Jaguar Journal

Location: 166 Euclid Avenue, Bloomingdale, IL, USA
Phone: (630) 894-9200

Website: DuJardin Elementary School

Attendance Email:(used to report absences): DJAttendance@sd13.org

Office Email:(used for changes to bus/arrival/dismissal): DJOffice@sd13.org

Nurse's Email:jrosero@sd13.org

Principal Email: phaugens@sd13.org

• Early Release EVERY WEDNESDAY

• Tuesday, October 6, 2026: PTO Hot Lunch & CC! Night at Old Town 6:00 pm

• Wednesday, October 7, 2026: Early Release

• Thursday, October 8, 2026: PTO Hot Lunch

• Friday, October 9, 2026: No School

• Monday, October 12, 2026: No School

• Friday, October 16, 2026: Jog-A-Thon

Today we were thrilled to kick off our very first Jaguar Dens of the school year!

The goal of Jaguar Dens is to foster a strong sense of belonging and build connections across our entire school community. Once a month, students are placed into small, multi-grade groups of 10–12 students paired with staff members from across the building.

Our focus last year centered on recognizing and thanking our wonderful local community organizations (police, fire department, park district, and the Village of Bloomingdale). This year we are turning our focus inward toward personal growth! Our Jaguar Dens activities this year will center on Executive Functioning, Social-Emotional Learning (SEL), and making positive choices that empower both ourselves and the school community.

#LeadLikeAJagaur

Our students have officially completed their Fall MAP assessment. Great job to all of our students for their hard work!

Over the next two weeks, students will also participate in the AIMSweb reading and math benchmark assessments. These assessments are much quicker than the MAP test and provide an additional helpful data point to track student achievement and growth throughout the school year.

MAP results—along with Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) results for 4th and 5th-grade students—will be sent home on Friday, October 16th.

Accelerated Reader (AR) is officially up and running for the school year!

Through this program, students can take comprehension quizzes on books they read from our library (or home!) to earn AR points. To celebrate their reading achievements, students who reach major milestones—such as 25, 50, and 100 points—earn custom brag tags and special recognition during their lunch period. We also have an exciting AR Night Out planned for the winter and a celebratory Spring Field Trip for students who hit point goals to qualify!

Please note that AR is an optional enrichment program—it is not required, but it’s a wonderful way to motivate young readers and build a lifelong love of books. Click here for more information about the program.

The PTO Hot Lunch program starts next week. Parents can use the link below to set up an account to order lunch. The PTO Hot Lunch occurs on Tuesday & Thursday each week.

www.lunchlink.com or download the Lunch Link app to your phone Code: DJEBLOO

Parents are able to order by 1:00 pm the day before and cancel by 8am the day of any order.

This is our final call to be included in the official 2026–2027 DuJardin PTO Student & Family Directory! The directory is a wonderful tool for connecting with other school families, organizing playdates, and planning birthday celebrations.

If you would like your family's contact information included, please take a moment to fill out the form below

👉 [Click Here to Complete the PTO Directory Google Form]

Note: Inclusion in the directory is completely voluntary, and only information submitted through this form will be published.

The annual DuJardin Jog-A-Thon takes place on Friday, October 16, 2026. Please fill out the Google form if you would like to volunteer for the Jog a Thon. There will be a viewing area for those parents who would like to watch but unable to volunteer. Only parent volunteers will be allowed to interact with our runners.

Jog-A-Thon Times

AM Kindergarten & 1st Grade: 10:15 am

2nd Grade & PM Kindergarten: 1:15 pm

3rd & 4th Grade: 2:10 pm

5th Grade: 2:35 pm

There will be no school on Friday, October 9, 2026 & Monday, October 12, 2026. We hope students enjoy a wonderful 4 day weekend. On Friday, teachers will have an Institute Day and the following Monday is a school holiday.

Students should come home today with a PTO Fall Fundraiser packet. We thank all parents for helping fundraise to support students and staff at DuJardin. Kids can sell items and earn prizes and keychains. There are a couple of pages in the packet that share info about what kids can earn. Click here to view the most important pages. The PTO Fall Fundraiser ends October 14, 2026.

Key Chain Prize Coupons

Donut Prize Coupon

Other Prize Info

Culver’s

Bibibop

Tropical Smoothie Cafe

Rosati’s Pizza

This week, we successfully conducted all of our required fall safety drills, and our students did a wonderful job following directions and practicing our procedures.

In addition to our drills, we were excited to welcome a guest presenter & DuJardin parent from ComEd! He visited our 1st and 2nd-grade students to share important, kid-friendly tips on how to stay safe around electricity and power lines.

Mrs. Cerami would like to welcome any parent/guardian volunteers into the IMC to help shelve books, help check books out and help students find books they love! If interested, please complete the Google form here by October 15th. Thank you for being part of our reading community!

Want to enroll your child(ren) in an after school club? DuJardin facilities are used by Chess Scholars/AES to provide after school clubs for DuJardin students.

Click here for the Flyer

Required Health Forms for the upcoming school year:

• Kindergarten: Physical, Dental, & Vision
• 2nd Grade: Dental
• Health Office Website

Student Needs:

• Please inform the nurse of any allergies or sensitivities to foods, medications, and environmental allergens. If there are any pertinent details of your students' health that you feel the nurse needs to know, please reach out and discuss this with the school nurse. This information can be helpful to better support your student throughout the day, if certain situations arise.

About Your Student’s Medication:

• The district's medication administration policy mandates that all medication to be administered at school requires an MD order, this includes over-the-counter medications. Students may NOT keep over-the-counter meds in their backpacks or in their lockers--including cough drops, Advil, etc. This is an important safety concern! Please review the policy included in the registration process.

• If your student requires an inhaler, Epi-Pen, or any oral medication, please obtain the medication form and appropriate health care plan from your physician when your child has their exam. Forms may also be obtained on the district website.

Excused Physical Education Class:

• Please note that all PE excuses need to be sent to the Nurse's Office. A parent may excuse a student from PE for up to 3 days. (consecutively) Thereafter, a Doctor's note is required.

Calls home from the Nurse:

• Phone calls home are warranted in the event of a head injury, minor or major

• All in school sickness including fever of 100.4 (oral) or greater, vomiting and/or diarrhea

Please prepare to keep your child home until:

• Fever-free for a full 24 hours without the use of fever reducing medication.

• Vomiting and diarrhea has ceased for a full 24 hours

Please refer to the General Health Guidelines which can be found on the district website

Send a note to school or email your students teacher and office if....

Your child/ren is walking home or being picked up instead of taking the bus

Your child/ren is being picked up by someone other than who is on the pick up list

Your child/ren is going to kids place instead of taking the bus or vice versa

Your child/ren is leaving school early

As always if your child/ren will be absent from school please call the office.

Office Staff Contact Information:

Attendance Email:(used to report absences)

DJAttendance@sd13.org

Office Email:(used for changes to bus/arrival/dismissal)

DJOffice@sd13.org

Nurse's Office Contact Information:

Jessica Rosero- jrosero@sd13.org

Want a fun way to say “Happy Birthday” to your child or a staff member?

How about having your birthday wishes on the DuJardin school digital sign!

How: Print out this form, complete the correct information below and return it to DuJardin by the 20th of the month before their birthday month. (For example, a November birthday should return the form by October 20th)

Cost: a suggested $5 minimum donation to the DuJardin PTO

Why: Your child or staff member will be surprised and excited to see her/his birthday announced for one week in lights during their birthday month!