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WildCAT PAW PRINTS Volume: 28 Number 8 April 2017 Thursday, April 20 – Pig Raffle Drawing & MIDDLE Friday, May 12 – PreSchool thru 5th Grade Students SCHOOL CHORUS musical "Princess Whatsername." will go to the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo – they will Our public performance will be April 20 at 7:00 at the leave around 8:30 a.m. and return around 3:30. Busses Colonial Theater. Admission is $5.00. will run at 3:30 when students return from the Zoo. Students in Grades 6th thru 8th will have their usual Friday, April 21 – All Partytime Fundraiser Orders and 1:30 Early Out. Money are due into the office!! No late orders will be accepted! MidTerms will be sent home with 3rd thru Thursday, May 18, 3:30 – 4:30 – Fundraiser pickup in 8th Grade Students today. 7th & 8th grade students will the school lunchroom – all Items must be picked up by participate in the Community Clean-up day from 9:00 4:30 today – we do NOT have freezer space to keep until 1:00. anything cold. 7:00 p.m. Hamburg Middle School Spring Concert in the gym. Saturday, April 22 – Farm School Workday from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 23, Kindergarten Graduation at 5:00 p.m. in the gym Tuesday, April 25, JH Track at HAMBURG 4:00 Friday, May 5, JH Track at Corning 4:00 Reminder: We have a 1:30 p.m. Early Out every Friday Tuesday, May 9, JH Track at Essex 4:00 during the school year for Professional Development Friday, May 12, C.C. Track at F.M. 4:00 for Teachers. If your student is home sick or going to be gone for an Thursday, May 4 – 6:00 p.m. – 7th & 8th Grade appointment, please remember to call the school Students & Parents meet in the lunchroom for before 8:30. – Thanks! Washington D.C. trip info - 7:00 p.m. Elementary Spring Concert & BOGO Book Fair Free & Reduced Meal Applications are available throughout the school year. If you need an application, Kindergarten RoundUp is scheduled for Friday, May please contact Mrs. Sebek and one will be sent home 5th from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. at the Elementary School. with your student. Thanks! If you have a child who will turn 5 before Sept 15, 2017, please call to sign them up for RoundUp before SCHOOL WEBSITE ADDRESS: www.hamburgcsd.org Monday, April 24th!! If your student is enrolled in PreSchool or Headstart, they are already signed up Colonial Theatre - Showtimes are Fridays and Saturdays and you do NOT need to call. This year’s Kindergarten at 7:30 PM and Sundays at 6:30 PM. Doors open one Students will not have school on Friday, May 5th. half hour before showtime. All tickets $2.00. Trailers may be seen at IMDb - Movies, TV and Celebrities . All Monday, May 8th – PreSchool Screening – Infant to 5 movies listed are subject to change. Phone 712-382- years of age is invited to attend. If you are interested 1524. call Roxanne at 382-2017 to set up an appointment – April 21-22-23; "Beauty and the Beast", PG times available from 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. April 28-29-30; "The Boss Baby", PG From Dr. Wells children’s attention to the fascinating learning Field Trips - Not everything that students learn takes experiences in the world around us. Then our children place in the classroom. Most parents have signed will not only succeed in putting all the pieces together, permission slips to allow their children to go on special they will also be inquisitive learners throughout their trips such as the zoo, fire station, or to visit local lives. And no one can be considered truly educated businesses. When carefully planned, these trips until reaching that stage. I close with the words of provide important and necessary experiences to help Perry Tanksley, “There are two classes of travel-First children understand the world, learn facts, practice class . and with children”. If you have any questions skills, and gain information about vocations and or concerns about our educational programs please careers. contact me at [email protected] Thank you for Naturally, the school is limited in the number of such your unwavering support! trips it can permit because of time and cost. Herein lies a great opportunities for parents. One of the most Please continue saving and sending your Boxtops for common questions that a teacher receives is “What Education. Shop Online and Earn “Boxtops” for our can I do to help my child learn?” While there are as school - go to: http://www.boxtops4education.com. many teacher responses as there are parents who Follow the simple directions for signing up to shop inquire, educators agree that field trips are excellent online and earn bonus eBoxtops!!! Tell your friends learning experiences. With little thought and planning, and family!! children from preschool through high school can gain much from a family field trip, whether it’s an everyday Stop Bullying Now outing or a major vacation. After all, that which seems The “School Rules Against Bullying”: commonplace to us as adults is new and almost 1. We will not bully others; mystical to children. 2. We will try to help students who are bullied; A simple trip to shop or visit friends can provide all 3. We will include students who are easily left out; kinds of surprises and interesting and worthwhile 4. When we know somebody is being bullied, we will events especially if the parent takes a little time to tell an adult at school and an adult at home. consider the neighborhoods, buildings, parks, and We have discussed with the students the need to construction activities along the way. Another great report bullying behaviors so that they can be trip is to the Hamburg library. We are blessed with a addressed. To help students understand what needs to great library which provides a world of learning, can be be reported we are using these definitions: repeated, and is FREE! Tattling is telling just to get someone in trouble. Longer trips to new places may be planned for the Reporting is telling to keep someone out of trouble or purpose of seeing and doing educational things. This from getting hurt. doesn’t mean that the parents need to prepare lectures on geology for the next trip. However, School Counselor – J.H. Wolf studying a guidebook, chamber of commerce From the April 24th Issue of Time Magazine: publications, or the history of the area can make any What is the single most important thing we can do for trip more advantageous for parents and children alike. our kids? Research shows that the presence of stable, On long drives, drawing attention to the dashboard of trusting adult relationships in the lives of young people the car can teach a child about distance and time. The is a key factor – perhaps the key factor – in keeping fuel gauge can teach children fractions. them in school. Children need to get a high-quality In May, our middle school students will travel cross education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice country to Washington D.C. The trip will emphasize system and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We American History and cultural events that are unique want them to learn not only reading and math but to the east coast. Students have been raising funds for fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment and two year to make this trip possible and we are looking civic duty. forward to a fun, educational venture. When families and school are able to offer such PreSchool – Ms. Croll educational opportunities away from televisions and This month has flown by we have finished our pipes computers a new world is opened up to children. A study. We are working on reconizing our letters in world where students take ownership for their own lower case. We are also counting to 60 everyday. As learning and new interests are often developed. The the year end of the year is coming we are looking richer we make such trips, the more we call our forward to getting outside more and doing activities Please continue to stress to your child how important outside. school is and to do their personal best. We have a few more assessments to finish out our year. Kindergarten – Mrs. Brandt It is hard to believe that April is almost over. The In Reading, we have been looking at inflectional students are doing an awesome job with their reading. endings (ed, ing, er, & est). We are looking for the They are doing a wonderful job of sounding out words, author’s purpose in his writing. Is it to gain reading sentences and even reading books. We are information, humor, adventure or maybe mystery? reviewing rhyming words by writing a pair of rhymes Our class has a couple of students who have reached and then making a complete sentence with them. the 50 point club! Keep up the reading! Please remember to read with your child daily and also listen as they read to you. The books that you and your During Math, we have been focusing our time on child read together will count toward their book counting by 10’s to 150. We have been grouping items reports at the end of the year. Everyone is doing a into 10’s and asking ourselves several questions. If great job at checking out new books. there are 9 towers of 10 how many cubes do you have? Or if I have 70 cubes how many groups of 10 can I In Math, we finished up a unit on graph.