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GES e-Ram Reader
GES PTA's Monthly Newsletter
February 2012
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Martial Arts Club The Martial Arts Club is beginning its 4th session Wednesday, March 14th and will run through Wednesday, May 16th. Follow these links for the registration and liability forms. Faculty Sponsor- Kristie Horn Art Room The art room is looking for the following donations for the annual art show. Thank you for supporting the arts, Erin Smith & Christi Umans Johnny's Pizza Night We will be having pizza night at Johnny's the first Monday of every month with Twinklz's the clown. Check out her web-site at twinklz.com Spirit Wear Don't forget that Fridays are Spirit Wear day. Wear your Grayson colors or check out our Spirit Wear page for clothing available for purchase. |
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During Black History Month, members of the student council along with Mrs. Hart are reading a collection of stories and poems written about Heroes of the Civil Rights movement. Some famous heroes featured are: M. L. King, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, and Thurgood Marshall. The bulletin board located in the front lobby of the school highlights some of the famous past and present African American politicians, athletes and entertainers. Stop by during the month of February to check it out. At Grayson Elementary we strive to enrich and educate our students with important factual information about our nation's history. Janet Hart 
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Skate Night Congratulations to Mrs Kings 1st grade class for winning Skate nights "Best Attendance Class Award. This is Mrs. King's first win for this school season. Also I'd like to congratulate Tahirah Brown from Pounds 2nd grade for winning the skate party drawing given by Sparkles. The next skate night is Thursday March 1st. We will be celebrating Dr. Seuss birthday with a costume contest, Best costume wins! See you then! Skate Night Chairperson Janet Hart 
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Student Council Relay for Life Drawing Hey, students, it's not too late to enter the drawing to win the "big" bear to support relay for life. Mrs. Hart will be in the lobby on Friday 2/10 and Monday 2/13 mornings from 8:20-10:30 am. Proceeds from the drawing will go to "Relay for life". And don't forget "free" candy for each $2.00 donation. The winner of the contest will be surprised on GETV on Valentine's Day. Free delivery to your home in the Grayson area, if it is a surprise for a family member, what a deal! So enter today! A special thank you goes to Carol Foster and members of the student council for working hard and sponsoring this event. 
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Mini-Fundraisers
Box Tops for Education
 2/8/12 update: We collected $196 worth of Box Tops in the month of January! WOW! This brings this year's total to almost $1700! Our February winning class is Mrs. Rials' 2nd grade! Our top collecting students this month are Grace Hamryka (Mrs. Carraway, 1st grade) and Anna Harris (Mrs. Jarrett, 2nd grade) Congratulations. . .and THANK YOU! For more information on Box Tops products, printable collection sheets, and Grayson Elementary earnings, visit www.boxtops4education.com. The website has valuable coupons you can print, along with great sweepstakes and recipes. Check it out! 
CapriSun Drink Pouch Programs!
We are having an awesome year with our recycling programs! When families are willing to send in their "trash", you know you have a great PTA! We received our 1st payout of the year last week (for $249), and already have $176 in our account towards our 2nd payout at the end of the year! Our recycling bins are in place and ready to collect your Capri Sun pouches, ANY chip bag, ANY cookie bag, ANY cracker bag, and ANY lunch kit (ie. Lunchables) If you are willing to send your empty packaging from home, please do! We have already recycled 2500+ drink pouches since August, and hundreds more chip bags. We have added MANY new items to our list that we can recycle for CASH. Please take a look at the list below, and feel free to send any of these items to support GES. Don't feel overwhelmed or pressured by the list! Just do what you can! Your student can place them in ANY blue recycling bin on campus. . .(in the cafeteria or hallway blue bins)
Elmers Glue
We have recycled 172 glue sticks that would have otherwise gone in the trash, and made a bit of money at the same time! 
Cheese Packages Needed!
GES and our partner Terracycle are collecting empty cheese packages! ANY cheese package, ANY brand, ANY type of cheese package will be accepted! Shredded cheese, string cheese, deli cheese, tubs of cream cheese! GES will earn 0.02 per package, and it will add up fast!
Campbells Label Program
 The current bonus certificate offered by Campbells (which turns 5 points into 100 points!) has really helped our account grow! We will add at least 6000 points from this offer, and will reach our goal of 20,000 points for the school year! Campbells points=FREE school equipment that every student can use and enjoy! Thank you to all of you who sent your bonus certificates in! Our Fall/Winter collection contest is over! The 3 winners, randomly drawn from all collectors, are Natalie Parrott (2nd, Rials), Blake Harris (can't remember grade at this moment, sorry!), and Jake Almand (K, Ms. Flynn). They will each get a giftcard for their efforts. THANK YOU to everyone who makes this program so successful! BIG NEWS!! There are some new partners in the Campbells program! In addition to Campbells, Pepperidge Farm, Post cereals, and BIC, you can now save UPC bar codes from Emerald nuts, Danimals and Dan-o-nino yogurt, and the following magazines: People, All You, Real Simple, Time, Health, and Southern Living.
Tyson Project A+ Labels
 Please continue to clip the Tyson Project A+ labels from specially marked Tyson packages (found in your grocer's freezer). GES gets 0.24 per label! The Tyson program is not as successful this year as I'd hoped, so how about a Spring collection contest? From now until 4/30/12, send in your Tyson A+ labels with student's name, grade, and teacher's name, and be entered in a random drawing for a $5.00 Bruster's gift card! Winner will be announced shortly after the 4/30/12 deadline!
Coke Rewards for GES!
 Finally, GES is collecting Coke Rewards to earn FREE school equipment. Please send in your Coke and Powerade product bottle caps, and codes on Coke product cartons. As of 2/8/12 we have 6317 points (that's 2000+ caps!) . . .let's see how many we can collect for FREE stuff! Our collecting has slowed down a bit. . .keep sending those codes in! We earn FREE school equipment that every student can use and enjoy! back to top |
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Science Update Happy New Year from the science room! We are as busy as ever! Thank you parents for all your support throughout the year. I surely want to thank all the children and parents for Christmas cards, Christmas gifts and Christmas well wishes. I sent out thank you notes, but I know I probably missed someone out there. I really appreciate you thinking about me. I love being your science teacher. Kindergarten parents be looking for a letter about finding a soil sample at home. The first graders are working with light and sound. This week we made shadow puppets and had fun experimenting with making our shadows bigger and smaller. Soon we will make instruments with recycled containers of all shapes and sizes. If you have any empty coffee cans, butter bowls, icing containers with lids, etc., we can use them. If you have any popsicle sticks you could donate for future shadow puppets, it would be greatly appreciated. Second graders made a model of the solar system using sport balls - it was great fun. Earth was a tennis ball. We compared our model with the "real" solar system. Third grade is learning about fossils telling us about the past. I have a collection of real fossils that we have enjoyed looking at. This week we played a game about digging up fossils on a National Geographic website. The kids had a blast with that. Fourth graders have been introduced to simple machines. We have had centers where we experimented with simple machines at each of the different centers. This week we made whirly birds that had different wingspans and we compared the "time of flight" with those. A whirly bird is a type of screw. A screw is one of the simple machines. Can you name the six simple machines? I hope your fourth grader can. Fifth grade is working with physical and chemical changes. Did you know you can cut a regular piece of xerox paper in a way that a large man can walk through it? You can only use scissors and a piece of paper. It's an extreme physical change...........and challenging too. Try it............... Jenny Lloyd and I will be representing our school at the Clean and Beautiful meeting in February. We do a great job here with our recycling efforts! Keep up the good work everyone. In the science room, we can always use shells, old keys, old magazines, old spools, ziplock bags, santizing wipes, size D batteries, and tons of treasures for the treasure box!!!! One man's trash is another man's treasure, right??? Thanks for a great 2012. back to top |
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GUMC Running Club Hey students, there's a new club in town! The running club at Grayson United Methodist Church (GUMC) please sees the GUMC web site (graysonumc.org) for further details or contact coach Janet Hart for running club information. Ages 5-15 boys and girls welcomed. Practice begins in March on Mondays and some Thursdays. 7 weeks $35.00, will not run the week of spring break. Race fees not included. Register at GUMC on Monday, February 13th, 7:00-8:30pm. Registration ends on February 29th Thank you Janet Hart mailto:jbrooksha@aol.com back to top |
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Donating to GES
Donate to GES when you shop! Here's how to do it!
Many of you have asked how to make your hard earned dollars work for GES when you are shopping. Here are some of the ways you can donate to our school!
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