• Students in Grades K-8 have been meeting with Mrs. Sommers, Mrs. Backal and Officer Rodriquez this week to learn about and to promote the prevention of Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying (HIB).
• Age-appropriate topics include: definitions of HIB, the importance of reporting, the difference between bullying and conflict, being safe and respectful online (cyberbullying) and what to do if you or someone you know is being bullied.

The Book Fair was a Success!

Over $6,200 in sales! This means over $3,000 in "Scholastic Dollars" were awarded to Gibbsboro. This will go toward purchasing new books for our birthday book cart and library!

A special thanks to following staff members:

• Mrs. Luistro - She helped set up for the book fair and family night.
• Ms. Harris, Ms. Wint, Mrs. Weinberg, Mr. Galda, Mrs. Luistro, and Ms. Terry for reading at family night!
• Mrs. Backal who organized TAG members to help on browsing day!
• Mrs. Lewis who organized NJHS students to help at family night!
• Mrs. MacFerren and Mrs. Aversa who assisted in various ways!

Mrs. Hirsh is looking forward to hosting another successful book fair in the spring.

Mrs. Paetzold, formerly Ms. Maggioncalda, has joined the 5th grade team! We are excited to have you back at Gibby!

So much fun and learning happening here at Gibbsboro School!

Tree Study Project

Ms. Killian and Ms. Maddie took their students outside to collect leaves, sticks and acorns for their Tree Study!

Welcome to Pre-K Heinz!

Halloween was filled with laughter and smiles! And great costumes!

We asked the HSA to purchase chalkboards for kindergarten last month during the HSA meeting! We started using them to reinforce letter formation with chalk and a wet Q-tip. The students are loving it!

Fancy Nancy Day was so much fun!

Character and setting were reviewed by making a "home" for Wanda the Witch.

Pumpkin carving to practice fine motor skills was so much fun!

Ms. Amber and a student were TWINS for the day!

2nd Grade had a great time making Australian Aboriginal inspired artwork!

Mrs. Atkinson's class is starting a Junior Student Council! They will begin a service learning project and will be mentored by the Middle School Student Council!

And therapy dogs are visiting each week!

Mrs. Graham's class celebrated the Halloween and Fall season by reading the book Pumpkin Jack, carving our own “Jacks”, counting the seeds, setting up an estimation contest (Ms. Katie won!), and using the seeds to build arrays to model the distributive property that we have been learning about in math. We put our “Jacks” in the breezeway garden to observe as they decompose and (hopefully!) become a new patch of pumpkins in the spring! For writing, we practiced persuasive writing with our haunted house listings!

We had a lot of fun with our teamwork activity using pumpkins and toothpicks.

Lots of fun in 5th grade. We had a Halloween party where Mrs. J surprised us with a visit! We also have been working very hard in centers, as well as in science, where we have been experimenting with different acids and bases.

• 7th grade is reading The Outsiders and working on nature poems outside, inspired by Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay."
• 6th grade just finished writing "Fortune Cookie Stories"-- we used messages in actual fortune cookies as themes to inspire the stories.

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