Mustang Messenger
2020-2021 School Year: Volume 13: Week of November 30th
Be the Best YOU at Grandview!!!
December is Here!!!
Dear Families,
December is here. Holiday decorations are out. Holiday shopping has begun and kids are starting to get very excited for the holidays. With all of this excitement, we have noticed an increase in excitement with our students. We also have noticed more kids are turning off their cameras, watching TV or opening another screen, or laying in their bed or under a blanket on the couch and are disengaged with their learning. We have three weeks until break and we need to work together to end 2020 on a positive note. Please help to support us as we continue to put learning first as there are still three weeks until Holiday Break.
As soon as we return from break, our winter assessments will commence and so the teachers are hoping to hit the standards and continue to challenge your children all the way up until break. The assessment window will look a little different in this virtual world, but we will still be monitoring our students learning to ensure that we are seeing them grow as learners during this virtual learning.
Please help to support learning with conversations with your children to help instill the focus that we know they can have. Also please take extra time to monitor your children when they are online to ensure that their focus is there!!
Your Proud Principal,
Mrs. Melissa Carruth, Ed.S
Important Info to support your children at home
Another Week of Learning!!
Pumpkin Pie Mathematicians
Thanksgiving Gratitude
Kindergarten Turkeys
Kindergarten Reader Leader
2nd grade word sort
Gratitude Challenge
School Supplies and Distribution
This Friday, December 4th, is our next Supply Pick-up. This is the only distribution for December. It is new materials and resources to help support your student learning at home. Classroom teachers will let you know what materials need to come back to school from the previous distributions and what new materials you will be picking up. It varies from Grade to Grade, but it is IMPORTANT that everyone comes. If you need school supplies at home and you need assistance, let the office or your child's classroom teacher know. We are here for you and want to help.
Again, if the time does not work for you, come when it is best for your family. If you have multiple students, choose the grade level that works for your family and come one time. The office is open until 4:00 and 8-4:00 each day. If you need an after 4:00 pick-up, contact the office and we will make arrangements for you.
We will not have another supply distribution until January. We will set the date based on when we will be returning to school.
Grandview Virtual Parent Cafe -- Digital Details 1: Gaming
We know that with COVID, support for our parents is just as important as the support for our students. So the GV staff want to provide that support. The meetings will be short and we hope you walk away with one nugget of learning that will make teaching and learning with your child easier.
Below is the link and calendar of dates around the big 4 topics. The subtopics will be featured each week in the Mustang Messenger.
Parent Support Learning Sessions
There are a ton of amazing sessions on super relevant and impactful session!!! I encourage you to take time out of your schedule to support yourself to support your children.
Take a look and let me know if you attend and what you learn!!!
GV Virtual Holiday Spirit Week
FOG NEWS
FOG is holding a 5 Below Fundraiser the week of December 13th-19th. Without our Holiday Shop event able to happen, due to COVID restrictions, this fundraiser is a great way to buy some economical presents for families.
You need to take the below flyer with you when you are shopping!!! Feel free to show the picture or print off and give to the cashier.
Clarenceville District and Elementary Calendar
Livonia GoodFellows
We just wanted to keep you up to date on how the Livonia GoodFellows will be moving forward with the collection of Non-Perishable Food & Toys at Dickinson Center located at:
18000 Newburgh Rd Livonia 48152.
We will be collecting Canned Food & Toys on Saturday’s & Sunday’s only in October/ November/ December. Our volunteers can either curbside, collecting the donations from your vehicle or you can bring them inside & place in designated boxes that are marked.
- December 5/6
Saturday Hours: 9:00am to 12:00pm
Sunday Hours: 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Mrs Gibson & Mr Terpack
Student Council Advisors
Yearbook Pictures
First Day of School, Grandview FOG Facebook Page, Constitution Day, Virtual Spirit Week has all brought in some great pictures for our yearbook committee, but we need more. Thank you to those families that have sent me pictures, but we still need more. If you have some great pictures of your child learning virtually, please email them to the following address.....gviewyearbook@gmail.com. It will take a village for us to ensure that we have enough pictures to mark this historical year.
This Week's Specials Content Introduction Video
Still Not In the Special's Google Classroom, here are some tips to help you.....
Junior Kindergarten through Second Grade students who have not yet enrolled in their Specials Google Classroom have been added to the classrooms. You will not need to follow instructions for joining with a code. Instead, go to classroom.google.com and you'll see the Specials class automatically listed. Click the "Join" button and then the classroom will open. Look at the image below to help guide you.
Third through fifth grade students who have not yet enrolled in their Specials Google Classroom should follow the instructions to join with the code provided. Each of your classroom teachers have the codes listed.
School Hours and Attendance
This week we are starting tardies. If you are more than 10 minutes late into the meetings, tardy will be marked. So any student in after 8:40 or 10 minutes after their afternoon session, will be marked tardy. That will happen in brick and mortar.
Any student that misses more than the majority of the lesson, will be marked absent. Students are coming in with under 5 minutes to go, that is missed learning. The teachers will try and keep your child on to catch them up, but small group sessions are happening and they might not be able to.
Tardies can affect truancy, as does attendance. Remember, attendance IS taken daily. Attendance will be monitored. Truancy laws will be upheld. Under State of Michigan legislation, truancy is defined as a child who has 10 or more unexcused absences per school year. If you are option 1 - hybrid remote, teachers will take a morning and afternoon attendance, just like in brick and mortar. If you are in option 2 - virtual academy. You have a little more flexibility, but daily contact with the teacher is still expected. You can still call into the attendance line to excuse your child, but please do not get yourself into trouble with attendance. Unlike the spring, attendance is mandatory.
Free Breakfast and Lunch -- December Details!!!
Curbside meal pick-up for all children 18 and under or any mentally or physically handicapped adults ages 19-26 will take place on Thursdays at Clarenceville High School, Door 21. On most Thursdays, students will be given 7 days’ worth of breakfast and lunch meals. Parents/students can pick up their meals during one of the following service times: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM OR 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM. See the 2020-21 First Semester Meal Pick-Up Schedule for a complete list of service dates and the number of meals to
be provided on each date.
If you are in need of food, but cannot get to Grandview for food, please reach out to myself or the Grandview office so that we can help you to get food. I have included another free food resource from Bush's.
FOG Positions and FOG News -- JOIN OUR TEAM!!!
The following positions are still available:
FOG President:
FOG Co-VP with Nick Dorst:
If you are interested, please reach out to myself or Nick Dorst at fogvp2020@gmail.com
Tech Support this School Year
Click here for Google Meet Support Link
Click her to access Google Meet for Tech support
Tuesday Night Night
Grandview and Kroger
We get money from Kroger if you add Grandview to your profile. Thank you to all of you who have already added Grandview to your account. Though know that it is never too late to sign-up and join!!! So shop away, Grandview is benefitting from your grocery shopping!
Simply encourage your participants to visit http://www.kroger.com. Once logged into their Kroger account they can search for Friends of Grandview either by name or TH003 and then click Enroll. New users will need to create an account which requires some basic information, a valid email address and a rewards card.
*Customers must have a registered Kroger rewards card account to link to your organization.
*If a member does not yet have a Kroger rewards card, please let them know they are available at the customer service desk at any Kroger
REMEMBER, purchases will not count for your organization until after your participants register their rewards card.
Participants must swipe their registered Kroger rewards card or use the phone number that is related to their registered Kroger rewards card when shopping for each purchase to count.
Interested in Cub Scouts
Grandview Sports
In the meantime, check out this great communication piece for our families!!
Important Dates and Upcoming Dates
December
1: GV Virtual Parent Cafe Meeting @ 6:00 pm - Technology - Gaming
4: Supply Distribution #6
8: GV Virtual Parent Cafe Meeting @ 6:00 pm - Literacy - Essential Literacy Practices
10: Board of Education Meeting @ 6:30 pm
13-19: FOG Five Below Fundraiser
14-18: GV Virtual Spirit Week
15: FOG Meeting
19-January 3: Holiday Break