3:27:15 Newsletter - Hillside Elementary School
HILLSIDE NEWS March 27, 2015 MARCH APRIL 30 31 31 [email protected] [email protected] 781-455-0461 Talent Show rehearsals Talent Show rehearsals 12:15 PM EarlyRelease Day-12:15 Grades 1-5 NO AM/PM K - conferences 3 10 14 16 20-24 27 Good Friday - Schools closed Hillside Talent Show (See flyer below) Delayed Opening - School opens 10:20 AM Hillside Recipe Contest (See flyer below) April Recess Classes Resume MCAS Schedule 4th Grade 4/1/15 4/2/15 5th Grade 3/30/15 The PTC Hillside Hornet Buzz Although spring does not look like it has sprung, we still have hope! We have a new fundraiser just in time for Mother’s Day! In your child’s backpack TODAY you should have received a brochure for spring flower bulbs and sweet chocolate treats! Mother’s Day Gift Ideas: Meadow Farms Bulbs & Chocolates: Looking for fresh new ideas for Mother’s Day? Consider bulbs and chocolates to help Mom welcome back spring. Orders are due April 10th with delivery in time for Mother’s Day! You can also check out the brochures online. Orders will go home with your children allowing them to present their Mother’s Day gift! http://www.meadowfarms.com/art-innature-2014/ and http://www.meadowfarms.com/ chocolate-indulgences/. We also have some other important collections, fundraisers and projects happening right now. Please read below for more details on all the things we have going on. Spin and Sip Fundraiser: Join us (adults only!) on Thursday, April 16th at 7:30 pm at Cycle Bar in Wellesley for a beginner/moderate-level spin class. Then, stick around a bit for some refreshments after! Not only will this be a fun way for parents to socialize, but it’s a great way to test out spinning for those that have been contemplating taking a class, but were too raffle off some fun items to our wonderful Hillside nervous to go! No judgment, just fun! The cost will be kids and families! $20/person – that will cover the class and your post-class beverage. Raffle Items Needed: We are actively looking for raffle items and welcome your help. The types of items To register, please use the following link: http:// we are collecting are ones that parents, children and/or wellesley.cyclebar.com/apps/mindbody/classes/195. We entire families may enjoy. need at least 20 people to sign up to have this event run, but are limited to 48! If you have any questions, Some examples of prize donations to consider: please contact Seema ([email protected]). 1. Ask your favorite restaurant or local shop if they would be willing to donate a gift certificate to the raffle. NEW WELCOME COMMITTEE!!! Have you ever said, “I wish I knew about that when I first came to 2. Purchase a gift card to donate on your family’s Hillside!”? If so, are you willing to share your Hillside experiences with a new Hillside family? Come join the behalf from your favorite toy store, ice cream new Hillside Welcome Committee. Our purpose is to shop or to a movie theater. reach out to the roughly 50-60 new families joining Hillside each year to ensure that they are made to feel 3. Ask someone who owns season sports tickets welcome. if they would be willing to give up one night Our first step is to get some volunteers who want to be a to help out. “buddy” to a new family. This need not be a huge time 4. Offer services from your own local business. commitment and you can do as much as will fit into your schedule. We need your ideas on initial outreach, parent 5. Contribute a fun prize idea students might like and family event planning and thoughts on how we get new families connected to our school. (it doesn’t have to cost money!) If you are interested, please contact Allison Coburn at [email protected] or 617.504.0456. Needham Gives Back! This Saturday, 3/28 from 10 am–2 pm: We need your help! For the first time ever, the Hillside community is participating in this townwide community day of service to support children in need across Massachusetts. Come with your family to sort, pack and load donations from 10 am-2 pm on Saturday March 28th at Needham High. This day of service is a wonderful experience for everyone! Not only do families help with sorting and loading items, but some kids also help write letters to other children wishing them a great school year (for next year). You need not volunteer for the entire time period – come for as long as your schedule permits. We need all the help we can get! To volunteer email: [email protected] . 2015 Spring Calendar Raffle – NEED HELP SOLICITING ITEMS!!! The 2015 Spring Calendar Raffle takes place this year in June alongside our Carnival. The Purpose: To help raise much needed funds to support the PTC-sponsored enrichment programs and to 6. Maybe you know a police officer who would be willing to give a student a ride in the cruiser? Or could give a tour of the police/ fire station? The Hillside PTC is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization and contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. All items/wares/services along with the contributors will be listed on our website and printed on materials that lead up to our Spring Raffle and Carnival. If you are able to help out, we have provided you a “request letter” that you can find at the end of the newsletter. Please print it out and hand to a business owner with details of our Spring Raffle and directions if they would like to participate. Any questions, please contact Amy Lam at [email protected] and/or Robin GamrathSchauman at [email protected]. Yearbooks For Sale!!! Don’t Miss Out! Purchase at school: $20 each - Sales open until April 10th. Please make checks payable to Hillside PTC and be sure to include the word “Yearbook” in the memo line. Send your check in an envelope labeled Hillside PTC, Yearbook along with your child’s name, grade and teacher (to help with distribution). Purchase online: $21 each - Sales open until April 7th. To order online, go to http://www.memorybook.com/ online-pay/Default1.aspx. Enter order code 75538 and follow the steps. Any questions? Contact Lucia Posada ([email protected]) and/or Christine Holland ([email protected]). Tues, April 7th: Online ordering for yearbook closes Friday, April 10th: In-school ordering for yearbook closes & Meadow Farms bulbs order forms due Thursday, April 16th, 7:30 pm: Spin & Sip at Cycle Bar in Wellesley Have a great weekend! Volunteers Needed PTC Co-Presidents Attention Kindergarten Parents!! We are looking for a First Grade Lunch Volunteer Coordinator: Would you like a chance to see your first grader interacting with his/ her friends at school? Would you like an easy way to get involved? The first grade lunch coordinator helps to set up and maintain the volunteer sign-up sheet for the first grade lunch helpers. Our current coordinator has many automated systems set-up and so your job will be breeze! Interested? Contact Jessica Young [email protected] for more info. Jessica Young, 781-956-5876, [email protected] Seema Meloni, 617-794-6835, [email protected] www.HillsidePTC.org Like us on Facebook! UDA (Understanding Different Abilities): Come be a part of the team! We are looking for several volunteers to allow this special program to continue for years to come!!! Hillside students enjoy and remember UDA from year to year. The program provides the children with a positive experience that educates them about people who have disabilities. If you would like to volunteer or get more information about the program please contact Christine Shusterman [email protected] or Michelle Hoffmeister [email protected] . Hillside-Elliot Basketball game co-chairs: Show your school spirit and help to organize this beloved tradition! We have a great committee—we just need someone to help organize them! For more information about this great event or to volunteer, please contact Seema Meloni [email protected]. News From the Art Room S.T.E.A.M. Art Classes at Hillside School Needham Public Schools - Elementary Visual Arts - Fine & Performing Arts Department S.T.E.A.M. is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics. It is not a program, but a philosophical approach to learning that integrated knowledge from the various disciplines. The STEAM experience in Needham is divided into four 9-week segments with each focusing on a different aspect of how these various disciplines are interconnected. "In the Arts portion of STEAM, students will be using skills and concepts learned in visual art and music to reinforce, express, practice and Hillside PTC Green Corner: March-Less trash in the demonstrate knowledge and skills in other lunch bag academic areas such as science, math or literacy. Examples of topics include: how patterns occur in Use a reusable lunch bag and plastic containers for fruit music, drama games created around the solution and snacks. Kids can bring them home for use the next day instead of tossing them in the trash. And try making of math problems, how patterns and symmetry in are important in design, and the important role your own “snack packs” it's cheaper, too :) that length, width and depth play in sculptural form." IMPORTANT DATES: Sat, March 28th 10 am-2 pm, Needham High School: Cradles to Crayon Community Day of service S.T.E.A.M. Art 1 Shape Quilts Integrating Math and Art. Focusing on geometric vs. organic shapes.Students create four SHAPE patches using various art materials. S.T.E.A.M. Art 2 Art Illustration Integrating Literacy and Art. Focusing on animal collages inspired by art illustrator Eric Carle. Students create painted paper collages and write sentences describing the actions of their animals. following table shows when each class will be sharing their gymnastic sentences: Mon April 13th Tues April 14th Weds April 15th Thurs April 16th Fri April 17th 3Da 12:30 - 1:10 5R 12:40 -1:20 3Du 8:459:25 4F 10:20 -11:00 1L 9:3510:15 5M 1:202:00 2E 9:3510:15 4H 11:0511:45 1T 10:20 -11:0 0 5G 2:002:40 2H 10:20 -11:00 4K 1:051:45 3Sa 11:10 -11:5 0 S.T.E.A.M. Art 3 3D Scapes Integrating Math, Science and Art. Focusing on the concept of perspective and measurement. Students create constructions using foreground, middle ground and background planes in perspective landscape designs. News from the Gymnasium Follow Mr. Tatro on Twitter @MrTatro_PE 3SH 11:1011:50 2G 12:30 -1:10 1M 1:101:50 2W 1:101:50 1A 1:502:30 Parents are welcome to attend sharing sessions if they so choose. Follow Mr. Tatro on Twitter @MrTatro_PE for up to date information on the what’s going on in Physical Education or visit our website at http:// Gymnastic Sentence Sharing hillsidepe.weebly.com/ As many of you know, for the past several weeks our students here at Hillside have been tumbling, balancing, jumping/landing, and traveling in a variety of ways through a very exciting educational gymnastics unit with Mr. Tatro and Mrs. Cournoyer in PE. Our students are getting ready to show off the fruits of their labor and will soon begin creating and practicing gymnastic sentences which utilize skills learned in class. Gymnastic sentences are routines that students create on their own which combine their creative thoughts and ideas along with their physical ability to move through space. Each grade level is different and unique.he Spring Has Sprung……sort of Many of our students are starting to feel some effects of seasonal allergies. There are a broad range of symptoms which may include: • Sneezing • Runny nose (Clear) • Talent Show Tickets On Sale Now! • Nasal congestion Tickets for the annual, Hillside Talent Show are on • Itchy, watery, red eyes sale now for only $3 per person. Purchase now and avoid lines at the door. A ticket order form is included • An itchy throat in this newsletter or can be downloaded from the Hillside PTC web site. Complete the ticket order • Dry cough form and return to the Hillside Office with your • Disturbed sleeping patterns payment by Tuesday, April 7th. Your name will be on a prepaid list at the door and you will not have to wait • Loss of taste and sense of smell in line to buy tickets. If your child has experienced any of these symptoms in past years, this may be a good time to Show Details: What—Hillside's Got Talent 2015 check in with your pediatrician to discuss a When—April 10, 7pm (doors open, 6:30pm) treatment plan for seasonal allergies. Where—Needham High School Auditorium (note new venue) Show Your Thanks! Give your favorite performer or behind-the-scenes helper a public token of thanks by placing a Get your pictures in the yearbook! The Yearbook Staff "Congratulations" ad in the Talent Show program. invites students and parents to submit photos for this y Complete the order form at the back of this newsletter ear's yearbook. If you've got great photos of school and or download it from the PTC website. Ads are $10 community events or you and your friends just having each for a 2.5” x 3.75”. Orders and payments are fun, we'd like to see them. Our photographers can't be due by Friday, April 3rd. If you would like a photo everywhere. Help us get as many photos as possible to included, please submit the photo with this order form create a terrific book everyone will want to have. or email the digital file to Here is how you can submit photos online: [email protected]. All photos will • Go to: https://images.memoryebooks.com/login be produced in black and white. • If it does not automatically log you into the site, enter username: 401854195 • Browse to select the photo(s) you wish to upload - please no more than 15 per event! • Enter information about the photo and provide contact information in case the staff needs additional information (most importantly the grade of students in the photo and/or the teacher's name) • Click "Save Details". It's that easy! Submit your photos today! The last day to submit photos is 04/01/2015. Any questions, please contact Christine Holland ([email protected]) or Lucia Posada ([email protected]) THANK YOU! NEEDHAM FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY Monday, March 30th at 4:00 p.m. Circus Crafts for children up to 6 years old. Create circus-themed crafts to take home. All materials provided. It’s Time for the Hillside Talent Show! Tuesday, March 31st, 4:00 p.m. Lucy the Read Dog. Children who are learning to read or who would like to practice their reading can sign up for a 10 min. time slot to read to Lucy the R.E.A.D. Dog. Lucy is a trained therapy dog who will pay attention and listen to you as you read. To sign up call 781-455-7559. Friday, April 3rd, 4:00 p.m. Elementary, My Dear Readers. This is an after-school storytime for children in grades K-2. We will read several books together, enjoy a related activity such as searching for pirate treasure or solving a mystery, play creative games and create a craft project. Register by calling 781-455-7591. All library programs are free. For more information please call 781-455-7559. The Fringe Theater presents Rapunzel: A Mangled American Mashup This Weekend! If you're interested in introducing your child(ren) to theater in a fun and kidfriendly setting - this is the show! There are 4 shows this weekend: Fri, 3/27 @ 7:30 pm, Saturday, 3/28 @ 2:30 pm & 7:30 pm, and Sunday, 3/29 @2:30 pm at the Christ Episcopal Church at 1132 Highland Ave in Needham. For more information or to purchase tickets, go to http:// thefringetheatre.org.zxGHJ School Wellness Advisory Committee (SWAC) April 8, 2015 3:45-‐ 5:00 PM Emery Grover Building, 2nd floor conference Room Please join us for a panel presentation & discussion about the Six Dimensions of Wellness in Needham. Mitzi Weinman President , TimeFinder Kate Ward Dr. Beth Pinals Director, Charles River YMCA Psychologist, Advisor- Own Your Peace Reverend Jennifer Hitt Katy Colthart Pastor, Grace Lutheran Church Social Worker, Needham Youth Services Dr. Daniel Gutekanst Superintendent, Needham Public Schools Rainbows Matter Recipe Contest! Needham Nutrition Services is happy to be holding the Second Annual Recipe Contest. Our goal is to inspire the students to think about new and different ways to incorporate healthy foods into their diet and to get in the kitchen and cook! This year, we will be focusing on eating a variety of colors of fruits and vegetables by creating an original dessert. The recipe should contain at least one or more of the following, the total fruits and/or vegetables in the recipe should total at least ! cup per serving (so if the recipe serves 4 – you will have used 1 cup of fruits/veggies): Strawberries Watermelon Cantaloupe Carrots Sweet Potatoes Pineapple Banana Kiwi Honeydew Zucchini Blueberries Purple Grapes Students interested in participating will be expected to bring in their recipes (ingredient list and instructions), as well as 4 servings of the prepared food. The winner at each school will have their fruit and/or vegetable dessert served on June 3rd. There will be one winner at each elementary school. Drop off your recipe and food sample at the Hillside cafeteria on this date: Hillside – April 16, 8:30-9:00 Nutrition Services and your school’s staff will conduct judging the same day. The winners will be announced the first week of May. Recipes will be judged based on taste, creativity, visual appearance, healthfulness and potential popularity among classmates. Each winner will receive a Grand Prize (to be announced). Fruits and vegetables are very versatile so we encourage students to get creative! We want students to show us what they can do and create a recipe that will excite their classmates and themselves into trying something they wouldn’t normally try! Contact Jen Tuttelman with any questions: 781-455-0400 ext. 237 or n F ole u F Wh the amily F Hillside’s Got Talent $SULO April 1st, 2011 7pm (Doors open at 6:30pm) 1HHGKDP+LJK6Fhool Auditorium Get your tickets early and avoid the long lines on Show Night. Only $3 per person. Yes, I want tickets to the Talent Show! 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