Spring Direct Appeal 2022
Dear Oakton Friends and Family,

PTA President
I want to use this opportunity to share with you some of the impactful initiatives we’ve been able to execute this school year at Oakton Elementary. With your support in terms of volunteer hours, participation in community celebrations and financial giving we are able to enrich the experience of our youth and bridge the home and school experience. The Covid-19 pandemic has created many limitations in how we gather, how we celebrate and how we fundraise. We are reaching out to you in this Spring Direct Appeal to ensure that we have the funds to continue the projects we realized this year and ones we wish to grow next year. Here are some of our successes this year:
- Provide arts & crafts and community meeting at Bike the Ridge in September
- Operate our free Chess Club all year long outdoors and indoors
- Upgrade our Fall Festival to new levels as an outdoor community party
- Invest $6,000 in our Teacher’s Classrooms via our Teacher Fund
- Invest an additional $9500 in Library Books, Library Furniture, School Garden, Musical Instruments for Band, Basketball Hoops and updates to the Teacher’s Lounge
- Honor our Teachers/Admin/Staff for Teacher Appreciation Week with food and massages
- Enrich our youth with free books from Story Store
- Celebrate our 5th grade graduates and grade levels with end of year activities
- and MORE!
Fundraising has been a challenge this year and we have about $10,000 to go towards our goals. I’m asking you all to consider how much positive impact we can make as a community and to give generously if you can. No contribution is too small! I appreciate each and every one of you! You are what makes our school community so special and deserving of all the things! Let’s go, Oakton Cougars!!
Four Winds,
Yoli
Oakton PTA President 2020-2022
Apelación Directa de Primavera de la PTA de 2022
Estimados amigos y familiares de Oakton,
Quiero aprovechar esta oportunidad para compartir con ustedes algunas de las iniciativas impactantes que hemos podido ejecutar este año escolar en Oakton Elementary. Con su apoyo en términos de horas de voluntariado, participación en las celebraciones de la comunidad y donaciones financieras somos capaces de enriquecer la experiencia de nuestros jóvenes y tender un puente entre la experiencia del hogar y la escuela. La pandemia de Covid-19 ha creado muchas limitaciones en la forma en que nos reunimos, cómo celebramos y cómo recaudamos fondos. Nos dirigimos a ustedes en este Llamamiento Directo de Primavera para asegurarnos de que tenemos los fondos necesarios para continuar con los proyectos que hemos realizado este año y con los que deseamos aumentar el próximo. Estos son algunos de nuestros éxitos de este año:
Ofrecer artes y oficios y una reunión comunitaria en Bike the Ridge en septiembre
Operar nuestro Club de Ajedrez gratuito durante todo el año al aire libre y en el interior
Mejorar nuestro Festival de Otoño a nuevos niveles como una fiesta comunitaria al aire libre
Invertir $6,000 en las aulas de nuestros maestros a través de nuestro Fondo para Maestros
Invertir $9500 adicionales en libros de la biblioteca, muebles de la biblioteca, jardín de la escuela, instrumentos musicales para la banda, aros de baloncesto y actualizaciones de la sala de profesores
Honrar a nuestros Maestros/Administración/Personal para la Semana de Apreciación de Maestros con comida y masajes
Enriquecer a nuestros jóvenes con libros gratuitos de Story Store
Celebrar a nuestros graduados de 5to grado y niveles de grado con actividades de fin de año
y mucho más.
La recaudación de fondos ha sido un reto este año y tenemos alrededor de $10,000 para alcanzar nuestras metas. Les pido a todos que consideren el impacto positivo que podemos hacer como comunidad y que den generosamente si pueden. ¡Ninguna contribución es demasiado pequeña! ¡Aprecio a todos y cada uno de ustedes! ¡Ustedes son lo que hace a nuestra comunidad escolar tan especial y merecedora de todas las cosas! ¡¡Vamos, Pumas de Oakton!!
Cuatro Vientos,
Yoli
Presidenta de la PTA de Oakton 2020-2022
Other Ways to Help Oakton
Amazon Smile
Oakton PTA has partnered with AmazonSmile to make supporting our PTA as easy as clicking Buy Now! The first time you visit AmazonSmile you will be asked to select a charity of your choice. Select Oakton PTA as your charity of choice and the Amazon Foundation will donate 0.5% of every dollar you spend on smile.amazon.com to support our school. Smile easily links to prime memberships too. This customized link will take you right to Oakton’s sign-up page: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/36-3612145
Box Tops
This is one easy way to raise money for Story Store.

Look for and clip box tops from products with the Box Tops for Education logo. Turn them in to your child’s teacher or drop them in the collection box in the office. We earn $0.10 for every box top. If you shop online, you can sign up at www.boxtops4education.com. Click on “Marketplace” to see which retailers will donate a percentage of sales to Oakton.
Clothes 4 Charity Drop Box
Just by donating your old clothes into the blue drop box, located in the school’s parking lot, you help fundraising money for Oakton School.

Just place your items in the blue drop box, located in the school’s parking lot (and call 773-394-8828 for a tax receipt). Clothes 4 Charity collects all these items which are then sold in bulk to thrift stores. Oakton will receive a portion of the amount donated.
Accepted items:
- Clothing (men, women, and children)
- Hats, belts, purses
- Shoes
- Non-breakable small household items that will fit into a kitchen size trash bag (13 gallon).
For more information of what items Clothes 4 Charity accepts, please click here.
Food 4 Less Share program
Food 4 Less is a local retailer that offers such program, by which a portion of your total bill is donated back to our school. It’s easy to sign up, just ask for details in store.