Boo Bash is Here!
Today is the day! Horace Mann School will be transformed for the Boo Bash Fall Festival this evening, 5-8pm! The whole family is invited, and costumes are welcome! There is no entry fee, but tickets are sold to participate in the various activities... carnival games, a classic haunted house (rated PG) and Junior House of Horrors (an all-ages touch-and-feel experience), neon glow party, crafts, food, and Bootique. Tickets will be available throughout the event, for $1 each. Please join us for a night of spooky fun fundraising - all proceeds go towards sending our 5th grade class to Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center for a week in May. Thank you for your support!
It's Time to Sign Up for Conferences
We love to meet all the families in person for conferences. We also believe there are reasons a family might need a virtual Google Meet conference. We want to accommodate everyone’s needs. We are able to offer one conference per family per child (due to our student numbers and the short time dedicated for conferences).
If you need a virtual conference, please reach out to your child's teacher. They may want to keep virtual conferences grouped together at a particular time.
- Here is the link to sign up: https://ptcfast.com/schools/Horace_Mann_School.
Horace Mann is hosting a Ridwell plastic film drive!
Horace Mann is keeping plastic film out of landfills with Ridwell this fall! You’re invited to bring plastic film (ziptop bags, grocery bags, bubble wrap, and lots more) to school on November 1st and Ridwell will make sure it stays out of landfills. Start collecting plastic film now so you have a bunch to bring on 11/1!
Bring your plastic film at drop-off or pick-up on November 1st and we will have students outside to collect it from you!
This info sheet explains what plastic film is and why it’s hard to recycle, and this video shows a ton of examples. All the plastic film we collect during the drive will be turned into Trex decking!
Curious about Ridwell at-home recycling pickup? They collect hundreds of common household items you can’t recycle curbside, like plastic food packaging, lightbulbs, clothes, Styrofoam, and more. You can help the school earn rewards if you sign up for a household membership by December 15. We’ll earn pickup of the school’s plastic film all spring when 10 new members sign up!
Find out more at https://get.ridwell.com/hms —it’s a unique link just for our school, so when you sign up there, your membership counts toward our totals. You can share it with friends and family, too, and their membership will also count! (Just make sure they live in a Ridwell service area.) Questions? Email stuart.tasia@gmail.com.
Fall Gardens Clean Up- Come One Come All
Come join the Landscape Committee, teachers, and lots of Horace Mann families on Saturday November 2nd from 9-12.
Spend a few hours weeding, raking and enjoying this gorgeous fall weather! No gardening experience needed and stay for as long as you are able. If you have gardening supplies, please bring them - gloves, rakes, shovels, wheelbarrows and those cool dandelion diggers are always welcome!
Your hard work will help make our school more beautiful and help teachers provide safe spaces for environmental education this spring. We will have coffee, juice & donuts too!
If you have questions, please reach out to Eric Zakovich (ericzakovich@yahoo.com) or Hannah Ryan (hannah.ryan@spps.org).
Important Dates
Thursday, October 24
- 5:00-8:00pm Boo Bash - Haunted House and Carnival
Friday, October 25
- No School- Conference Prep Day
Monday, October 28
- 7:55am Readathon Opening Assembly
- 2:00-3:45pm Extended Day for Learning (EDL)
Tuesday, October 29
- 2:00-3:00pm Language Sprouts Spanish
- 6:00pm PTA Meeting in the Library
Wednesday, October 30
- 7:45-9:00am Picture Retake Day
- 2:00-3:45pm Extended Day for Learning (EDL)
Thursday, October 31
- 8:30-10:00am 1st Grade Starbooks Cafe in Holleran Hall
- 2:00-3:00pm Language Sprouts Spanish
Monday, November 4
- 2:00-3:45pm Extended Day for Learning (EDL)
Tuesday, November 5
- 2:00-3:00pm Language Sprouts Spanish
Wednesday, November 6
- 8:15am Tour for Prospective Families
- 2:00-3:45pm Extended Day for Learning (EDL)
Thursday, November 7
- 3:00-6:00pm Fall Conferences & Scholastic Book Fair in the Library
Friday, November 8
- No School- Conferences
- 8:00am-3:00pm Fall Conferences & Scholastic Book Fair in the Library
YEARBOOK
The Yearbook needs your photos! The HMS community wants to see all those smiling faces and include them in the yearbook to capture favorite memories. Don't wait until the spring to send in your photos. You can send them as you take them! Email all photos to yearbook@hms-pta.org. Please include your child's grade and teacher in the subject line.
Horace Mann School Contacts and Social Media
Email: jim.litwin@spps.org
Website: https://mann.spps.org/
Location: Horace Mann School, 2001 Eleanor Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55116
Phone: 651-293-8965
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SPPSHoraceMannSchool/