December 19th- Monday- Early Release

December 20th- Tuesday- Early Release

December 21st- Tuesday- Early Release

January 5th- Thursday- Students Return

K-2: January 10th and 11th

3-6: January 17th-18th

PTO would like to help by collecting monetary donations via Venmo or Zelle. If you would like to help you can send donations to Sherrie Stovall (PTO President) via:

Venmo: @Sherrie-Stovall

Zelle: 321-223-8282

Mrs. Stovall will convert these monetary donations into gift cards. If you have any questions, please reach out to Ms. Conley at 727-3090.

Thank you!

This week's milestone saw 5th grader Kaden Miller achieving 100 miles! Kaden is one of our most dedicated runners and is aiming for 300 miles before the end of the year. Keep up the fast laps Kaden!

This Saturday, December 17, come help support Morning MIle by running the Jingle Bell 2 Miler! All participants 14 and under earn points for Team Gemini. Youth registration is $20 with a no shirt/no medal option for only $10. Every race you run will earn credit for 25 laps (straws) and a fun charm for your Morning Mile necklace.

https://runsignup.com/Race/FL/SatelliteBeach/JingleBell2Miler

All are welcome! We hope you will come and join us 7:15-7:45 on the field just south of Gemini. You can get notified about details regarding Gemini’s Morning Mile Program through the Remind App - text @dee9f2f to 81010 or go to https://www.remind.com/join/dee9f2f. Questions - email Melissa McNall at melissamcnall10@gmail.com.

In recognition of child safety issues, the Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse will hold Florida Missing Children’s Day on September 11, 2023. To help create awareness among children in Florida, a poster contest and an essay contest are held each year. The winner of these contests will be invited to Florida Missing Children’s Day and receive an award at the ceremony. Please see below for the following contest information. Additional information can also be found in the documents attached to this email and my visiting https://www.fmcdf.org/important-links . Thank you so much for your consideration in having your 5th grade class participate.

POSTER CONTEST: DUE BY FEBRUARY 6th, 2023

1. The slogan “Bringing our Missing Children Home” MUST appear on the poster.
2. The poster MUST be 8 ½ by 14 inches (standard paper is 8 ½ by 11 inches and is NOT accepted.)
3. The posters MUST be created by hand. Crayons, pencils, markers, spray paint, pastels, acrylics, and watercolors are accepted.
4. Send a completed submission form and parental release form for each poster submitted. Please make sure writing is LEGIBLE. Participants will receive a Certificate of Excellence from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement for their participation. The state-wide winner will receive an award/prize package at Florida Missing Children’s Day.

See the attached PDF below for contest rules and address to mail the application and poster to.

Our 4th Annual Rolling Readers WRITES 2023 Competition is open to all eligible 4th-grade elementary students within Brevard Public Schools!

FREE to ALL participants, Rolling Readers WRITES is fully endorsed by Mrs. Jane Cline, Assistant Superintendent, Elementary Office of Leading & Learning.

At its core, Rolling Readers WRITES is a writing competition open to all eligible 4th-grade elementary students. Students will have the opportunity to develop their writing talents by creatively writing and submitting their stories, with the qualifying stories reviewed by a judging committee, and three winning stories published! All winning stories are competing for a monetary prize in the form of a Florida Pre-Paid Savings account. Last year $1,700 was awarded to the 1st through 3rd place WRITES/DRAWS winners who ALL came from Brevard County Elementary Schools’ population of 4th-grade students! Can you imagine how exciting it was for the student’s families, their teachers, and school administrators to see these elementary school students receive, in essence, scholarship monies to set them on the road to college?

There is NO ENTRY FEE involved.

In order to participate, teachers and students must complete the following steps:

The contest rules sheet and entry form, along with pertinent information are attached.

Step 1: Teachers - Please ensure that your 4th-grade students receive the information, contest rules, and entry form no later than Wednesday, December 21, 2022. This will allow the students time to work on their stories over Winter break…

Step 2: Students - Students should submit their stories by the deadline, with completed entry forms, to you (the teachers) no later than Wednesday, January 25, 2023, to allow time for teachers, or designated Site Coordinators to forward entries to us using the BPS Courier system in time. Address: Palm Bay Magnet High School, Attn: Rolling Readers Space Coast – Portable #27.

Judging is scheduled for February 6 through February 10, 2023, so it is important that we get the entries in on time…

Once the winning stories are selected, they will be published in a book entitled Rolling Readers WRITES Vol. 4.

Winners will officially receive their awards at our annual spring event Space Coast River Jam, scheduled for Saturday, May 20, 2023. This extraordinary night of celebration will be held at Cocoa Riverfront Park.

If you have any questions, please email us at read@rollingreadersspacecoast.com, or call our office at 321-254-9976.

This year's Youth Truth Survey window will open January 5, 2023 and remain open through January 27, 2023. We are excited to once again have this opportunity to receive feedback from our students.

We will survey students in grades 3-6 during this time.

Parents DO have the option to opt their students out of participating in the survey. Please note that there is no penalty at all for a student that does not want to take the survey. Parents may request to review the questions that will be on the survey. A PDF version can be emailed at a parent's request.

If you would like to request a copy of the survey, please email Mrs. Rosado at rosado.christine@brevardschools.org by January 5, 2022.

Thank you,

Mrs. Carver, Principal