Presentation to HHH community regarding elementary aspects of the 2009-2010 budget.

1. Half Hollow Hills Central School District Elementary PTA Budget Presentation 3/26/2009

2. Highest Achieving Among the lowest per pupil expenditure

3. Enrollment trend

4. Enrollment Trend

5. Enrollment Trend

17. Dates to Remember Budget Presentation Vanderbilt 8:00 pm Monday, March 23, 2009 Elementary PTA Budget Presentation Manasquan 10:00 am Thursday, March 26, 2009 Public Hearing Manasquan 8:00 pm Monday, May 11, 2009 Budget VOTE H.S. East 7:00am to 10:00pm Tuesday, May 19, 2009 Adopt Budget Manasquan 8:00 pm Monday, April 20, 2009 Secondary PTA Budget Presentation Manasquan 8:00 pm Monday, March 30, 2009 Description Place Time Date

18. Questions, Comments, and Feedback

19. One of the highlights of the elementary students’ year is their trip to the Shuttle Room (now the Discovery Center) to learn all aspects of science through hands on experiments. Tom and Brian have been re-designing the Discovery Center experience to better align it with the grade 1-5 curriculum. They have already started introducing new experiments which will engage students and prepare them for assessments. They will be shifting the focus of the Discovery Center from the Moon/Apollo missions to the robotic exploration of Mars . This summer, they will be building a 15 ft square Martian landscape with rovers that the students will control during NASA mission simulations.

20. With visits from every elementary class, multiple visits from each Middle/High school Earth Science class, and countless presentations to High School core and elective classes, Tom and Brian teach over 12,000 students a year. They have created a number of interdisciplinary programs which illustrate how connected all of our subjects are. Below is a list of some of these interdisciplinary classes: Exobiology (Biology) Spectroscopy (Chemistry) Archaeoastronomy (Global Studies) Planetary motions (Physics) Mythology of the Stars (English) Ancient Astronomers (Math)