1. Families of HILA PRIDE Party - Fall Festival
will meet at 6:00 p.m. in the auditorium Did your child earn 20 points?
October 30, 2012 November 1, 2012
The Hope Institute Learning Academy
Hawk News
October 24, 2012 Volume 2012/Number 2
A Word from
Mr. Jakubowski
Dear Parents and Friends:
The Scholastic Book Fair at the Hope Institute Learning Academy
I hope you enjoyed last month’s Hawk News. Please
began Monday, October 22, and will run through Monday, October
ensure you communicate with your child’s teacher each
29. We hope you can join us.
week to review their progress. Report card pickup will be
on Wednesday, November 7th. Students will be dismissed The exciting theme for our fall 2012 book fair is All-Star Book
Fair: Every Reader is a Star! We hope parents and other famiy
at 12:30 p.m. that day. Conferences will begin at 1:00 p.m.
members will share their love of reading with our students and
Kindergarten through third grade students should enter support this excellent project.
through the main entrance in the mornings until outdoor
duty resumes (spring). Fourth and fifth grade students Science fair coming to
should still enter door #6 in the morning. Please continue
to ensure that your children arrive in their classrooms HILA in November
before 8 a.m. each day. Starting each day with a healthy The second annual HILA Science Fair is just around the corner.
breakfast and positive social interactions with classmates Students should be developing their ideas for a science fair project,
enables each child to feel good about coming to school and those ideas should be approved by teachers this week. The
each day! final science fair projects should be brought to school no later than
November 27. Display boards for science fair projects are available
I’m excited to welcome Mrs. Melinda Berry and Mrs. in the school office for $2.25 each. Please see Ms. Hall in the office
Cindy Weinreb as this year’s Chair and Vice Chair of the to purchase these boards.
Families of HILA. The next Families of HILA meeting
will take place on Tuesday, October 30, at 6 p.m. An HILA stu-
agenda will be sent out by the end of next week. We hope dents work on
their science
that many of you can attend this meeting and help HILA
fair projects
grow as a community.
during the
2011-2012
Lastly, please contact your child’s teacher if you have any
school year.
questions regarding this year’s science fair. All projects
Science fair
are due on Tuesday, November 27. projects are
due no later
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t than Novem-
hesitate to call or email me directly. ber 27, 2012.
Display
Michael Jakubowski boards are
Principal available in
(773) 534 - 7405 the HILA
office.
mjakubowski@thehopeinstitute.us

2. October 24, 2012 Hawk News Volume 2012/ Number2
HILA PRIDE Fall Festival to HILA first
be held November 1, 2012 graders visit
The HILA PRIDE Fall Festival will be held on Thursday, November
1st. Students have the opportunity to participate in the Fall Festival by a pumpkin
farm
earning 20 PRIDE points. For students to be on track, they should have
earned more than half of their points by now. Students may continue to
earn points for positive pride behaviors up until the day of the party.
The Fall Festival will include painting individual mini-pumpkins for The first grade classes went to Bengston’s Pumpkin Farm last
students to take home. If students finish early, they have the option of
week! It was an awesome trip. Students participated in many fun
watching “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” or participating in a
scavenger hunt type game. A schedule with specific grade-level times for fall activities. The children went on a hayride, saw scarecrows,
the Fall Festival will be sent out in the near future. went through the corn maze, and even watched a pig race! Many
wonderful parent volunteers helped to make this trip successful.
The classes had a wonderful time learning about how pumpkins
are grown all on a gorgeous day. Each HILA first grader got to
take a pumpkin home!
HILA applications for new
students available online
We are glad to announce that the 2013-2014 enrollment process is
now open! The Hope Institute Learning Academy will be accept-
ing applications for new students until the application deadline on
March 22, 2013.
The Hope Institute Learning Academy (HILA) is a contract school
embracing diversity and serving students of all learning styles
and abilities. Through individualized instruction and data-driven
Reading for the Record - Chicago Alderman Walter Burnett best practices, HILA makes a commitment to better outcomes
reads to HILA students during the October 4 Read for the Record for students. HILA is what education should be – personalized,
event sponsored by Jumpstart and Pearson. responsive, engaging and innovative.
Please share this information with any family you know that may
Online Resources
be interested in having their child attend HILA.
Community technology
We want to help parents stay connected online! Here
are some important links that may help parents and center opens at HILA
students:
A new Community Technology Center recently opened on the
HILA Website: campus of The Hope Institute Learning Academy (HILA). The
www.hopeinstitutelearningacademy.org purpose of the new center, underwritten by the Illinois Depart-
HILA Facebook Page: ment of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, is to make com-
puter and internet access more widely available to the public.
www.facebook.com/pages/Hope-Institute-Learning-
Academy/73261023779 The HILA Community Technology Center will be open weekdays
from 7:45 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Fifteen computers are available
CPS School Lunch Menus for public use. Each computer provides access to an internet
www.cpsmeals.org browser, Microsoft Office, and Print Shop. Informal training
(Use the pull-down menu to find “Hope Academy” and assistance in computer use will be available most afternoons.
Most import, there is no charge for the use of the computers or
The Hope Institute Website for printing brief documents. Additional information about the
www.thehopeinstitute.us center can be obtained by calling 773-534-9431