Dear Hometown Families:

Welcome Back Hornets! We are excited to see all of your smiling faces as we start back on Wednesday, August 23rd. Please make sure your child comes to school with a water bottle as temperatures are predicted to be extremely hot.

Our school district uses this chart to help determine whether students will go out for recess and/or pe during any given day.

Please check Skyward to find your teacher assignments and bussing information.

We hope that the summer provided other opportunities than the chromebook. Please take time to find the chromebook in the house and have it charged for the first day of school. If it has been damaged during the summer, please have your child alert his/her homeroom teacher on the first day of school.

If any of your children need medication during the school day, please make sure the correct medication forms are filled out. Please drop off the medication to the nurse within the first week of school.

Our last opportunity to drop off supplies will be tonight, Tuesday, August 22nd from 6:00-7:30pm. Please note that teachers may NOT be present.

Kindergarten students will be screened starting August 22nd at 12:30pm. All registered kindergarten students have been registered for a screening time. The screening results will be analyzed, and students will be placed in classes heterogeneously. Families will be notified of their child’s teacher Thursday, August 24th afternoon via phone call, so please make sure your contact information is current in Skyward. Kindergarten students’ first day of school will be Friday, August 25th from 9:30am-11:00am. Parents will be able to drop off their child’s supplies to the classroom on Friday morning and stay for a new family breakfast starting at 10am.

Breakfast will begin the first day of school starting at 8:10am. Any students may receive breakfast with the cost of 1.60. The lunch costs for the school year will 3.15. Milk only 0.65. The menu will be available on the website. Students can select their options the day of in their classrooms. Parents can add money to accounts via Skyward.

This year’s first day of school will be Wednesday, August 23rd and it is a half day of school ~ for students in grades 1st through 5th. The school day begins at 8:30 am and ends at 11:30 am. We are looking forward to seeing all of the smiling faces coming back to our building.

Our CASE program will begin on August 23rd with our general education program for a half day. Students will be in the building form 8:30-11:30. No lunch will be provided.

Upon their arrival, scholars should line up with their grade level peers in the following locations. Students will be escorted into the building by staff at 8:25 am. Students participating in the breakfast program will be permitted into the building at 8:10 am.

• KDG: Gomez and Sweetser Arrive at Door 1, dismissed at Door 8

• KDG: Smith Arrive & Dismissed Door 7

• G1: Szkarlat and Linnert Arrive & Dismissed at Door 9

• G2: Coughlan and Strelow Arrive & Dismissed at Door 5

• G2: Tully Arrive & Dismissed Door 7

• G3: Carson & Sieracki Arrive & Dismissed at Door 20

• G3: Cercullo - Arrive & Dismissed Door 19

• G4: Woulfe, Foulk, Glynn Arrive & Dismissed at Door 17

• G5: Vines, Korduck, Niedziela Arrive & Dismissed at Door 15

• CASE: Arrive & Dismissed at Door 1

Outside Door (Early Childhood Door)

• Preschool Students Arrive & Dismissed Door 21

In an effort to maximize the safest traffic pattern possible, we will continue with the traffic pattern exercised for the past several years. In the morning, families / caregivers who drive their students to school may choose to either pull up to the designated “car drop off zone”, which is located on the “school side” of Duffy (southbound) and let their child exit the car on the passenger side or park on Kildare or Kolin and walk their child to their designated arrival spot. Cars will not be able to park along Duffy or they will be ticketed. NO CARS will be allowed in the school parking lots during arrival and dismissal times. Students are expected to report to their designated line-up areas (see arrival procedures).

If you are interested in signing up for the park district, please see the attached flyer.

Our school will MAP test on Monday, August 28th and Tuesday, August 29th. Please make sure your child's chromebook is charged and they have eaten a good breakfast. They will also need HEADPHONES for this test!!!!!!!

When school is dismissed at 3:20 pm, students are able to walk home, line up in the gym for their bus, or meet their parents/ caregivers outside of the school. Older children who walk younger siblings or neighbors should meet them in a prearranged location outside of the building and will be dismissed first in order to pick up their sibling or relative. We ask that parents DO NOT park in the back lot to pick up children. Families should park on Kildare or Kolin.

Our two school buses load and unload near Door 19 (gym doors) in the morning and in the afternoon. It is illegal to pass a school bus when the stop sign is out. Please remember our students’ safety is our number one priority! Please watch for the flashing lights and stop when appropriate. Please check skyward for busing information on Wednesday, August 16th.

Our open house will be on September 12th from 6:30pm-8:00pm.

Families new to Hometown School are invited to join us on Friday, August 25th at 10:00am in the Multi-Purpose Room. This informal breakfast celebration will include a brief introduction to Hometown School and discussion topics including: attendance and lunch procedures, Skyward, Take Home Tuesday, and the Late Start Schedule, followed by a brief Q & A session. We hope to see you there!

We strongly encourage you to join our PTA at Hometown. We work together to provide many different events throughout the school year for the students. We always work with our volunteers to set them up for success. We will be offering all committee sign ups for trimester 1. Please consider joining this organization. The form is below.

Hornets in grades 1-5 will work on Thursday to learn all of the building expectations. Students will travel with their teachers from station to station to discuss the expectations. As a family, please discuss with your child the expectations they learned and consider creating one for your home. The template is attached below.

Email: abencik@d123.org
Phone: 708-423-7360
Twitter: @AmandaBencik

Website: d123.org/hometown
Location: 8870 S Duffy Ave, Hometown, IL, USA
Phone: 708-423-7360
Twitter: @d123hometown