Back to School Party

Join the Party!

They’re going back to school, so let’s party! The annual PTC Back to School Party will be held at Denning Park on Sunday, August 28th from 4-6pm. This is a FREE event for Cossitt families to kick off the start to a new school year! There will be bounce houses, food and drinks, community groups with information, a dj, freebies, and lots of fun! Please note, this is not a drop off event, so parents should plan to stay the duration with your children.

Enjoy complimentary hot dogs, pizza, pop, chips, and snow cones provided by our wonderful PTC, Nonno’s Goodlife, Via Bella, and Tate’s Old Fashioned Ice Cream, or bring your own picnic dinner/snacks. Don’t forget to grab a ball or yard game to start a basketball, soccer or kickball game with your classmates on one of the many open fields or basketball courts.

Parking is available in the Denning Park parking lot, on the side streets behind Denning park, as well as at LT South. If parking at LT South, please use extra caution when crossing the street, and only cross at the crosswalk.

We hope to see you all there!

Volunteer to help at the party!

THANK YOU to those who have signed up to donate time or supplies! We still need your help though! Please consider volunteering for the Back to School Party!

If you're going to be at the party anyway, why not volunteer for an hour? Let the kiddos play while you help out. Sign up HERE. 

6th Grade Chalk the Walk

ATTENTION 6TH GRADE PARENTS 

We would love to continue the tradition started last school year in which the sixth graders "Chalk the Walk" with "welcome backs" and inspirational messages to surprise the underclassman on the first day of school! We will be in front of Cossitt on Tuesday, August 23rd from 6:30 - 7:30 PM and we hope that your sixth grader can join us!

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact:

Stephanie Boggess at stephanie@worldfinds.com.

This is just the kick-off to the many special activities that will be planned for our outgoing sixth graders! As the year progresses, more information will be provided about the fun things planned. 

Fall Garden Help Needed

Following up on our successful spring cleanup and planting, we could still really use some help getting rid of those determined weeds and giving our new plants a little TLC!

If your family wants to get a little muddy and pull out some weeds, we could use your help!

We will meet Sunday August 28 at 9 am. If we get enough volunteers, we think that this should take about an hour. We will provide yard waste bags so we only need you to bring some gloves and clothes you don't mind getting dirty!

In addition, we could use some more flagstone to make some additional stepping stones in our newly mulched areas! We know that there are a few families that have some excess but we could use some help transporting them.  If you have the ability to pick up some flagstones from some Cossitt families or if you have extra flagstones to share, please sign up HERE.

Questions? Contact Patrick Lach (patrick.m.lach@gmail.com). 

Cossitt Clothing Sale

The Cossitt Fall Clothing Sale is back on Saturday, September 24th! 

If you're cleaning out your kids' closets for back to school and not sure what to do with the gently used clothes they’ve outgrown consider selling or donating them to Cossitt!! 

Registration to SELL your fall/winter clothes, accessories, sports gear and books in the fall sale is now open! Please visit www.cossittptc.org/clothingsale for more information. 

No time to tag your clothes to sell but want to support the school? DONATE them and 100% of the proceeds will go straight to Cossitt!! Donations can be dropped off on the porch of 88 7th Ave. 

Additional information on the sale, including how to VOLUNTEER coming shortly. 

Questions?

Email Committee Chairs Katie Hardiman (6th and 4th) and Lindsay Martens (2nd and 3rd) at clothingsale@cossittptc.org

Social Fundraisers

Social Fundraisers are back and will be better than ever with your support and ideas! 

For those of you who are new to Cossitt, Social Fundraisers are fun events planned by groups of Cossitt parents for adults or adults & kids. These events provide an opportunity to meet new people and more than ever, are focused on keeping our sense of school and neighborhood community vibrant. 

As we plan for the 2022-2023 school year, we are looking for veteran and new families to GET INVOLVED in the fun!

Sign up to host or co-host an event and share your event ideas in this GOOGLE FORM FOR EVENT IDEAS by Friday, September 2nd.

Our committee will review and get in touch with you to confirm a date and location. We welcome more creative ideas to refresh our events this year and are excited to bring back some fan favorites as well! 

For most social fundraising events, the hosts pay for the cost of the event so all the proceeds from the registration fees go straight to the Cossitt PTC and directly benefit our school and our children.

Reach out to the Social Fundraising Committee at cossittparties@gmail.com for more information.

We are looking forward to the year ahead! 

Molly Lane (2nd and 4th) & Amy Carlstead (4th and 6th)

Bike Safety Rodeo- Save the Date!

WHEN:  Friday, September 9 at 3:15 pm

WHO: ALL 3rd graders who are interested in riding their bikes to school. Any 4th, 5th and 6th grade students who have not yet participated in the Bike Safety Rodeo are also invited.

Register your bike with the La Grange Police Department and perform a series of bicycle safety tests. Children wishing to ride their bikes to school need to participate in the Bike Rodeo only once at Cossitt.

Check out the PTC website for more info: www.cossittptc.org/activities/bike-rodeo or reach out to Committee Chairs: Leslie Dempsey (1st, 3rd and 4th) and Debra Reid (1st and 3rd)

Open Committee Chairs- Only 3 Left!

We have three chair/co-chair positions that remain open. Please consider volunteering! Sign Up HERE.

Descriptions are as follows: 

Girls Running Club (CO-CHAIR NEEDED): Organizes a running club for girls, grades 5-6. A spring commitment (April-May), meeting after school, runs approx. 8 weeks, 1.5 hr. commitment 2x/week. Include approx. 2 hrs. of administrative work to organize SUG (for initial sign up- and again with roster and snack donation), order shirts, gather forms for race, sign up the team and hand out race packet and fill out school forms. Coordinates the group’s participation in a local 5K race at the end of the program. Must be able to run or bike three miles. 1 year commitment preferably parent of 5th-6th grade girl.

Tiger Fun Run (CHAIR & CO-CHAIR NEEDED): Works closely in a collaborative environment with school representatives and PTC board leadership to shape the vision for the Tiger Fun Run. Previously operating as the "Boosterthon", the Tiger Fun run Chair/Co-Chair(s) lead all aspects of the run including income and expense planning, logistics, marketing, and communications. 

Questions? Contact Vanessa Prinz (vanessaprinz@gmail.com) 

Thank you for making Cossitt beautiful!

Green Thumbs Up to our Buildings & Grounds Co-Chair, Leslie Dempsey, for her beautiful work updating the planters outside the office just in time for the first day of school!  

Thank you to Emily Larsen and Erin Helander, incoming and outgoing Garden Club Chairs, for pulling weeds in the Cossitt yard and making Cossitt look beautiful for the first day of school!