The Walden Weekly

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday! We had a great week at Walden School as we enter the month of December! We are looking forward to some fun events coming up like the Deerfield High School Choraliers visiting next Friday. Have a great weekend and we'll see you on Monday!

- Stephanie Strenger

It’s the holiday season and for the fourth consecutive year District 109 is coming together to host our 109 Gives Back Holiday Gift Drive! This drive benefits local Deerfield families.

Sign up now to make someone’s holiday a little bit brighter! (Note: the list will continue to grow… so check back again in the next week or two as more things are added!)

Gifts can be dropped off at any 109 school or our district office between Monday, November 27th and Friday, December 8th.

• Please make sure gifts are not wrapped

• Please make sure gifts are labeled with the themed family name (example: Candy Cane family)

• If you are bringing gift cards, we ask that you bring them to the school’s front office.

• Gifts can also be shipped directly to Wilmot Elementary School at 795 Wilmot Road in Deerfield care of Eileen Brett.

If you need to make an alternate drop-off arrangement for a gift, please reach out to Eileen Brett at ebrett@dps109.org.

If you have any questions, please reach out to communications@dps109.org. Thank you for helping ensure that our neighbors have a wonderful holiday season!

We have accrued quite a large amount of lost and found items at Walden since the beginning of the year. These items will be donated over Winter Break so please make sure if you would like to search for any specific items, you come to Walden before Winter Break begins. Also, as a reminder, labelling your child's' items is a helpful way to prevent their belongings from sinking into the abyss of the lost and found. Thank you!

This is from the fifth grade girls scouts at Walden. This message is to tell you that you shouldn’t idle. If you don’t know what idling is, it is when you have your car turned on and you're waiting in the parking lot for your child to come out. If you idle, you could hurt your child’s lungs, you can waste $2,000 dollars a year by idling and altogether the world wastes 3 billion dollars every year. You can waste a quarter gallon of gas every 15 minutes. Also idling for 10 seconds wastes more energy than turning on and off your car. We put up some no idling signs so that you can remember to not idle. Let's work together to keep our air healthy.

• Thurs. Dec. 21 - Fri. Jan. 5 - No School (Winter Break)
• Mon. Jan. 8 - No School (Teacher Institute Day)
• Tue. Jan 9 - Students Return