October 22nd, 2018

On both 10/25 and 10/26 students will be dismissed from school at 12:00pm.

Buses will run their regular routes after dismissal.

There will be no lunch served either of those days.

If you haven't received the link from your child's team leader to be able to sign up for a conference, please see this google document Be sure to sign-up using the link for your child's team.

Resource for Families for Parent-Teacher Conferences

Here is a note catcher organizer that may be helpful with questions to ask your student when going through their student portfolio of work samples. Please click here for a resource list of questions that families can use to get critical information about their children during parent-teacher conferences.

At the end of your conference with your student's teachers, we are asking families to complete the Safe Routes Survey for the school grant application by the Village of Oak Park in an effort to improve the safety of routes to school. The survey will be available to you during your conference time and collected by your conferencing teachers when completed.

We have attached a copy the proposed safe walking routes for your review. A copy of this will also be provided to you to reference as you complete the survey.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i6T9Fo3765y5Xp5UDPbANfAfAB3bdTDD/view?usp=sharing

The PTO will be hosting an appreciation dinner for the teachers and staff of Brooks on Oct 25th as a thank you for their hard work and dedication to our community. Dinner will be catered by Food Obsession. We are in need of drinks, dessert, and help with set-up, hosting and clean-up on the 25th and ask members of the Brooks community to please donate their time or one of the items via the Sign-up link below. Thanks so much!

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090849AEAC2DAA8-brooks3

We are gathering a team of enthusiastic, creative, and talented volunteers to help out at our upcoming Scholastic Book Fair, and we'd like to invite you to help out. The book fair will be open all this week! Please take a moment to view our sign-up sheet to see what roles interest you. Spread the word to your friends and invite them to help us have the best Book Fair ever!

Contact Tracey Wilson, tracyawilson@hotmail.com, with any questions!

Donate $1 or a non-perishable food item to your advisory teacher by Wednesday, October 31st. All donations will go to support the Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry. Costumes must be school and culturally appropriate and cannot include blood/gore, full makeup, masks, fake weapons, baby bottles or pacifiers.

Please find information regarding the student re-do/re-take policy in our Brooks Website.

http://www.op97.org/brooks/handbook

Community Café Series

The next event in Superintendent Kelley's community café series will take place on Thursday, Oct. 25, from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Live Café (163 S. Oak Park Avenue). Learn more about the community cafés >

If you or your student would like to recognize any staff member (a teacher, a teacher assistant, social worker, librarian, front office staff, lunchroom staff, custodial staff or school administrator) please take a moment to complete this form. The staff member will receive a certificate detailing the information shared through this form.

Join us on Thursday, November 8 at 7:00pm as Dr. Bozeday, EdD, Director of Educational Services at Rush Neurobehavioral Center and Adjunct Instructor at Northeastern Illinois University, leads a discussion on Executive Functioning. Executive Function skills impact student performance across all subject areas in school. What can parents do to help their children develop executive function skills?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mLeYOFIXzIB_qIdnCXyAtnIDTnSaDCNASnwnAObGjTc/edit?usp=sharing

Tickets for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s CINDERELLA are available HERE. Performances: November 9 - 17

The Cross Country coaches wanted to congratulate all of the runners for their efforts this year. Congratulations to those who qualified for Sectionals! Two special shoutouts, first, congratulations to Brady O’Connor for qualifying for State and representing Brooks very well at the event. Brady finished 55th in the state competition out of 240 qualified runners (11:19 two-mile time, 40 seconds faster than his next fastest meet time). Secondly, to all of the 8th-grader runners, best of luck next year!

For more information you may view this spreadsheet. The first tab has information about Sports. The second tab contains information about Clubs organized in order of start date.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XvWFACDX8DRUGztoEjQDOO3gzj26D7RTcxcBlKDfMZk/edit?usp=sharing

Mondays

• Ulmtimate Frisbee Clubs - Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30 to 4:30pm. Meets on the field. Contact Mr. Gillespie with questions mgillespie@op97.org

• Yearbook Club: First meeting is on Monday, 10/1 in room B202 from 3:30pm to 4:30pm. Contact Ms.Turner-Reid or Ms. Pabellon with questions mturnerreid@op97.org or mpabellon@op97.org
• RAD: Mondays 3:45pm to 5:00pm in PE Classroom. Contact Ms. Dajani with questions rdajani@op97.org
  
• Math Team: First meeting is on Monday, 10/1 in room B204 from 3:30pm to 4:30pm. Contact Mr. Sam Kahn with questions. skahn@op97.org
• ORFF: Monday mornings 8am to 8:50am in D110 Contact Mr. Carrillo with questions fcarrillo@op97.org
• Spoken Word Club: Mondays in B205 (3:30 - 5:00 pm) with Mr. Lee and resident poet Christian Robinson. Contact Mr. Lee with questions. mlee@op97.org
• BRAVO Guitar Club & Dance Hip Hop Studio started on Monday, September 17. There is still time to sign up! Click on links above to access permission slips. These clubs are FREE to ALL Brooks Students.

Tuesdays

• EcoEalges - Tuesdays 3:30 to 4:30 pm in room C202. Contact Ms. Stamp with questions lstamp@op97.org
  
• Chess Club: Will be on Tuesdays from 3:30pm to 4:30pm for remainder of the school year. Contact Mr. Hausfeld with questions mhausfeld@op97.org
  

Wednesdays

• Ulmtimate Frisbee Clubs - Mondays and Wednesdays 3:30 to 4:30pm. Meets on the field. Contact Mr. Gillespie with questions mgillespie@op97.org
• Best Buddies: Here is the year long calendar that can be downloaded. Contact Ms. Beauprez with questions lbeeauprez@op97.org .
• Girls on the Rise: Meets week on Wednesdays from 3:45pm to 4:45pm in room C105
• World Language Club: Every other Wednesday from 3:30 to 4:30pm in C209. Contact Mr. Lagioia with questions vlagioia@op97.org
• BRAVO Dance Hip Hop Studio started on Monday, September 17. There is still time to sign up! Click on links above to access permission slips. These clubs are FREE to ALL Brooks Students.

Thursdays (NO CLUBS after-school Due to P/T Conferences)

• Rainbow Tribe: Contact Ms. Berman with questions aberman@op97.org
• Art Club: Thursdays in room D301 from 3:30pm to 4:30pm. Contact Ms. Murray with questions. kmurray@op97.org

Fridays

• Service Club: Friday mornings from 8am to 8:50am in room B209. Contact Ms. Walsh with questions swalsh@op97.org

Unified Soccer: Any questions please contact Tim McDonald tmcdonald1@op97.org

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