June 12, 2008

Thank you Hope families for another wonderful school year.  One of the major highlights includes our recognition as a California Distinguished School for the first time in our 20 year history. Hope Families also raised $352 for Hospice of North County to send one family to Camp Hope (An outdoor healing experience for families suffering the loss of a loved one). Our campus beautification silent auction raised over $1000 which was used to purchase new picnic tables. We are proud to be Hope Hawks!

Over the summer, I hope you have fun and I hope you will continue to encourage and promote academic achievement by setting a reading schedule for your student(s).  You might also consider providing learning time to reinforce math concepts appropriate for your student's grade level next year as well as fun writing activities.

If you have access to the internet, there are many great resources for your and your student such as www.mathfactcafe.com for math skills, flashcards, online tests, and activities about time and money. To build writing skills, you may want to visit www.readwritethink.org for a variety of student resources.

Parent Teacher Association
Thank you for supporting our PTA and the programs they provide.  With your time, energy, and financial contributions, we have been able to maintain and outstanding music, art, and dance program for our students.  I appreciate the PTA board members and their service in coordinating our many activities and events.  I look forward to working with next year's PTA and appreciate Jason Stewart's enthusiasm as the 2008-2009 PTA President!

Fundraising
There are many ways you can help us raise money for our school programs.
Save all your BoxTops over the summer and talk with friends and family about saving their BoxTops for our school.  We received a check for $600 in March simply from families that turn in their BoxTops located on General Mills merchandise.

We also plan on expanding our recycling effort to include all community members.  We currently recycle aluminum and plastic bottles on campus with the help of our special education program.  This is not only good for the environment, it has also paid for field trips for our special education students.  Next year, Friends of Hope School will sponsor a large scale effort to collect materials for recycling from our community with a goal of raising $1000 a month.  Plan now to help by saving your aluminum cans, plastic and glass bottles.  It's good for the environment and it's good for our school.

Staffing
We expect our staffing to change a little for the next school year.  We congratulate Mrs. Vollmer on her retirement.  She worked at Hope since the opening of our school in 1987.  We will miss her outstanding teaching!

We anticipate an additional 1st grade classroom, a new teacher in 2nd grade, and a new teacher in 4th grade.  Final staffing will be posted in August.

Campus upgrades
Our campus will benefit from some improvements over the summer.  Our parking  lot and kindergarten blacktop will be repaved along with a new tricycle track for kindergarten students.  (The sandbox was redone in June thanks to volunteers from DayBreak Church).  The red trim around the roof edge will be repainted.

Spirit Wear
Next year we are designating each Friday as School Spirit Day.  We will offer spirit wear with our new Hawk logo. Look for order forms at the beginning of the school year.

Office Hours
Our office will close for the summer on June 30th and reopen August 14th.

Here's a special note written by 4th grade student Samantha Gee.

School’s Out!
By Samantha Gee
It’s the end of the school year and everyone’s excited.  It seems like time has been flying.  We owe a big thanks to all our teachers:  Mr.
Koopsen, Mrs. Bussey, Mrs. Jansen, Mrs. Brady, Mrs. Hill, Ms. Olson, Mrs.
Vollmer, Mrs. Nielsen, Mrs. Connelly, Mrs.  Presley, Mr. Norall, Mrs.
Lovick, Mr. Bjorstad, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Wolfson, Mr. Rai, Ms. Lawrence, Mr.
Mayfield, and Mrs. Kaplowitz for doing a great job teaching us.  Also, thanks to Mr. Tubbs for everything he did for us.  Don’t forget the rest of the staff.  Thanks everyone!

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