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EARLY DISMISSAL (WEDNESDAYS) 7:55 AM - 1:05 PM

REGULAR DISMISSAL 7:55 AM - 2:05 PM

Mr. Gary Harms Principal ***** Kimberly Williams Assistant Principal

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HORIZON HAPPENINGS 4751 Hidden Lake Dr.

Port Orange, FL 32129 386-322-6150 Office

386-763-3784 Fax www.myvolusiaschools.org

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri

2 8:45 am to 9:30 am Eagle Pride Awards KG & 1st

3 8:15 am to 8:55 am Eagle Pride Awards 2nd & 3rd 2:10 pm to 3:10 pm GYMNASTICS

4 Early Release

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6 8:45 am to 9:30 am Eagle Pride Awards 4th & 5th

9 8:00 am to 2:00 pm Book Fair

10 8:00 am to 2:00 pm Book Fair 2:10 pm to 3:10 pm GYMNASTICS

11 Early Release 8:00 am to 2:00 pm Book Fair 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm Book Fair Family Night



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Hurricane Make-Up Day

School In Session!

17 2:10 pm to 3:10 pm GYMNASTICS

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REPORT CARD DISTRIBUTION

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Horizon’s Mission Statement

Provide a nurturing Environment promoting Academic Development Individual Growth Mutual Respect To develop productive, responsible citizens.

1:05 pm Dismissal

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Hurricane Make-Up Days

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RED RIBBON WEEK 2017 October 23rd through the 27th

Let’s Celebrate Some of our Horizon Top Ten Essentials

STUDENTS DO NOT HAVE TO WEAR THEIR SCHOOL UNIFORMS THIS WEEK

Monday-Wear your Red Ribbon proudly. Horizon Essential, “Show Appreciation” Let’s all be grateful for our friends, family, school and who we are!

Tuesday-Wear your favorite hat. Horizon Essential, “Be Positive” Try to find the good in everyone, in every situation and especially in yourself!

Wednesday-Wear crazy socks. Horizon Essential, “Learn from Your Mistakes” A big part of growing up is learning from your mistakes and trying your best not to repeat them!

Thursday-Wear your favorite team t-shirt or jersey. Horizon Essential, “Be a Good Sport” Always be your best” You” whether you win or lose!

Friday-Wear as much red as possible. Horizon Essential, “Tell an Adult” If someone is bullying you keep telling an adult until is stops!

Volusia County Schools Finalizes Hurricane Makeup Plan

DELAND - The Department of Education is waiving a portion of the missed instructional time due to Hurri-

cane Irma, which means Volusia County Schools will only need to make up one full day and cancel three early re-lease days to be in compliance with state law.

The following changes will be made to the 2017-18 school calendar: Add October 16, originally scheduled as a teacher duty day/student holiday, as a student day and the last

day of the grading period Cancel three early release days and use that time for instruction: December 6, 13 and 20

Other important information:

September 27 - Midterm period ends September 29 – Midterm report distribution October 16 – First grading period ends October 17 – First day of second grading period begins October 23 - Grades available on ParentPortal October 27 –Report card distribution

The decision to not impact holidays was made because personal and family time is important in returning to

normalcy. Media Contact: Nancy Wait, director of community information (386) 734-7190, 255-6475 or 427-5223, extension 20230 Cell: (386) 822-2417 VOLUSIA COUNTY SCHOOLS Post Office Box 2118 DeLand, Florida 32721-2118

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PTA NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS [email protected]

WE ARE THE EAGLES. WATCH US SOAR!

Special Thanks to our Community Supporters

ACADEMY OF MARTIAL ARTS

ACE BAIL BONDS

ACE GYMNASTICS

BJ's

CAKES by JEANNIE BACON

DENNY’s

DOCTOR'S CHOICE HOME HEALTH

EXIT REAL ESTATE PROPERTY SOLUTIONS (Casey Cross)

ENGLISH TOFFEE and FUDGE (Pa y Morley)

GORDON FOOD SERVICE

INFINITE SOUNDS MOBILE DJ

KONA ICE

LEGACY DANCE STUDIO

ORIGAMI OWL (Emma Bridegam)

ORBIT PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY

PERFECTING EVENT PLANNING SERVICES

PERFECTLY POSH (Nicole Williams)

PUBLIX

SCENTSY (Carly Basham)

SUPERWASH EXPRESS

THRIVE (Misty Strother)

TRADES of HOPE(Emily Schultz)

TUPPERWARE

USBORNE BOOKS (Paula McDonell)

YOUNG LIVING (Tara Anderson)

Our Yankee Candle fundraiser packets have been sent home with students and are due back on October 6th. Friends and families may place their orders through the catalog or online. All information

has been provided in the packet. Thank you for the continued support. Funds collected will continue to sponsor our many PTA programs.

Our first PAPA JOHN’S SPIRIT WEEK is the week of October 16th. Order online or in store at the Port Orange location, mention HORIZON and a percentage

of those sales will be given back to the school all week. There will be more information to follow in the coming weeks.

Horizon Elementary Winter Festival has been tenta-tively scheduled for Friday, December 8th from 6-8pm. Be on the lookout for information regarding our festival planning committee meetings.

We would love for you to be involved with our school and join PTA! Individual and business mem-berships are $5.00 each. Membership forms are available in the front office. They have also been sent home with each student. PTA uses the funds

to provide many important materials and activities for the children of Horizon.

NEW Horizon T-shirts are available to order. The cost is $8.00 for youth sizes and $10.00 for adult sizes. T- shirts may be worn on Friday, no uniform day. Order forms are available in front office and shirts can be delivered to your classroom.

Don’t forget to collect and turn in your Box Tops. To turn in, please send them in a bag with your child’s name and teacher clearly marked.

When your car needs a wash please take it in to SUPER-WASH (across from Target) and enter our school code 6000. We receive a portion of those proceeds back to our school.

Thank you for all your support!

Horizon

Academy of Martial Arts 386-677-6811 Ace Gymnastics 386-760-1445 Advanced Medical Center 386-481-6678 Barnes & McDonnell Pediatric Dentistry 386-760-0550 Bob Evans Restaurant 386-767-6254 Chick-fil-A 386-767-3377 Chuck E. Cheese 386-756-3035 Coach Caroline's Gymnastics 386-788-8247 DME Sports 386-271-3150 Dreamworks Model Products 386-852-4793 Encore Baton & Dance 386-527-8360 Five Guys Burgers & Fries 386-675-6594 Five Star Pizza 386-763-1300 Halifax Injury Physicians 386-265-7246 www.pipdoc.com

KSR Ultimate Martial Arts 386-295-0800 Luigi's Pizzeria Cafe 386-756-3434

Olive Garden 386-788-9825 Papa John's Pizza 386-322-9020 Pirate’s Island Golf (DB Shores) 386-767-9397 Port Orange Dance 386-295-2610 Port Orange Music Academy 386-322-6200 Seacoast Bank 386-761-7011 Sky Zone Trampoline Park 386-682-2020 Texas Roadhouse 386-763-2420 That One Fun Place 386-256-2599 Tijuana Flats 386-271-4663 Walmart Neighborhood Market 386-281-6890 Walmart Supercenter Port Orange 386-756-2711

Thank you for supporting the faculty & students at

Horizon Elementary!

HORIZON BUSINESS PARTNERS

Attendance & Dismissal

Policies

Student’s change of dismissal plan Please call by 1:30.

Early dismissals Please come to office early so

we may locate and call student to office.

No phone-in early dismissals School Policy is; student will

be called when parent arrives to office.

Absences Attendance phone number is: 322-6150 X33918

Student Drop Off Please do not drop off a child at school before 7:30 am as there is no supervision available.

Student Pick-Up Dismissal is 2:05 & 1:05 on Wednesdays. Please be on time to pick up your child.

Department extensions are: #2 Attendance #3 Clinic #4 Cafeteria #5 Media Center #6 Guidance #7 Records

HORIZON HAPPENINGS

On Time, All The Time!

HORIZON HAPPENINGS

Multi: Pre-K: As we say goodbye to September and move into October, Mrs. Reyes and Mrs. Sookoo would like to thank all our parents for all the classroom support. Our students are well into their daily routines and ready to learn every day. For the month of October, our curriculum unit is “Pets are Animals”. Students will be learning about house pets

and zoo animals. Our letters of focus this month are O, C, D and N. Our shape of the Month is a Triangle and our number of the month is 1. Parents we ask that you please continue to check the daily home folders and return the daily note each day. KG: So happy to be back in school. We are now in “Fall”. We will study things involving new season. Students will learn about the change of the leaves, trees, temperature, and colors of plants. We discuss/explore what/how your body moves. We will continue to work on writing, numbers, letters and reading words. Please look through your child’s folder for important information and what is going on in class. 1st: This month we will be learning all about fall. We will also be learning about movement. Our class will be discussing how we move and where we move. We can't wait to kick off the season together! 2nd-3rd: Our 2nd through 3rd grade students will be Introduced to the way things move In Math, students are reviewing number cognition number sense using numbers from 1-50 and adding up to 20. For Science and Social Studies, we will be using lessons from the News 2 You curriculum and will continue to do social skills and daily living skills during the entire day. We are concentrating on hygiene. And respecting others space. All students will continue to work on IEP goals and objectives that are embedded in our lessons and classroom routine. 4th-5th: The 4-5th grade class is reading current even stories covering a variety of topics and physical science stories about force and motion. Through these stories students will identify details and information to answer comprehension questions.We are learning about the fall season and how things change. Our social skills themes for October are showing empathy toward others and naming feel-ings we observe and feel ourselves. IEP objectives are worked on daily. Students are encouraged to try their best in each activity throughout the day. Please continue to read the communication note daily and complete the back side of it. Happy Fall! Thank you- Mrs. Reyes, Mrs. Sookoo, Ms. Bell, Miss. Heslin, Mrs. Hall, and Mrs. Valenti

Mild: Mrs. French and Mrs. Sandrowicz continue to focus on reading strategies and math addition and subtraction strategies. The younger students are working on alphabet and number recognition. Please con-

tinue to read with your child nightly as this helps build on the skills learned in class.

Headstart/Mild: We will be starting our Nutrition theme - Strawberries. Learning about strawberries: where they come from, how they grow, how they taste. Then we will be moving into Theme 3, My Five Senses. This theme covers:Using My Senses, Outside Our Door, and We’re Detectives. Children will learn about their five senses, using their

senses in daily experiences, and investigate nature. We will continue to learn about rhyming, we will be focusing on the letters Tt, Oo, and Xx. Introducing our Alphafriends: Tiggy Tiger, Ozzie Octopus, and Mr. X-Ray. In Math we will be learning about the color orange, the triangle, one and many, patterns, number sense, and sets. Headstarts’ next Parent Meeting will be November11th at 1:05PM. We are looking forward to continuing an awesome school year with you and your child.

Mrs. Wilkerson & Ms. Andrea Budesheim

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Happy Fall! First Graders are learning at full speed! Homework is being sent home every Monday and is expected to be returned on Friday. Part of their homework is to read nightly, fill out the reading log and write a sentence. They also need to be studying their spelling words for their spelling test on Friday. Don't forget the work on the back of the weekly teacher note and any other math worksheets that may come home as well. Please help your child memorize their sight words from the list that was sent home for

them in their folders. Practicing with your child is a great way to promote a lifelong love for reading and learning. There are many ways to make this time with your child a fun, positive experience. For example, take turns reading in silly voices, pretend to be the charac-ters in the story, and have follow up discussions about the story. Other ways to get your child excited about learning can include using shaving cream to spell out spelling/sight words on a table or plate, using a bar of soap to write their words on a mirror, and alphabet cereal can be used for a tasty treat. When you are at a stoplight ask your child how many sounds are in a particular word, have them blend sounds to make words, substitute different beginning, middle and end sounds to create new words, practice rhyming. Math can be fun by using beans or candies to count and practice addition/subtraction facts. Students will be more apt to put forth a bit more ef-fort if they know their parents will be checking their progress. We would like to again encourage all parents and families to keep with the attendance initiative. Please get your child to school on time. Our goal is for them to be at school on time, to stay in school until dismissal and to not miss any days from school unless of an illness or family emergency. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of the parents and families for joining us for Horizon's annual Open House. We had a great turnout and truly appreciate your support! Thanks again! The First Grade Team

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for joining us for Horizon’s annual Open House. We had an awesome turnout and truly appreciate your support. As we are finishing up the first grading period, we would like to emphasize the importance of nightly reading. This is a great opportunity for you and your child to spend time together while helping them to develop a love for reading.

Our second grade curriculum is progressing quickly. We are reviewing long and short vowel sounds and gearing up to read chapter books. In Math we are working on different addition/subtraction strategies, working on standard units of measure-ment and ways to compare them. In Science we are beginning to examine rocks and soil.

Please continue reviewing with your child. Students will be more apt to put forth a bit more effort if they know their parents will be checking their progress.

The Second Grade Team

Third grade would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our parents and students for joining us at our Open House. We love your Support! Our classes are off to an awesome start! It is important that our students are reading daily at home. Currently, we are reading many wonderful stories to enhance the learning process in reading. We are studying main idea and details, and text features. Always remember to ask your child questions about what they are reading and to locate specific information in the passage they’ve read.

Our Math lessons are quickly progressing. We have been multiplying and introducing division. In addition the students are finding the area and perimeter around polygons We are beginning rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, thousand and ten thousand digits. We are starting our instruction in multiplication facts, so please start reviewing those with your child. Social Studies will continue with the study of state and local governments and good citizenship. In Science, our instructional focus is the Scientific Method along with exciting class experiments. As always thank you for your continued support and cooperation in educating your child. The Third Grade Team

The year has started off wonderfully!! We are very excited for what we have in store for our students this year.

Reading: Comprehension- Students are learning how to retell a story in sequence. Our students are practicing letter identification both upper case and lower case.

Math: counting numbers 0-20 and writing numbers 0-10.

Writing: writing letters upper and lower, writing name. Please pay careful attention to your student as they practice their letter formation.

The Kindergarten Team

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Fifth grade is moving right along with our curriculum. On October 17, we will be attend-ing the Young People’s Concert at the Peabody Auditorium. Please return those permis-sion slips as soon as possible. In Math, we are in our Fraction unit where we are adding and subtracting fracions. We have been studying Native American tribes in Social Studies and will be moving on to famous explorers soon. Science has been out of this world by

studying our Solar System and Galaxies. We will be moving on to Earth science next. In Reading, we have spent some time with nonfiction text recently and are going to begin studying some poetry as well. Students have been writing opinion essays too. Next, we will move on to informative essays. As you can see we are off to a busy start to the year. We don’t let any grass grow under our feet in Fifth Grade.

The Fifth Grade Team

Dear Parents, We are excited to be back on track after our unplanned time away from school. Here are the topics we are working on for October. ELA: Text Structures (Problem/Solution, Chronological Order, Cause/Effect, De-

scription, Compare/Contrast), Writing opinion pieces using text evidence, short response questions using text evidence. Math: Continue multiplication strategies (students must learn their multiplication facts), Par-tial Quotients, Balancing Equations, Area of shapes. Science: Continue Earth and Space (Earth’s movement, Moon phases, Space and technolo-gy). Social Studies: Branches of Government, Early Explorers of Florida.

The Fourth Grade Team

The boys and girls are singing, playing, moving and learning. We have been learning about quarter notes, eighth notes and rhythm patterns. We play these patterns on various unpitched percussion instruments. We have played the sticks,

triangles, conga drums, bass drum and tympani and boom whackers too. Fourth grade students are earning their “white belt” for Hot Cross Buns p 6 and their yellow belt for “Au Claire” p 7. Fifth grade students are playing their recorders, xylophones and percussion instruments. They are learning about composers John Williams, Tchaikovsky and Handel and will hear their works on their field trip to Peabody Auditorium for the Young Person’s Concert by the Orlando Philharmonic on October 17th. They are also learning to sing in Spanish a song called “Las Mananitas”. Horizon Stars Performing Arts Ensemble will meet on Mondays from 2:05 – 3:00 starting on Octo-ber 9th. This performing group is for our fourth and fifth grade students. We will be singing and playing recorder, xylophones and ukuleles. Permission slips are coming home. Keep Making Music!! Ms. Ellis & Ms. Kent

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Ms. Potash and Ms. Ramsey's students have been working to get their art projects in gear after being interrupted by hurricane Irma! Their hard work has certainly paid off. Beautifully finished works of art are slowly but surely being produced by our horizon ea-

gle artists. Our art clubs also had to be put on hold but the sign up sheets are coming, we promise! We're back on track and ready for creativity!

- Ms. Potash and Ms. Ramsey

September was a difficult month. We had the start of the school year running smoothly and then…Irma decided to make an unwelcome visit. Things have cleared up and we continue the process of getting some normalcy back into our lives. We continue to look for the Leaders in our classes each day, and we are proud to say that there are many students stepping up and becoming a leader in PE. Being a leader in PE does not always mean being the fastest run-ner, the highest jumper or the farthest thrower. Leadership in PE means that you are willing to lead by example. When others around you are doing other things, a leader is doing what the PE teacher asks, does it the first time and

does not complain about the task that they are doing. Our students have been demonstrating great examples of what it means to be a leader at PE. A leader at PE wears the right clothes and shoes (tennis shoes or sneakers) every time to PE. They do not rely on their teacher to remind them to dress appropriately; they dress that way because that is what a leader would do. We all understand the Top Ten Essentials for Horizon and we want to continue that practice during their Physical Education classes.

Coach Apgar will be working on some skills to ready his classes for the upcoming Fitness Tests by doing some different activities that help develop the skills necessary for participation in the Physical Fitness tests. Coach Petko will conclude his Archery/Movement units that were started last month. After the conclusion of these activities, both coaches will be starting our Fall Fitness testing. We are going to be going to the Fitness Gram (based on the Cooper Institute Study) for our testing this year while incorporating the Presidential Fitness Testing into the mix as well. Some of the same testing criteria will cross-over from one to the other, so, we thought it would be best to incorporate both. The main objective of the Fitness Testing is to evaluate Endurance (mile run or Pacer test); Flexibility (Sit & Reach or Modified Sit & Reach); Upper Body Strength (Pull-ups or Flexed Arm Hang…Also Modified Pull-ups or Push-ups are used to build and strengthen this area); Agility (Shuttle Run); Abdominal Strength (Curl Ups); Lower Body Strength (Standing Long Jump); and Speed (50 Yard Dash). Students can practice any of these tests at home to help im-prove in any one of these areas.

We look forward to a great fall this year. The cooler weather that will be coming will be a welcome sight to the heat that we have had since the beginning of the school year. Stay cool, exercise at least 30 minutes a day in some way, eat healthy and get plenty of rest. LET’S GO EAGLES!

FROM THE PE GUYS

Please remember to fill out your student Emergency Contact Information card and return to the teacher as soon as possible.

The weather will be changing soon and students will be having symptoms of colds, which could be coughing and sneezing. Please instruct your students to cough and sneeze into their elbow area. This will help in preventing spreading the droplets that are given off when coughing or sneezing. Hand washing is the best defense to help prevent the spread of germs. All students should know to wash their hands after using the restroom and before eating. When washing their hands they should use approximately 1 dollop of soap or 1 teaspoon. Make sure to wash between fingers, palms and the top of their hands. To scrub your fingernails you can do that by bending the fingers in the palm of the hand while there is still soap and rubbing the nail area. If there is not a place to wash with soap, hand sanitizer will work until they can get to an area to wash. After rinsing remember to turn the faucet off with a paper towel. Nurse Susan

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