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REMINDERS
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4/14 - Ocean Day
4/16 - Earth Day Booth at
San Lorenzo Park
5/6 - Grandparents Day
5/6 - Life Lab Plant Sale
5/7 - Spring Music
Concerts
5/11 - HOS Book Club
See our
schoool calendar
for other upcoming events
Click here to visit the "Green Gateway" blog to see what the EAP group has been up to!
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Zero Waste Lunch Day - TODAY!
Gateway School participated in a Zero Waste Lunch Challenge, an event sponsored by the City of Santa Cruz. Students were asked to bring lunches with zero waste. On Friday, a team of student volunteers weighed our trash, and compared it to today's trash. We reduced our trash by one third (from 6-1/2 lbs. to 4-1/2 lbs!).
Thank you to 4th and 8th grade students who helped with trash weighing: Malena, Zoey, Victoria, Chloe, Ryan and David. Thank you to the 5th grade students who helped educate other classes on zero waste lunch: Malena, Hanna, Carly, Ruby, Lucy, and Daniela. Thank you to 3rd graders who helped at the trash cans: Aya, Clara, Truth and Yssy. And thank you to Mary Simmons (the city public works waste reduction specialist), and to parent volunteers Elizabeth Borelli and Joanna Blattberg for your help in planning and executing this important challenge!
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It's OCEAN WEEK at Gateway!
The Gateway community is celebrating Ocean Week this week! The classrooms are alive with activities related to the ocean, with culminating activities from our M.A.R.E. curriculum.
Yesterday, the students enjoyed the very fun and educational Banana Slug String Band. Please join us for Classroom Tours on Thursday, 4/14, 1:15 - 2:15pm. Students will be returning to their classrooms at 2:15 to conclude their school day.
Please remember that Friday is a regular school day and like every school day meaningful work will be taking place so please make sure your child is present.
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GRANDPARENTS DAY - May 6th
You will find invitations in your child's Wednesday homework folder which you can send to your child's grandparent or loved one. Grandparents Day is such a special day for our students!
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40 Acts of Kindness Updates
Japan Relief: 6th grade advisory groups are counting up the change from the coin drive and bake sales and will announce the amount raised after Spring Break. Special thanks to all the families and faculty who contributed to the bake sales!
Help Japan Relief Concert Saturday, April 23rd, Rio Theatre
(Parent Janet Nagamine asked us to promote this!)
Help Japan Relieve Concert is a fundraiser to help the earthquake and tsunami victims presented by the Japanese Cultural Fair organization in Santa Cruz. The money raised will be going to the Northern Japan Earthquake Relief Fund established by the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California (JCCCNC). 100% of the donations received will go to local non-profit and community service organizations in Japan for citizen to citizen relief efforts reaching those most in need in the most affected areas.
For more information, click here.
Human Race Walk-a-thon: Gateway is putting together a team to participate in the Human Race on Saturday, May 7, 2011. Our team will be raising money for Save Our Shores. Any parents and students who are interested in participating, please contact Virginia Ganley at virginiag@cruzio.com. The race will be in the morning so you can participate and still make the afternoon Spring Music Concerts!
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Mindfulness Training Update
The in-classroom Mindfulness practice training finished yesterday as our trainers from Mindful Schools wrapped up their 8-week training program. Faculty and students filled in evaluation forms and we held our final Parent meeting with one of the trainers, Carla.
Faculty will be looking at ways to integrate both formal and informal mindfulness practice into each of their classrooms in an ongoing way. And additional training sessions for teachers and one for parents are scheduled for this summer and fall.
If you would like to help support this training for our students and faculty, you can make a tax deductible donation of any amount by writing a check or donating on-line. Click here to Donate On-line. We appreciate any size donation. Thank you!
Also if you'd like to know more click here for links (in the green "post-it" box) about Mindfulness practice at Gateway .
Mindful Schools is offering a 6-week Mindfulness Fundamentals class July 7- Aug 11, 6 - 8 pm here on the Gateway campus. This is an opportunity for parents and teachers from the Santa Cruz area (this is open to individuals within, and beyond, the Gateway community) to learn the basic techniques of a mindfulness practice. For more details and to register go to http://mindfulschools.org/training
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SPRING AFTER SCHOOL CLASSES
There are still openings in MANDARIN, CREATIVE MOVEMENT AND LEGO/COMPUTER after school classes. The information/registration forms are posted on the Class Page section of Gateway's web site, or pick up a paper copy from the Main Office. For a look at how Kiki Chen teaches MANDARIN, please follow this link.
Kiki Chen's methods for teaching MANDARIN are lively and interactive, take a look at her web site!
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Life Lab Plant Sale - May 6th
May 6th (the Friday before Mother's Day) and
May 10th-11th, 3:00-5:00pm, in our Life Lab garden classroom.
We are excited to announce, our annual Mother's Day and May Life Lab Plant sale! Funds generated will benefit Gateway School's Life Lab Science program with a portion of proceeds to benefit Save the Frogs habitat restoration efforts this year!!
Student volunteers will be selling plants that they and other students have grown during Life Lab. Various grade levels have propagated plants that correspond to the theme gardens they are growing in their spring gardens in Life Lab. Your child can watch the same things grow at home all summer that they are growing in their life lab garden at school!
Sunflowers, gourds, popcorn, (K)
3 sisters garden - corn, beans and pumpkins, (1st grade)
Salsa gardens and CA native plants, (2nd grade)
Potato pots, spaghetti squash, pesto, tomato sauce gardens, (3rd grade)
Salad bowls of baby greens, pesto, and tomato sauce pizza gardens (4th grade)
Mother's Day Strawberry pots (5th grade)
Herbal lip balms and salves (Middle School Elective)
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HOS Book Club - May 11th, 7pm
Be reading now so you can join in the Head of School book discussion in May. The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development, by Richard Wiessbourd.
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Parent Resources
EdRev 2011: Stand Up, Speak Out! Saturday April 16th, AT&T Park, San Francisco Produced by Parents Education Network Keynote Address: Neuroscience and the Learning Revolution Dr. L. Todd Rose, Co-chair of the Mind, Brain, and Education Institute at Harvard (bio) Video Address by Andrés Torres, SF Giants center fielder (speaking about ADHD) For more information visit www.EdRevSF.org |
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