A Hamster for Horace Mann...and a Few Other Things

Lots of big events this week at Horace Mann!  For the second consecutive year, our students with moderate-intensive disabilities were fortunate to experience Adapted Kids Love Musicals via a grant.  Our students enjoyed singing, dancing and using props such as elephant ears and tiger caps to perform The Jungle Book.  Thank you to The Musical Theater Project for finding a way to bring this amazing program to us again this year, free of charge.

Sticking with music, Mr. Waryk and Ms. Mallchok, our music teachers, outdid themselves with a trip around the world for our Spring Concert.  We were delighted to hear children singing in many different languages!  The 2nd/3rd  and 4th/5th grade choirs are really building their musical talents, impressing us all!  Keep singing everyone, you sound terrific :-)  Thanks, too, to the families who packed our gym to capacity once again.  A video link to the concert will be shared in about a week, and you can also view plenty of great photos on the Horace Mann PTA Facebook page.

Finally, we had a big pep rally to kick off our very first One School, One Book event.  With appearances by the St. Ed's Trash Talkers drum corps., LHS Cheerleaders, Ranger Man and a life-size hamster--all doing the Hamster Dance--it was a rockin' good time!  We owe thanks to Grant School for walking over to join the party, Mrs. Chanter for emceeing, all the staff who planned the event, and PTA for preparing the book packets to go home.  Now, families, it is your turn:  please be sure to read with your child each night and complete the ticket so s/he can be entered to win a prize.  We hope you'll follow the event blog as well (watch for the link in your student's backpack).  Our new school pet hamster (named Humphrey, of course), will be spending time in classrooms for the rest of the school year.  He's a cutie!