Hillcrest Elementary School
Week of February 4, 2024
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Good Day HES Family & Friends!
It's been another awesome week at Hillcrest! Thank you for your continued support! We look forward to you joining us this week at our Family Engagement Activity: STEM Night on Thursday, February 8, at 5:30 p.m. Please come join us for some exciting hands-on learning activities for you and your child to enjoy. Also, this quarter, we are focusing on increasing our reading/literacy skills in students across all grade levels. We encourage you to read with your child every night. We also encourage parents to join us during parent sessions that will help support our students when they are away from the school setting. Most importantly, we encourage students to be present in school as much as possible and give their best efforts when in class.
Lastly, please be reminded that school starts at 8:15 a.m. Please make every effort to have your child arrive on time to school daily. Also, if your child is absent for any reason, please be sure to submit a doctor's excuse or parent written excuse the day your child returns back to school. We thank you for your continued support of our students and school.
Habit of the Week: Habit #1 – Be Proactive!
This habit focuses on individuals taking control of their life in a responsible manner. It also means that you do not wait for others to tell you to do something, you take an initiative to get it done on your own and without being asked. When being proactive, you make things happen.
Family Activity: Since most of us react to situations immediately, without taking time to think about the results of our actions, try doing some role-playing with your child on how to stop and think before we act in a few situations that he or she may encounter in life.
Habit #1: I'm in charge of me!
A Reveiw of Last Weeks' Activities: Photo Gallery
Ms. O'Neal & Mrs. Walden's 3rd Grade Science Experiments
In preparation for the upcoming Science Fair, Ms. O'Neal and Mrs. Walden have been practicing different experiments with their 3rd grade students to show them the process of how to complete a project from beginning to end.
Ms. O'Neal & Mrs. Walden's 3rd Grade Science Experiments
This group of 3rd grade students had an opportunity to see "Which Solution Dissolves Peppermint the Fastest?" in a class science experiment. The liquids used were plain water, water with salt, and water with sugar. Can you guess which one dissolved the peppermint the fastest?
Synergizing: Third Grade Science Experiment
Two 3rd grade students are synergizing on a science experiment - "Which Type of Apple has the Most Seeds?" as their class project.
Dress Code Reminders
- Sweatshirts and hoodies may be worn to school, but hoods cannot be worn inside of school/classroom.
- Shirts must be solid in color.
- Leggings cannot be worn as "stand alone." They can be worn under a solid colored skirt/shorts.
- Jeans/Pants may not have any rips, holes, tears, or frays.
- Shoes must have a strap on the back of them. No Crocs allowed at school.
Please help us by making sure your child is appropriately dressed before coming to school each day.
Morning Drop Off & Afternoon Pick Up Reminders
- There will be one (1) lane used for morning drop off.
- There will be two (2) lanes used for afternoon dismissal.
- Cars MUST have their car tag number in the window to pick up your child. Cars without a tag will have to drive to the front of the building and wait for your child to be released at 3:30 p.m. with remaining car riders.
- Vehicles must make a right-hand turn off of Edgewood Drive into the Car Rider Line Up near the playground entrance.
- Parents/Guardians may take any of the following routes to reach our car rider line: Cardinal Drive, Northwood Drive, Brookdale Drive, Greenway Drive, and Pinewood Drive from either Claxton Dairy Road or Highway 441 South to get to Edgewood Drive.
- Parents/Guardians MUST remain in cars to pick up car riders. No child will be released to adults who walk up to the building in the Car Rider Loading Zone.
- Please wait for staff member to signal for you to pull off.
- Parents/Guardians may not park along Edgewood Drive and walk up to the front of the building to pick up students while we are loading or unloading buses (7:30 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.)
- Students not picked up by 3:25 p.m. from the car rider pick up area will be taken to the front office for pick up after this time.
Clear or Mesh Book Bags Required
All students must have a clear or mesh book bag to enter the school building. We do have a few clear book bags left for sale in the front office, if you need to purchase one, for $10 each.
ATTENDANCE
Coming Up Next...
February 7: DCS's Elementary Science Fair, IGA Gymnasium, 9:00 a.m.
February 8: STEM Night, 5:30 p.m. HES Gymnasium
February 13: Elementary Love & Basketball Game, 10:00 a.m.
February 14-19: Winter Break/ No School
February 20: Local School Governance Team Meeting, 5:00 p.m.
February 22: Black History Program
About Us
Email: sherrell.edmond@dcsirish.com
Website: hes.dcs.irish
Location: 1100 Edgewood Drive, Dublin, GA, USA
Phone: (478) 353-8200
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HillcrestElementaryTheLeapSchool