email School Secretary Mrs. Beard
email Principal's Secretary Mrs. Howell
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Office: 209-523-9979 email School Secretary Mrs. Beard email Principal's Secretary Mrs. Howell |
| February 2012 |
Principal's Update
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SHOEMAKE EAST PARKING LOT SAFETY
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FROM THE OFFICE The adult bringing late students to school must come into the office to check them in. If the reason for the tardy is an appointment, a note from the doctor/dentist/etc. must be brought to excuse the tardy. Don’t forget to call if your student is at home sick so we can mark it excused. 523-9979
here by 8:10 or are returning from an appointment.
time during the school year.
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Si necesita traduccion por favor regreze la hoja con su nombre y telefono y se le llamara mas tarde. Sra. Vieira Nombre Telephono |
PARENTS AS PARTNERS Mealtime is a great time to build family communication and great memories.
Focus on the positive events that occurred through the day, take turns
so one person doesn’t dominate the conversation, ask each to share
one interesting thing they learned that day at school, at practice, at
work, or wherever. Enjoy that dinner conversation. |
| Band Instrument Donations It is exciting to see so many students interested in band this year! It has been over ten years since a new instrument was purchased for students to borrow. If you would like to donate a wind instrument (flute, clarinet, trumpet, alto sax, or other) either new or used, it would be a blessing to the program. |
| MORNING DROP OFF: For the safety of our children we request that parents not drop off children earlier than 7:45 in the morning as we do not have supervision earlier than that time. |
| IT’S EASY TO DESIGNATE! There are several “free” ways you can make money for Hart-Ransom. Target & Washington Mutual’s Visa card programs will let you designate a portion of your credit card purchases to Hart-Ransom Elementary School. Office Depot will donate a percentage of any purchace made with or without a credit card if you tell the checker at the time of purchase. Don’t forget that Box Tops for Education labels and Campbells Soup’s UPC labels bring in several hundred dollars to our reward’s program every year. Thanks for your participation!
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| FOOD TO SHARE The State of California requires that every school establish a Wellness Policy based on certain criteria. According to this policy, students may not share food with others. Lately we have had a number of incidents in which food, such as pizza or other fast food, has been brought for a student and friends. Unfortunately, we cannot allow this. If parents want to bring food to students – you may only bring for your own child and it must be brought to the office. Thank you for your cooperation. |
| LUNCH ACCOUNTS Mrs. Figures, our cafeteria cashier, has an e-mail address: sfigures@hartransom.org Feel free to contact her if you have any questions or concerns about your child’s lunch account. |
ASTHMA FLAGS In support of good health we have the Asthma Flag Program at Hart-Ransom. Each day we fly the color flag advised by the Stanislaus County Asthma Coalition. Parents of the most sensitive group are asked to fill out the form in today’s red folder. Only children with this permission slip returned will be allowed to spend red flag days at a designated indoor place. The four flags are described in the handout. |
CELL PHONE AND EMPTY INK-JET AND LASER CARTRIDGE DONATIONS: Did you or someone in your family get a new cell phone? If so, are you
wondering what to do with your old one? Please let us recycle it for you.
Hart-Ransom partners with the Funding Factory to recycle used cell phones
as well as empty ink cartridges. In return, we earn points for lots of
free things like digital cameras and even new ink for our school printers.
Items can be turned in to Mrs. Martin in the computer lab or at the school
office. Thanks for helping us help the environment and our school. |
| CAMPBELL’S LABELS AND BOXTOPS This is just a reminder to keep sending in those Campbell’s Labels. (NOTE: All you need to send in for Campbell’s is the UPC code on products like soup, V8, Pepperidge Farm, Swanson, Prego, Market Day and Franco American. See the blue insert in this red folder.) And… Box Tops for Education still wants their little labels. Your participation in these two programs has brought our school several hundred dollars over the past couple years. Thank you to Deanna Tiry for cutting, sorting, and processing these contributions. |
| Reminder: If you are picking up your student during the school day, please come into the office to sign him/her out. Our policy is to call the student out of class only when the parent/guardian has arrived in the office. |
| REMINDERS Cell Phones are not allowed on campus. If necessary, there
is always a phone available to students. Any cell phones found will be
kept in the office until a parent picks it up. |
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Congratulations Future Cities: Future Cities is a national competition for junior high students. The competition is in the areas of science, technology, and language arts and the concept is that teams design a city for 150 years in the future. This year the competition required that each team design a computer city, design and build a scale model of the future city that was totally dependent on renewable energy sources, write an essay about the solutions to creating a renewable energy city and a narrative about their city, then present their project and field questions from professionals in the areas of engineering. Their renewable energy source was the REGI (Renewable Energy Generation Island). This man-made floating island utilizes the energy that water, sun and wind produce to power the city “Aqua Sol Viente.” The team that created this futuristic city consisted of: Ariana Hin, Nate Jensen, Cesar Marquez, Aaron Ochoa, Sarah LoSole (alternate presenter), and the three presenters – Sabrina Esquivel, Riley Noland, and Carolyn Ringer. On Saturday, January 18, the students competed in a preliminary competition at Stanislaus County and won first place. On Saturday, January 21, they competed at UC Davis in the state competition and for the second year, they won first place. As California champions, our team will be representing our state in the finals in Washington DC in mid-February. We are extremely proud of our students and wish them the best in their up-coming competition.
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