Gearity PDS
10.05.23 Family Message
Greetings Gearity Families
Kalahari: Our students have been working hard and we have put together an opportunity for family and friends to reward them while saving your family budget. Many Gearity families take our students to Kalahari for a fun day getaway. We have reached out to the resort to set up a fundraiser that will support our school PBIS program while saving your family $30 on a day pass to Kalahari. Day passes sell for $54.95 but if you purchase the passes from our school you will only pay $25 per pass. The passes are subject to blackout dates but are good until November 25, 2024.
In order to take advantage of the saving, you will need to buy the passes from the main office between October 16th - 31st. Please complete this form if you are interested in participating so we can anticipate how large our order will be. After the 31st, we will send the purchase fees to the resort. Kalahari will send us your passes which can be picked up in the main office. Due to the value of the passes, we will not send them home with students. Anyone can purchase the passes so you can let family, friends and neighbors know about this amazing opportunity. We will send a flyer home with your student(s) next week, but you can preview the program information by clicking on the flyer image below.
The Smiles Dental Program is coming to Gearity on Monday. If you would like to have your student see the mobile dentist you can complete the permission form by clicking here.
Gearity will host our October School Market on the 12th. All families will receive free fresh produce. The market is open to the community so please let your friends and neighbors know that they can come to the back playground area from 2-4 to participate.
Have a great weekend,
Patrick McNichols
Principal
Cold and Flu Season is Coming
The best way to deal with a virus? Don’t catch it!
- Support your immune system by eating healthy foods, drinking lots of fluids, and getting adequate rest. It’s your immune system that will help you fight the virus. Talk to your health care provider about vitamins or supplements if you are interested.
- If you are over 6 months of age, get the flu shot unless you are allergic to any of the components in the vaccine, or have been told not to by your doctor.
- The flu shot cannot cause you to get the flu; the virus is grown in chicken eggs and is killed before anyone receives it. There is nothing in the vaccine shot that is capable of causing the flu.
- Vaccinations can be obtained in doctor’s offices, drug stores, and health clinics. You don’t have to wait for weeks to be scheduled for an appointment.
- If you are feeling sick, but not having a major illness or running a high fever (over 101.0 F.), the flu shot doesn’t present a health risk.
- Wash your hands often with soap and warm water, rubbing actively for at least 20 seconds (mentally sing the “A-B-C song,” or “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” slowly) between the fingers and across the fronts and backs of your hands.
- Wash your hands before and after eating or going to the bathroom.
- Wash your hands after blowing your nose and throwing away the tissue.
- Sneeze-in-your-Sleeve, Cough-in-your-Cuff – or at least use a tissue and not your bare hands to “catch” your cough or sneeze.
- Take over-the-counter medications that treat specific symptoms – congestion, fever, headache, or cough – not multi-symptom drugs that might treat you for more problems than you have.
- If you are under 21, or are taking care of someone under 21, DO NOT TAKE ASPIRIN (also listed as acetylsalicylic acid). It can interact with the virus and can cause Reye’s Syndrome, which can cause death in someone whose immune system is not fully mature. (NOTE: this is a possibility, not a direct cause-and-effect.) There are lots of other options out there.
Call your health care provider or the Cuyahoga County Board of Health (216-201-2041) if you have questions or concerns, or would like more information on ways to help yourself and loved ones to stay healthier.
Kalahari Flyer
Exceptional Children's Advocacy Group Workshop
Free Oral Health Clinic Coming Soon!
CH-UH Plan for Communications with Persons with Disabilities
Upcoming Events
October 9th - Mobile Dentist
October 12th -School Market
October 17th & 18th 3rd Grade Fall Ohio State Test and 4th/5th Grade Benchmark Reading Tests
October 24th & 25th 3rd-5th Grade Benchmark Math Tests
October 26th - No Students: Elementary records day and Parent Teacher Conferences (1-7pm)
October 27th - No Students: Parent Teacher Conferences (8:15-11:45 am) & PD Day
November 1st - Picture Retake Day
November 3rd - Quarter 1 Report Cards will be available in Infinite Campus - mailed home the following week!
November 5th - Daylight Savings Time Ends
November 6th - PTA Planning Meeting
November 7th - Election Day (No School for Students - Teacher PD Day)
November 9th - Gearity School Market