Eagle News

We will be hosting a Halloween parade and party on Monday, October 31st, for our Evergreen students. If the weather permits, we will have a costume parade outside of Evergreen school from 1:45-2:00. Families are welcome to find a spot along our parade route to look at all the costumes! If it is raining, we will not host the parade. Students will then participate in the PTA led classroom parties from 2:00-2:50. Thank you in advance for all of the volunteers for your help with the parties!

Students will have the opportunity to change into their costumes at school after lunch. Costumes should be school appropriate- for children and adult volunteers.

-no weapons

-no violent or explicit costumes

-no blood

-no fully covered face masks

-no face painting

Please have your child practice how to put on their costume independently at home. We will also not be sending students to the washroom to put on their costumes, so they need to be able to put it on over what they are wearing to school that day. There are just not enough bathroom stalls for all students in the building!

Multilingual Families! Please join us at Evergreen on Tuesday, October 18th, from 6:00PM-8:00PM to celebrate the many cultures we have at Benjamin School District 25! We hope to see you there!

Evergreen Elementary School will be holding in person and virtual Zoom Parent/Teacher Conferences. On Thursday, November 3rd, conferences will be in person from 4:30 PM – 8:00 PM. Monday, November 7th, conferences will be in person from 4:30 PM – 8:00 PM. Thursday, November 10th, from 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM conferences will be virtual only.

Evergreen Elementary School will be using SignUpGenius to schedule all conferences. The scheduling window will open on Tuesday, October 11th, at 8:30 AM. The sign up with close on November 1st. Please refer to the instructions listed below to schedule your conferences online.

It is necessary to know who your child’s teachers are prior to signing up for conferences. Please refer to PowerSchool for a listing of your child’s teachers.

All conferences are scheduled online by doing the following:

1. Access the Benjamin District website: www.bendist25.org

2. Along the top of the page, click Schools and choose Evergreen Elementary School from the drop down menu

3. Scroll to the middle of the page and click the web button for SignUpGenius in the Upcoming News box

4. Click the desired conference group tab at the top

5. Teachers are listed on the left side, click on Sign Up in the date and time slot desired

6. Click Submit and Sign Up at the bottom, you will be asked to enter the student’s name, your first and last name and an email address

7. Click Sign Up Now

8. To sign up for another conference, click Back to Sign Up

Each conference is limited to 20 minutes for Kindergarten-4th grade and 15 minutes for preschool. You will receive a confirmation via email of your date and time from SignUpGenius. You may also print your schedule. If you are unable to secure a conference time for a certain teacher, please email or call that teacher to make other arrangements. If you would like a conference with our special area teachers (art, music, PE, technology) please contact that teacher directly.

PE: Matt Tylk: mtylk@benjamin25.org

Music: Ruth Morgano: rmorgano@benjamin25.org

Art: Renee Orr: rorr@benjamin25.org

Technology: Joshua Kairis: jkairis@benjamin25.org

If you need assistance, please contact Kayla Mills at kmills@benjamin25.org or 630-876-7810.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO WRITE YOUR CONFERENCE TIME DOWN WHEN YOU SIGN UP! Once the conference list is closed on November 1st, you will not have access to the sign up.

The Carol Stream Fire Department will be in next week to discuss fire safety with Evergreen students. Please make sure to discuss with your child what they learn next week about staying safe!

Due to our early release and half-day, please notify the office and your child's classroom teacher if your child's normal routine is different on these days.

All students arriving after 8:30 will need to come into the office with a parent to sign in. All students arriving after 8:30 are marked tardy.

Even if you are accompanying your child, please do not arrive to school before 8:15.

Please no parking in the parking lot from 8:00-8:30. This includes all Evergreen preschool, Best Buddy Preschool and all other Evergreen parents. If you would like to walk your child to their teacher please park across the street and walk over. Please do not park along the grass area in our back parking lot. We can not block that drive thru lane at any time. Thank you for your understanding.

If your child is going to be absent from school for any reason, please call the Evergreen Office, 630-876-7810, to report your child's absence no later than 8:00 AM the day of the absence.

When you open this newsletter on a desktop computer, there is a button on the right hand side of the newsletter. This will give you a drop down menu to choose the language you need! If you are opening the newsletter on your phone, there is an image of a person in the bottom right hand corner. If you click on that image, it will give you the option to translate the text in the newsletter to over 100 languages!

Mrs. Smith, Principal

630-876-7810 (ext.1202)

ssmith@benjamin25.org