The Franklin Flyer

Mark Your Calendars:

October 11: No School

October 13: Last Day for Health Forms to be Submitted

October 14: No School

October 15: Parent-Teacher Conference Date - 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

October 17: PTA Meeting

October 26: PTA - Truck or Treat @ 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

October 28 - November 1: Red Ribbon Week

October 31: Halloween Parties and Parade

November 1: Picture Day Retake

November 5: No School

November 8: PTA - Fall Donuts w/ my VIP @ 8:00 - 8:40 a.m.

November 25 - 29: Thanksgiving Break - No School

December 4: Holiday Sing

December 23 - January 3: Winter Break - No School

January 20: No School

February 12: Open House - 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.

February 14: No School

February 17: No School

February 27: Spring Conferences - 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

March 24 - 28: Spring Break - No School

April 18: No School

May 26: No School

Absences

Please call in or email absences by 8:45 AM. You can call our student absence line (847) 318-4390 (ext 1) is available 24 hours a day, or email Mrs. Linda Berleth at lberleth@d64.org.

If the absence is illness related, please also make sure to include Franklin's nurse, Mrs. Queta Karstens, at qkarstens@d64.org.

Franklin Office Hours
School office hours are from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday.

School Hours

School Hours (M, T, Th, F): 8:50 am - 3:30 pm

Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade Lunch: 11:35 - 12:30

4th and 5th Grade Lunch: 12:05 - 1:00

Wednesday School Hours: 8:50 am - 2:40 pm

Wednesday Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade Lunch: 11:05 - 12:00

Wednesday 4th and 5th Grade Lunch: 11:35 - 12:30

Half-Day Kindergarten Hours

Kindergarten Hours (M, T, Th, F): 8:50 am - 11:35 am

Kindergarten Wednesday: 8:50 am - 11:05 am

Dear Franklin Families,

We will celebrate Halloween on Thursday, October 31st. Please review the information below to ensure a fun and stress-free celebration!

Costumes:

• Students wear their costumes to school on Thursday, October 31st.

• Costumes should be appropriate for school with no overly bloody or scary images.

• Students should be able to use the bathroom independently.

• They should also not have any weapons (knives, swords, guns, etc.) or masks at school
  
  

Parade:

• The parade will begin at 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday (weather permitting).

• Students will exit out Door 1 (near LRC), walk east on Manor, around the circle drive, up the sidewalk along the side of the building, and reenter at Door 8 (4th Grade doors).

• If you are viewing the parade, please keep the sidewalks clear. Please do not pass out anything (treats, trinkets) to students as they participate in the parade
  
  

Parent Party Volunteers:

• Only parents assigned to help with classroom parties will be allowed in the building.

• Parent volunteers must bring a driver’s license or state-issued identification to enter the building.

• If you have not been added to our security system, feel free to stop by before Tuesday to run your identification through the system. This will allow us to minimize the lines before the party.

• No younger siblings are allowed to attend the party.
  
  

If your family does not celebrate Halloween, please contact your child’s teacher directly. We provide an alternative space and non-Halloween activities for students during the Halloween parties and parade.

We are looking forward to a fabulous Halloween celebration!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Kristin Williams

Franklin's Holiday Sing program will be held on Wednesday, December 4th. We will have performances by grade. Our performance schedule is as follows:

9:00 a.m. - Kindergarten & 1st Grade

10:00 a.m. - 4th & 5th Grade

1:30 p.m. - 2nd & 3rd Grade

All concert attendees will enter through Door 3 (circle drive) and exit through Door 5 (exterior gym door to the blacktop) for the safety of our school and students. There will be no exceptions. Seats can not be saved between concerts. We appreciate your support to keep the remaining grades learning and school running smoothly during the performances.

The Dork Diaries author and illustrator team, Rachel Renee Russell and Nikki Russell, came to Franklin to present to our third through fifth grade students. They were amazing and we are grateful for this opportunity for our students to learn from this mother-daughter writing team!

The online order page has been reopened for post-visit orders. Books will be signed, but not personalized, as signed stock allows. To ensure timely delivery, the deadline for post-visit orders is Wednesday, October 23rd. Books will take a week or two to arrive at Franklin.

Meet the Teacher - Parent Feedback

District 64 used a new parent-teacher conference sign up platform. We'd like to collect feedback from our parent community to gauge the parent perspective on the Meet the Teacher platform. Please fill out the parent survey.

Arrival Procedure Reminders

As a reminder, our doors to school open daily at 8:42 a.m. for student arrival. The doors close at the 8:50 a.m. bell. All students outside the building at 8:50 a.m. will need to come to the office to be signed in.

Issues with A School Device?

If you have are having issues with your student's device at home, please complete a ticket.

https://d64.incidentiq.com/guest/NPV6SRUK/d64-family-tech-support-ticket#top

Payments to School - My School Bucks

Park Ridge-Niles CCSD 64 employs My School Bucks as its payment platform for families. Most

purchases for students, including field trips and student orders. Directors can be found here.

Please send a change of clothes with your children for all K-5 students. It is helpful to have a change of clothes in the event of spilled water, accidents, or an unexpected incidents. Clothes should be labeled with your child's name and can be kept in your child's locker. We encourage you to make sure your child's name is on each article of clothing.

For the health and safety of our students and community, no pets are allowed on school property. We realize the beautiful weather increases the amount of families who are walking to and from school. However, we ask that you please leave your dog or cat at home. Properly identified service animals are always permitted.

Please take a moment to review the contacts section of your ParentPortal. Any adult who has approval for after school pick-up or emergency pick-up for illness/injury should be listed. Franklin staff will not release students to adults who are not listed on the ParentPortal.

Drop-off of Student Items/Lunches

If your student forgets something at home, an adult may drop off items at the Franklin front office. Our front office staff will message the classroom for your student to pick up these items during a break in student instruction. The teacher will send the student to the office when it works best in the classroom schedule.

Visiting Franklin

All visitors to Franklin must have a valid state ID or driver’s license. Identification is entered into the Raptor identification system. This process only takes a short time to complete. Once you have clearance, the office staff will print a visitor pass for you and attach it to a lanyard you must wear throughout the building. The office will hold your ID until you return to the office and return the lanyard. We appreciate your support as we proceed with this district-mandated safety procedure for the safety of our students.

Student-Parent Handbook
Franklin Elementary School and all District 64 schools follow policies and practices reviewed and implemented by the District 64 Board of Education. Please review the D64 Student-Parent Handbook before the start of the school year.

You can find frequent updates or snapshots from our days at Franklin on Facebook and Instagram! Follow us at

Facebook: facebook.com/FranklinD64

Instagram: franklin.d64

Appreciation Spotlight

We are so grateful to our Raise Craze committee, Alycia White, Deanna Barrett and Idalmy Carrera-Colucci.Their time, energy, creativity and commitment to our most important multi-week event is what supports everything we do as a PTA to create a strong community and improve our school.

Membership Toolkit & Facebook Group Reminder!

• Please remember to update your information in the directory of the Membership App or our Franklin PTA website. Student names should also be updated with the correct grade and teacher for this school year. Thank you!

• Our members only facebook page is a great place to get real time information and receive quick answers to questions from our PTA board and the whole Franklin community. Join by requesting membership at Franklin PTA School Group

Volunteer Opportunities | Visit Franklin PTA to sign up and support our Franklin events throughout the year.

• A few room parent roles

• Trunk or Treat trunks

• Fall Donuts with my VIP volunteers

Room Parent Volunteers

Room Parent volunteers are mostly full-- However there are a few spots still needing to be filled as of this morning. If you missed the signups yesterday, please see below if your child(ren) still needs a volunteer parent for their class parties this year.

1st:

• Mabrito (1 Head Room Parent and 1 Valentine's Day)

3rd:

• Abreu (1 Halloween)

• Ullrich: (1 Valentine’s Day)

5th:

• Davis ( 1 Valentine's Day)

YEARBOOK UPDATES:

5TH GRADE BABY PHOTOS DUE 11/1

The deadline for baby photos of your 5th graders are due Nov 1st! So far we have 40 photos from a class of 111; only 36%. Please follow the step by step instructions below for uploading a photo to Treering. And don't forget to send your sentiments (20 words or less) to franklinyearbook@gmail.com.

Yearbook Committee is in need of photos from:

• Judi McCarthy 5k: email directly to this email address notification.photos.360068240@treeringphotos.com

• Raise Craze Acts of Kindness: email directly to this email address notification.photos.360068358@treeringphotos.com

Trunk or Treat

Our Franklin families always go all out for this spooktacular event. Get in the Halloween spirit and trick or treat in the parking lot from 4 - 5 PM on Saturday, October 26th.

We are still in need of more decorated cars (or parking spaces) There will be some amazing prizes for our best decorated trunks! If you are unable to volunteer a trunk but would like to help during the event the Trunk or Treat Committee would love your help. Please email danabozeday@gmail.com

We are also looking for bags of candy to pass out at Trunk or Treat. Please email danabozeday@gmail.com for drop off location or bring to the front office.

Donuts with My VIP (Very Important Person)

Our first Donuts with my VIP (Very Important Person) event is scheduled for November 8th, and it will be here before you know it! Volunteer opportunities are now available in Signups on the website. If you have any questions, please reach out to Ashley Thielsen directly (or email to info@franklinpta.com).

Winter Coat Drive

Kindergarten Daisy Troop 47924 at Franklin is organizing a Winter Coat and Winter Essentials Drive. Between October 7th and November 1st, you can drop off new (or very slightly used) winter coats and/or new hats, gloves, and scarves to the designated bins in the Kindergarten Hallway and at the Main Entrance at Franklin. All donated coats and winter essentials will go to those in need in our community and the Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana area.

This is a great opportunity to not only earn an AOK for Raise Craze, but also to help people in need as we start to approach the cold winter season.

**New with tags coats are strongly preferred; however any lightly used coats will also be accepted and go to those in need this season.