"I Want to Walk a Mile in Your Shoes"

Chances are that your child came home singing this catchy tune yesterday afternoon. Thanks to our wonderful PTA, we were able to bring Vitamin L here once again to perform. The Vitamin L Project is dedicated to encouraging positive character development in young people through uplifting, inspiring music. Mrs. Causer has spent the past few weeks teaching the students several of the songs. It was great to hear them sing along.

Today Mr. Kesel, our Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction, taught our third graders about Newton's Laws of Motion. They love to see how he demonstrates these!

Upcoming Events: Next Monday, May 4th, Dr. Brown will present the budget at the WGHS LGI room. Our May PTA meeting will be held prior to the meeting at 6:15.

On Friday, May 8th the High School R2 Committee will be sponsoring another Community Movie Night. Click here for more details.

May 15th will be a half day for students, with dismissal at 11:30.

Have a good rest of the week!

- Lisa

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a nice spring break. It's hard to believe we are in the homestretch now. Our fifth graders will be graduating before we know it!

We've had some exciting happenings at East Hill recently. Our fifth grade student council concluded their Pennies for Patients campaign. They raised $3000.00 to be donated to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Channel 9 News came out to East Hill to do a story on the project. You can watch the news segment here. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this very worthwhile endeavor!

Several third and fourth grade students were chosen to be members of our design team that is helping to make decisions about our new playground. They met with representatives from the playground company that has been selected, Parkitect, to look over the initial designs and give their feedback. Click here to see Parkitect's rendering of the playground. The whole student body will also have a say in their new playground. They will be able to vote on the color scheme as well as choose a couple of pieces of equipment.

Our third graders have been busy over the past few weeks. In addition to helping out with the playground design, they held their spring concert for the school and their families, and were in charge of the April character education assembly which was on Citizenship.

On Tuesday through Thursday of this week our third through fifth graders will take the NYS English Language Arts Assessment. They will take the NYS Math Assessment next Wednesday through Friday. The students are well-prepared for these assessments. Please make sure your child is well-rested and well-fed. Please let me know if you have any questions about these assessments.

We could use a few more volunteers to staff the polls for the District Budget Vote on Tuesday, May 19th from 1:00 to 3:00 at the high school. Please let me know as soon as possible if you are interested. I've done it before and it's actually a lot of fun! Our April PTA meeting will be held tomorrow night (Tuesday) at 6:30 in the library. Hope you can make it!

Have a great rest of the week!

- Lisa