July, 2007 Dear Parents, I would like to welcome you and your child to an exciting year in fourth grade at Highland School. It is going to be a great year and I am looking forward to having your child in my classroom. I appreciate and enjoy parental assistance and feel that you and I should work together as a team in the best interests of your child. If you have one or two hours a week that you would like to volunteer in the classroom, please let me know.In addition, I need some very special helpers. The Art Masterpiece program is an exciting opportunity for parents to get involved. A volunteer parent is trained and then visits my classroom once every two weeks to present a great masterpiece. The presentation normally lasts about fifteen minutes. I need one volunteer to do this. We also need to have at least one"official" room-parent to help coordinate with our parent-teacher group. We are also needing parents who may have a interest of expertise in science or math to help with some special new programs. We have a very active student council here at Highland, and the class will be electing two officers and two alternates to attend the meetings. If you think that this is something your child may be interested in, discuss it with them and let me know. Our elections will be held shortly after the beginning of school. One final note: Personal toys, gum and expensive items should be left at home by your child. Please help me by not allowing your child to bring such items to school. Thank you in advance. I look forward to working with your child this school year! Sincerely,Shelly Brown P.S. Please mark your calendar for Thursday, Aug. 9th "Parent Meet the Teacher Night". This is for parents only starting at 5:30 p.m. Students have already met their teachers on "Moving Up Day" back in May. School begins for students on Monday, Aug. 14th. See everyone then!   Nice to have supplies: large pkg. of white lined paper for 3 ring binder (binder supplied by teacher) art suply box (large enought o hold all supplies labeled with name large box of colored pencils colored markers (to be donated to classroom supplies) scissors #2 pencils glue 2 gluesticks 2 black Sharpies - thin 2 black Sharpies - medium one or more boxes of Kleenex