Pine Hill Community School Association
CSA News: Week of January 26, 2012 PDF Print E-mail

Coming Next Week -- Raffle Tickets for our Fabulous Raffle Baskets!

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Thank you to all who so generously donated items for our popular raffle basket auction!  The baskets are all chock-full of terrific items and we know the kids will be very excited for the raffle.  Please watch your child's backpacks NEXT WEEK for the raffle ticket forms!

Click here for a flyer detailing the class basket themes and other relevant info.  

Contact Carrie Martin at  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with any questions!


Please Come to Our Fundraising Brainstorm Party Thursday, February 2nd!fundraiser

Drop by for a bite and offer your suggestions for successful fundraisers for Pine Hill to the CSA.  We are looking for ideas and volunteers. For example, a Family Fun Run in October is on tap!  Your ideas are really important to us-we would love to hear them!  We're holding two meetings on February 2,  (one day, one evening) so that everyone has a chance to attend.

The morning meeting is scheduled from 10 to 11 in the Pine Hill Dining Room. The evening meeting is scheduled from 7:30pm to 9:00pm at the O’Connells (17 Goulding St East).

Please RSVP to  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  to let us know if you'll attend the morning meeting (RSVPs to the evening meeting can be done through the evite). We look forward to seeing you!

Fund for Excellence Update

Thanks to many generous Pine Hill families, we've raised $13,385 from 65 donor famlies for the Fund for Excellence. To donate by check or money order, please download our donation form and send your contribution to Pine Hill CSA, PO Box 51, Sherborn, MA 01770.  Or, even easier, just hit the donate button to the right of this page and make your gift online.  

Your generosity helps our children continue to strive for excellence!

Thank you to everyone who has contributed to date* to the

2011-2012 CSA Fund for Excellence!

Keith and Megan Abbett

Anonymous

The Baroody Family

Denise Barry-Cinamon

The Bendremer Family

The Bruce and McKenna Family

The Buehler Family

The Churney Family

The Cichocki/Ostrowski Family

The Dailey Family

Amee Dhoria

Michele and Terence Driscoll

The Embree Family

Time and Gloria Fallon

The Foster Family

The Fredell Family

The Gardner Family

Dave Goganian and Tish Gogan

Gary and Betsy Goldberger

The Grace Family

The Graf/Phillips Family

The Grosek Family

Matthew and Merrilee Guarini

Megan Hall and Steven Scrimshaw

Mr. and Mrs. Doug Hodge

The Hovey Family

Madeleine Jeune

Brian and Paula Johnson

The Kaplan Family

Xiaocang Lin & Huaying Chi

Carly and Tim Maher

Mary Ellen and Alexi Makkas

The Mangeym Family

Scott and Carrie Martin

Kirsten Mayer and Craig Ceol

The McKenna Family

Melissa and Michael Messier

Brendan Monagan

Hank and Julie Murphy

Martha Murray

Sam and Sandy Niles

Tom and Elizabeth Orent

The O’Connell Family

The Panagoulias Family

Yatish and Patricia Patel

Jeff and Jeannine Phillips

Kate and James Potter

The Rauch Family

Catherine Rocchio and Sean Garrett

William Rockett and Maureen Bernsee

The Russell Family

Ka Chun Sin and Ngan Foon Chan

The Sharpe Family

The Stiller Family

Stephen Tate and Qing Dong

John and Nancy Thompson

Itisha and Amit Venugopal

The Walsh Family

David and Wendy Welch

Martha and Tony White

The Whitlock Family

Feng Zhang

*as of January 26, 2011

Enrichment Update 

This month the “Understanding Our Differences” program is being taught at Pine Hill for the first time.  The program, designed for 2nd grade students, is addressing “Physical Disabilities” in January and in March the children will learn about different “Learning Disabilities.”  The overall message is that “We are more alike than we are different.” 

This wonderful program, taught for more than 20 years in the Newton Public School system and for the past 10 years at Chickering Elementary in Dover, teaches our children to be more inclusive and understanding of those that may be a little different than they are. 

Our second graders will also enjoy a special presentation on Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad this month.