The Gator Bite
Greenfield Elementary 2018-2019
Look for us each week!
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Calendar of Events
Friday, March 8: Wear Gator Green!, PTSO Fun Run, Half-day Dismissal, 12:25 p.m.
Monday, March 11 through Monday, March 18: Spring Break
Tuesday, March 19: School Resumes
Wednesday, March 20: Early Release, 2:25 p.m.
Friday, March 22: Wear Gator Green!
Wednesday, March 27: Early Release, 2:25 p.m., Dads Club Restaurant Night
Friday, March 29: Wear Gator Green!
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No Early Release on Wednesday
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Lost and Found
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PTSO needs your help!
Dear Parents,
It is that time of year again. Our annual fundraiser is this week! 100% of this fundraiser goes directly back to our school. In order to do that we need lots and lots of parent help all during the week and this Friday. If you have a little bit of time to give, please sign up to help. Please click on the sign up genius to volunteer for one or more things. Thank you in advance for your donations and time!
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080a4eaaaf2da02-color2
Your PTSO
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PTSO's Fun Run
Dear Greenfield Family,
I am excited to announce that today we will be kicking off our annual fun run fundraiser and we are counting on your support, generosity and enthusiasm to make it a success. Because last year’s Color Run theme was so popular with the students, we will be doing it again! We will also be incorporating lessons from the children’s book The Energy Bus, which has been a campus theme this year and incorporates five rules for living a positively fueled life.
In past years we used a fun run company to help us organize and execute this major fundraiser, however, like most fundraising companies, whether they specialize in fun runs, butter braids or candles, the company was a for-profit business, and this meant that we had to turn over almost half of our proceeds to this corporation. We heard many of your voices-- you were uncomfortable with sharing so much money with an outside organization and you wanted it all to stay at Greenfield. We listened and we agreed!
For the fourth year in a row, our PTSO has taken on the enormous-- and at times quite intimidating-- task of planning our own fun run fundraiser. Our faithful PTSO has recruited an army of volunteers for everything from managing accounting software to creating the perfect mixture for our color spray solution that the students will be able to run through on the track. (For those wondering, we determined that the safest, best working formula is simply water and food coloring like you’d buy from the grocery store, rather than some powder formulas that can be messy and potentially allergenic.) Other parents have spent hours upon hours creating decorations for our halls to spread enthusiasm across the whole school. There are countless others working behind the scenes because our school community is so important to them. Speaking on behalf of the faculty and staff of Greenfield Elementary, we are honored and humbled by such service and support. If you are still interested in volunteering, please follow this Signup Genius link-- we’d love to have you!
This afternoon, our students will attend the kick-off rally, and will hear about the prizes and incentives they can earn for bringing in donations. They range from individual prizes to class incentives like a pajama day or popcorn party, silly school incentives like covering the administrators in silly string or actually getting to pour slime on their heads, all the way up to a limo ride to lunch for the top students in each grade level. Our hope is to motivate the students to ask you and others close to you to help our school continue to be the outstanding place it has long been.
This year again, we are underscoring this fun atmosphere by also emphasizing the opportunity for community service in this run. Much like many of the 5k/10k races and marathons that we often participate in, we are raising money for a cause, not just a prize. We want students to know that their participation in this cause makes a difference in our school community and to experience the joy that comes with it. We know how service-minded our community is and we have seen our students thrive in knowing that they are making an impact.
Over the last years, PTSO has helped us revolutionize the technology at Greenfield. Chromebooks and iPads have become a regular part of instruction in our classrooms and we are at a nearly 1:1 ratio of students to devices across the campus and the impact has been extremely positive. PTSO has sponsored bringing STEM project base learning modules to our campus, and has purchased the projectors that are in every classroom on our campus. We have also been able to purchase supplementary reading programs to continue to help build fluent readers in all grade levels. These are items that impact teaching and learning every single day, and we are so fortunate to have this support. What is a luxury in many schools has become part of the standard of excellence that we are proud to offer your children in our classrooms. Having this partnership with our parents is truly one of the biggest reasons that Greenfield is the phenomenal place that it is.
One hundred percent of the money brought in by this fundraiser will stay at Greenfield Elementary! We appreciate deeply the support of PTSO and all of our families as we continue to grow and innovate in our instruction and practice. Having this partnership with our parents is truly one of the biggest reasons that Greenfield is the phenomenal place that it is.
Please follow the link https://www.greenfieldptso.org/ to donate, and please encourage family and community members to do the same! Donations can be made through March 10, 2019 at midnight, and the run itself will take place on Friday, March 8th (See the schedule sent home this week for your child’s run time-- we know lots of you like to come experience the action first hand!). If each student raised an average of about $35, we would easily reach our goals this year. We know that not every family is able to do this, but we also know that the generosity and support of the Greenfield community is unparalleled.
We very much appreciate our parent community, and I am excited to see the impact of what we can accomplish together!
With Sincere Gratitude,
Mary Longnion
Principal
Greenfield Elementary School
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Dads Club Meeting Location
When: Tuesday, March 5th
Where: 143 South Higley Road, Gilbert
Time: 7 p.m.
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Battle of the Books - Battle #3
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Dads Club Truck Extravaganza!
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What's Cookin' at the Swamp?
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PTSO Store
Click here to go directly to the site.
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PTSO Gold Sponsors
PTSO Silver Sponsor
Acts of KIDness Pediatrics
PTSO Bronze Sponsors
Center for Dermatology & Plastic Surgery
Chromis Technology
Fair Refrigeration, Inc.
Haven Health Group
Price Kong & Co., CPAS P.A.
Sodalicious
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Dads Club Bronze Sponsor
Time Out Bar & Grill
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Greenfield Elementary
Email: greenfieldinfo@gilbertschools.net
Website: http://gilbertgreenfield.ss11.sharpschool.com/
Location: 2550 East Elliot Road, Gilbert, AZ, USA
Phone: (480) 892-2801
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreenfieldElementaryGators/
Twitter: @GrESGators