Carterville PTO

10/03/2026

☔️🧡 Round two with Banterra Bank & Velvet Moon Coffee Shop & Events at Carterville Intermediate School today! ☕️
The rain couldn’t keep us away! 🌧️We’re so thankful to Banterra for their exceptional support and for providing the wonderful tent that kept our teachers and staff dry! 🙏🏽
A HUGE thank you to Chandler and her team at Velvet Moon for taking such great care of our CIS teachers and staff in the rain! ☕️🫶🧡💙

10/02/2026

Another huge shout out to Banterra Bank for their support for Carterville PTO, and helping us say thank you to our amazing teachers, staff and schools! Thank for your generous donation to allow us to sponsor Velvet Moon Coffee Shop & Events for our amazing teachers and staff at Tri-C Elementary School and Little Lions Pre-K this week! 🧡🦁💙

10/01/2026

☕️💙🧡 𝗔 𝗛𝗨𝗚𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗞 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸 & 𝗩𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗲! 🧡💙☕️

Carterville PTO is SO grateful to Banterra Bank for sponsoring Velvet Moon Coffee Shop & Events for our amazing teachers and staff at 𝗧𝗿𝗶-𝗖 & 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 today! 🥰☕️

Your support helped us give back to the incredible people who pour so much love, time, and dedication into our kids, our schools, and our community every single day. ❤️🦁

And a 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲𝗿 & 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 for making today such a seamless and amazing experience! 🌙☕️
They served 𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝟳𝟱 𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗞𝗦 𝗶𝗻 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 🤯👏🏼 Talk about keeping the coffee flowing!! ☕️💨💙🧡

We are beyond grateful for community partners like 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸 who believe in supporting our schools and helping Carterville PTO show our teachers and staff just how much they are appreciated. 🧡💙

𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗞 𝗬𝗢𝗨, 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗻𝗸 & 𝗩𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘁 𝗠𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗲, 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿! ☕️❤️🦁

And since the secret is officially out… 🤫☕️

✨𝗖𝗜𝗦… 𝗪𝗘’𝗟𝗟 𝗦𝗘𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗬! ✨❤️🦁☕️🌙

09/27/2026

❇️Something special might be coming to our schools
soon!❇️💙🦁🧡🌙
✨Stay tuned ✨

09/26/2026

We are SO incredibly grateful for the opportunity to serve our schools, students and teachers! 🧡🦁💙

Today is PTO Appreciation Day, we are taking a moment to celebrate the real-life superheroes who make our school community thrive. From organizing tailgates, fundraisers; (and managing those giant inflatable slides!) to supporting our amazing teachers, their hard work and dedication create a stronger, happier environment for all our children.

A massive thank you to our PTO members and volunteers for your tireless commitment. We couldn’t do it without you! Please join us in thanking a PTO member this Saturday.

2026-2027 PTO Board (left to right): Christina Massey, Javeria Hammad, Tasmeer Hassan, Crystal Oxendine

09/25/2026

Let’s go Lions!! 🧡🐾💙🏈🦁

Carterville vs Harrisburg || Illinois High School Football
Lions @ Bulldogs
📺 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐎𝐧 : official-hudl.anti-kood4k.net/hs-football.php?live=Carterville%20vs%20Harrisburg

The Carterville varsity football team has an away conference game @ Harrisburg (IL) on Friday, September 25 @ 7p.

09/23/2026

🍂🎃 FALL FUN IS COMING TO CIS! 🎃🍂

CIS will be hosting their PBIS Reward with a Fall Festival! 🎃🧡💙

📅 Thursday, October 8th
⏰ 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 CIS

Our students have worked hard, and we’re ready to celebrate them with a fun-filled Fall Festival! 🍁🎃🍂

The Carterville PTO is looking for volunteers to help make this special day a success!!

We need volunteers to help with various fall-themed activities-- from crafts, pin the nose on the jack-o'-lantern, concessions, pumpkin painting, a s'mores snack mix table, and more!

👻🍂 Please use the link below to sign up to volunteer! 🍂👻

👉 https://forms.gle/mup5eiTGArNVHhJQ6

Go Lions!!🦁

09/21/2026

🍎💙🧡 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘 𝗙𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗦, 𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗦 & 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗠𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗦 — 𝗪𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣!🧡💙🍎

One of our biggest goals this year is to 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿! 🥰🍎💙🧡

Our teachers give so much to our students and schools every single day, and we want to make sure they know just how much our Carterville community appreciates all that they do! 🦁❤️

✨ 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣? ✨

🛒 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁!
We have some exciting teacher appreciation projects coming up, and you can help make them possible by purchasing an item from our wishlist! Every donation, big or small, makes a difference. 💙🧡

👉 https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/38DT810B25LGQ?ref_=wl_share

💰 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗮 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?
You can donate through our PayPal link! 𝟭𝟬𝟬% 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿. 🍎✨This is a tax-deductible donation!!✨

👉 https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/XD6KWQBXMTABN

🏢 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗔 𝗟𝗢𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗕𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦? 🏢

We would LOVE to partner with businesses in our community who are interested in 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝘄𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁, 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲, 𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀! 🎉🍪☕️🎁

If you are a business that's interested in supporting our teachers, please reach out to us via email!!

📧 𝗣𝘁𝗼@𝗰𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀.𝗼𝗿𝗴

𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘂𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁, 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴! 💙🍎🧡

Go Lions!! 🦁

09/19/2026

Tailgate Fun Part 2🧡🏈💙🦁🧡

09/19/2026

🦁💙🧡 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔 𝗡𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧, 𝗟𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗙𝗔𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗦!! 🧡💙🦁

Our Annual Carterville PTO Tailgate was a HUGE success, and we truly cannot thank everyone enough for helping make it such a fun and memorable night for our students and families! 🏈🎉

This is the biggest event we put on each year, and simply is NOT possible without the dedication, time, and heart of so many amazing people. ❤️

A HUGE THANK YOU to:

🙌 All of our incredible PTO volunteers who jumped in wherever they were needed and helped make the night run smoothly with watching over the bounce houses, serving dinner and popsicles! We cannot thank you enough!! 💙🧡

🎨🏰 Our AMAZING CHS students who volunteered their time to help with face painting and bounce house supervision! Your help made such a difference, and we are so grateful for you! 🧡💙

🏫 Our dedicated administrators — Mr. Owens,
Mrs. Ragan, Dr. Webb, and Mr. Towers — thank you for always supporting our schools, our students, and our PTO events! We are so thankful to have your support, and thank you SO much for preparing our hotdogs every year and providing additional support for making sure our events go off without a hitch 🙏🏽🦁

💪 Our amazing custodial staff — thank you for all of the behind-the-scenes work and heavy lifting that goes into making an event like this possible. We appreciate you more than you know!

✨Our STRIVE Teachers— thank you for volunteering to help with our sensory friendly time for those students and families to enjoy our event this year!!

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Our Carterville families — THANK YOU for coming out, supporting our PTO, and enjoying the evening with us! Seeing our students enjoying and making memories with their families is exactly why we do what we do. 🧡💙

⭐ And a very special THANK YOU to our amazing event sponsors! Your support helps us continue creating special experiences and opportunities for our students. We are incredibly grateful for your
investment in our schools and our kids!

Thank you Pepsi MidAmerica🥤, Southern Illinois Inflatables LLC🏰, and More Than Musiq, LLC🎶!!

From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU SO MUCH! 💙🧡

It truly takes a community to make an event like this happen, and last night was the perfect example of what we can accomplish when we all come together. 🦁🐾

Thank you for making our Annual PTO Tailgate a HUGE success!! We are already looking forward to next year! 🏈🎉

GO LIONS!! 🦁💙🧡