We have a few events coming up that I want you to be sure to know and ask your child about.
4th grade - collection of "Gavin's Goodies" - this will start Wednesday, September 19 and run through October. Any pre-packaged snacks or drinks are helpful! These will be donated to the organization, "Gavin's Goodies" which takes the snacks and drinks to children at the UK Children's Hospital oncology to have while they undergo treatment.
4th and 5th grade Arts Academy students - Our first Arts Academy will be Wednesday, September 26. Please be sure to return your permission slips. This is for students who have been nominated by teachers in the areas of Art, Music, Drama, or Dance. Our first field trip is actually here, :) but after that we'll travel on the rest of the 1/2-days to the other elementary schools.
5th grade field trip to Asbury - Your 5th grader should have brought home a permission slip to go on a field trip to Asbury. This trip will be on Monday, October 1. Any child identified in a subject area, GI, or Leadership will go on this trip. We'll take a campus tour to see all of the different departments, learn about different majors and career goals in college, and eat in the cafeteria for lunch. This is not a push for students to attend Asbury in their future, just an exposure to a college campus and all of the possibilities in their future!
If you have any questions about anything, please feel free to email or call me any time!
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Monday, September 17, 2012
What's going on in GT??
I'm always glad when the "newness" of school dies down and everything starts to fall into a routine! I feel like the students and teachers have all now gotten to that point, and I always feel better at this point in the year! Here's what we've been doing the last couple weeks...
5th grade - We've started our pull-out classes for subject areas, and it's really working out well. We played a science game last week and this week worked on some puzzles related to geography, which they're studying in class. We've been working on a huge logic grid in "GI" and we finally finished that up! :) Our Asbury mentors came to eat with our Leadership kids today during lunch and the kids seemed to really enjoy that, as did the Asbury students! We'll continue doing that once a month.
4th grade - My subject area and "GI" kids have been studying and writing fables, which we'll finish up this week. We're then moving on to an Algebra unit from a really neat curriculum I got the end of last school year. In Creativity, we got to know each other and played a game where we had to write the first thing that came to our minds. In Leadership, we started a project that our 4th grade group is going to head up. We're going to collect snack food items for a group called "Gavin's Goodies." One of my friends has children at Warner and her son Gavin had leukemia. He started collecting snacks to take to children at UK children's hospital who were undergoing treatments like himself, so Gavin's Goodies began. Now, even though he no longer has to go once a week for treatment, his mom still takes snacks down to the clinic to share with children.
I have a wonderful group of kids this year...thank you for sharing them with me!
5th grade - We've started our pull-out classes for subject areas, and it's really working out well. We played a science game last week and this week worked on some puzzles related to geography, which they're studying in class. We've been working on a huge logic grid in "GI" and we finally finished that up! :) Our Asbury mentors came to eat with our Leadership kids today during lunch and the kids seemed to really enjoy that, as did the Asbury students! We'll continue doing that once a month.
4th grade - My subject area and "GI" kids have been studying and writing fables, which we'll finish up this week. We're then moving on to an Algebra unit from a really neat curriculum I got the end of last school year. In Creativity, we got to know each other and played a game where we had to write the first thing that came to our minds. In Leadership, we started a project that our 4th grade group is going to head up. We're going to collect snack food items for a group called "Gavin's Goodies." One of my friends has children at Warner and her son Gavin had leukemia. He started collecting snacks to take to children at UK children's hospital who were undergoing treatments like himself, so Gavin's Goodies began. Now, even though he no longer has to go once a week for treatment, his mom still takes snacks down to the clinic to share with children.
I have a wonderful group of kids this year...thank you for sharing them with me!
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