District Digest

Glen Ellyn School District 41

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December 8, 2023

In this issue…

Board of Education Meetings
Calendar Reminders
D41 Concerts Schedule
"Your Child's Anxiety" next Mental Health Webinar
Parent Coaching During the Holidays
Connect41 Community Newsletter
D41 Teacher Publishes Children’s Book
Lincoln School Raises Funds for Honor Flight
Hadley Winter Orchestra Concert
Imagination Library Raffle
D41 Kids Foundation Winter Outerwear
Keep Your Medicaid
Glenbard Parent Series

Calendar Reminders

Friday, December 22 - SIP DAY - 11:30am dismissal (No Pre-K, EC or K attendance)
Monday, December 25 through Friday, January 5, 2024 - Winter Break

Board of Education Meetings

Monday, December 18, 2023 Public Hearing and Regular Board Meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Hadley
Monday, January 8, 2024 Committee of the Whole Meeting, 6:30 p.m. at Hadley

For Board Meeting agendas CLICK HERE. For Board Meeting stream archives CLICK HERE

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Upcoming D41 Fall and Winter Concerts

6th Grade Band Concert December 12, 6:15pm

7th Grade Band Concert December 12, 7:45pm
5th Grade Band Concert December 13, 6:30pm

Jazz Band Concert December 14, 7pm

8th Grade Band Concert December 19, 7pm

"Your Child's Anxiety" Webinar Scheduled for Tuesday, December 12

District 41 is offering twelve one-hour parent coaching webinars (in English and Spanish), referred to as the Mental Health Series. These are designed to support parents on topics such as anxiety, the effects of screen time and your child’s mental health, and suicide prevention.

Over 80 District 41 families have participated or watched the first webinar. We hope to continue to increase this number and provide valuable information/support to families. Our goal is to see our participation numbers double. These are extremely valuable resources for families and participation will drive future decisions for the district.

The next webinar event "Your Child's Anxiety" will take place on Tuesday, December 12 at 6:30 pm.
Register for the webinar here:

- ENGLISH

- EN ESPANOL

Visit the D41 Mental Health Series website HERE

Parent Coaching During the Holidays

We know the holiday season can bring on additional stress. Parent Coaching is a FREE resource that provides parents and caregivers the opportunity to meet with a Parent Coach to guide you through whatever issues you or your child are dealing with.

Over 190 District 41 families have engaged with Parent Coaching through the website and 13 families have been working directly with a coach. If you need support or simply have a parenting question, this is for you! We hope the number of families engaging with coaching continues to increase and provides the support needed.

To register for support from a coach CLICK HERE | clic para espanol

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Connect 41 Community Newsletter | Winter 2023

Twice a year, District 41 sends out a print newsletter to all households in the District 41 boundaries. If you live within District 41, you should have received a newsletter in the mail over the past couple of weeks. Sending a print newsletter is one of the ways District 41 connects with the almost 80 percent of households that do not currently have children attending a District 41 school. The most recent newsletter includes updates and celebrations about building a full day kindergarten center, new free mental health resources for families, a number of student accomplishments, and welcoming a new Board of Education member.

Click here for the Connect 41 community newsletter.

Foreign Language Spanish Teacher Publishes Children’s Book

Churchill Elementary Foreign Language in the Elementary School (FLES) teacher Megan Petramale recently published the book “El Armadillo Amarillo.” It's a Spanish-language, rhyming children's book that is about an armadillo who is sad because the other animals make fun of him and the way he dresses. He learns that it is important to just embrace being yourself and being happy, and others will follow. “I wrote the book because as a language teacher, it was sometimes a struggle to find quality stories in Spanish that weren't just translated stories from English--especially with rhyming! And, as a teacher and a mom, I always love stories that tie in SEL lessons!,” said Mrs. Petramale.

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Lincoln School Raises Funds for Honor Flight

Lincoln School celebrated Veterans Day in a number of ways this year. In addition to a bulletin board honoring veterans, Lincoln ran a change collection in honor of Veterans Day. This month-long collection raised money to help sponsor a senior veteran's Honor Flight to Washington, DC to see the monuments built in tribute to their service. The goal was $1,200, which would sponsor one veteran. The school collected $1,357.67! The monthly 5th Grade Gives Back charity initiative also donated November's sales to the collection, bringing the total donation to $1,651.00.
Thank you, Lincoln School community!

Hadley Winter Orchestra Concert

Congratulations to all of the Hadley Orchestra students who performed at the Winter Orchestra Concert on November 29. The 6th Grade Orchestra performed a unique flash mob of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy," which led into an exciting orchestral version of "Beethoven's Ninth" Symphony. 6th grade student, Josephine Huard, performed a beautiful cello solo to lead the orchestra into the Flash Mob. "Jazzy Old Saint Nick," was performed with guest conductor, arranger & violinist, Mr. Tom Bowling. Mr. Bowling arranged classical and jazz solos for students to perform which also led to some jazz improvisation. Electric violins and violas were also used to heighten the excitement. Wonderful solo's were performed by 8th grade student Joleen Jayme on violin, 8th grade student Chloe Kim on viola & 6th grade student Emilie Scarleski on violin.

The 7th and 8th Grade Orchestra performed two exciting selections named " The Abandoned Funhouse," by Brian Balmages and from Carmen's Opera, "Habanera" written by Georges Bizet. This piece also featured our student soloists again with Mr. Bowling performing.

An exciting Grand Finale took place at the end of the performance with all of the 6th, 7th & 8th grade orchestra students combined with Mr. Tom Bowling improvising on Jacques Offenbach's piece entitled the "Can-Can," from Orpheus in the Underworld. It was a beautiful sight to see everyone playing all together! This evening's performance with Mr. Tom Bowling was generously sponsored by the JCS Grant of the DuPage Foundation. Thank you DuPage Foundation!

A sincere thank you goes to our Hadley principal, Mr. Steve Diveley, our special guest artist Mr. Tom Bowling, piano accompanists Mrs. Cathy Hlavacek & Mrs. Susan Locke, Wheaton College Student Miss Claire Collins, and all of the orchestra parents and students helping to prepare for this eventful evening. Congratulations Hadley Orchestra students!

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Enter the D41 Kids Dolly Parton Imagination Library Raffle

Dolly Parton and the D41 Kids Foundation have partnered to mail books every month to kids under the age of 5 living within District 41! Purchase a raffle ticket for $29 and enter to win a handmade tuffet and poem and provide literacy to a child. Winning tickets will be pulled Dec. 9th. As Dolly says, “You can never get enough books into the hands of enough children.” Enter the raffle here: https://rafflecreator.com/.../2023-dpil-raffle---tuffet

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D41 Kids Foundation Winter Outerwear Program

(a.k.a. “Karen’s Closet”)

This program is dedicated to providing winter outerwear for children in D41 whose families are unable to afford proper cold-weather gear. You may support this program by donating via our Amazon wish list at any time. Please be sure to select Lee Fruit as the recipient when designating the shipping address. For questions, contact Lee at leefruit@ameritech.net