Hometown Family Buzz

October 24, 2023

Hometown Families:

Thank you for all of the kind words and gifts last week during Principal Appreciation Week. I am truly blessed to serve a great community.

Weather Dress: Please make sure that your child is dressed appropriately for the weather. The students will wait outside before school and go outside for recess any day that the wind chill is above 32 degrees. Your child should have a coat, hat, gloves etc. in order to be prepared for the dip in temperatures ahead.

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October 31st

Students will be able to come in costumes for our half day on Halloween. We will have a parade for students and parents to view outside weather permitting. If we have bad weather, we will have the parade in the gym. After the parade, teachers will have Halloween activities for their classrooms. If you child would like to bring non-edible items to pass to the class they may do so. Teachers will be completing fun activities related to Halloween.

Math Challenge

Look at some of the hard work our families created! These haunted houses are amazing!

Cheesecake Orders

Any last minute cheesecake orders can be turned in until Friday. The information is below. Pick up is November 9th. Checks should be made out to Hometown School.

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NO ICE CREAM THIS FRIDAY/SMENCIL SALE

There will be no ice cream sold this Friday, October 28th. Instead, the PTA will be selling Smencils for $1.00 each. There is a limit of 2 Smencils per student. Ice Cream returns next Friday.

Veteran's Day

Please join us to celebrate our Veterans. The flyer is attached and will be coming home in the backpack today. This is the corrected version. There was a date correction made. The assembly with be on November 9th at 9:30 am.

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First Grade Fun

Have you ever seen a pigeon driving a bus? Well if you see one trying… stop him! First grade headed to Moraine Valley College last week to watch the play “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive The Bus!”Did you know that the author of this popular children's book once was a writer for Sesame Street?? He has written so many popular children's stories and continues to write today from his home in New York. The first graders HIGHLY suggest checking out these other books by Mo Willems.