School districts and nonprofit organizations across the county have been dealing with huge budget cuts, but we’ve found a way to supplement our finances to get the equipment we need.
Irving IMC is participating in the FundingFactory® Recycling Program! This fundraiser is FREE and simple because there’s nothing to sell, no paperwork to fill out and no deadline. The program runs year-round, accumulating constant income for our efforts. But we won’t get very far without your support. Please donate your empty printer cartridges, cell phones, small electronics, and laptops to our IMC and we’ll take it from there! We will recycle the cartridges, cell phones, small electronics, and laptops through FundingFactory to earn new equipment for our school.
Last year alone, more than 300 million cartridges were thrown away, while 30,000,000 cell phones were tossed or replaced. We’re alleviating the volume of waste that goes into landfills, while collecting equipment we need to keep our school running smoothly. Your help is vital to our fundraising success. Cartridges, cell phones, small electronics, and laptops can be dropped off at Irving Elementary School.
FundingFactory also sponsors a businesses support program, where your employer can help out our school without spending a cent. FREE prepaid shipping labels can be sent, free of charge, directly to any business, organization or other facility within the continental United States. Business supporters simply need to load boxes, apply a FREE prepaid shipping label and leave them for the next UPS pickup. If you work for a company that may be interested in supporting us, please call FundingFactory toll-free at 1.888.883.8237. Give the customer service representative our school identification number, 304622, and they’ll set you up to support our account.
If you have any questions about this great opportunity, please feel free to e-mail me at hausknechtj@wawm.k12.wi.us. Thank you for your support!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Hausknecht
School Library Media Specialist
Technology Integrator
P.S. You probably noticed the Recycling Rumble box in the right hand column. Recycling Rumble matches participants against one another for a friendly one-on-one recycling competition. The winner in each pairing will earn a 25% bonus on all items they shipped to FundingFactory February 13-April 30, and the organization that recycles the most overall nationwide will also receive the latest Apple iPad.
Please turn in all of your library books!
You can also shop during our Irving Art Show and Book Fair Open House on Thursday, May 9th from 5:30 - 7:00. We'll have student art work on display throughout the school, root beer floats in the cafeteria, and the book fair in the library.
We can do it! The Burpee Home Gardens food truck is coming our way this Spring … and we’re ready to give it a big Irving School welcome. But we’ve all got to vote! If we win, the truck will deliver 1,300 lbs. of fresh produce, plus 50 plants for our school and 450 for our community. The Burpee Home Gardens representatives will also be on hand to share their knowledge so we can grow the plants successfully. Best of all, there’s no cost to our community! Spread the word to your friends, family and neighbors – share the link and get their votes, because every vote counts!
To help bring the tour to Irving School, go to www.facebook.com/BurpeeGardens and vote for us! The voting page will stay open until February 15th, so vote early and vote often!
Irving IMC has circulated more than 11,000 books since we opened in September. That's about 915 books per week. A grand total more than 3,000 books higher than last year! Way to go, Irving Readers!
We were all very excited to have State Superintendent Tony Evers visit Irving School today. Every student in the school signed a welcome sign, which Mr. Evers took with him to hang in his offices at the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. Our beautiful library was filled to the brim with WAWM district administrators, state and local media, and others. Superintendent Evers announced his ideas regarding "Fair Funding for our Future: A plan for school finance in Wisconsin."
The Library Helpers are working on creating short videos to illustrate each expectation. We will link to these videos using QR codes on the expectations bulletin board. We are also creating videos for other areas of the IMC, including such things as technology tutorials and the proper way to use library shelf-sticks.
