Soccer and Basketball Tryouts
Due to forecasted rain on 12/4, we need to reschedule some of our tryouts for soccer and basketball. There will be no tryouts on 12/4. Please review the schedule below for the dates and times for all remaining tryouts:
Friday, December 6th
- Boys Basketball 3:00-4:00
- Girls Soccer 2:15 – 3:15
- Boys Soccer 3:30-4:30
- Junior Coed Soccer 2:15-3:15
If students are trying out for boys basketball or soccer, they should go home after school and return for tryouts at the scheduled time due to our early dismissal on Friday.
Monday, December 9th
- Girls Basketball 3:30-4:30
- Co-Ed Soccer 3:30-4:45
Tuesday, December 10th
- Co-Ed Soccer 3:30-4:45
- Co-Ed Basketball 3:30-4:30
Wednesday, December 11th
- Co-Ed Basketball 3:30-4:30
Please email kristin.baltierra@cvesd.org or gina.mazeau@cvesd.org if you have any questions.
We want to take this opportunity to express our gratitude for our entire Hedenkamp community! Our students are kind, hard working, respectful, and understanding. Each student in his or her unique way contributes to what makes Hedenkamp an amazing place to be! Thank you for sharing your children with us. We are so fortunate to be part of their academic and social journey! Our staff is the best around! We are so grateful for their commitment to our students. Their passion for bringing out the best in each of our students is inspiring! Our parents devote time, talent and resources to supporting our work with our students! Whether it is through volunteering at school events, donating items and funds to events at school or serving on our PTA, ELAC, SSC, or Ensemble boosters! We appreciate your partnership! We love our Husky Family! We are so grateful for all of you! We look forward to welcoming you back to school on Monday, December 2nd at 8:45 am.
The Chula Vista Welfare Council, the Chula Vista Elementary School District and the Chula Vista Police Action League will all be working together to collect new unwrapped toys for needy children. Please drop off new toys between November 4 and December 4 in our office. All the toys will be donated to the Welfare council for later distribution. Thank you in advance for your generosity!
Thank you for all your donations for our Community Connect Bags. Our Safety Patrol leaders worked with our cohort schools to assemble over 2000 bags for those in need! If you would like to pick up a few bags to distribute to those in need this month, please stop by our office to pick up a few bags. We would like to distribute the bags during the month of December to support the homeless or other needy individuals in our area.
Our Ensemble will have all day rehearsals (9 AM to 3 PM) on Monday, 12/2 and Monday, 12/9. Ensemble students should report to their classrooms first at 8:45 AM and will be dismissed from their classrooms at 3:15 PM. Please remember to bring a sack lunch to school with you for the all day rehearsals. Also, tickets for our Winter Show will go on sale Tuesday, 12/3 at 7:30 am for our Ensemble families.
We will hold tryouts for our soccer and baseball teams this week and next week. All the details about the tryouts for our sports teams are listed on the permission slips that are posted on PeachJar. Please click 
Last week was an exciting week at Hedenkamp! We appreciate all our families for joining us for our Fall STEAM Ahead Event, Give Thanks to Reading, and Colonial Day! We had so much fun with all of you! We also want to thank our parent volunteers, safety patrol, student council, and teachers for helping to ensure all the events were great successes! Please be sure to check out out
We will hold tryouts for all our spring sports in December. We will offer soccer and basketball. Flyers will be posted on PeachJar later this week with all the details about the tryouts and the season. You must select either soccer or basketball if you would like to tryout, the seasons overlap so you can’t play both sports. We will have opportunities for 2nd-6th grade students to tryout for soccer and 4th – 6th grade students to tryout for basketball. We expect all student athletes to make every effort to be exemplary Huskies at all times. Please let us know if you have any questions.
Nomination Meeting: Wednesday, January 15th, 2020
We are looking forward to our first Family STEAM Night of the year on November 12th. All families are invited to join us for a fun evening of hands on learning and fun! The event will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the MPR. We will have raffle prizes too! You won’t want to miss this fun family night! We hope to see you all there!
Hedenkamp Elementary School is offering a Guitar and Ukulele Mentoring program after school for 4th through 6th graders beginning on December 2nd, 2019. The program will offer beginning and intermediate guitar and ukulele group lessons. It will be supervised Mr. Collins, and student learning will be supported by high school musicians who are earning their volunteer hours to serve their community. We will meet on Mondays and Tuesdays of VAPA weeks from 3:30-4:30pm in room 507.Students are welcome to bring their own instruments, or use one from school. 
Our next Husky Huddle is scheduled for Monday, November 4th at 8:45 am. Please wear Husky Wear or our school colors of red and blue on Monday. We look forward to seeing you all at the Husky Huddle on Monday!
A huge thank you to our wonderful Parent Teacher Association and volunteers. What a great evening at Friday’s HUSKY HOWL!!! The Hedenkamp PTA is absolutely the
At Hedenkamp, we are proud to have over 100 military connected families! We will have our first Military Event of the year on Monday, October 28th from 8:00 am to 8:40 am in our MPR. We will have coffee, juice, and pastries for our families. You will have the opportunity to get to know other military connected families, meet our Military Family Life Counselor, and learn more about our military events throughout the year. We hope to see you there.
Our community is working with other schools in our cohort to collect donations for Community Connect Bags. Our student leaders are collecting donations from our students and families now! In November, they will work with our cohort to create community connect bags for those in need. Our goal is to create over 2000 bags! We are collecting travel size shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, and toothbrushes for the bags. We are collecting these items throughout the month of October. If you are willing to donate a few items, we would greatly appreciate it! Please get your children involved so they feel what a joy it is to serve others. All donations must be submitted to our student leaders or the main office by November 1st.
We are looking forward to watching our student athletes on the soccer fields and basketball courts. We would like to again have teams at Hedenkamp this year! Please let us know if you are interested in coaching basketball or soccer. Our sports teams are typically available to 4th through 6th grade students that try out and make the teams. If we have enough available volunteer coaches, we could also field a junior soccer team. Please email Ms. Baltierra 
We are participating in Red Ribbon Week this week. The week begins with an assembly on Monday, October 21st. The assembly will be outdoors so please wear sunscreen, hats, and drink plenty of water. Throughout the week, students and staff will receive a variety of materials including red ribbons and pins . Each day this week will be a different spirit day:
We are excited to have Larry Alvarado join us at our ELAC meeting on Thursday, October 24th. All parents are strongly encouraged to attend. Larry Alvarado is an excellent speaker and he will share information abot how to Deal with your Child’s Behavior. As parents, we at times deal with difficult behavior and our speaker will share valuable tips and strategies for dealing with behavior in children. We hope you will join us for this important session on Thursday, October 24th from 8:15 am to 9:15 am in our MPR. We look forward to seeing you there.
