Hilltop Happenings Newsletter

• 10/12 Holiday
• 10/20 4th Grade Musical
• 10/22-10/23 5th grade Rock Eagle Field Trip
• 10/30 Book Character Parade 8:00 AM/Fall Festival 5:00 pm
• 11/3 Remote Learning Day for students
• 11/5 Bookfair Kickoff 3:30-5:30 pm
• 11/11 1st grade and Chous Veteran's Day performance Milton Community Church 6:00 pm
• 11/18 Thanksgiving Feast Grades PreK, K, 3 and 5
• 11/19 Thanksgiving Feast Grades 1, 2, and 4
• 11/23-27 Thanksgiving Break

Dear Families,

This week, we proudly celebrated Georgia Pre-K Week by welcoming several special guest readers to Summit Hill! Our youngest learners enjoyed stories shared by Lillie Pozatek, Fulton County Board of Education Member; Dr. Kibbey Crumbley, Zone Superintendent; and Officer Scott Sanford of the Milton Police Department. We are grateful to these community leaders for helping foster a love of reading and making the week so memorable for our Pre-K students.

As we head into the long weekend, we wish all of our families a wonderful Monday holiday and an enjoyable three-day weekend!

Warmly,

Stefi

Congratulations to our PAW Winners for the week!

Tate Hotard

Gracen Williams

Kathleen Coulter

Raven Sedgwick

Harper Gould

Elizabeth Carey

Luke McQueen

Pace Allen

Nolan Scholes

Norah Bowen

Emery DeCanio

Olivia Lara

Bennett Jackson

Reid Holland

Margot Hykes

Meera Kanaparthi

Charlotte Larkin

Evie Kwiatkowski

Everett Channon

Lylah Song

Dylan Greer

Mila Anderson

Wilder Hoffman

We have had a great week of labs this week welcoming Kindergarten, 2nd and 3rd graders for their second discovery lab!

Kindergarten- We explored our 5 senses with a taste test! We tried flavors including sour, sweet, spicy, bitter and salty and voted for which flavor we liked the best. Next, we used our sense of touch and sound to make a hypothesis on different materials in a hidden bag. We also talked about depth perception and played a game to see if two eyes were better than one!

2nd grade- We explored the three phases of matter, including solid liquid and gas with an experiment for each phase of matter! We created carbon dioxide with vinegar and baking soda to blow up a balloon and discussed how different gases contain different amounts of mass. Next, we created butter from pure cream and observed the changes in the matter as the phase hardened! Last we discussed, the different amounts of viscosity different liquid liquids contain and ended our lab with a liquid race!

3rd grade- We explored many different types of water, pollutants and what they represent in our lakes, ponds and oceans. Each group got to use many different materials to pollute their individual pond such as micro plastics, oil, food crumbs. Feathers and dirt. We then discussed the importance of a filtration system and several different material materials that can be used as a filter including rocks, sand, sponges, coffee filters and each group designed their own filter to clean their pond water!

Summit Hill Elementary invites enthusiastic students in grades 3 through 5 to showcase their love for technology in a local competition happening the week of October 26th. The top project will advance to the Fulton County Technology Fair.

Interested? Visit the Summit Hill website, navigate to the Media Center, and sign up by October 16th. You can participate individually or with a partner, and we encourage you to develop your project at home. All entries will be judged in the Media Center.

Please note: This is a student-only event.

Fall Festival is coming up on Friday, Oct. 30 from 5–7 p.m. on the S.H.E. backfield! Admission is FREE for all S.H.E. families thanks to the Husky Fund. Join us for Trunk or Treat, bounce houses, games, Musical Cakes, a haunted school bus, food and more! We need your help to make it happen: Sign up to host a trunk or volunteer, donate store-bought desserts for Musical Cakes, and send in one bag of candy with each of your S.H.E. students (if you’re not hosting a trunk). Visit the Fall Festival event page for sign-ups, donation details, FAQs and everything you need to know!

The S.H.E. Book Fair is coming Oct. 30-Nov. 12! Students will visit the Book Fair during their Media specials time to buy books using cash or their eWallet. Mrs. Howard would love extra hands to help them find books and check out. Volunteer slots are organized around the Book Fair buying schedule so you can volunteer with your student’s class if you’d like. Proceeds help fund S.T.E.A.M. Day & Night. Thank you for your help! SIGN UP HERE.

ALERT: We continue to work with Membership Toolkit to restore the PTO email distribution list. We kindly ask that everyone who registered for MTK this year logs in to MTK to review your family info and update your family’s communications preferences for PTO emails, and hit Save. This should restore your place on the email list.

Membership Toolkit —> Update My Account —> Communication Settings

You can also join our SHE Parent Group Me and follow us on Instagram and Facebook, as updates are shared in those channels as well.

Remember that Yearbook Cover Art Contest submissions are due to Mrs. Elder, by Friday, Oct. 23. This year’s theme is ONE TEAM. ONE DREAM. Students are invited to show what this theme means to them through artwork featuring Hero the Husky—working together, dreaming big, showing school spirit, helping a friend, or being part of a team.

HUSKY FUND HIGHLIGHTS

Once a month, teachers are greeted by the Happy Cart before school. Our first Happy Cart of the year was a Caffeine Cart, giving S.H.E. teachers and staff a boost after a long weekend. The October Happy Cart made its rounds this morning. Funded by your Husky Fund donations, Happy Carts are one way we show appreciation for the people who do so much for our students. Thank you for making it possible!

Morning carpool is from 7:10 to 7:40. Your child is never tardy when they ride the bus!

Families may use the Cowart Road entrance for student drop-off between 7:20 a.m. and 7:40 a.m., after all buses have unloaded students. For safety reasons, this entrance is available only once the buses have completed unloading and have cleared the drop-off area.

Afternoon dismissals from 2:20 to 2:45.

Child absent? Please email attendanceSHE@fultonschools.org.

Change of transportation? Please email SHEtransportation@fultonschools.org.

If you would like to eat lunch with your child, lunch visitors are welcome. You will need to check in at the front office with your driver's license then meet your child at the cafeteria. You may eat outside in the Husky Courtyard or on the stage. You may eat with your child only, and not other students. The door to the courtyard will always remain locked for safety purposes, but a staff member will let you in the building when they see you at the door.

The District 2 Community Meeting schedule has been set for the 2026-2027 school year. Please make plans to join Board Member, Lillie Pozatek at community meetings this year.

🏳️ SPIN WITH THE EAGLES 🦅
Calling all K-8 kids! Come spin with the Milton HS Colorguard and perform at halftime of the HOMECOMING game under the Friday night lights! ✨🏈

📅 Practice: Thursday, Oct 15, 6:00-7:30 PM
🎉 Performance: Friday, Oct 16, Homecoming vs. Alpharetta
📍 Milton High School
💵 $75 includes your event t-shirt 👕, a flag to keep 🏳️, pizza dinner 🍕, and game admission 🎟️
🙌 No experience needed, just bring your school spirit!

👉 Sign up at miltonband.org/spin

You're invited to the Third Annual Cambridge High School Homecoming Parade & JamBEARee on Thursday, October 15, from 5–8 p.m. at Cambridge High School.

The Bear Backyard opens at 5 p.m. with food trucks, carnival-style rides, games and activities, followed by the Homecoming Parade at approximately 6:15 p.m. Afterward, the Cambridge Band, Cheer and Dance teams will help fire up the crowd as we head into Friday night’s Homecoming game. Admission is free.

For additional event details and information about participating in the parade, please visit:

Cambridge Homecoming JamBEARee Website

Join us to Cheer on the Eagles!

October 16 at 5:00.

October 29 at 5:00.