Fun Run 2025 

Art To Remember

This program allows you to purchase keepsake products such as coffee mugs, magnets, and other items made with reproductions of your child’s artwork.  These make great gifts and a percentage of every purchase goes right back to our school.  You can use art from e-learning, choose a piece from earlier in the year, or create something new. 
 

Box Tops

Not just cereal anymore!  Box Tops is an easy fundraiser that everyone can help with by downloading the box tops app and scanning products and receipts already purchase

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Eat and Earn
The Whittier PTO partners with local restaurants in an effort to connect our community.  It works when you dine in or order take out from a local restaurant and mention Whittier PTO on the designated night.  Then that restaurant donates a percentage of those sales to Whittier PTO.

Whittier at the Movies
Hosting a different movie screening each quarter with snacks and drinks after school on Fridays throughout the school year. 

Kindergarten/New Family Meet and Greet August 17th. New and Kindergarten families gather to mingle and meet the PTO on the Whittier playground before school starts.  

Welcome Back! Chicago Dogs Game on August 24th.  Back to school is an exciting time, and we want to welcome our Wildcats back with a fun Chicago Dogs Baseball Game! 

Back to School Bash on September 5th welcomes new and returning families in the early fall. The PTO provides the main course and entertainment. Volunteers will be needed for set up, serving, and clean up.

Adult Ed Workshop Series launches on October 9th. The community meetings will start with a brief bit of PTO news and business followed by a facilitated discussion about a salient topic in our school community. Full lineup of dates and topics to be announced soon. As with all of our community, food, refreshments, and childcare will be provided.

Wildcat Fun Run is happening on October 1st this year. This is our single biggest fundraiser of the year—during the school day, we have a walk/run-a-thon, kid style! We need volunteers to help with setting up, breaking down, distributing snacks, and making sure the event runs smoothly.

Fall Book Fair (October) happens during the week of Family-Teacher Conferences.  We’ll need many, many volunteers to set up, work registers, and clean up.

The fall session of Whittier Is Enriched! (WISE) kicked off on September 9.  This is a popular after-school enrichment program; with offerings like Yoga, Chess, Multisport Madness, and Drawing, we have something for everyone! Fall registration materials are distributed soon after the first day of school; classes begin about two weeks later and run through winter break.  

Fall Teacher Dinner on October 23rd is a dinner held for teachers during the week of Family Teacher Conferences. The PTO provides the main dish, and families donate side dishes, drinks, and dessert.

Pumpkin Festival (October TBD) is an annual school sponsored event that the PTO contributes to financially.  This It is a pumpkin decorating/carving contest that encourages the student’s creativity and imagination.

Halloween Parade (Halloween) is a fun event just after the lunch hour on Halloween, where the children march around the block wearing their costumes.

Family Bowling Night is slated for December 6th. Details TBD.

Spring Plant Sale launches in mid-February.

Our main Adult Fundraiser Event will take place in late April. Sign up to help with the planning!

Whittier School Supply Kits (May) simplify school supply shopping.  Pre-order school supplies and your child's school supplies will be waiting in her classroom on the first day of school.  Orders taken from May until the last day of school.

Plant Sale pickup day will be on May 9th in time for Mother's Day.

End of Year Fun Fair (May) closes another great year of learning, sharing, and fun!  The PTO provides the main dish and entertainment.  Volunteers are needed to set up, clean up, and serve food.

Whittier Olympic Day (May) is an end of school year day of games including a pizza lunch.

 
Whittier Yearbook (April/May) is produced, sold, and distributed by Whittier PTO volunteers each year.  Orders are taken in April and yearbooks are distributed in May.

Teacher Appreciation Week (May) is a luncheon held for teachers and staff in the spring.  Families sign up to provide food and drink; we also need parent and guardian volunteers to set up, serve food, clean up, and supervise the playground while the teachers and staff enjoy their meal.