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Connections Blooming with Positive News Holyoke Public Schools Connections Holyoke Public Schools A Community Working Together Our Web site: www.hps.holyoke.ma.us Volume 7, Issue 3 Spring 2009 Holyoke Public Schools Blooming with positive news Inside this issue: By Dr. Eduardo Carballo Celebrate Holyoke Pub- Superintendent of Schools lic Schools week is April • Dr. Seuss 2 Signs of spring are everywhere, 27 through and after the long winter we had, May 1. Our Rising Stars I think we are all ready for better 4 weather. Many positive activities recognition • Parent Information have been taking place in the will take place Holyoke Public Schools over the this year on last months, and there are more April 30 be- • Grinspoon Awards 5 positive activities arriving along ginning with the Merry- with spring! Go-Round I hope that many of you had the Reception • Governor visits Peck 7 opportunity to read about, or to (everyone watch, as the Holyoke High welcome) and School hockey team, the Purple ending with Knights, won the Division IIIA Superintendent Dr. Eduardo Carballo presents Catherine the Banquet at • Hockey Champions 8 State Championship when they the Dean Hourihan of Peck School her certificate on achieving The defeated Oakmont 4-2 at the Technical. Harold Grinspoon Excellence in Teaching Award. MassMutual Center in Springfield Each year on March 12. This was a trium- students in grades six through Faculty Exhibit” was held at the • Sullivan Quillers 10 phant time for the team and a twelve are recognized for excel- Grynn & Barrett Studios. Those proud moment for the Holyoke ling in scholarship, leadership, exhibiting their art were: Bob School system. and citizenship. Bard, Phil Christofori, Denise Descoteau, Diane Godek, Bill • CONNECTIONS Art 12 Another event that is always a Our students are not the only Greaney, Sheila L’Amour, Ste- “crowd pleaser” is the Holyoke ones who exhibit these qualities, fania Lech, Eduardo Melendez, High School’s musical produc- and I am pleased to let you know nd Mary Lou Mislak-Casson, and 13- tion. This year, 42 Street was that we also had the opportunity Martha Roe Mulcahy. The ex- • Spanish Highlights 16 performed, and the cast and to select several outstanding hibit was well attended and al- crew did an outstanding job de- teachers to be the recipients of lowed the public the opportunity lighting the audience with their the Harold Grinspoon Excellence to view a wide array of works presentation. Attention was paid in Teaching Award. On February from our multi-talented faculty. to every detail, and those attend- 27th, seven of our teachers were Our congratulations go to each ing would have thought they notified they were recipients for were at the actual “Broadway” this year. They are: Lori of them. performance! McKenna, Dean Technical High I continue to visit the schools Both of the above accomplish- School; Kathleen O’Neil, Holy- and continue to be impressed by ments are the result of dedication, oke High School; Luis D. Marti- the progress made in our class- commitment, and teamwork. Al- nez, Kelly School; Christine Sulli- rooms across the city. As an- though I have highlighted two of van, McMahon School; Susan E. other round of MCAS testing the more “well-known events,” Tawrel, Morgan School; Cath- begins, I want to encourage our students throughout the Holyoke erine M. Hourihan, Peck School; students to make their best ef- Public Schools exhibit these char- Mary L. McAndrew, Sullivan forts, and I encourage their fami- acteristics throughout the school School. Our congratulations go lies to support them in this proc- to each of them. In addition, ess. I wish the students every year. You will read about these th and other achievements in the from March 13 – 27, “The 10 success and feel they are pre- Annual Holyoke Public Schools Art pages to follow. pared and will do well. Page 2 Connections Edited by - Kelly Doktor - [email protected] Special Thanks to: Luz Aguilar, Cris Brown, Mike Hines, Aaron Patterson, Jeannie Stone, and Judy Taylor Editor Emeritus: Laura DuPont Contributing to this issue: Mission Statement Stephanie Murchison-Brown Ellen Jackson Miranda Smith The mission of the Holyoke Public Schools Pauline Carriere Karen Kent Jody Spitz is to provide educational John Cavanaugh Lee McGarrigle Nancy Stenberg opportunities for all Lisa Curtin Margaret Morin Karen Turcotte students to reach their Dan Dorozynski Aaron Morris Vionette Escudero-Turner full potential in a safe, secure, healthy learning Josiah Friedberg Sarah Platanitis Peggy Vershon environment while Joe Gannon Linda Prystupa Sue Werenski valuing diversity and Karen Guillette Anne Schmidt Kevin Willard promoting responsible citizenship. Holyoke School Committee Mayor Michael Sullivan The walls around the Morgan School Library are very bright and colorful these days, due to the William Collamore efforts of art teacher Eduardo Melendez and his students. Celebrating Dr. Seuss’ birthday on March 2nd, students created a wonderful gallery of many familiar Dr. Seuss characters throughout Yvonne Garcia the month-long celebration. Barry Conway Mollie Plant Margaret Boulais Title I Events ~ 6:30 p.m. Gladys Lebron-Martinez May 6 McMahon School Dinosaur Night Howard Greaney May 7 Kelly School Make & Take Game Dennis Birks May 11 Morgan School Rhyme Time Michael Moriarty May 13 E.N. White Bingo for Books June 1 Donahue School Bingo for Books June 4 McMahon School Discovering Oceans June 9 E.N. White Bingo for Books Families attending the Title I June 10 Morgan School Bingo for Books Dr. Seuss Night at McMahon School June 11 Kelly School Bingo for Books enjoyed making Grinch masks! Volume 7, Issue 3 Page 3 http://www.hps.holyoke.ma.us _____________________ What’s New on the Web At left, Jerickson Rivera is using Aleks, a web-based By Judy Taylor math enrichment program, in McMahon’s computer lab. NEW: Several students in grades 4-8 are participating in this Take a look at the Good News program before or after school four days a week. Com- link in the Announcements puter teacher Kathy Dunn says not only are students section for information regarding enjoying the extra time on the computer, but they are Chloe Mann, Sullivan School achieving the goal of enhancing their understanding of student and Boston Globe essay math concepts that may be seen on the MCAS. winner; and the HHS Division IIIA State Champions. Good News will be used as a vehicle to highlight positive news from schools in the district. Congratu- Eighth grade teacher Brett Latham has organized a twice-weekly af- lations to the district Grinspoon ter-school algebra club intended to prepare high-achieving eighth winners for Excellence in Teach- grade math students for entry into advanced high school mathematics ing. Highlights of this, including classes in the fall at Holyoke High School. Students work on algebra photos and teacher profiles, are skills on Tuesdays, and then play related math games on Thursdays. included in the Announce- “We play the games just to keep them excited about algebra,” said Latham at right shown working with student Kelsi Giguere. This ments section. spring the club members will build bottle rockets that are expected Click on the Kindergarten to reach 300 feet in the air. Launch date to be announced! Registration link for contact information regarding the appli- cation process for children that will be 5 years old on or before Noreen Ewick’s 6th grade social studies students have been using map projections and web sites to study the density, distribution and September 1, 2009. migration of our constantly changing world population. Students also Holyoke High School site investigated population statistics at McMahon by collecting data from the classrooms then graphed and interpreted the data creating a http://www.hps.holyoke.ma.us/ variety of final products including bar graphs and pictographs. At left hhs/index.html Luz Quinones and Robert Proulx stand before their completed Click on the Guidance/Career graphs which are on display at the school Center link to view weekly announcements, scholarships, and college acceptances. Fourth graders have been working on biography reports as a part of their non-fiction writing unit. Subjects varied from historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln and Helen Keller to contemporary celebri- ties like Miley Cyrus and LeBron James. Student Hailey Butler said, “I Kelly students loved learning all the fun facts about Milton Hershey (display at right).” At the end of the unit, the fourth graders took part in a Biography Fair lend support when administrators, teachers and other students toured the class- rooms and asked the researchers questions about their person. Kelly School 6th and 7th graders recently lent their enthusiasm and support to a basketball Second grade teachers Jennifer Hartbarger and Stephanie Hills th th team in need. The 6 and 7 connected lessons on repeating patterns within the Math grades had the opportunity to Investigations unit to create spider webs. Students studied attend a NCAA Division 2 Elite how spiders weave their webs and saw the patterns that are Eight Basketball game at the created in the webs. The class read The Very Busy Spider by Mass Mutual Center in Spring- Eric Carle followed by students making their own repeating th spider web pattern using paper, yarn and glue. At left, the field on March 25 . The catch was, they had to support a class stands underneath those spider webs. team. As part of a program to drum up fans for teams visiting from out of state, the students Louise Cavanaugh’s 3rd grade students celebrated the 100th day of school by holding a food drive for were given a team to adopt and Kate’s Kitchen. The third grade class had a goal of collecting 100 items of food, one item for each day of support in exchange for tickets school, but they surpassed their goal.
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