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November 2008
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"Thank you PTA" Poster Contest Draw, paint, color...Show us why you are thankful for the PTA. We will be displaying contest posters throughout the school. Spirit Wear Every Friday has been designated as school spirit day. Show your true Grayson colors by wearing your Grayson spirit wear shirts. Don't have any spirit wear? Just wear green and gold and let's show how much spirit our Grayson students have! Want some spirit wear? Click here for a spirit wear order form. Print the form, fill it out and return with payment to your child's teacher. Merchandise will be delivered to your child's class. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Dee Marney at themarney4@comcast.net. Ways to Help GES Reminders Please have your child remain home fever-free and vomit-free for 24-hours without medication. Medication should NOT be carried by a student or transported on the bus. Certain situations may be approved. Please visit Mitzi Bishop in the clinic. Please remember NO CHECKOUTS after 3:00 p.m. Business Members
If you would like more information on becoming a GES PTA Business Member or if you would like to advertise your business to support our school, please contact : Vicki Strine: 770.995.6514 vstrine@bellsouth.net Jennifer Sutton: 770.237.5585 mjsutton1096@yahoo.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The HUGS Campaign
Hoping
U Give Something Grayson Elementary School and McConnell Middle School are sponsoring the HUGS (Hoping U Give Something) campaign from November 17th - 21st. Student members of the Kids for Christ organization will be collecting gently used and new coats to be distributed to families in need throughout the Grayson community. Students will be collecting coats in all buildings and handing out tickets to every child who makes a donation. Janet Hart will be in the foyer by the front office on Friday, November 21st to exchange the children's tickets for free candy. In addition to Grayson Elementary School, coats will be collected in marked boxes at McConnell Middle School, Grayson Kroger and Grayson United Methodist Church. All sizes of coats (youth and adult) are welcome. Donate - it's okay. Share a warm HUG of a coat today. back to top | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Skate Night The Grayson / Trip Elementary skate night was awesome! Students enjoyed hanging out with new and old friends. We really appreciated Trip for agreeing to share skate night Thursday with us making this an extra fun event for all. November's skate night theme will be "The HUGS Campaign" (Hoping U Give Something) sponsored by the PTA Community Outreach Program. With your help, we will be kicking off the coat drive during the November Skate Night. So students bring a new or gently used coat to skate night (any size) and receive free candy. Help someone in your community with a warm hug of a coat today!
November Skate Night
See You At Skate Night!Theme: The HUGS Campaign Date: Thursday Nov 6th 6:00-9:00 October Skate Night Best Attendance: Valdez and Singleton 5th Total Attendance: 200 (Both Schools) Janet Hart (chairperson) back to top |
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Membership
Membership Has Its Privileges
In partnership with Stars and Strikes, all PTA members will receive a $5.00 off coupon. If you are not yet a PTA member, JOIN TODAY! Annual membership is just $6.00 per person. Bet you did not know...
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Legislative Committee
Election Day
Tuesday, November 4 , 2008 Voting Hours: 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM Know Your Legislators
The "Right To Vote" is one of America's most valuable Constitutional rights. Exercise Your Right To Vote...Be Counted...Your Vote Will Help Shape The Future!
Gwinnett County Elections & Voter Registration Office
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455 Grayson Hwy, Suite 200 Lawrenceville, GA 30045 (678) 226-7210 Georgia Secretary of State - Karen C. Handel www.sos.georgia.gov |
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Winter Wonderland
2008 Annual Grayson Elementary
 Winter Wonderland
Where: Grayson Elementary What: Pancake Breakfast and Holiday Shop!!
The Holiday Shop offers reasonably priced gifts so that your child may come and shop for their parents and for
other family members. Most gifts are priced in the 3 to 5 dollar range. There will be a gift preview on Friday,
December 5th so that your child can get a sneak peek and make their shopping list! Who knows-there may be a
surprise visitor from the North Pole!!! Ho Ho Ho!!
Volunteers are needed!!! Please call Amy Callis 678-344-1095 Jill White 770-978-9009 |
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Art Room Request We love to reward excellent behavior! Please continue to send in small treasures for the art room treasure box. Some great treasure box items are:
Thank you for supporting the arts! Erin Smith & Christi Umans back to top |
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Fifth Grade Update Thanks to all the Grayson fifth graders who attended our fun Cluster-Wide Fifth Grade Skate Night on Tuesday, October 14! We all had a lot of fun, and the students seemed to really enjoy hanging out with their friends, as well as making new friends. Other news: Congratulations to Hunter Burnett, who won the t-shirt slogan contest, with his slogan, "Don't mess with us, Grayson 5th Graders are Ram tough!" T-shirt order forms are out; make sure you order yours! While we have already placed our first order, we will place another order when we have enough students who are interested. Finally, be on the lookout for news about the next special fifth grade event, which will be a fun party in the GES gym on January 23, 2009. We look forward to seeing you all there! back to top |
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Box Tops for Education 
Our first box tops submission is today, October 31st. We will be announcing our box tops prize winners on GETV soon and giving the school store gift certificates. However, we have one more opportunity to submit box tops for our school in the spring so please continue to save your box tops and submit them for the next round of prizes! Once a student turns in 50 box tops, he or she will receive a gift certificate to the school store. We will also periodically award fun prizes to anyone who submits box tops with their name on them. Our top winners from each grade level will receive lunch with a friend for one Friday a month for three months and free ice cream at the first lunch. Right now, Box Tops for Education has promotions where many products have more than one box top per package. You can go to www.boxtops4education.com for additional information or a listing of eligible products. Please be sure that when your box tops are turned into your child's teacher, your child's name, grade and teacher are noted on the plastic bag so all students turning in box tops have a chance for the drawings and prizes that will be given away. back to top |
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Counselor's Corner Most of us would agree that one of the best teachers is experience. Some of the best learning comes from experiencing the consequences of our behavior. While we agree with this, we often step in and don't allow our children to learn fully from their experiences. It's instinctual to want to protect or shield our children from bad or uncomfortable things; but rescuing them can come with unintended outcomes. For example, your child forgets her homework on a consistent basis. You see it on the table and you decide to bring it to school so she won't receive a negative consequence such as a zero or staying in from recess to complete it. That's being a good parent, right? While bringing left homework in to school once or twice, isn't a problem, rescuing her on several occasions can actually be detrimental to her. This type of rescuing prevents her from learning from her mistakes and learning responsibility and accountability. Experiencing the negative consequences of our behavior causes us to think, "If I do _____________, then ______________ will happen. Do I really want to do______________?" Rescuing your child has another unintended outcome. It sends a message "If I mess up, my parents will be there to clean up after me". When your child is in elementary school, the consequences for missed homework, running in the hallway, or talking in line aren't too troubling. The consequences might be missed recess, time in time out, loss of privileges, going to bed early, etc. When your child gets to high school, the misbehaviors can be more risky, such as skipping school, careless driving, underage drinking, experimental drug use, and promiscuous behavior. Likewise, the consequences are greater - failing grades, car accidents resulting in injury or death, dependence on alcohol or drugs, and pregnancy. It's best to teach children that their behaviors have consequences now while they are young so he or she can learn that misbehaviors have negative consequences. Of course, our motivation for rescuing is protection. We only want good things for our children. But when we don't allow our child to experience the negative consequences for the choices they make by applying negative consequences ourselves or supporting the classroom teacher when he or she applies consequences, we're doing more harm than good. So the next time you feel the urge to step in and rescue your child so he or she won't fully experience the negative consequences of his or her behavior, remember this: Allow your child to learn from his or her mistakes. That's being a great teacher. Counselors: RoseMary Ruffner and Dana Edwards back to top |
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Cafeteria News Our Grab and Go Breakfast participation continues to grow! Since eating a healthy breakfast is such an important part of contributing to your child's success in school, we encourage your children to eat at home or eat a nutritional and great tasting breakfast at school! Don't forget that if your child is on free or reduced lunches, he or she is also eligible for free or reduced (30 cents) breakfast everyday. Full-pay breakfast for a child is only $1.00 everyday and our menus are posted on our school's website. Our emphasis this month is on the benefits of FRUITS in your child's diet. We serve a great variety of fresh fruits everyday. Parents at Grayson will be happy to learn that many of our students select fruit as a side item with their lunches. Fruits are:
With the holidays rapidly approaching, it would be tasty, healthy and calorie-smart to add a variety of fruits into our menus. back to top |
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