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Standing Committees and Special Committee Programs are:

    Appreciation and Recognition
  • Teacher/Staff Recogniton
  • Teacher Appreciation Week

Grounds and Beautification (See an Update)
Membership (See an Update)

    Volunteers (See an Update)
  • Copy Room
  • Room Parent & Volunteering in the Classroom

INDIVIDUAL COMMITTEE UPDATES:

Chess Club (Top of Page)
Great news from the Virginia Scholastic & Collegiate Championships: our chess team won 8th place out of 22 teams in K-3 session. This is an annual state wide chess championship. There are over 400 students who played in the championship held at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg last weekend.

The Twin Hickory team had three members playing in the tournament. With 100+ players in the K-3 session, Jacob Thomas won 4th place trophy, Nathan Wu won 9th place trophy and Nicholas won 72nd place. We're so proud of them. Congratulation to Jacob, Nathan and Nicholas!!! You all did a fabulous job!!!
(updated Mar 10)

Earth Savers (Top of Page)
We have added a new recycling program in the cafeteria! Terra Cycle program. This program collects used Capri Sun and Honest Kids drink pouches and Frito Lay snack/chip bags. We send these to a company and they donate $.02 for each pouch or bag to a charity or school of our choice. If you are interested in more information, you can follow this link http://www.terracycle.net/brigades/1-Drink-Pouch-Brigade . There is a designated area in the cafeteria to deposit these materials

Central Virginia Waste Management Authority CVWMA, will hold an electronic recycling event at the Ukrops on John Rolfe Parkway from 9-2 on April 24. We will gather items in the carpool loop at Twin Hickory from 9-11 and transport goods for you. If you want to bring your items, please check this link for guidelines. We will take anything that does not require a fee. http://www.cvwma.com/recycling_programs/electronics.wbp

We are continuing to gather used tennis shoes in a box located in the school lobby. We donate these to a program called One World Running. Shoes in good condition go to a person in need and other are ground up and made into running tracks.

Field Day, May 28th, is going to have a GO GREEN! theme this year. Our club is excited to be a part of making this day a great success!

Earth Week is April 19-23rd. We will have activities for the week. To prepare yourself, start saving coins for our 3rd annual Time for Change drive sponsored by World Wildlife Fund. Each class will gather change and the winning class receives prize. We also encourage a litter less lunch day. You can prepare for that by visiting www.wrapnmat.com to find a new way to pack your sandwich each day. More details to follow.
(updated Feb 10)

Heroes Club (Top of Page)
This month, the Heroes Club will be collecting supplies for the Richmond SPCA over the course of the next couple of weeks. Supplies needed include dog/cat food, treats, toys, and old towels and blankets. Donated items can be placed in the box located in the front lobby of the school before March 31st. Please support the drive as well as encourage your child(ren) to inform their family, classmates, and neighbors to contribute.
(updated Mar 10)

Arts in Education

Reflections Program (Top of Page)

Science Lab (Top of Page)

After School Enrichment

Grounds and Beautification (Top of Page)
I am pleased to report that the weather cooperated 100% on Saturday and thanks to our many volunteers we had a very successful beautification event. We made great progress in the first couple hours with plantings and mulch and were largely complete by 3:00. Following our work, the beds now traverse the entire schoolfront and I believe make the school significantly more inviting.

While I hope everyone will soon be able to see the finished product in person, I have attached the following link to pictures of the areas completed Saturday. For reference, I also included some before pictures as well.
http://picasaweb.google.com/christopherrdebusk/THESchoolBeautificationFa...

Many thanks to our parent and Key Club volunteers as well as Lowe's & Colesville Nursery for their support of plant material and supplies at cost. If you have opportunity to support these businesses, please do so as they have really come through for our school!
(updated Nov 09)

PTA Membership (Top of Page)
Congratulations Twin Hickory! We did it again....100% PTA Membership for the 2009-2010 school year. We will be having a school wide celebration with a movie and popcorn in the near future. Thank you for everyone who supported your THE PTA.
(updated Dec 09)

Memory Book (Top of Page)
Do you have some great pictures of the Fall Festival? The first day of school? That cute kindergartner holding a huge cupcake? Submit them to the memory book website!! Just follow these simple instructions:

Go to https://images.jostens.com/

Enter the User Name: 400001986

Enter the Password: Blazer

Follow the simple uploading instructions. Come back and upload your school-related pictures often!! Without your pictures, there would be no memory book...
(updated Dec 09)

Student Directory (Top of Page)
If you have any corrections, or have just joined Twin Hickory’s community, please contact Robin Yarow via email at ryarow@yahoo.com. I will include updates and changes in the monthly PTA Pipeline.

Volunteers (Top of Page)
Beginning Monday, January 11th through Monday, January 25th, folks can once again submit names of volunteers that they would like to recognize at Twin Hickory during the 2nd nine week period. They can submit names in the purple box labeled "STAR VOLUNTEERS" located in the main office or by emailing me at mikedebbeam@aol.com. Names will be posted on the PTA Bulletin Board & listed in the Pipeline.
(updated Jan 10)

Box Tops for Education (Top of Page)
CLIP-SAVE-SUBMIT
Thank you to everyone who submitted Box Tops for Education this year. Our final total for the year was 6,590 box tops submitted and $659 received from General Mills. We collect Box Tops for Education year round and save them for submission to General Mills in October and February. Please continue to clip, save and submit box tops. You may send box tops in to your child’s teacher or deposit them in the collection bin in the front lobby of the school

Congratulations to Mrs. Wells and Mrs. Baker’s classes for winning our Box Tops Collection contest. Their classes turned in the most box tops during the contest period for grades K-2 and 3-5 respectively. Their classes will enjoy an ice cream party.

Remember that these great brands all carry the Box Top for Education symbol: BETTY CROCKER, FIBER ONE, CHEERIOS, CASCADIAN FARMS, CHEX BRANDS, NATURE VALLEY, ZIPLOC, PILLSBURY and more. Go to this link for a complete list of participating brands: http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/clip/Brands.aspx

Please clip, save, and submit.
(updated Mar 10)

Business Partnership (Top of Page)
A huge Trailblazer "Thank You" goes out to our wonderful sponsors for the 2009-2010 school year! Gold Level Sponsors are Nathan's Roofing Repair, Virginia Physicians, Inc., HOCOA of Richmond, Dr. Christian Tabor, DMD & Dr. Frank Iuorno Jr, DDS, and Skye Bruce Properties, LLC.(updated Mar 10)

Sponsor Nights