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Star News for May 24th, 2010
May 24th, 2010
The Star News
Stargate School’s Weekly Events Letter
STARGATE SCHOOL
3951 Cottonwood Lakes Blvd.
Thornton, CO 80241
Telephone 303-450-3936 Fax 303-450-3941
WWW.STARGATESCHOOL.ORG
Important Dates
May 24th-3-4 Recorder/Recital for Burns and Bustamante. Fourth graders from both classes perform on Monday May 24th at 2:30pm and the third graders will perform on Tuesday May 25th at 2:30pm. Will be held in room 108.
May 26th-8th Grade Continuation (please have students here at 6pm for pictures to start at 6:15pm before ceremony.) There will be a reception immediately following the Continuation.
May 26th-Last Day of School for 8th Graders
May 26th-Field Day for K-6 starts at 8:30am
May 27th-Kindergarten Graduation 8:30am (there will be a reception immediately following the Graduation)
May 27th-Last Day of School classes dismissed at 11:30am for K-7
Please be aware that the last day lunch will be served is May 25th. There will be no hot lunch available after this date.
Kenyon Kwips
Our final week…and in the ‘blink of an eye’ our 2009-10 school year comes to a close! Last Friday the Stargate Student Council held our culminating ‘Celebration Assembly’ to honor individual students and teams for their academic prowess, fine arts accomplishments and athletic success! Whether the recognition was for math, spelling, literacy, music or sports, the audience marveled at the talents of our students and all that they have accomplished this year! Two teachers were also recognized…Mrs. Ariane O’Brien as the 2010 Yearbook Teacher Dedication and Mr. Rod Osburn for his Ten Year Milestone Award! Many parents and extended families were in the audience and helped to make the informal ceremony even more relevant.
This week is also traditionally about formal ceremonies! On Wednesday evening staff and parents will gather to reminisce on the incalculable growth and accomplishments of our Eighth Graders at Continuation, proudly reflecting on their past Stargate journey and future transition to high school! Bring your cameras and Kleenex! On Thursday morning we will celebrate the youngest spectrum at Kindergarten Graduation and applaud their Stargate adjustment, maturation and unlimited future promise! Bring your cameras and Kleenex! We are so grateful to the many, many parents and staff who have given of personal time to plan, make invitations, and work behind the scenes to organize and to decorate our public spaces for the celebrations! Both occasions will be joyful and fitting closures to a wonderful and productive year for both student age groups!
There is still a lot to accomplish this week as the Third-Fourth Grades wrap up their Social Studies with the coveted ‘State Fair’! Each student selected a state to research, make into a presentation, prepare a featured food and dress in costume! The ‘State Fair’ is a perfect application for gifted students as it taps into their creativity, imagination and desire to focus in depth on a subject! One could walk around and talk with a white-birch tree from New Hampshire, meet Abraham Lincoln in Illinois, talk with a Wisconsin ‘Cheese-Head’, watch an oil rig operate in Spindletop, Texas or moveable hot air balloons in New Mexico and chat politely with a Kentucky Derby attendee decked out in her stylish hat! Today’s presentations were for their teacher and classmates; tomorrow parents will be invited for the extensive tour! Be prepared to take many Trivia Quizzes!
A reminder that the school-wide K-6 Field Day, featuring a ‘World Cup’ theme, will be held on Wednesday from 8:30 to 1:00 on the grassy play area. Parents are welcome to come join us as we go outside in this beautiful spring weather and have fun, be silly and celebrate together. The Junior High is going on their annual bowling field trip for one final ‘fling’ as a whole group. Wednesday is the last day for our eighth graders; seventh graders will return with K-6 on Thursday morning where they will host a Sixth Grade Shadow Day to welcome and ease the transition in the fall for our future junior high students!
And on a practical note…the Lost and Found table is overflowing! While you are on campus this week, either for a ceremony, presentation or just picking your child up, please stop by and see if any of the clothing belongs to a member of your Stargate family! On Thursday, the items will be boxed and given to a charitable cause!
On behalf of the entire Stargate faculty, we extend our heartfelt thanks for a tremendous year as we worked together “Finding Balance…Rigor, Relationships, and Results”. It has been a year of unparalleled community efforts! Enjoy the summer months to rejuvenate, relax and we look forward to seeing you all again on August 18th as we start the 2010-11 school year with a focus on “Innovative Minds…Creativity, Connections and Character”!
Messages From The Board
Meetings
June 1 - Planning Session 6:00-8:00 pm
Please note that our regularly scheduled meeting for May 25th has been moved to June 1
June 8th - Open Session 6:00 pm
Graduation
Best wishes to our Stargate 8th grade graduates. We hope that you will never forget that you will always be a Star at Stargate and encourage you to shine brightly where ever you go.
Summer
We hope that you have a safe, relaxing, and fun summer break.
Fundraising Notes
Get your Stargate Socks!! We have a limited number of socks that are our school’s colors and has the school name on it. You can come down to the front desk to see a sample and to purchase. They range in size from XS to Large. They are $5 a pair. Keep your feet in style and school spirit!!
Jewels for Hope
Thank you to the anonymous donor who left a large donation of beautiful jewelry at the front desk for Jewels for Hope! Please contact me at cheryl@invitingbydesign.com with your name and address
so you can be properly thanked and the Children's Diabetes Foundation can send you your statement for tax purposes. Thank you again to all who have made a difference by donating your jewelry - our total raised to benefit the Children's Diabetes Foundation is over $100,000 so far. We accept donations year round, so if you have jewelry you would like to donate please contact me and we can come and get it. Please check out our website at www.jewelsforhope.org for information about our upcoming jewelry sales. Have a great summer.
News From The Nurse
News from the Nurse
Please remember to pick-up your child’s medication on or before the last day of school. Elementary students are no longer allowed to bring home medication. Middle school students may bring home medication if their parents have signed a release form to do so. I will have the forms available in the front office and on the website. If you do not pick up your child’s medication it will be disposed of. We do not keep medication over the summer.
Also please remember that Adams twelve medication forms are only good for one school year. If your child will need medication at school next year please pick up the medication form or download it from our website www.stargateschool.org or the district website www.adams12.org . Please check with your physician over the summer to make sure all your child’s immunizations are up to date. Sixth graders are required to have a Tdap vaccine so make sure your child gets this shot prior to the start of school if they will be in sixth grade. If you do not want your child to receive this vaccine you may sign a waiver for personal, religious, or medical reasons.
3rd/4th grade Recorder Show and Share Recital for Mrs.Bustamante's and Mr. Burns' Classes
The students of Mrs. Bustamante's and Mr. Burns' classes would like to show off their recorder skills and songs in a Show and Share recital. This will be a casual performance for parents who are able to attend. The fourth graders from both classes will perform on Monday May 24th at 2:30pm and the third graders will perform on Tuesday May 25th at 2:30pm. The classes will be in the Instrumental Music Room, #108. Hope to see you there!
Lost & Found
Our lost and found items have been on display for a few weeks now. All items will be donated on Wednesday, May 26th. Please be sure to check out the table if you’re missing an item. We have smaller, valuable items behind the front desk like keys, glasses, a wallet, cell phones, a black purse, a nice paddle ball toy, some thumb drives, some jewelry, sun glasses, and a new blackberry holster.
Not Getting StarNews Electronically?
We have been working on trying to isolate the problem families are having, of not getting their StarNews Newsletter via email. The following information is assuming that you have gone on to the website (www.stargateschool.org) and signed up to receive the newsletter.
These steps may help you to alleviate your problem. The StarNews may be getting caught by your carrier’s spam filter and you may not know that your spam emails are going to a spam folder, so you can’t see what is in there. After switching your spam setting to save the suspected emails to the spam folder, the missing StarNews email should appear in there. You can then recover it, and mark it as non-spam so your carrier will continue to let the newsletter come through.
We are not sure why the StarNews is being flagged as spam.
Pencil Passes
Congratulations to the following students for receiving a pencil pass this week: Ben Mattera, Nicholas Wilkins, Caitlin Amero, Lucia Fang, Katie Bender, Samantha Studt, Killian Wood, Dillon Haffner, Andrew Sieber, Sydney Kuhl, Hayley Magin, Zoe Toupin, Avery Bamesberger, Maia Spriggs, Noah Tofan, Ryan Loftus, Gina Carlo, Izaak Siefken, Kennedy Davis, Sophia Khan, Davide Sipe and Matthew Zhang.
School Supplies
Help your child’s school receive credits for FREE supplies! Office Depot is Taking Care of Education by helping to provide the essential tools and supplies that students need to be successful in the classroom, plus programs and services that benefit our local schools and teachers.
Each time you purchase qualifying school supplies at our Office Depot retail stores, online at www.officedepot.com, or 800.GODEPOT, Office Depot will donate 5% of your purchase to your child’s school.
Have a great summer!!
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