Activities

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After School Enrichment (ASE)

The After School Enrichment program needs volunteers for the first week of classes for both the fall and spring semesters. Volunteers will help direct Kindergartner and 1st grade students to their ASE classrooms. The volunteer time would be from 2:35-3:00 during the first week of classes. You can do as many or as few days as would like. Contact Beth Perkins to help with this event or for more information.

Art Enrichment (Volunteer positions for this program are currently filled)

Our art appreciation program allows our children to experience the arts by highlighting masterpieces! Our bulletin board and educational materials are rotated throughout the year and are exposed to every child. Volunteers assist with bulletin board creation, research and activity planning that is made available to the teachers.

Art Room Volunteer

Indulge your inner artist by helping with the Hill Art Department! We are looking for volunteers to help in the art room, organize art displays, and assist with special art projects throughout the year. Contact Mrs. Perry (art) at 841-8092 for more information.

Birthday Banners

Help hang birthday banners in the cafeteria after morning assembly once a month. Time commitment is 8:00 – 8:45 AM once a month. Or learn the ropes of creating birthday banners in preparation for next year! Beginning in January 2012, you learn how to create banner layout, insert individual images, print out banners and add ribbons. Time commitment is about 4 hours per month, beginning in January. Making banners is BIG FUN!! Contact Terri Banda.

Birthday Book Club

Celebrate a child’s birthday or honor a friend by participating in the Birthday Book Club and donating a “birthday book” to the library. For an $18 donation, you can select a book to be permanently added to the school library collection. A bookplate dedicating the book to that special person is placed in the front inside cover. Contact Kristen Nilsson or Karen Kershaw to help with this activity of for more information.

Box Tops for Education (Volunteer positions for this program are currently filled)

The Box Tops Committee is responsible for collecting and submitting Box Tops for Education and Labels for Education. The Box Tops Committee encourages students to submit Box Tops and Labels by having class level prizes and individual prizes awarded through random drawings. Volunteers are needed to help collect and sort the Box Tops and Labels and to help solicit prize donations. Questions or to volunteer, please contact Terry Geld.

College Days

Every Monday at Hill is College and Career Day! Our goal is to build excitement
about continuing one’s education and the future professional experience for
all students. At our morning assembly, parents, teachers and friends have the opportunity to speak about their own college experiences and/or the passions
they have for their professions. Through the testament from adults around them,
we hope to inspire and encourage our students to follow their dreams and reach
for the stars. If you are interested in participating in this exciting time for our
kids please contact Jill Brumley, Kindergarten teacher.

Culture Committee

The Culture Committee will be organizing events and activities to celebrate the many cultures represented in the student body at Hill. This is our first year as a “formal” committee and we are very excited to learn about all of the cultures at our school! If you have an interest in other customs, practice your own cultural traditions and would like to share them with others or love to travel and share what you know about the world, please contact Leanna Gilliam.

DILLO Dads

The DILLO Dads is an informal group of Hill Elementary fathers that meets one a month during the school year to discuss topics concerning our school and to learn about volunteer opportunities.  We usually get together for coffee and doughnuts on the first or second Friday of every month in the multi-purpose room.  Please contact Robert Young if you’d like to find out more.  Everyone (Moms, Dads, and Teachers) is welcome to attend!!!

Gift Cards/Dollars for Dillos

Join the DILLO Donations committee to help publicize this program, send donor receipts and do anything else needed to organize our biggest fundraiser of the year! Contact Betsy Greytok or Allyson Townsend for more information.

Grade Level Parent

A volunteer in each grade will serve as the coordinator of all the Homeroom Parents for that grade. You will work closely with the grade-level teachers to help organize classroom parties and events and will also work with the PTA to coordinate school-wide events. Contact Celeste Roll for information or details.

Hill Grounds

We are looking for a grounds Co-Chair person and volunteers.
The chair would have to organize maintaining and clean up efforts of the school’s landscape, check on the sprinkler system and work together with our DILLO Dads. The ideal opportunity for everyone who likes to get his hands dirty. Contact Henrike Belz to help with this committee or for more information.

Hospitality

The hospitality committee coordinates teacher breakfasts, luncheons and various other refreshments for meetings/events throughout the school year. They also provide birthday cakes each month to celebrate teacher and staff birthdays. If you can help with these events or if you can bake or provide a birthday cake sometime, please contact Pam Rugeley or Heather Thacker.

Library Volunteers

With the graduation of last year’s 5th graders, the library lost quite a few long time volunteers. Now is your chance to become a part of the indispensable crew of “library angels!” Why not choose a volunteer time slot near drop off or pick up when you are at school anyway? Or another idea is to choose a time slot near lunch time and eat with your child either before or after a fun time in the library!
Contact Mrs. Pustka for more information.

Literacy Library (Volunteer positions for this program are currently filled)

The Literacy Library is a small library for the teachers use only. The teachers use this library to help our children learn to read. Volunteers are needed to assist with checking out and checking in books and assisting with occasional audits. There maybe some other small projects we may need help with. We would like volunteers who can commit and work one consistent day each week for approximately one half hour or shorter. Times and days for volunteering on this committee are very flexible! Contact Jayne Rosso Jackson at 342-0983

Marathon Kids / Dillo Dash (Volunteer positions for this program are currently filled)

The Marathon Kids Program strives to incorporate healthy diets and active lifestyles in the daily routines of the children at Hill Elementary. We are looking for volunteers who would like to help encourage the kids to stay active, monitor and reward their activity & help plan/organize a 1K family fun run in the spring. If you know of widely-recognized athletes/coaches/mentors that would be available to come speak to the kids at a morning assembly, please let us know! Contact Wendy Garner for more information.

Math Buddies Program

Learning math is fun when you have a friend to help you along!  Join this fun and rewarding program –all it takes is 30 minutes, once a week!   You will work with the same student each week, helping them to gain skills and confidence in math.  We work with your schedule to find a convenient day/time during the school day.  It is amazing how a little one-on-one time can make a huge difference for a child!  We provide math games, worksheets, and manipulatives, as well as training and ongoing support.  The Math Buddies Program runs from mid-October through April, and serves students in K – 3^rd grade.   For more information, call Amy Kulik at 589-2225 or email us at mathbuddies@hillelementary.com .

Math Pentathlon

Last year, over 20% of Hill students chose to stay after school and PLAY MATH GAMES.  This takes lots of volunteers, so PLEASE help!  Math Pentathlon teaches math skills and logical thinking using games.  In the spring, students have the opportunity to play these games in a competition with students from other schools.  We need volunteers on Wednesdays from 2:45-3:30 to help teachers supervise the games.  Volunteers will help students understand how the games are played and develop new strategies as they become more proficient.  Training will be provided, you do NOT have to be good at math, it is really fun and easy, and you can help at any grade level K-5.  Email mathpentathlon@hillelementary.com for information.

Mentoring

Do you have a little extra time that you could spend with a student in need? Get involved in Hill’s mentoring program and spend some time with a child to enrich their day and help them in their learning. Contact the Hill Counselor, Jan Phillips, to volunteer with this important program.

New Parent Coordinators

Are you new to Hill? Would you like to meet other new parents or take a tour of the school? These events are coordinated by our new parent coordinators. Contact Amanda Cagle to help with this program or for more information.

Partners in Education (PIE)

Would you like to become a Partner in Education? The PIE program is a citywide program that strives to match individual schools’ needs with businesses that can meet those needs. Hill is fortunate to have so many of them! We are looking for someone to chair this area. Contact Chris Miller or Beth Ellis to help with this project or for more information.

Recycling

Recycling committee needs volunteers for Sock Hop (set and clean up of reusable cups), HILL Carnival (Recycling Patrol), and Activity planning for Earth Week. Contact Henrike Belz to help with this project or for more information.

Room Parents

Get involved in your child’s classroom!  This is an opportunity to help your child’s teacher with special classroom activities, parties ,etc.  If you would like to be a room parent, please contact Celeste Roll.

School Office Assistants

Tracking day-to-day operations and paperwork of 700+ students can be quite a challenge!  To show appreciation for our wonderful Hill staff, the PTA helps to organize office volunteers.  These volunteers are needed to help with copies and distribution of Wednesday folder flyers as well as answering the phones, greeting visitors, assisting children with questions and anything else that is helpful to the office staff.  It is a great way to meet people and know what is going on at the school.  If you can help, please contact Kellie Trinidad.

Science Fair

Science Fair Judges Needed!

The Hill Science Fair will be Thursday morning, February 2 and we need your help! The 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders are exercising their scientific minds and working hard to develop their experiments, demonstrations, and collections. This is a wonderful opportunity to witness firsthand the creativity and pride our Dillos show when they present their projects. No science background needed – we’ll provide guidance on how to judge the science fair projects. If you have any questions, please contact Kristi Metzger or Holly Jurbergs, Science Fair Coordinators.

Staff Member of the Week

We love our teachers and staff!  Each week we will spotlight a couple of staff members on the bulletin board.  This will help everyone get to know them better.  Contact Lilliana Jackson to help with this project or for more information.

Teacher Helper

Got a few minutes?  Got a free morning?  Looking for some way to help from home?  Become a teacher helper.  Parent volunteers assist teachers with projects, including copying, cutting and laminating, to give our teachers more time to do what they do best.  Volunteers are trained on the ins and outs of the teacher workroom.  Many hands make light work!  Contact Tracy Johnston-Henneke to volunteer or for more information.

Website

Our PTA maintains this Web site containing valuable information for students, parents and teachers regarding the happenings at Hill.  This is our main source of providing important notices to keep everyone informed.  Contact Nguyen Stanton for questions or to help with the Web site.

Yearbook

Our PTA puts together an amazing yearbook to commemorate each school year at Hill.  It requires taking lots of pictures to document the year as well as time to organize and edit the book.  We are also looking for a co-chair for this area. If you can help with this wonderful keepsake for our kids, please contact Eva Nichols to be a part of this memory-making project!