Hello Parents,
Your child was given a sealed envelope yesterday which should have been handed to you when they got home. Please check with them if you have not received the envelope.
Coaches Bare and Bass have given me a Fitness Report that you should also ask your child to produce. These indicate important health and fitness information you can use to help tailor your child's fitness regimen at home this summer.
Sincerely,
Alex McGill
Dear Garrison Mill Families,
The Relay for Life team will be selling luminaries that will be used in the opening ceremony on Friday Night at the RFL Event at Jim Miller Park. The luminaries are used to remember those we have lost, celebrate those that have battled and won and to give hope to those who still fight the battle with cancer.
The luminaries can be decorated by the family, they are $5.00 a piece. We will be selling them at reading night tonight, at the PTA meeting on Thursday or anytime this week in Mrs. Longyear's classroom. We will need all money and bags by 2:30 on Friday!
Thank you so much for your support!
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All GM Parents are encouraged to attend a free parenting workshop this Thursday, April 16th, at 10:30 AM which will cover specific plans for parents to keep their children engaged and learning all summer. It is in the media center and it is for parents of students of all ages.
Dear Parents,
On behalf of everyone at Garrison Mill Elementary, I want to thank you for all your help in making this year's Boosterthon Fun Run a huge success! Don't forget to come out tomorrow as your child runs for our school at 12:15 PM. If we are rained out on Thursday, we will reschedule for Friday, April 3rd.
We are on track to make this a financially successful Fun Run, but WE NEED YOUR HELP over the next week in order to reach our financial goals. The money for the Fun Run is due Tuesday, April 14th. Please make checks payable to Garrison Mill Educational Foundation and place all money in your child's collection envelope. Remember, all gifts are tax deductible!
Thank you again for all your support in making this year's Boosterthon Fun Run a tremendous success for our school. Please feel free to contact me at anytime with questions regarding the Boosterthon Fun Run collection process!
Sincerely,
Patti Lavender
GMEF/5th Grade Liaison
Phone: 770-552-1162
Email: drpattilavender@aol.com
Dear 5th Grade Parents,
The Boosterthon Fun Run is in full swing and we are excited about how well the 5th Grade students are doing!
Thank you so much for your support thus far. If you haven't had the opportunity to connect your students to potential sponsors yet, this weekend is a great time to get on board! We are offering a special "weekend challenge" prize.
As a reminder, here are some action steps you can take in order to help our school through the Boosterthon Fun Run:
1. Connect your child to multiple sponsors across the country who can pledge your student a dollar amount per lap (25-35 laps)
2. See how many states we can get for your class. The winning class will receive a party.
3. Remember to come to the Boosterthon Fun Run! Our class will be running on Thursday, April 2nd 12:30-1:15
Thank you again for all of your generous support and we hope to see you at the Fun Run next week!
Sincerely,
Patti Lavender
GMEF/5th Grade Liaison
Phone: 770-552-1162
Email: drpattilavender@aol.com
Dear Parents,
Hello! My name is Patti Lavender and I am excited about the opportunity to serve as the GM Foundation liaison for 5th Grade. It is my pleasure to introduce you all to the Boosterthon Fun Run, which kicked off today! This will be the most fun event of our entire school year and with your help will also prove to be the most financially successful event of the year! Please sit down with your child tonight and watch the "Gold Medal DVD" which explains the nature of this interactive program.
You are being asked to help in 3 specific ways:
1. Connect your child to at least 10 different sponsors who can pledge them a dollar amount per lap (25-35 laps)
2. See how many states you can get pledges from (the classroom with the most states will receive a Classroom Party!)
3. Come to the Boosterthon Fun Run on Thursday, April 2nd from 12:30-1:15
I have met the Booster Team and their enthusiasm has already been a breath of fresh air to our teachers and students. During their time on campus, they will be promoting FITNESS, EDUCATION, and CHARACTER to each of our children. Be sure you ask your child about those Character traits! If you have any questions about this program after watching the DVD and reading through your child's pledge book, please feel free to contact me at anytime. Thank you so much for your generosity and we look forward to seeing you next week at the Fun Run!
Sincerely,
Patti Lavender
GMEF/5th Grade Liaison
Phone: 770-552-1162
Email: drpattilavender@aol.com
Hello again Parents,
In the midst of our productive and informative conferences, I neglected to ask if you liked having the conference in January. Please share with your child whether you feel that future conferences should be scheduled in October or January, and have them tell me on Monday morning, February 2, 2009. I will pass that information on to Administration.
Have a great weekend!
Sincerely,
Alex McGill
Conference week has been a success. Thank you for the extended time you took, parents, to share your insights and questions with me during our conference times.
Here are on some of our class curricular experiences at this time:
Economics
For the sake of making sense of our economics standards and to connect our lessons to the current economy, we have been fortunate to have parent help in a stock market analysis activity. Students have invested $50,000 in imaginery funds in stocks and have monitored the action over the past three weeks. We used the internet, the Promethean Board, and some helpful review of weekly events to predict future expectations and to analyze trends. They have been pretty excited with their lessons about this.
Great Americans
Students in Ms. Hazlett's and Mr. McGill's classes are writing descriptive, informational essays about the impact of American pioneers in science and social studies. They have been viewing films about George Washington Carver and Alexander Graham Bell's contributions to the world and are using this, along with other material they have researched themselves, to describe each historic person's impact on American life. Similar work will be done in learning about the Wright Brothers and Thomas Edison. These assignments will then be used in a culminating performance task recognizing the benefits we currently gain from the contributions of these people.
Measurement
Mr. McGill's Math class has been identifying effective processes for finding the area of plane figures. We believe that perception plays a big part in successfully estimating the area of rectangles, squares, parallolgrams, triangles and circles. The use of both hands-on experiences and formulae have been exercised in finding the actual measurements.
Future lessons will focus on similar experiences in finding volume and capacity. Though we will be relating this back to previous lessons, true understanding and application of the concepts can be found in common daily experiences. If you are cooking, decorating, painting, or assembling anything at home, have your child join you and review what they understand about measurement in relation to these activities.
Again, thank you for your support this year!
Sincerely,
Alex McGill
This is a friendly reminder to students to come Monday prepared to simulate the experience of early 20th century immigrants to the U.S.A. Students should dress warmly, but should attempt to come in costume as an immigrant from their own cultural heritage. In order to participate effectively, students need to adhere to the guidelines detailed on the packet that was sent home with the criteria a few weeks back.
I know that there are many students who are bringing a dish of their cultural foods to the simulation as well. These should be ready to serve and require no further cooking or extensive preparation.
During the simulation, the students will be given passports where they will get stamps allowing them to move through the steps of the admittance. In order to ensure that they will be able to write in these passports their own reflections of events as they unfold, they need to come prepared with two sharpened pencils. As well, they need to have the twenty dollars ($20) in play money in order to show they have resources to reach family.
The simulation is a good experience to have students learn firsthand that this was a difficult process to endure, and they will see that their ancestors must have really wanted to be here to go through such obstacles.
It shall be fun and informative! Ms. DeLass is actually the teacher who has done the lion's share of preparation and organization for this event. She brought this plan with her from a previous school where she taught. We found it to be an outstanding learning method and a fun morning.
Thank you, parents, for your continued support!
Sincerely,
Alex McGill
