What's Happening

HCDE's School Health division has provided guidelines for registering your child for the 2010-2011 school year. Please go to the Downloads tab for details including required immunizations and other documents needed for registration.


CALLING ALL PLASTIC ITEMS

Want to help create a sculpture? Donate any of these items to our art teacher for student use in an upcoming project:

PLASTIC items* such as lids, containers, cups, bowls and toys of solid color from the following products: food, laundry detergent, beauty, baby wipes, school boxes, tea/kitchen play set, beach/pool/yard toys, garden toys, hula hoop, jump ropes, dust pans, play doh, and miscellaneous: yard hose, ice trays, koozies...Take a look on the Downloads tab at the Trash2Art flyer for more ideas!


Battle Academy's Student Government Association collected $501.20 for Haiti in only three days! Donations will be divided between the American Red Cross and the Children's Nutrition Program of Haiti. When everyone Gives a little, a lot can happen!
Battle Academy Dance Team Tryouts

K-2nd grade auditions will be held on February 8th from 3:25-4:25.

The team is limited to 20 students.

Parent Consent/Emergency Contact and Rules and Expectation forms are due the day of tryouts but preferably before. The deadline has passed for Teacher Recommendation Forms to be turned in.


UPDATE - DRAMARAMA in the Bigtop - UPDATE

Be a clown, learn to juggle, walk a tight rope, and tickle your “funny bone” (or someone else’s) all while building your beginning drama skills: expressive use of body, voice & imagination; and learning some FANTABULOUS drama strategies including pantomime, characterization & improvisation.

Taught by Scott Rosenow, MFA Creative Drama/Children’s Theatre, DRAMARAMA is designed for grades 1 & 2, with a maximum enrollment of 20 students in each rotation.

  • First Grade Rotation One: Mondays beginning January 25;
  • First Grade Rotation Two: Mondays beginning March17;
  • Second Grade Rotation One: Wednesdays beginning January 27;
  • Second Grade Rotation Two: Wednesdays beginning March15;

Each class will begin at 3:00 and end at 4:30pm in the Battle Academy Forum. Each rotation will end with a special sharing time for family and friends at 4:30 pm (final class session).    A notice will be sent home this week indicating the dates of your assigned rotation.


Around Battle...

The new members of the SGA Safety Patrol started their duties, 4th grade e3 students were incredibly excited about the activity Ms. King introduced to them, and Mrs. Turner made friends with one of Battle's youngest family members (he's only 12 days old!) all in one short hour on January 12.


PLAYGROUND USE AFTER SCHOOL

Please remember that School Age Child Care uses our playgrounds between 3:30pm and 6:00pm.  Children not in SACC may not be on the playground during those times.  We appreciate your cooperation as we follow our guidelines; children not in SACC and their families are welcome to use the south end of our campus for after-school play.


"In the end, there is no program or policy that can substitute for a mother or father who will attend those parent-teacher conferences, or help with homework after dinner, or turn off the TV, put away the video games, and read to their child."

--President Barack Obama, 2/24/09


Parents, please look at our dress code on the Downloads tab and make sure your kids are in uniform each day. Undershirts, if worn, must be white; children wearing other colors will be asked to remove them. Shoes should be designed for a busy day rather than for fashion; it's a busy day in a big building and on the playground, so shoes must be tied at all times. Backless shoes, sandals, open-toe shoes, and boots are not allowed for safety reasons. Thanks for helping us as we begin a new school year! As the weather changes and jackets are needed, please remind your children that outerwear may not be worn outside their classrooms except at recess. Hooded sweatshirts are not allowed.


BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION

Earn cash for Battle by clipping 10¢ Box Tops coupons from hundreds of General Mills products and partnering brands, like Cheerios®, Betty Crocker®, Hefty®, Juicy Juice®, Ziploc®, Kleenex® and many more! Find a complete list of products with Box Top coupons here: http://www.boxtops4education.com/AboutBoxTops/Products.aspx


Visit www.bethere.org for information about being there for YOUR child!

Battle has received grant funding in the amount of $5,600.00 from the Tennessee Arts Commission for Arts Integration & Studio Projects that will occur during and after school throughout the school year.

Battle has received grant funding in the amount of $7,000.00 from Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga to support Arts Integration & Studio Projects that will occur during and after school throughout the school year.

This website sponsored by Battle Academy's PTA.

Visit the PTA's website at

http://TeacherWeb.com/TN/BattleAcademy/PTA

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