Campfire Alaska is proud to announce a new child care service offered
to the parents of K-5th grade students at Polaris, child care on Half
Wednesdays! Students are picked up by Campfire staff at 12:15 and
taken on a field trip until 3:15, we then offer regular program until
6pm. This service costs nothing extra to parents of campfire attendees
and all field trip fees are covered by us! We still have part time and
full time openings, if you’d like more program information you may
reach Polaris Campfire directly at 677-6741 from 2:45pm-6:00pm
or if you are ready to enroll your child you may call the Campfire Office
at 279-3551 extention 6.
-Jasmin Smith
Site Director of Campfire Polaris
Please congratulate Jonathon Weinfurter, Nikki Navio, Sam Friedman, and Allison Ducker for a job well done! There were 11 teams participating today at Service High in the Anchorage H.S. Battle of the Books competition. The questions were tough and our team did an outstanding job. It should be noted that with the new school schedule and intensives our team did not have a great deal of time to prepare. However, they really came together, worked hard and it showed!
Audrey, Polaris K-12 Librarian
Everyone is invited to the annual Spaghetti Dinner ala Chef Ken Newkirk 5-7 pm Friday Feb 1st in the MPR. $5 in advance or at the door. Contact Kim at kimp@gci.net to help. Bring some extra money to bid on student-created vases being auctioned to benefit the Art program and small change for the Pennies for Patients kick-off.
2008 is a big year to exercise one’s voting rights. Voter registration forms are in PFD booklets and students can register 3 months before their 18th birthday.
Terra Nova testing for 5th and 7th graders will be in the mornings on Tues Feb 5 and Wed Feb 6. Three parents are needed each morning 8:15-11 am to relax & read outside the testing rooms. Contact Kathryn at Smith_Kathryn@asdk12.org or Kitte’ at mvh@gci.net.
Tour 8:30 am Wed Feb 6.
Advisory Board meets at 5:30 pm and Parent Forum at 6:30 pm on Wed Feb 6 in the Library.
Polar Palooza concert to support the African intensive projects 7-10 pm Fri Feb 8 in the MPR. Open to secondary students for $5 each.—CANCELLED
Polaris hosts College Goal Sunday 2-4 pm Feb 10 to help seniors and their families fill out the FASFA. Contact Michelle or Andrea Van Ravenswaay, Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education at 269-7973 or andrea.van.ravenswaay@alaska.gov for info or to help.
Literary Magazine and Yearbook seek submissions.
Prom tickets for the Masquerade Ball at the airport ARR Depot 8 pm-midnight Sat April 19 go on sale for $25 single/$40 double.
All of next week from Monday, Jan. 25th through Friday, February 1st Polaris will be participating in the district surplus give away. A table will be set up across from the library. Please take what you want! This is a great opportunity to add to your home library or gather supplimental materials for practice. Any leftover materials will be sold at a district garage sale in the spring. Go to: http://www.asdk12.org/events/Surplus/ to see what other schools are giving away. You may visit any of these sites too and take materials from their surplus listings.
Enjoy!
Audrey
GAMEathon 3:30-6:30 pm Fri Jan 25 in the MPR. Secondary students are invited to bring games, video consoles, laptops, boardgames, cards, etc to play in a fun atmosphere with friends, pizza, fruit & vegies. To ensure adequate table and electrical support, parent organizer Barry Steinkruger and Siri’s Advisory request that students sign up outside Siri’s room with type of game and which friends will be playing your game. Contact Barry at 441-2526 or bvea@alaska.net.
See Michelle or Carol to be an ambassor for Polaris K-12 at the ASD Alternative Fair in Boniface Center 10-4 Sat Jan 26.
Parents interested in volunteering meet 3:15 pm Tues Jan 29 at the Library.
The annual Spaghetti Dinner is on for 5-7 pm Fri Feb 1st in the MPR! Contact Kim Pigg at kimp@gci.net to help with this fun community event. Prepaying your $5 per person helps plan enough yummy goodness for all. See flyers for details.
Pennies for Patients also kicks off Fri Feb 1st with a school-wide goal of raising $3000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society by early March. Bring in your pennies, nickels, and dimes to toss into Tammy’s office. More details from Nurse Patty soon….
Report Cards are available to parents, or with written parental permission, in the Office.
Check out the photos & info about the Polar Theater and 1994 renovations for our school now on this webiste thanks to Ty who took the Polaris History Intensive. Send additional historical items or stories to Kitté at mvh@gci.net.
Remeber 6-12 students come only for their advising & registration time slot on Tues Jan22.
Auditions for the Drama Club’s spring musical production of “How to Success in Business Without Really Trying” will be after-school Wed, Thurs, Fri Jan 24-26.
GAMEaton Fri Jan 26 3:30-6:30 in the MPR. See posters for details.
Helpers for the Alternative Fair on Sat Jan 26 10-4 at the ASD Education Center sign up with Carol or Michelle.
The Polaris K12 site is back up. Very sorry for the downtime — our hosting provider (Dreamhost) was apparently having issues. On the plus side this is the first outage (at least that I’m aware of) that we’ve had since we put the site up.
Thanks for your patience and we hope you continue to enjoy the Polaris K12 Parent Form blog!
Second Semester Secondary Class Schedules and Descriptions are now available on PolarisK12.org. There is also some information on secondary registration written by Siri. To access the page, click here or click on the link under the Menu section on the main page.
Pencil donations welcome in the Library.
Liz wishes to thank everyone for the Polarian Award. Thank you, Liz, for all you do!
Space Cadets!
Presented by the New Vaudeville & Physical Comedy Workshop Intensive
Polaris K-12 and TBA unite once again in deep space! In this thrilling physical comedy farce, a group of intergalactic space cadets crash land on the prison planet Polaris 7, the home of interplanetary space pirate Zenob Omega. The laughs keep coming as Zenob Omega tries to steal the Space Cadets’ rocket. Will the cadets earn their stripes by foiling this most notorious of space villains? Make plans now to join us and find out!
Recommended for all ages.
Performance Times:
Fri, January 18, 7:00 pm
Sat, January 19, 2:00 & 7:00 pm
Performance Location:APU’s Grant Hall E.R. Brown Auditorium
All tickets are $5 and are available at the door
Third quarter schedule & course descriptions were posted below on Jan 5, 2008. Secondary students meet with Advisors and register at designated times on Tues Jan 22, with no regular classes that day.
Parent & student ambassadors needed for the Polaris table at the ASD Alternative Fair at Boniface Education Center on Sat Jan 26. See Michelle or Carol.
If any of you have a supply of pencils (logos are O.K.) we would love to have them for the library. Classes go through these quickly and our supply has been depleted. Please drop them off any time!
Thanks!
Audrey