CJHS Indian Letter 24917 W. Sioux Drive, Channahon, IL 60410 815/467-4314

Absence hotline: 815/521-3031 www.csd17.org Fax: 815/467-2188

August 21, 2014

Important Dates

Mon., 8/25 Mon., 9/1 No School Labor Day Mon., 9/15 School Improvement Day—Early Dismiss 11am Wed., 9/17 Picture Day Fri., 10/10 Teachers Institute NO SCHOOL Washington DC Trip Sat., 10/11 & Sun., 10/12 Washington DC Trip Mon., 10/13 NO SCHOOL Columbus Day Sat., 10/18 Music Booster Forte 5K Fri., 10/24 End of 1st Qtr. Fri., 10/31 School Improvement Day - Early Dismiss 11am

Welcome back for the 2014-2015 school year!

The staff of Channahon Junior High is happy to welcome you and your students back for the 2014—20145school year. Just a few reminders: The school day begins 7:53am. Students who arrive after 7:53am are marked “Tardy”. Three tardies result in an after-school detention. Dismissal is at 2:31/2:39. Walkers and car-riders are 2nd dismissal. Students succeed when they attend school and are on time. If you know in advance that your child is going to be absent, please contact the school office explaining the absence. If an unexpected absence occurs, parents/guardians are required to contact the school and pro-vide a reason for the absence. Please call the school at 815/467-4314 or the attendance line (815/521-3031) by 9am if your child is going to be absent or late. Please note that your child will be marked “Unexcused” until we hear from you. If you change your phone number, please contact the office. It is im-portant of us to have up–to-date phone numbers file. At the Junior High a good amount of information is sent via e-mail. Please make sure that you provide the office with any changes in your e-mail address.

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Upcoming Tryouts

7th and 8th grade girls’ basketball tryouts will begin the week after Labor Day.

7th grade 8th grade Wed., 9/3—5:30—7pm Wed, 9/3—5:30—7pm Thurs., 9/4—5:30—7pm Thur., 9/4—3—4:30pm Fri., 9/5—5:30—7pm Fri., 9/5—5:30—7pm Please note that you will need an athletic physical on file. Students—please make sure that you stop in the office before 3 pm on Wednesday, 9/3 --for your green participation form.

Sports Results

Channahon Athletic Boosters specialized equipment, Spirit Wear, and vehicle decals. Parent involvement and partici-pation is essential to help en-sure our children have a re-warding and memorable school athletic experience. The next Athletic Boosters meeting will be on Monday, 9/8 at 7pm in the CJHS Library.

The Channahon Athletic Boost-ers is a parent sponsor organi-zation that works with the CSD17 School Board to provide the best athletic experience possible. The boosters provide many of the “extra’s” which add to our children’s athletic experience, such as: Concessions; new uniforms and warm-ups; new technology,

Parents: In the event of inclement weather , we will make every effort to notify you of any game cancellations (e-mail, website, child’s call to you). Decisions to cancel games/meets is usually made around 2pm. Also—with the hot weather fore-casted for the coming week, please make sure that your child packs plenty of water for practices and games.

teams played great games but came up short. The 8th grade team has won their two games, bringing their record to 2-2. The 7th grade team currently has a 3—1 record. Both the soccer and cross country teams begin their season this afternoon. The soccer team will play Minooka at Minooka Junior High.

Cross country will also run against Minooka at Grace Bible Church, which is on Jones Road, between Ridge and County Line Road. Good luck to all of our teams as they enter into a very busy week!.

Our early fall sports are now underway. A Softball began their season on Saturday, 8/9. They currently have a 7—0 record. B Softball has been playing some great softball. IVC tour-naments begin for both teams next week. Baseball began their sea-son on Saturday, 8/16, against Troy. Both

C J H S I N D I A N L E T T E R

Upcoming Events Thursday, 8/21 7BB @ Coal City—4:15pm; 8BBv Coal City—4:15pm; XC v Minooka @ Grace Bible Church (on Jones Road be-tween Ridge and County Line Roads); BSB v. Brooks—4:15pm; Soccer @ Minooka—4:30pm Saturday, 8/23 8BB @ Troy tournament—games at noon and 2pm; ASB @ Troy tournament—games at 10:30am, 3pm and 4:30pm. Monday, 8/25 7BB v Wilmington—4:15pm; 8BB @ Wilmington (North Island Park) - 4:15pm; ASB v JJ Lukancic—4:15pm Tuesday, 8/26 XC @ Troy (Crossroads) - 4pm; 8BB @ Minooka (Minooka Pony Fields on Church Street) - 4:15pm; 7BB v Minooka—4:15pm; Soccer v Richland—4:15pm; BSB v Saratoga—4:15pm Wednesday 8/27 7BB @ Reed-Custer—4:15pm; ASB v Mokena—4:15pm Thursday, 8/28 XC @ Martino Invite—4pm; Soccer v AVM—4:15pm; 8BB v BUG—4:30; 7BB @ BUG—4:15pm; ASB IVC’s TBA

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In the coming weeks, Karen Peters and I will be providing you some helpful hints and tips to

ensure that your children are happy and healthy! Look for the Nurse Shots section in the

Thursday Notes. Our first topic will be bus safety. Have a super-great year!

Julie Wright, School Nurse

Join our Facebook page (Channahon Updates) for the latest updates and to see how you can be involved! We have decided this is the year of PTO-Year of Awesome! We'd love to share it with you. Here you will find updates on how you can support all our fund raising and fun-raising antics! PTO Open House Thursday, 9-11 from 7-8pm Channahon JR. High Babysitting provided Market Day Pick Up Wednesday, 9-24 from 5:30-6:30pm Galloway School Upcoming! Haunted Trails Family Fun Night (10-10) and Savers Recycling Project (After the Channahon Fall Garage Sale) More info coming soon! Box Tops and Campbells Collections All year! We earned over $8400 last year in Box Tops alone. You guys truly are awesome exceeding our goal by $2000! What will this year hold?

Welcome back to the CJH library. School may have started but summer doesn’t end until September 20th. Therefore, it is not too late to read a book for the “What did you read this summer?” book contest. More infor-mation is available in the library and on the library bulletin board. There are over 6000 books in the CJH li-brary available for check out.

There will be an introductory

speech meeting after school

on Tuesday, August 26, in

Room 200 after school from

2:45-3:15. If you are interested

in speech, you really need to

attend this meeting to pick

partners and groups!

OUR DRUG-FREE PLEDGE

The faculty and staff at CJHS are committed to promoting the safety and well-being of our students through our ongoing anti-drug efforts. We believe that we are blessed with some great students and an outstanding community, however, the impact of drug abuse can be felt in all areas. Students are aware that the pos-session, distribution, or use of drugs at school or any school related function is absolutely prohibited. The school reserves the right to search school property and equipment owned or controlled by the school (such as lockers, desks and parking lots). Although we believe that our students make good choices in regards to drug usage, we also believe in being diligent in the deterrence of any and all drug abuse. We also intend to allow local law enforcement to conduct drug-dog searches to help ensure a safe and drug-free environ-ment at least once every school year.

The PE department is looking for volunteers to help supervise the PE students on the track.

Supervision is needed in the morning (8:00-11:00) on the following days: September 25, October 9, 23, November 6, and December 18.

Please contact Mrs. Davis at sdavis@csd17.org if you are interested! Thank you!

Student Council will have a “Back to School Bash” on Friday, September 12th, from

2:45—4:30pm. The theme this year is #Flashback Friday. We will celebrate being

back to school by having a different theme each day:

Monday, 9/8—PJ Day

Tuesday, 9/9—Twin Day

Wednesday, 9/10—Crazy Hair Day

Thursday, 9/11—Sports Day

Friday, 9/12—Decade Day (dress up in your favorite clothing from your favorite dec-

ade.

The back to school bash is an awesome event that we use to start off the year right.

Admission will be $1 and there will be music, pop, candy, pizza, four square, comput-

er games, dancing, photos with friends, and FUN!!!!!

Winter Spring

Summer Fall

Cub SCouting iS year-round exCitement.

Come join the fun!