Hillcrest Elementary School
Hillcrest Herald
Susan Campbell, Principal
Alyse Gonzalez, Assistant Principal
Hillcrest Elementary School
2601 Bond Ave
Drexel Hill, PA 19026
Reporting Absences
To report your student's absence, please email hces-attendance@upperdarbysd.org with your student's name, classroom teacher, and the reason.
Home and School Association
Meeting Dates:
September 19, 2024
October 10, 2024
November 14, 2024
December 12, 2024
PBIS Assembly
Hillcrest students who exemplified Citizenship were honored at our October Student of the Month assembly! Some students had the chance to mummify their teachers! Congratulations to our NovemberStudent of the Month Winners!
Kindergarten AM Students of the Month
Kindergarten PM Students of the Month
1st Grade Students of the Month
2nd Grade Students of the Month
3rd Grade Students of the Month
4th Grade Students of the Month
5th Grade Students of the Month
PBIS Winners
Congratulations to our PBIS Ticket winners this month! These students exemplified "Be Safe, Be Responsible, Be Respectful" and earned their tickets by making great choices.
These are our ticket winners this month!
Check Out What We're Doing in School!
Kindergarten
Kindergarten came ready for the Costume Parade!
Kindergarten had an exciting month! We are continuing to explore our science unit, Marble Run Engineer. We also had a visit from the music teacher, Mr. Tolomeo! We were so excited to meet him and can't wait to visit his class in first grade. Second graders in Ms. DiPaul's class also came to do a reader's theater for us!
First Grade
In October, first graders welcomed volunteers from Winterthur for a program about toys from long ago. The children were able to play a game of marbles, to roll a large hoop in the hallway and to explore small toys that children played with long ago.
First graders also enjoyed Halloween. We spent the day playing games and learning before we participated in the costume parade.
First grade made Veteran's Day cards
Second Grade
Second grade doing some reading!
Second graders in Ms. DiPaul's class doing Reader's Theater!
2nd Grade also made cards for Veteran's Day!
Fun at the costume parade!
Third Grade
Third Grade teachers ready for the Costume Parade!
Even though the temperature should be cooling down, things are really heating up in third grade! Now that our daily routines are firmly in place, it’s time to L-E-A-R-N.
In math, we have been learning about the Properties of Multiplication. To help us learn about the Associative Property (the grouping property), we used some real- life actors to portray the parentheses! There was a slight learning “curve”, but the class worked hard to master the skill!
And if the month wasn’t busy enough, we ended October on a high note (80°🨸day!!!). We had our annual Fall Festival Party and Parade. It looked pretty “spooky” all around the Hillcrest campus. Thank you for all of our families and friends coming out to show your support! It was a wonderful day for all!
Fourth Grade
4th grade students learned all about Veterans Day by doing different activities, such as, writing a thank you letter to our brave men and women in the military. They learned several facts, such as, Veterans Day used to be called Armistice Day. In Science, students are learning about the Grand Canyon and how it was formed over billions of years. Students are using stream tables and testing out the effects weathering and erosion has on the landscape and how it changed it into how it looks today.
Fifth Grade
Math, and science, and reading....oh my!
5th Grade made cards on Veteran's Day!
Rock, Paper and Scissors are ready for the Costume Parade!
5th Grade had their Winterthur Visit!
Challenge Corner
Please enjoy the following PDF with our November Challenge Corner!
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Upcoming Events
NO KINDERGARTEN
Monday, Nov 25, 2024, 07:00 AM
Early Dismissal - Conferences
Monday, Nov 25, 2024, 12:15 PM
Evening Conferences
Monday, Nov 25, 2024, 05:00 PM
NO KINDERGARTEN
Tuesday, Nov 26, 2024, 07:00 AM
Early Dismissal - Conferences
Tuesday, Nov 26, 2024, 12:15 PM
NO KINDERGARTEN
Wednesday, Nov 27, 2024, 07:00 AM
Early Dismissal
Wednesday, Nov 27, 2024, 12:15 PM
No School
Thursday, Nov 28, 2024, 07:00 AM
No School
Friday, Nov 29, 2024, 07:00 AM
Early Dismissal
Wednesday, Dec 4, 2024, 12:30 PM
Early Dismissal
Friday, Dec 6, 2024, 12:15 PM
Winter Concert
Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024, 07:00 PM
Royals Spirit Day
Friday, Dec 13, 2024, 07:00 AM
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