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2019-2020 School Year: Volume 16: Week of January 6, 2020
Be the Best YOU at Grandview!!!
Happy 2020!! Almost at the half-way point of the year!!
I hope you all had a great two-week holiday season! I am excited to have the halls of Grandview fill back up with students excited to learn.
What an exciting time of year at Grandview! This is when we see many students take giant leaps in their learning. Students who have struggled with being “tuned into” learning are starting to take off. Students who struggled with reading fluently are sounding like pros. Students who have fought with their addition and subtraction facts are finding that things are starting to click. This is a true testament to all the learning done at school and at home since the start of the school year. We will be celebrating this growth as our winter assessment window is opening. The Winter NWEA will take place for all grades K-5, as well as, the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills or DIBELS, and some students will also be Developmental Reading Assessed or DRAed.
So, let’s keep the positive growth going with the coordinated efforts between home and school. Remember, you can/should read with your child each night. Students need to read with you for (1) a fluent model of what reading sounds like, (2) seeing that you value the practice needed to grow as a reader, (3) continued practice of strategies and skills learned at school, and (4) quality time for you and your child.
Tuesday Night Night returns!! See you on Facebook Live!! Thank you for your continued support at home!
Your Proud Principal,
Melissa Carruth, Ed.S
Should I Send my Child to School Today?
Grandview Movie Night
Grandview Red Wing Night
Shoe Donation
Outside of the music room is a large box for the shoe donation! So feel free to drop them off in the box or drop off in the office!!
This fundraiser not only will give back to Grandview, but it will give back to the world for students who are in need!!! It will continue through January and February!!!
To learn more about this fundraiser, click on this link....
Hat and Glove Tree
Grandview Sports
This year's Floor Hockey has the best turn-out for floor hockey in quite some time!!! Currently we have...
Pee-Wee League - 36 players; 3 teams of 12 -- we still want more students in this league
Junior League - 27 players; 3 teams of 9 -- we still want more students in this league
Senior League - 66 players; 6 teams of 11
Scrimmage Games begin this week. Here is the first week schedule.
Monday 1/6/20 Scrimmage Game
@ 6:30pm Jr #3 vs PW #3
Wednesday 1/8/20 Scrimmage Games
@ 6:00pm PW #1 vs PW #2
@ 7:15pm Jr #1 vs Jr #2
Thursday 1/9/20 Scrimmage Game
@ 6:30pm Sr #1 vs Sr #3
Friday 1/10/20 Scrimmage Games
@ 6:00pm Sr #2 vs Sr #4
@ 7:15pm Sr #5 vs Sr #6
Click on the following link for Practice and Game Times.
Game Schedules
Pee-Wee League plays on Wednesdays @ 6:00pm
Junior League plays on Wednesdays @ 7:15pm
Senior League plays on Thursdays @ 6:30pm and Fridays @ 6pm & 7:15pm
(All games will be played at Grandview)
All the information about Floor Hockey is found on the new and amazingly informative GV Sports Website found below....
Be sure to sign up and participate!! If you have questions regarding sports, reach out to Stacey at her email at GVSportsDirector@gmail.com.
Also be sure to follow the Grandview Sports Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/GrandviewSports/
Winter Weather is here.....Dress Appropriately
Additionally, if your child medical conditions restricts them to be outside, please do not just send a note in from you. We need to have a medical note. Our office is becoming packed with kids that say, "my parents told me to stay in." We welcome them to stay in, but we need the medical note as we have kids that have medical restrictions and they do not have anywhere to sit due to the kids that do not have the medical note.
WatchDOGS where are you? We need you!!!
It is super easy to begin....just find a day, a 1/2-day, or a few hours and come to the Grandview office and ask for Miss Venessa. She will place you on a WatchDOG schedule and classrooms.
Come on in WatchDOGS!!!!! I case you forgot what a WatchDOG is, see below.....
WatchDOGS are fathers, grandfathers, uncles, and other father-figures who volunteer for at least one day each year at an official WATCH D.O.G.S. ® school. During the day, WatchDOGS may read and work on flash cards with students, play at recess, eat lunch with students, watch the school entrances and hallways, assist with traffic flow and any other assigned activities where they actively engage with not only their own students, but other students as well. Grandview would like to start the program as I am hoping that the mere presence of a WatchDOG dramatically reduces reports of bullying. On the day of their participation, WatchDOGS are given a brief review of their involvement and they wear an official WATCH D.O.G.S. ® t-shirt with a disposable ‘Dog Tag’ identifying them as WatchDOGS.
If you are interested in volunteering for this program, please contact the office or Ms. V, our Student Support Coach, at venessa.zverotic@clarencevilleschools.org. We would like to start the program the 1st of the year.
Grandview Math Night
Has been scheduled for Thursday, January 30th. Ford engineers will be our volunteers, as well as, our 5th grade math leaders. Additionally, Ford will be providing lots of STMath games and rewards. It should be an amazing night, so mark your calendars!
FOG Popcorn Day
January has 3 popcorn day this month. January 17th and the 31st are the dates....
$0.50 a bag!
A Note From Our Specials Teachers....
A Message from Mrs. Frost
We live in a world surrounded by technology. And we know that whatever field our students choose to go into as adults, their ability to succeed will increasingly depend on understanding how technology works. But only a tiny fraction of us are learning how technology works. Only 45% of all high schools teach computer science.
That’s why our entire school recently joined in on the largest learning event in history: The Hour of Code, during Computer Science Education Week (December 9-15). More than 100 million students worldwide have already tried an Hour of Code, and all students at Grandview had the opportunity to try it too!
At Grandview, we are going beyond one hour of code. Students will continue to learn how computers work with various programming activities. Lower El students will continue to practice sequencing instructions with screen-free and computer-based coding activities. Upper El students will use MIT's Scratch to design and code their own computer games. And, hopefully, all students will also have the chance to code with robots!
Code.org's activities are available all year long. Your children can try them anytime! Many are available on multiple devices; you only need internet access. Click here to view the coding puzzles and games.
2019-2020 Annual School Survey
Please help Grandview to continue to improve! We ask for ALL parents to complete our annual survey to help to drive our instruction, conversation, and improvement. This was the same survey that was in the lobby of Grandview during conferences. Thank you to the families that already completed it and I so appreciate all the families that will complete it. I would love to hear all of your voices as we strive to make Grandview the very best school!!!!
Box Tops for Education
Box Tops are moving away from clipping paper box tops and now moving to scanning qualifying receipts to earn school money.
Last year, Grandview earned $757.50 with Box Tops and we do not want to lose that revenue.
There is a Grandview parent that is already earning box tops via apps. Please download the app and log in, it is easy. Questions, stop in the office!!!
Pink Out Store
The Importance of Sleep
Importance of being in school
Education is important for your child’s success in life. Regular attendance ensures that your child gets all the benefits school can offer. When children are missing school, they’re missing out on those benefits. School attendance is so important, that Michigan law makes it compulsory for all children ages 6 to 16 attending public schools. When children are excessively absent, the law holds parents/guardians accountable. If your child is truant (missing scheduled school time without an accepted excused absence), you and/or your child could end up in court with serious consequences. Attendance may be the single most important factor in school success because:
- Children do best in school when they are in class every day. The U.S. Department of Education reports that for every missed day of school, it takes a student two days to catch up.
- In addition to academics, children learn valuable lessons about personal responsibility and commitment.
- Children keep up with their peers and have stronger bonds with the school and community.
- Annually, students who graduate from high school will earn 30% more than those who don’t complete high school.
- One in 10 kindergarten students miss nearly a month of school every year. In some districts, it runs as high as 1 in 3.
- Kindergarteners who miss 10 percent of school days have lower academic performance when they reach first grade.
- Chronic absence in kindergarten translated into lower fifth grade achievement.
Below is some important information about the correlation between attendance and achievement.
Transportation Changes
School Hours
School Doors open at 8:20 and the students will report to their grade level location. At 8:25, the first bell rings and the 2nd bell rings at 8:30, when learning begins.
At dismissal, parent walk-up and pick-up will begin to be dismissed at 8:35. The final bell is at 3:40 when all students will dismiss from their afternoon dismissal location.
Your child is marked tardy starting at 8:40. Attendance and tardy was a problem at Grandview. Please do not get into the same routine this year. We need your children in school each and every day!! Also, your child will not be released after 3:15, unless plans were set beforehand.
Free Breakfast and Lunch
Breakfast and Lunch Menus
Late Drop off and Early Pick Up
Tardy is marked starting at 8:40.
Children will not be allowed an early dismissal from the office after 3:15 pm so we can ensure a calm and safe end to the day for all students. Please plan accordingly. If you need your child picked up between 3:15-3:40, please contact the office or classroom teacher in the morning so that we are ready for this early release.
Tuesday Night Night
Kroger and Grandview
Kroger and Grandview
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.
Volunteering at School
iChats are also needed to be filled out if you wish to be a WatchDOG dad or chaperone a field trip.
Job Opportunity
Important Dates and Upcoming Dates
January
6: Classes Resume
9: RS Savers
10: Movie Night - 6-8:00 proceeds go to 5th grade camp
13: School Store Fundraiser Begins
14: FOG Meeting @ 6 pm
15: Winter Picture Date -- Yearbook, Clubs, Groups, Floor Hockey
16: Video Truck -- 1-2:00 (Note: this is for students who sold a certain amount in our winter
office fundraiser)
17: Popcorn Day
Last Day to sell Red Wings Tickets
Zap Zone FOG Family Night
20: No School -- MLK
22: 5th Grade Camp Parent Meeting
23: RS Savers
Board of Education Meeting @ 6:30
29: Principal Breakfast -- Students with Integrity and Wonderful Writers
30: ST Math Night - 6-7:30
31: Popcorn Day