Monday, April 17th & Tuesday, April 18th - 5th Grade Science Assessment

Friday, April 21st - Textile Collection Before School PTO)

Week of April 24th - Screen Free Week Activities

Tuesday, April 25th - Carpenter Celebrating our Teaching Assistants

Thursday, April 27th - 5th Grade Candor Health

Thursday, April 27th - Incoming Kindergarten Round-up Presentation 6:00 pm (Virtual)

Tuesday, May 2nd - MAP Testing

Thursday, May 4th - MAP Testing

Friday, May 5th - Trivia Night (PTO)

Week of May 8th - Teacher Appreciation Week

Wednesday, May 17th - Dine to Donate - Rita's Italian Ice Truck (PTO)

Monday, May 22nd - Incoming Kindergarteners' Screening

Monday, May 29th - No School

Friday, June 2nd - 5th Grade Party

Tuesday, June 6th - Field Day (Raindate: Thursday, June 8th)

Thursday, June 8th - Spring Fest (PTO)

Friday, June 9th - Last Day of School

For those of you who don't know/remember, I am a member of the Park Ridge Kiwanis. We have a partnership with the school district and contribute gift baskets to D64 families around the holidays (along with tons of other things). We do several types of fundraising activities throughout the year and this is one of them that I happen to share with our Carpenter Community because.....popcorn. Feel free to check out the store if you enjoy or know someone that enjoys different types of popcorn.

4 Days Only ! ... April 14, 2023 to 4/18/2023 5:00 AM ...

Visit My Popcorn Store

4/14/2023 to 4/18/2023

https://s.dgpopup.com/gjd38i04

Delicious, fresh gourmet popcorn will be delivered

just in time for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day!

50% of each purchase benefits Kiwanis of Park Ridge!

Kiwanis is all about KIDS! Your purchase directly supports local children's charities and

provides student scholarships to enhance life skills in our future leaders!

Thank you for helping us HELP KIDS BE THEIR BEST SELF!

At Carpenter, we believe in reinforcing expectations, for going above and beyond, and finding opportunities to support others. As you are aware, we have a school-wide system of students earning "Green Slips." (Green Slips started years ago and used to be on paper, green paper, so the name just kind of stuck). It is an intermittent reinforcement system, very much in the style of "catch 'em being good." Those who earn green slips eventually get placed onto our school-wide Bingo Board for a chance to be 1/10 students who get Bingo and earn a book out of the vending machine (thank you PTO and those who support the PTO!). Recently, we've also provided our substitutes the ability to reinforce an entire classroom for helping and continuing to meet expectations while teachers are away. At the end of the week, any classroom that earned a substitute green slip, their names get entered into a drawing to also potentially earn a book. So, we've added another piece to our system. In the event you ever have to come to the office, in the vestibule, you have the opportunity to have a staff member earn a green slip. Nothing fancy, just a quick recognition of something a staff member may have done recently or during the year that you appreciated.

The Carpenter Green Team would like to thank everyone who contributed to the plastic bag collection. It was a HUGE Success. Maine South has met their goal of 500 pounds! They will be using the plastic to build a bench. While we know it's not possible to eliminate all plastic from our daily lives, many of the bags collected could be swapped out for reusables such as grocery, produce, and ziplock bags. Next time you head to the store consider bringing your own bag and using reusable containers instead of ziplocks.

This year, instead of sending out an email for CoVid cases, we will be updating a slide on our website. Please bookmark this page if interested in keeping tabs of our current cases and associated homerooms. I'll leave this in my weekly updates as well, but I'll gradually move this towards the bottom of the reading material.

CARPENTER COVID DASHBOARD