THE HOFFMAN HUM A  Bi-­‐weekly  NEWSLETTER  December 15, 2017

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Board of Education Meeting 7:00pm

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Winter Band Concert 7pm - HO Gym

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Classroom Holiday Parties

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Nov-AprilTrex Recycing

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Dec 25-Jan 5Winter Break

Jan 26International

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Holiday HelperThank you to everyone who so generously donated their time, resources, food, and winter wear to the 2017 Holiday Helper program—with your help we were able to ensure that this holiday season will be a little brighter for over 90 families in our Henking-Hoffman community!

International NightGet ready to travel the world within the Henking school walls! Mark your calendars—the 15th annual HE/HO International Night is Friday, January 26th from 6:00-8:30 pm at Henking. Come experience various cultures from our community, both in food and tradition. Visit http://hehopta.org/Henking-International-Night/ for more information

Trex Plastic Recycling ChallengeIt’s time to start bringing in your plastic bags for the TrexRecycling program (Nov 15- April 15) http://www.henkinghoffmanpta.org/Trex-Recycling

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HOLIDAY HELPER 2017 – THANK YOU!!! This year, the Henking/Hoffman community collected over 2500 food items, dozens of coats/hats/gloves/boots, and hundreds of dollars in grocery gift cards to help 94 families (for a total of 474 people!).THANK YOU to the many people who helped make it such a huge success!

Vicky Camilo and Diane Holm in the Hoffman front office and Mary Zenzola and Stacy Echevarria in the Henking front office for managing all the calls, e-mails, mailings, and spreadsheets to keep us organized and on task.

Principals Stewart and Puetz for their help in championing the cause among their staffs, and for their presence and support on Pack-up and/or Pick-up days.

Beth Conlon for her leadership and assistance with communication throughout the PTA.

Armando Avila, Nick Duran, and Dorina Schiopu at Hoffman for their help with setting up and cleaning up the room.

Marguerite Cole for respectfully matching families with sponsors year after year.

Gus & Sue Haramaras and Aparna Madassery of GHP Group for the design and donated printing of the beautiful promotional posters.

Amy Newman with Families Helping Families Chicagoland and Amy O’Leary with Glenview Youth Services for sharing donations of many brand new winter coats.

Teachers Mr. Mariano, Mrs. Pierce, Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Thomasson, Ms. Barad, and Mr. Adkisson for their valuable helping hands! To all the volunteers who helped transport and sort food, launder and sort winter wear, and check food boxes:

Shameem Aadam Lisa Beumer

Nicole Carlson Yusra Cheema

Michelle Costianis Jenny Courtad Phoebe Elder Neala Endre

Amy Finn Regan Gausselin Larissa Gesicki

Lindsley Godbout Anne Hazelwood

Yadira Hernandez Elizabeth Hibner

Lori Hooten

Ghizala Husain Leslie Kullman

Ann Le Mara Lindsay

Katie McFarlin Kristin Milito Rhonda Miller

Johanna Mishra

Seri Phillips Theresa Rasmussen

Melissa Read Lainie Roth

Sireen Rowjee-Ahmed Kathy Sukenik

Missy Uhlemann Patty Yang

To the many other parents, students and staff who joined in the hustle and bustle at our Pack-up Day on Saturday, December 9th.

And special thanks to all of YOU who donated an extraordinary amount of food, winter wear, money, and gift cards, and/or opened your hearts to personally sponsor a specific family. Because of your selflessness and generosity, 94 local families will have a brighter holiday! Holiday blessings from our families to yours, Christine Thompson and Rhonda Heublein

PLEASE JOIN US AND CELEBRATE CULTURAL DIVERSITY

15th ANNUAL HE/HO INTERNATIONAL FAIR Friday, January 26th, 2018

Henking School 6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.

Tour our cultural rooms filled with treasures from around the world. Also enjoy making your own craft or playing a game in each room. Children will chart their progress using their International passports. Some of the countries represented will be China, Greece, India, Ireland, Isreal, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Sweden! (If you would like to host a country, please feel free to contact us!) Visit our International Café and taste treats from around the world. Please bring small bills as the cost of items will be from $1-$5. (If you own or know of someone who owns a restaurant and/or store that would like to donate an International food item to sell, we would love to include as part of our café menu. Unfortunately we cannot accept home prepared food items.) Please contact Carla Harabetian at carlam@gmail.com or Loretta Barsamian at loretta.barsamian@comcast.net for more information or food donation.

Winter Band Concert

Wednesday, Dec. 20 - Band Concert 7:00pm

All the concerts are in the Hoffman gym Everyone is

invited to come!

Glenview School District 34 Hoffman Orchestra Concert

Thursday, January 18, 2018, 7:00 pm, Hoffman Gym

On Thursday, January 18, 2018, at 7 pm, the Hoffman Orchestra will perform

an evening Concert of Orchestra favorites. Family and friends are cordially invited to attend.

Dress will be white shirts/blouses, black/dark slacks/skirts, & black/dark

shoes/socks. Boys’ tie optional. Please, no sneakers, no jeans.

All Orchestra Students please report to Hoffman Gym by 6:15 to tune & prepare. Please leave cases & coats at nearby hallway hooks.

Performance will conclude by 8:00 pm

Beginning Orchestra will play:

Mary Had A Little Lamb Hot Cross Buns Twinkle Twinkle

Ode To Joy

Advanced Orchestra will play: The Alarm Clock

Bingo Starry Night

Can Can Main Street March

Happy New Year! We will see you there!

Birthday Books Help Our Library Collection Grow

The Hoffman Learning Center offers an exciting opportunity for you to celebrate your child’s birthday and add books to the library collection at the same time!

For a $10.00 donation, your child may select a new book from a special selection reserved just for birthdays. A special bookplate will be placed in the book with your child’s name and their name will be entered into the computer as the donator. They will then be the first student to check out the book. When the book is returned, it will be available for other students to check out and enjoy.

Children take great pleasure in giving a special birthday book that benefits all current and future Hoffman students. A good school library collection makes for enthusiastic readers! We urge you to consider the Birthday Book Club! THANK YOU to the following students who celebrated their birthdays in October and November by donating these books to the Hoffman Learning Resource Center. Logan B. – Witches ’ Brew Luka M. – The Force Oversleeps Conor F. – Platypus Police Squad Campbell J . – George Speaks Hannah K. – Ferrets Audrey R. – Slacker Darina N. - Pandamonium Brooke W. – Serafina ’s Promise Sydney H. – Ghoulfr iends Forever Dane – K. – The Wizard ’s Wand Tobias N. – My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish Jatssy S. – Creepella Von Cacklefur Eshal H – Cody and the Rules of Life Stephanie O. – Treasure of the Sea James W. – Bad Magic Amy P. – Swiss Family Robinson Alec G. – The Titanic Mission Grant M. – Milo Speck, Accidental Agent Nicholas Q. – Escape to Austral ia Rabia K. – A Wonderlandiful World Zachary S. – Secret of the Fortune Wookie Omar R. – Regarding the Sink Anthony D. – I Funny School of Laughs Marian S. – Horse Breeds & Horse Care Chloe J . – Giant Trouble Grace P. – Cat in the City Aliyana A. – Notebooks of a Middle School Princess Israel R. – Laugh Out Loud Will iam N. – Mystic Phyles Beasts Leif D. – Music of Zombies Noah B. – Desmond Pucket Makes Monster Magic Carolina C. – Dork Diaries 12 Erdene M. – Bad Guys in Attack of the Zittens Hajin K. – The Honest Truth Happy Reading! Anne L. – Mango & Bambany Thank you Hoffman Families! Rowan L. – Robot Revolution

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