Eisenhower Eagle Express

"Engage ALL students in experiences that inspire EACH to grow as learners, individuals,

and community members."



March 22nd, 2024

Ms. Goldstein and our entire staff at Eisenhower would like to thank all of our students and families for participating in our annual Kids Heart Challenge fundraising campaign. We hope that our students and families have learned a little more about healthy lifestyle choices. We are also happy to announce that our school raised $13,737.77 to help in the fight against heart disease for the American Heart Association.

As part of our month of February service learning project heart theme, our students created cards for the Cards for Hospitalized Kids Foundation. We know these cards will go towards providing smiles and brightening the lives' of hospitalized children. We are so thankful for being a part of you and your children's lives. Teaching the children empathy and caring for the needs of others helps to build a stronger learning community for us all.

When you have a moment, if you could please take the

Illinois 5 Essentials Survey to help with our school improvement efforts. We need at least 20% of our parents to complete the survey.

http://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/

Have a Wonderful Spring Break,

Your Eisenhower Family,

Nominate a Staff Member for a Home Run!

If you would like to nominate a staff member who you feel is doing an outstanding job serving the students, families, community, and makes you #PROUD2BD23, we ask that you please click on the following for "Hitting a Home Run": LINK 

PTO Reminder:

Parents! It is not too late to become members of the PTO and gain access to the District-wide directory! Simply visit the PTO website to create an account and sign-up (LINK) to get started! It takes a village to raise healthy and engaged children, and the PTO continues to be such a great partner and asset for us here in D23! Together, we are #PROUD2BD23! Any questions? Contact membershipd23@gmail.com!

School Database Information

In order to keep the most up-to-date communication information in our school database, we ask that families please let us know if your address, phone number, email or emergency contacts change.

Luke Lambatos, Ed.D., Ed.S.

Principal

Please remember, if you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact me at

(847) 870-5040 or llambatos@d23.org

Useful Links

Please click the link below to view our school and district calendar(s).

School Calendar Link

Please click the link below to view our school supply lists.

School Supply Lists Link

Please click the link below to view our school bus routes.

Bus Route(s) Link

Please click the link below to view lunch information.

Food Service/Lunch Information

Please click the link below to visit our D23 PTO website.

D23 PTO Link

Please like us on our Facebook page @PHSD23.

Also, if you haven't done so already, please sign up and follow us on Twitter @D23Eisenhower.

The link below will show you how to create your own Twitter account.

Twitter /"X" Account Setup

As part of our ongoing school improvement efforts, we ask that all parents please take the Illinois 5 Essentials Survey.

Please click the link below to take this brief survey.

Link for parents to take the survey: 

http://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/

Thank you in advance for your participation.

Spring Break is three weeks away, and our student iPads are getting ready for a beach staycation, minus the beach! As we prepare for Spring Break, teachers will be collecting iPads and working with the Tech Department to again make sure iPads are updated and working. Specifically, for 4th- and 8th-grade iPads, the Tech Department will inspect those over Break as those iPads will be turned in at the end of the year for recycling. For all students, this ensures they will come back to a working iPad after break, and we hope it is one less thing you have to find on a counter at home. Starting next Friday, students will see a version of the wallpaper below, just giving them instructions for how to prepare for the Spring Break staycation. Parents, please do check to see if your child's iPad is fully updated, to 17.3 and above. 

EARLY CHILDHOOD

This month the early childhood students learned about pets. The students adopted a stuffed animal pet and learned how to care for it. They named them, built them a home, fed them and played with them. The students wrote in their journal about all the fun things they did with their pet. We also practice letter recognition through puppy dog letter matching and a find the letter and write it game.

KINDERGARTEN

NEWS

Over the past two weeks, the kindergarten students have had an amazing time learning how to formulate a how-to piece. They even conducted their own how-to's explaining how to catch a Leprechaun. Once they completed their how-to writing they were given the opportunity to design and build their very own Leprechaun traps! This allowed us the opportunity to tie both our mystery science force and motion unit in with our HMH. The children explored materials, made predictions and built very clever traps. We are blown away by their writing and teamwork throughout this multi-step process.  

FIRST GRADE

NEWS

The students have begun a new unit in literacy. In this unit, students are learning about the life cycles and characteristics of plant life as they read informational and procedural texts, fiction and poetry. The students are learning about a variety of plants and will be able to watch them “grow”

before their very eyes.

Important Dates

Tuesday, March 19th - NO SCHOOL Teacher Institute Day

Thursday, March 21st - BPAC Noche 5:30 PM Prospect Heights Public Library

Monday, March 25th - Friday, March 29th Spring Break

Monday, April 1st - NON-ATTENDANCE DAY

Thursday, April 4th - Early Childhood & 1st-8th Grade Registration OPENS

Monday, April 8th - Solar Eclipse Viewing Activity

Thursday, April 11th - Board of Education Mtg. MacArthur Middle School 7:00 PM

Wednesday & Thursday, April 17th & 18th - Kindergarten Screening

Thursday, April 25th - General PTO Mtg. Eisenhower Library 7:00 PM

Friday, April 26th - Early Childhood Non-Attendance Day

Thursday, May 9th - Board of Education Mtg. 7:00 PM

Friday, May 10th - School Improvement Day -

Students NOT in attendance

Friday, May 17th - Field Day - Young Athletes Day

Wednesday, May 22nd - Last Day of Early Childhood Classes - Early Childhood Picnic

Wednesday, May 22nd - Kona Ice Social at Betsy Ross Playground

Monday, May 27th - Memorial Day - No School

Tuesday, May 28th - Last Day of School Kdg. - 8th Grade

D23 Home-School Connections

On April 8, a total eclipse will be visible in the Chicagoland area. We are planning on capitalizing on this educational opportunity, within safe guidelines.  We are grateful for the support of the D23PTO who provided the necessary funding to purchase the safety glasses required for viewing the eclipse.

The following is the timeline for the total solar eclipse in the Chicagoland area:

12:51 pm Eclipse Begins

2:08 pm Max Point of the Total Eclipse

3:22 pm Eclipse Ends

Because it can be damaging to our eyes to stare directly into the sun during a total eclipse, we wanted to reach out to you to let you know our plan for that day to ensure the safety of our students and staff:

• No recess or Physical Education during the timeframe of the total eclipse (unless the weather and cloud coverage permit)
• We have developed a schedule that allows teachers to take their classes outside to experience the total eclipse.
• We will supply each student with the proper protective eyewear should their class decide to go outside during the total eclipse timeframe.
• Students MUST wear the protective eyewear in order to go outside during the total eclipse timeframe.
• You will have an opportunity to opt your child out of that experience. Should you decide to opt your child out of that experience, they will be provided with an alternate activity.
• We will ask all students to wear their protective glasses during dismissal and while riding the school bus home.

Opt-Out

Please email your child’s homeroom (elementary) or advisory (MacArthur) teacher should you want your child to not participate in this experience. You may also choose to arrange an early pick-up or keep your child home if you are uncomfortable with them traveling home wearing the protective glasses. 

Your Help

We will speak to the students about how to responsibly experience the total eclipse and about the necessary safety precautions when going outside during a total eclipse. Talking with your child about the responsibilities of observing a solar eclipse and reinforcing wearing the protective glasses during dismissal would be helpful to further ensure the safety of our students.

The following are some resources should you want to learn more about the Total Solar Eclipse | 2024:

National Science Teaching Association

Parent Handout

Please feel free to reach out to your school office with any questions.

OMG...it's EDP

The 2024-25 EDP Registration will be conducted separately from the D23 School Registration. Included is a link to express interest in EDP for the 2024-2025 school year. If you are interested in using the Extended Day Program next year, please click on and complete this 2024-25 Extended Day Program Interest Form link. Additional information will be shared with interested families later this Spring!

Updates to 2023-24 Calendar

At the November Board of Education Meeting, the following necessary changes to the current 2023-24 School Year calendar were made:

Tuesday, March 19 will now be a Day of Non-attendance for Teacher Institute Day.

Tuesday, April 2 will now be a day of attendance.

CLICK HERE to view the revised "At-A-Glance" Calendar

Information from our Partners

Stay Connected with us!

Eisenhower Office: (847) 870-3875

Eisenhower Attendance: (847) 870-3876



Dr. Lambatos: (847) 870-5040

Eisenhower Principal: Dr. Luke Lambatos

Eisenhower Nurse: Mrs. Lissa Carlson

Eisenhower Administrative Assistant:

Mrs. Faby Mayen

Eisenhower Building Assistants:

Mrs. Jennifer Luke and Mrs. Elizabeth Guza