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REMINDERS
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4/29 - 8th Grade Parent
Coffee
5/3 - Pastries with Percy
(for K-5 parents)
5/6 - Grandparents Day
5/6 - Life Lab Plant Sale
5/6 - Art Open Studio
5/7 - Human Race
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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ORDER YOUR 2010-2011 YEARBOOK NOW!
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Don't miss out...
GATEWAY SUMMER CAMP 2011
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Click here to register online!
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PASTRIES WITH PERCY
Tuesday May 3rd, 7:30-8:30am
For K-5 parents, please join Percy for coffee and pastries bright and early, before work! This is an opportunity to ask questions and have a discussion about Gateway's curriculum, policies and mission. This is a great chance to ask about anything you've been wondering about at Gateway and be with parents from other grades.
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GRANDPARENTS DAY - May 6th
Please encourage your child's grandparents to send in their RSVP cards as soon as possible, or you can RSVP on their behalf to kristin.smith@gatewaysc.org.
Parents, if you are able to bring food or would like to volunteer to help at Grandparents Day, please click here to sign up!
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40 Acts of Kindness Updates
Fun Run to Support Girl Scout Troup 10417 - Saturday April 30th, 10-11am, Lighthouse Field. Come support Gateway 3rd graders' Girl Scout troup at this fun run on Saturday. Price is $2.00 per participant; all participants will receive free lemonade and cookies!
Human Race Walk-a-thon: Gateway is putting together a Championship team to participate in the Human Race on Saturday, May 7, 2011. Our team will be raising money for Save Our Shores (Agency #181). Any parents and students who are interested in participating, please sign up now. If you have questions 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!
Japan Relief Fundraising: Gateway School has raised $1,019.06 for Red Cross Japan Relief through the 2 bakes sales and coin drive led by 6th grade advisory groups. Connor Well's dad's company KLA Tencor has offered to match this amount for Japan Relief! Thank you so much to all those who supported these efforts.
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Young Author's Fair - Saturday April 30th
Capitola Mall - 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Please join us this Saturday at the Young Author's Fair from 10-4pm at the Capitola Mall (near the fountain). Gateway School will have a booth, and teachers Tess, Patty, Jen, Emily, Johaan, Sari, Rachel, Lydia, Liz, Ana, Cathy and Sara are going to provide some of their students' work. Students who come will have the option of reading their writing in the AUTHOR'S CHAIR. This is completely optional, and a wonderful opportunity.
A special thanks to Julie, Joan, Colleen, Merle, Liz and Lydia who will be running Gateway's booth on Saturday.
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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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GPA Upcoming Events
5/12 - Bonny Doon Wine Tasting, 6-8pm
Gateway's 2nd Annual Bonny Doon Night is Thursday May 19 from 6-8pm. Enjoy a private event for our school community (adults only please). $15 include 3 pours of amazing Bonny Doon wine & light faire from their Celler Door kitchen. Tickets are now available in the office.
5/19 - All-parent Meeting, 6-7pm Don't miss the final parent association gathering for the school year. The Parent's Association is your organization, so come and help us wrap up the year and look forward to 2011-12!
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Water Garden Design Project
As you may recall we have a special project that is being designed specifically for Gateway School's Life Lab Garden. We will be installing a grey water system to treat and re-use water from our outdoor garden kitchen for hand watering in the garden. The goal is to keep our precious resources, like water, on the farm.
We will use an ecologically-based management system with emergent plants in tiered 3-pond biofiltration system to treat the water from the outdoor kitchen sinks. Students will then convey the water through a hand pump to watering cans to water the garden beds.
We will be breaking ground on this project on Saturday May 14th and Sunday May 15th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. We are looking for volunteers to help with all aspects of this undertaking. There will be opportunities for everything from down and dirty manual labor to pouring lemonade. There will also be plenty of jobs appropriate for children so bring the whole family! If you can join us for some fun in the sun please RSVP to Jeremy King Jeremy.King@gatewaysc.org with the day and time you can help as well as any preference you may have for types of jobs.
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STUDENT BOOK EXCHANGE - Friday May 13
Please donate only children's books. Bring the books upstairs and place them in the boxes on the black cabinets across from the library or in the area across from Patricia's class on Wednesday, May 11 and Thursday, May 12.
Students should bring their books in before Friday.
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Parent Resources
Kid Power Parent Workshop - Monday May 2, 7-8pm specially arranged for Gateway School parents, caregivers and staff. Click here for more information.
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