RED OAK PTO 2019-2020

Dear Red Oak Community,

First, thank you! Thank you for your generous, heartfelt donations that have been made as part of our Neighbors Feeding Neighbors initiative. The goal is to keep the weekly meal program running while we are out of school. Every dollar donated will go to provide these meals. We are humbled by your support and grateful for our strong Red Oak Community! Thank you again!

Second, an update. On March 30, the Red Oak PTO and Judy's Pizza provided a warm meal to 36 of our families in need! Because of this success, we will be partnering again this week with Judy's Pizza, who has created another PTO Special for our families. We are looking for other restaurants who are interested in partnering with us. If you have a business or know of a business that might be interested, please reach out to Tina Calub (tinacalub@gmail.com or 773-732-0945). 

You can learn more about and donate to our warm meal program here, under Donate*Support*Feed. Feel free to share this link with family or friends who are looking to support a worthy cause - there is an option for 'Guests' to use to donate on the mail page of our website. https://www.redoakpto.org/Rlt/index.cfm.

Finally, we want to send a shout out to Judy's Pizza for being an amazing community partner. In addition to working with us to provide these meals, they have been creating 'Meal Deals' for their paying customers. Those of us who are frequent customers have been receiving texts that list their current 'Meal Deal". See here for details: Best Pizza | Judy's Pizza | Highland Park

Third, a few more updates.

Spring After School Club - with the return to school date being extended until 5/1 we have decided to cancel the spring after school club. Parents who registered their students will be receiving a full refund. We encourage any parents who may need after school care when we return to school to contact Innovation Learning for information on their program (redoak@innovationlearning.com).

Yearbooks - Thanks to our awesome yearbook committee (Carmen Kini and Farrah Zick) our book is finished and will be printed! Details on distribution will be provided soon.

PTO Donation - If you did not get the email or see the post on our Facebook Parent Network page, we wanted to highlight that our PTO, along side all the other PTOs in our district, made a $1500 donation to the Moraine Township Food Pantry to help them continue to provide food and assistance within our community. We were proud to be a part of such a unified response.

Connect with us via Facebook (Red Oak Parent Network) and Twitter @redoakpto112 for more information!

Stay safe and healthy! We will get through this together!

Jenn and Rosa

Questions?  Want to Volunteer?  Contact us:

Jenn Boiles - jenniferboiles@yahoo.com  PTO Co-President

Rosa Rebolledo - armid28@gmail.com PTO Co-President

Explore, navigate, contact us!  We are here to help our school, our families and most importantly, our children!

The parents, teachers, and administrators of Red Oak Elementary School are committed to ensuring that the families in our community are fed. We are also committed to supporting our local businesses that are affected by COVID19. To achieve this mission, we are partnering with local restaurants to provide warm meals to our Red Oak families in need.

Each week for Red Oak families with children who participate in the Free/Reduced lunch program (or any families that are recently experiencing hardship or struggling with food security - the PTO will coordinate a 'PTO Special' meal that families can call and order from a local restaurant and either pick it up or have it delivered.  The cost of the meal and delivery (if needed) will be covered by the PTO.

**If your family can afford to financially support this program, we need you! Please consider making a donation here: www.redoakpto.org  If you have family or friends who would like to donate - we have set up our site to allow guest donations - no PTO account needed. 

Also, we encourage you to support the restaurant that we partner with that week by ordering food from them. When you order, mention Red Oak Rocks! when you call so that they know the Red Oak community is supporting them. Thank you for your generous support!

We will get through this together!

Early Release 1:44

No School.

Join us for a FUN night of FUNdraising for our school.  Meet new parents and connect with old friends over food and drinks.

Join us for a night of great entertainment and pizza - as we watch our Red Oak students perform.

Please join us at our evening PTO meeting.  We will give an update on PTO events and fundraising and how the organization has been supporting our teachers and students.  We hope to see you there.

It's an (almost) end of school year celebration filled with lots of food and fun.