HAFEN: Holiday Book Fair wraps up today
Officials at Hafen Elementary will be holding their annual Holiday Book Fair from Dec. 10 to Dec.14.
Students will be able to shop during their library classes. Parents are invited to come and shop from 2:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. each day.
Family Night will be held at Hafen today from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Santa will be visiting the school during the same time.
School officials are urging parents to have their students come and have their picture taken with St. Nick for only $2 each.
After visiting with Santa, doors will open at 5:30 p.m. for Movie Night. Nachos, popcorn, hot chocolate, hot dogs and assorted treats are all on the menu. The movie will begin at 6 p.m.
FLOYD: Classes get good behavior awards
The following classes showed good behavior during recess and lunch the week of Dec. 3, so they were the winners of the prestigious Bobcat Trophies for this past week.
1st Grade—Mrs. McDaniel
2nd Grade—Mrs. Nygaard
3rd Grade—Mrs. Smith
4th Grade—Mr. Streater
5th Grade—Mrs. Lauver
The class that showed the most school spirit by wearing Purple or Grey on Friday, Dec. 7, was Mrs. Dale’s class.
Winter concerts are about to get underway at Floyd beginning next week at the school’s multi-purpose room.
The dates are as follows:
Dec. 17, 6 p.m. for students in grades kindergarten and first.
Dec. 18, 6 p.m. for students in grades second and third.
Dec. 19, 6 p.m. for students in grades fourth and fifth.
School officials are inviting families to come out and enjoy the wonderful music that the students have rehearsed and prepared for the holiday season.
MANSE: Counselor chosen to work at elementary schools
Elementary school counselors in Pahrump were a casualty of recent budget cuts, but this year realizing the need, the school board was able to fund one counseling position that the four elementary schools and Pathways will all share. Mr. Mike Abbiss was selected by a team of principals representing the schools. Abbiss began working in Pahrump on Monday, Dec. 3. He is assigned to Manse on Thursdays. After being introduced to most of the classes, Abbiss had a very busy day meeting with students on the playground and meeting with individuals and groups in his office.
Abbiss is also the parent of two Manse students.
Progress reports this term are due every three weeks.
In order to report progress for the full three weeks, most teachers will be sending them home on Dec. 17.
Students have gone to “Specials” music or PE only two days out of three all last year and this year.
In order to remedy the situation so they get to go every day, the school has changed the Specials for kindergarten. Starting on Wednesday, kindergarten students will have a structured recess/PE time every day.
The rest of the students will go either to PE or music every day. If parents have any questions, they are urged to contact Principal Visser.
RCMS: Box Tops campaign underway
Officials at Rosemary Clarke Middle School recently announced their Box Tops for Education Campaign.
Teacher Ben Veloz said if parents shop online for the holiday season, it’s a great opportunity to earn money for Rosemary Clarke Middle School.
“All you have to do is sign up as a user, go to the ‘Marketplace’ area and click on any of the following retail stores. It then directs you to their site. When you check out, a specific percentage is given to the school. I myself have shopped and have had great success with this. Even if you forget to go through boxtops, you can usually close out of the site before checkout, go through boxtops to open the site back up again, and your items may still be there ready to be purchased.
“Thank you for any contributions you make through your regular shopping online. If you are interested further in offering prizes to classes that collect the most boxtops, please contact me.”
Ben Veloz RCMS Box Tops For Education school coordinator, science teacher, and student council adviser. bveloz@nye.k12.nv.us
