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| Ballard School Information |
Enrollment: 114 students
Telephone: 805-688-4812
Fax: 805-688-7325
2425 School Street
Solvang, CA 93463
Superintendent/Principal: Allan Pelletier
apelletier@ballardschool.org
(You may also click on the word 'email' to your right.)
Administrative Assistant: Gina Floyd
gfloyd@sbceo.org
Board of Trustees
- Shawn Knight (President)
- Chris Kazali (Clerk)
- Micah Brady |
| Posted On : Sunday, April 01, 2012 |
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| Thought for the Week |
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
- Tenneva Jordan |
| Posted On : Monday, May 14, 2012 |
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| Upcoming... |
May's Character Trait = Compassion & Caring
Thurs, May 17
- Journalism Enrichment: 7:30 (MP room)
- Math Superbowl: Good luck to Ballard’s 4th, 5th, & 6th grade teams!
- 3rd gr Play: 11:30 (MP room)
- Library: 4th (10:30)
- Students may work in the School Garden at lunch.
- K – 6 Dismissal: 1:00
- Staff Meeting: 1:40
Fri, May 18
- Running Club: Recess & Lunch
- Talent Show: 10:30
- Library: 2nd (8:30)
- Music: 5th/6th (12:45), 4th (1:30), 2nd (2:15)
New on the website (click on 'Best of Ballard' tab)
- School Board Meeting Update (5/10/12)
- School Board Meeting Minutes (4/19/12)
- School Board Meeting Agenda (5/10/12)
- May/June Calendar of Events
- Ballard PTA Bylaws
- 2012/2013 Ballard School Calendar
- 2011/2012 School Calendar
Have a fantastic week!!! |
| Posted On : Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
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| From MyDailyWords.com |
Thursday, 5/17/2012
1 accuracy - n. Exactness.
2 curtsy - n. A downward movement of the body by bending the knees.
3 recurrent - adj. Returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals.
4 overshadow - v. To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison.
5 quartet - n. A composition for four voices or four instruments.
Wednesday, 5/16/2012
1 alternate - n. One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.
2 menace - n. A threat.
3 positive - adj. Free from doubt or hesitation.
4 affect - v. To act upon
5 dehydrate - v. To deprive of water.
Tuesday, 5/15/2012
1 overpay - v. To pay or reward in excess.
2 noiseless - adj. Silent.
3 brittle - adj. Fragile.
4 masquerade - n. A social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised.
5 loam - n. A non-coherent mixture of sand and clay.
Monday, 5/14/2012
1 expansion - n. Increase of amount, size, scope, or the like.
2 ampersand - n. The character &; and.
3 immaculate - adj. Without spot or blemish.
4 sympathetic - adj. Having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others.
5 regiment - n. A body of soldiers.
Friday, 5/11/12
1 explode - v. To cause to burst in pieces by force from within.
2 tempt - v. To offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong.
3 luminous - adj. Giving or radiating light.
4 exceed - v. To go beyond, as in measure, quality, value, action, power, skill, etc.
5 souvenir - n. A token of remembrance.
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| Posted On : Thursday, May 17, 2012 |
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| Next School Board Meeting |
The next regularly scheduled school board meeting will take place on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 4:00 pm in the library.
The agenda will be available on this website prior to the meeting (under the 'Best of Ballard' link).
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| Posted On : Friday, May 11, 2012 |
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| Ballard Shines on the API! |
Ballard Students Shine on API (950)!!
Last spring, all students in grades 2 – 6 took the California STAR assessment. As usual, Ballard students impressed with their performance! The students' individual scores are combined to yield one school score called the Academic Performance Index (API). You may recall that the API is one measure of a school’s success on the California. The API range is 200 – 1000, with a ‘target’ of 800.
Ballard's score of 950 is…
- the highest API of all schools in the Santa Ynez Valley!
- the 4th highest school API in Santa Barbara County!
- the 2nd highest school district API in Santa Barbara County!
- one of the highest API scores in the state of California!
Congratulations to all of our students, families, and staff!
This continues to show that hard work...works!!
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| Posted On : Saturday, October 01, 2011 |
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| What's on the Website?? |
You can find a school district boundary map, monthly calendars, board meeting agendas and minutes, and more in the 'Best of Ballard' section of this website.
Others...
- 2011/2012 School Calendar ('Calendar')
- Email & Class Website Information ('Faculty')
Please do not hesitate to call (688-4812) or email (apelletier@ballardschool.org) if you cannot find what you are looking for.
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| Posted On : Monday, July 25, 2011 |
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| Weekly Calendar of Events |
Do you need to know when you have music or library? There are always a lot of great things going on at Ballard School! Click on the 'Upcoming Events' tab for the latest information! |
| Posted On : Friday, May 22, 2009 |
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Ballard School is located in the heart of the Santa Ynez Valley on the central coast of California in Santa Barbara County. This public school teaches students from kindergarten to 6th grade. In the early days, since the schoolhouse was the only public building in the valley, it was often used for church services, weddings, funerals and the meeting place of the Good Templar Lodge and the Farmer's Alliance. It also has served as the site for lectures, social entertainment, lively debates, singing and Saturday night dances.
If you have a great story to tell about Ballard School or old time photos you would like to share, please email us and we can include it on our website. We want to preserve the history of our fabulous school.
Phone: 805-688-4812 Fax: 805-688-7325
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| Teacher Resources |
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| General K-5 |
- SBCEO Portal - Santa Barbara County Education Office site that provides academic resources for researching, language arts, math, science, history, and much more.
- Kahn Academy - With a library of over 2,400 videos covering everything from arithmetic to phsysics, finance, and history and 150 practice exercises to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
- http://www.kerpoof.com/#/activity/draw - Drawing Program.
- http://www.sbplibrary.org - Santa Barbara Public Library.
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| Kindergarten |
- Starfall - Kindergarten games, letters, sounds, reading, and more.
- Kinderweb - Letters, adding, subtracting, telling time, shapes, currency, and much more.
- PBS Math Games (K) - Time, geometry, measuring, money.
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| First Grade |
- Starfall - First grade games, letters, sounds, reading, and more.
- Academic Skill Builders - Learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills.
- Tooth Tally (synonyms) - Practice words that have similar meanings.
- Frearless Frieda (spelling) - Help Frieda surf as you spell words.
- Squanky the Tooth Taker (antonyms) - Help the tooth fairy find pairs of words with opposite meanings.
- Monkey Business - Help the monkey cross the bridge by making a complete sentence.
- PBS Math Games (1st) - Time, geometry, measuring, money.
- http://storylineonline.net/ - Story Online present books read by actors.
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| Second Grade |
- Synonyms - Game to practice words that are similar.
- Tooth Tally (synonyms) - Practice words that have similar meanings.
- Squanky the Tooth Taker (antonyms) - Help the tooth fairy find pairs of words with opposite meanings.
- Frearless Frieda (spelling) - Help Frieda surf as you spell words.
- Academic Skill Builders - Learning basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills.
- Fun Brain - Arcade with math and reading games.
- Contractions - Game to help learn contraction words.
- PBS Math Games (2nd) - Time, geometry, measuring, money.
- Wordshake - Make as many words in three minutes with 16 letters. How many points can you get?
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