Iles School News 1700 South Fifteenth Street, Springfield, IL 62703 217-525-3226 Mrs. Susan Rhodes, Principal

We’re Off and Running!by Mrs. Susan Rhodes

The 2009-2010 school year at Iles School has been off to a great start. Students and staff members are learning Chinese together with the able assistance of Mr. McParland. Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Langellier, Mr. McParland, Mrs. Myers, Mrs. Sharp, Mrs. Shepherd, Mrs. Standley trav-elled to Kansas City to attend a four day Level 1 Primary Years Programme International Bacca-laureatte workshop. The after school IMSA (Illinos Math and Science Academy} program is underway for stu-dents in grades four through six. Third grade stu-dents are getting their instruments. Starter Strings is getting started after school and Swinging Sing-ers have started their practices after school.

With the generosity of donors from the TV raffle last spring

and a donation from the Iles PTO, every classroom now has a new laptop computer. The District pur-

chased LCD projectors and speakers for every classroom for the new math and middle school science curriculum. Students will

benefit as the on line support ma-terials will be readily available as a part of classroom instruction. Every teacher that received a new laptop stayed after school for a two and a half hour workshop to learn how to use the new features.

Be watching in your classroom newsletters and on the classroom web sites for information on how your child is able to access the Internet and the Everyday Math on-line math games and student math reference supports. Each student has been assigned a pass-word to enable them to access this support system.

Iles School Calendars for SaleCalendars have been printed with the District workshops, holidays, assessment, and Iles school events from August 2009 through July 2010. Each page is filled with photos of Iles’ students in addi-tion to a beautiful color cover. Iles School calendars may be pur-chased in the office for $5.00. Money raised from this calendar sale will go towards the purchase of a new laser printer.

Reminder…Supervision begins at 8:05AM. If you need to bring your child to school prior to that time, SCOPE is available to provide supervision for your child beginning at 7:00 AM. It is not safe to have your child wait

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Calendar of Events

October 9 City Fire Drill - 9:15 a.m.October 12No School Columbus Day

October 14IMSA 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.4th, 5th, and 6th gradesOctober 15PTO Pizza Hut 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.

October 16Early Dismissal2:00 p.m.October 21Picture Retake 8:30 a.m.October 28IMSA 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.4th, 5th, and 6th grades October 29Early Dismissal2:00 p.m.Halloween Parade 12:45 p.m.Roller Skating - Skateland South6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

October 30No School Parent/Teacher Conferences

November 3PTO meeting 5:30 p.m.

November 4IMSA 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.November 7Iles Celebrates!5:00 - 8:00 p.m.Springfield High Commons

outside or in the hallways unsu-pervised prior to 8:05 AM

Iles Student Support Newsby Mrs. Sherry FracheyA BIG THANK YOU!! TO PARENTS WHO TOOK TIME TO FILL OUT MY SWOT SURVEYS!

School Wide NewsUnited WayEach day in October we are accepting donations for United Way. Send spare change in with your child any day in October. Classroom Teachers will collect the donations. Any help is appreciated!October 5-9 pennies and nicklesOctober 13-16 dimes and quartersOctober 19-23 dollarsOctober 26-29 Change for change!Red Ribbon Week and O Ambassador Kick Off Week!!We will be having Peace Kid and Drug Free Theme days during the 3rd week in October! Any student is welcome to participate, but it is completely voluntary. During this week, donations will be split 50/50 between O Ambassadors and United Way.Monday 10-19-09 Hat Day!"Put a cap on drugs and poverty!"Tuesday 10-20-09 Sunglasses Day!"Shade out drugs and poverty!Wednesday 10-21-09 Backwards Day! " Turn Your Back On Drugs!"Thursday 10-22-09 Pajama Day "Dreaming of A Peaceful and Drug Free World!"Friday 10-23-09 Crazy Sock Day and Sock Hop! " Sock It To Drugs and Poverty"

On Friday, we will offer a Sock Hop in the Gym for students who have met all behavioral and academic expectations for the week and would like an alternative to recess. Students are asked to make donations or perform Random Acts of Kindness for the month. The theme this month is service to others, being a "Peace Kid" and becoming aware of other children across the world and what their lives are like.Classroom PresentationsWe continue our Lion's Quest lessons for the month of October. We will focus on our classroom, school, and global communities. We will also be discussing The O Ambassador Program. Our region of the World is East Asia, but we will also look at Latin America, South Asia, and Africa.Educational Support GroupsWe continue Divorce, Grief and Girl's Group Lunch Bunches. Up next will be Anger Management, Stress Reduction and Boy's Bunch Lunch Bunches.PLEASE CHECK OUR CLASSROOM WEB SITE FOR FEATURED NEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS AND VIDEOS OF STUDENTShttp://www.springfield.k12.il.us/teachers/frachey/?b=12Happy October!!

PTO Events and

NewsBy Mrs. Tracey Wobig, PTO President

Thanks to our awesome Iles families, the Fall Book Fair made $1000 MORE than last year! We appreciate your support! If you missed getting your Box Tops in for this fall‚s contest, keep saving them and send them in anyway; they‚ll be counted next time around. Save and send your Campbell‚s Soup labels as well.Buy Scrip! This is a painless fund-raiser for our school. Contact An-gelica Salazar with any questions.Iles Celebrates News* Saturday, November 7 at

Springfield High School, plan now to be there!* Send in your RSVP right away

because you don‚t want to miss this year‚s event. Food, enter-tainment, children‚s activities, auction all for the price of a ticket.*Be sure to wear your ethnic cos-

tumes; they add such festivity to the evening.* Send your student(s) a Happy *Ad in the program book. Happy

Ad‚s are $20; contact Tracey Wobig if you need an order form.*Note that the date to send in

auction items has been extended to Wednesday, October 14. Contact Kelly Minder if you need help with a large item.

Coming Up Soon:October 15 - Pizza Hut Fund-raiser Day, 11 AM - 9 PM at allSpringfield locations

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October 29 - Roller Skating, Skateland South 6:00-8:00 PM

November 3 - PTO Meeting, 5:30 PM in Library Wanted: PTO is asking for donations of kids‚ pants, all sizes from 6 to 12,clean and with no holes in them, especially the smaller sizes.Occasionally kids have accidents and need clean pants to get themthrough the rest of the day. If you have any such items your childrenhave outgrown, please consider donating them to PTO. Contact Tracey Wobig with questions.

Band News:By Mrs. Dia Langellier

Spread the word: Iles' 6th grade band is in need of an am-plifier for their keyboards and we have applied for a grant on the "Donor's Choose" website. If you would like to donate to the cause or know someone who would donate, please have them visit the webpage:<http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=324329&sharebar=true>http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=32...Send emails to all your friends and family. The more people that know about it, the more likely Donor’s Choose will raise enough money to grant our request. I am also applying for Essential Ele-ments 2000 books for my Feit-shans students. Feitshans is a high poverty school and many of the

band students cannot afford to buy their band book. If you'd like to help, go to Donorschoose.com and look for our Essential Ele-ments post. It has not been posted yet but when that gets posted, I will put that webpage address on my website.

Band T-shirt order forms are going out today. If you child needs a band t-shirt, please have that form turned in by Oct. 19, with the money attached. 

We have had lots of students vol-unteer to play for the Public Schools Foundation Bookfair at Barnes and Noble on Oct. 24th. Look for us between 2 and 5pm. 

Physical Education NewsBy Mrs. Sue Landgrebe

COMING SOON: WALK ACROSS AMERICAIles Running club will Walk Across America in support of the Gen H initiative to improve children’s health in Springfield. Interstate 90 will be our “route” from Boston to Seattle. Details to follow later in October.

CROSS COUNTRY MEET FOR 4TH , 5TH AND 6TH GRADERSStudents in District 186 will have the op-portunity to do cross country

in a meet on November 10 at Lincoln Park. Students will need physicals.Practices will be at noon once a week. All Participants are encour-aged to run on their own at least two other times each week. Let Mrs. Landgrebe know you are interested and start RUNNING!

Health NewsBy Mrs. Valerie Rogers, RNHealth Update

All 6th grade students and stu-dents who are new to the Spring-field school district must provide proof of a current physical and immunization records. This is an Illinois state law. If you have not provided this information, please submit it to the school of-fice by October 15, 2009. Stu-dents who do not provide this in-formation will be excluded from school. A dental exam is also re-quired for all 2nd and 6th grade students. A dental waiver is available for students who are un-able to obtain a dental exam. If you have questions or need assis-tance please call me at 525-3204.

If your child has a medical condi-tion such as asthma, diabetes, se-vere food allergies or seizures that might require emergency assis-tance, please contact the school office to develop an emergency action plan. Information from these plans will be shared with school staff as needed to ensure your child’s safety at school.

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