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FURLOUGH and HTA

October 2—All Flu shot paperwork is due October 9—Second Quarter LC registration will be available for sign-up. This schedule will be a little different than first quarter.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 25 2009

As you know the DOE and HSTA have come to an agreement regarding teacher furlough days and budget cuts/accommodations. We at HTA will NOT be furloughing any of our teachers and we will not be cutting or decreasing any of our programs. One of the main reasons we were very proactive in preparing the schools budget cut given the fiscal crisis of the state coming into this school year so we made accommodation's earlier in the year in planning and secondly is our partnership with K12 which absorbs many costs for the school. We will be distributing our second quarter schedule and registration sheets shortly via email and it will be a touch different as you will register through an on-line site. If you have any additional questions please do not hesitate to ask.

K-1 Field Trip K-1 Zoo Field Trip is Thursday October 1, 2009 from 9am-1pm. All students need to bring a lunch and a bottle of water. Students are asked to meet outside of the zoo at 9:00 so that we can go in as a group at 9:15. Please be on time to avoid paying your own entrance fee.

Over the next 2 weeks, 7th grade Life Science students will be shipped nutrient agar directly from the vendor. The agar is part of the Unit 2: Differing Cells experiment “Growing Bacteria from Clean and Dirty Hands”. If you have any questions, please contact Mr. Gasda.

The Book It Program will begin in October and run through out the school year. All students will be reading and striving for a goal each much. The incentive is a certificate of a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. Each grade will be given a calendar and a number of minutes to read per month. Your homeroom teacher will have this for you. At the end of the month you will need to return the calendar to your homeroom teacher signed by an adult, Learning coach, or guardian. The Literacy Teacher (Ms. Linhart), will then write out the certificate and return it to your homeroom teacher. All your reading calendars will be logged in monthly and kept track of in the Literacy classroom.

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TARGET FUND RAISER We've discovered a terrific way to raise funds for our school. It's super-easy, and all you have to do is use your Target® Visa® or Target® Card. We will receive a percentage of the amount of each purchase in the form of a cash donation from Target through the Take Charge of Education® program. It's easy.

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Just visit target.com/tcoe, or call 1-800-316-6142 to designate our school. So if you're going to Target anyway, please consider using your Target® Visa® or Target® Card. Big thanks to those who are already doing their part to make a great school even better. Find out how much money our school has already received at target.com/tcoe. Grandparents, alumni, neighbors and friends can take part, too.

HTA ID # 151525 Italy Trip Fund Raising Meeting: Tuesday, Sept 29th in room 3 at 12pm AND Mrs. Au's Elluminate room at 7pm https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp? sid=559&password=M.873493085DEFA1667E60A5484935C2 It's not too late to sign-up! In fact, if you do so before the end of the September you will still qualify for a discount! Price goes up Oct 1st.

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School Pictures School pictures will be taken by the Digital Photography teacher, Sara McCraw. She will be here the week of F2F conferences, and will be taking walk ins between 10-2 from Monday through Thursday. She will be taking pictures of all students, as well as family portraits if wanted. Siblings can squeeze in, and props can be added.

HIGH SCHOOL JAPANESE CLASS TRIP What: The Japan Day (Sponsored by the Japan-America Society of Hawaii. Provides students with hands-on experiences with various Japanese cultural activities, such as bonsai (Japanese art of growing dwarfed plants), bon dance, calligraphy, ikebana (Japanese art of flower arranging), Japanese crafts, kimono wearing (bring a camera!), soroban (Japanese abacus), and tea ceremony. When: November 18th, Wednesday Time: Half-day (morning/specific time TBA) COST: FREE Where: Tokai International College in Honolulu Who: High School students who are taking the Japanese course at HTA Only 4 schools in the state of Hawaii are invited to this exciting program which is held biannually. We are fortunate to have been invited this year despite the fact that so many schools are on a wait list. So please don't miss this opportunity. Inform Fushimi Sensei a.s.a.p. if you would like to participate. Deadline is October 2 (Friday).

FROM YOUR PTSA COOKBOOK UPDATE We really need your favorite recipes. Please turn them in at the Learning Center Office however you have them: on scrap paper, sticky note, recipe card, typed, not typed, a piece of cardboard ripped off a box.........or if you have time use the recipe form available at http://htaptsa.googlepages.com For those who attended the Beach Bash ,the dishes you brought to share are the inspiration for this cookbook. We would really like the recipes for those dishes!!



 

 


It has been brought to our attention that there is a conflict of events on October 16 so our meeting will need to be changed. The new date and time will be available in the October newsletter. We apologize for the inconvenience. Any questions or concerns please contact us at [email protected]