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from the HALL WEEKLY BULLETIN
January
26, 2004 • Vol. 9:20 |
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THIS 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; more
info
NEXT WEEK—
Monday, Feb. 2
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Tuesday, Feb. 3
• Hall PTA Hot Lunch: TJ’s Mexican
• 7:45am | Hall Student Council meeting
• 3:45pm | Hall Mathletes practice
Wednesday, Feb. 4
• Hall PTA Jamba Juice
• 12:00pm | Hall Bridge Club, Room 508
• 3:10pm | Hall Bulletin deadline; use online
submission form
• 6:30pm | Hall meeting for parents of 8th graders: About
Redwood HS with Nancy Neu, Principal of RHS, Hall Library
• 7:30pm | Corte Madera Larkspur Schools Foundation meeting,
NC Conf. Room
Thursday, Feb. 5
• Hall Pizza Day
Friday, Feb. 6
• Morning | Hall group yearbook photos
• 7:00pm | Hall 7th/8th grade dance, Hall gym
Saturday, Feb. 7
• 10:00am | Hall Beautification, 10:00am
AHEAD—
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) |
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| PRINCIPAL’S
MESSAGE: January 26, 2004 |
Your Career Day
In anticipation of the Career Fair on
February 13, inside today’s backpack
mail is the information about each
speaker. This is a great opportunity for
you to learn more about your child’s
interests. The range of offerings this
year is incredible and could provide
for some rich discussion about
potential career paths your child might
be interested in.
As you talk about the options available
during Career Fair, I encourage you to
take the opportunity to talk to your
child about your career. While you
might not be a race car driver or a toy
inventor, you still have valuable
wisdom to pass on to your children
about your vocation and avocation.
Seventh Grade Activities
The seventh grade class recently
participated in a field trip to the Islamic
Center in Mill Valley. As part of their
social studies curriculum, the students
continued to explore the roots, tenets
and common threads of Christianity,
Judaism and Islam. After listening to a
guest speaker, the seventh graders
went to the Islamic Center where they
observed one of the daily prayers,
learned more about Islam and asked
numerous questions. It was an
interesting and enlightening
experience. Our students were
respectful, curious and appreciative. I
was very proud to be able to spend
time with them outside of school. We
would like to thank the Islamic Center,
the seventh grade teachers, and the
numerous parent drivers for making
this opportunity available to our
students.
This week the seventh graders will
also enjoy a presentation on African
drumming. The seventh grade
teachers have arranged to bring in
experts on the history and cultural
importance of drumming.
—Daniel Norbutas, Principal
NOTE: full names of students are in the online Hall Bulletin,
available by subscription only
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PHOTO OF THE
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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 |
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| PARENT UNIVERSITY
VIII
Saturday, Jan. 31 • 8:30am–1:00pm
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| Healthy Teens Marin and Marin County Office
of Education sponsor this FREE annual conference on issues
of interest to parents of teens. At San Rafael H.S., 185 Mission
Avenue, San Rafael
— See
website
— Or call Margaret Beyer, MCOE, 499-5877 |
| YEARBOOK PHOTOS
Friday , Feb. 6 • morning |
| For inclusion in the yearbook, group photos
of students who participated in extracurricular academic and
sports activities, as well as photos recognizing students
who were chosen as Student of the Month or earned Honor Roll
or Principal’s List status, will be taken in the library
during periods 1-4 on February 6. Students will be released
from classes to participate in these photos. It is each student’s
responsibility to be in the library for the appropriate picture(s)
at the appropriate time. Unfortunately group photos cannot
be retaken at a later date or time. |
| BEAUTIFICATION DAY
Saturday , Feb. 7 • 10:00am-1:00pm |
|  Come
on Saturday, February 7th, from 10:00am to 1:00pm (if you
went to the dance, you can always come later!). We’ll
plant Hardenbergia vines on some parts of the chain
link fence, weed the area outside the fence along Doherty,
and maybe spread some mulch. The ground is damp, so the weeds
are easy to pull! Bring gloves and digging tools (always a
good idea to put your name on them). Also, at the last work
day, someone left a pair of green leather garden gloves; I’ll
bring them on Saturday.
Bring any kids for community service, they’ll get their
certificates same day.
— For more information, or for
email updates & reminders about beautification projects,
contact Maija Norstad
— Get Community
Service card (pdf)
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SCHOOL NEWS: Information |
TONIGHT’S HOMEWORK FOR CAREER
FAIR
The Career Fair organizers have been working hard to find, invite
and confirm interesting speakers for this year’s event. We
hope you’ll enjoy the lineup listed in the enclosed
Speaker Selection Guide. It’s important that students read
through it tonight, Monday 1/26, make their selections and bring
them to homeroom tomorrow, Tuesday 1/27. It takes hours of
data entry to input individual student's schedules and we need to
get started. Thank you to teacher Eliott Rodgers for organizing
this complicated scheduling!
Tonight’s homework: read through the Career
Fair Speaker Selection Guide and follow the instructions. Thank
you and enjoy!
DANCE CHAPERONES NEEDED!
We still need chaperones for our next Hall dance on Friday, Feb.
6th. Chaperones are needed from 6:30–10:00pm. Unless 10-12
parents call to volunteer, the dance will be
cancelled. Your kids may not want you to chaperone, but we cannot
have dances without parent chaperones. Traditionally, parents are
expected to chaperone at least one dance a year. To make it more
fun, plan to chaperone with your friend or spouse.
— Contact Rebecca Sarokin or Claudia
Gropper for more information or to sign up
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
| PTA NEWS
Please check the PTA pages
for more information.
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| THIS WEEK
on the PTA pages (Jan. 26):
— Letter from the President: Important dates; Redwood
High School tours, Executive Board meeting notes
GO TO the PTA
pages for more information |
|  CORTE
MADERA LARKSPUR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION NEWS
Make Choices. Make a Difference
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| See www.cmlsf.org
for full information on the following (and more!):
–AUCTION/SPRING EVENT is May 15, 2004:
Plan a party! Be a sponsor
–FAMILY GIVING CAMPAIGN contributions still welcome!
Phone-a-thon coming…
–$CRIP: Marin (& Sonoma) Express Books available
($30). Use Macy’s gift cards to pay your bill! Get the
details.
GO TO www.cmlsf.org
for information on any of these items! |
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