The Franklin Flyer

Mark Your Calendars:

September 28: PTA - Back to School Bash 5-7 PM @ Franklin

September 30: Judi McCarthy 5K Memorial Run/Walk 9 AM @ Franklin

October 2: PTA - Room Parent Kick-Off Meeting @ 7:30 PM

October 2-13: PTA - Raise Craze

October 2: PTA - Raise Craze 'Chalk the Walk' event after school

October 6: PTA - Raise Craze "Appreciate Your Teacher" day

October 9: No School

October 10: PTA - Raise Craze Pete's Sake Lunch Donation day

October 13: PTA - Raise Craze Parents' Night Out

October 17: Fall Conference @ 4-8 pm

October 23: Picture Day Retake

October 24: Fall Conference @ 4-8 pm

October 26: Fall Conference @ 4-8 pm

October 28: PTA - Trunk or Treat

October 31: Halloween Parties

November 20 - 24: Fall Break - No School

Absences

Please remember to call in or email absences by 8:45 AM. You can call our student absence line (847) 318-4390 (ext 1) is available 24 hours a day, or email Mrs. Linda at lberleth@d64.org.

If the absence is illness related, please also make sure to include Franklin's nurse, Mrs. Queta Karstens, at qkarstens@d64.org.

Franklin Office Hours
School office hours are from 8:00 am - 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday.

School Hours

School Hours (M, T, Th, F): 8:50 am - 3:30 pm

Wednesday School Hours: 8:50 am - 2:40 pm

Half-Day Kindergarten Hours

Kindergarten Hours (M, T, Th, F): 8:50 am - 11:35 am

Kindergarten Wednesday: 8:50 am - 11:05 am

You can find frequent updates or snapshots from our days at Franklin on Facebook and Instagram! Follow us at

Facebook: facebook.com/FranklinD64

Instagram: franklin.d64

Families should be able to sign up for conferences at this time.

Conference dates and times are as follows:

October 17th, 24th, 26th - 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Parent-Teacher Conferences will focus on reviewing your child's current progress, performance, and learning goals for the school year.

To sign up for a conference, you can use the directions linked here.

Next week, the lost & found will be out at arrival & dismissal. It will also be out at the Back to School Bash as well. Please come look for your child(ren)'s things.

For the health and safety of our students and community, no pets are allowed on school property. We realize the beautiful weather increases the amount of families who are walking. However, we ask that you please leave your dog or cat at home. Properly identified service animals are always permitted.

Please take a moment to review the contacts section of your ParentPortal. Any adult who has approval for after school pick-up or emergency pick-up for illness/injury should be listed. Franklin staff will not release students to adults who are not listed on the ParentPortal.

Chromebooks

As a reminder, each Franklin student will be issued an iPad (grades K-1) or a Chromebook computer (grades 2-5) as part of the District’s one-to-one digital learning program. Students will receive their devices during the first week of school. Your child will also be assigned a Google account to access Google Apps for Education and other digital resources at school and to explore further concepts introduced in class at home. The devices and their applications are technology tools that provide all students access to digital content and higher levels of individualized instruction.

You can find more information about the 1:1 Initiative, Chromebooks, and the other technologies available to our students here.

Drop-off of Student Items/Lunches

If your student forgets something at home, an adult may drop off items at the Franklin front office. Our front office staff will message the classroom for your student to pick up these items during a break in student instruction. The teacher will send the student to the office when it works best in the classroom schedule.

Visiting Franklin

All visitors to Franklin must have a valid state ID or driver’s license. Identification is entered into the Raptor identification system. This process only takes a short time to complete. Once you have clearance, the office staff will print a visitor pass for you and attach it to a lanyard you must wear throughout the building. The office will hold your ID until you return to the office and return the lanyard. We appreciate your support as we proceed with this district-mandated safety procedure for the safety of our students.

Student-Parent Handbook
Franklin Elementary School and all District 64 schools follow policies and practices reviewed and implemented by the District 64 Board of Education. Please review the D64 Student-Parent Handbook before the start of the school year.

Back to School Bash

The Back to School Bash is coming up on Thursday, Sep 28, 5-7 PM in the Franklin parking lot! This event is free and meant for all current Franklin students and their families. Please come celebrate what is already a great 2023-24 school year with music, food, and some inflatables fun.

We are still looking for volunteers to help out at the event. Please consider signing up for a one-hour shift to help set up, manage activity lines during the event, or clean up. All volunteer roles are posted in the PTA Membership Toolkit here: https://franklinpta.membershiptoolkit.com/volunteer/117650

Judi McCarthy 5K

You can still sign up to run or walk in our inaugural Judi McCarthy 5K on Saturday, Sep 30 at 9 AM. This event honors the dedication, career, and life of former Franklin teacher Judi McCarthy in a way we think would make her proud - by celebrating movement, activity, and health as a community.

Registration cost per person is $5, which includes the entry fee only and does not include a t-shirt. The deadline for registering with a t-shirt has passed.

https://franklinpta.membershiptoolkit.com/packet/16519

Those who can’t participate in the event but would like to support can make a contribution in the Toolkit here. Donations will be used to help cover event costs, and additional funds will be used to fund equipment purchases for the Franklin P.E. department through which Mrs. McCarthy touched the lives of so many Franklin students and families.

https://franklinpta.membershiptoolkit.com/packet/16550

Get ready for Raise CRAZE!

It’s almost that time of year - our annual fundraising mega event where the entire Franklin community comes together to perform acts of kindness that also help us raise money for school enhancements, allocations for teachers to supplement their classrooms with supplies, fund student clubs and events, and more. This year our goal is to raise money to fund a large expansion of the Maker Space/STEM Lab in Franklin’s LRC and we need everyone’s help. Please keep an eye out for dedicated emails, Facebook posts (in the PTA Facebook group) and materials sent home in your student’s folder for all of the Raise Craze information you need including how to register, acts of kindness ideas, and how to volunteer.

Raise Craze key dates:

• October 2: Raise Craze ‘Chalk the Walk’ event after school

• October 2-13: Books and sneakers drive, collection at Franklin

• October 6: Raise Craze “Appreciate Your Teacher” day

• October 10: Raise Craze Pete’s Sack Lunch Donations day

• October 13: Raise Craze Parents’ Night Out

Room Parent spots still available

Want to be able to attend your child's Halloween and Valentine’s Day Party? Sign up to be Head Room Parent for your child’s classroom! Thank you to those who already volunteered, we look forward to working with you and meeting virtually on October 2nd at 7:30pm. There are still some classrooms without any head room parents and other classrooms that need party volunteers as well. Please check the list below and consider volunteering for your child’s classroom even if you’ve never done it before…we will help and support you! Head to the Membership Toolkit to sign-up and for more details!

https://franklinpta.membershiptoolkit.com/volunteer/114931

Head Room Parents: (Slots available)

Dahilig (K)- 1, Mabrito (1st)- 2, Weller (2nd)- 2, Horwitz (2nd)- 1, Pop (2nd)- 1, Majeski (3rd)- 1,

Penconio (3rd)- 2, Ullrich (3rd)- 1, Wu (3rd)- 1, Pater (4th)- 1, Weise (4th)- 2,

Thompson, Belmonte, Biere, (5th)- 2

Halloween Party Room Parents: (Slots available)

Horwitz (2nd)- 1, Davis (5th)- 1, Biere (5th)- 1

Valentine's Day Party Room Parents: (Slots available)

Hastings (K)- 2, Lally (1st)- 1, Davis (5th)- 1

Biere (5th)- 2

Book Fair Volunteers Needed! The scholastic book fair is back at Franklin, October 23 - 27th. Parents and caregivers are able to shop before or after their conferences on 10/24 and 10/26 for some books and literacy materials! Please consider signing up to help Ms. Hetzke facilitate the shopping experience for families and staff. Once you’ve signed up for conferences, you can combine a 1-hour volunteer slots on the following dates:

• 10/24 & 10/26 from 4 PM - 8PM

• 10/25 from 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Sign up at membership toolkit. Volunteering at the book fair is a great way to get new book ideas for your reader!

Connect with us on Facebook

Have you joined the PTA Facebook group? It’s a great way to stay informed on upcoming events, connect with other families, and quickly reach members of the PTA team and event chairs with questions. This is a private group for Franklin PTA members, so if you haven’t signed up yet, membership registration is open at franklin store.membershiptoolkit.com.

5th Grade Opportunity

We are looking for outgoing 5th graders to sing the national anthem before the Judi McCarthy race. To participate, you must be able to be at Franklin at 8:30 AM on SATURDAY 9/30/23, and be able to practice with Ms. Carlson 1-2 times during lunch prior to the event.

Interested 5th grade families can sign up in the Membership Toolkit (the option will only be visible to those who have updated their student information to reflect a current 5th grade student). If chosen, the students’ parents will be notified via email.

Looking to get more involved?