Pershing Happenings E-Newsletter
Vol. 2, Issue 6
December 18, 2007
Website Spotlight
Pershing’s
6 to 6 Program and Drama Department
Proudly
Present
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Peter
Pan
by special arrangement
with Samuel French, Inc. |
Performance
Dates and Time
December
19, 2007
- 9:15 a.m. and 12:55 p.m.
December
20, 2007
- 9:15 a.m., 12:55 p.m., and 7:00 p.m.
December
21, 2007
- 9:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m. and 12:55 p.m.
Mrs.
Terry Miller, Director
Attention 8th Grade Parents
In January, Marci Blodgett, our
head counselor, will be talking with 8th grade parents about
California’s high school graduation requirements, scheduling and
enrollment for Patrick Henry High, and the 8th grade Retention/Promotion
Guidelines set forth by the San Diego Unified School District. This is
a very informative meeting that will help your child in the transition
from middle school to high school. Mrs. Blodgett will be presenting this
information twice. The dates are January 17 and 24, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. in
the school auditorium. A reservation form for this event was sent home
with the 8th grade first quarter report cards. Please complete that form
and return it to Mrs. Gunnerson, Pershing’s counseling secretary, or
your child’s first period teacher. The reservation form is also
available online at http://sandi.net/pershing/counseling.htm
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Upcoming Patrick Henry High School Events
It
is never too early to start
planning for high school! |
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The following events will be held at
Patrick Henry High School. If you have any questions regarding these
events, please contact PHHS directly at (619) 286-7700.
On February 5th at
6:30 p.m. in the
Cafetorium, Patrick Henry’s
Academic Boosters are sponsoring AP
is for Everyone. GATE,
Cluster, Honors, Advanced, and AP courses will be discussed. Though this
meeting is primarily for those entering 10th-12th grade, AP
is for Everyone introduces incoming 9th grade families to the
academic expectations at Patrick Henry.
Henry High's Incoming
9th Grade Articulation Night/Elective Fair will be held on February
13, 2008 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. The evening begins with the 2008
Fine Arts/Electives Fair from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Library and
Cafetorium. The Electives Fair is a wonderful opportunity to learn about
the various Fine Arts and elective classes offered at Henry.
Following
the Fine Arts/Electives Fair is
the Incoming 9th Grade Articulation
Night at 7:00 p.m. in the Cafetorium. This informational meeting
is for parents and their 8th grade students who will be attending Patrick
Henry High School in the fall of 2008. Topics covered will include 9th
grade courses and course selection dates. PHHS counselors attend this
meeting as well.
To help 8th grade families with their
Henry High transition, Pershing’s website has a section with current
information about Henry High articulation events and activities. This page
is updated frequently -http://www.sandi.net/pershing/henry%20dates.htm
School
News and Announcements
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Winter
Vacation is from December 24, 2007 – January 4, 2008.
School
Resumes on Monday, January 7th. |
WOW! At the Quarterly Recognition
Program on November 30, 2007, Pershing celebrated a
magnificent first quarter by
awarding over 700 achievement certificates to many of our 6th, 7th, and
8th grade students. These students were recognized for one or more of the
following: Principal's Honor Roll (Academics - 4.0), Honor Roll (Academics
- 3.5), Excellence in Citizenship, and/or Perfect Attendance.
Congratulations!
Pershing’s first 5th grade
parents’ campus tour is on January 9, 2008 at 8:00 a.m. All
incoming 6th grade families are welcome to attend. http://sandi.net/pershing/tours.htm
Winter Concert - On December
13th, Mr. Anderson and his incredibly talented young musicians entertained
a packed auditorium filled with family, friends, faculty, staff, and
community members. The band program has grown immensely under the
direction of Mr. Anderson. The Pershing program now includes a 6th
Grade Orchestra, 6th Grade Concert Band, 7th and 8th Grade Concert Band,
7th Grade Symphonic Band, and 8th Grade Wind Ensemble. Thank you to all
who made this spectacular evening possible!
The Pershing community helping others
- Thank you to all of our students and families who raised over $1,000
for the Poway district fire victims! Your generosity will enrich the lives
of those who have lost so much in recent months.
Pershing’s 2nd Annual Marine Corps
Reserve Toys for Tots Donation Drive will continue through Wednesday,
December 19th. Please bring any donated toys (new unwrapped toys only)
to Mrs. Robe (Room 703). Thank you for your support!
Congratulations to the Pershing drama
students who auditioned and were cast in roles in the upcoming Patrick
Henry High musical production. This opportunity is the result of an
exciting new partnership between the Henry High and Pershing Drama
Departments. Several Pershing graduates (now Henry students) have also
been cast in this production. Performances will be at the end of February.
There is still time to purchase gifts
in the Pershing Student Store! Pencils, pens, bookmarks, fuzzy change
purses, sporty wallets, and Pershing-Wear too. Many items are under $1.
Stop by the Student Store before or after school and at lunch.
Reminder from the Finance Office -
Please remember to buy your yearbooks now before they go up in price on
February 1, 2008. The cost will increase from $30 to $35.
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Every year, 5th, 7th,
and 9th grade public school students take the California Physical
Fitness Test and are scored in six different areas. Recently,
the results of the 2006 - 2007 tests were announced and we are
excited to report that Pershing students scored well above the
district and state average. Thank you to Mr. Alfstad, Mrs. Hunrichs,
Mr. Kurtz, Mr. Paxton, Ms. Shipherd and our students for your hard
work and dedication! |
Congratulations
to
Our Awesome PE Department!!
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An update from Mrs. Rondestvedt -
The 6th grade English teams are working on a nonfiction unit that
includes a research paper. 6th grade students should have topics
picked out prior to leaving on Winter Vacation. These topics need
to be centered around an issue (environmental, social, or endangered
animal) or an issue that students are interested in that is relevant to
our world, country, city, state, community, or school. We will do
preliminary research on the topics prior to vacation and follow up with
more research and writing after vacation with papers being due
approximately Jan. 21st.
Attention Team 6A Families –
Team 6A (Mr. Akashian, Mrs. Madonia, and Mrs. Rondestvedt) would greatly
appreciate any donations of soft tissues, and scotch tape. Thank you!
Mrs. Wheeler’s (Team 7A – 7th
grade Algebra and Pre-Algebra) class homework assignments are now on
ParentConnect. If your child is absent, this is a terrific way to
find out about any missed work. The assignments stay online for about 2
weeks and Mrs. Wheeler tries to post them at the beginning of each week.
For a link to ParentConnect, please go to http://www.sandi.net/pershing/parentconnect.htm.
Many teachers are using this invaluable resource. If you need a reminder
of your ParentConnect/Zangle ID or password, please contact Stephanie
Kamp at skamp@sandi.net.
Congratulations to If
Rotation = 1 for their recent success at the Southern California
First Lego League Robotics’ Championships. If
Rotation = 1 is a San Carlos based community robotics’ team that
is comprised of several students who attend Pershing, two students from
Patrick Henry (one of whom is a Pershing graduate), one from High Tech
Middle, and one from Benchley-Weinberger. This team finished fifth in
the table competition and won the Creative Presentation Award. At the
Preuss High School tournament in November, they won the Research
Presentation Award and came in third in the table competition. If
Rotation = 1 represented Southern California at the First Lego
League’s World Festival at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta in April, 2007.
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SDSU's
"Girls and Women in Sports"
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Recently,
SDSU hosted a "Girls and Women in Sports" event at Cox
Arena. Students
from throughout the county participated in this program.
Many thank you's to Mrs. Hunrichs
(Pershing PE Department) for supplying us with the
following detailed report of the day’s activities! |
"December 2, 2007 was the
inaugural Girls and Women's Sports event at SDSU. P.E. teachers from
various schools were asked to be "ambassadors" to promote this
event to their students and their school community. The event was
designed to expose young girls to collegiate athletes and to celebrate
women in sports. The event was held prior to the SDSU women's
basketball game vs. Fullerton. Just about every women's varsity
team was represented at this event. As the students arrived, they were
given autograph books and check off sheets. The teams had a
variety of activities set up in which the students could participate.
There was golfing instruction, volleyball bumping and passing, a
miniature track, rowing, a softball game, shots on a water polo goal and
much more. The athletes were so welcoming and engaging to the girls. You
could see that they were having as much fun as the students. They have a
passion for the games they play and it really showed. They were
tremendous hosts to our students. And our students!!! The smiles were
enormous. To meet these players and to receive positive feedback from
them was great. Jim Esterbrooks from the County Office of Education (and
a Pershing parent) was one of the people responsible for this awesome
event!
Not only was
it important to foster the athletic dreams of young girls and
women but also to offer an opportunity for these students to get onto a
college campus. I would also like to emphasize that this event was
held not only for girls, but for boys as well. There
was an equal number of male students there as female. It was nice
to see the young boys appreciating the women athletes of our community.
I would like to include a quote
from Beth Burns, the coach of the women Aztecs. "Both the SDCOE and
our Aztec family agreed to not only make this event bigger and better
next year, but to continue to have additional events throughout the
remainder of this current season."
I will pass onto the Pershing
Family any news I receive about upcoming events.
The SDSU Women's Basketball Team
takes on the UCONN Huskies on
Friday Dec. 21st at 8:00 p.m. The Huskies are the only
women's basketball team to have won 5 National Championships
titles in a 10 year span. This is a wonderful chance to see
two good teams in action, and of course remember your Red and Black!!"
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Pershing
Volunteers
ROCK!!!!
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Thank
you to the parent volunteers who helped distribute cookie dough and
prizes on November 28, 2007!
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A huge
thank you also goes to Mrs. Fryrear for doing such a wonderful job of
coordinating the parent volunteer portion of the Magazine Drive.
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Special
thank you’s to Mr. and
Mrs. Masi, Mrs. Freeland, and all the Pershing Music Boosters
for your time, energy, and dedication to the Music Program!!
The next
Pershing Boosters meeting is on January 23, 2008 at 6:30 p.m.
Everyone is invited!
Upcoming
Parent Involvement Opportunities
We have
three terrific parent involvement opportunities for those who are
available during the day in January. The dates and duties are:
January
8, 2008
Organizing Science Fair Supplies
January
15, 2008
Distribution of Science Fair
Boards/Supplies to Students
January
28 & 29, 2008
Set Up of Science Fair in the
Auditorium
For more
information and/or to sign-up, please contact Marion Spence at (619)
698-9321 or marion.spence@sbcglobal.net.
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Mark
Your
Calendars! |
Here is a listing of many of our upcoming events.
December
18, 2007
School
Site Council Meeting
December 19, 2007
Peter Pan* Performances
9:15 a.m. & 12:55 p.m.
December 20, 2007
Peter Pan* Performances
9:15 a.m., 12:55 p.m., & 7:00 p.m.
December 21, 2007
Peter Pan* Performances
9:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m., & 12:55 p.m.
*Peter Pan by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.
December
24, 2007 – January 4, 2008
Winter
Vacation
January
7, 2008
School
Resumes
January
9, 2008
Campus
Tour for Fifth Grade Families
January
10, 2008
East
Coast Trip Student Meeting
January
14, 2008
Site
Governance Meeting
January
15, 2008
School
Site Council Meeting
January
17, 2008
8th
Grade Parent Meeting with Mrs. Blodgett
January
21, 2008
Martin
Luther King, Jr. Observance – No School
January
24, 2008
8th
Grade Parent Meeting with Mrs. Blodgett
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