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EE Week In Full Swing & is a Family Event

EE Week is a week of environmental education lessons & activities offered to the students of Soldier Hollow Charter School. Lessons compliment the Utah Core Curriculum & are designed to make the students aware of natural communities around them & how they can positively affect them.  There are many optional, fun activities your child can join during the week. For each activity they join, they will receive a GREEN DEED Ticket to enter in a drawing for prizes (and learn so much more!).

K-2nd grades will be in multiaged groups and learning about Utah plants & animals:

  • Monday = Get into Groups
  • Tuesday = Crazy Hair Day – Wild for Utah Wildlife
  • Wednesday = Soldier Hollow Proud – Wear your SHCS t-shirt or hoodie. Field trip to Midway Fish hatchery & clean up Memorial Hill.
  • Thursday = Wear a Flora (Plant) or Fauna (Animal) or EE theme shirt. Field Trip to Wheeler Farm and The Living Planet Aquarium. ($3/child)
  • Friday = School-wide cleanup & BBQ

3rd-8th grades will be in multiaged groups and learning about Biodiversity:

  • Monday = Get into Groups
  • Tuesday = Crazy Hair Day – Biodiversity on the Brain
  • Wednesday = Soldier Hollow Proud – Wear your SHCS t-shirt or hoodie. Field trip to Midway Fish hatchery & Jordanelle Dam. ($7 bus fee)
  • Thursday = Out of this World Alien FashionWear a Flora (Plant) or Fauna (Animal) or EE theme shirt
  • Friday = Wear a Flora (Plant) or Fauna (Animal) or EE theme shirt. School-wide cleanup & BBQ

All Week :

  • Litterless Lunch- Waste at school is a mounting problem! Talk with your child about how they can reduce their lunch waste. Compost and recycling will be available at school. Students can earn GREEN DEED tickets for reducing their waste!
  • Recycle Drop- At lunch students can drop off old cell phones, ink cartridges, batteries (alkaline and rechargeable), CD’s, acrylic CD cases, and plastic bags. GREEN DEED Ticket for each item.
  • Penny Drop- To raise funds for habitat restoration we are collecting pennies. Each dollar worth of pennies earns a GREEN DEED ticket. Have your child nominate their favorite organization working to improve habitat (locally or globally).

STILL NEED:

  • Volunteers to chaperon & assist teachers all week!
  • Volunteers on Friday to help with service projects
  • Volunteers on Friday to help with picnic set-up, clean-up, BBQ, etc.
  • Un-wanted, un-breakable dinnerware donations

(Contact Kelly Gallo TeachingGreen@yahoo.com or 570-764-2609)

****Please send your child ready for the weather each day. You may want to provide them with a pack they can carry with them from station to station and include things like a rain poncho, sunscreen, hat, sunglasses, snacks, pencils, and any naturalist tools they may have (magnifying glasses, binoculars, etc.). *******

Please feel free to join us any day, any time. This is a family event!

ILoveEarth.com T-shirts designed by OUR students for Sale

Students of Soldier Hollow Charter School have drawn pictures and they have been submitted to ILoveEarth.com! Visit iloveearth.com to see your child’s drawing. While there you can choose to order the drawing on a 100% organic t-shirt in any size. T-shirts cost $20 and $5 from each t-shirt sale will be returned to the school. During the upcoming EE Week, students will vote on what they want the proceeds of this fund-raiser to go towards.

Visit iloveearth.com , click on Student Designs and order your t-shirts today!

April News

Parent/teacher conference, April 5th-8th. Sign-up at school.
Spring Break, April 12-16
Absent Students: Please remember to call or e-mail ( jkohler7@gmail.com ) when you child is going to be absent from school.  If we don’t hear from you it is recorded as an unexcused absence on their record.  Thanks.
SHCS Hoodies: We have Green, Red, Navy Blue, Purple, Pink, and Black.  Adults $35 and Children $30. Get them at the office.
Student Information:   Thanks to all of you who have come into the office to give us updated addresses, phone numbers, work numbers, emergency contacts, etc.  For those of you who haven’t had the time to come in, please fill out the attached form and mail it, fax it (654-1349) or send with your student.  It is very important that we have updated information on your student in case of an emergency.  Thanks. -Joan
SHCS Yearbooks:  We are in the process of assembling the SHCS yearbook for 2009/2010.  If any parents or teachers have pictures that we could add to the yearbook, we would really appreciate it. If you have pictures of:  field trips (class or school), Olympics, parades or other fun pictures with groups of students, please bring the pictures to the office on a CD by April 9th.
Volunteer Hours: Thank you to all of those parents, relatives and guardians who volunteer on a weekly basis. The children and school benefit greatly (both in grant money and classroom assistance).
For those of you haven’t had the opportunity to get your hours in, we have plenty of events and needs, such as the ones listed below. So, please sign-up to help out and remember that each family is required to have a minimum of 100 hours (hours go up for each additional child enrolled in SHCS) for the school year. The office will have an updated report of all inputed volunteer hours (by family) available by the end of the week.
  • Crossing Guards:  We are still in desperate need of afternoon crossing guards. There have been afternoons when we have had no volunteers available. It is for about 30 min from 2:30-3:00, you get double hours and the weather is getting nicer! Please email Cheryl Kightlinger at cjkightlinger@yahoo.com if you can assist.
  • Soldier Hollow Spring BOGO Book Fair, April 5-9:  Our Scholastic Buy one Get one Free: We will be open before & after school, during lunch, & Parent Teacher Conferences.  Come check out the Easter guessing jar, enter the daily drawing for a free book, donate to teacher/classroom wish Lists, and give extra pennies to One for Books.
  • Free Breakfast at the Book Fair on Wednesday, April 7th, 7:45 a.m.-8:15 a.m.  Proceeds benefit our school.  Interested in volunteering?  Check for a sign up sheet by the office or contact Joni Taylor inclinecos@yahoo.com 435-654-8053
  • National Environmental Education Week, April 19-23:  This is our 5th year celebrating EE Week and if you haven’t been here for one yet, you are in for a big treat! EE Week is a huge celebration of our dedication to environmental education by setting aside the week for fun, educational activities designed by the teachers that students rotate between in multi-aged groupings. Students also enjoy many other educational contests, programs, and field explorations throughout the week. This year’s theme will be Biodiversity of Utah for grades 3-8 and Plants and Animals of Utah for grades K-2.
  • Please plan to join us throughout the week! A detailed schedule will be provided next week to better help you plan. Volunteers make EE Week run! Volunteers are needed:

1 volunteer is needed to teach a Grade 3-8 lesson all day Monday and Tuesday (you will be given a lesson and materials before spring break)

4 volunteers are needed to monitor lunch lessons- a hands-on learning table. (materials will be provided)
1 volunteer to plan (with guidance from  Kelly Gallo if needed) and implement a green celebration picnic on Friday, April 23.
7 volunteers are needed each day to travel with K-2 groups from station to station
8 volunteers are needed each day to travel with Gr. 3-8 groups from station to station (these chaperons make sure students get to the correct station at the correct time, assist the teacher at the station if needed, and monitor student behavior)
Incentives are also needed. Each year students participate in several activities that go beyond the classroom (recycling relay at lunch, recycling drive, penny drop, recycled fashion show, etc.) and are awarded a GreenDeed ticket for their green deed. These tickets are then entered into a drawing. Many winners are announced at a special assembly on Friday and receive a variety of prizes (incentives). We are collecting prizes now and are in need of more. Prizes in the past have been books, binoculars, bird feeders, pens, pencils, posters, backpacks, t-shirts, kites, toys, etc. Please consider donating those random extra items we seem to find ourselves with that kids might enjoy. These incentives are meant to encourage student participation during the week in the hopes they will continue the habits they practice during EE Week into the future. Your donation means a great deal!
If you would like to volunteer your time and/ or donate incentives, please contact Kelly Gallo at TeachingGreen@yahoo.com or 570-764-2609.
Rewards Program:  Please keep sending in your Home Team Rewards and Tyson labels (with your child’s name on them) for our current contest.  Home Team Rewards are small gold labels found on all Fast Fixin’ and Fast Classics frozen food.  Tyson labels are large red labels found on certain Tyson frozen chicken products.  They say “Support Your School 1…2…3…”.
Please see the bulletin board at the bottom of the stairs for more information.  Thank you.

Building 1 has passed inspection and ready to go

March 25, 2010

Our first new classroom building passed its final building inspection today! In addition, Mr. Weber and I went down to the factory to inspect it on behalf of the school.

We continue to be amazed with the quality of the work being done by Advanced Modular! Small details – like the fact that the siding is cut precisely to line up with the trim – with a 1/8″ grout between – completely amaze me. They were in the process of replacing the epoxy flooring in all the entryways and restrooms because it didn’t meet their quality standards. Instead of using their own crew, they’re bringing in a specialty flooring contractor to do it right – all at no additional cost to the school.

Here are a few pictures. It’s tough to give you the complete image. Can’t wait for you to see it yourselves!

Soldier Hollow’s ski season ends this weekend, so our excavation and site preparation is scheduled to start on Monday.

It’s been a long time in coming, but everything FINALLY seems to be falling into place for us!

SHCS News

Rewards Program:  Thank you so much to all of the families who sent in box tops & supported your children in the contest.  The 68 students who participated brought in 1,856 box tops this month – which comes to $185.60)!  With the exception of 7th and 8th grade, every class had students who participated.  This is a wonderful help to our school.  The winners were:
1st Place – Erin Johnson  (174 box tops)
2nd Place – Jake Johnson and Cordell Johnson tied  (75 box tops each)
3rd Place – Afton Overton  (73 box tops)

Spring Cleaning Donations accepted by the Soldier Hollow Student Council. Anything can be donated & will go to Utah MS organizations. All donations should be dropped off in Miss Drozd’s room March 10-19. Thank you.

Summer marketing note for SHCS
The marketing team is looking for parents/guardians who would like to serve on the marketing planning committee throughout the summer & the upcoming school year.

We would like to let everyone know we will be attending the Farmer’s Market every Thursday (3:30 to 9:00pm) through the summer.

We are forming a team to design and assemble a float for our school and would welcome anyone who would like to help. We will also be looking for anyone who has a flat bed trailer we could use the first of August through the first of September, and finally anyone who has space to store the trailer from the weather for that month.

Just as a reminder, all hours served in the summer are doubled. If any of you are interested on getting a head start on your hours for next year, please contact:  Megan at M3gst3r@hotmail.com

SHCS Weekly News

Student Information Thanks to all of you who have come into the office to give us updated addresses, phone numbers, work numbers, emergency contacts, etc.  For those of you who haven’t had the time to come in, please fill out the attached form and mail it, fax it (654-1349) or send with your student.  It is very important that we have updated information on your student in case of an emergency.  Thanks…..Joan

SHCS Hoodies We have Green, Red, Navy Blue, Purple, Pink, and Black.  Adults $35 and Children $30. Get them at the office.

Thank You to all of the parents and students that helped make the Soldier Hollow Olympics a success!  Thank you for leading the teams, helping with country presentations, helping at the venues, manning the food tables, picking up students when they fell, cleaning up everything so quickly, etc.  Because of amazing parents and students, we were able to have an amazing event.

Volunteer Hours: Please enter all of your much appreciated volunteer hours. We will be running an updated report by the end of next week.

If you are short on hours (about 100 hrs/yr for your first student, then 1 additional hr/week/additional child), then please contact your teachers or office for upcoming opportunities.

We have one more large event coming up and that’s our fabulous Environmental Week (4/19-23). Mrs. Gallo could definitely use lots of volunteers for this yearly event. More information to come.

Donations for Charity

Spring Cleaning Donations accepted by the Soldier Hollow Student Council. Anything can be donated and will go to Utah MS organizations. All donations should be dropped off in Miss Drozd’s room March 10-19. Thank you.

School Field Trip: See the new classrooms

The whole school is going to see the progress of our new re-locatable classrooms at the factory on Thursday!  We are leaving here as close to 8:30 a.m. as we can and returning approximately 11:00 to 11:30 a.m. We will be taking busses so there is a small cost at $3.00 per child, except for the kindergarten who are carpooling because they are going on an extended field trip somewhere else after the factory visit.

Worth the Wait

March 9, 2010. After this long, long wait, it is FANTASTIC to see these buildings coming together! The first of our three new buildings – a Classroom/Waxing Building – is almost complete. I’m so excited for teachers, students and some of our parents to get their first glimpse on Thursday. Now that they’re coming together, I think these classrooms are going to be even nicer than I anticipated. The exterior is lovely. In addition to what you see, accent trim at the top and the bottom will be a nice Hardi-Plank “Countryside Red”.

Mr. Weber picked the wall carpeting – and did a wonderful job. It has enough color to be low maintenance, but doesn’t darken the room. It looks so warm and comfortable! I’d been told that they weren’t going to be able to have vaulted ceilings in the entryway (because of all the ducts and plumbing in ceiling), so was delighted to see that they’re vaulted anyway.

The second building you see here – the Observation Building – is about 2 weeks behind the first in construction. This building will house 5 boys and 5 girls’ restrooms (accessible from interior or exterior entrances) and two classrooms. These two classrooms will open up into a really nice, spacious multipurpose room. We’ve dubbed it the “Observation Building” because it will overlook the race course finish line. It has a small entryway (for energy conservation), but will open up nicely to create a space that’s not much smaller than the open room up at the lodge. It’ll be great to have all those open areas when we need them for assemblies and large group settings.

2010 Olympics Photos