Parent Bulletin 5                                       HKMS                                                      February 10, 2008

 

1.      IMPORTANT NOTICE ALL PARENTS: please join us this week for our open parent forum on Monday (2/11) or Tuesday (2/12) or Wednesday (2/13) at 7 PM in the library media center.  Give us your feedback for the first half of the school year.

2.      Pre-orders are now due for our 5- 8 School Yearbook.  Students brought home a letter and envelope on Friday, February 1 detailing the directions for payment.  The cost is $25.  Please return the envelope with your child’s name and the payment to the main office no later than this Friday, February 15. If you did not get the flyer and envelope, there are some extras in the main office.    Please do not wait until June to buy your yearbook – we only order a minimal number of “extra” yearbooks to keep our costs down. 

3.      The due date for the course registration sheets for grade 8 students entering HKHS  is Tuesday, February 12. 

4.      Don’t worry if you did not get in to see your child’s teacher last week during parent conferences. Our teachers meet daily as a team.  If you wish to meet with your child’s team of teachers, please contact your child’s guidance counselor at 663-1797 for an appointment (Joan Hill grades 5 and 7 or Alan Fortin grades  6  and 8).  

5.      Thank you to our parents and our students for supporting our Book Fair and for the parents who worked the fair with our media center staff.  It was a big success – the most important part of which is putting books in the hands of our young readers.

6.      Our seventh grade has been scheduled for field trips this week over four days to the DNA Epicenter at Connecticut College.  These trips were organized by science teachers, Gail Hanson and Suzanne Giuca.  Our students have the opportunity to complete a 2.5 hour lab doing DNA extraction and electrophoresis – high tech stuff for our 7^th grade students.  Lunch at the Crystal Mall Food Court on the way home is part of the fun too!

7.      Winter club season is ready to go.  The listing below will help you plan for after school activities for your child.  Permission slips are required for every activity and can be picked up in the main office.  Seating is limited in some of the activities.  The clubs start at 2:50 and end at 4:00 PM unless otherwise stated on the permission slip.

·         Intramural scooter handball:  Two weeks beginning February 25 through March 5.  Every Monday and Wednesday.  Open to grades 5 – 8.  Advisor is Cherie Anderson.

 

·         Intramural fitness center:  Six weeks beginning the week of February 25 through March 31.  Open to grades 5 – 8.  Every Monday, Wednesday or Friday.  Advisor is Mike Baklik

 

·         Softball Pitching and Catching Clinic:  Four weeks beginning February 29.  Every Friday.  Open to grades 7 and 8.  Advisor is Cherie Anderson.

·         Book of the Month Club:  Six weeks beginning February 26.  Every Tuesday.  Open to grades 5 and 6.  Advisor is Linda Valley.

·         Scrapbooking; Six weeks beginning February 27.  Every Wednesday.  Open to grades 5 – 8.  Ten dollar fee for materials.  Advisor is Heather Pach.

·         Media Production:  Five weeks starting February 5.  Every Tuesday.  Open to grades 5 and 6.  Advisor is Robin Duffield.

Ongoing after-school activities include the 7^th/ 8^th grade musical rehearsals for Peter Pan, Math Counts(6-8), Yearbook (5- 8), Art Honor Society (8), Student Council (7-8), SADD (7- 8) and YFS afterschool activities.   For more information about clubs, contact Anne O’Brien, receptionist. 

8.      Hate cooking dinner on Friday night?  Join us for a pasta dinner on Friday, February 29 from 6 pm to 8 pm in our cafeteria to benefit the eighth grade trip to Washington, DC. Tickets will be sold at the door.  Prices include: $8 per adult, $ 4 per child and $25 for a family of five or more.  A basket raffle is also planned to provide scholarships for the trip.  

9.      Have you ever tasted a Butterbraid?  Yum! The PTO is selling these delicious pastries this month.  All orders are due by February 28 and pick up by March 13.  If you need an order form, you can pick one up at the main office.  

10.  Scott Buston, our information system technician (aka – the tech expert) and his wife Elise announce the birth of their second child, Lilah born on February 6.  Our middle school community shares in their joy. 

11.  The district is closed next Monday, February 18 in observance of President’s Day.  There is no school for students for the week of February 18 – 22. We will see students again on Monday, February 25.  We hope our students enjoy the break. 

12.  I will continue to send out a bulletin every school week during the school year.  Look for it to be sent out on Thursday afternoons beginning February 14!  Look for it to be posted  on our web site by Friday mornings.

 

 

Mim

 

Miriam Furey - Wagner

Principal, Haddam-Killingworth Middle School

860-663-1241