Math Update…

Posted on November 29, 2018 by yankee

Ways to Earn $Money$ for our School…

Posted on November 26, 2018 by yankee

WAYS to EARN MONEY for OUR SCHOOL

The money we earn goes toward: playground equipment, field trip funds for every student, online reading programs (RAZ KIDS and Scholastic News), updating old equipment (microphone systems, projectors, etc.), classroom library expansions, library books, and more!

ONE BIG EVENT PER YEAR: Fall Walkathon

*We are allowed one big money raising event each year. Walkathon is our BIG EVENT.

Additional fundraisers:

Collect BOXTOPs. Turn them into school as soon as you have a sheet completed. Every completed BOXTOP sheet is worth $5.00. If every child from Georgetown (approx 580) fills one sheet during the school year, our school earns $2,750. MAKE SURE YOU CHECK EXPIRATION DATE!

Many thanks to Lori Simpson and all of you who are on her team of BOX TOP counters, trimmers and packers. This is a great program that pays off because of all of YOU!

Download your form here: Box Top

COKE CAPS: Super easy. Save the caps and go online to enter collection! COKE WEBSITE (https://us.coca-cola.com/give/) Select Georgetown Elementary and enter the code on the cap. Now you can recycle the cap. No need to send it to school.

AMAZON SMILE. Order everything from AMAZON through our smile link to earn our school

MONEY! Go to this link: smile.amazon.com/ch/20-4701906 to earn credit for the Georgetown Elementary PTC whenever you shop on AMAZON.

JET’s PIZZA NIGHTS: One Thursday per month. Check our school calendar for the Thursday nighteach month. When you order, give your child’s teacher name to help his/her class win a pizza party.

CULVER’s NIGHT: Two per year: Fall and Spring. Teachers and Parent Club Board members serve food and earn money for our school. Example of Culver’s Night

PAPERGATOR:

RECYCLE your old paper for our HUNGRY PAPERGATOR. When it’s full, we get money for our school. Papergator located in front parking lot.

What CAN go into the PAPERGATOR?

Newsprint
Catalogs/Magazines
Junk Mail
Phone Books
Office/School paper
Hard and soft cover books

Winter is upon us…

Posted on November 9, 2018 by yankee

With the weather forecast, it looks like Winter is about to begin. As soon as tomorrow possibly!

Just a few reminders:

The kids go outside at every recess. We only keep them inside if the wind chill is below zero. If no boots are worn then the kinders will need to stay on the pavement to keep shoes dry.
WINTER CLOTHING is a must. Boots, hats, mittens/gloves, snow pants. Write your last name on all pieces of clothing. This helps with those missing items that like to go missing!
Be prepared to hang up the winter clothing to air out and dry each night.

And, finally…get ready to hear about the new recess celebrations and concerns. The SNOW is so much fun on the playground. And, like most schools we have rules (I know… way to ruin the fun, right?!) The rules are basic:

NO SNOWBALLS. WHY? Because we have had our fair share of eye injuries, head injuries, bruising etc. when these snowballs hit people in the face. I always tell kids that if their parents let them have snowball fights at home, do it at home. But we can’t do it at school.
NO ICE SLIDING. WHY? We have kids break their wrist or arm sliding on ice. We have also had kids fall and get a concussion.
FORTS…build at your own risk. Our playgrounds are shared by nearly 600 kids. If you build a fort during one recess, another group might come out the next recess and change your fort — put on an addition or take off the front porch or destroy it for a new subdivision. So…build away…but know it might be changed.

Our priority will be to have the kids dress appropriately for the snow, have fun in the snow and be safe in the snow!