School News & Events
Wed., June 11 Is NOT A Minimum Day!
Please be aware that Wednesday, June 11 is NOT a minimum day as is usual. Instead, Friday, June 13, the last day of school WILL be a minimum day.
Principal's Newsette
June 5, 2008
SCHEDULE for LAST WEEK OF SCHOOL
Monday, June 9:
PERK Fun Day: for students who earned enough points
Tuesday, June 10:
6th Grade – visit here from Zane reps – 9:30 a.m.
Field Day – Primary: 1–2 p.m.
Upper: 2-3 p.m.
Wednesday, June 11: NO MINIMUM DAY!!!
Talent Show – begins at 8:45 a.m.
(schedule will go home June 10th)
Mrs. Burghart’s Class – play at 1:15 p.m.
6th Grade vs. Staff – softball game begins after the play
Thursday, June 12: you can breathe!
Friday, June 13: DISMISSAL AT 1:30 P.M.
6th Grade Promotion – 9 a.m.
Kindergarten Classes Filling, Register Soon!
Pine Hill School is now accepting kindergarten registrations for the 2008-2009 school year as well as registrations for all other grades. You can pick up a registration packet at the school office.
Children are eligible for kindergarten if they reach five years of age on or before December 2, 2008. To enroll your child we must have all the following items:
- County Certified Birth Certificate or County Recorder’s Certificate of Live Birth.
- Completed Physical Form or Appointment Card.
- Immunization Record.
- Proof of Residence in the appropriate school area
Examples: Rental agreement, Escrow papers, or PG&E bill - Photo identification or some other valid identification of parent or guardian.
- Proof of Oral Health Assessment.
For California School Immunization requirements, please click on this link for the State of California Immunization Requirements For School and Child Care (12/04), for school entry.
Click on this link to download a copy of the Kindergarten brochure.
Library News
Recently an account has been established at Tin Can Mailman in Arcata, and at Booklegger in Old Town Eureka to benefit each of our school libraries.
If you have too many books at your house and would like to help Pine Hill or South Bay library, please take your personal books to one of the above mentioned book stores and have them preview your stack.
If they agree to purchase any of your treasures please ask them to apply your credit to the school account of your choice. (I recently took a box of books to Booklegger and put $4.00 credit on the South Bay account and then took the remainder of the books to Tin Can Mailman and earned a further $6.00 credit there!)
Many times each year students have their books stolen or damaged in ways completely out of their control. The credit on file at these bookstores will be used to replace those books with something similar.
Thank you for supporting our libraries and our students!
Ms. Weiderman, Mrs. Younger, and Mrs. Wilson
June Menus Now Available Online
June 1, 2008
The May menus for school breakfast and lunches is now available online. They are in the pdf format so that anyone with a connection to the Internet can download them onto their computer can use the free program Adobe Reader® to view and/or print them.
Download the June Menus
If you do not have Adobe Reader on your computer, you can download it for free by clicking on the link. Download Adobe Reader
Due to the increase in cost to produce our lunches we have increased the cost of student lunches to $1.75 per day. The cost for one week is $8.75. Breakfast cost will remain the same. Adult lunches are $3.50.
36th Edition of Kindergarten News
Friday, June 6, 2008
Mrs. Blanchard and Mr. Lentz send a note home with their kindergarten students every Friday during the school year. If your kindergartener did not bring the note home or if you would like to view it now, you can click on the newsletter link on the left side of the page.
All newsletters are saved in .pdf format. You can read them using the free program Adobe Reader. If you do not have Adobe Reader on your computer, you can download it for free by clicking on the link on the right side of the newsletter page.
Each week the kindergarten students are introduced to a new Alphafriend who will teach them about a new letter of the alphabet. The students will learn the name of the letter, the shape of the letter and the sound of the letter. Use the links below to find the Alphafriend song you want to practice.
Go to the Alphafriends page.
Box Tops For Education
April 23, 2008
Box Tops for Education has helped America's schools earn over $200 million since 1996. Pine Hill School can earn up to $60,000 every year through Box Tops- that's as much as $20,000 from each of these three easy ways to earn:
- Clip Box Tops from your favorite products. Look for the 10¢ Box Tops coupon on hundreds of your favorite products. You can find Box Tops on brands such as Cheerios®, Betty Crocker®, Pillsbury®, Ziploc®, Kleenex®, Hefty® and more!
- Shop at your favorite online stores. At the Boxs Tops Marketplace, you can shop at over 60 online stores including JCPenney and Lands' End. A portion of every qualifying purchase is donated to your school - all at no additional cost to you!
- Buy books through the Book Club. Several times a year, students will receive order forms from your school's coordinator to purchase books through the Box Tops Book Club. Your school will earn one Box Top for every dollar spent.
We will soon be beginning a Summer Saving program with an Olympic theme. There is be collection sheets for you to attach the box tops coupons to. These collections will be returned to school in September.
Box Tops for Education helps schools like your earn cash for the things they need, from books and computers to playground equipment. See how much your school has earned and find out how you can help even more using the Box Tops website.
American Academy of Pediatrics & T.V.
March 12, 2008
We want to share a very disturbing statistic this week about the number of children who have television sets in their bedrooms. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that no child under the age of 16 have a television set in their bedroom. They also recommend that no child under the age of 2 watch television at all!
Healthy Choices
New Wellness Policy Goes Into Effect
Last year South Bay Union School District adopted a Wellness Policy that is in line with state mandates. The following are the goals of this policy:
- Child Nutrition Programs, comply with federal, state and local requirements and are accessible to all children
- All foods and beverages sold on campus during the school day are consistent with current federal, state and local requirements
- The school environment is safe, comfortable and pleasing with ample time and space allocated for eating meals
- Sequential and interdisciplinary nutrition education and physical education are provided to promote student wellness
- All students are provided the opportunity to be physically active on a regular basis through physical education and physical activity programs designed to meet or exceed the California Department of Education regulations
- All school based activities are consistent with SBUSD Wellness Policy goals
Celebrations, Rewards, Marketing
The school district will encourage the use of healthly foods and/or activities for school celebrations.
- School staff and Parents will be notified of the school’s preference for healthy food or activity based celebrations
- School will inform parents of health alternatives whenever possible
Celebrations should occur after the class’s lunch period - School personnel will take opportunities to model healthy food choices while engaged in school and/or district activities
- The school district will discourage the use of food or beverages as a reward for student accomplishments nor will they withhold food or beverages as punishment
- The school will limit the marketing and advertising of unhealthy food and beverages
- Food or beverages that do not meet the nutrition guidelines stated above will not be heavily promoted.
With Halloween on the horizon please check with your child’s teacher regarding any questions you might have. Thanks for supporting this change.
Standards & Frameworks
Information regarding standards and frameworks designed to encourage the highest achievement of every student by defining the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level.
Content standards were designed to encourage the highest achievement of every student, by defining the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level.
Frameworks are blueprints for implementing the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education and are developed by the Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission.
