The Walden Weekly

What a wonderful week we had at school! It was great seeing many of our Walden families out at our ice cream social on Wednesday night. Thank you to our PTO for sponsoring such a fun event!

Many of our students took the NWEA Fall MAP assessment this week. We use this data as a starting point for planning some of our classroom instruction. Results will be shared with families via mail at the beginning of October.

As a reminder, picture day is on Thursday.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend and we'll see you on Monday!

- Stephanie Strenger

The LMC is excited to welcome authors Ann and Ben Brashares on Friday, September 20! They will tell our 4th and 5th grade students about their new book, an alternate history novel full of action and suspense.

You can order personalized autographed copies of the book by Wednesday, September 18. Orders are through The Book Stall, the independent bookstore that organizes these free author visits for our school: https://www.thebookstall.com/ann-and-ben-brashares-visit-chicago-area-schools

See more information on the attachment below.

REMINDER: Tomorrow Saturday September 7th, at 9AM you will receive an email from me, on behalf of the PTO, with the link to sign up to volunteer for classroom parties. Party volunteers help to plan, coordinate, and run the parties in the classroom throughout the year. Please remember ONE party per family per classroom. Thank you!

If you have any questions, please email Mindy Kallsnick at mkallsnick@gmail.com

As last week's events have shown us, we need to be able to reach you in case of unexpected news! Some families still need to complete the quick process of verifying their information for this year. It's also an easy way to read and acknowledge our handbook and review district opt-out forms. Please head to Skyward to get started today!

Parents and Guardians are all invited to join me on Tuesday, September 24th from 7pm-8pm for a parent event where we will be discussing information shared in the book, The Anxious Generation. Please see my email shared on Tuesday for more information. You do not need to have read the book to attend.

RSVP below.

New grade, new library rules! The number of books students can check out was raised for most grades this year. Here are our LMC checkout guidelines by grade:

Students can renew books for more time. Please help your child(ren) take good care of our library books!