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Be Involved! Click Here for Membership forms and other volunteer information Our HSA enhances the education and social atmosphere at our middle school in so many ways enriching all of our children's middle school experience.
We do this through the time of many dedicated volunteers and through the financial donations of so many devoted parents, guardians and school district staff. A few of our major funded activities for this year are: - $6,000: Cultural Arts Assemblies and famed author
Jacqueline Woodson's visit on March 13, 2009
- $1,700: student planners for ALL students,
- $2,500: The All School Musical
- $600: an end of year reception for parents and 8th
grade students at the promotion ceremony
- $1,500 for the all school directory
- $1,000 for a principal's fund
- $1,000 for a library fund
Our HSA volunteers spend hours and hours helping and organizing events at our school. Some of these are:
* Teacher welcome back breakfast and
holiday breakfast
* Canteens after school parties by grade
* End of year Pool Parties
* Volleyball & Basketball Tournaments
* Lunchtime Palooza Events
* Stuffing of the white envelopes
* Cultural arts assemblies
* Staffing all of the fundraisers
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Many thanks to everyone who contributed
to our HSA activities this past year!
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School ends on June 22nd
8th Grade Promotion - June 23rd
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And much, much more. Please see the budget on this web site (to be posted soon) for additional details. Our HSA's Board goal this year is to Go Green and to this end, thank you for using our enhanced web site. We need to raise $28,000 this year to support all of our HSA activities. We are changing our fundraising this year, replacing the Innisbrook wrapping paper; here are some of our ideas:
Novica - An affiliate of National Geographic selling unique, high quality, environmentally sound gift items made by artists and artisans around the world. Key Tags - Giving our HSA proceeds from your everyday shopping Participating retailers like Foot Locker, Subway, Verizon Wireless & Travelocity.com. Election Day Bake Sale - Box Tops & a no frills Fundraiser. Leah Gomberg, our Fundraising VP is available to hear any questions you may have about fundraising and can be reached at ldgomberg@verizon.net or 973-275-0927. We thank you in advance. If you have any questions, please call Karen Hartshorn Hilton, HSA President 973-378-3656. - The 2008-2009 South Orange Middle School
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Special Information for our 8th Grade Parents from Betsy Niggli and Heather Sandor: Volunteers needed....it's that time of year again...busy busy JUNE!!! we really need some help- so PLS read thru the list of events and then PLS email us back ASAP and let us know how and when you can help - FRIDAY JUNE 12TH: Morning: The teachers are running a program called "OLYMPICS OF THE BODY AND MIND"...it's a fun event that will "test" the kids both mentally and physically...its a series of events in about 10 rooms around the school as well as outside... The teachers have asked for our help...about 10-12 people would be great!!! This is going to begin in the morning..(will get the exact time) - Afternoon: "YEARBOOK DISTRIBUTION AND SIGNING"... Hopefully the yearbooks will be in by then and the teachers thought is would be a nice idea - for the 8th graders to get them all together and then have some time to look thru them and have their friends sign them...SO the HSA has said that they would supply ice cream for each child in the 8th grade as a small treat as they sign and read their yrbooks and they also will supply pens as well!!! Could use a few hands to help hand out ice cream and pens.... This will happen in the cafeteria- This is supposed to after lunch sometime-again I will get the exact time BUT it is in the afternoon. TUESDAY JUNE 16TH The "bestest" event of the year..."POOL PARTY" This takes place at the SOUTH ORANGE POOL. It's from about 11:30- 2:45 This year we will be serving Pizza, drinks, ice cream and snacks (watermelon/cookies )...and we will charging $10- We would like as many helpers as possible...it's a really fun event- even if you can only come for a little bit it is worth it and much appreciated... We need help serving the pizza, ice cream and kind of just keeping order and filling in the snacks.. OK: that's it...- The Dinner Dance and the Graduation are taken care of by 6th and 7th grade parents-!!! Yahoo...
CALL ME Wednesday, January 28th 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM, Room 253 at SOMS. Inspired by the famous Blondie song, our HSA has teamed up with the with the SOMS Guidance, Social Work and Nurses office to talk about communicating with kids and the school and to discuss some of the changes our kids are experiencing in the middle school years. We will highlight a few of the programs these talented folks offer our children. Home made delights and coffee will be served. Please RSVP to Karenhilton@optonline.net. CULTURAL ARTS ASSEMBLY: On Wednesday, January 21st the 6th and 7th grades will have the opportunity to see the production of IRL In Real Life a play by R.N. Sanberg by the George Street Playhouse. When two students find their feud surfacing on friends' cell phones, emails and the world wide web, insecurity, fear and humiliation surround their every move. Information about this performance can be found at www.georgestplayhouse.org. Please contact the HSA vice presidents of Programming Goldie Bryant at 973-313-9559, goldiebryant@gmail.com or Joanne Watkins at 973-763-7933, jocarkins@aol.com for any questions regarding cultural arts programming. The 8th Graders will have the opportunity to experience Shakespeare live at SOMS in the spring, to coincide with the Language Arts curriculum. All of the Cultural Arts Assemblies are funded by the generosity of our Parents and Families through the No Frill's Fundraiser. This year, our goal is to provide both grade specific and where applicable curriculum specific assemblies. Thanks to all for your generosity! 7TH AND 8TH GRADE MOVIE MADNESS (formerly known as Canteen...): Fun, Fun, Fun for our 7th and 8th graders! 2 thumbs Up for an AFTERNOON MOVIE? it's the hottest ticket in town.... Friday, January 30th 3 - 5 PM, Admission $10.00 - includes pizza, popcorn and a drink.... Permission slips will be collected on January 26, 27 and 28th at the ticket booth in the cafeteria.... Its going to sell out - so don't be late! Contact HSA 8th Grade Coordinators Betsy Cahn Niggli 973-761-6905 or Heather Sandor 973-313-1550 or the HSA 7th Grade Class Coordinators Janet Walentiny 973-275-0422 or Lara Danmola 973-762-9450. ALL SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENTS: Stayed tuned for the upcoming HSA Volleyball Tournament where you can show your team spirit, get some exercise and have fun with friends and classmates. Sign-up will be held the week of Jan 12th during the lunch periods. Students will form teams by grade and play preliminary games (various days during the weeks of January 20th - February 9th afterschool from 2:45 - 3:45 pm) to determine the grade champions. Final games between grade champion 6th and 7th graders and 8th graders and Teachers/Staff will be held on Thursday, February 12th during 7th and 8th periods. Parents and families are welcome to attend any of these Tournament dates, and volunteers are needed. If you can volunteer please contact Sandy Kurek at 973-761-0795 or sandra.kurek@verizon.net.
Are you wondering what to do with all of your spare time - now that the kids are back in school..... Why not volunteer in the SOMS Library!!!! Please join this year's volunteers Karen Thomas,Tracey Carroll, Deb Gunter,Sung Giost,Jane JOnes, Katherine Evans and Lisa Nolet for some quality time amongst the books of our wonderful library. The times are flexible - please contact Lisa Nolet if you are interested at 973-761-7531 or pesimach@aol.com.
What Do You Do? Speakers Needed for Career Day - Parents, Guardians, Grandparents & Friends... March 5, 2009 at South Orange Middle School Parents and members of the SOMS community are invited and encouraged to come inspire our seventh and eighth grade students with a broad range of career choices from all walks of life. On Thursday, March 5th our seventh and eighth grade students will participate in Career Day at SOMS. The planning of a program of this magnitude cannot be successful without the input and support of our entire community. We would like to invite anyone who would be willing to come and speak to several small groups of students. Your presentation would be approximately 15-20 minutes per session, from 8:30 to 11:30 AM. If you are willing to participate as a speaker, please contact Guidance Counselors, Paula Bethea or Fran Cristalli with your name, your child's name, your profession, and the best way to contact you. We look forward to hearing from you! Guidance Counselors: Paula Bethea, Grade 8 at pbethea@somsd.k12.nj.us Fran Cristalli, Grade 7 at fcristal@somsd.k12.nj.us
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