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At the March 10 2009 meeting, the LSC voted in favor of instituting a school fee for Waters beginning in the 2009/10 school year.

Fee: $35 per student / $50 max per family
Free/Red. Lunch Families: $20 per student / $30 max per family

In lieu of paying the fee, families can do volunteer time in the school or sign the waiver of exemption. More information will follow. This fee will be collected at the beginning of each school year.

School tours are finished for this 2008-09 school year. They will start up again in late September-early October next 2009-2010 school year. Please come back for updates on this in mid-September

Our Tot Program has ended for teh school year. Please come back next September for our new schedule.

Letters for all of our PreK for All spots have gone out for the 2009-2010 school year. The 9 spots for Tuition-Based PreK have been filled (if you have not heard from Waters about a Tuition-Based spot, you are still on the waitlist). Please note that people do move, make different decisions over the summer, and it is still possible you may get a call later this summer.

From Our Awesome LSC:
Artificial Turf Update:
Test Results are back, there is NO LEAD in either the artificial turf blades or the crumb rubber. We can all be glad about that!

Congratulations to everyone who donated to, helped with and attended the Silent Auction Friday, May 15th.
The entire event raised $27,000. Please look forward to seeing more about our new Full-Time Music Studio Program and the continuation of our fabulous Ecology Program (all due to money raised).

Congratulations to our student body for raising $6000 selling raffle tickets!
Student Raffle Winners are:
     1st place, winner of Wii system:
6th grader Lorenzo Huertas with 546 tickets
      2nd place, winner of Nintendo DS:
PreK Josue Siguenza with 427 tickets
      Classroom, winner of pizza party:
Ms. Katsoulos' Kindergarten Room 202, with 779 tickets.

We sincerely thank a few above and beyond donors who graciously donated to our cause:
Wayne and Melissa Busch - $1000
Pilates Chicago
   (Jennifer and Matthew Zumann) - $500

Schools were ranked by 2007 Math and Reading scores and split into "Elementary Schools" including 3rd-5th grades, and "Middle Schools" including 6th-8th grades. Waters ranked #46 out of about 450 in the city for elementary neighborhood schools!

All funds from our upcoming Silent Auction this year are going towards a Full-Time Music Program, and the continuance of our Ecology Program. We will need to raise this money EVERY YEAR to continue these programs.

At any time, if you would like to help our cause and help to continue a very unique education to our Waters students, please feel free to donate.

Click here to make a donation. We graciously appreciate your support.

We still have a couple of spaces left in our Spanish Immersion Camp this summer. This popular camp is led by our PreK teacher (Nancy Beza) for the last 2 summers and is instructed in spanish. The kids play games as they learn the conversational skill of the language. Older students, 2-3rd grades, also do written projects.

Spaces available are:
-Incoming 2nd and 3rd graders:
some previous spanish required
July 20-31, 9:00-11:30 M-F, $225.00

If you are interested, please contact us.
Download flyer.

Please be respectful of the school grounds where children play and food is grown. There has been evidence that dog owners are not picking up. Please be aware that this is a violation and fines could be issued. Dogs are not allowed on school property. This message will be distributed to the community beyond school families. Signs are ordered and will be installed outside.