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posted 01/26/2012
The Hurlbutt Scoop
Hurlbutt Elementary School PTO Newsletter
January 26, 2012
CALENDAR SNAPSHOT
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January 26th |
Budget Workshop #3, 7:00pm, Town Hall Meeting Room |
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January 27th |
Family Fun Night, 5:30-7:00pm (RSVP Required) |
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February 7th |
2-HOUR DELAY (Professional Development) |
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February 8th |
Joint HES & WIS PTO Meeting, 9:30am, South House Cafeteria (Guest Speaker Colleen Palmer, Superintendent) |
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February 24th |
Sound Tigers Reading Challenge Deadline |
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February 20th -24th |
NO SCHOOL (February Recess) |
SCHOOL & PTO NEWS
A MESSAGE FROM DANA LINTELL, HURLBUTT PTO PRESIDENT
A special thank you to Tom Scrarice, Assistant Superintendent and the second grade AIM pilot teachers(Pamela Khairallah, Jen Barone, Heidi Fontneau, Susan Nakas, and Michaela Durand) whopresented at yesterday's Coffee and Curriculum meeting. It was a very informative discussion on the AIM Project relevant to the HES student body. The meeting will be televised on channel 78 (date to be announce). Click here for the Q&A's from the meeting.
School Budget season is upon us, and it is important that we, as parents, are educated on the school budget that will be presented and voted on to the Selectmen Office and the Town. Please make sure to mark your calendar for Wednesday, February 8th at 9:30AM in the South House Cafeteria. Dr. Colleen Palmer will be presenting the Weston District School Budget and reviewing HES and WIS budget for the parents. Board of Education members will be attending and participating at this meeting as well. Come prepare to ask questions and/or any concerns.
Family Fun Night is this coming Friday Evening and a special thank you to Grace Brennan and Dena Tunney for their hard work putting on this event. A special thank you for all of you who cut those boxtops over the summer months - this party is for all of you!
I know that the Lintell household is very excited for the upcoming "Superbowl"! And our Community Service Chairs are having for with the "Superbowl" as well - with our HES "SOUPER-BOWL" community service project. Donations of CAN FOOD products will be donated to the Weston Food Pantry (information below). It is a wonderful chance for the school to donate to our own food pantry. (Please remember like all our community service events - donations are voluntary).
Have a wonderful weekend - and see you tomorrow night!
BOE BUDGET UPDATE
A series of budget workshops are being held by the Board of Education to review the Superintendent’s 2012-13 budget request. All workshops will be broadcast on Channel 78 in the event that you are unable to attend.
Budget Workshop #3 – Community Room – Weston Public Library
Thursday, January 26, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Agenda - Facilities; Special Education; Pupil Personnel Services; Summary
To view the 2012 Budget Calendar and read our Budget 101, click here or go to www.hurlbutt-pto.org and click on the School Budget Information tab.
FAMILY FUN NIGHT
Hurlbutt Family Fun Night: Friday, January 27th, 5:30-7pm
Come out for an evening of dancing and a magician! Admission is $1/person or 10 Box Tops/person.
Click here to RSVP. Space will be limited to 200 people, you must RSVP! No walk-ins will be accommodated. Parental supervision is required – this is NOT a drop-off event!
COMMUNITY SERVICE – “SOUPER BOWL”
Our next community services event will be the "SOUPER BOWL". On Thursday and Friday, Feb 2nd and 3d, kids can come to school wearing their favorite team football jersey and bring in a can of soup to benefit our Community Food Pantry!
For more information contact Cheryl at
or Lynda
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ORDER YOUR YEARBOOK
Order your 2011-2012 Hurlbutt Elementary School Yearbook NOW! The yearbook includes photos from all grades and will be in full color again this year. It is a great memento of your childʼs year at Hurlbutt! The cost of the yearbook is $22.00and the first deadline which offers the lowest price is Monday March 12th. So please order today do not delay! The next deadline to order is Monday April 2nd and the price for the yearbook at that time will be HIGHER. The EASIEST AND MOST EFFICIENT way to order is directly through Coffee Pondʼs online ordering system.
To order and pay online:
· Log on to www.coffeepond.com
· Go to “Place an Order” and click on “Yearbooks”
· Enter School Password: yearbook
· Check the box “On-Line Order”
· Follow instructions and place your order
To mail in your order:
· Log on to www.coffeepond.com
· Go to “Place an Order” and click on “Yearbooks”
· Enter School Password: yearbook
· Check the box “Mail-In Order”
· Follow instructions and mail in your order
Please contact Samantha Leuzzi
, with any questions.
* If you would like to have your yearbook personalized, Coffee Pond will charge you an
extra $10.
CALLING ALL 2nd GRADE PARENTS!
The WIS Nominating Committee is beginning the process of finding passionate volunteers to fill all of our board positions for the 2012-2013 school year. Remember, as your children get older, there are a lot less opportunities to go into the classroom so taking on a PTO board position is a great way to stay involved at school.
Click here to find our 2012-2013 online nominating form. A description of each position can be found on the WIS PTO website, www.wis-pto.org. The proposed slate of board members will be presented at the March General meeting and voted on in April.
If you have an interest in a WIS PTO board position but not sure which one or have any questions regarding the board, feel free to email me at
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Jennifer Socha - WIS Nominating Committee Chair
SOUND TIGERS WINTER READING CHALLENGE
WINTER READING PROGRAM
Students will receive a complimentary ticket for the Sound Tigers Mach 11th game. Reading log must be postmarked by February 24th and mailed directly to the Sound Tigers. Click here for more information and to download the form.
YEARBOOK PICTURES
We are hard at work planning for the 2011/12 Hurlbutt Yearbook. NOW is the time to submit all those fun holiday and field trip pictures from 2011! Anyone with multiple pictures who would prefer to upload directly to our Shutterfly yearbook site, please contact Cathy Greene at
to get access. Additionally, you can submit photos by:
1) Burning them to a CD and leaving them in the YEARBOOK mailbox just as you enter the front office. This provides us with the best quality and ensures we'll be able to use them if they are selected.
2) Email - This option only works if you are sending ONE or TWO pictures at a time. You must attach the file, NOT insert the picture. Depending on the day and the server, we find the resolution often gets reduced in the transmission making the photos unusable. You can send them to your room parent or to us.
The pictures we've seen so far are just OUTSTANDING--thanks so much for all the effort you put into this. As always, we'd love ANY pictures you'd like to share...starting with our flashback, we need last spring's field day, memorial day fair, concerts and any year-end parties. Onto this year, we'll take first day of school, book fair, field trip, family fun night, storm-related/Halloween that wasn't photos….
Thank you,
Sam Leuzzi,
FUNDRAISING MARKETPLACE
The Hurlbutt Elementary School PTO is dedicated to doing its very best to work with local businesses, community members, friends, and family of students, to organize and create opportunities for fundraising efforts to ensure our kids get the very best they need for their education.
Click here to check out our Fundraising Marketplace for a few “no-cost” programs in which you can help raise funds at HES for 2011-2012. Thank you again in advance for your participation and support.
NUTRITION NEWS
With 2012 ahead of us many Americans are making resolutions to eat healthier and get active! Along with my plate, SuperTracker helps Americans put dietary guidelines into action!
Keeping in accordance with the updated dietary guidelines, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has created a new resource to help Americans meet their diet and physical activity goals. The Super Tracker is an online interactive website that uses easy “how to” applications for Americans to compare their current diet choices and activity levels to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and HHS Physical Activity Guidelines.
Click here to read February’s Nutrition News from Chartwell’s Resident Dietitian, Jill Patterson.
SOCIAL MEDIA/FACEBOOK
Click here to find us on Facebook. Like our page and get updated information in your Facebook newsfeed.
AROUND TOWN
This information can now be found on our website; go to www.hurlbutt-pto.org and click on the AROUND TOWN tab on the left side of the homepage.
WESTON LITTLE LEAGUE
Registration for Weston Little League’s Spring ’12 program is open! WLL has programs for boys and girls grades K-7 and we always welcome new players!
For more information and to register, please visit www.westonll.com. Should you have any questions, please feel free to email
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A MESSAGE FROM WESTON YOUTH SERVICES
Still undecided about what programs might be of interest to your child this winter? Space is still available for many of our returning programs such as clay, magic, science, art, and drama. Perhaps your child would be interested in one of our new offerings like Scrap booking, Crafts for Kids, Hurlbutt Singers, Flowers for Occasions, and Empowerme4Life.
Visit our website at www.westonyouthservices.org to register online today!
Any questions, contact Charlene Monn at 203-222-2586 or email
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WESTON LACROSSE
Just a reminder the initial registration period for the 2012 Weston Lacrosse Club spring season ends January 15th. Hurry so you don't have to pay a late fee!
The Weston Lacrosse Club fields boys and girls teams for grades 2-8 and always welcomes new players! Sign on and join the fastest growing youth sport in the nation! For more information and to register, please visit www.westonlax.com. Should you have any questions, please feel free to email Karen Mitchell at
PARKS & RECREATION PROGRAM
Online registration for Sports & Fitness programs will open on January 31st. Walk-in registration will begin on February 1st. Click here for more information.
WESTON PUBLIC LIBRARY - FARM ART Exhibit - Gallery Talk
Sunday, January 29 at 2pm in the Community Room at the Weston Public Library
If you haven’t seen FARM ART, sponsored by Friends of Lachat, at the Weston Public Library, you have an excellent opportunity to see it and hear Jeff Wilkins speak about his father, Bruce Wilkins' photography and the Lachat farm. Jeff was there with his family on many occasions as a boy growing up in the 60's and 70's, and helped his uncle Leon Lachat on various projects, such as creating a slalom course for skiing, grilling for a party or going on walks through the woods.
His father, Bruce, who was a commercial artist, took his camera with him on all the outings and his photographs have become a visual narrative of the property during the 1960 -1970s. Jeff is pictured in numerous photographs as he was a ready and able subject being Bruce’s son. Sometimes Bruce is in the photographs as well, having handed off the camera to his in-laws. (Bruce’s wife, Ginny, was Leon’s first wife, Laurie’s sister.)
In the exhibit FARM ART, which has been extended through February, the viewer will see photographs and paintings depicting scenes from farm life - family gatherings, animals, flowing water, skiing, the Lachat meadow, pears, eggs, the pantry full of jars, barns in all seasons, winter scenics from Lachat woods and more. While the majority of the art in the exhibit are photographs by Bruce Wilkins, there is a wonderful mix of newly created paintings and photographs as well as paintings created between the 1950's - 1970's by local artists.
(Leon Lachat's land of more than 40 acres became jointly owned by The Town of Weston and the The Nature Conservancy in 2003 upon his death. The town and the Conservancy has recently decided to lease half of the property to each other.)
The talk will begin at 2 p.m. on January 29th in the Community Room at the Weston Public Library. All are welcome!
FREE SWAP & SHOP EXCHANGE PAGE
For Sale, For Free and Wanted Items for Sale. Have something to sell or giveaway but can't deal with Craigs List or Ebay? Click here to view, click here to advertise for free.
If you have something for The Scoop please email your submission (in Word format or PDF) to
. Submissions should be relevant to Hurlbutt or the Town of Weston (i.e., town sports programs, Weston community events or outside sports programs taking place in the Town of Weston). If there is any question regarding the relevance of a submission, final approval will be determined by The Hurlbutt Scoop editor and/or the Hurlbutt PTO President. Submission deadline is Tuesday – The Hurlbutt Scoop publishes on Thursday!
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posted 01/24/2012
ORDER YOUR YEARBOOK
Order your 2011-2012 Hurlbutt Elementary School Yearbook NOW! The yearbook includes photos from all grades and will be in full color again this year. It is a great memento of your childʼs year at Hurlbutt! The cost of the yearbook is $22.00 and the first deadline which offers the lowest price is Monday March 12th. So please order today do not delay! The next deadline to order is Monday April 2nd and the price for the yearbook at that time will be HIGHER. The EASIEST AND MOST EFFICIENT way to order is directly through Coffee Pondʼs online ordering system.
To order and pay online:
· Log on to www.coffeepond.com
· Go to “Place an Order” and click on “Yearbooks”
· Enter School Password: yearbook
· Check the box “On-Line Order”
· Follow instructions and place your order
To mail in your order:
· Log on to www.coffeepond.com
· Go to “Place an Order” and click on “Yearbooks”
· Enter School Password: yearbook
· Check the box “Mail-In Order”
· Follow instructions and mail in your order
Please contact Samantha Leuzzi
, with any questions.
* If you would like to have your yearbook personalized, Coffee Pond will charge you an extra $10.
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posted 01/18/2012
2012-13 BUDGET WORKSHOPS
The following series of budget workshops are being held by the Board of Education to review the Superintendent’s 2012-13 budget request. All workshops will be broadcast on Channel 78 in the event that you are unable to attend.
Budget Workshop #1 – Meeting Room Weston Town Hall
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Superintendent Overview; Instructional Program; District Wide Services; District Administration; Technology
Budget Workshop #2 – Community Room – Weston Public Library
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Hurlbutt Elementary School; Weston Intermediate School; Weston Middle School; Weston High School; Athletics
Budget Workshop #3 – Community Room – Weston Public Library
Thursday, January 26, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Facilities; Special Education; Pupil Personnel Services; Summary
Please see Hurlbutt PTO website and The Scoop for other important dates!
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