Hough Highlights

January 27, 2023

Important Dates:

1/27 - Little Hawk/Big Hawk Snowball Dance 6:30-8:00 pm (Hough)
1/30 - Drama Club (4th/5th grades) Parent Meeting at 7 pm (Zoom)
2/1 - Kindergarten Round-Up at 6:30 pm (Hough Library)
2/11 - Parents Night Out - 6:30 pm start (purchase tix by Feb. 1st)

Family Math

It’s time for our second edition of Family Math from Hough Street’s very own instructional coach, Laura Chor. This edition is titled, Making Math Fun with Games. As we progress through the cold and snowy winter weather, we hope these fun and engaging math games can bring some excitement to family game night. Please follow this link to read all about fun math games you can play at home!

Student and Parent 5Essentials Survey

Starting this month students, staff, and parents will be asked to complete the Illinois 5Essentials survey. I encourage all families to take a couple of minutes to complete the parent portion of the survey, which is linked in the parent letter below. This information provides our district and school leaders with feedback to help guide school improvement planning and actions in the future. In addition, please take a second to read through the student survey letter to learn more about the student portion of the 5Essentials process. Please know that only students in grades 4 and 5 will be asked to take this survey at Hough.

Direct Link to Parent Survey: http://survey.5-essentials.org/illinois/survey/parent/

Snowball Dance - January 27th!

The Snow Ball Winter Dance (formerly Big Hawk/Little Hawk) takes place TONIGHT, January 27th in the Hough Ballroom/Gym. Purchase tickets here. Please contact Lisa Jones at lisajones547@gmail.com with questions.

Family STEM Night

Barrington 220 presents our annual K-5 STEM Family Event for 2023 - STEM into the Future! Families of Grove and Hough Elementary students are invited to our March 8th STEM Event. This is a family event so the whole family is welcome. Please come and enjoy self-paced activities for students in grades Kindergarten through fifth. Activities include robotic exploration, testing building materials and an engineering challenge.

This event will be held at Grove Elementary, for both Grove and Hough families, where we will showcase Grove's new elementary STEM lab, as well as some of our new robots.

Students must be accompanied by an adult. Please register early, as space is limited to 300 participants. Registration is limited to 300. Click here for more information and to register.

Pride Board

Congratulations to our 18 Critical Thinkers & Problem Solvers this week.

Top Row: Atlas B., Cashton J., Jack L., Payton W., and Noah C.

Second Row: Claire G., Maddy T., and Charely T.

Third Row: Dakota F., Cormac N., Ben S., Weston B., and Elio A.

Bottom Row: Greyson S., Andrew G., Aaron O., Claire M., and Blake M.

#WeBelong220

BHS Seniors, and Hough Street School Alums, shared Broncos Committed activities with the fifth graders this week, and our Kindergarten friends took full advantage of they recent snow.