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Weekly Bulletin
February 4, 2015
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The Hartsbrook School
193 Bay Road
Hadley, MA
Main Office:
413-586-1908
Admissions:
413-584-3198
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Upcoming
Events
No School EC-Grade 8
Fri., 2/6
Professional Day
*High School in session
Viennese Ball
Sat., 2/7, 6pm
HS Visiting Day
Tues., 2/10
8:10 - 10:30am
*Current and prospective parents
Walk Through the Grades
Wed., 2/11
8:45 - 10:30am
*Current and prospective parents
Parenting in the Age of Technology
Tues., 2/10
6:30pm Refreshments
7-9p Discussion
February Break
2/16 -2/20 No School
2/13 Half Day / Assembly
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Ongoing
Parent Council
Tue., 2/4 7-9pm
Parent Meditation
Thursdays, 8:30-9am
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Parent Evenings
2nd Grade
Thurs., 2/5 6pm
4th Grade
Thurs., 2/12 6:30pm
5th Grade
Wed., *2/24 7pm
*note date change
High School
Tues., 2/10 6:30pm
8th Grade
Wed., 2/25 7pm
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Class Events
7th Grade Play
"A Servant of Two Masters"
Wed., 2/4, 8:45am
Dress Rehearsal
Thurs., 2/5, 8:45am
Thurs., 2/5, 6pm
6th Grade Play
"The Clown of God"
Tue., 2/10 -9am
Wed., 2/11- 9am
Thurs. 2/12- 5:30pm
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Viennese Waltz Ball ~ This Weekend
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 Location: Jewish Community of Amherst, 742 Main Street, Amherst
Tickets:
$15.00 Students, $20.00 Alumni & Adults, $50.00 max per family. Order tickets at main office, 586-1908 X100
Program: 6:00pm: Waltz lesson 7:00pm: Gala Procession, followed by dancing for all 10:00pm: Last dance
For Students in Grades 7-12 and adults
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Parenting In the Age of Technology
A Conversation with Susan McNamara
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 Tuesday, February 10th 6:30 pm ~ Refreshments
7-9 pm ~ Discussion
Creating mindfulness around this topic, Susan MacNamara will facilitate contemplation and discussion regarding the impact technology is having on our children and what steps we can take to best educate and support children around these complex issues.
Presented by the Parent Council
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| Measles Information |
The United States is experiencing a large multi-state measles outbreak that started in California and now has spread across the country to include New York. Please find attached an information sheet for parents from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The following link www.cdc.gov will give you updated information about measles and www.npr.org February 3 Morning Edition, to listen to a story about this topic.
For more information: CDC measles information
Sincerely,
Laurie Zacek, RN
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| Reminder ~ Financial Aid Applications Due |
Please remember financial aid applications are due by February 15th!
Diane LaBarge, Business Manager
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Input Requested This Week Please!
Request for Parent Input for Teacher/ Administration Reviews
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Dear Parents,
 As part of our professional development program at The Hartsbrook School, all of our teachers and staff have their work reviewed and evaluated by a Review Team at three year intervals. The team reviews all evaluative material it collects from internal and external visits to the teacher's classes, as well as input from parents and colleagues and a written self-evaluation from the teacher. At the review meeting, the team meets with the teacher to consider various aspects of the work with students, parents and colleagues. Together, the team and the teacher come to recommendations for the teacher's future work.
We invite all parents to comment on any aspect of your own or your child's experience with the teachers being reviewed this year so that we can have as vivid a picture as possible of each teacher's work with parents and students.
Here is a list of the teachers who are presently under review, followed by the names of the people on the Review Teams (the first name listed is the head of the team):
First Year Reviews:
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| Review Team Members:
| | Katharine Payne | 6th Grade Class Teacher | Catherine Hopkins, Jeff Kalman
| Anne Musante
| German, Grades 1-3
| Magdalena Toran, Jessica Stark
| Naomi Henderson
| High School Art
| Thomas Heineman, Tony Cape
| Justin Lively
| Woodworking, Grades 5-12
| Heather Damon, Nicki Robb
| Jan Baudendistel
| 1st Grade Class Teacher | Jan Kees Saltet, Marie-Dominique Corbiere
| | Three Year Reviews: |
| Three Year Reviews: | | Gail Voisin | Handwork, Grades 1-4 | Meg Fisher, Jan Baudendistel
| | Janine Harrison | Song Sparrow Kindergarten | Rachel Kennedy, Polly Saltet | | Magdalena Toran | Early Childhood Chair,
Cricket on the Hearth Teacher | Louise Spear, Elyce Perico | | Tony Cape | High School Humanities,
Grade 11 Adviser | Valerie Poplowski, Virginia McWilliam | | Gloria Black | High School Spanish | Catherine Hopkins, Marie-Dominique Corbiere
| | Tanya Lax | 4th Grade Class Teacher | Polly Saltet, James Pewtherer | | Administration Review: |
| Review Team Members: | | Louise Spear | Faculty Chair,
Handwork - Grade 5 | Virginia McWilliam and Board Members | Pilar Schmidt
| Director of Development
| Louise Spear
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Your comments will be read by members of each Review Team, who will usually summarize them for the teacher. However, in the interest of fair employment practices, should the teacher ask to know the source of a particular comment, it will be shared. For that reason, do not consider your comments to be anonymous.
Since we are legally advised to not receive feedback electronically, we ask that you share your comments in writing or in person, either directly with the teacher involved, or with the head of the review team. Written comments can also be given to Vesna Vasovic in the Main Office for distribution to the review team. Please do not reply via email.
If you have any questions, please call Valerie Poplawski, 586 1908, ext 111, or Louise Spear, 586 1908, ext 127
Thank you very much for your participation in our faculty review process.
Sincerely yours,
Valerie Poplawski
For the Teacher Development Committee
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Scrip ~ Update
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Here's what happens when a good opportunity presents itself and a community comes together!
 In December the local Whole Foods store ran a promotion by selling Whole Foods gift cards at the 10% discount. We saw the opportunity to make money for school while we all do our grocery shopping!
The Scrip Committee brought the idea to our community with a big support from Lane Hall-
Witt, a Hartsbrook parent and a Board member. Many of you responded by committing to Monthly Scrip Orders.
We now have 61 families that use scrip for their monthly grocery expenses. Of those families:
- 21 are Faculty
- 8 are current Board members
- The rest are families of current students
Each month this group of people earns the school $1832 with their scrip purchases.
We are thankful to each and every one of these familes! We would like to encourage the rest of the Hartsbrook community to get involved with the scrip program.
Click here to begin your monthly Scrip Order!
If you have any questions about scrip program and how you can get involved feel free to contact any of our Scrip Committee members:
Vesna Vasovic, [email protected]
Heidi Mokovitz, [email protected]
Susan Heitker, [email protected]
Gwen Leaf, [email protected]
Pilar Schmidt, [email protected]
Louise Spear, [email protected]
Vesna, for the Scrip Committee
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Third Grade Play - "The Twelve Sons of Jacob Israel"
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The Twelve Sons of Jacob Israel, by Arthur Auer.
Adapted by Jeff Kalman, Third Grade Class Teacher
 This play was chosen because it touches upon common developmental themes found in a typical third grade experience, such as fairness, justice, community vs. individualism, forgiveness and tolerance.
I chose the puppet format because I was curious about how the children would experience the process of developing the puppets' characters, and because the actual creation and construction of the puppets by the students gave them the opportunity to relate to one another in new and creative ways. Manipulating a puppet means working with something that comes very naturally to children. Performing with puppets challenged the students to organize around the needs of an object (the puppet) and the class as well. Our play also helped those students who struggle with being in the spotlight speak through the being of their puppet. The third grade will be loaning the puppets to the kindergarten classes so they too can enjoy telling the story of The Twelve Sons of Jacob Israel.
Here are some reflections from two third grade students:
My class did a puppet play of Joseph the Dreamer. Joseph is his father Jacob's favorite and his older brothers are jealous. They sell him and he interprets dreams of Pharoh's baker and butler. Pharoh has two dreams and the butler tells him of Joseph. Joseph says that there will be seven good years, then seven bad years of famine, and that they need to save food. Pharoh chooses Joseph to be Governor. His brothers come and Joseph makes them bring the youngest brother Benjamin. Then Joseph tells them that he is Joseph and the family is reunited and saved from starvation.
by Noah
I performed a play. It is called "The Twelve Sons of Jacob" and I was Jacob! I am an old man.
This is my puppet's perspective and here are some lines of mine:
"O, this strange deed makes me sore afraid
That honest food has gone unpaid."
I have about twenty five lines! I say them far apart and close together, and I like it that way.
"Playing My Part," by Olin
Jeff Kalman, Third Grade Class Teacher
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Harvard Model United Nation
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For the past ten years Hartsbrook High School students have been attending the Harvard Model United Nations in Boston. We join with over 4000 students, a third of these students are from outside the United States to debate a wide range of topics and issues concerning the world today. This year 14 students from Hartsbrook attended as a delegation representing the South American country of Uruguay.
Thomas Heineman, High School Humanities
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Around Campus ~ Early Childhood
For more photos be sure to check out Hartsbrook Photo Site.
For the password, check the back of your directory or call the main office.
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| Celebrating Our Community |
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Hartsbrook Family Camping - Mark your Calendar
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 Wednesday August 5th through Sunday August 9th, 2015
Each year Hartsbrook families chip in to rent the entire Indian Hollow campground in Chesterfield, MA for our own use.
Some families come just for the day, others stay up to all four nights. Kids bike through the woods and build chutes in the river. Lounge in a chair, or sing with guitars and fiddles at the fire while you roast a s'more. Enjoy hikes, swimming holes, ultimate and capture the flag in the open fields. On our last night, following a communal bonfire, the high school students often sleep out under the stars in the field.
For information, directions (Google and state Web sites are totally inaccurate), or to find out why this is my favorite event of the summer, contact Tim McNerney at 341-1379. Mark your calendar and save the date.
Organized by Hartsbrook families; not a school event.
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Community Bulletin Board
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 BENEFIT HARTSBROOK while filing taxes. Get $50 for filing at Liberty Tax today! You get $50 to file through 02/15/15. In addition, Liberty Tax of Amherst and Northampton will contribute $25. to The Hartsbrook School for every client who mentions the promotion: "HARTSBROOK" when they file their taxes. Call 413-570-3585 for details. Get your taxes done, get $50 for filing and support the Hartsbrook School when you do. Everyone wins.
PLAYTHINGS! Sarah's Silks, Wooden Play Clips and Ostheimer figures available at wholesale cost! I have a limited supply of Waldorf items - all new - that I am offering to the Hartsbrook community at wholesale prices. Perfect for Valentines Day or plan ahead for Easter, birthdays or 'just because' gifts. Contact Beth Volkmann for more information and price lists of what is available. [email protected]. This will be first-come, first-served.
A HEROINE'S JOURNEY: Beginning February 11th, listen to the story of Gwinna and travel with her. Every other week for seven morning sessions we will look into our own life story through artistic activities, observation and inner reflection. As we awaken to our life story we choose the next step with consciousness. [email protected] 413-320-1723.
FREE Multi- Arts WORKSHOP: Let your imagination fly: create and illustrate your own story. Under the guidance of Multi-Arts talented and creative staff, children will collaborate and make their imagination come alive. It will be fun, engaging and inspirational. Free workshop at Amherst Farmers Market, Saturday February 14. 11-12 am for children 6-13 years old & 12:00-12:30 for children 3-5 accompany by their parents. www.multi-arts.org Catalina Arrubla, , 413-584-7951
WANTED- ICE SKATES TO BORROW FO AN EXCHANGE STUDENT: Thanks to the generosity of the parent of an alum, we have skis for our exchange student. But now we are looking for ice skates. If you have women's skates for size 9 foot and would be willing to loan them until the end of March, please contract Randall: [email protected]
WINTER CAMP at Glen Brook February 16 - 21, 2015 for 3rd through 8th graders. It is not too late to register, though spaces are filling up. You can register online here or find more information here. Or give us a call if you have questions. Contact: Shelly
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The Community Bulletin Board is for small classified-type advertisements. Each submission costs $5.00, is limited to 3 paid repeats and should be no more than 4 lines of text, about 45 words. Payment for Community Bulletin Board submissions should be made by Friday of the publication week. Please drop off or mail payment, to The Hartsbrook School, 193 Bay Road, Hadley, MA 01035. No charge for advertisements for free events or nonprofit organizations. Submit ads to: [email protected].
General Policy for the Bulletin No political or religious advertisements. No competitive program advertisements. No fundraisers. The editors will decide placement of advertisements and may edit for content and length. The Hartsbrook School retains the right to choose not to print any advertisement.
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Hartsbrook: Clarity of Thought ~ Warmth of Heart - Strength of Purpose
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