Hawk's Tale Newsletter

10/2 - Walk or Roll to School Day

10/5 - Tough Kid Challenge @ Highlands Elementary 9am-1pm *SEE FLYER BELOW*

10/5 - The Academy Martial Arts Leadership Parent's Night Out *SEE FLYER BELOW*

10/10 - PTO Meeting 6:00 (LMC)

10/11 - PTO Fall Fest 4:30-7:00

10/22 - Parent/Teacher Conferences 4:00-7:30

10/24 - Parent/Teacher Conferences 4:00-7:15

10/24 - PTO Family Night Out @ Stuc's Pizza

10/25 - NO SCHOOL

10/29 - Picture Retake Day

Houdini Elementary is considering an addition to our Blue Ribbon School campus: an Outdoor Classroom! We need your input on the potential project. Please complete this short survey.

Please follow the link below to sign up for parent/teacher conferences. Conferences will be held on Tuesday, October 22nd and Thursday, October 24th.

Houdini Parent/Teacher Conference Sign Up

Please use the photo proofs you received on picture day for ordering instructions. Please contact Harmann with any questions at 1-800-236-8910.

The Appleton Area School District, in collaboration with the Appleton Noon Lions Club, will provide vision screenings for students in the following grade levels at Houdini Elementary on Thursday, October 10th, 2024; Kindergarten, 2nd grade, 4th grade, new students, and students out of range the previous year. Volunteers from the Appleton Noon Lions Club will be doing the screening with a SPOT camera, an automated vision screening technology. The screening time for a student is typically less than 10 seconds, and parents are provided with a printed summary of the vision screening results. If your child currently wears prescription eye glasses or contact lenses, please be sure he/she is wearing the prescription lenses for this screening. If you do not wish to have your child participate in this vision screening, please contact your child's teacher directly.

Please help make this event a success!

• Help gather pumpkins, haybales, mums, etc. for decorations and photo booth area
• Assemble silent auction baskets
• Work the concession stand for one hour
• Help keep the inflatables line organized and moving for one hour
• Monitor the face painting line and punch punchcards for one hour

Sign up to help here!

If you're unable to volunteer, you can still support us by donating items needed for the concessions stand. Please view the sign-up below to see what items are needed.

Concessions Donations - Sign Up

*If the cost of this event will be a financial hardship for your family, please reach out to Tracy Aliota, School Counselor, at aliotatracy@aasd.k12.wi.us. There are funds available for this and every Houdini PTO event*

Fall Festival will be Friday, October 11th. Games and concessions open at 4:30pm, with the event ending at 7:00pm.

This year we will be having a silent auction and we need your help! Each grade has a theme, and we are asking families to donate items in order to create baskets to bid on. Please see the flyer below that has gone home with your student.

So, how can you help?

Donated items fitting the themes below (labeled for grade level) can be brought to the office OR feel free to email ptohoudini@gmail.com and a volunteer will pick up the items from your student's classroom!

Lastly, if you know of any local businesses who would like to donate a gift basket or gift certificate, please let us know and a volunteer will contact that business.

K: Arts & Crafts

1: Movie Night

2: Fun and Games

3: Outdoor Adventures

4: Baking Up Memories

5: Let It Snow

Thank you for your partnership in building community at Houdini!

Houdini PTO

We have the opportunity to raise money for our school by partnering with Osorio's at Appleton's Octoberfest on September 28th. Osorio's has chosen Houdini PTO to be their non-profit partner. We will get 20% of all sales from the day. Can you volunteer for one hour to help at the food truck? We appreciate your help and support!

Sign up to volunteer here!

Houdini PTO