Holiday Gift Shop

The auditorium is decorated and the Holiday Gift shop is ready to open... We still need volunteers to help Monday through Friday next week. If you would like to volunteer please send an email to oathorppta@gmail.com Any time you can give would be greatly appreciated.

The classes scheduled for Monday are:

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As always, thanks for your support... and Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Our Tree!

Yesterday our tree was decorated at Brookfield Zoo. We are located in the East Mall, tree number 181. Stop by and check out our tree in person, and feel free to add your own ornament to it. (Just remember the rules... no glass and no metal hooks...)

We need help for the Holiday Shop!

We are in need of volunteers for the Holiday Gift Shop on Dec 1-5th. This event is sponsored by the PTA so the students have an opportunity to buy small holiday gifts for their family. Even if you can only volunteer for a few hours we would appreciate your help. Please email or call if you can give us some of your time.

No Time? We understand...

We all know it can be difficult to find the time to volunteer and help out the way you'd like to. And until we can figure out a way to add a few more hours to our days, here a few simple ways you can help the PTA without giving up your time:

Turn in your used ink cartridges to the PTA. Send them in to the office (in a plastic bag if they are leaking please!) and we will get them to recycle. The PTA gets money for turning them in so if you normally throw them out please send them our way! (And a big THANK YOU to the incredibly dedicated mom who takes care of turning these in for us! We appreciate it so much!)

Sign up at Box Tops for Education at http://www.boxtopsforeducation.com/ They almost always have a contest going on for schools to win extra boxtops. Right now Betty Crocker has a contest to win 10,000 extra boxtops! You can enter once a day, so if you are online anyhow, pop over to the website and enter for Thorp. (And of course keeping sending in your boxtops to school... this year we are doing awesome turning them in!)

thanks for helping!

Annmarie

Thank You!!

I have to say thank you to everyone who made today such an incredible success!! The teacher's luncheon was AMAZING!! Huge thank you's to everyone who donated something for the event. I heard so many wonderful comments from the staff...

And thank you to the parents who donated the gym wear that was sold today. The sale was such a success that we will be collecting clothes again to have another sale in the Spring! If you want to donate clothes at any time of the year just send them to the school office and the PTA will get them.

And I have to give a huge thank you to all the officers and chairpeople of the PTA this year... You all are so awesome to work with. I have loved getting to know all you better this year and I have a great time working with all of you... so thank you, thank you...

So back to school tomorrow : )

Annmarie

Don't Forget!

There is no school on Monday and Tuesday... and Report Card Pickup is on Wednesday.

Have a great few days off!

Used Gym Clothes Wanted

We are going to have a used gym clothes sale on November 12th during Report Card Pickup. If you have any gym clothes in good condition that you would like to donate, please turn them in to the school office. All proceeds are going to go towards Thanksgiving dinner for 3 O.A. Thorp families in need.

Thanks for helping the school community. We appreciate it!

PTA Meeting on Tuesday!

We are having our next meeting on Tuesday the 4th at 8:15 am. Hope to see you there!