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Hunter’s Green Elementary School
Volume 23, No. 12
School
Calendar
FEBRUARY/MARCH
February 27, 2015
Principal’s
Message
Gaye Holt, Principal
Novenda Wilson, Asst. Principal
Dear Families,
Sat, Feb 28
 Final Saturday Academic
Camp
I want to thank everyone for all of your support. I also appreciate you encouraging
your child to wear their uniform to school every day. It really makes it feel like a
school family.
Mon, Mar 2
 FSA Testing Begins For
4th & 5th Grade
We will have our final Saturday School for grades 3, 4 and 5 this Saturday from 8:30—
11:30 am. I know the students have learned a lot and have really enjoyed it.
Tues, Mar 3
 PAWS Awards Assembly
8:15am
Beginning on March 2, fourth and fifth grade students will be taking the Florida
Standards Assessment for Writing. Please make sure your child is present and on time
this day. Testing will begin by 8:15 am.
Thurs, Mar 5
 Spring Picture Day
Spring Break will be held March 9-13. The school will be closed. We hope you have a
wonderful week off.
Sun, Mar 8
 Daylight Savings Time
begins
If there is anything we can do to help make your child successful, please let us know.
Sincerely,
Gaye Holt
Mon, Mar 9—Fri, Mar 13
 Spring Break—
NO SCHOOL
Principal
Wed, Mar 18
 Glory Days Spirit Night
Thurs, Mar 19
 Barnes & Noble Reading
Night 6-8PM
Fri, Apr 10
 Panther JAMZ
AWARDS!
Congratulations to those nominated for the Council for Exceptional
Children awards! These people are being recognized for “serving
exceptional children in a manner that best exemplifies the spirit and
intent of CEC’s goals and philosophy.”
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ESE Teacher of the Year: Joni Cagle, Yaritza Jefferson
ESE Rookie T.O.Y.: Chelsea Brodie
Educational Support Person: N. Gardezi
Inclusionary Team of the Year: Catherine Kim, Marie Exantus
Special Instructional Services Individual: Nancy Tokarz
Administrator of the Year: Gaye Holt
We Are Panther Proud of Our Amazing HGE Team!
Hunter’s Green Elementary School, 9202 Highland Oak Drive, Tampa, FL 33647, (813) 973-7394
http://huntersgreen.mysdhc.org/ A Hillsborough County Public School
PANTHER PAW PRINTS February 27, 2015
SAVE THE DATE!
A Message From Your PTA President…
Dear Hunter’s Green Families,
I am so excited that our PTA is gearing up for
a great second half of the school year. We love to
have fun, free events for our families to attend. It is
your support at restaurant nights or donations back
from business partners that help us provide these to
everyone. One of the most fun nights in the spring is
PANTHER JAMZ. Our teachers are amazing rock stars
and they can not wait to show their stuff in the teacher
show this year. Please save the date of Friday, April 10th
for a night of dancing, DJs, singing, prizes and awesome
food trucks: Big Bang BBQ, FishinChicken and KONA Ice
trucks are planned. Best of all we have our “Kids Rule the
School Raffle.” Students can buy a raffle ticket to possibly
win being teacher or administrator for the day. They may
win their own class or try to win a past favorite teacher’s
class. In addition, we will be raffling and auctioning off
exciting prizes. Please consider making a donation to the
Panther Pat’s Prize Packs. Your business could be represented as part of a donation for our prize give-away or as
an independent auction item. If you can support the
school in this way, please contact Yasmeen Neuman at
yasmeenneuman@yahoo.com or drop off your donation in
the front office. PTA is working on some really great prizes this year so you are going to want to be there to win!
Don’t be left out. Worker bees are needed to help with the
event. If you are interested in helping in any way please
contact Bekki at bekkidiem@gmail.com and she will be in
touch about the tasks at hand.
A second free fun family night in April is MOSI
Science Night on April 22. The PTA reserves the Kids in
Charge area of MOSI for our students to visit and explore.
Please mark your calendar to come out and enjoy the
night with your family.
PTA is in the process of collecting and reviewing
Mini Teacher Grants. The teachers submit grants for
things they feel could benefit their classroom or grade level. We budget $2,000 for the grants and will award the
grants as the month of March closes. We love meeting the
needs of our teachers.
I am on our campus all day-every day and I am
always at a loss for words for how many helping hands
touch the lives of the children that go to our special
school; teachers, administrators, parents, volunteers. If
you don’t know yet, I want to share, we have a really good
thing here at HGE and we are so lucky to share these years
together. Thank you TEAM at HGE!
Sincerely,
Vickie Lombardi
HGE PTA President
THANK YOU!
PANTHER JAMZ is Coming!
FRIDAY, APRIL 10TH, 5:30-8:00PM
Glory Days Spirit Night!
Wednesday, March 18th
Buy Great Food!
Earn $$ for our school!
A percentage of sales come back to
Hunter’s Green Elementary!
Box Top Winners!
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PreK—Oakeson (278)
Kindergarten—Schrift (86)
First Grade—Kim (389)
Second Grade—Jamieson (165)
Third Grade—Fernandez (321)
Fourth Grade—Kipp (293)
Fifth Grade—Lawrence (270)
Overall Collections were: 4106 Box Tops!
Next Collection is due: April 30th. The overall classroom with the highest amount wins a pizza party!
Start clipping!
A special thank you to Mary Sorrus for counting &
organizing the Box Tops!
PANTHER PAW PRINTS is published bi-weekly
by Hunter’s Green Elementary School PTA
Principal: Gaye Holt
PTA President: Vickie Lombardi Editor: Jenny Giraldo
We received $224 from McDonald’s Spirit
Night. Thanks to the 5th grade and AGP
teachers for making it a great night. Thanks to McDonald’s for supporting our school.
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Send your submissions to
gaye.holt@sdhc.k12.fl.us or jmgiraldo@live.com
Info deadline, next issue: Wednesday, March 18
Publication date, next issue: Friday, March 20
PANTHER PAW PRINTS February 27, 2015
MEDIA CENTER NEWS
Character Corner
Every month we highlight one special character trait we
would like our students to exhibit during their school day.
We encourage you to take a moment and discuss these traits
with your child(ren) and how these traits relate to home,
school, and community. March’s character trait is:
Barnes & Noble Book Fair and
Family Reading Night
March 19, 2015
6:00-8:00pm
Creativity
What is creativity? Using your imagination to do
something unique!
 Creativity is an ability to imagine something
different.
 Creativity is an attitude of willingness to
accept change.
 Creativity is a process of continually
refining ideas.
Remember, what you create doesn’t have to be
perfect, just yours!
At The Shops at Wiregrass
A percentage of your Barnes and Noble purchases
will benefit Hunter’s Green Elementary when you
present book fair I.D. #11564804
This Year’s Theme is ...March Madness!
There will be sports themed centers around the store.
There will also be a service project table collecting
sports toys (i.e. Nerf footballs, baseballs, jump ropes,
etc.) to donate to a local charity.
Bottom-line: I can dream and imagine!
Panther’s P.E. Running
Club
Physical Education Class—Focus in February (around Valentine’s Day) was on Heart Health.
The following students are acknowledged for their effort:
MAKING THE 3 MILE PLUS MARK:
Fifth Grade
Ricky Nolan and Samson De Jesus (Burns)
Xavier Roldan, Diego Cordoba and Madison Ray (Schmidt)
Yanaliz Cosme (Barber)
Fourth Grade
Daniel Wedge and Bella Simmons (Lamberton)
Beryl Dennard (Peters)
Third Grade
Santoria Carey and Nico Zucchetti (Landers)
Aubry Rodriguez, Angel Ramirez and Jack Wilholt (Arose)
Sieun Ju and Shareece McLendon (Rutan)
La’Nia Hamilton, Nathan Drelles, Jordan Bickham, Miracle McNeal,
Elera Carr, Jenan Alsaeed, Mia Giraldo and
Carson Onderko (Willman)
Second Grade
Delvys Bonilla, Miazon Warren, Audrey Thomasson,
Alexis Monts (Cahill)
Leon Gray (White)
First Grade
Abbi Wallace, Matthew Wedge, Edward Lewis, Devin Blackmon,
Collin Friedrich and Jack Frantz (Sheffield)
Kennan Clark, Xavier Vega and Brady Simmons (Kim)
Musa Kafi and Dileon Smith (Klym)
Sidney Theirse (Truman)
Ashanti Wooten (Cagle)
MAKING THE 4 MILE PLUS MARK:
Fifth Grade
Ricky Nolan (Burns)
Antonio Alls (Schmidt)
Alexi Amer, Ali Alragi and Mohieldin Ibrahim (Barber)
Fourth Grade
Caden Long, Jaxson Hall, Sammy Gillespie, Bryce Andrews
(Lamberton)
X’stasia Loya (Kipp)
Third Grade
Carter Friedrich (Fernandez)
Ryan Nolan (Arose)
Jamier Lanier, Anthony Baker and Matthew Campana (Rutan)
Andrew Lo (Willman)
Second Grade
Bellin Nore and Gaetan Chatelain (Cahill)
First Grade
Antonio Cordoba (Kim)
Makiah Bryant and Frances McKoen (Truman)
MAKING THE 5 MILE PLUS MARK:
Fifth Grade
Second Grade
Abdul Farah (Barber)
Omar Farah, Hayden Livingston
Fourth Grade
and Pierre Smith (Cahill)
Jamarcas Brown (Kipp)
First Grade
Third Grade
Nathan Vig (Truman)
Pedrimy Gaston and
Lucas Garcia (Rutan)
Jahziel Santana Ramos (Arose)
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