High Tech Elementary North County

05/23/2019

Please join us for our Elementary School Public Math Lesson Study Event!
The event is free to the public. All are welcome!

Please join us for our first elementary public lesson study event on June 10th, 2019. The lesson study team will be conducting a 3rd grade lesson with Karen Underwood's students from High Tech elementary North County on comparing fractions.

Please RSVP here: https://gse.checkfront.com/reserve/?item_id=66
Where: the Commons at High Tech Middle North County, 1420 W San Marcos Blvd, San Marcos, CA 92078
When: June 10th, 2019, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm

What is Lesson Study?
Lesson study is a form of professional learning that teachers use to deepen their understanding of student thinking. Public lesson study events are a common occurrence in Japan. A group of lesson study teachers, a research team, craft a lesson together to explore an aspect of student thinking – usually guided by a broad research question. (i.e. How can we facilitate rich mathematical discussions in our classrooms?) One member of the group teaches the lesson while the other teachers collect data on student thinking. The research team then share their findings during a debrief and discuss implications for student learning, future lessons, and what they learned about their research question. By making the process public it aligns with what we care about most at HTH - making student and teacher learning visible!

In a research lesson, the lesson is designed by the teacher research team and is considered the group's lesson (not an individual teacher's). However, one teacher ultimately teaches the lesson. Karen Underwood will be teaching the group's lesson for our public lesson study event.

About Karen Underwood
Karen has been teaching third grade for 4 years. She currently teaches third grade at High Tech Elementary, North County. Karen is extremely passionate about mathematics instruction in an elementary classroom and is always looking for innovative ways to improve her own instruction. She regularly leads math-focused professional development opportunities and is heavily involved in the Mathematical Agency Improvement Community- a network of 26 southern California schools focused on supporting student mathematical agency and success.

Sincerely,
The HTH Elementary Math Teacher Research Team
(Karen, Matt, Ruth, Marissa, Alli, Josh, Katerina & Daisy)

04/18/2019

Make sure you stop by the Raptor Store during Village Fest next Friday 26th between 3-7pm to see the samples of our spring items!

Get your order in quick! Deadline for orders is 4/29/19.
Taking orders for
Spring Spirit Wear!

We've added two new items to our store! Check out the the Jersey & Baseball T-shirts. We still have the Classic T-Shirt and PullOver Hooded Sweatshirt available. For this next order we will only be offering the Raptor logo. Orders for Village logo merchandise will be available at the beginning of the next school year.

If you prefer to pay by check, please pick up an order form from your school and submit to the front desk at your school along with payment.

Orders must be submitted by 04/29/19 and will be available for pick up a each school by 05/20/19.

https://form.jotform.com/90938295486171

To order online and pay with a credit card or PayPal, click the button below.
Online Order Form
Our email is:
[email protected]

Please click the link to complete this form.

04/15/2019

Hello Wonderful Families! HTeNC has been invited to participate in an exciting Citizen Science event called a BioBlitz at Cabrillo National Monument on Saturday, April 27th. This event is one of many happening around the county and country on the same day.

A BioBlitz is an event that focuses on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a specific area over a short period of time. At a BioBlitz, scientists, families, students, teachers, and other community members work together to get an overall count of the plants, animals, fungi, and other organisms that live in a place.

The event is open to the public and they are expecting between 8,000 and 10,000 people. Normally, it costs $10 to enter the park, but we are being given FREE ENTRY as a group if we arrive on our own bus. Mrs. Lee is coordinating with Cabrillo to arrange for buses to transport families to and from the event.

This is an all day event! We will likely be leaving between 8:00 and 9:00 in the morning and returning around 3:00/3:30 in the afternoon.

If you are interested in joining us, please fill out this survey by Monday, April 15th, so we can provide an estimated number of participants and arrange for the buses.

We will follow up with more details to the interested families.

For more information on the event, see the following websites:

EVENT WEBSITE
https://www.nps.gov/cabr/planyourvisit/city-nature-challenge-bioblitz-2019.htm

ABOUT BIOBLITZ
http://education.nationalgeographic.org/projects/bioblitz

A BioBlitz is a concentrated effort to discover and document as many species of plants, animals, and other organisms in a certain period. This helps map the biodiversity of a given area and can be used as a tool to measure impacts and changes over time. This “snapshot” of biodiversity is a great...

04/12/2019

We have one final chance to purchase an HTeNC yearbook! Place your order ASAP:

ORDER YOUR YEARBOOK TODAY!Enter your school's information above to get started. ORDER YOUR YEARBOOK TODAY!Enter your school's information above to get started.

04/09/2019

A heartfelt thank you to all the parents who coordinated and donated food during SLC week. Staff felt loved and thankful for all the delicious treats!

03/18/2019

Looking an activity next week when students are released at 12:45pm?

Tempest will donate $10 to HTeNC with every participant who brings in the HTeNC flyer, . Open Gym Sessions:
Monday 3/18 from 4-6pm (7 yrs and up - Parents can participate too!)
Thursday 3/21 from 4-6pm (7 yrs and up - Parents can participate too!)
Friday 3/22 from 6-9pm (7-16 yrs only)
Saturday 3/23 from 12-2pm (7-16 yrs only)
Attend as many Open Gym sessions as you want!
Parents and older siblings are welcome to participate.
Tempest is also offering free trial classes to all HTH (elementary, middle and high school) students. Anyone who signs up for a membership after their trial class will have their $50 registration fee waived and $25 will be donated to HTeNC.

03/07/2019

Another fun STEM event in our community!

03/07/2019

Exiting STEM event on Saturday! Hope to see you there!

03/07/2019

Don't forget to come out today!

02/21/2019

Calling all Breakfast Lovers!

Fifth graders are selling tickets for a very special fundraising breakfast! The students will be greeting, serving and working breakfast at Applebee’s at 573 Grand Ave. San Marcos (across from Winco, Jamba Juice & In and Out). This will take place on Saturday, March 9 from 8am to 10am ONLY.

Tickets are $10 and includes a delicious breakfast of pancakes, eggs, bacon, orange juice and coffee. Have fun socializing with other High Tech North County families!!! This will help us raise the last $1000 needed for our fieldwork to the American Revolution simulation.

There are only 300 breakfast tickets, so don’t skip the most important meal of the day :)

To get your tickets, you may email Ms. Debbie at
[email protected] or Mrs. Roccon at [email protected]

You can also stop by room 137 or 138 at HTeNC.

Thank you for the support!

02/12/2019

Thanks to our families and community partners, our Village Fest last year was a huge success, and we are able to host our 5th Annual Village Fest this spring!

This fun event will be Friday, April 26 and will bring together students, families, friends and teachers from HTH, HTM and HTe.

Your Parent Association is working hard to make it the best event ever. We are bringing back the fun zone & talent show, adding more food options and looking forward to game/activity booths from all three of our schools.
We are looking for community partners to help make Village Fest a success for our HTHNC schools. Here's how you can get involved!

You can donate a service or item representing your business, or an entire themed basket. Items valued at $100 or more will be added to our online bidding website that will be seen by all parents and family of HTH, HTM and HTe students! (All donations are tax deductible!)

Please email us at [email protected] by March 15th if you would like to participate. Thank you for your generosity and support!

02/08/2019

Only 2 more weeks to purchase a yearbook! Place your order ASAP:

ORDER YOUR YEARBOOK TODAY!Enter your school's information above to get started. ORDER YOUR YEARBOOK TODAY!Enter your school's information above to get started.