Fairview Digital Backpack

Good Afternoon Fairview Families,

We had a very exciting week here at Fairview, filled with many opportunities to collaborate as a school community!

On Tuesday and Thursday of this week we watched beautiful spring performances from our Kindergarten and First Grade students. These music concerts brought smiles to many faces earlier this week. We loved welcoming parents, grandparents, and other special guests into the auditorium this week. Thank you to Mr. Clift, K-5 General Music Teacher, for making these possible! We're so proud of our students for all of the hard work they put into learning the songs and movements that were showcased during these performances. You will find a few photos below of our students!

Thanks to those of you who were able to attend the Fairview Family STEM Night! It was an engaging evening where families, students and staff came together to build, explore, play and learn. A special thanks to Mr. Layes, our Fairview Technology Team, and student and staff volunteers for making this event possible. Please enjoy the pictures below from last night's event!

During Wednesday's Fairview Family Engagement Meeting, Mr. Conner, Ms. Toni, and Mrs. Shedroff hosted an informational session on the SPINOUT Program. Here is a copy of the presentation. If you have additional follow-up questions for the team, please feel free to reach out to our team. Contact information can be found in the presentation above. Thanks to these staff members for creating such a thorough presentation for our school community to view.

Today, our 7th-grade students participated in the Operation Snowflake program throughout the entire school day. This annual program provides students opportunities to continue to develop positive and meaningful relationships with one another and the trusted adults in our building. Students participated in full-group teambuilding activities, multiple small group discussions, and watched an educational but quite entertaining performance from Imagination Theater, a theater group that performs for school-aged children with a focus on enhancing well-being, and creating a more civil and safe society. Thank you to Ms. Klein, Ms. Laverdiere, Mrs. LiRosi, and Ms. McKinney for organizing a great day and to PTA for sponsoring the event!

Be sure to read below for other important updates and community events that are approaching, and Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating today.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mrs. Larkin and Mr. Lopatka

Next week we will be celebrating Ability Awareness. The goal is to educate and raise awareness about inclusion and address the barriers that people with different disabilities or as we like to say, abilities, face day to day. Everyone has the right to have equal access to opportunities in all aspects of life. We will recognize a different ability each day and celebrate by wearing the color that represents acceptance and awareness of that particular ability. Each day during the morning announcements we will share about a famous person who has that particular ability and explain the ability in a developmentally appropriate manner through videos and stories. You can access the weekly calendar here. Please take some time at home to speak with your children about what they have learned and help them understand the importance of acceptance and inclusion.

Monday-Blue

Tuesday-Orange

Wednesday-Silver and Gold

Thursday-Red

Friday-No School

Ability Awareness Week April 24th-27th

Ms. Kilpatrick is pleased to announce that our Student Equity Advisory Committee will be sharing an opportunity for current 6th and 7th grade students to apply to participate as a member for next school year. The application window will open on Monday, April 24th and all applications are to be submitted no later than the end of the school day on Friday, May 5th. Applications can be picked up in the main office and from Ms. Kilpatrick, Director of Community & Student Engagement. Please feel free to reach out to Ms. Kilpatrick with any questions or concerns. Jkilpatrick@fairview72.com

What is the Falcon S.E.A.C?

The Falcon Student Equity Advisory is a committee that includes 7th and 8th grade students and the Fairview administration team. The committee will represent the student body by gathering information from students and sharing it with administration, Fairview’s Superintendent and on occasion, the Fairview School Board. SEAC members will be encouraged to discuss Fairview’s strengths and weaknesses surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion topics. Discussion will frequently pertain to the areas of improvement and setting goals for our building, assisting to promote a positive Falcon spirit and fostering a true sense of school wide unity.

Each school year, members of the Fairview staff organize a Fairview Math Tournament for students to display what they have learned in the school year. The tournament is offered to students in grades 4-6. Please see the links below for more information.

Fairview Math Tournament Parent Letter

Fairview Math Tournament Flyer

The deadline to order a 2022-2023 Fairview Yearbook is approaching! Please see the letter below with additional information from our Yearbook Team. Thank you!

Registration for Kindergarten for the 2023-2024 school year is now open! If you know any families who have incoming Kindergarteners, please spread the word! All families should reference the District's website for additional information on how to register.

Registration for the Fairview South 2023-2024 school year has officially begun. When you are on the "Agreements" page, the final question is how the PTA determines who we can or cannot send communication to and who we can or cannot include in our Directory.

If you would like to continue to receive PTA Communication such as the PTA Newsletter, PTA event reminders, and other messages, please remember to select 'yes' during registration. Selecting 'yes', will also permit us to include your family's information in the PTA Directory. Please be sure to select 'yes' for each child, to assure that each one is listed in the directory.

If you do not wish to receive communications from the PTA, and you do not wish to be included in the PTA Directory, please select 'no'

Please see screenshot below for reference.

Fairview D72 Spring 2023 Book Fair

One of our favorite PTA events is upon us! The Fairview South Book Fair is coming up! The 2023 Book Fair will ONLY be available virtually. This is simply due to ongoing renovations at Fairview. By next school year, we will all be able to enjoy that amazing feeling of buying fresh books in person for our kids.. and maybe even an eraser & a kitten poster!

For the 2022/2023 school year, we will be using Anderson’s Book Fair Company. Also known as “ABC”. They are graciously still providing a virtual option, which is super helpful for our community this year! The Fair will be open for business from April 17th, and will run through April 28th. This will allow you to browse and purchase at your leisure. We know that many families love to contribute to their child’s classroom libraries by purchasing books for your child(ren)’s teacher(s). Thankfully, ABC does offer “Teacher Wish Lists” online! This feature is easily accessible via the ABC link below.

Feel free to take a look before the Fair begins. ABC link: www.abcfairs.com

**Our Book Fair starts on April 17th!

**Books can be purchased and either delivered to your child(ren)’s

classroom(s) or to your personal address.

**All proceeds will go directly to the Fairview library.

Happy Reading!

The Book Fair Committee

Multicultural Night is one month away! We are looking forward to celebrating the diversity that makes Fairview South so special. Please join us on Friday, May 12th from 6-8pm in the Big Gym.

There are multiple ways to participate. You can create a table display. You can bring food to share. You can perform. You can dress in clothes that represents your country/culture and take a picture with others (new this year). You can show up and enjoy the evening. Or, you can do a combination of these.

Please take a moment to fill out the Google Forms Survey to help us. The more information we have, the better prepared we can be. This includes having an estimate of how many people will be at the event, whether you are choosing 1 or all 5 options. Please fill out the survey by Friday, May 5th.

Once the survey is submitted, you should receive an email confirming your responses.

If you have any questions, please email Kejal and Steve at:

PTA@fairview72.com

Thank you!

https://forms.gle/qsCSfqs37fXTUE5q6

The Parent Equity Advisory Group would like to invite you to a book discussion planned for Tuesday, May 2nd in collaboration with the Skokie Public Library. The event, Reading for Curiosity, is designed for a child in grades 4-6 and caregiver to attend together. We will be reading and discussing El Deafo by Cece Bell which is an autobiographically inspired graphic novel. To help facilitate a rich discussion, this event will be limited to 15 families (with each family allowed to bring up to 3 people). Any family with students in Skokie schools is invited to attend, but we would like to extend a special invitation to Fairview families. A light meal will be served, and copies of the book will be available for pickup at the library starting in April. Registration begins on April 1st on the library website. For more information, visit the library website or email parentequitygroup.fairview72@gmail.com. Hope to see you there!

Please find details below for three upcoming Skokie Community Events being offered through the Skokie Park District, Skokie Public Library, and Skokie Police Department!

• Celebrate Earth Day tomorrow at The Emily Oaks Nature Center!
  
  
• National Library Week is next week! Stop in to the Skokie Public Library to join them for a variety of free events being offered throughout the week.
  
  
• The flyer below shares details for the Bicycle Safety Event

Please see the flyer below regarding registration updates for the SPACE Program for the 2023-2024 school year. Thank you! Questions can be directed to Serena Tyler at styler@skokieparks.org.

Wednesday, April 26th

• Fairview Board of Education Meeting @ 7:00pm

Thursday, April 27th

• Fourth Grade Celebrate America Night @ 6:30-7:15pm

Friday, April 28th

• NO SCHOOL: Institute Day

Monday, May 1st-Friday, May 5th

• Fairview Teacher Appreciation Week

Tuesday, May 2nd

• Fairview Parent Equity Advisory Group Event

Wednesday, May 3rd

• Skokie Police Department Officer Friendly Visits (K-3)
• PTA General Meeting 6:30pm

Thursday, May 4th

• Incoming Kindergarten Parent Orientation Night 6:30pm

Week of May 8th

• NWEA MAP Testing (2nd-8th grade)

Thursday, May 11th

• Fairview Art Show (K-8) 6:00-7:00pm
• Spring Orchestra and Choir Concert 7:00pm

Friday, May 12th

• PTA Multicultural Night 6:00pm

Mrs. Colleen Larkin

K-4 Principal

clarkin@fairview72.com

Mr. Michael Lopatka

5-8 Principal

mlopatka@fairview72.com

Website: fairview72.com
Location: 7040 Laramie Avenue, Skokie, IL, USA
Phone: 847-929-1048
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