Posted
Sep 16,
2011
Each year our Hopkinton schools provide a wish list of items they could use in their classrooms. It would be greatly appreciated if you could provide some of these items.
Posted
Mar 28,
2010
The Hopkinton Public Schools’ Wish List continues to grow.
Center School –
•Large area rug (approx 10’ x 12’ or larger)
•Paper lunch bags
•Sponges (scrubby ones would be best)
•Dish drying rack with drip tray
•Black Sharpie markers (fine point)
To view the complete Wish List, click on www.hptaonline.com/wishlist.html.
Posted
Jan 31,
2010
Dwindling budgets mean dwindling teaching supplies.
Check out the growing list of items Hopkinton teachers are wishing for. You might even have a listed item in your house that you’re not using! From glue sticks to furniture and so much more…
Check it out at http://www.hptaonline.com/wishlist.html
Posted
Nov 29,
2009
Special thanks to the following people and companies that have helped to make our schools a really great place: The Hopkinton Womens Club, The Hudson Family, The Wojcik Family, The Ritz Family, The Garden Gate Florist, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan White, Mrs. Jean Bertschmann, The Lukas Family, The Coffman Family, The O’Rourkes and the many, many families who asked to remain anonymous.
Wishes granted so far: dress-up clothes, books, art supplies, double file cabinet, double stroller, umbrella-type stroller, piano, blender, clip boards, plants, Dr. Jeans CD set, colored pencils, Sharpies sets, floor cushions, Thomas the Tank Engine items, computer speakers, and containers of paint samples.
Faculty and Staff Wish List Updated 11-29-09
Help support our teachers by providing classroom items that fall outside the budgeting process. If you have any of the items below to donate to the Hopkinton Schools, please contact Celine Chabot O’Rourke (508-435-3612 or celinie_2000@yahoo.com), who will help facilitate the donation.
Integrated Preschool:
- 1 Umbrella-type stroller
- Small electronic tabletop computers for preschoolers (ie: V-Tech)
- Miscellaneous art collage materials (feathers, sequins, buttons, etc.)
- Wallpaper books
Center School:
- 2 dozen used tennis balls
- floor cushions/pillows
- “Magna-Cards” (magnets that adhere to business cards, usually found at Staples or other office supply stores)
- Assorted geoboard bands (colored rubber bands in various sizes, used with math geoboards)
- Glitter paints
- New or gently used Sony Discmans + headsets
- AA batteries
- Art supplies: fine tip Sharpies, white card stock paper, any color regular copy paper
Elmwood:
- Clothes with large buttons, zippers or snaps to practice dressing skills
- Relaxation CDs
- ¾ size Yamaha guitar with nylon strings and a spare set of ¾ size nylon strings
- Fine motor skills toys (jacks, pick-up sticks, Play-doh, self-harding clay, Koosh and stress balls)
- Baby Wipes
- Sturdy cafeteria trays/cookie trays (for holding clay sculptures)
- Plants – live, hanging, and standing floor types
- Blender
Hopkins:
- Hand sanitizer, tissues and Lysol/or Clorox wipes
- Art supplies: rolls of masking tape and recycled items like shoe boxes, paper towel and toilet paper rolls, and yogurt containers with lids
- 2 Blenders
- Fine, black Sharpie markers
- Clip boards
- 3 small dry erase/whiteboards (2’ x 3’) or one large (roughly equivalent to the small 3 boards)
Middle School:
- Blender
- Wall-mounted, clear plastic file organizers
- Electric pencil sharpeners
- Bookcases
- Locking file cabinets
- Flashlights
- Office chairs
- Playstation 2’s
- Magazine subscriptions: Kid Zone, Highlights, Mad Kids, SI for Kids, Nick
- Cassette tape player/recorder
- Pillows (for sitting on the floor)
- Set (25) small (approx. 12 x 18) laptop white boards
- Boxes of tissues
- Cough drops – cherry mentholated, sugar-free or regular
High School:
- MP3 players (ie: 5 SanDisk Clip, 2gb)
- Samson CO1U USB Condenser Mic (or another type of microphone that fits Dell computers)
- Scanner for student work
- Hand-held flip camcorder
- 200-count Crayola markers – school pack
- Hand-held and computer microphones (Shure SM 57 or SM 58 for hand-held; any kind for computer)
- Band lesson books (Accent on Achievement; books 1, 2, & 3)
- Orchestra lesson books ( Essential Elements 2000 series; books 1 & 2)
- Dictionaries
- Tripods, film SLRs, and digital cameras
- Boxes of tissues
Posted
Oct 5,
2009
The Wish List has been updated for the 2009-10 school year.
Integrated Preschool:
- Small electronic tabletop computers for preschoolers (ie: V-Tech)
- Miscellaneous art collage materials (feathers, sequins, buttons, etc.
- Wallpaper books
Center School:
- “Magna-Cards” (magnets that adhere to business cards, usually found at Staples or other office supply stores)
- Assorted geoboard bands (colored rubber bands in various sizes, used with math geoboards)
- Glitter paints
- 100 tennis balls (new or used, to put on the legs of desks)
- New of gently used Sony Walkmans + headsets
- New or gently used Sony Discmans + headsets
- AA batteries
- Art supplies: fine tip Sharpies, white card stock paper, any color regular copy paper
Elmwood:
- Clothes with large buttons, zippers or snaps to practice dressing skills
- Relaxation CDs
- ¾ size Yamaha guitar with nylon strings and a spare set of ¾ size nylon strings
- Fine motor skills toys (jacks, pick-up sticks, clay. Now I could use play-doh, self-harding clay, koosh and stress balls)
- Baby Wipes
- Sturdy cafeteria trays / cookie trays (for holding clay sculptures)
- Computer speakers
- Plants – live, hanging, and standing floor types
Hopkins:
- Hand sanitizer, tissues and Lysol/or Clorox wipes
- Art supplies: rolls of masking tape and recycled items like shoe boxes, paper towel and toilet paper rolls, and yogurt containers with lids
- 2 Blenders
- Fine, black Sharpie markers
- Clip boards
- 3 small dry erase/whiteboards (2’ x 3’) or one large (roughly equivalent to the small 3 boards)
Middle School:
- Blender
- Wall mounted, clear plastic file organizers
- Electric pencil sharpeners
- Bookcases
- Locking file cabinets
- Flashlights
- Office chairs
- Playstation 2’s
- Magazine subscriptions: Kid Zone, Highlights, Mad Kids, SI for Kids, Nick
- Cassette tape player/ recorder
- Pillows (for sitting on the floor)
- Set (25) small (approx 12 x 18) lapttop white boards
- Boxes of tissues
- Cough drops – cherry mentholated, sugar free or regular
High School:
- mp3 players (ie: 5 SanDisk Clip, 2gb)
- Samson CO1U USB Condenser Mic (or another type of microphone that fits Dell computers)
- Scanner for student work
- Hand held flip camcorder
- 200-count Crayola markers – school pack
- Handheld and computer microphones (Shure SM 57 or SM 58 for handheld; any kind for computer)
- Band lesson books (Accent on Achievement. books 1, 2, & 3)
- Orchestra lesson books ( Essential Elements 2000 series. books 1, & 2)
- Dictionaries
- Tripods, film SLRs, and digital cameras
- Boxes of tissues
Wish List Updated 11/9/09
Posted
Sep 14,
2009
You can help support our teachers by providing classroom items that fall outside the budgeting process. If you have any of the items below to donate to the Hopkinton Public Schools, please contact Celine Chabot O’Rourke, who will help facilitate the donation.
Be sure to check our website (
www.hptaonline.com) for up-to-date Wish List information and to see what wishes have already been granted!
Hopkinton Public Schools Faculty and Staff Wish List
Everyday items
- (3) Sm. dry-erase/white boards (2×3) or 1 lg. roughly equivalent size to 3 sm. (for Hopkins Weather Station)
- Clipboards 8.5×11 size (up to 30 needed)
- Pillows for MS students to sit on the floor (up to 30 needed)
- Sketchbooks – new or gently used with blank pages remaining – 8×10, 9×12
- Back issues of National Geographic magazine
- (6) Clear plastic storage containers (approx. size: 16×22 and about 12” deep)
- Hand sanitizer
- Magazine subscriptions – Nick, SI for Kids, Highlights, Mad Kids
- Quality pencil sharpeners
- Large storage containers
- Dr. Jeans CDs (appropriate for Grade 1)
- Dictionaries
- Cotton batting
- Preschool books, books on tape
- Bubbles
- Kids’ dress-up clothes
- Bags of play sand
- Fabric scraps
- Comfy floor pillows, arm seats, or bean bags
- Velcro – hard and soft for the Integrated Preschool
- Poster board (white and/or colored)
- Open-top plastic containers (slightly bigger than a shoebox)
- Fine motor games of any kind for OT Dept. (jacks, pick-up sticks, yo-yo’s, small motor toys, Play-doh, mall pin ball games, etc.)
- Wet Ones for cleaning hands after art classes
- Swiffer Dusters for computer keyboards/electronics
- Clothes w/lg. buttons, zippers, or snaps to practice dressing skills
- Relaxation CDs
- New or gently used sports/ fitness equipment of any kind for physical therapist. Balls, bats, weights, etc.
- Dominoes & other board games (ages 10+)
- (100) Fine black Sharpie markers
- (200) 16-ounce plastic cups
- Full spectrum fluorescent lighting
- Hand blender
- An 8 x 10 rug
- Human Body in Action and The Eyewitness Video Human Machine DVDs for Health class
- HUSHHUPS noise abatement covers for chairs
- Handheld and computer microphones – contact Wish List admin. for details
- 200-count Crayola markers — school pack
- Tape Players/ Recorders
- 2gb SanDisk Clips
- Playstation 2 consoles
- (2) Two-drawer filing cabinets with locks
- New or gently-used Sony Walkmans
- New or gently used Sony Discmans
- Batteries and headsets for Walkmans and Discmans
- Extra DDR (Dance, Dance, Revolution) pads for the Middle School Phys. Ed. Dept
- Portable wire ball cart for Center School P.E. Dept.
- High quality CD/tape player w/remote control function
Extra special requests
- Animation tools for HS art department – contact Wish List admin. for details
- Piano(s) for MS Music Department – contact Wish List admin. for details
- Computer projector
For further information or to make a donation, please contact Wish List Administrator
Celine Chabot O’Rourke at 508-435-3612 or
celinie_2000@yahoo.com.
In accordance with School Committee policy, gifts in excess of $50 must be made to the Hopkinton Public Schools, rather than to an individual teacher or staff member. If a receipt is necessary for tax purposes, the donor should submit a letter stating the item donated, and fair market value, to the principal of the building to which the donation is made. The building principal will forward the letter to the School Committee, which will accept the donation on behalf of the schools, and return the accepted letter to the donor for their records.
Wish List
School Committee Gifts Policy
In accordance with School Committee policy, gifts in excess of $50 must be made to the Hopkinton Public Schools, rather than to an individual teacher or staff member. If a receipt is necessary for tax purposes, the donor should submit a letter stating the item donated, and fair market value, to the principal of the building to which the donation is made. The building principal will forward the letter to the School Committee, which will accept the donation on behalf of the schools, and return the accepted letter to the donor for their records.
Faculty and Staff Wish List
Help support our teachers by providing classroom items that fall outside the budgeting process. If you have any of the items below to donate to the Hopkinton Schools, please contact Celine Chabot O’Rourke, who will help facilitate the donation.
Wishes granted so far: mail box cubbie/mail sorter, art supplies, tennis balls, relaxation CDs, baby wipes, disinfecting wipes, large potted plants, floor cushions, card stock, modelling clay, standing floor fan, for starters…
Special thanks to the following people and companies that have helped to make our schools a really great place: The Hopkinton Womens Club, The Willett family, The Grady family, The Ritterbusch family, The Nelson family, and The Snelson Spiegel family, Chabot-O’Rourke family, and the many, many families who asked to remain anonymous
