September 29, 2008

Take

Note

Calendar Highlights

Tues. Oct. 7 Downtown Area Parent Coffee Break DiscoveryBioMed, Inc./Innovation Depot 2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. See Page 3 for Details Wed. Oct. 8 Secondary Placement Fair Spencer Center Fri. 10 Weather Make-up Day Mon. 13 Columbus Day Holiday No School/Offices Closed Tues. 14 8th Grade Students visit Indian Springs School Wed. 15 8th Grade Students visit Altamont School Thurs. 16 Fourth Grade Play Parents Performance 6:30 p.m. Spencer Center Fri. 17 Fourth Grade Play Students Performance 10:00 a.m Tues. 21 Preschool—8th Grade Admissions Open House Wed. 22 Noon Dismissal for All Students Sally Foster Orders Ready for Pick-up Parent/Teacher Conferences begin at Noon Thurs. 23 Parent Teacher Conferences Sally Foster Orders Ready for Pick-up

Save the

Dates

October 22 & 23 Parent/Teacher

Conferences

It will soon be time for our Parents and Teachers to meet to discuss their Students’ progress. If you are the Parent of a of 4

th –

8th grade student, please

call the office to schedule an appointment. If you are the Parent of a Preschool – 3

rd

grade student, your child’s teachers will be contacting you to schedule your appointment.

EDP Information

Please see page 4 of

Highnotes for important information regarding EDP childcare during the Parent/Teacher Conference Dates.

Fifth Graders Experience Annual Trip

to Camp McDowell

Creepy crawlies, canoes, night hikes, and conserving re-sources. Highlands School 5th

graders experienced all these and more at the Camp McDowell Environ-mental Center September 17-19. Students left campus early Wednesday morning to head to Nauvoo and Camp McDowell where they slept for 2 nights and kept busy learning for 3 days.

Students participated in classes on natural resources, mining, and recla-mation, searched both pond and stream for critters that they then identi-fied, made rope, butter and candles like pioneers, wrote about their ex-periences, went canoeing, participated in team building activities, took a night hike, and learned about ways to reduce food waste.

This interactive environmental experience is a tradition for all our 5th grad-ers, and our students once again made us proud by being excellent repre-sentatives of Highlands School. They even were honored as ―Food Waste Warriors‖ and made the Food Waste Hall of Fame for having so little food waste during their 3 day stay! The trip was a great learning ex-perience for the students and their chaperones. (See Page 2 for more pictures of this trip.)

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HIGHNOTES

Short

Notes

Sally Foster Orders will be delivered and ready for pick-up on

Wednesday, October 22.

To make the pick-up process easier for you, all Sally

Foster orders will be in your child’s classroom. This way you can pick up your orders following your conference.

Should you need to make

alternative arrangements to pick up your Sally Foster

order please contact Peggy Darby before

October 21.

Attention Kindergarten Parents:

The kindergarten classes will go to the McWane Science Center on October 2, 2008. We will visit the Just My Size area, and participate in a demonstra-tion on solids, liquids and gases. We will leave the school around 8:30 and be at the McWane Center by 9:00. We will leave around 11:30 and be back at school by 12:00. We will eat lunch in our classrooms that day. This includes the hot lunch students.

Preschool and Middle School Students Celebrate Teddy Bear Day

Teddy Bear Day in preschool is a day when students get to bring a teddy bear to school. The teddy bears get to be measured with cube blocks and have stories read to them.

Preschool students also have the opportunity to meet with the Middle School students on the Quad to share a snack and talk about their teddy bears.

Pictures from the Fifth Graders Trip to Camp McDowell

HIGHNOTES Page 3

Save the Date for the Fall Festival!

Deck the gym with bats and lizards, warty toads and icky gizzards. Fun for all, just wait and see.

Highlands Fall Festival is the place to be! October 24th, 4-6pm

If you would like to volunteer, contact

Nicole Williams at 602-2739 or nicolewilliams878@msn.com,

or Tracy Engel at 790-6006 or tengel@bh.asdnet.com.

Highlands “Happy Birthday” Book Fair This year to celebrate Highlands School’s 50th Anniversary, the annual Highlands School Book Fair inaugurated a new theme ―Happy Birthday Highlands!‖ Students purchased selected books to be placed in the school library in honor of the birthday. In addition to the wonderful gift of 304 books

being added to our library collection, students enjoyed cupcakes during the day in celebration of this very important birthday in the life of our school.

We would like to extend a very special thank you to the parents who volunteered to help with this year’s Book Fair. We appreciate their willingness to help. (Pictured to the right: Ms. Elizabeth’s class enjoying their cupcakes during their snack time.)

Parents who work in the Downtown Area

are invited to join Kathryn Woodson Barr

for an afternoon coffee break at

DiscoveryBioMed, Inc./Innovation Depot

1500 First Avenue North, Suite L140

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Questions? Please contact Peggy Darby

HIGHNOTES Page 4

8K RUN AND ONE MILE FUN WALK

October 18, 2008

Location: One Nineteen Health and Wellness Times: 8:00-8k Race, 9:00-One Mile Fun Walk

Special STUDENT Price- $10 for the Fun Walk/Run (students must mail in form)

Adults can register online at Active.com Benefits Hannah Home Shelby

USATF Certified Course For Student Registration Forms or more information please contact:

Race Director-Amy Reese Areese0617@charter.net

Attention Parents!!

There will be no EDP on October 10th or 13th, as these are school holidays (unless we use the Weather Make-up Day). However, EDP care will be available for the half day, Wednesday, October 22nd (students dis-miss at noon) and full day, Thursday, October 23rd (Parent/Teacher Conferences). There will be no EDP ac-tivities on all four days. Please check with your child’s soccer coach regarding practice. Please follow these guidelines as you make arrangements for your children. Also, there will be no EDP activities on Friday, October, 24th due to the Fall Festival. We will still have EDP care.

Noon Dismissal

Students enrolled in Professional Day packages may come during noon dismissal (half day) at no addi-

tional charge. Other packages do not include noon dismissal (ex. Late Day, Drop-in). Please provide a writ-ten notice.

Other students may ―drop-in‖ for the half day (Oct. 22th) for a charge of $10 until 3:00pm and $20 until

6:00pm with a 48-hour written notice.

There will be no regular EDP activities (check with coach regarding soccer practice) All students much bring their own lunch for half days! No lunch will be provided.

Student Holiday

Students enrolled in Professional Day packages may stay for the full student holiday (Oct. 23rd) for a charge of $40 (including lunch and activities) with a written notice.

Other students may stay for a charge of $50 (including lunch and activities) with a written notice.

There will be no regular EDP activities (check with coach regarding soccer practice)

We will plan to do something fun and enjoy a yummy lunch. Students may arrive as early as 7am and stay

as late as 6pm. We will, however, probably be going on a field trip (Most likely to the zoo or McWane Center) and will leave around 9am and return by 1pm or 3:30pm (depending on the bus we have to use). So please have your child at school by 8:45am. Please let me know ASAP as I will need a count of students planning to stay to make food, activity and trans-portation arrangements. The written reservation deadline is Wednesday, October 1st. Email is fine.

Feel free to call if you have any questions! Thanks, Gabe McCool, 956-9731, ext. 105