Hannum Happenings Parent Edition

Wednesday, Sept. 21 (day 4): Have a good day!

Thursday, September 22 (day 5): Have a good day!

Friday, September 23 (day 1): Fire Drill #1 at 1:15pm

PBIS shirt order forms due today

Parent Compacts due today

Monday September 26 (day 2): Board of Education Mtg. 7:00pm

Tuesday September 27 (day 3): Have a good day!

We are a Title One School, which means there are certain things we have to do to keep the extra funding that comes to us from the federal government, one of those went home last week. The Parent Compact is basically an agreement of what the school is going to do, what the parents are going to do and finally what the student is going to do to make this a successful school year. I have already signed for the school. I need parents and students to sign it and return it to school by Friday September 23rd.

Thank you!

Our first Parent University of the year is this Thursday. It is such a great topic for the times we are living in. Keeping our Kids CyberSafe will be presented on 9/22 at 6:30 at OLHMS. Detective Richard Wistocki, nationally recognized High Technology Cyber Crimes Specialist, will be presenting proactive strategies that parents and guardians can take to keep your kids safe.

Now that everyone will be coming back to school, our traffic issues will return as well. Please see the attached map for where to drop off and where you can park if you want to get out and walk your child to their line.

Here are some reminders for helping us get kids in and out of school safely:

• PLEASE pull up as far as you can go when you are letting students out of the car.
• PLEASE do not park across the street and have kids run across to get either to the school or back to your car.
• PLEASE be patient as kids are getting out of the car.
• PLEASE do not block the entrance and exit of the school parking lots and
• PLEASE do not park in the driveway of St. Germaine School. (You may pull into the spots in their parking lot, but do not park in the driveway.)

Our district is making district PBIS t shirts so that our kids will have reminders of our Bear Behaviors! Order now and we will have specified days to wear them..but of course they can wear them anytime. Orders are due this Friday!

Our school will be serving nutritious breakfast and lunch every school day. If you qualify, you can receive free or reduced lunches. Please call the office if you need information about how to qualify. The cost of breakfast is $1.50 and the cost of lunch is $3.05.

BREAKFAST will be served in the main hall of our school beginning at 8:10-8:25am. Students will enjoy their breakfast in our multi-purpose room and then will go to their line to start the day.

LUNCH will be ordered with your child's classroom teacher every morning. Students will be able to choose from 2 choices. Students can also bring a home lunch and only order a milk. Milk only is 60 cents and students can choose white or chocolate. You can add money to your child's meal account through Skyward. https://www.d123.org/departments/operations/lunch-menus

DOUBLE LUNCH Many of our older students like to order a double lunch. I ask if they have permission and they say they do... then parents are surprised that the lunch balance goes down so quickly. I have told our 4th and 5th grade students that they need to have permission to do this, so please speak to your children about this.

LUNCH TIMES:

Grade 5 eats from 11:00-11:25

Grades 3 and 4 eat from 11:25-11:50

Kindergarten eats from 11:55-12:20

Grades 1 and 2 eat from 12:20-12:45

Click the link below for a visual on how our lunch procedures work.

A HUGE thank you for everyone who came out for the Welcome Back Bears Bash. We were glad to see so many Hannum Bears out there catching up with friends while make new friends and wonderful memories. It truly was a perfect way to kick start the school year. This event could not have happened if it wasn't for the help of many of our wonderful community members:

The Silva and McCain families for your various utensil and water donations

Lauren Evitt and Salina Lopez for coming out early to set up

Izabela Wainwright, Chris Cucci, Amanda Miranda, and Katie Strandquist for helping to serve some awesome ice cream sundaes

Katie Herra, Jamie Osamor, Salina Lopez, and Lauren Evitt for working concessions

Angela Oldenstedt for scooping up some yummy snow cones

And last but not least Mike Petrik for the amazing art work on our kids faces...it brought some big smiles out.

We are looking forward to seeing you all at our next event, Halloween BINGO on October 27th!

A reminder there is still time to join the PTA! Forms can be found in the main office or email us at yourhannumapta.com for a form. If you choose to sign up via MemberHub, please still fill out and return a membership form. There are pieces of information we still need for classroom room reps.

Website: d123.org/hannum
Location: 9800 S Tripp Ave, Oak Lawn, IL, USA
Phone: 708-423-1690
Twitter: @d123hannum

Email: amcgovern@d123.org
Website: d123.org/hannum
Phone: 708-423-1690
Twitter: @McGovernAnne