The Weekly Buzz – 9/23/16 – Hacienda Involved Parents & Staff

Happening Next Week:

Animal Adoptions through 10/20 – The beloved Hacienda tradition of “adopting” an animal. See below for details
Science Camp Fundraiser, 9/26 – 10/17– Charleston Wrap Fundraiser for all grade levels. See below for details
Tuesday, 9/27, 11:00am until 9:00pm – Dinner Night Out with Bogey’s Pizza and Yogurtland. See below for details
Tuesday, 9/27 – Fun Bucks Store. See below for details
Thursday, 9/29, 9:00am until 9:45am – Project Cornerstone meeting in the cafeteria. We will check in on the first readings- how are they going?? And take a look at the second set of books: My Secret Bully and Join in and Play. For more information about Project Cornerstone contact Catherine Lavin: catlavin@sbcglobal.net
Friday, 9/30 – Articles for the October Newsletter are due. See below for details
Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities – See below for information on volunteer opportunities throughout the school

Upcoming Events:

October 3 – October 7 – Fall Break. NO SCHOOL!

October 11 – SELAC Meeting at 9am

October 12 – Principal’s coffee at 9am

October 18 – HIPS meeting at 6:30pm

Friday, October 28 – Fall Festival! See below for details

Want to know what’s after that? Check out the calendar at http://tinyurl.com/HIPSCalendar. It has the events scheduled for the entire school year!

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:

WE NEED YOU!!!1. We need parent volunteers for testing on Thursday Sept 29 and Friday Sept 30. One parent from 9-11 and one parent from 1-3 each day. Please contact Diana Wilson- hipsvolunteervp@gmail. com2. We need 2 parents to help with newsletter copying each month to get our newsletter out. Any takers? 3. We need parent volunteers for Fun Bucks Store. The store opens Tuesday 9/27. It can’t open without volunteers.4. We need Animal Holding volunteers to help out with holding animals or taking pictures. If you can help out with any of these needs, please contact Diana Wilson Hipsvolunteervp@gmail.com.

Video Editing

We still need a parent to edit video for the 2nd grade holiday chorus (Dec.), the 3rd grade chorus (Feb.), and the 5th grade musical (May) in order to offer DVDs for parents to buy of the performance. Please contact Mrs. Thompson or Ms. Ulrich if you can help. Thank you to 1st grade parent Charlie Hodges (Jenson) and 4th grade parent Shashi Desai (Yashvi) for volunteering to edit the performance video of their child’s grade level show. (Mr. Desai has also offered to edit the Kids in Motion video.)

Art Vistas

Hello from your Art Vistas team! We are still looking for donated calendar pages and/or magazine pictures of fruit, flowers, people and animals for our upcoming lessons. If you happen to have these goods, please drop them in the labeled box in the art supply area located in the first room, just past the nurse’s office, on the right. Please know that anything you donate is always very much appreciated. Thank you! “Sprouts” Classroom Docents and Helpers are needed! Several of our classrooms do not have a Docent to deliver the 6x 1-hour lessons throughout the year. If you have 1 ½ hours during the day either mornings or afternoons available, please consider being a Docent for your child’s class. Each leveled, themed, objective-based lesson comes with a predefined lesson plan, presentation materials, and materials ready-to-go. Here are the classrooms still needing Docent(s): 1^st Grade: Roth Escalante 4^th Grade: Nance Young ** 5^th Grade: Co-Docents (1-2 needed) for AM session Thursday, 10/13/2016 Co-Docents (1-2 needed) for PM session Thursday, 10/13/2016** All 5^th grade Sprouts sessions are slated for Thursdays with Granado and Masterson in AM, and Roberts, Roberts and Bjorngjeld in the PM. Signup flyers are available in the Faculty Dining Room (FDR) next to the HIPS box. After filling out the form, please return to your teacher or to the “Sprouts” envelope in the HIPS box. See below for more details. Thank you for considering volunteering for this program!

DETAILS:

Animal Adoptions (09/22 – 10/20)

Hacienda’s beloved science animals (including our own Hacienda Homestead Chickens) are now available for adoption! The animal adoption program helps defray the cost of caring for the school’s animals, and supports our science department. Students in grades K-5 may “adopt” an animal for the school year by donating any amount toward its care. The animals stay at school, but students who adopt enjoy special opportunities and tokens of appreciation: · A photo with their adopted animal· A sign posted on the animal’s habitat with the name of the student(s) who adopted it· Special animal holding opportunities· The student’s name will appear on a special animal poster in the science lab Look for the flyer in your child’s Thursday folder. Forms and donations may be given to your child’s teacher or dropped in the HIPS box in the animal adoption folder. Additional flyers are available in the front office. Questions? Please contact Rebecca Rountree (rountree@gmail.com) or Laura Prijatel (lturner@rocketmail.com).

All Grades Science Camp Fundraising will be September 26th through October 17^th

The Science Camp fundraiser is an opportunity for every student to raise money toward 5th Grade Science Camp.

Every grade has a Science Camp account that follows the grade level group of students, until they reach 5^th Grade. Therefore, each grade has had up to six years of fundraising to offset the Science Camp fees.

The 2016 Camp Fundraiser is…

The Charleston Wrap Fundraiser will be from September 26^th to October 17^th.

Students will receive the fundraising packets in their classrooms. The catalogs include quality gift wrap, chocolates, personalized items, kitchen items, and magazines. *Orders submitted via paper order forms receive a 50% profit, while online orders receive a lower 40%.

If you would prefer to donate directly to the science camp fund (rather than fundraising) tax deductible donations are always welcome.

Primary grade parents: START EARLY in building your grade’s science camp fund!!! This is the ONLY fundraiser that reduces the per camper price. Take advantage of this opportunity!

Questions? ~ Contact Michelle Scripoch mscripoch@sbcglobal.n et

Fun Bucks Store is Tuesday, September 27th

Bring your Fun Bucks to school on Tuesday, September 27^th and shop the Fun Bucks Store! Kindergarten shop 10:15 – 10:304-5 grade shop 10:55 – 11:051, 2, 3 grade shop 11:05 – 11:15Parent volunteers are needed to help set up and sell at the Fun Buck Store 10AM – 11:30. If you can help, please contact Doreen Carter at doreen_moss@yahoo.com.FUN BUCKS STORE DONATIONS: If you have toys, stuffed animals or books (in good shape) to donate to the Fun Bucks Store, please drop them in the “FUN BUCKS STORE” box located in the HIPS area of the Faculty Dining Room. We could also use donations of small toy, school or jewelry items that are small enough to place inside of plastic Easter Eggs.

Dinner Night Out (DNO)

On Tuesday September 27^th Hacienda will have a combo fundraiser with Bogey’s and Yogurtland on Almaden Expressway. Take the night off from cooking and enjoy some time with our Hacienda community. Flyers went home in the Thursday folders yesterday. You need to bring the flyer with you to both Bogey’s and Yogurtland. If you need a flyer, you can pick one up in the office or see the attached flyer. Hope to see you there.

Fall Festival is Friday, October 28th

Have you marked your calendar yet? Friday October 28th. We still NEED a Volunteer Coordinator and Prize Redemption Manager! Please contact Michelle Scripoch or Melissa Belur ASAP HaciendaFallFestiv al@gmail.com

Sprouts

9/18 Outdoor Workday #2 – “Sprouts” Tasks Completed: A HUGE “Thank You” goes to the parents and their kids who continued the grueling work of preparing garden beds started at the Outdoor Workday #1 on 8/27. Turning the hardpan clay from the bottom to mix with compost, sand, and silty loam at the top to produce useable soil requires tenacity and physicality. For that, THANK YOU !! It was wonderful to see kids and parents working together in the Outdoor Classroom and the Primary Grade/Kindergarten garden beds. All were working towards a common goal, preparing the garden beds to benefit ALL of our Hacienda students. Having another 7 garden beds ready to go, means we can get started with the Sprouts lessons. The remaining garden bed preparation effort will finish in between over the next couple of weeks. If you are able and willing to help with turning the remaining garden beds over the next couple of weeks, please contact: Heather Stenshamn at: hstens@me.com

Orientation/Lesson #1 Training Completed! Thank you to all the Docents, Helpers, and Waterers who attended our Orientation/Training sessions. We had a great turnout. All the updated lessons will be posted on the “Sprouts” Shutterfly site this weekend. We have incorporated in these plans, the changes and feedback from training. If you have not yet tried accessing the site, please try it soon to check your access, to schedule lessons, and print off the updated lesson plan(s). We will have extra lesson plans printed up in the Science Office as backup), and to schedule your lesson. *REMINDER* As bins are available on a “first come, first served” basis, be sure to sign up your classroom’s lesson delivery date on the “Sprouts” Shutterfly “master” calendar. Avoid scheduling your lesson in the same timeframe as another class in your same grade level.

Garden Rules

Please remind your children to respect the garden beds by:

Looking with their eyes, smelling with the noses, and only gently touching the plants, not pulling out plants or digging in the soil. We rely on these gardens to be ready to go for our “Sprouts” lessons.
Sitting on the edge of the garden beds, not standing or walking on them.
Avoiding stepping on top of the gardens. This compacts the soil, destroys the fragile insect environment, and damages fragile seedlings.
Remembering these are garden beds shared by ALL Hacienda students, not just themselves

The Hacienda Community thanks you for your consideration!

Hacienda Newsletter

Do you have an article or idea to include in Hacienda’s monthly newsletter? Anyone is welcome to submit articles to NewsletterHacienda@gmail.co m. The due date for articles to be published in the October Newsletter is September 30. See the attached calendar for due dates for subsequent newsletters.General Rules• Articles welcome! Photos welcome! Ideas Welcome!• Send in high-resolution Hacienda artwork and/or photos to go with your articles! Clipart and stock photos get the job done, but Haciendaspecific images keep our readers engaged. • No last names of children – the newsletter is public on the website. • Please spell-check. • Editor proofreading is done for grammar only, not for accuracy of the information provided. • The editor does not write the articles. (So please no, “put in something about the next fundraiser”!). Editor will just copy & paste your text into a newsletter layout. • No flyers, please; meaning no pre-formatted ‘articles’ that cannot be manipulated/split into columns. Flyers should be printed separately & sent out individually. This is done to curb the insane print/collate/staple time for the ~500 copies of a ~12 page newsletter on the ONE copier available to HIPS. • Multiple languages welcome.