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8th Grade Graduation Party Contributions
The 8th Grade graduation party is only a few months away. The graduation party costs approximately $30 per student. If you have not contributed yet, you can either send in a check or contribute online.
To contribute on-line via PayPal, simply click on the the button:
Portrait of an Eating Disorder
notes from a presentation to Hillview eighth graders by Dr. Tonja Krautter
“Anorexia has the highest lethality rate of any psychiatric disorder, including depression and substance abuse,” said Dr. Tonja Krautter, a licensed clinical psychologist and licensed social worker who specializes in childhood and adolescent issues. Speaking to Hillview’s eighth-grade classes last week, Dr. Krautter explained that anorexia nervosa is an extremely aggressive disease that snowballs quickly – patients can experience life-threatening weight loss in a matter of months. “And the longer the person has the illness, the more likely it is that he or she will die from it,” she says. To help define and understand the disease, Dr. Krautter outlined the following signs and symptoms.
Beyond Facebook - The Dangers of Social Mapping
Parents need to be aware of a new kind of social networking called social mapping. These free, downloadable apps, including Loopt, Foursquare, and Gowalla, use geographic information to connect people to each other and to places. Unless privacy settings for these programs are set to the highest level, these programs can basically tell users where your child is. To learn more, click the following link from Common Sense Media:
Parent Volunteers Needed for 7th Grade Renaissance Faire
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The 7th Grade Renaissance Faire is March 25, 2010. Parents are needed to help in the following areas: 1) Day of Faire Volunteers - involves supervising a booth and booth workers, helping to ensure that the Faire runs smoothly. 2) Sewing volunteers - Mr. Rogers and Mrs. Thompson need sewers, sewing machines and anyone willing to help students cut out patterns, pin cloth, etc. 3) Mr. Hicks and Mr. Kaelin need help with Arts and Crafts, i.e. making pouches, potpourris, embroidery, etc. Students also have a list of costume requirements they need to bring when their sewing rotation begins. Please review the attached costume list, and fill out and return the attached volunteer forms asap! Thank you!
The Path To Addiction
notes from a presentation to Hillview 8th graders by Dr. Stephanie Brown
“You will, sooner or later, be faced with making choices,” said Stephanie Brown, PhD, speaking to an audience of Hillview eighth graders last week. Dr. Brown, a psychologist, author, and former Hillview student, is an internationally recognized specialist on addiction.
“Addiction is not just a behavioral problem,” she says. “It is a thinking problem. We develop a distorted perception about what we are doing. We rationalize it.” Dr. Brown speaks to Hillview students, as she has been doing for nearly 20 years, to help them understand and identify the behavior patterns and faulty thinking that can lead them into addiction.
What is Addiction
Dr. Brown explains that addiction – whether to alcohol or other substances, has many components.
- emotional – the addictive substance changes the way that we feel. In the beginning, we feel normal without the substance, but better with it. If we continue to use the substance, however, we begin to feel worse.
- physical - we need more and more of the substance over time to achieve the desired effect. If deprived of the substance, the body shuts down and goes through withdrawal.
- mental - we experience an intense craving for the substance – we must have it now.
- behavioral – we lose control and have no limits. We are unable to stop using or ingesting the substance even continuing to use it causes negative consequences, or problems, in other parts of our lives.
PE Updates as of March 7
- Valuables: if valuables are brought to class (cell phones, money, jewelry, iPods, etc.), we STRONGLY URGE students to lock them in lockers and not to leave them in backpacks. It would be better if these items were not brought to class in the first place. We also remind students to take care of clothing. The lost and found is getting very full again with clothes. They will soon be donated to a local charity if not claimed.
- Current units in Phys Ed classes will be Ultimate Frisbee/Tennis Court Soccer/Indoor Hockey. Fitness activities will continue on a regular basis Thursdays. 7th graders have begun state-mandated fitness testing.
- Students interested in joining the “Noah and the Shooting Arc” Club are welcome to attend. Club meets on Friday mornings before school from 8:00-8:30. Students will be able to practice basketball shooting while “Noah” talks to them.
- Questions regarding Phys Ed should be directed to Mr. Bell (hbell@mpcsd.org) or Mr. Imura (eimura@mpcsd.org) Phone: 326-4341 ext 2811 and 2812.
Help, There's a Tween in My House!
Notes from a presentation given at Hillview by parenting expert Joe Connolly
One night, at exactly 8:30pm, you tuck your happy, compliant child into bed, wish her sweet dreams, and watch as she drifts to sleep, secure in the knowledge that you, her wise parents, are there to answer all her needs. When she wakes the next morning, you are stunned to find that she has turned into a moody adolescent who argues with you, refuses to listen, wears strange clothes, has strange friends, doesn’t want to go to (or get out of) bed, has weird eating habits, and probably either won’t get into, or out of, the shower. “What happened?” you agonize, wondering if perhaps you insisted on broccoli with dinner one too many times, and your child has finally snapped. But no. According to parenting expert Joe Connolly, the truth has nothing to do with vegetables. Instead, your child has entered The Tween Years.
“The tween years, roughly ages 10 to 18, are transitional years during which kids struggle to move from the dependence of childhood to the independence of adulthood,” says Connolly. “The scale of this change is so significant that there is only one other time in our lives in which we change more – the transition from infant to child that takes place around age two.” And, like the “terrible two’s,” the tween years can be much the same in terms of the frustration of the developing child, and the resulting confusion and consternation of the parents. According to Connolly, all of the bizarre behaviors we often begin to experience from our previously delightful children are normal. “Tweens are different than we are,” says Connolly. “Kids act the way they do because that is how they are supposed to be acting. Our challenge is how to deal with it.”
2009-2010 Hillview PTO Committee Volunteer Sign-Ups Are Underway!
Support the great programs here at Hillview by signing up to volunteer on-line. You may sign up for as many committees as you wish. Signing up electronically is easy:
Hillview PTO Newsletter Sign-up
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Welcome to the Hillview PTO website!
We're excited to unveil our renewed website, which provides important reference information for Hillview Middle School parents, teachers and students, related to all Hillview PTO Activities, Committees & Programs. Most scheduled events and activities can now be found in the Hillview Calendar. Other key information like Forms&Flyers and After School Sports can be found through the Navigation Menu. Stay informed about your child's core class via the Class Room Pages, also under the main Navigation Menu.
Access is restricted to verified parents and the Hillview teachers and staff. Please create your new account, log on to our new website, and create a new User Profile. Once you have activated your 2009/2010 User Profile, you will continue to receive the Hillview Weekly Newsletter via email on a weekly basis. Since our website is new, New & Returning parents alike need to activate their 2009/2010 User Profile.
