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Good Shepherd Lutheran School
Friday Focus
MAY
1 GSLS Middle School Speech Tournament @ Ross School
5-6 Preschool closed for conferences
6 Staff Appreciation Luncheon Minimum Day 12noon and 12:15 dismissal
6-7 Fifth grade to Angel Island/Civil War Reenactment 6 Teacher Appreciation Luncheon 12:15pm
8 GSLS Middle School Band Competition in Vacaville
11 School Board Mtg 6:30pm (NO OPEN FORUM)
12 Bridges Foundation Meeting @ Inn Marin 7:00pm 13 6th Grade Wax Museum 7:00pm
13 Spring Play Rehearsal @ Margaret Todd 1:00-4:00pm
14 GSLS 3rd, 4th & 5th grade Drama Department presents
15 Alice in Wonderland 7:30pm @ Margaret Todd Center
17-21 Presidential Fitness Events 21 1st - 7th grade Fitness Run 22 Annual Fund Family Pasta Dinner 5:00-9:00pm
@ Margaret Todd Center 24 PA Sponsored Assembly "Wheels of Freestyle"
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Mrs. Jean Gravrock: GSLS Teacher of the Year
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Congratulations to Jean Gravrock, our devoted and gifted Kindergarten math teacher, for being honored by the Novato Rotary Club as the Teacher of the Year for Good Shepherd Lutheran School.
Every year Rotary accepts nominations from each elementary, middle school and high school in Novato to recognize our community's outstanding teachers. Jean has been a tremendous blessing and asset to our school for the past twenty-six years in her thirty-one year teaching career. Please join us in offering her your congratulations.
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| K-7 Art & Music Night
Friday, June 4 at 6:00pm |
Art & Music Night: Our annual Art & Music Night will take place on Friday, June 4. We will begin at 6:00 pm in the Sanctuary where the 3rd - 7th grade students will present our annual Spring concert. Following the concert, please tour the Fellowship Hall to see the student's work on display. It will have been transformed into an exciting Art Museum. | |
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GSLS Spring Play
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Alice in Wonderland Jr.
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May 14 & 15
Margaret Todd Center
7:30pm
SHOW OPENS FRIDAY MAY 14TH AND SATURDAY MAY 15TH ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Friday May 14th - Students must be at the MTC at 4:00pm with a sack dinner.
Saturday May 15th-Students must be at the MTC at 6:10pm
Doors open to audience both nights around 7:00pm
Show begins 7:30pm
Tickets will be available in advance and at the door. Plan on coming to this wonderful event. Our 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students are working hard and rehearsing to bring you an outstanding play!
The next rehearsal at the Margaret Todd Center is Thursday May 13th.
Students need to be picked up by parent drivers at school at 12:40pm. Pick up at MTC will be like the normal pick up at 4pm with parents or your regular car pools. Please indicate on the permission slip if your child is in extended care due to your work situation and we will make sure an appropriate staff person transports them back to GSLS.
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Any Questions email Gretchen Simon @ musicforgretchen@verizon.net
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Need Volunteer Hours?
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May 14 & 15
Margaret Todd Center |
VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED PLEASE GIVE YOUR ASSISTANCE
If you can assist with the following please email Mrs. Simon at musicforgretchen@verizon.net
Refreshment Stand
Tickets
Set Transportation (families with trucks)
Sets (assist in painting and construction)
Props
Costume support
Clean-up
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| Annual Fund Pasta Dinner and
Mini Auction | | Saturday, May 22
Margaret Todd Center | May 22, 6:00-9:00 p.m: Family Pasta Feast and Mini Auction at Margaret Todd This event will replace the Annual Fund Wine Tasters' Auction. The Class projects and GSLS items such as Chapel pews will be auctioned but the auction items will be much fewer in comparison to previous years. Come enjoy this family event and bid on our students' classroom projects.
Dear
GSLS Families,
We're
looking forward to a wonderful evening on May 22nd at our Family
Pasta Feast & Auction! Thanks for all of your attention this week with the
reminder emails!
The
Family Pasta Feast & Auction is the biggest Annual Fund fundraiser of the
year and like any successful production, WE COULD USE A FEW GREAT VOLUNTEERS!! Not to mention, it
is a terrific last chance opportunity to complete your volunteer hours for the
year!
To
make participating simpler, we've created an online sign-up sheet. Giving your
time is as easy as 1-2-3:
Click on the link below and enter the password when
prompted. You'll be forwarded to our volunteer sign up sheet that
describes each open position, the time commitment, and where & when to
report for duty! We're looking for the number of volunteers listed under
each post. http://123.writeboard.com/630b413a6360fce15
Password: pastafeast
To sign-up, click the "edit this page button" in the
upper left hand corner, and record your name and the name of your child's
(or children's) class. To save your sign up, enter your first name in the
box at the bottom of the page, and click "Save as the newest version" ...
and Voila! You're done!
Report to the appointed place at the appointed time and
HAVE FUN helping us out!
We'll
contact you again via email with a reminder as the event approaches.
The
Annual Fund thrives because of successful events like these ... and
successful events like this one thrive on your generous donation of time
& energy!
Thanks
again for your continued support, and please feel free to contact me with
questions - technical or otherwise.
Joe
Covert
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| PA Open Positions 2010-2011 | | | The following positions are still available to be filled for the 2010-1011 school year:
PA Board Position
Secretary
PA Chair Positions
Back to School Coffee
Bingo Night
New Family Orientation
Room Parent Coordinator
Staff Appreciation Event
MARE Beach Day
Middle School Movie Night
Room Parent Liaison
Scrip Marketing & Advertising
Staff Appreciation Event
Please let us know if you would like more information to fill these important positions for next year.
Suzanne Gooder and Anne Shaver
2009-2010 PA Co-Presidents
ds.gooder@verizon.net
datas@mindspring.com |
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Parent Volunteer Appreciation Event
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GSLS Parent Volunteer Appreciation Event
FRIDAY, JUNE 4
8:45AM-10:00AM
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All GSLS Parent Volunteer
Appreciation Coffee, Latte's & Refreshments
Art Show Preview 8:45-10:00AM
A common theme throughout many of the efforts at GSLS is the extraordinary work that parents do to support Good Shepherd Lutheran School and its program.
The School Board, Carol Wise, Cathy Timmer and Kari Franz would like to thank everyone in the community who has volunteered this year, in any capacity, at the Volunteer Appreciation event on Friday morning, June 4th.
We hope you can come.
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Dr. Jane Healy
| Dr. Jane Healy, best selling author of Endangered Minds and veteran
educator will be discussing:
DIFFERENT LEARNERS:
How Genes, Brains and Culture Interact to Create Intelligence
at
GREENWOOD SCHOOL
17 Buena Vista Ave, Mill Valley, CA 94941
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 7:00pm
RSVP by May 6th to info@greenwoodschool.org
or 388.0495
This will be an excellent disucussion for both parents
and educators alike. Dr Healy will be available after her presentation for
questions and book signing. | |
| GSLS Youth Babysitting | | Help support the Mexico Mission Trip
Amigo Fund | |
Saturday, May 8th
3:00pm - 9:00pm
Dinner will be included for the kids!
Sign-up sheets are in the school and church offices. |
Teacher Appreciation Luncheon
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| The teachers and staff would like to thank you for a wonderful and delicious lunch on Thursday, May 6. We appreciate the time and effort that went into making it a wonderful afternoon for all of us.
We appreciate our parents!
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3rd Annual Elementary Speech Festival
1st-5th grades
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| 3rd Annual
Elementary Speech Festival
Our Speech
Festival is held to encourage the study and appreciation for poetry and other
writings, and to develop public speaking skills. Each child will choose a work
to memorize and present it to their class. Students will select
their material for their particular grade level with their teacher.
The
majority of work on the speeches is to be done at home.
Students should be prepared to give their speeches in front of their own
classes the week of May 30 - June 4. Your classroom teacher will give you
additional details.
Several
students from each class will have the opportunity to perform at an assembly in
the church sanctuary on Monday, June 7th at 11:00AM. Each teacher
will use their own criteria for selecting the students who will perform on June
7th. Parents are welcome to attend.
Please
encourage your child, as we will in school, to create interest in their
presentation by speaking fluently, clearly, and loudly, using
inflection and changes in pace and volume, making eye contact, and maintaining
good posture.
We want
this to be a fun and rewarding experience for your child. Please be realistic
in your expectations. God bless you and your family in this
chance to grow!
Guidelines
1. Before and
after the students say their piece they should state the title, and the
author's name, if known.
For the Bible
category students should state the reference and translation. Students will not
summarize their piece.
2. All
presentations must be memorized (notes are not permitted).
3. Students
may not present a selection they did last year.
4. Clothing
should in no way be related to the selection, so as to be misconstrued as
costuming. Costumes and/or props are not permitted in any of the categories.
5. Students
should dress nicely and present their pieces formally and thoughtfully.
6. This is a speech festival, not a speech meet.
There will be no judges.
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Carol Wise
Good Shepherd Lutheran School
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