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    HBT Newsletters 24-25

    HBT Newsletters for the 24-25 School Year Each month HBT posts a newsletter. You can return to this post to find the previous newsletters for the school year. June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 December 2024 November 2024 October 2024 September 2024 August 2024

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    Friday Fact 11/1

    Early Voting is Open This Weekend! To find locations and times, visit the Kane County Clerk’s Office website.  Miss any Tuesday Tidbit or Friday Facts? Click here#WeAreCentral 

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  • October Student of the Month Breakfast

    Congratulations to our October Students of the Month. This month marked the first time we honored students with a special recognition since 2020. The CHS Food Services team prepared a wonderful breakfast, teachers spoke about each individual student and a group picture was taken. Moving forward, each month a staff member from each department is…

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  • Blueprints

    Tuesday Tidbit 10/29

    Where can I learn more about how our buildings will be retrofitted if the referendum passes? In September, the District held two Design Dive events that allowed community members the opportunity to review, discuss, and provide feedback about the plans to retrofit our current buildings if the referendum passes. These plans included the retrofitting needed…

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    Kindergarten Math

    Kindergarten Students Are Engaged In Their Learning This summer our Kindergarten teachers, along with some 5th grade teachers, attended professional development surrounding increasing student engagement in the math classroom. This professional development was centered around the book titled Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics by Peter Liljedahl. The big ideas involve students working in groups of…

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  • Thank you PTO!

    The PTO supports our Cougar Pride program by purchasing t-shirts for all of our kindergarten students. Our kindergarten students are excited to support their house color team with their new shirts. Thank you PTO!

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    Author Visit

    Welcome Author Deb Skog! Our first graders are becoming literary gurus! Author Deb Skog visited our first graders and read her book “A day at the Pumpkin Farm”. Students were delighted to have a real life author come to read their story as they intended it to be read. Look at those amazing smiles. I…

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  • Be You!

    PV’s School-Wide Art Project Our amazing Administrative Assistant Audrie Freeman, who by trade is an interior designer, and our fabulous Art Teacher, Ms. Amy Parks, collaborated in facilitating and designing this beautiful “Be You” board for our Prairie View Community. Each student and staff member created a tile with images that represented who they are as…

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  • Veterans Day 2024

    Falcon Families, As Veterans Day approaches, Prairie Knolls Middle School would like to honor all of the people who have sacrificed so much to ensure that safety and security of all Americans. We are forever grateful for everything that our Veterans have done for us! On Monday, November 11th, we will be hosting an assembly…

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    Halloween Costume Rules

    With Halloween quickly approaching, and as your child is planning their costume, please consider certain factors in choosing which costume is best.  We encourage students at CMS to dress up for Halloween, however, there are a few things that they need to know so we can have fun and keep the school safe at the…

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    Friday Fact 10/25

    Friday Facts: Honoring our past, building our future. Let’s move forward together!  WATCH: “As It Was“​ Miss any Tuesday Tidbit or Friday Facts? Click here #WeAreCentral

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