Originally delivered on 11/6/2025 10:12 am

SUBJECT: November Hoover Headlines

Hoover Elementary School PTA
Lunch Clubs Are Back

Each winter, Hoover hosts Lunch Clubs to give students a fun, indoor recess option during the colder months — and it’s one of our favorite school traditions!

We’re looking for parent volunteers to host clubs during the lunch hour (12:00–1:00 PM). You don’t need teaching experience — just enthusiasm and a willingness to lead a small group of kids in a fun activity.

Former Lunch Clubs have included:

Art Club  Knee Hockey  Puzzle Club  Coloring Club  Pokémon Club

Have your own idea? Wonderful! Not sure what to lead? We can share simple, ready-to-go ideas and supplies.

Details:

  • Session 1: January 27 – February 14
  • Session 2: February 24 – March 14
  • Commitment: 1 hour, once a week for 3 weeks (or 6 weeks if you host both sessions)

Sign up by Friday, December 5th by reaching out to Jenn Boal at jennifer.boal811@gmail.com

Read-A-Thon Wrap Up!

The Great Hoover Reading Raffle all wrapped up!  Here are the final minute totals.  

Congratulations to Star Reader classes: AM Kindergarten, Dicesare, Richards, Lamb, Zerega, and Pitzer.  Some of these competitions were so close they only won by minutes!  All of our students should be proud of how hard they pushed themselves.  

Congratulations to our Daily Raffle prizes as well:

  • Fun Fore All Tickets: Albery Magnotta

  • Children’s Museum Passes: Michael Monaco

  • SImmons Farm Passes: Marlette Toole

  • Little NIppers Pizza and Phoenix Theater passes: Amanda Benedict

  • VIP Parking (Friday): David Woehler III

  • VIP Parking (Saturday): David Woehler III

  • VIP Parking (Sunday): Megan Criswell

  • Steelers Tickets: Sara Leuders

Thank you to everyone who helped make the Read-A-Thon such a success.  From the hard working students, our dedicated teachers, and our persistent parents and guardians out there we make this work, together.  A huge thanks to all the teachers who volunteered their time to offer special experience prizes for the students.  These are treasured by the students and appreciated by all.  

Special thanks to these organizations that donated toward the Read-A-Thon.  If you can, please support these companies that support our community:

  • Little NIppers Pizza

  • Phoenix Theater

  • Dandelion Kids

  • The Children’s Museum

  • South Park Theater

  • Simmons Farm

  • Ascent

  • Fun Fore All

  • Kathy’s Music

  • Mt. Lebanon Fire Department

  • Jefferson Middle School Musical

  • Mellon Middle School Musical


As always if you have any feedback, suggestions, or comments, please send them to PTAHooverHawks@gmail.com.

PTA BUDGET

The PTA Budget for 2025-2026 was passed in October’s meeting. Thank you to all who voted and are already making this budget a reality.  The budget can be found here.  If you have any questions regarding any item please reach out to PTAHooverHawks@gmail.com.

 

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