D114 Weekly Family Updates 12/1/25

         

We hope everyone had a wonderful break full of food, fun, and family! 

SANTA'S BREAKFAST!!!!

THIS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 AT STANTON!!!!

• Santa's Breakfast & Holiday Market
• Date: Saturday, December 6th
• Time: 8:00 am to 12:00 pm (food will be served till 11:30 am)
• Place: Stanton School
• Breakfast: $7 per adult, $3 per child, D114 students eat free with coupon on flyer
• Printed Photos: $3 each, D114 students get one free printed photo with coupon on flyer
• Flyers will be sent home this week
• Please RSVP here

Referral GPS--Reminder! 

We are committed to creating a culture of well-being of students, staff,

parents, and community. In an effort to continuously support this

commitment, the district has entered an agreement with ReferralGPS.

ReferralGPS is a web-based service focused on assisting our students,

staff, and community in finding local mental-health and substance use

related treatment. The service compliments the districts existing

systems of support as a tool for student service teams and families to

connect with treatment. Along with a searchable database of treatment

options, ReferralGPS provides Care Navigation to assist families in

triage, appointment setting, and follow up care.

School families may access ReferralGPS in two ways:

1) Contact Student Services (social workers, psychologists,

counselors) to seek out treatment options.

2) Visit this link at https://referralgps.com/find-help/D114 to

search for treatment resources or connect with a Care

Navigator anonymously.

ReferralGPS takes into account all types of private and public insurance

including PPO, HMO, Medicaid, Medicare, and families who are

uninsured or underinsured. The platform also filters by age, gender, zip

code, and special requests.

ReferralGPS is available for use by district students, staff, and families at

no cost. All information entered on the ReferralGPS tool is completely

confidential and securely stored.

If you are interested in seeking counseling-related services at this time,

please consider visiting https://referralgps.com/find-help/D114 or

reaching out to the Student Services team.

Be a Super Fan!
We love when families come to support events! Please remember, though, that we expect anyone at a D114 event (or at another school where we are competing) to represent our District with pride. Please do NOT:

*Talk unkindly to refs or other spectators. 

*Yell at your child. 

We are all cheering for D114, so please join us to cheer and proudly represent our district. 

Absences
Just a reminder that--if a student is absent from school for ANY reason--they are NOT permitted to attend any after school events. If they can't come to school, they should not attend after school events. 

ATTENDANCE MATTERS! 

We have updated our procedures when students are frequently absent. It's our goal to support students and families in getting to school EACH DAY!

Why does this matter?

Here's what our support will look like...

Happy December, District 114!

We hope everyone had a terrific Thanksgiving break, and you're all staying warm and safe in the snow!

Get Excited! Here's what we have happening this week and next:

• Stanton Book Fair
• Monday, December 1st - Saturday, December 6th
• Shifts are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday: 9:00 am to 12:30 pm, and 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm
• We'll also need volunteers during Santa's Breakfast on Saturday: 8:00 am to 10:00 am, and 10:00 am to 12:00 pm.
• Sign up for a shift here!
• Santa's Breakfast & Holiday Market
• Date: Saturday, December 6th
• Time: 8:00 am to 12:00 pm (food will be served till 11:30 am)
• Place: Stanton School
• Breakfast: $7 per adult, $3 per child, D114 students eat free with coupon on flyer
• Printed Photos: $3 each, D114 students get one free printed photo with coupon on flyer
• Flyers will be sent home this week
• Please RSVP here
• December PTA Meeting
• Date: Monday, December 8th
• Time: 6:00 pm to ~7:00 pm
• Place: Lotus Library or Google Meet
• We'll be discussing more about Day of Service and a new upcoming family event: Family Bingo Night!
• We hope to see you there!

Help us reach our goal of 90+ members this school year! We currently have 79 members, including 39 teachers and staff, and 40 parents/guardians.

Here's what you need to know:

• Dues are $10 for the whole year! That's less than a dollar a month!
• You'll receive a District 114 PTA Calendar featuring student artwork
• Join here today!
• Join the PTA and help enrich your child's educational experience this year!

Make sure to join our Facebook Group Page! 

YOUR PTA Board

Link to the D114 25-26 Calendar

TTHIS WEEK

Welcome back! 

Looking Ahead...

December 8--PTA Meeting

December 16--December Board of Education Meeting

December 19--Early Release and WINTER BREAK BEGINS!!!!

Watch here for community opportunities for our students and families! 

Village of Fox Lake FUN Offerings

Please check out the link to our online Parks and Recreation Fall/Winter Book, where students and parents can see all the activities, September -March.   

https://publuu.com/flip-book/789903/2134811

If you or your student are in a crisis, please call the following numbers as applicable:

Local Healthcare Assistance (when you're not sure where to turn)

For a Life Threatening EMERGENCY CALL 9-1-1

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline call or text 9-8-8 or chat 988.lifeline.org provides 24/7, free and confidential support 

CRISIS TEXT LINE:  text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the United States anytime. A live trained Crisis Counselor receives the text and responds.

The Trevor Project 1-866-488-7386 provides crisis support services to LGBTQ youth.

Non-Emergency Community Help Line 2-1-1

               

D114 is a special place to be! Thank you for your partnership with us! We are blessed to get to work with our students! 

D114 Weekly Family Updates 11/24/25

        

Dear D114 Families, 

It's the time of year where we want to say a special THANK YOU for all your support and for trusting us with your most important people...our students. We are blessed with amazing students, staff, and families. Wishing you all the very best Thanksgiving and a wonderful start to the holiday season-

Heather Friziellie, your Superintendent of Schools 

We are SO excited to meet with you to celebrate student learning and growth at our upcoming Family Conferences!!! 

Here's some key information:

If you haven't yet scheduled a conference, please do so! If you need help, contact the school office. 

Monday, November 24 is an EARLY RELEASE day so we have a little time before starting conferences. 

Tuesday, November 25 is a non-attendance day for students as we do conferences all morning. 

We'll all then get to enjoy break for Thanksgiving from Wednesday-Sunday! 

Stanton is also doing some new things for conferences...see below for Stanton-specific updates:

Referral GPS--Reminder! 

We are committed to creating a culture of well-being of students, staff,

parents, and community. In an effort to continuously support this

commitment, the district has entered an agreement with ReferralGPS.

ReferralGPS is a web-based service focused on assisting our students,

staff, and community in finding local mental-health and substance use

related treatment. The service compliments the districts existing

systems of support as a tool for student service teams and families to

connect with treatment. Along with a searchable database of treatment

options, ReferralGPS provides Care Navigation to assist families in

triage, appointment setting, and follow up care.

School families may access ReferralGPS in two ways:

1) Contact Student Services (social workers, psychologists,

counselors) to seek out treatment options.

2) Visit this link at https://referralgps.com/find-help/D114 to

search for treatment resources or connect with a Care

Navigator anonymously.

ReferralGPS takes into account all types of private and public insurance

including PPO, HMO, Medicaid, Medicare, and families who are

uninsured or underinsured. The platform also filters by age, gender, zip

code, and special requests.

ReferralGPS is available for use by district students, staff, and families at

no cost. All information entered on the ReferralGPS tool is completely

confidential and securely stored.

If you are interested in seeking counseling-related services at this time,

please consider visiting https://referralgps.com/find-help/D114 or

reaching out to the Student Services team.

Be a Super Fan!
We love when families come to support events! Please remember, though, that we expect anyone at a D114 event (or at another school where we are competing) to represent our District with pride. Please do NOT:

*Talk unkindly to refs or other spectators. 

*Yell at your child. 

We are all cheering for D114, so please join us to cheer and proudly represent our district. 

Absences
Just a reminder that--if a student is absent from school for ANY reason--they are NOT permitted to attend any after school events. If they can't come to school, they should not attend after school events. 

ATTENDANCE MATTERS! 

We have updated our procedures when students are frequently absent. It's our goal to support students and families in getting to school EACH DAY!

Why does this matter?

Here's what our support will look like...

Good morning, District 114!

We hope everyone had a lovely weekend!

Conferences start today, so the PTA will be providing dinner for all our amazing teachers and staff tonight. If you signed up to donate drinks or a dessert, please make sure to have them dropped off at the Lotus or Stanton office by 4:30 pm today. Thank you so much for your generosity!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

• Stanton Book Fair
• Monday, December 1st - Saturday, December 6th
• Shifts are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday: 9:00 am to 12:30 pm, and 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm
• We'll also need volunteers during Santa's Breakfast on Saturday: 8:00 am to 10:00 am, and 10:00 am to 12:00 pm.
• Sign up for a shift here!
• Santa's Breakfast & Holiday Market
• Date: Saturday, December 6th
• Time: 8:00 am to 12:00 pm (food will be served till 11:30 am)
• Place: Stanton School
• Breakfast: $7 per adult, $3 per child, D114 students eat free with coupon on flyer
• Printed Photos: $3 each, D114 students get one free printed photo with coupon on flyer
• Flyers will be sent home on Monday after Thanksgiving Break
• Please RSVP here
• December PTA Meeting
• Date: Monday, December 8th
• Time: 6:00 pm to ~7:00 pm
• Place: Lotus Library or Google Meet
• We'll be discussing more about Day of Service and a new upcoming family event: Family Bingo Night!
• We hope to see you there!

Help us reach our goal of 90+ members this school year! We currently have 79 members, including 39 teachers and staff, and 40 parents/guardians.

Here's what you need to know:

• Dues are $10 for the whole year! That's less than a dollar a month!
• You'll receive a District 114 PTA Calendar featuring student artwork
• Join here today!
• Join the PTA and help enrich your child's educational experience this year!

Make sure to join our Facebook Group Page! 

Have a very happy and safe Thanksgiving!! We're so thankful for our D114 family!

YOUR PTA Board

Link to the D114 25-26 Calendar

THIS WEEK

November 24--Early Release, Parent/Teacher Conferences (PM)

November 25--Parent/Teacher Conferences (AM)

November 26-28--District Closed for Thanksgiving Break

Looking Ahead...

Enjoy the break, and we'll see everyone in December! 

Watch here for community opportunities for our students and families! 

Village of Fox Lake FUN Offerings

Please check out the link to our online Parks and Recreation Fall/Winter Book, where students and parents can see all the activities, September -March.   

https://publuu.com/flip-book/789903/2134811

If you or your student are in a crisis, please call the following numbers as applicable:

Local Healthcare Assistance (when you're not sure where to turn)

For a Life Threatening EMERGENCY CALL 9-1-1

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline call or text 9-8-8 or chat 988.lifeline.org provides 24/7, free and confidential support 

CRISIS TEXT LINE:  text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the United States anytime. A live trained Crisis Counselor receives the text and responds.

The Trevor Project 1-866-488-7386 provides crisis support services to LGBTQ youth.

Non-Emergency Community Help Line 2-1-1

               

D114 is a special place to be! Thank you for your partnership with us!

D114 Weekly Family Updates 11/17/25

       

We are SO excited to meet with you to celebrate student learning and growth at our upcoming Family Conferences!!! 

Here's some key information:

If you haven't yet scheduled a conference, please do so! If you need help, contact the school office. 

Monday, November 24 is an EARLY RELEASE day so we have a little time before starting conferences. 

Tuesday, November 25 is a non-attendance day for students as we do conferences all morning. 

We'll all then get to enjoy break for Thanksgiving from Wednesday-Sunday! 

Stanton is also doing some new things for conferences...see below for Stanton-specific updates:

Nurse Updates

Ms Amy McKendry will no longer be in the Health Office at Stanton. We are looking for a replacement, but--for now--we have great subs scheduled and the office will always be covered. 

Stanton Student Council Food Drive

• The Stanton School Food Drive will run until November 21. We will be collecting non-perishable items that will then be donated to the Grant Township Food Pantry.  

• There will be four boxes in the cafeteria each morning. Students will put their donation in their GRADE LEVEL box. Student Council members or Renee will be out there to give them raffle tickets, one per item. It would be very helpful if they know how many items they have, but we can count with them. If it happens that no one is out there, they can just come see me Renee at another time that works!

• They should put their first and last name on their ticket and put them in the container that will be on the stage. This does not have to be done right when they get them. If they don’t fill them out and put them in there, though, they will not be eligible for the raffles.

• The Community Building class with the most items brought in will receive popcorn and candy brought to their class during flex the week before winter break. 

• PIE in the EYE raffle: ALL tickets for ALL grades will then be dumped into one box for the PIE in the EYE event the day before Winter Break! We will need staff volunteers for this event! 500 donations gets Mr. Cardamone on stage to be pied, and then we add one staff member for each additional 100 items. Sign up sheet will be in the lounge for any volunteers willing to participate.

• Student Council members will count and box up the items as the baskets fill up. We will make announcements along the way to let everyone know who’s in the lead!

• The baskets will not often be unsupervised, but we will let them know that plenty of cameras face that area in the cafeteria, so there should be no moving of items from one cart to another!

Referral GPS--Reminder! 

We are committed to creating a culture of well-being of students, staff,

parents, and community. In an effort to continuously support this

commitment, the district has entered an agreement with ReferralGPS.

ReferralGPS is a web-based service focused on assisting our students,

staff, and community in finding local mental-health and substance use

related treatment. The service compliments the districts existing

systems of support as a tool for student service teams and families to

connect with treatment. Along with a searchable database of treatment

options, ReferralGPS provides Care Navigation to assist families in

triage, appointment setting, and follow up care.

School families may access ReferralGPS in two ways:

1) Contact Student Services (social workers, psychologists,

counselors) to seek out treatment options.

2) Visit this link at https://referralgps.com/find-help/D114 to

search for treatment resources or connect with a Care

Navigator anonymously.

ReferralGPS takes into account all types of private and public insurance

including PPO, HMO, Medicaid, Medicare, and families who are

uninsured or underinsured. The platform also filters by age, gender, zip

code, and special requests.

ReferralGPS is available for use by district students, staff, and families at

no cost. All information entered on the ReferralGPS tool is completely

confidential and securely stored.

If you are interested in seeking counseling-related services at this time,

please consider visiting https://referralgps.com/find-help/D114 or

reaching out to the Student Services team.

Be a Super Fan!
We love when families come to support events! Please remember, though, that we expect anyone at a D114 event (or at another school where we are competing) to represent our District with pride. Please do NOT:

*Talk unkindly to refs or other spectators. 

*Yell at your child. 

We are all cheering for D114, so please join us to cheer and proudly represent our district. 

Absences
Just a reminder that--if a student is absent from school for ANY reason--they are NOT permitted to attend any after school events. If they can't come to school, they should not attend after school events. 

ATTENDANCE MATTERS! 

We have updated our procedures when students are frequently absent. It's our goal to support students and families in getting to school EACH DAY!

Why does this matter?

Here's what our support will look like...

Good morning, District 114!

We had a fantastic meeting last week! Thank you to all who were able to attend. Check out the meeting highlights here!

Here's what else is coming up this month:

Parent-Teacher Conference Dinners
• Monday, November 24th
• El Puerto's will be catering for us again this year!
• We're looking for dessert and drink donations and a couple of volunteers to help set up and clean up. Sign up here!
• Donations should be dropped off at either school office by 4:30 pm on November 24th.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

• Stanton Book Fair
• Monday, December 1st - Saturday, December 6th
• Sign-up info forthcoming
• Santa's Breakfast & Holiday Market
• Saturday, December 6th, 8:00 am to 12:00 pm
• More info forthcoming!
• Interested in being a vendor at the Holiday Market? Email us at PTA@foxlake114.org 

Help us reach our goal of 90+ members this school year! We currently have 79 members, including 39 teachers and staff, and 40 parents/guardians.

Here's what you need to know:

• Dues are $10 for the whole year! That's less than a dollar a month!
• You'll receive a District 114 PTA Calendar featuring student artwork (calendars were sent home last week  check those backpacks!)
• Join here today!
• Join the PTA and help enrich your child's educational experience this year!

Make sure to join our Facebook Group Page! 

Have a great week!

YOUR PTA Board

Link to the D114 25-26 Calendar

THIS WEEK

November 18--Board of Education Meeting at Lotus or via Google Meet at 7PM

November 19--Thanksgiving Potluck (both schools)

Looking Ahead...

November 24--Early Release, Parent/Teacher Conferences (PM)

November 25--Parent/Teacher Conferences (AM)

November 26-28--District Closed for Thanksgiving Break

Watch here for community opportunities for our students and families! 

Village of Fox Lake FUN Offerings

Please check out the link to our online Parks and Recreation Fall/Winter Book, where students and parents can see all the activities, September -March.   

https://publuu.com/flip-book/789903/2134811

If you or your student are in a crisis, please call the following numbers as applicable:

Local Healthcare Assistance (when you're not sure where to turn)

For a Life Threatening EMERGENCY CALL 9-1-1

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline call or text 9-8-8 or chat 988.lifeline.org provides 24/7, free and confidential support 

CRISIS TEXT LINE:  text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the United States anytime. A live trained Crisis Counselor receives the text and responds.

The Trevor Project 1-866-488-7386 provides crisis support services to LGBTQ youth.

Non-Emergency Community Help Line 2-1-1

               

D114 is a special place to be! Thank you for your partnership with us!