What’s Good in the Neighborhood, May 9, 2022

This weekend, I pondered the question, “What does it mean to mother?” For many years, I “mothered” students, nieces/nephews, godchildren, and my pets.  I made great efforts to love them, nurture them, and support them in who they were and who they would become. As our country celebrated Mother’s Day yesterday, you might have reached out to folks who are mothers in the traditional sense in your life. As you consider what it means to “mother”, I wonder if there might be any other people you might want to contact and share gratitude for in your life? What might you say to them?  How might you acknowledge them?   To all of our mothers, mother figures, moms to children, moms to dogs or cats, moms with or without partners, children of moms, etc., I hope you had a wonderful Mother’s Day this weekend (and the days to come)!

Have a great week!

–Dr. Shyla.

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Noteworthy Upcoming Dates:

 

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Spring Fling THIS SATURDAY, 12:00-4:00

Join us THIS SATURDAY, May 14 from 12pm-4pm, for our City Neighbors Hamilton Spring Fling!

• Purchase lunch from Two Guys Grill food truck

• Play carnival games

• Buy plants for your garden

• Dunk each other (and some staff) in a dunking booth

• Pie staff or family members in the face with whipped cream pies

• Enjoy an open mic presented by our talented students and families

• Soak in the beautiful weather with CNH friends and family!

We are looking for volunteers to help out!  Please reach out to Kate Funderburk (kateking0216@gmail.com) if you are interested!

CNH Gear Day – We will have CNH logos ($5 each) to print on t-shirts (or any fabric item) that you bring.  We will also have some surprise gear for you to purchase on-site!

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Board Elections

Have you cast your vote for the Board Elections? It’s not too late and we need to hear from you! Please take a minute (really, it only takes one minute) to select your choices for the 3 open Board positions and fill out the online ballot via the link below. You may vote once for each child you have currently attending CNH. It’s important every family gets their voice heard – please vote TODAY!

VOTE HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4DF13AC09Pa_Uba72scRDOgOPwNfbFqY6woznbDNLNpm-5g/viewform?usp=sf_link

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Frank’s Pizza Fundraiser THIS WEDNESDAY! 

🍕 Dinner this coming Wednesday night is COVERED! Frank’s Pizza and Pasta, a family owned restaurant a few minutes north of CNH on Belair Road, is having a fundraiser night for our school this Wednesday, May 11th.

🍕 Dine in or carry out, from 12pm – 8pm and bring the flyer, below, OR just be sure to mention “City Neighbors” when placing your order, and Frank’s will donate 15% of the proceeds to our school! For every cannoli purchased, Frank’s will donate an additional dollar.

🍕 Eating delicious Frank’s pizza to raise money for our school? It’s a tough job, but we think you’re up to it.

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A Letter From Incoming Principal, Jabari Bush

Hello CNH Friends and Family,

It is with great excitement that I share this letter of introduction with you as the new Principal of City Neighbors Hamilton. Throughout my 15-year career within the world of public education, having served in both instructor and administrative roles, I am thrilled to have the opportunity to lead a school with such a rich tradition of progressive education! I have had the honor of working with students ranging in age from 1st grade through post-college. Most recently, I served as an Assistant Principal at City Neighbors High School for 5 years. While I loved my experience as a high school administrator, my true passion has always been focused on creating strong learning foundations for students in the elementary and middle grades.

I am very eager to meet you all and am looking forward to building strong relationships as I work to partner with students, parents/guardians, and the community at large.  As partners, we will work together to ensure student success by focusing on character education initiatives, art integration, and after-school extra-curricular programming. One of my biggest areas of focus will be on the intentional use of authentic student data to drive instruction and to provide consistent implementation of our project-based, arts-integrated curriculum in a rigorous manner so that we can continue to increase all of the students’ achievements.

Over the next several weeks, I will be working with Mr. Mike Chalupa and Dr. Shyla Rao to ensure a smooth transition at the end of this school year. If you see me around the City Neighbors campus, please feel free to say hello, ask me any questions that you may have, or just offer a kind word of encouragement.   As the summer nears, I will reach out again more formally to find times that we can all connect and begin planning for the year and years ahead.

Again, I look forward to working with and alongside you all. Be kind. Be safe. Be well.

Jabari Bush

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Spring Gallery Night

Wednesday June 1, 2022 from 6:00-8:00pm.

Join us as we gather in person to celebrate the students and their hard work.

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2021-2022 CNH Yearbook

We are so excited to share the return of the CNH Yearbook. Keeping with tradition, we had students submit their own cover designs and held a vote to determine the winner. Rowan McCabe’s colorful digital drawing will be highlighted on the cover this year. All student cover designs will be included and celebrated in the yearbook, as well. Thank you to all of the amazing student artists. Sales of the 2021-2022 CNH Yearbook are now open. Yearbooks will be distributed during the last week of school–June 13-15. 8th graders who order a yearbook will receive theirs at graduation.

Order Your Copy:  Order Form (http://tinyurl.com/CNHyearbook2022).

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MCAP Testing Schedule

Make sure your Middle School students come with charged Chromebooks and headphones each day, please!  It’s also important that all students get a good night’s sleep the night before each of their testing days. We will do our best to minimize the stress of testing and to help them remain centered and calm throughout each day.

May 2022

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Family Participation Hours

Scan this QR Code to log your hours!

Please see the note below from our Family Participation Committee Chair:

My name is Kate Funderburk and I am the Family Participation Committee chair.  I am looking forward to getting to know more of you and working in this new role!

I am also very excited that the kids are all back to in-person learning!  With that being said, here is a great opportunity for you to log the hours that you spent assisting and working with your child during virtual school!  You can follow the link below to record these hours.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckDqipbD2BH1PJOO2nooxTPFqv_QtMliV-4mzsavh1cMAjMw/viewform

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me for any questions regarding your family’s participation hours: kfunderburk@cityneighborshamilton.org.

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Get Your CNH Gear!

Come to Spring Fling this weekend to make your own gear, or order gear and other products in the link below.

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Donations to the School

If you would like to donate money to the school (for any reason), the easiest way is through our PayPal account. If you want your donation to go to a specific fund or activity (general educational expenses, technology, arts, etc), please note it with your donation.

PayPal Donate Button on Website: http://cityneighborshamilton.org/

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Helpful Links

• School Website

• Student Handbook

• School Calendar

• Log your Family Participation Hours Here

• Before and After Care Information and Payment Links