We are excited to announce “Everyday Blessings,” where every parent can make a difference, every day. Our small offerings multiply to tremendous blessings when everyone helps. Some of our Blessings generate income, and others turn into free teaching resources, athletic equipment, art supplies, and office supplies.
Thank you for all the ways you support our school and bless our students, teachers, and staff!
Everyday Items
Box Tops for Education is a huge source of funding for our playground and athletic equipment. With everyone’s help, we turn these little scraps of paper into thousands of dollars worth of balls, uniforms, scooters, jump ropes, track equipment and more! For an added incentive, students compete every month for a free dress-down day based on which classroom turns in the most labels to their teacher! There is also a white drawer cart in the cafeteria for homeschool band families and others not connected to a particular grade. It is so easy to save Box Tops! Can you please ask friends and family to help too? You can find all qualifying products on the BoxTops4Education website. Please also check your grocery store receipts; occasionally they print coupons worth up to 500 bonus points. Thank you! Campbell’s® Labels for Education® are a huge source of funding for our playground and athletic equipment. With everyone’s help, we turn these little scraps of paper into thousands of dollars worth of balls, uniforms, scooters, jump ropes, track equipment and more! For an added incentive, students compete every month for a free dress-down day based on which classroom turns in the most labels to their teacher! There is also a white drawer cart in the cafeteria for homeschool band families and others not connected to a particular grade. It is so easy to save Campbell’s® labels! Can you please ask friends and family to help too? You can find all qualifying products on the Labels for Education website. Please also check your grocery store receipts; occasionally they print coupons worth up to 500 bonus points. Thank you! Coca-Cola® offers sports equipment, art supplies and other resources to us through their MyCoke® Rewards program. Even better, they have sweepstakes for big things like library and playground grants. You can find codes on boxes and lids of any Coca-Cola® product, including Sprite®, Barq’s®, Dasani® water, Minute Maid® and others. Create an account at MyCokeRewards.com and choose to donate your points to WCA. If you already have an account, we would love any points you don’t plan to use. You can also give us the codes and we can type them in; just place them in the white drawer cart in the cafeteria. Thank you very much! What do you do with books and other educational materials when your kids outgrow them? Our school library and our individual classroom libraries need great books that are in like-new condition. Our younger classrooms need LEGO®s, toys, and games suitable for indoor recess. Your special items will live on to bless many children.
Everyday Shopping
AmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support Westlake every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection and convenient shopping experience as Amazon.com, with the added bonus that Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase price to Westlake. To learn more and get started go here.
When you order any uniform items from Lands’ End, please remember that Westlake is a Preferred School. Our ID is 900-08-8386. Just mention this code when you place any order by phone or online, and they will send us a check!
For online orders, Westlake will receive additional funds if you first logon to OneCause.com to access LandsEnd.com. OneCause® is described below. Thank you!
The OneCause® toolbar is essentially a Yahoo® search engine and shopping portal for your internet browser. OneCause® gives Westlake money for every qualifying search. They give us even more money for every online purchase from one of their 1,443 merchants.
All you have to do is create an account at OneCause.com and choose Westlake Christian Academy as your charity. Then be sure to do all your searches and shopping through the OneCause.com site. If you can buy it online, chances are you can buy it through OneCause®. Different retailers have different contribution levels. For example, Shutterfly.com gives us 7%. Restaurant.com gives 6%. Hotels.com gives 2.6%. Amazon.com, Sears.com, Staples.com, and Target.com give 2%. LandsEnd.com gives us 1.5%. When you are buying uniforms, please do so through OneCause®!
Even if you prefer Google® as your search engine, you can still use OneCause® for all your online shopping. Would you please ask your family and friends to help, too? This is a great way to generate automatic income for the school. Thank you so much!
Scholastic® Book Clubs are available through all the elementary classrooms, from Pre-K through Grade 6. Every month, parents can buy books and other learning resources from age-specific catalogs. Every single purchase gives the teacher points they can spend on books and classroom resources. Teachers love Scholastic®! Our first grade classroom alone has added hundreds of books over the last few years through Scholastic® points. This is a great way for teachers to refresh their classroom materials, blessing them and future students for years to come. In addition to books, Scholastic® offers a wide variety of materials.
Look for monthly catalogs in your child’s backpack, then submit your order to the teacher, or you can order online anytime at Scholastic.com.
The school office is always in need of copy paper, lined paper pads, plain white business size envelopes, labels, Post-its®, Scotch® tape, pens, mechanical pencils, paper clips, Wite-Out®, tissues, and AA batteries. Staples® (in Mundelein and Vernon Hills) offers 100% free items every few weeks all year long. You must become a Staples Rewards® member, buy the items, and submit the rebate. Staples will send you a check or a merchandise credit. You can use the merchandise credit to buy the next free item and repeat! Their weekly ads are posted at Staples.com. Staples Rewards® members occasionally receive email coupons for free or almost-free items.
OfficeMax® and Office Depot® have similar programs. These and other stores offer many supplies for just pennies during summer months, with different items every week! Donations of these inexpensive supplies help us minimize expenses during the school year.
Thank you very much for your generosity!
