Only five more days until Mini-Courses begin. Yay! We still need your help in getting a few of our amazing offerings squared away. Please consider donating or loaning supplies or volunteering to chaperone a field trip. There are many ways you can help make this week a truly memorable experience for all our students. If you have an item or some time for a field trip for any course - it doesn't need to be your child's - we would appreciate your help. Supplies should be brought to the Hillview Office as soon as possible, unless otherwise noted. Clearly label any items with the name of Mini-Course requesting the item. If you would like your item returned, please also label with your name and phone number.
Please see below for those Mini-Courses that need your help. The accompanying links will take you to Google forms or Sign-up Geniuses, or provide you with the email of the contact.
Explorations of Baking
One of the most popular mini-courses will again whip up sweet treats all week. Please go to this Signup Genius to provide kitchenware (baking sheets, muffin tins, spatulas, etc.) and baking ingredients.
Beautiful Inside and Out
38 girls will learn what it means to be themselves and find their inner beauty, culminating in an overnight camping trip. Go to this Signup Genius to donate food supplies or to serve as a chaperone to accompany the group to Paul Mitchell Beauty school in San Jose, Tuesday March 29. We will be there from 9:00-12:00 then head over to the Stanford Shopping Center at 12:45 for lunch and a scavenger hunt. We need one more parent to drive a car of supplies to Costanoa (in Pescadero) on Wednesday morning (the school buses don't have room for all the camping gear). One volunteer is also requested to help set up lunch at Hillview on Thursdayfor the return of the campers. For the driver and lunch set-up, contact Drucie Bellman if you can help. Otherwise, use the Signup Genius.
LIFE
Enjoy a camp-out at Sunset Beach. Mr. Kaelin's LIFE course is still looking for one male and one female chaperone, plus a few more 4 - 6 person tents. Please contact Ashley Riley if you can help.
Discovery Channel Favorites - How It's Made
The kids in this fun course will create all kinds of experiments, from candy to soap to rockets. Many easy-to- find grocery items are needed. Please click on this Signup Genius to provide one or more of the items needed for this course and help our students explore their curiosity and creativity.
Caring for Critters
Want to spend the day in beautiful Sausalito? Animal-loving (and kid-loving) chaperones are needed for a full-day trip on Wednesday, March 30 to the Guide Dogs for the Blind and the Marine Mammal Center facilities. Both are super fun and interesting destinations! One parent is also requested to help make pet treats on Monday morning at Hillview. Please sign up using this Signup Genius.
Sew Busy Quilting
Do you have a sewing machine to lend for the week? Please contact Kristin Fichou if you can help out, and we'll stop needling you :-)
Around the World: Mexico, Spain, & France
Many easy-to-purchase grocery items (sweet potatoes, oranges, eggs, butter, milk, etc.) are needed for this multi-cultural gastronomical experience. Yum! Please bring any items to Hillviewon Friday morning, March 25. Use this Google form to let us know what you can bring.
Amazing Race
Be part of the adventure as teams of students complete their scavenger hunts! As a chaperone, you also film the kids in their Race Challenges. Chaperones are needed for San Francisco Tuesday and Wednesday, March 29 and 30, all day. Sign up using this Signup Genius.
Let's Go Ride
The bike riding course would like to borrow bike trainers - stands that hold bikes in place for stationary riding - as a back-up plan for rain. Please contact Beth Shvodian if you can loan one.
Adventures in Babysitting
Do you have children's toys and art supplies around your house that we can borrow? Many fun items are needed to create Hillview's very own childcare center. Chaperones are also needed to help supervise children. The Hillview students will do the work of entertaining the young children; adults are needed "just in case!" Mini-course teachers will also be supervising. Please click here to sign up.
Picture This!
1-2 chaperones are needed to join the group at the SF Zoo and Land's End on Wednesday, March 30 from 8:15 am-3:05 pm, as budding photographers learn how to capture their visions. Please email Jim Stoneham if you are interested.
Outdoor Survival
We need 4-5 tents, GPS navigation devices, and a propane stove. Please email Nancy Witeck if you can loan these items.
CSI and Law Enforcement
Chaperones are needed for the CHP tour and Paintball on March 31. Please email Kathy Koenig if you are interested.
Vet Tech
Making treats and toys for the shelter animals at Peninsula Humane Society is a fun activity in this course, and things like socks, dog training treats and pet-themed decals are needed. We need volunteers for pet treat making on Monday morning, too! Please click on this Signup Genius to donate items or your time.
Thank you so much to those of you who responded to the last blast, and to so many other families who have donated or lent their time and resources! It's gonna be an awesome week!
