Hometown Families:

As the weather is changing, please make sure your children are dressed to go outside. We will be going out for recess until the weather is below 32 degrees.

Please see all of the grade level newsletters that teachers have sent to families discussing what is taking place in the grade level. I will be posting all of them next week in case you have missed them.

Parents will be able sign up for conferences starting on Thursday, September 29th at 10am, Parents are able to sign up for three conferences. We encourage families to sign up for homeroom teachers, encore teachers such as PE, library, art, or music as well as interventionists. Parents are able to sign up for conferences until October 10th.

Thank you to all of our students who participated in our lockdown and relocation drill today. Our students and staff did an amazing.

Our school is a Title I school. Please remember to send the compact back signed. They were due today.

Please save the date for some upcoming events. We will host a book fair October 4th-6th. We will have family game night October 6th from 6pm-7:30pm and Mother/Son bowling on October 8th. Flyers will be going home next week. Please reach out to Kari Devine with questions at 708-691-3003. If you are interested in volunteering, please reach out to Kari. We would like to have all of our events and if we do not get volunteers we will have to cancel them.

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Students will be able to visit the book fair October 4th-6th. Please see the flyer to volunteer. Students will be bringing home flyers to look at some of the selections of books.

Please join us for family game night on October 6th. See the attached flyer for details. Families will play the selected board games with each other.

If you are interested in bowing, our boys are invited to ask that special lady to bowl with them on October 8th. Please see that attached flyer for details.

Every week I will be spotlighting a staff member or a team. Meet one of our new special education CASE teachers, Mrs. Danielle Russell.

How long and what grades have you taught?

I have been teaching for five years. I taught kindergarten for four years and now I teach CASE first and second grade.

If you could travel anywhere, where would you go and why?

If I could travel anywhere, I would travel to Turks and Caicos Islands to explore the beaches and scuba dive.

What are you most excited for this year?

This year I am excited to get to know the students and teachers here at Hometown.

What is your favorite food?

My favorite food is pizza!

Who is someone you admire and why?

Someone I admire is my mom. She is one of the kindness people I know and is always willing to help anyone in need.

If you see Mrs. Russell around Hometown, please welcome her and say hello!

Students will be able to participate in a talent show this school year. A flyer went home today explaining the event. Auditions will be October 12th. Please encourage your students to sign up to showcase their talents.

A flyer went home today about Girl Scouts. We will host a social event for this group of students on September 30th. Please see the flyer for more details.

Please remember you may NOT park in the back lot when picking up students. You must park on the side streets and walk to the child's door. Please be mindful during the dismissal time. Police will be monitoring the area.

Did you know you can keep up to date on school news through our Twitter account? You can also see pictures of events that have happened at school as well as photos of daily activities in the classroom. Scan this code to follow our account or go to twitter.com and follow @D123Hometown.

We are happy to partner with the Arab American Services for the school year. Please see the attached flyer. We are looking for parent mentors to start the new year. If you are interested please reach out to the school. We will have a table at the Open house with more information.

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

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