Hyer Elementary Bike Rodeo and safety week. The Hyer students spent last week learning about Bike Safety.  Each student grades 1st-4th, had the chance to  have the tires and brakes checked on their bikes, and once they were in tip top safety condition, the students were able to ride a Bike Coarse.  After the Bike Rodeo, the families all enjoyed a picnic and bake sale. What a fun way to end the week of Bike Safety!! Thank you to Bicycles Plus for donating a bike and for sending employees to help with the bike checks. Thank you also to Tatum Brown Custom Homes, and Chad Barrett of Allie Beth Allman for sponsoring the 2015 Bike Rodeo!

The 2014-15 Hyer 4th Grade Class presented MIS Principal, Dr. Laurie Hitzelberger, a check for $7000. this past Friday.  Each year the 4th grade class presents a gift back to Hyer.  It was decided last spring that in light of all the generous gifts Hyer already receives from their successful PTA fundraising efforts,  that the Hyer 4th grade would use the money they raised to pay it forward.  This gift will go towards purchasing new iPads and Chromebooks for the classrooms at MIS.  

Hyer Elementary wrapped up it's new fall fundraiser, Read On Hyer! The program was created and operated by the Hyer PTA, and involved students obtaining pledges for reading time. Read On Hyer was strongly supported by the Hyer community: overall, 95% of the students participated and collectively read over 8,200 hours! The top VIP readers were honored with a donut breakfast this morning and there was an All School Celebration in the gym today, Friday, November 21. We are SO proud of our Husky readers!

Sunny Sliger, Hyer's Art teacher and Co- Collaborator of http://thecolorcondition.com/ was recently invited to do a TED talk at SMU. "Sunny Sliger & Marianne Newsom co founders and co-collaborators of Dallas based The Color Condition were one of the feature presenters at this years TEDxSMU. In it's 6th year, the TEDxSMU, was a day-long event dedicated to ideas worth spreading. “Strangely Familiar” was the theme for this year’s conversations and the speakers and performers took the audience on an adventure into the unknown. Topics ranged from the strange meets the familiar; familiar subjects will be viewed with a different lens and strange ideas will be made relatable."

Read On Hyer is a new fundraising event this year. The program was conceptualized and created by the Hyer PTA with two goals in mind: fostering a love of reading in our children, and raising important funds for the school. 

It begins next week.  First students get... Pledges! Monday, October 27th to Monday, November 3rd   and then students…..Read! Saturday, November 1st to Friday, November 14th

The Read On Hyer committee: Meredith Clavenna, Katy Annett, Katherine Lewis, Michelene Galbraith and Holly Krug created this event all on their own. So, Instead of paying a large percentage of Hyer's hard earned proceeds to a fundraising company, Read on HYER allows most of the fundraising dollars to stay at Hyer.