April
14-18, 2008
Monday: J
Tuesday: Band
Concert 5th-8th grades 7:00pm
Wednesday: PTS
Meeting 6:30pm - election of officers - DIS Library
Band
Concert 9th-12th grades 7:00pm
Thursday: Every
15 Minutes at DHS
Friday: 3rd grade to Pioneer
Museum & Chinese Temple 8:30-1:30
25Õ
Salmon to visit our school on itÕs Pacific Northwest Tour!
ELAC
Meeting 6:00pm – DES Multi Purpose Room
Grandparents
Day Registration Forms due today!
A BIG MAHALO (thank you)
to PTS for a wonderful Staff Appreciation Day! We enjoyed fabulous coffee
drinks & pastries in the morning, prepared by PTS. Then, we were treated to a wonderful
lunch with a Hawaiian flare. We
appreciate all the things our parents do to help with their childÕs education
as well as the care they give us to keep our staff happy! It was a wonderfully festive day!
Grandparents Day registration forms are due by
Friday, April 18th.
Please turn the completed registration form in to your childÕs teacher
or the DES office & sign the permission slip at the bottom of the form if
youÕd like your child to go home with their grandparent on May 9th -
it is a minimum day. If you would
like to help with Grandparents Day or if you have any questions, please call
Marci Paddock at 332-9639. Thanks!
We will vote on the following slate of PTS
officers for the 2008-2009 school year:
Co-Presidents:
Kim Huekel and Connie Alexander
Co-Vice-Presidents:
Dennis and Kristen Cargile
Treasurer:
Miriam Dennis THANK
YOU for your support of DES!
Co-Secretaries:
Eva-Lis Southam and Ann Murphy
Membership:
Cynthia Argo
Parent
Representative: Kim Thorpe
April 21-25, 2008
April 20 - 26th is TV Turn Off
Week
Monday: STAR
Testing begins
Tuesday: GATE
3/4
GobelÕs
Class VAPA Performance – Stone Soup – 5:30pm
Wednesday: GATE
3/4
HaapanenÕs
Class VAPA Performance – Stone Soup – 5:30pm
Special
Board Meeting 7:00pm
Thursday: HansenÕs
Class VAPA Performance – Stone Soup – 5:30pm
Open
House at DIS and DHS
Friday: Do
It Leisure presents ÒRobert HoodÓ - Assemblies at 9:30am & 10:30am
STAR
testing for 2nd-5th grades is scheduled for April 21st-May
2nd. Please make sure your
children are on time to school, get a good nights sleep and a healthy
breakfast. We ask that during this
time you do not schedule doctor or dental appointments until after school
hours. Thanks for your
cooperation.
Durham
Intermediate School is holding Open House on Thursday, April 24th. A special orientation for parents of incoming 6th
graders will be hosted by Mr. Desimone at 5:30 p.m. in the DIS library. Parents will then be invited to visit 6th
grade classrooms from 6:00-7:15pm.
Durham
High School is also holding Open House
on Thursday, April 24th!
Students will visit the campus during the day for classroom visits and a
career fair, then the campus is open to the community at 4:30pm with a
Springfest BBQ and Open House activities.
Please
feel free to visit all of the school sites in our district and feel the
connection as your children grow and transition from school to school. Durham Elementary will hold Open
House on Wednesday, May 7th.
Congratulations to the American Legion Auxiliary 2008
Essay Contest Winners!
Group
I (4th and 5th grade students) wrote ÒWhy I Am Thankful
to Live in America.Ó
1st
place – Mary Freitas, 2nd place – Juan Pablo
Villegas-Orozco, 3rd place – Brandt Hughes, all from Mrs.
MasudaÕs class.
Densell Peters received Honorable Mention from the
Butte Literacy Council for his submission to their Short Story Contest for 2nd
& 3rd graders!
Parents
and members of the public are invited to view the Science Curriculum
Instructional Material proposed for adoption. The materials for Grade K-5, Delta Education (Publisher)
FOSS Full Option Science System, will be on display from April 4, 2008 through
May 3, 2008 in the Board Room at the Durham Unified School District, 9420
Putney Drive, Durham, CA 95938
during normal business hours (8:00a.m. – 4:30p.m.) Parents and members of the public are
invited to review and make written comments about the material. Written comments will be reviewed and
considered by the Governing Board when considering for adoption for use by
students attending schools within the Durham Unified School District. If there are any questions, please contact
the district office at 895-4675x221 or the site principal, Bobbi Abold at
895-4695. Material for 6th,
7th, and 8th grades are also on display and available for
comment.
Swim Fast - Swim for Fun
Durham
Dolphin registration will be held Sunday April 20 from 2 to 4 pm at the Durham
Park under the covered picnic tables. We will be making tie dye shirts
and enjoying snow cones. Come by and see your friends and make some new
ones. Our season will be starting May 5 and continuing through
August. The swim team is for children ages 4 though 18, all levels
emerging to competitive!! We are looking forward to a fun, fantastic
summer. Come join us!
Why
does my child need a Child Safety Seat? Although many of us have fond memories of rattling around in the
back of the family station wagon, what we didn't know then is that riding that
way was the number one cause of death for children. Fortunately, we can reminisce about those days and we can
learn a best practice when making decisions on how to safely and securely
transport our children when riding in motor vehicles.
While
the number of motor vehicle injuries and deaths has been declining as more
people use seat belts and car seats, the number of crashes continues to go up
every year b there are more cars on the road — and Motor vehicle crashes
are the single largest kill for children between the ages of 1-14 years.
Luckily,
we have seat belts and child safety seats to help keep us safe. The problem is,
seat belts are designed to fit adult bodies so they don't secure our children
correctly.
Car
safety seats have been shown to be highly effective in reducing death and
injury in motor vehicle crashes.
According to NHTSA, car safety seats are 71% effective in reducing
deaths for infants and 54% effective in reducing deaths for children ages 1 to
4 years. Belt-positioning booster seats reduce the risk of injury by 59% for
children ages 4 through 8 years. Clearly, restraining infants and children in
the proper car safety seat does help keep them safe. These considerations are
serious enough that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration now
recommends that all children who've outgrown their car seat continue to ride in
a booster seat until they're at least 8 years old and 4 feet 9 inches tall.
Through
observational surveys, findings for Butte County from November 2006 - September
2007 showed that 13% of Booster-size children were completely unrestrained when
riding in a vehicle and current Booster seat usage rate for Butte County is
50%. Although our numbers are
increasing we must work hard in making sure our children ride safely and
securely when riding in vehicles.
Lets
help make our community a safer community by safely restraining all passengers
in our vehicles correctly on every trip, every time. Butte County Public
HealthÕs Kids in Safe Seats Program and Boost and BeltÕem campaign work to
ensure that all children in Butte County are properly restrained in the correct
restraint system every time they travel in a motor vehicle.
Guard Start (ages: 11-14)
Want early start on your lifeguard career?
This program will teach you the
daily tasks and life saving skills that are
needed to become a lifeguard.
Participate on Tuesdays and Thursdays
starting June 10th ending August 14.
Cost: $40
Water Sports Camp (Ages: 7-14)
Come and play in the pool! Have fun playing
sports and cooling off at the
same time! Water basketball, water polo,
Frisbee golf and water football.
Dates: June 9-13 Cost: $65 Time:
9-11:30AM at the Brinson Swim
Center!
Basketball Camp (ages: 8-14)
Practice the skills and drills of
basketball. Our amazing instructors have
planned 5 days of fun games and drills for
your child. Your child will work
on the fundamentals of the game and advance
skills that will take them to
the next level.. Dates: June 23-27 and July
14-18. Times: 9AM-12:30PM Cost:
$75
Soccer Camp (Ages:8-14 )
This camp will have you scoring goals in no
time. This camp is just what
your child needs to prepare them for our
youth soccer league. Our fantastic
coaches will have your child working on
shooting, passing, dribbling and
even defense. Each day is filled with fun
drills and games. Dates: July
21-25. Times: 9AM-12:30PM Cost: $75
Flag Football Camp (Ages: 8-14)
Learn the game of flag football from our
great coaches. Your child will
learn the rules and participate in fun
drills for each position. This is an
excellent opportunity to participate and
learn the game before our flag
football season begins in September. Dates:
August 4-8. Times: 9AM-12:30PM
Cost: $75
L.I.T. (Leader In Training (Grades: 8th and 9th)
Have fun playing with kids this summer. This
is an ongoing training 3 weeks
through out the summer, June 9- August 15, 4
hours a day. Learn what it
takes to become a recreation leader
including: planning daily activities,
games, crafts, supervising children and
learning safety procedures. Cost: $
45 & receive a camp t shirt!
Durham-azing Camp (Ages: 5-11)
Come and have some fun with our summer camp
staff! We will be playing games,
making fun crafts, having clubs EVERY DAY
and then cooling off in the pool.
Weekly themes such as buggy about bugs, wet
n wild, kid city and much more!
Cost: $120 a week $65 part time.
Tennis: (Ages: 2-Adult)
Tiny Tennis: (Ages: 4-6) Tuesday and Thursdays
3:00-3:30PM
5/6-5/22
$16
Youth Tennis: (Ages: 7-11) Tuesday and Thursdays 3:30-4:30PM 5/6-5/22
$35
Youth Tennis: (Ages: 12-17) Tuesday and
Thursdays 4:30-5:30PM 5/6-5/22
$35
Adult Tennis: (Ages: 18 & up) Tuesday and Thursday 5:30-6:30PM 5/6-5/22
$41
Hunter Safety:
May 10 (7:30am-4) &
August 9 (7:30am-4) at the Chico Search and Rescue
Building. Cost: $10
Beginning Guitar: (Ages: 7-12)
Come and have some fun learning how to play
the guitar with Carson!
Participants must bring their own guitar.
Learn how to hold the guitar
proper, strings, read music and have a
recital on the last day of class!
Dates: June 10 -26 (Tuesday & Thursday)
Times: 1-2PM at the Durham
Recreation and Park District Clubhouse! (Rm
70) Cost: $31
If you are interested in any of these
programs, please call 345-1921 for
more information. Or online at: www.durhamrec.com to register for classes.
Haley Ellis
Recreation Coordinator
Durham Recreation and Park District
9447 Midway
Durham, CA. 95938
530-345-1921
"Bringing the community together, one
program at a time."