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| Ballard School Information |
Enrollment: 106 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
- Chris Kazali (President)
- David Watkins (Clerk)
- Sandra Knight |
| Posted On : Sunday, August 25, 2013 |
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| Thought for the Day |
"When someone is rude, keep a smile on your face. When you stay on the high road and keep your joy, you take away their power."
~Joel Osteen
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| Posted On : Friday, March 7, 2014 |
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| Upcoming |
March Character Trait: Perseverance
Fri, 3/7
• First Friday Dance Party: 2:00
• Library: 2nd
• Music: 5th/6th (12:45), 4th (1:30), 2nd (2:15)
• Garden: K
• End of 2nd Trimester & Report Cards Sent Home
Sun, 3/9
• Daylight Savings Time Begins (Spring Forward)
Mon, 3/10
• Staff Development Day (Valley Schools Conference) - No school for students.
New on the Website
Please click on the 'Best of Ballard' and 'PTA' tabs for more up to date information. Including...
- School Board Meeting Agenda: 2/12/14 (Best of Ballard)
- School Board Meeting Update: 1/16/14 (Best of Ballard)
- School Board Meeting Minutes: 12/11/13 (Best of Ballard)
- PTA Budget: Revised 1/10/14 (PTA)
- PTA Minutes: 11/7/13 (PTA)
- 2013/2014 School Calendar (Best of Ballard) |
| Posted On : Friday, March 7, 2014 |
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| From MyDailyWords.com |
(Students need to learn between 2,000 – 3,000 new words each year. 5 words/day helps!)
Friday, 3/7/14
1 recover - v. To regain.
2 prefix - v. To attach at the beginning.
3 perseverance - n. A persistence in purpose and effort.
4 monsieur - n. A French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir.
5 prevention - n. Thwarting.
Thursday, 3/6/14
1 self-respect - n. Rational self-esteem.
2 specialize - v. To assume an individual or specific character, or adopt a singular or special course.
3 pediatrics - n. The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood.
4 animate - v. To make alive.
5 irritable - adj. Showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation.
Wednesday, 3/5/14
1 lune - n. The moon.
2 hypothesis - n. A proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion.
3 writhe - v. To twist the body, face, or limbs or as in pain or distress.
4 profession - n. Any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines.
5 lovable - adj. Amiable.
Tuesday, 3/4/14
1 conceive - v. To form an idea, mental image or thought of.
2 gourd - n. A melon, pumpkin, squash, or some similar fruit having a hard rind.
3 edible - adj. Suitable to be eaten.
4 chasm - n. A yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface.
5 possess - v. To own.
Monday, 3/3/14
1 symphony - n. A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
2 parallel - v. To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
3 secrecy - n. Concealment.
4 ally - n. A person or thing connected with another, usually in some relation of helpfulness.
5 trident - n. The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune.
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| Posted On : Friday, March 7, 2014 |
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| Next School Board Meeting |
The next regularly scheduled school board meeting will take place on Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 4:00 pm in the MP room.
The agenda for this meeting will be available on the school bulletin board and this website prior to the meeting (under the 'Best of Ballard' link). |
| Posted On : Wednesday, February 19, 2014 |
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| Ballard Shines on the API! |
Ballard Students Shine on API (953)!!
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 953 is…
- the highest API in Santa Barbara County!
- the highest API of all schools in the Santa Ynez Valley!
- 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 : Tuesday, October 22, 2013 |
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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...
- 2013/2014 School Calendar ('Calendar' or 'Best of Ballard')
- 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 : Wednesday, July 24, 2013 |
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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 physics, 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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