2008-09 School Calendar
2008-2009 – SCHOOL HOURS
High School 7:15 a.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Middle Schools
Brennan, Coelho, Wamsutta 7:50 a.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Elementary (Early Session)
Studley and Willett* 8:30 a.m. - 2:50 p.m.
Kindergarten (a.m.) 8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Kindergarten (p.m.) 12:20 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.
Elementary (Late Session)
Thacher, Hill Roberts, Hyman Fine* 9:00 a.m. - 3:20 p.m.
Kindergarten (a.m.) 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Kindergarten (p.m.) 12:50 p.m. – 3:20 p.m.
*Full-day Kindergarten through Grade 4
First Look at the 2008-09 school calendar. Â
September |
Time |
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2 |
No School |
Teacher Professional Day |
2 |
3:30 -5:30 p.m. |
Welcome Back Ice Cream Party on playground |
3 |
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- First Day of school - Grades 1-4
- Kindergarten Screening by Appointment
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- Kindergarten orientation (Students and Parents by Invitation Letter)
- Full day kindergarten students come to the AM orientation
- AM kindergarten orientation: 9:30 or 10:30
- PM kindergarten orientation: 1:00 or 2:00
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- Kindergarten first day of school
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- PTO meeting
- All teachers and parents welcome to participate
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24 |
No School |
No School: full day teacher professional day |
25 |
6 p.m.– 8 p.m. |
Open House |
29 |
3:30 p.m. |
School Council meeting |
Click the sun to view summer greetings from staff and students enjoying a variety of FUN. Email Mr. Joseph to add to the greetings.
Exciting News At The Hill
21 eMac computers were donated to Hill-Roberts this summer. We are going to be able to build 5 computer mini labs for grades 1-4 for research and word processing. This continues our forward progress of integrating technology into our school. With the addition of our 5 SMART boards, the laptop mobile lab, accelerated reader lab, our teachers and students have the tools to expand their learning in various forms.
New Attleboro Staff Web Link
Click the link above to visit the new web link. IMPORTANT- If you did not change your password with Shane before the end of school and can't log in, contact Mr. Joseph. Either call his cell or email using another account. Don't forget that ALL usernames are first initial and last name. This might be a change for some. Faculty, make sure to visit the Summer Staff Updates for ongoing information |
Summer Reading
All of us look forward to our summer vacation and I hope you’ll make reading a vital part of your son or daughters’ summer activities.
7/1/08
Dear students and parents,
We realize that many of you may be having difficulty locating some of the summer reading books. For the library book discussions, Children of the Red King is a series of five Charlie Bone's mysteries. "Crazy Summer" by Gary Soto is a misprint, the book title is "Crazy Weekend." The Captive is available on Amazon as are the others.  Don't Eat the Teacher by Nick Ward is a book suitable for K-2 and is a great book to help young children learn how to make predictions. Please accept our apologies for the difficulty with the book list. Next year we will research the list a little more thoroughly before we post it. Thank you for your patience as we rap up a whirlwind year of reading and learning.
Catherine White, Core Literacy Specialist
Recycling
Mr. Nieratko's students have completed their latest writing assignment - Persuasive Letter writing. They decided to compose a formal letter persuading Mr. Joseph to consider forming a Recycling Club that would begin to address the school's need for a comprehensive recycling program.
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Book Club Celebration and Apgar Opening
On Monday 6/16 Hill-Roberts recognized students who participated in our after school book clubs. Also, thanks to donations in memory of George Apgar (father of Mrs. Young) a creative area opened in the Hill-Roberts library. The Youngs were in attendance and Georgia Young (granddaughter of George Apgar) cut the ribbon to open the area.
Many thanks to all book club instructors and volunteers and Mrs. Cotsalas and Mrs. McCaughey for organizing and decorating the creative area.
Double click photos to see large image.
Club Volunteers
Volunteer/Staff |
Position |
Club/Program |
Cathy White |
ELA Coach |
Book Clubs, Fluency Lab |
Bart Lush |
3rd Grade Teacher |
Math, Science Club Accelerated Read Football |
Julie Cotsalas |
Librarian |
Accelerated Reader Programs/ Reading Patch |
Melissa Bassler |
Technology Teacher |
Student newspaper and monthly school news letter |
Erica Vincent |
PTO Member, Parent |
4th Grade book club, Science Club |
Karen Wells |
3rd Grade Teacher |
3rd Grade book club |
Melissa Caldwell |
Parent |
3rd Grade book club |
John Nieratko |
2nd Grade Teacher |
2nd Grade Book Club |
Barbara Hanson |
School Council member |
2nd Grade Book Club |
Colleen Gordon |
Kindergarten teacher, school council member, parent |
2nd Grade Book Club |
Lindsay Vine Kerri Dunn |
1st Grade Teacher |
1st Grade Book Club |
Thank to Regal Reptile for visiting our books clubs yesterday.
More photos to come
Don't forget to check out the Reading Patch photo page (left column link)
Are You Smarter Than a 4th Grader?
Thank you to the PTO, 4th graders, and the families who participated to create a great night.
Double click on a photo to see it full size
Our faculty and students will be asked to F.O.C.U.S EVERY day.
Visitors to the Hill-Roberts Website 2007-2008 school year
Total visitors to the Hill-Roberts Website
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