Girls on the Run Registration is Open! Join us!

Girls on the Run
Heart & Sole (Program name for grades 6-8)

HMS is excited to announce that we will be launching a spring season of Girls on the Run. We will host both in-person and remote participants. If you are familiar with the program, you know it is a great activity for all! If you are not familiar with Girls on the Run, please see the website below for more information. But in short, we often describe it as a cross between a girls’ group & a “running” group. GOTR-Chicago describes The Heart & Sole curriculum as: “rich with themes girls can relate to, addressing the whole girl—body, brain, heart, spirit and social connection—and building important life skills such as team building, developing a support system, boundary setting, decision making, asking for and providing help and more.”

While we will make some modifications for a Covid-safe environment, we will be able to continue the best and most important parts of the program.

Here are the details for the 2021 season!

-We meet March 23rd – late May on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:15 – 4:30.

-We hold discussions, participate in a wide range of activities & games, walk/jog/run, and complete a 5K! (Virtual, but HMS will host its own! Date & location TBD!)

If you are interested…

1) Go online and check out the program: https://www.gotrchicago.org/

2) Decide whether you can commit to two days a week from March through May, Tuesdays & Thursdays.

3) Register! https://www.gotrchicago.org/

Once you register, we will reach out to all participants closer to our start date!

Questions?
Ask Mrs. Eggert (keggert@d181.org) or Mrs. Fetty (jfetty@d181.org)

Calling all Eighth Grade Boys!

We are in need of additional 8th-grade boys in the Thursday night Session 2 which starts at 8:20!

Fortnightly classes are held at:
The Community House 415 West Eighth Street Hinsdale, Illinois 60521
Fortnightly Dance Class in Hinsdale ~ Since 1958

PLEASE REGISTER TODAY! Classes start on March 4th.

Interested in more details? See the flyer from The Community House.

Questions?
Contact The Community House at bhahn@thecommunityhouse.org

 

Final Yearbook Picture Request Due 3/15

FINAL YEARBOOK PICTURE REQUEST – Thank you for all of your hard work submitting pictures of your children to be included in the HMS 2020-2021 Yearbook. We are in the final stretch and need a few more pictures to make sure we can fill the 104 pages. The last set of pictures we are requesting are listed below:

Please remember, you will need to select the SNAP category listed next to the type of picture you are submitting. If you would like to submit pictures for consideration to the yearbook staff:

Download the Yearbook Snap mobile app from the App Store or Google Play, and enter our access code: 21_HMS_spartans

Go to yearbookforever.com, enter our school name, click on Community Upload and enter our access code: 21_HMS_spartans

Please note we would like to represent the entire student body so please choose 2-3 categories and only upload 1-2 pictures for each of those categories. Additionally, when selecting pictures to upload, please be sure they only include HMS students.

As we are approaching the deadline for submitting the yearbook pictures/pages, no pictures will be accepted after the assigned due date.

Thank you in advance for your assistance. Here is the flyer that explains all the steps.

Community Speaker Series presents Julie Lythcott-Haims on 3/10/21

Presented by The Community Speaker Series, D181 and D86.

Julie Lythcott-Haims: How to Raise an Adult

Join New York Times bestselling author, Julie Lythcott-Haims and learn how to break free of the overparenting trap and prepare your kids for success. Drawing on research, on conversations with admissions officers, educators, and employers, and on her own insights as a mother and as a student dean, Julie highlights the ways in which overparenting harms children, their stressed-out parents, and society at large.

While empathizing with the parental hopes and, especially, fears that lead to overhelping, Julie offers practical strategies that underline the importance of allowing children to make their own mistakes and develop the resilience, resourcefulness, and inner determination necessary for success.

Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Time: 7:00 – 8:15 p.m.

Format: Zoom Webinar

Register: Click here or visit www.d181foundation.org

The presentation is free and open to all. Registration is required as each viewer receives a unique link. This event will be recorded and will be available ONLY to those who register for the event. If you are unable to attend the live-stream, but will want to view the recording, please register.

For more information, please see attached flyer.

Special Webinar with Award-Winning Cartoonist and Graphic Novel Writer Nathan Hale on Thursday, March 11th

Special Webinar with Award-Winning Cartoonist and Graphic Novel Writer Nathan Hale
Thursday, March 11, 7-8 pm

Join us for a fun evening for the whole family as Author, illustrator, and cartoonist Nathan Hale illustrates as he speaks, drawing live on the screen. He will fascinate you with history and the art of drawing comics.

Registration required. Register HERE

This program, sponsored by the District 181 Foundation, is free and open to the entire community. Additional information available HERE. Can’t join us that evening? A link to the recording will be sent to all registrants.

Questions? Please contact Meg Cooper: mcooper@d181foundation.org

Does your child need help with emotional, learning, developmental or health issues?

Check out The Parent List, a Hinsdale Central High School PTO resource that streamlines the process by featuring nearly 60 positive reviews from parents on area health care providers that have already helped D63, D86 and D181 children with issues that include: anxiety; depression; school avoidance; insomnia; peer relations; stress; autism spectrum; eating disorders; migraines; concussions and more.

Parent reviewed providers include local doctors, therapists, support groups, in-patient, and out-patient programs, tutors, nutritionists, and holistic medical approaches.

To read existing The Parent List reviews, go to hcpto.org/parent-list/ or click HERE

To leave a new anonymous review for a provider that has made a positive impact on your child’s wellbeing, click HERE

Questions can be directed to the parentlist@hcpto.org

In no way does the Hinsdale Middle School or Hinsdale Central PTOs, Hinsdale Middle School or Hinsdale Central High School staff, or school districts 63, 86, or 181 endorse or recommend any specific provider reviewed on The Parent List. The Parent List is a subjective forum set up by the Hinsdale Central PTO for your convenience. Parents and guardians are solely responsible for deciding to use any of the service providers on The Parent List in any capacity, and district 63, district 86, district 181, and the Hinsdale Middle School and Hinsdale Central PTOs disclaim all liability for any damages, injuries, losses, expenses, or claims of any kind arising out of the provision of services by anyone or any agency appearing on The Parent List.

WWII Days (Reimagined)

The WWII Day Committee is looking for your personal, family artifacts from WWII. Letters, clothing, newspaper clippings, small equipment, photographs, gear … or whatever you have that will give the 8th graders more insight into what it was like to be a part of WWII (whether on the Homefront or abroad). All artifacts will be on display in the locked Cafetorium for an in-school field trip. Along with the artifact, we would also love a written “story” to accompany the item so they can understand more about what it is, who it came from, and why it is significant.

Please contact Stephanie Konieczka with questions, comments, or to organize dropping off your artifact. All artifacts to be received by February 15, 2021.
steph.konie@yahoo.com

Your help is greatly appreciated as we reimagine our beloved WWII Day Event in new, safer ways.

Yearbook Pictures! Submit Your Pictures Now!

We need your help! Since it has definitely been a different year-to-date, we want the HMS yearbook to reflect how the students are living and learning during these unprecedented times. In order to do that, the Yearbook Club is soliciting pictures from parents.

If you would like to submit pictures for consideration to the yearbook staff:

Download the Yearbook Snap mobile app from the App Store or Google Play, and enter our access code: 21_HMS_spartans
Go to yearbookforever.com, enter our school name, click on Community Upload and enter our access code: 21_HMS_spartans

The categories listed in the program were not able to be changed to meet our needs so we had to get creative! In order to upload pictures, you will need to select a category from a list generated by the yearbook company. Therefore, below is a list of pictures we are planning to include in the yearbook, the category to select/upload for the specified pictures, and due dates.  For example, if you would like to upload a picture of your HMS student(s) with the new puppy, you would select “Softball” as the category.  This week is the last week to submit pictures!

Requested Pictures to Upload

 

Please note we would like to represent the entire student body so please choose 3-4 categories and only upload 2-3 pictures for each of those categories. Additionally, when selecting pictures to upload, please be sure they only include HMS students.

As the yearbook is being assembled, additional picture requests may be added to the list above.

Thank you in advance for your assistance,

The HMS Yearbook Club

Early Voting District 86 Candidate Forum-February 21st

Hello,

Independent Voters for D86 would like to invite the Hinsdale Middle School community to the Early Voting District 86 Board of Education Candidate Forum on Sunday, February 21 from 3:30 pm to 5:45 pm that will be held live and via Zoom.

This event has been organized to provide an opportunity for all D86 voters to hear the BOE candidates discuss issues of importance in D86. Written questions may be submitted until February 16, 2021, via private message on Facebook or to independentvotersford86@gmail.com. Prevalent themes in community submissions will provide the basis for moderator questions to all the candidates during this Q&A session.

This event is free and open to the public. It is a non-partisan, unbiased, impartial forum.

More information can be found on the attached digital flyer. In addition, please view the Facebook page and event page for further details.

Link to D86 BOE Candidate Forum Page

Link to D86 Candidate Event Page

Sincerely,

Independent Voters for D86