The Beginning of the 2011 - 2012 School Year

First Day of School
The first day of school was full of energy and excitement! New kindergarten faces include Brody, Grace, Lexi, and John.

It was great to be together again after the summer break.

Open House

Fall Open House is a time for students, teachers, family and friends to get together at the beginning of the school year. The program included musical numbers from the Fourth Grade and Upper Room Bands and a mini-musical titled "The Ugly Duckling" It emphasized believing in your self.

The following slide show gives a more complete picture.

Better Late Than Never - Part 2

There were a few important events from last school year that needed to be included in our school blog - the Mason's bike drawing and graduation. Apologies for tardiness but at last the posts are here.

Mason Bike Drawing This spring the Mason donated two bikes for the Books for Bikes drawing. Students read for the month of April to earn tickets to be put in the drawing. Levi and Celina were the lucky winners this year.

Graduation 2011

Eighth graders, Tea' and Wyatt, graduated from Hall School this spring along with seven kindergartens Holly, Tyler, Colt, Paytn, Levi, Madison and Jackson. The program included selections from the band, a choral program, prophecies and will from the upper room students, a graduation speaker, and the presentation of diplomas.

Better Late Than Never!!

It seems that there is never enough time and the Hall School blog is very late with some posts of last school year. But like the title "Better Late Than Never!!"

Capitol Field Trip

The upper room studied Montana History and were privileged to go the Capitol in Helena during the legislative session. Also participataing was the fourth grade Social Studies class. They met Lieutenant Governor Bollinger and Representative Vackovich and visited the Supreme Court. It was quite an enlightening day.

In the Lieutenant Governor's office,

the Legislature,

and the Supreme Court.

Stained glass in the Capital building

The Centennial Bell

Sara asking Representative Vackovich a question.
Hall students with the statue of Governor Meagher.

The slideshow below tells more of the day.

I Love to Read Week!

This spring, Hall School celebrated "I Love to Read" week. The favorite day of the week is "favorite story book character". All of the participants pick a character from a favorite book and come to school dressed as that character. The first activity of the day is to gather together and take turns describing our character and see if anyone can guess who we are.
The slideshow shows pictures of some of the characters

Jr. HIgh Trojan Girl's Basketball

Susanna, Ahnna and Te'a participated in Jr. high basketball with Drummond.

Huskies Basketball 2011

The 2011 Huskies Basketball team saw a lot of action this past winter. Skills were improved and friendships made with players from other teams. Back row: Holly, Andrew, Liz, Mikayla, Celina, Kendall, Sara
Front row: Levi, Jackson, Madison, Tyler, Reese, Alec, Rylee

Granite County Spelling Winner!!

Tea', an eighth grader at Hall School, won Second place in the Granite County Spelling Bee held March 1, 2011 at Drummond School. Tea' spelled "intellectual" correct, but it was "unchangeable" that caused her to miss.

Geo Bee Winners

Winners of the Geo Bee Contest held on January 25, at Hall School were Sara, second place and Susanna, first place.

A close up of Susanna's medal

'Read the Rails"

Our second Reading Reward fieldtrip included a visit to Montana Rail Link in Missoula. This educational outing coincided with the Upper Room Social Studies unit on the development of the railways in Montana in the 1800s. Afterwards we enjoyed using our gymnastics skills from our P.E. class at 'Mismo Gymnastics"

Learning about safety around railroad tracks.

Visiting the shop.

Gymnastics at "Mismo"

New Flute

We are the proud new owners of a flute! We have been collecting labels with Labels for Education, a program through Campbells Soup. We accumulated 29,500 in order to have enough. Now that's a lot of soup! It took a long time but we are so thrilled.

Cookie Sale

A recent tradition started at Hall School is our Annual Cookie Sale. It is held in December to coincide with the need for holiday baking. We were very successful and are grateful to the support of our community. Susanna helps with cookie sale.

What a variety of goodies!

Christmas Program 2010

On December 16, 2010, Hall School students presented their Christmas program. Along with the play, the lower room bells and recorders; and upper room band members performed several numbers. "Elves Gone Missing", all of the students had a part in the play

which was written by Mrs. Mogus

Recorders played by Mikayla and Liz; bells played by Alec, Kendall

Savanna and Reese.

Recorder players Celina and Rylee

Upper room band - Shiloh, Ahnna, Mrs. Mogus, Sara, Te'a,

Susanna, Ryan and Wyatt.

A Christmas time tradition - a visit from Santa.

Madison sat on Santa's knee to share her Christmas wishes.

The slideshow has more pictures