 Music Program Update I am happy to announce that Kristin Allen will be returning to the staff next year to work alongside Kristin Engineer in our music department. The musical Kristins will share teaching responsibilities, with Ms. Engineer teaching grades K - 2 and Ms. Allen teaching grades 3 - 5; each will teach a semester elective as well. I am so excited to see and hear what this collaboration will produce in our students. Next year will be an exciting time for Gateway School and our music program. When you see Ms. Allen and Ms. Engineer please congratulate them.
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Bike to School Day & Pancake Breakfast - Thurs. May 10th
Ride your bike or scooter to school on Thursday and receive breakfast at school! Gateway Dads will also be serving pancakes to all Bike to School Day participants. Volunteers are needed to help set-up, cook, and clean-up on the morning on Thursday, May 10th. If you are interested please contact Kurt Almendras at kurt.almendras@gatewaysc.org
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Life Lab Plant Sale - May 11-15, 3-5pm
Student volunteers will be selling plants that they and other students have grown during Life Lab this year on Friday, Monday and Tuesday after school.
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American Teacher Film ScreeningMay 16th, 3:30 p.m. 
"Weaving interviews of policy experts and startling facts with the lives and careers of four teachers, American Teacher tells the collective story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system-the 3.2 million teachers who spend every day in classrooms across the country..."
Join us for this private movie screening and discussion brought to us by parent Sherrie L'Heureux. RSVP to Kimara at kimara.vann@gatewaysc.org.
For more information about the film and The Teacher Salary Project, visit http://www.theteachersalaryproject.org. |
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Book Exchange - Friday May 25th
Start gathering your children's books at home so they can participate in the Gateway School Book Exchange.
The student library club will be organizing our annual school book exchange on Friday, May 25. First grade through fourth grade classrooms can participate. Students please bring books on Wednesday, May 23 and Thursday, May 24 (so that there is enough time to set up before Friday), and place the books upstairs on the black cabinets across from the library. Please donate only children's books.
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Grandparents Day - Thank Yous
We thank Mika Jarnagin-Knox and Aerin Martin for co-coordinating Grandparents Day and to the many parent volunteers who brought food, helped with set-up and registration and to grandfather Dr. Art Liu who spoke to the Middle School students and grandparents.
Special 4th grade aknowledgemetnts from Caprice:
A very special thank you to the wonderful garden helpers for the 4th graders spaghetti squash feast for GP day! We could not have fed 4th graders and their grandparents without the amazing help setting up, serving and clean-up of all the garden staff and incredible parent volunteers. A huge thank you to Kristin Smith for elegantly plating each serving of the 4th graders spaghetti squash, tomato sauce and pesto, Christy Brandt for the preparation with 4th graders of a garden salad, Sharon Chipman for endless seeming clean-up, Andrea Hultzen for working the serving assembly line with grace and a constant smile, Joan Saia for stopping by and digging in to help, and thank you to Sari and Kurt for serving and bringing cheese, drinks and bread to help us feed over 80 people!
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Gateway School Day at Bookshop SC
THANK YOU to all those who bought books at Bookshop Santa Cruz last Thursday to support Gateway School. Our library will receive a gift card worth $182 plus 15 books donated from the wish list.
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Camp Gateway News
Summer is right around the corner and we still have spaces in some great classes:
Piano (now open to first and second graders)
Sand Sculpting
Theater Camp
Mandarin
Spanish Language Camp
Ranch Builders (Week 4)
Marine Science and Kayaking
Inside Santa Cruz
and Many More!
In exciting Day Camp news, Gateway's own Katie Benn has signed on for the summer and will be helping us plan our themed projects and activities. Visit the summer website to sign up now: http://www.gatewaysc.org/campgateway/
If you haven't like Camp Gateway on Facebook yet, now is the time! At the end of May we will hold a drawing to give a way a week of free Day Camp to one of our lucky Facebook friends. |
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Parent Resources
Remember to check out the Parent Resources page on our website for a link to parent workshops and upcoming events.
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