Reminder that today is a half day for PTC. Hillcrest dismisses at 11:15 am. Thanks in advance for having transportation arranged for your students!
The Hillcrest Student Council was back at it again today serving hot chocolate! Thanks for being great leaders in our building and serving others!




First week of swim=success (and lots of smiles!!!)🏊🏻♀️🤿🩳🩱🏊
https://youtu.be/RMqhdT8_WXY
Blast off to our goal of 8,000 books/chapters to earn a pizza party!!!🍕🚀🍕🚀


Graphing Dr. Seuss Style!!
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.
Goldfish multicolor graphing.




Our space theme has made its way into the pool as well!!!


First classes of swim have gone awesome! A huge thanks to Mrs. Tomanek, Coach Hof, and Mr. DuHadway for helping, along with HS swim students.
We are so lucky to have this program for our students!!!!




Check out these cool space bracelets to kick off March is Reading Month! Thanks to a community member for donating them for our students!! Look at those smiles!!




The first day of swim went great! These kiddos get to have swim tomorrow! We are so thankful for these opportunities!!!


We are so thankful to have United Way in our community to help support our students and families! Check out the calendar for March is Reading Month!
https://www.uwgic.org/march?view=calendar&month=03-2022
Tomorrow starts our swim lessons for these classes. We are so excited for them! Please make sure they have suits and towels with them!!


Thanks to APS Superintendent, Stacey Criner, for coming and reading to our classes today to kick off March is Reading Month!!!

Happy March is Reading Month! Let’s BLAST OFF into a great month!!

March is Reading Month begins tomorrow!!! Here is our Kick Off Video! https://youtu.be/I2-Z370oHIo
This week's Staff Spotlight is on Art Faustmann and Kathie Adams. Thanks to these two and all of our staff for all they do for our students!


Effective immediately, APS will follow the new CDC guidelines allowing for unmasking on school buses. For more information go the the following:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/face-masks-public-transportation.html
Swim classes as a part of PE begin Wednesday! Don't forget to pack a bag of essentials to be prepared.
Here are some needs and recommendations:
Bathing Suit
Towel
Bag - to carry wet things back to school after swimming
Hair tie and Hair brush or comb (If students have longer hair, it is beneficial to pull their hair back while they are in the pool.)
Actual Pool Time---35 minutes
Approximate Total Time out of the building is 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Thanks to Mrs. Terres & Mrs. Tomanek for their work on this! We are so excited!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eazb3HIcdyk
Hope everyone is enjoying the snow day today! Stay safe and fun in the snow!!!
Here is this week's Hillcrest Space Station Happenings-February 25th. LOTS going on in the next four weeks!!!
https://www.smore.com/q5a19
Alma Public Schools will be closed on Friday, February 25, 2022.

We had over 90 students sign up for our Chat and Chew and it was a HUGE success!!!! Thanks to all the staff for helping to foster a love of reading with our students!!!📚📕📔

