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HUEGEL HIGHLIGHTSJUNE 2016

June 3 - Carnival/Silent Auction - 6pm-8pm

June 7 - Mallard’s Game - Huegel Night

June 7 - 5K KEVA Field Trip

June 8 - 3rd Grade Cave of the Mounds Field Trip

June 8 - You Are a Star Celebration

June 9 - LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

June 9 - 5th Grade Completion Ceremony - 12:30pm

August 17 - New Student Enrollment

August 18 - Returning School Enrolment

September 1 - First Day of School

UPCOMING EVENTS

A MESSAGEfrom Ms. Potter-Davis

Happy June!It is hard to believe we have reached the final days of the 2015-16 school year! I feel so grateful to be a part of the Huegel community. From our teach-ers and students, to our parents and community partners, we have such an active, caring, and generous community that is committed to providing the highest quality education for our students. Thank you for making the Huegel community so strong! My advice for this summer is to have fun with your family and to read, read, read! Read with and to your children as often as possible. We are lucky to have great public libraries and I encourage you to visit them often to take advantage of their summer reading programs. You can also check out these websites that feature online literacy resources at varied reading levels: • http://www.starfall.com/• http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/clf/index.htm• http://pbskids.org/games/reading.html We also encourage you and your family to take advantage of all of the en-gaging summer activities that Madison has to offer, including the zoo, public parks, and Tuesday Night Recess on the Huegel playground (more information included in the newsletter).

As we think ahead to next year I wanted to share the news that the district is moving to a paperless registration process to replace the typical Registration Day. Current Huegel families will not need to come to school to register, but instead will be able to go to our school website to learn about important back to school details, update any contact information, and find School Supply Lists. We are still working out the details of our annual Back to School Picnic, and will include a flyer in your child’s report card envelope. Also, stay tuned for information about how Huegel will be celebrating it’s 50th anniversary next year. It’s sure to be a great year!!! I look forward to seeing everyone in August. Enjoy your summer vacation!

Warmly,Abby Potter-Davis

RAY W. HUEGEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL : 2601 PRAIRIE ROAD : MADISON, WISCONSINHT TPS://HUEGEL.MADISON.K12.WI.US/608.204.3100

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HUEGEL CARNIVAL

WHEN: Friday, June 3 | 6pm-8pmWHERE: Huegel Elementary SchoolFOOD: This year we will have \food carts available for you to purchase from AND make money for the Huegel PTO. Currently we are expecting the following food carts:• Leia’s Lunchbox• Jakarta Cafe• Greek Street• Guilty Pleasures desserts • Kona ice

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HUEGEL SILENT AUCTION

Friday, June 3rd during the Huegel Carnival

All monies raised at the silent auction will go toward the Huegel PTO

Walt Disney World | 4 - 1 day passes

American Girl | American Girl Truly Me™ Doll

Apple Wellness |$20 Gift Certificate

Waggin’ Tails Doggie Dude Ranch |$50 Waggin’ Tails Gift Certificate

Ian’s Pizza | 5 “Free Slice” Ian’s Pizza Cards

Gail Ambrosius Chocolatier | 12 Piece Truffle Gift Box

Metcalfe’s Market | Gift Basket

Gymfinity | Gymfinity Gift Basket

Gold’s Gym | 3 Month Gold’s Gym Membership

Ten Pin Alley | Bowling + Dinner for 4

Enchanted Valley Acres | 4 Free Farm Admissions and pumpkin

Rhonda Chalone | 2 Original Piano Composition CDs

Schuster’s Playtime Farm | Certificate for Two to the Haunted Forest

Schuster’s Playtime Farm | Certificate for Four for daytime playtime

Milwaukee Admirals | 4 Milwaukee Admirals Ticket Vouchers

Press. | Stroopwafels

Square Harvest | $25 Square Harvest Gift Card

Flying Hound | $25 Flying Hound Gift Card

The Dog Den, Dog Daycare and Training | 10 days of dog daycare

The Dog Den, Dog Daycare and Training | 2 group training classes

Milio’s Sandwiches | 3 Free Milio Sandwich Certificates

Batch Bakehouse | $10 Gift Card

Fiskars Brands, Inc | Fiskars Gift Basket

Dragonfly Hot Yoga |10 class pass for Hot Yoga

SwimWest | 10 punch pass for open swim + toy bucket

Hy-Vee | Gift Basket

PlayNWisconsin | Birthday Party

True Veterinary Care | Gift Basket

Eno Vino Bistro | $50 Gift Card

National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium | 2 Admission Tickets

AND MORE...

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Thank you to all who volunteered to make Huegel a better school and

community for the students and staff this school year!

SUMMER APPSMath PopMath Pop comes in grades 1-5 and is free. It is a fun and engaging way to practice math problems aligned to the Common Core Standards. Free

Star Walk KidsKids as young as four can begin to recognize constellations, planets of the solar system and grasp the fundamental principles of astrophysics. $1.99

Story Maker 2Learn to make great multimedia stories and safely produce and publish them with your mobile device. Fre

Book CreatorThe simple way to create your own beautiful ebooks, right on your tablet and makes e-book publishing easy. $2.49

Motion Math: Hungry FishDevelop fast, agile mental arithmetic, learn there are multiple paths to add up to every sum, and build automaticity in adding and subtracting positive and negative integers. $3.99

5JUNE 2016

Thank you Engineering for Kids of Dane County for donating $332 to Huegel’s PTO!

THANK YOU!

Please save your BoxTops

over the summer. We will be

having a BoxTops Classroom

Competition again in

September!

The BoxTops can add up!

Huegel receives 10 cents for every BoxTop

THANK YOU GRANITE CITY!Thank you Granite City Food & Brewery - Madison for hosting a restaurant night on May 5th! Granite City donated over $100 to Huegel’s PTO.

SUMMER CAMPYMCA Dane County Club Wannago Summer CampCome join us for the Best Summer Ever! At the YMCA Club Wannago your child(ren) will have the opportunity to go on field trips and swimming everyweek! We offer art, science, cooking and many other activities for your child(ren) to participate in while at Camp. Scholarships and financial assistance are available upon request. For more information, please contact Cassie Murdaugh at Casella.Murdaugh@ymcadanecounty.org

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SCHOOL SPOTLIGHT: THINGS ARE LOOKING UP FOR CEILING TILE STUDENT ARTISTSPAMELA COTANT For the State Journal May 23, 2016

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/school-spot-light-things-are-looking-up-for-ceiling-tile-student/article_32541e1d-2607-5472-8214-4bdf60f773a7.html

Ordinary white acoustical tiles covering the ceilings at Huegel Elementary School have become a canvas for student art-work.

For the second year in a row, third-graders have spent a portion of their art class painting the 2-foot by 2-foot tiles, which are then put back into their metal grids.

“You can always come back because they will always be up there,” third-grader Addisen Bradley said.

Kate Olsen Birner, Huegel art teacher, said that when she first came to the school some of the tiles in her room had already been painted by Sue Klein, a former art teacher. Olsen Birner has continued to paint tiles in her room when her classes do art appreciation units. For example, last year when the students learned about George Rodrigue’s Blue Dog series, she reproduced one of his paintings on a tile of the art room ceiling.

“Last year I got the idea to take this notion schoolwide with the third grade and was lucky enough to obtain funding to imple-ment it,” said Olsen Birner, who received a grant from the Foundation for Madison’s Public Schools.

She received another grant from the foun-dation this year to pay for the acrylic paint and brushes, and more tiles were painted this spring for a total of about 170 tiles. In addition, Olsen Birner also helped about 20 interested teachers paint tiles as part of a community-building project.

This year, the art class project had a music theme related to what the third-graders learned during a jazz residency at Huegel, though students could choose to paint a tile with a different theme.

First the students did a rough draft on paper, which some students said they found chal-lenging. Some of them altered their designs along the way, like Luisa Almaraz, who started out wanting to paint a butterfly but changed to a four-leaf clover. Matt Eckert decided to paint some of his favorite instru-ments.

“You can be very creative, make a very creative tile, that’s why I chose this one,” Lee Saldana said about his tile featuring a circu-lar geometric design. “I like putting different colors together.”

Olsen Birner hopes to continue turning the ceiling into an art gallery if she can get fund-ing. Her goal is to extend the project into every hallway, where she places the tiles in a checkerboard pattern with unpainted ones so the look does not become overwhelming. Some teachers also have asked to get paint-ed tiles in their rooms.

“It makes the school feel so much more child-centered, I think, along with making our school far more inviting,” Olsen Birner said. “It gives them (students) more ownership in their school.”for our new Lego League teams! Watch for vouchers in backpack mail and on the Huegel Facebook page.

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EASY WAYS TO MAKE $$ FOR HUEGEL OVER THE SUMMER

• AMAZONSMILE: Use Huegel Elementary PTO Inc. as your charity

• TARGET REDCARD: Use Huegel Elementary School as your designated school

• PAPA JOHN’S PIZZA: Order from https://www.papajohns.com and you will receive 30% off your order and Huegel will receive a 10% donation! Just use the code “HuegelPTO”

• BOX TOPS: Collect those Box Tops and bring them in! Every Box

Back by popular demand…

When? 6:30-8:00 PM every Tuesday night this summerWhere? Huegel PlaygroundWho? Huegel students, brothers, sisters, friends AND parentsWhy? To have fun and play with your friends from school

TUESDAY NIGHT RECESS

Thank you!A special thank you to our Master Gardeners and retired teachers for making our school entrance look so beautiful. Martha Bowhan, Karen Lee-Wahl, & Joan Martin have taken the time to clean up our gardens and plant new flowers...it looks so beautiful. Thank you!

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2016 - 2017 School Year Calendar

Final version – 05.02.2016

AUGUST2016

Elementary School Students – Enrollment Dates17 Students new to the district – 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.18 Returning students – Memorial and West Attendance Areas 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.19 Returning students – East and La Follette Attendance Areas 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.Middle School Students – Enrollment Dates17 All Grades – 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.* and 3:30 – 6:30 p.m.18 All Grades – 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.* and 3:30 – 6:30 p.m.19 Students new to District – 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

*Hamilton morning enrollment for Aug 17 and 18 hours: 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.High School Student – Enrollment Dates (East, La Follette, Memorial and West)12 Students new to the district 11:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.16 All Grades – 11:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.19 All Grades – 7:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.Shabazz High School – Enrollment Dates17 All Grades – 2:00 – 6:00 p.m.24 Returning students scheduling: Grade 12 – 10:00 a.m.: Grade 11 – 10:45 a.m.:

Grades 9 and 10 – 11:30 a.m.Innovative and Alternative Education – Enrollment Dates17 All Grades – WLC Westside, 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.18 All Grades – (Location TBD), 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

9 Fall Primary Election25-26, 29-30 Staff Learning/Preparation Days31 Staff Voluntary Day

SEPTEMBER2016

1 SCHOOLS OPEN – Grades 4K-5, Grade 6 and Grade 9 ONLY• No School for grades 7, 8, 10, 11 or 12;• 4K and Early Childhood AM classes – regular schedule;• Early Release for Elementary K-5 and 4K PM and Early Childhood PM ONLY (at 1:05 or 1:50 pm)

Beginning of 1st Quarter and 1st Semester2 All Middle and High School students attend

K4 and Early Early Childhood AM classes – Regular Schedule;Early Release for Elementary K-5 and 4K PM and Early Childhood PM ONLY (at 1:05 or 1:50 pm)

5 No School – Labor Day 12, 19, 26 Middle and High School Early Release16 3rd Friday Official Membership Count

OCTOBER2016

3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Middle and High School Early Release11 Principal Experience Day 13 Parent/Teacher Evening Conferences – La Follette High School Only

NOVEMBER2016

1 End of 1st Quarter (43 day)2 Beginning of Second Quarter4 Elementary Early Release (P/T Conference Prep) at 10:50 or 11:35 a.m.

No PM Classes - Early Childhood and 4K 7 High Schools – Evening Parent/Teacher Evening Conferences (except La Follette)8 General Election Day9 Elementary Schools – Parent/Teacher Conferences Early Release at 10:50 or 11:35am

No PM Classes – Early Childhood and 4K 10 Middle School - Parent/Teacher Evening Conferences 11 No School – Staff Only Day15 Middle School – Parent/Teacher Conferences - Early Release 11:30 Wright; 11:40 All Other17 High School – Parent Teacher Conferences - Early Release (except La Follette)23 No School – Parent/Teacher Comp Day24, 25 No School – Thanksgiving Holiday28 Middle and High School Early Release

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Final version – 05.02.2016

DECEMBER2016

5, 12 Middle and High School Early Release22 - 3 No School – Winter Break

JANUARY2017

4 School Resumes9 Middle and High School Early Release13 2nd Friday Official Membership Count16 No School – Martin Luther King Jr. Day 20 End of 2nd Quarter (44 days) and 1st semester (87 day) – Grade Reporting All Schools – Early Release

Elementary at 10:50 or 11:35 a.m;Early Childhood and 4K – No PM Classes;Middle schools (except Wright) at 11:40 a.m.; Wright at 11:30 a.m.; High schools – Early release times vary; check with your high school

23 Start of 2nd Semester27 Middle School Only – No School – Parent Teacher Conferences

FEBRUARY2017

3 No School – Staff Only Day6, 13, 20 Middle and High School Early Release21 Spring Primary Election23 Parent/Teacher Evening Conferences – La Follette High School Only28 ACT Testing Grade 11 ONLY – No school for grades 9, 10 and 12

MARCH2017

6, 13, 20 Middle and High School Early Release6 Districtwide 4K Enrollment for 2017-18 school year, 2:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Districtwide Enrollment for Kindergarten (5K) students new to the district for the2017-18 school year, 2:00 – 6:00 p.m.

24 Elementary Early Release (P/T Conference Prep) at 10:50 or 11:35 a.mNo PM Classes - Early Childhood and 4K

28 End of 3rd Quarter (46 days)31 No School – Staff Only Day

APRIL2017

3, 17, 24 Middle and High School Early Release4 Spring Election Day6 Elementary Schools – Parent/Teacher Conferences -Early Release at 10:50 or 11:35am

No PM Classes – Early Childhood and 4K 10 - 14 No School – Spring Break17 School Resumes

MAY2017

1, 8, 15, 22 Middle and High School Early Release29 No School – Memorial Day

JUNE2017

8 LAST DAY OF SCHOOL – Full Day (Unless there are more than 2 days of school cancelled because of the weather)End of 4th Quarter (45 days) and 2nd Semester (89 days)

9 Staff Only Day9 Graduation: East High School at 5:00 p.m. and La Follette High School at 7:30 p.m.10 Graduation: Memorial High School at 10:00 a.m. and West High School at 1:00 p.m.19 First day of Summer School (Tentative)

JULY2017

28 Last day of Summer School (Tentative)

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HUEGEL LEGO LEAGUEWHAT IS LEGO LEAGUE?FIRST Lego League (FLL) is a fun way to explore science and computer program-ming while working together with a team. The team designs, builds, and programs a robot using the Lego Mindstorms or WeDo system to compete on a table-top playing field. In addition to robotics, teams must research and come up with a creative so-lution to a real-world problem associated with the theme of that year’s competition--next year’s theme will be “Animal Allies”. They are also evaluated on teamwork skills and community service and outreach.

WHAT DO I GET OUT OF LEGO LEAGUE?• It is a fun way try out engineering, pro-

gramming, and scientific research! • Builds confidence in STEM fields• Real world problem-solving experience• Builds teamwork and community ser-

vice skills

WHO CAN JOIN LEGO LEAGUE?• Next year’s 4th and 5th graders, as well

as Huegel alumni 6th graders, can join a regular Lego League team

• Next year’s 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders can do Jr. Lego League, which does simpler programming and doesn’t have to do a research project

WHEN WILL LEGO LEAGUE HAPPEN?The competition season starts in late Au-gust, with the first round of tournaments in early November. Team(s) would have weekly meetings held at Huegel, either af-ter school or in the evenings. There would also be at least one weekend competition in the Madison area.

WHAT DOES LEGO LEAGUE COST?A goal for Huegel’s Lego League program is to cover the full cost of our team(s) through fundraising, sponsors, and grants. Families of participants would be encouraged to donate to the team and to help out with fundraising, but there would be no minimum donation to join the team.

We need lots of parent participation to launch Lego League at Huegel! Each team of 5-10 kids needs at least two parent coaches per team who can regularly attend meetings. Coaches don’t need prior experi-ence in robotics, but they do need to submit information for a background check. Other parents would need to help with fundraising and to help kids do activities for the team at home.

If you think your child may be interested in Lego League, please e-mail legohuegel@gmail.com to get updates over the summer, if you haven’t made it to a meeting or filled out a survey already. Also look for info at fall registration. Since the competition season starts just before the school year starts, we need to have teams in place before the end of this school year.

SUPPORT HUEGEL’S LEGO LEAGUE TEAMS!Eat at Chili’s behind West Towne Mall, dine-in or carry out, any day in June, and 15% of all food and beverage purchases will be donated to the Huegel PTO for start-up costs for our new Lego League teams! Watch for vouchers in backpack mail and on the Hue-gel Facebook page.

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How to Practice Math Over the Summer

By Julie Williams - Updated on Sep 3, 2013

http://www.education.com/magazine/article/summer-math-facts-not-just-flashcards/

From kindergarten through fourth grade, addition through division, various levels of “math facts” can be found in just about every elementary classroom. You probably remember them from your own school days—you know, those pages of equations combining all the digits between one and ten or even twelve, the ones you were supposed to memorize backward, forward and upside down…or else! Well, math instruction may have advanced since then, but if you’ve got an elementary school kid, you’ve probably noticed that math facts are as crucial as ever. If this sounds like pressure, it often is—not just for kids but for teachers, too.That’s why, as the school year ends, packs of flashcards have come to join summer reading lists around the country as common tools for learning at home.Practice, practice, practice, so the line goes, and your child can achieve “automaticity”—perfect, instant recall.Parents, if you’re wondering what it really adds up to for your kids on summer days, you’re not alone. Are daily summer flashcard drills the “new math” for American kids?Not at all, say experts in the field. Sure, you can find store shelves packed with workbooks, and you can download math fact sets at dozens of sites online. And yes, says Michael Shaughnessy, Ph.D., President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, elementary math can be “almost like learning to play the piano—even doing a little bit each day can help.” But, he cautions, true math learning goes way beyond rote flashcards and instead challenges the mind to new and exciting levels of reasoning. In fact, explains Aki Murata, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Elementary Mathematics Education at Stanford University, straight math memorization can even endanger real math learning. “Drilling is deceptively effective sometimes,” she says. “Kids can learn to spit back what you say, and then you think, ‘Oh, my kid is understanding,’ but if they haven’t had the chance to learn the concepts deeply, it’s like building a huge building without a foundation at the bottom.” Problems may not show up immediately, she says, but later, when the student attempts more advanced work like algebra, the ideas simply won’t make sense.So what does help? Here is some practical advice from these experts and others:Use everyday life, every day. Steven Sheldon, Ph.D., Director of Research at the National Network of Partnership Schools at Johns Hopkins University, works with schools to strengthen family involvement that can boost student learning. Instead of worrying about fancy or expensive curricula, he says, families can provide crucial assistance by demonstrating “mathematics in the normal course of life.” Small children, for example, can make huge gains in number sense just by rolling dice, counting, and adding. An older child planning a birthday party can practice division concepts by arranging guests into groups of four, or by figuring out how many cookies will go around. To be sure, adds Sheldon, “maybe you don’t want your child figuring out the interest on your unpaid credit card balance” but “you do want to see him do things like practice addition and subtraction by creating an allowance budget, going to market and comparing prices, or helping to make change.” In short, he urges, everyday life can be as effective as any flashcard when it comes to building math skills that will last.Question, question, and explore. “It’s not that procedures and facts aren’t important in math,” says Shaughnessy, but don’t be lulled by a kid who just says, “Well, I just knew it.” Even with very small kids, ask questions like “Okay, so how did you get that?” or “Well, I thought of it a different way. What about this?” Encourage young mathematicians to talk, talk, talk about their “math reasoning.” And as they get older, don’t hesitate to invite them to deepen and expand the problems themselves. “Let’s say,” says Shaughnessy, “that a kid correctly recites a math fact like 8+7=15. That’s great, but now there’s even more fun. Add some digits, for example, and ask ‘What is 18+7? How about 18+17?” With approaches like this, mathematics comes alive as a process, not just a body of fact.

ch one. That’s why, she explains, it’s great to let kids explore math by counting objects, making drawings, or just counting with their fingers and toes. “Do plenty of that,” she says, “and then when the kids start working equations, the learning goes much faster.” So the next time you pull out a set of flashcards, she suggests, plan to select at least one card a day and invite your child to make a “math story” about it. For a first grader, you might talk about how “Roger and his brother had three kids over to play. How many kids were there altogether now?” For an older elementary student, you can explore more complicated operations like division: “We are making 20 popsicles,” you might ask, “and five people are coming over. How many popsicles can each one

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