Hometown Family Buzz

Our parade was a success! Thank you for all coming to see our students in their great costumes. They were all very creative. We hope each of you enjoys trick or treating this evening and stays warm. We are very excited to announce our winners for the pumpkin contest.

First Place: Shea W.

Second Place: Isaiah and Mia S.

Third Place Ian A.

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.

Hello Hometown families,

We are currently doing Gymnastics, and halloween games with all grade levels. Our Gymnastic curriculum encourages students to work on their stability and balance along with control of body weight while performing a variety of tumbling and stunt activities. Next week the K-2 grade students will be doing Manipulative skills with hoops followed by Parachute activities. We will be starting Football skills next week with 3rd-5th grade students who will be learning the forward pass, catching, and punting.

K-5 had a blast playing “ghost in the graveyard.” See the pictures below. We have a new Health curriculum that we have been implementing called “Quaver Ed”. Please remember that all students must wear gym shoes on a daily basis to participate in PE class. Thanks.

PE Team

Mr. Dare

Mrs. Kicho

We are looking for our students to create Veterans Day card for our military. If your family would like to create or write cards, please send them to office by November 9th. We will be sending them to our service men and women. I will be giving Stingers to those who hand them in.

If you are able to donate any of the supplies listed below, please bring them to school by November 10th. We will be donating any canned goods or items on the list to our troops.

Please join us to celebrate our Veterans. The flyer was sent home last week. We hope you can attend. This is a great event to support our men and women who serve.

We are looking for any last parent volunteers to run stations for our end of the trimester behavior celebration. Our grades will rotate through different stations the afternoon of November 17th. If you have not already filled out the form or registered on Signup Genius, please email Dr. Bencik.

The idea for Boo Bags came from a social media post speech pathologist Mrs. Julie Carey saw on Instagram. She immediately knew this was a great idea. She shared it with her colleagues, Ms. Butler and Mrs. Letizia, who were both super supportive in making this happen. Mrs. Carey knew this project would be perfect for the 4th and 5th grade CASE students. It would help them practice life skills and communications skills. However, when she thought of this idea, she never dreamed that these kiddos would being filling 145 orders! Hometown staff ordered boo bags for coworkers and friends, paid $2.00 towards the cost of materials, and filled out a small tag to surprise someone with a BOOtiful treat. Mrs. Carey was able to purchase the visuals and tags from TPT. (Credit goes to the TPT seller "includedinSPED" for making this available and sharing her creativity on social media!)

Mrs. Carey told us, "Projects like the Boo Bags allow our CASE students to practice functional life skills, such as filling orders, counting quantities and money, sorting, and navigating the building. It also allows them to practice appropriate social skills and communication, which are both skill areas that we work hard everyday to further develop in CASE. It's important for our students to practice these skills in new and different situations, and what better way to do it than while spreading some holiday cheer to the staff! Mrs. Letizia's students loved making the bags, and we hope to do something similar later in the year and maybe include our buddies from gen ed. A big shout out to the Hometown staff for their enthusiasm in supporting this project!"

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