Welcome to another busy month at school. It is hard to believe that the third quarter is ending this week. We will be having our parent/ teacher conferences on Thursday, March 11 and Friday, March 12 in the afternoon. These will both be half days for students with dismissal at 12:00 noon. Your child’s teacher will be in contact if they feel a need to set up a conference with you. If you are interested in requesting a conference with your child’s teacher, you are welcome to ask for a conference as well. Our kindergarten registration for the upcoming 2010-2011 school year will occur on Friday, March 19, 2010 from 8:00 am-11:00am in the multi-purpose room. Please plan to attend if you have another child joining us in kindergarten next year. Also, let neighbors with incoming children know as well. It is very helpful for us to know how many new students to expect in August. You will find more information concerning kindergarten registration in this newsletter.

Our wonderful PTO has been busy as usual. We are currently in the process of ordering another projector for our school. It will be in our music room where all of our students will benefit from it. Thank you to all of our families for collecting so many box tops. A special thank you goes out to Mrs. Troutman for counting and organizing them all. It is amazing how much money we can earn from box tops, and the classes certainly enjoyed the friendly competition too. The PTO’s carnival themed jog-a-thon is just around the corner. It will take place on Saturday, March 13 in the morning. We will have lots of fun, food, and activities for the entire family. Please join us for this healthy community event if you can. All proceeds will directly benefit our school. As always, thank you to each and every member of our PTO and the large group of volunteers who help make Hendricks such a special place for all of us.

The month of February was a very successful month for our community minded school. The “Hendricks Kindness Coins for Haiti” was a huge success! We were able to donate approximately $750.00 dollars along with 56 personal hygiene kits for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. In addition, we raised approximately $600.00 dollars by the selling of our “Crazy Hair Day” licenses. These proceeds will go for our new summer art program to compliment our newly created library program. Finally, our “Gift of Reading Donor Library” continues to provide our students with their very own books, which they seem to really enjoy. We now have given away close to 300 books and have collected over 1500 books. Please keep the books coming. We are always accepting new books that you can drop off in the main hall. Thank you for your continued support even in these challenging times. It is sincerely appreciated.

Sincerely,