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January 20, 2004 • Vol. 9:19

THIS WEEK—
Monday, Jan. 19
• NO SCHOOL: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day holiday
Student Council Campaign (Jan. 20-23)
Tuesday, Jan. 20
• Hall PTA Hot Lunch: TJ’s Mexican
• 7:45am | Hall Student Council meeting
• 1:15pm | Hall PTA Executive Board meeting
• 3:45pm | Hall Mathletes practice
Wednesday, Jan. 21
• Hall PTA Jamba Juice
• 12:00pm | Hall Bridge Club, Room 508
• 3:10pm | Hall Bulletin deadline; use online submission form
• 7:00pm | School Board meeting; an agenda will be posted as soon as it is available
Thursday, Jan. 22
• Hall Pizza Day
• 7:30pm | Hall 8th grade Reading Club meeting: Beyond the Western Sea
Friday, Jan. 23
• End of second quarter
• 11:48am | Hall Assembly: Student Council speeches & election
• 2:35pm | Hall DARE graduation, Rm. 501

NEXT WEEK—
Monday, Jan. 26
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Tuesday, Jan. 27
• Hall PTA Hot Lunch: TJ’s Mexican
• 7:45am | Hall Student Council meeting
• 3:45pm | Hall Mathletes practice
Wednesday, Jan. 28
• Hall PTA Jamba Juice
• 12:00pm | Hall Bridge Club, Room 508
• 3:10pm | Hall Bulletin deadline; use online submission form
Thursday, Jan. 29
• Hall Pizza Day
Friday, Jan. 30
• Hall 6th grade field trip
Saturday, Jan. 31
• 8:30am | Parent University VIII, San Rafael HS

AHEAD—
Feb. 4: Hall meeting for parents of 8th graders: About Redwood HS with Nancy Neu, Principal of RHS, 6:30pm; Corte Madera Larkspur Schools Foundation meeting, 7:30pm, NC Conf. Room
Feb. 6: Hall group yearbook photos, morning; Hall 7th/8th grade dance, 7:00pm
Feb. 7: Hall Beautification, 10:00am
Feb. 11: School Board meeting, 7:00pm
Feb. 13: Hall Career Day
To 15 Mai - Eimaste to Kosmo
(May 15th - We are the World - Greek)

Detailed month-by-month District Calendar
Year-at-a-Glance 2002-2003 District Calendar (pdf)

Campus Beautification
We had a great turnout last weekend at the campus beautification days. Students and parents made great progress in improving the front of school. It was a great group effort under the leadership and guidance of Maija Norstad. Join us at the next work day on February 7.

Career Fair
Friday, February 13th will be the biennial Career Fair. Nicole Kowalski and her team of parent support are putting together a great day of speakers who will talk about their careers. Students will receive a list of speakers on Monday, January 26 in backpack mail. The next morning students will request their top choices in homeroom the next morning. We are anticipating a unique educational experience for our students. Remember that even if your child does not get scheduled to hear their top choices, they will still have a rich and informative experience.

Mathletes
The Hall Mathletes team competed in another county-wide competition last Tuesday. The team earned an impressive second place finish. I invite you to solve the following problem from the competition.

You have two minutes to answer the following:

You have two regular (1-6) dice, one red and one blue. How many different ways can you roll them simultaneously to have the result be an odd sum with a red prime number and a blue composite number?

Remember to put your pencil down after two minutes. Look for the solution in next week’s bulletin!

—Daniel Norbutas, Principal

NOTE: full names of students are in the online Hall Bulletin, available by subscription only

PHOTO OF THE WEEK
		All sixth grade students recently participated in a Caribbean drumming and dance workshop led by Wilfred Mark and funded through the Youth in Arts program. The workshop enriched our study of “The Cay,” by Theodore Taylor, a novel set in the Caribbean islands. — photo by N. Muserilli

DANCE CHAPERONES NEEDED!
The next dance for 7th and 8th graders is Friday, February 6th from 7:00–10:00pm. We need 10-12 chaperones (to arrive by 6:30pm) for this event.
— Contact Rebecca Sarokin or Claudia Gropper for more information or to sign up

SAFE ROUTES TO SCHOOLS
We are looking for someone, preferably a parent of a 6th or 7th grader, to coordinate our Safe Routes to Schools Program at Hall. The coordinator will work with the principal and the county’s Safe Routes representative to address safety issues at Hall and to devise ways to encourage carpooling, biking and walking to school. The coordinator also will meet with the Larkspur Safe Routes to School Committee to discuss traffic and safety issues going to and from school.
—Contact Principal Daniel Norbutas or Barbara Solomon if you are interested.
—More about Safe Routes to Schools (website)

BEAUTIFICATION UPDATE!
We had two very successful beautification days on Saturday, Jan. 10th and Sunday, Jan. 11th. We got a lot done — planting areas amended and rototilled, daffodils, poppies, feather grass and Santa Barbara daisies planted (near the front entrance), and the planting area along the pump station weeded and trimmed.

Thank you to Sloat Garden Center in Larkspur for the contribution of daffodil and paperwhite bulbs and please remember their support when you need garden supplies.

Thank you to the 24 people who came to help — what a great turnout!

Only four more days left this year to make an impact on Hall Middle School beautification, so please mark your calender for one or more of these days: Feb. 7, Mar. 13, Apr. 25, and May 22, and watch the bulletin for more details.
— Email Maija Norstad if you want to receive e-mail updates/ reminders about beautification and notification of special projects