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Upcoming Dates to Note:

• 2/5: OBOS Highlands Spirit Day: Wear your favorite Highlands gear or blue and white!
• 2/7: Deadline to enter students t-shirt size for LAMP Camp
• 2/17: NO SCHOOL - Presidents' Day

Beginning today, the entire Highlands community -- every student, family and teacher -- will read the same book over the next five weeks. This year’s book is The Great Shelby Holmes by Elizabeth Eulberg!

Read below for details:

• The youngest Highlands student in each family received one copy of the book, a discussion bookmark, and a family program guide packet on Friday, 1/31. This program guide outlines more details about the program and the weekly reading schedule.
• Each week through March 7, there are suggested chapters to read and discuss together at home.
• Suggested reading for this week: Chapters 1 - 6
• Wednesdays are special school spirit days! This Wednesday, 2/5 is Highlands Spirit Day: Wear your favorite Highlands gear or blue and white!
• The website for the program with more details can be accessed at the link below: https://sites.google.com/naperville203.org/highlandsobos/home

One Book, One School questions? Please contact Erin Mueller at erincmueller4@gmail.com

The Yearbook Committee would like to remind you to start designing your 2 FREE custom yearbook pages. These custom pages are optional, but a fun way to make your yearbook extra special! These custom pages are only included in your book. Use your creativity to add pictures, graphics & text to make your book memorable.

The deadline to complete these pages is APRIL 15th. See detailed flyer below for more details!

Link to flyer: Custom Yearbook Page flyer.pdf

Those who have been at Highlands for a a few years may remember the Spring tradition of LAMP Camp. New friends may be familiar with common school traditions of field days at the end of the school year. At Highlands, we always like to go the extra mile, so our version of a "field day" is a multi day event with grade level games and activities in May. We call it LAMP Camp because we integrate activities from LC, Art, Music and PE.

As a part of the fun, every spring Mr. Wood helps students screen print LAMP Camp t-shirts. Every class will come up with their own class design, and each student will get to print their own shirt (good news for parents who like to get messy: Mr. Wood will have a lot of volunteer opportunities where you can stain your clothing in early to mid April).

Home and School generously provides the t-shirts for every student, but if your child would like a specific size, we will need you to indicate the child's name, class and t-shirt size. This form must be filled out separately for each of your children (please DO NOT put multiple children's names on one form).

If you do not fill out this form, Home and School will order Youth Medium for K-2nd students and Youth XL for 3-5th graders.

This form must be filled out by February 7 to get your preferred size of t-shirt.

Link to form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSFOeYfDh2v_PTdjUpgonrhbvhEysnVC-gYsbaPj2K5-8OrA/viewform?usp=sf_link

We thank our current and past H&S/SFCP volunteers for all of your hard work and dedication to Highlands Elementary!

Our Home & School Association and SFCP programs cannot run without your help! We are always looking for great volunteers to bring new ideas and continue the amazing programs we have at Highlands. We are currently looking to fill Exec Board positions and Committee Chair roles for terms starting with the next school year.

Please click on this link to review the open positions and to express your interest in volunteering.

If you are interested in any of the positions or have questions and would like to learn more, please submit this form and someone from our Exec Board will reach out to you. Current volunteers will begin training new volunteers before the end of the school year. Please note that without the support of wonderful volunteers like you, we risk pausing or discontinuing programs. Thank you for your consideration!

If you have a child (or know any neighborhood children) who will who will attend Highlands next year, please call the office at 630-420-6335 or e-mail your incoming student’s full name, address, birthday and your contact information to Leslie Cameli at lcameli@naperville203.org

Kindergarten Preview for 2025-26 Kindergarteners will be held on Monday, 3/17/25.

• 8:30-9:15 AM: A-L (last names)
• 9:45-10:30 AM: M-Z (last names)

Current Kindergarten students do not have school on 3/17 to due to Preview.

Save The Date for the 2nd grade music concert: Mad About Minibeasts!

Tuesday, April 15

• 6:00pm- Caldwell/Kime
• 7:00pm- Birch/ Ebervein

Save The Date for the 5th grade Music Show Case:

Thursday, April 24

• 6:00pm- Doran/Eilers
• 7:00pm- Kessler/Malikowski

The Book Cart is ready for visitors on Wednesday morning. There are so many books to choose from, with favorites for all grades and reading levels!

The Book Cart is a pop up bookstore for students to visit on Wednesday morning. Books are priced between $3-$7. Students who bring money and wish to shop should let their teacher know as soon as they arrive at school on Wednesday. Our friendly volunteers look forward to helping your child select a book when they come to visit!

Website: https://www.naperville203.org/Domain/11
Location: 525 South Brainard Street, Naperville, IL, USA
Phone: 630-420-6335
Twitter: @Highlands203