First day of 5th grade
Posted by Michelle on Jul 27, 2009 in Hayley
Hayley’s report on the first day of school = “it was awesome” and “omg we started learning algebra and N equaled 8, it was SO cool”.
Photos: Last day of 4th grade!
Posted by Michelle on Jul 1, 2009 in Hayley
The kiddo is a 5th grader now! She took her camera to school on the last day of school again and took photos and video of her day.
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Almost a fifth grader
Posted by Michelle on Jun 25, 2009 in Hayley
At the pool earlier tonight. Just a few more days until the monkey is a 5th grader! She met her teacher for next year today and we are really excited.
Photos: Scrabble shirts
Posted by Michelle on May 27, 2009 in Hayley, Michelle
This is totally dorky of me but two kids from Hayley’s scrabble club ended up winning the national scholastic Scrabble tournament! They had on their club shirts that I designed for the tournament AND for their appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live out in LA – it was that big a deal! (read more about them Cary Boys win national Scrabble tournament.
from TV screenshots:
My Field Trip To Old Salem
Posted by Hayley on Apr 17, 2009 in Hayley
Old Salem
First of all I should tell you what chaperone group I am in. The chaperone that I was with was Justin’s mom. So when we were on the unguided tour we went to the Brothers tavern first and we saw how girls would get colorful ribbons to show if they were married, engaged, looking for someone right, or even still to young to marry.
The next place we went to was the printers and it had a printer that they mint have used in the old days. Then we went to the bakery and bought some stuff. I bought a Dr. Pepper and then when I left the bakery I opened my drink but when we decided to go to the doctors house we didn’t know that we couldn’t bring in drinks so I drank the whole can of Dr. Pepper when I had just started to drink it.
But anyway inside the doctor’s house we saw all the metical stuff the doctor would use to operate on his patients. See when the doctor came to your house to operate on the sick one your kitchen table would become his operation table so you would lay on the table and be operate on and then when it was all over you could gently get off.
After that we had lunch and since it was pretty cold that day, the people that worked at Old Salem tried to give everyone in the 4th grade a nice warm sunny place to sit and eat lunch. So then after lunch some of the chaperones were taking some kids to the gift shop and I bought some things like a pen for my mom and a little journal for me then once we all were done with the gift shop we got back on the bus and went back home.
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Scrabble Club (updated)
Posted by Michelle on Mar 19, 2009 in Hayley
Updated with two photos from the tournament in Chapel Hill many of the kids competed in… (I designed the shirts for the club!)
Jump Rope for Heart fundraising
Posted by Hayley on Feb 19, 2009 in Hayley
Hi to my friends and family. I am doing a Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser for The American Heart Association. I am doing this b/c our principal Ms Willard had a heart attack and I want to help raise money in honor. She means a lot to us. I have other family members too who have had heart problems and this is for them too.
Can you please help me raise donations to help out? You can donate online here: My Jump Rope for Heart donation page or you can send my Mom a check.
Thanks for your help!
Hayley’s photo selected a school winner!
Posted by Michelle on Dec 4, 2008 in Hayley
Salem Students and Parents,
We were thrilled with this year’s Reflections Submissions. WOW, we received a record number of entries (more than 6 times what we got last year). It is so fun to see our Salem Students’ talent and
creativity. Thank you for entering. All of you will be invited to a special breakfast after the holidays (details TBA) where we’ll display and return the projects.
The school’s judges (teachers and staff) were allowed to choose 24 projects to send to the Wake County level. Below are the students who were school winners:
Hayley Hillison
(I removed the other names…)
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She didn’t win on the County level but that’s ok! We are so proud her for her hard work and winning at the school level!! We don’t know which photo it was but we’ll post when we do.
Related post: Hayley’s amazing photography entries for Reflections contest
Photos: Cold before school
Posted by Michelle on Nov 19, 2008 in Hayley
We woke up this morning to a distinctly colder temperature. The kids even got some flurries at school. I was messing with my camera phone and took some cute photos of Hayley in her adorable hat and scarf. (And yes, she picked out that completely unmatching shirt and pants – and then insisted on sleeping in it. That’s 10 for you.)
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Hayley’s amazing photography entries for Reflections contest
Posted by Michelle on Nov 6, 2008 in Hayley
The National PTA Reflections Program is an arts recognition and achievement program for students. The Reflections Program provides opportunities for students to express themselves creatively and to receive positive recognition for original works of art inspired by a pre-selected theme, while increasing community awareness on the importance of the arts in education.
(she’s not smiling because this is her serious artist look, haha)
Hayley is entering two of her photographs from the beach for a school based art competition. Recognition is great but this was more about creating something. We had a great time doing it and you know when your ten year old thanks you repeatedly for doing it, you know you are on the right track.
Getting some good photos for the competition was something we worked on at the beach. The theme for this year’s competition is ‘WOW’ so we figured we’d have some good wow things down there. She’s got a great eye and is completely comfortable using my big Nikon.
This was a great process for her to go through – setting up shots, looking at light and perspective, picking the good shots (25 down to 12 down to 2), editing them (cropping and brightening/contrast) all her decisions on how to do it. The moment she picked them up at the print shop was really neat, she was beaming.
We mounted them on canvas, put them in protective sleeves. Then I had to fill out 4 pages of stuff and she had to work on her part – titles and she had to make an ‘artist statement’ for each on how the work connect to the theme. I put the photos and her ‘statements’ below.
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
My photo called Cape Hatteras Lighthouse shows how tall the lighthouse is when you take a photo looking up at it. It has 268 steps up it and I climbed them. It is the tallest lighthouse in the United States. It is 208 feet high and weighs 4800 tons.
It was built right after the Civil War in 1870. In 1999, it was moved because the ocean was going to move up around it. It looks like it could crush you to move anything that tall and big.
The lighthouse says WOW to me because it is big, tall, historic and beautiful.
Wild Foal
My photo called Wild Foal is of a young horse eating grass in the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
I went in an open top Jeep through the beach and sand dunes to see the wild horses that live near Corolla. This horse is one of the wild horses that are descendants from the Spanish mustangs brought by explorers almost 500 years ago. The herd roams free and there only about 100 wild horses in the herd.
I saw this one particular foal by itself eating in a beautiful open area and I thought it was WOW because it lives in the open and can roam anywhere it wants to. It has its all the dunes and beach for its home. By law you can’t get more than 50 feet close to them so my picture is as close as you can get to this amazing beautiful animal.
