HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS SALES TAX HOLIDAY
The sales tax exempt period to purchase items for hurricane preparedness is between May 25 through May 31
this month. You may purchase items such as batteries, flashlights, duct tape, tarps, certain radios, or generators, with sales price limits on different categories. You may use the attached link to view the list of qualifying items:
http://www.tax.virginia.gov/sites/tax.virginia.gov/files/media/documents/2014%20qualifying%20items.pdf . During
August 7-9, 2015, the Commonwealth of Virginia will offer another sales tax holiday for hurricane preparedness purchases, as well as school supplies and clothing and Energy Star and WaterSense qualified purchases. In all cases, sales price limits apply. You may go to
www.tax.virginia.gov
for more information.
Exam Week Menu is posted to the left. It will not be on our website.
Register for Summer Camps by June 1!
Unfortunately, Vacation Bible School has been cancelled for this summer as the Tabor Center is no longer available for our school use and was needed to facilitate the Bible School efforts.
Congratulations to Carynne Posey who has been accepted to the Virginia Tech Imagination Camp, a hands-on science and engineering summer day camp for rising 7th and 8th graders.
Key Club News:
---Helpers are needed to make sandwiches, bag cereal, and make dog toys after school on Wednesday, 5/27. We also need jelly, wheat bread, and healthy cereal.
---We will also make sandwiches the week of Exams, so perhaps some of you will be able to spare an hour.
---We will be meeting each week during summer to make sandwiches and bag cereal, so hopefully you will be available to help us out. I will continue sending out emails throughout the summer to keep you informed! We will also be in need of the following: jam/jelly, creamy peanut butter, healthy cereal, and loaves of 100% wheat bread.
Let me know if you can help with any of these projects!
Pam St. Angelo pstangelo@hcfaculty.com
International Students
We are looking for families interested in hosting international students for the 2015-16 school year. HCRS is fortunate to have this opportunity to learn about other cultures, and for host families, there is an opportunity for a special bond which can last a lifetime. Please contact Cat Mosley for more information at 847-5436 or cmosley@hcfaculty.com.
From Mrs. Main in the library
Inventory- We are currently in the process of doing inventory in the library. At this time, students are bringing home paperback books that are not catalogued and inventoried. These books will all be due by Monday, June 1st.
Accelerated Reader Store- We will have one final A.R. store on Wed. June 3rd during which students in grades 1-5 will have a chance to spend their hard earned points from the Accelerated Reader program. If you have any items that you would like to donate for the store, contact Mrs. Main or drop them by the library anytime and mark them "AR prizes". (items such as unused happy meal prizes, beanie babies in good shape, $5.00 gift cards, or other items appealing to 1st-5th grade) hmain@hcfaculty.com Thank you so much for any donations!
Summer Reading- This year's summer reading theme is "Pop open a good book". Information will be coming home Friday, May 29th in the students' green folders. Our summer reading celebration "Circus fun day" is tentatively scheduled for Wed. September 9th. I will begin recruiting help over the summer! Stay tuned!
