donate events as follows:
January - Chipotle
We will continue to send out flyers for each event and place them on the virtual backpack as well. Thank You for your support.
Manna Gift Card Sale
Thank You to everyone who participated in the fall sale. We sold over $31,000 in gift cards and raised over $1,800. This will help fund all our FREE Family Fun Nights coming up.
If you did not pick up your order during Parent/Teacher Conferences please contact the school office (of your youngest child) and see when you can go in and pick them up. A parent must sign for the gift cards when picking them up because of the large dollar values.
Parent - Teacher Conference Dinner For The Teachers
Thank You to all the parents that contributed to the teacher's dinner! It is always a nice treat for the teachers to have some good food during a long day of conferences.
Exploration Night - To Space and Beyond Coming January 26th, 2017!
Family Fitness Fun Night - Your Amazing Pace! coming in February
Around the World coming in March
THURSDAY, MARCH 9th with a new NAME!
Please save the date - Thursday, March 9th at Hickory Creek Middle School for our Annual "AROUND THE WORLD" - we invite our country participants and family and friends to join us in celebrating our diverse district WITHOUT the DECEMBER holiday pressure and hopefully better weather!!
Interested in participating/volunteering please contact:
Kris McGuire
kkmacfsp@yahoo.com 847-483-4133
Hana Yassin
Lauren Wander
Hot Lunch and Smoothie Sales
We would like to apologize one more time for the confusion with the Hot Lunch at Chelsea on November 15th. We had the correct list of students but the vendor used an old copy of the menu schedule. Unfortunately by the time the error was caught the food was already brought in to the school. Students received Chicken sandwiches instead of Mostaccioli. The error was corrected so Hickory Creek and Grand Prairie received the Mostaccioli as planned. An e-mail and Facebook post was sent out through the FSP pages as soon as the volunteers got done serving at school.
FSP has Smoothies this month:
December 2nd at Chelsea
December 9th at Hickory Creek
December 16th at Grand Prairie
FSP has Hot Lunches this month:
December 20th (Hamburger) at Chelsea
December 21st (Hamburger) at Hickory Creek
December 22nd (Hamburger) at Grand Prairie
Please remember to check your Rev-Trak receipts. All hot lunch sales will be done through the 157c website on RevTrak. https://fsd157c.revtrak.net/tek9.asp No paper forms will be used this year. The Rev-Trak site will allow credit card or check payments.
December hot lunch and smoothie sales are now closed.
You can still buy future lunches on-line as long as you purchase them by the 15th of the month before. For example any January hot lunch or smoothie needs to be purchased by December 15th.
You can find the entire hot lunch and smoothie schedule with the menus and booster that is sponsoring that lunch on the 157c website.
Volunteer Opportunities
Holiday Night Volunteers
We are looking for parents and high school students to help with the Holiday Night. We will need help with ringing up the students' purchases in the Holiday Shop and wrapping the gifts with them. We will also have some crafts and a photo booth that will need some volunteers. This event is for all 157c not just Grand Prairie Students. If you can help out please see what is available in the signup genius link below.
HICKORY CREEK COPY ROOM HELPERS SIGNUP GENIUS LINK
Hickory Creek uses parent volunteers to take care of the much needed copying at school. If you are interested in helping out please go to the signup genius link below to see the days and times needed.
Hot Lunch Distribution SIGNUP GENIUS LINKS
FSP sells Hot Lunches and Smoothies in order to raise funds during the year. We need volunteers to help us distribute the lunches/smoothies to the students. The links below are to the SignUp Genius pages for each FSP Hot Lunch or Smoothie Day.
Regular Lunch Volunteers at Grand Prairie and Chelsea
Next FSP Monthly Meeting
Everyone is welcome to come to the FSP meeting. This is where we discuss upcoming events and hot topics. The FSP Board is always present as well as the 157c Superintendent, Grand Prairie Principal, Chelsea Principal, and Hickory Creek Principal.
Your input is encouraged. We hold two meetings a year in the evening to allow working parents to join in.
Tuesday, Dec 6, 2016, 09:30 AM
Grand Prairie Elementary School, Nebraska Street, Frankfort, IL, United States
About 157-c Family School Partnership (FSP)
We are the 157c Parent Teacher Organization. We are non-profit. We provide free family events as well as parent support, teacher appreciation, assembly funds, and curriculum enrichment. All parents with students in 157c are encouraged to help us. We can only do as much as we can with the volunteers that help. If you prefer not to support our fundraisers you can always support us by donating to our un-fundraiser. You can do this via Rev-Trak under FSP.
http://fsd157c.revtrak.net/tek9.asp?pg=products&grp=8
FSP meets monthly on the first Tuesday.
Email: fsp157c@gmail.com
Website: www.fsp157c.org
Location: 10480 Nebraska Street, Frankfort, IL, United States
Phone: (815)469-3366
Facebook: facebook.com/familyschoolpartnership157c
School Calendars
December 5th, 2016 Booster E-Blast