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From the Principal’s Desk:

R. B. HUNT ELEMENTARY

February 6, 2015

Important Dates

Early Release Every Wednesday Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night Internet Safety Presentation at Sebastian Middle School for 5th Grade Parents Box Tops Due President’s Day Student/Teacher Holiday Class Picture Day Kaye Walton Run4Hunt

1:50 Feb 12 5:30-7:30 Feb 12 6:30pm Feb 13 Feb 16 Feb 20 Feb 21

Students of the Week First Grade: Jack Rininger, Kru Casey, Olive Ferreira, Taylor Johnson, Maryam Shandor, Grace Bunnell, Ella Estremera, Gavin Baker Second Grade: Sunshine Hall, Ava Hadjis, Sophie Moon Andriano, Serenity Dooley, Devin Platt, Crystal Moyer, Evyn Stoever Third Grade: Jalin Patrick, Sophie Kelbert, Jane Rolandelli, Alex Johnson, Lana Dauth, Aly Wihbey, Fourth Grade: Paul Janeczko, Brianna College, Colin Smith, Mason Matos, Elijah Prytherch, Noah Chehata, Laney Goode, Gia Flaherty, Lauren Burnett, Michael Koliner, Olivia Stevenson Fifth Grade: Jaden Harris-Hynes, Owen Lindsey, Sophie Pearson, Brayden McGrath, Jay Doughty, Ridley Piniarski, Bridget Herod, William Camp, Stana Smith

Class pictures

Friday

February 20th

Please avoid tardies and

early dismissals on picture day.

Dear R. B. Hunt Families:

If you haven’t done so yet, please take a moment to take our School Improvement Survey. This

information will help us plan and continue to improve our school for our students. Unfortunately,

questions 25, 38 and 39 make it mandatory to answer as if you have a child in every grade level.

A link to our survey can be found on our webpage or go to: https://surveys.stjohns.k12.fl.us/

TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=llKM8ml1.

Got Box Tops? Our P.T.A.O. needs them by February 13th. Our school gets money for what could

be considered trash. Please check product labels before tossing or recycling packaging. Look for

the pink rectangular logo “Box Tops For Education”, clip and let us raise some easy money.

Join us Thursday, February 12th for our Chick-fil-A spirit night from 5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. A por-

tion of the proceeds from the food sales, including drive-through purchases, are donated to the

P.T.A.O. Please come out and enjoy a meal with us.

Isabella Guyton, Henry Benoit, Emma Ramey, and Francesca Charles have read all 15 of the 2014-

2015 Sunshine State Young Readers Award Books. They have qualified to participate in Hunt’s

Battle of the Books. Keep Reading!

Congratulations to our newest members of the Principal’s Million Word Club. Ella Sharman, Jack-

son Taylor, Clara Grant and Caya Asbille have each read more than one million words since the

beginning of school.

Please join the St. Johns County District School Staff for an informational meeting for families

of 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students on “Helping Your Child Succeed on Florida Standard Assess-

ments” to be held Tuesday, February 17th, 6:30 p.m. at Ketterlinus Elementary School. This pro-

gram is designed to answer questions for parents on the new writing, language arts and math

test that has replaced the FCAT. Hope to see you there!

Have a great weekend!

Amanda S. Garman

Principal

February 21st 9:00am

NEW THIS YEAR!

The Run4Hunt is a Color Run! Check your Red Folders for information and registration forms.

Participants will run or walk seven laps (2 miles) around Coach Durr’s Field and with each lap completed, volunteers will mark each runner’s progress with a different color spray. Your white Kaye Walton Run4Hunt shirts will become a won-derful display of color by the end of the run!

The Run4Hunt is for everyone! All ages and all fitness levels are welcome. Invite your friends, neighbors, family members to come help us celebrate and help support the Kaye Walton Memorial Fund.

Be sure you recruit as many people as you can! The class in each grade with the most entries will win a brownie party from Mrs. Parkey; and the class in the building with the most entries will win a party sponsored by the PTAO!

More registration forms can be found on the PTAO page of the R. B. Hunt website: www-rbh.stjohns.k12.fl.us/ptao.

Registrations will be accepted until 8:45am on 2/21. Deadline to register and be GUARANTEED a t-shirt for race day:

February 12th at 3:30pm.

125 Magnolia Dr., St. Augustine, FL 32080 Phone: 547-7960 Fax: 547-7955 R . B . H U N T E L E M E N T A R Y

Lighthouse Café: February 9 - 13 Breakfast is served daily 8:00 until 8:25. Milk is offered with every meal.

Monday– Homestyle Mac & Cheese or BBQ Chicken Max Snax, steamed broccoli, green beans, juice

Tuesday– Mini Corn Dogs or Mini Cheese Ravioli or Chicken Nuggets, spinach/romaine salad, corn, fruit, breadstick

A la carte: Papa John’s Pizza, $1.85/slice

Wednesday– Cheese/Pepperoni Pizza Wedge or Fajita Chicken Salad, car rot & cucumber dippers, peas, apple slices, breadstick

Thursday– Hamburger or Homestyle Chicken Sandwich or Chicken Nuggets, cr ispy potato cuts, baked beans, fruit, breadstick

Friday– Chicken Nuggets or Hot Dog, cherry tomato & celery dippers, sweet potato puffs, juice, roll

Assistant Principal’s Math Club

Congratulations to everyone achieving Level 1 & Level 2. Keep practicing!

Level 1 (Addition and Subtraction): Michael Mamas, Evan Goedelman

Level 2 (Multiplication and Division): Shane McMillian

Testing Season is right around the corner.

Testing begins for all grades the first week of March.

Please understand the testing season begins the first week

of March and continues through the end of the year. Still

to come this year for every grade level: End-of-Chapter/

Unit tests, End-of-Course tests, Star Reading, Star Math,

DFA testing, DE testing and the FSAs. Testing is happening

for someone in the building almost every day.

Students need to be in school as much as possible. Emer-

gencies do arise, but please do not schedule regular annu-

al dentist or doctor appointments during the school day

and please avoid tardies and early dismissals.

Students need to be well rested and well fed. Please be

sure your students are getting enough sleep, eating a

healthy breakfast and packing a healthy lunch.

Thank you for your help.

What is the Kaye Walton Foundation?

The Kaye Walton Foundation supports R. B. Hunt students in need of help to pay for everything from everyday things

like field trips and school supplies to big things like emergency housing and transportation. Your $10 entry fee, com-

bined with hundreds of others, can make a real difference in the life of a fellow Islander!

To inspire you to support this cause, Mrs. Parkey will bake brownies for every class in the building who gets as many

registrations as there are students in their classroom! Remember, virtual registrations are encouraged; you are allowed

to register and support the school even if you cannot make it on the day of the Run4Hunt. So get out there and recruit!

Be our Valentine!

Box Tops

Spring Deadline

February 13th

Chick-Fil-A Spirit Night

Thursday, February 12

5:30 - 7:30

Eat in or Drive Thru!