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Highland Happenings For May |
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Tuesday, 05 June 2007 |
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See what is going on for May at Highland!
Highland Happenings
The Home/School Connection
May 2007
PTG News
**ELECTION OF NEW OFFICERS for the 2007-2008 school year will be held at the PTG meeting on Wednesday, May 9th at 7:00 p.m.
**Mr. Rabey will attend the meeting at 8:00 for a Budget Presentation.**
**Thank you again to all the parents and teachers who supported the PTG this year. **
SPRING FLOWER PICK-UP
FRIDAY, MAY 11th from 1:00 – 6:00p.m. in the school parking lot. This will be the only time available for pick up, as the flowers are perishable
and no storage is available.
SPRING CARNIVAL – Don’t miss this evening of fun!! – MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
The Spring Carnival will take place on Friday, May 18th from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
CAREER MONTH – DECORATED DOOR WINNERS
Congratulations to all participants as every classroom did a wonderful job!!
The decision on the winners was difficult - below are the winners!
Kindergarten – Mrs. Stevens and Mrs. Jakiel
1st – Mrs. Serena
2nd – Mrs. Crupe and Mrs. Williams
3rd – Mrs. Collopy
4th – Mrs. Manning & Mrs. Maximciuc
5th – Mrs. Simon and Mrs. Hornberger (special award for decorating many doors)
*A special treat will be delivered to classrooms with the winning doors!”
BOX TOPS AND CAMPBELL LABELS
It’s not too late to send in you Box Tops for Education and Campbell’s labels. This spring we collected an amazing $440.80! Keep those tops & labels coming!!
IMPORTANT DATES FOR MAY:
3rd – Space Day
4th – 10:00 Grade 5 Middle School Assembly in All Purpose Room
7th – 11th National PTA Teacher/School Staff Appreciation Week
8th – National Teacher/Staff Appreciation Day
8th – 11th - Grades 1 & 2 Terra Nova Testing
9th – 5:50 Building Planning & 7:00 PTG – last meeting of the year!
9th – Nurses’ Appreciation Day
10th – PTG Teacher/Staff Appreciation Lunch in Faculty Room
11th – PTG Plant Sale PICK UP from 1:00 to 6:00
15th – School Budget Vote – 9 am to 9 pm – Lake Shore Middle School
17th – STAR Breakfast & Wear Green/White Day
18th – PTG SPRING CARNIVAL
22nd - STAR – Stop Teaching And Read 2:35-2:50
23rd – Grades 2 & 3 Spring Concert – ART SHOW – Grades 2 & 3 – 7:00 pm
24th – Music Information Night – 7pm at Waugh
24th - District Elementary Instrumental Concert at Middle School
25th – Flower Power – Dress Up Day – Groovy!
28th – No School – Memorial Day
**Visit the Lake Shore School District Website at www.lakeshore.wnyric.org !**
**Principal’s Message**
Dear Parents,
Have you heard about “blasting off” at Highland? Space Day, sponsored by NASA & Lockheed Martin Corporation, is a day set aside to celebrate the world’s achievements in space exploration and research and to look ahead to future space challenges. The ultimate goal is to promote math, science, technology and engineering education and to inspire students to continue the work of today's space explorers. Space Day, which began in 1997, was celebrated on Thursday, May 3 at Highland.
International in scope, this award-winning program involves hundreds of thousands of teachers and millions of students throughout the United States, Canada and beyond. Space Day events have taken place in 21 countries around on six continents. Now Lake Shore's own Highland Elementary will join the ranks of esteemed participants.
A committee of teachers and school staff convened in December and has been working diligently to plan the event for the students at Highland. Students rotated through stations exploring solar scopes and telescopes with Penn Dixie, space ooze, cosmic coloring, astronaut fitness, and paper airplane tossing. Our food service provider, Sodexo, joined in the fun by offering space themed-boxed lunches. Students were treated to a presentation from MOOG on the Space Shuttle. The culmination of this fine day of experiences was the class rocket launch.
One of the days many highlights was the Student Signatures in Space which provided the students with opportunity to sign a poster provided by NASA to send their signatures into space and feel a personal involvement with the crew and the mission. The Space Shuttle mission to carry this year’s signatures will be selected this summer. The mission carrying the signatures is usually one that occurs in the fall when school is back in session so that teachers can follow the mission together with their students in the classroom. After the signatures return from space, the poster will be returned for permanent display at Highland along with a flight certificate and picture of the crew that carried the signatures into space.
This was an example of a wonderful collaborative Highland community effort, and a great learning, fun-filled day for students!
Your input will be considered for your child’s placement for next school year. Please remember that specific teacher requests cannot be honored.
As you can see by the May calendar it is an event filled month! Please do not forget to exercise your right to vote on May 15th! Support your school district by taking advantage of as many of the wonderful school and district offerings as possible. It’s a great time to spend with your children. Remember, “Children will not remember the material things you provided for them but for the feeling that you cherished them!” (Richard L. Evans)
Dawn F. Mirand
549-4397
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