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| Ballard School Information |
Enrollment: 113 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 : Thursday, January 19, 2012 |
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| Thought for the Week |
Self Discipline: "Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." — Mark Twain |
| Posted On : Monday, January 30, 2012 |
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| Upcoming... |
February Character Trait = Trustworthiness/Honesty
Fri, Feb 3
- 5th/6th to Santa Barbara Film Festival
- Library: 2nd (8:30)
- Music: 5th/6th (12:45), 4th (1:30), 2nd (2:15)
- Arts Outreach: 1st (9:00), 5th (10:20), 3rd (1:00)
Mon, Feb 6
- 6th gr D.A.R.E.: 8:30
- 5th gr Walk Through Revolution: 9:30 – 12:00
- Library: 1st (8:30), K (10:20), 6th (2:00), 5th (2:30)
- Music: 5th/6th (12:45), 4th (1:30), 3rd (2:15)
- Arts Outreach: 2nd (8:30)
- Homework Club
New on the website (click on 'Best of Ballard' tab)
- School Board Meeting Update (1/19/12)
- School Board Meeting Minutes (12/8/11)
- School Board Meeting Agenda (1/19/12)
- January Calendar of Events
- 2011/2012 School Calendar
Have a fantastic week!!! |
| Posted On : Friday, February 03, 2012 |
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| From MyDailyWords.com |
MyDailyWords.com
Friday, 2/3/12
1 bravo - interj. Well done.
2 resent - v. To be indignant at, as an injury or insult.
3 outride - v. To ride faster than.
4 ultimatum - n. A final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions.
5 homonym - n. A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
Thursday, 2/2/12
1 affix - v. To fasten.
2 repudiate - v. To refuse to have anything to do with.
3 empower - v. To delegate authority to.
4 generalize - v. To draw general inferences.
5 persistence - n. A fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct, or the like.
Wednesday, 2/1/12
1 cornucopia - n. The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity.
2 nuisance - n. That which annoys, vexes, or irritates.
3 deforest - v. To clear of forests.
4 folk-lore - n. The traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people.
5 skirmish - n. Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies.
Tuesday, 1/31/12
1 pharmacy - n. The art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines.
2 entangle - v. To involve in difficulties, confusion, or complications.
3 employee - n. One who works for wages or a salary.
4 panel - n. A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame.
5 recognize - v. To recall the identity of (a person or thing).
Monday, 1/30/12
1 narration - n. The act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence.
2 nominate - v. To designate as a candidate for any office.
3 disinterested - adj. Impartial.
4 subsequent - adj. Following in time.
5 aggregate - n. The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something.owers. |
| Posted On : Friday, February 03, 2012 |
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| Next School Board Meeting |
The next regularly scheduled school board meeting will take place on Thursday, February 9, 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, January 20, 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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