The Hudson Band adopts angels from the GISD Angel Tree every year to help brighten the holidays for less fortunate students in our district. We will begin collecting donations for our angels this week. If you would like to participate, please send cash or checks made out to Hudson Band Boosters with your F2F students. If you are virtual and would like to make a donation, you can drop one off tomorrow evening at our drive-thru materials pickup, drop off in the front office, or send donations through PayPal to president@hudsonband.org with Student Name - Angel Adoption in the memo. This is strictly optional - we just want to do what we can to help students in need. Mrs. Becker will take all of the donations and shop for our angels during the Thanksgiving break.

**See pictures below for step-by-step PayPal donation info.**

If you shop on Amazon often, please consider selecting the Hudson Middle School Band Booster as your charity of choice through Amazon Smile. When you do this, your purchases directly benefit our band program.

Click HERE if you are interested in viewing the band's Amazon wish list.

Log in to Charms using the school code hudsonsoundmachine and your student's password. Passwords for brand new students should be the student ID with 6 digits only. If you cannot get logged on, please contact Mrs. Becker. She has discovered a new way to reset passwords!

You can click the "finances" button and pay fall band fees using Paypal. If you have logged in and are paying band fees, but your student has a credit on their account, the easiest thing to do is to make a miscellaneous payment. You can specify what the payment is for since it will be for the remaining balance and not the entire Fall fee. Then you can "request a transfer" of that payment to go to the fall fees.

School-owned instrument fees will still be paid in Skyward this year. We are having a little trouble getting that set up correctly since this is a change from previous years. We made some headway last week and hope to be completely set up by the end of this week. Stay tuned for more info!