Spooktacular is back and better than ever! The GMS Lighthouse team would once again like to invite you to trick-or-treat in the halls of GMS this Thursday, October 27 from 6-7:30pm. This is for Toddlers to Grade 5. Hope to see you there.
Tootsie Pop Spooky Suckers for sale next week, Oct. 24th-28th, for 50 cents each. They can be purchased each morning in the Primary cafeteria.
Portrait of a Tiger Monthly Primary Winner: Resilient, Liam Stitzel
The Second-Grade student that most exemplifies the meaning of being resilient, is Liam Stitzel. Liam suffered a brain bleed on the evening of September 13th caused by a tumor. He then underwent surgery at Nationwide Children's Hospital to remove the tumor. Liam has since shown great resilience in trying to overcome the effects of Posterior Fossa Syndrome. He is working hard with a team of therapists to relearn how to walk, talk, eat, write, etc. Liam loves to show everyone on his medical team just how strong and smart he is. Liam may not be able to say all that he wants right now, but his smile still lights up a room and his giggles are music to the ears of his loved ones that have yet to leave his side. Although Liam has a long road to recovery ahead of him, his resilience, and intense desire to get back to school with his friends, will keep him focused on the goal ahead.
We are excited to announce that our Buddy Bench is complete and ready to be used on our Primary playground!
Last years Student Lighthouse Team (current 3rd graders) raised funds to purchase a bench for students to sit on, when they are need a friend to play with at recess. Our students are taught to invite anyone who sits on the bench to play with them. This helps teach our kids about kindness and inclusion with the hope that new friendships are created on the playground.
Huge thanks to Aleta Rowe, 2nd grade teacher and Student Lighthouse Team Advisor, Doug Shifley, who donated and made the bench, Issac Keinath, High School Teacher, and Xander Cooper, Galion High School Senior, who lasered the paws and words. We are so excited for this addition to our playground.
The Scholastic Book Fair will be from Oct. 19-27. See the attached schedule to see what day your student is going during school. The book fair is also open on Oct. 25th from 5-7:30 p.m. at night for families to come in a look. Check on the link for more information and possibly create a eWallet for a cash-free way for you child to shop.https://bookfairs-content.scholastic.com/bf/galionprimaryschool
Our students are showing great growth with our new math curriculum. Pictured are students using hands on manipulatives, completing a math enrichment activity for Pick-a-Project, and being rewarded for different success criteria using our online adaptive system called Successmaker. Future mathematicians in the making! +-=
Reminder: The district is having two-hour early releases this year. Students will be dismissed at 1:45 p.m. next Friday, Oct. 14th, Dec. 16th and March 10th. Please mark your calendars.
Staff Spotlights
Kyle Mann has been with the Galion City Schools for the past 6 years as the Primary buildings morning custodian and is wonderful with our students. He knows almost all of their names and greets them in the morning and at lunch time. His favorite memory is when a student dressed up as him for staff appreciate week and he and the students love the field day tug-of-war against him.
Lindy Edgell has also been with Galion City Schools for the past 6 years as a preschool teacher. She serves on the Building Leadership Team (BLT), District Leadership Team (DLT), and the Positive Behavior Support (PBIS) Team. Lindy graduated from Galion, had family teach and be administrators in Galion, and can’t wait to raise her two little girls in the district in the place where she grew up.
We have 14 open spots left for Mid Ohio Youth Mentoring (MOYM)!
Primary students are matched with a Galion high school student "Big" and meet with them each Tuesday the last hour of school. If you think you child would benefit from this program please fill out the application and return it to your child's teacher a.s.a.p. T
he program starts next Tuesday, Oct. 11th and applications will be taken by a first-come-first-serve basis.
Reminder! Picture Day is Monday, Oct. 10th.
Wishing Mrs. Monica Shifley a very happy retirement. Mrs. Monica taught 2nd grade at Galion Primary School. Today ends her 22 year teaching career.
Congratulations Mrs. Shifley. We wish you the very best.
We are excited to share that for tonight's game and the remainder of our football games, there will be a special sections for all of our elementary and middle school students. The Tiger Squad is our newly formed student sections where Ms. Perry and a few GMS students will lead the section in cheers, play games, and had out prizes. If you plan to go to the game you have three choice of where you are REQUIRED to be:
1. You and your friends can report to the Tiger Squad section in the upper left hand corner of the stadium where you are required to stay until you are dismissed at half time and then at the end of the game.
2. If your family belongs to the Grid Iron, you can report there and stay until half time and then the end of the game. Only grid iron members are permitted in this area.
3. or you MUST be seated with an adult.
Students are NOT permitted to be running around inside of the stadium and must be accompanied by an adult if you are not in one of the three locations above. If you are not in one of these three areas you will be escorted to your parents, requested to leave, possibly banned from future games, and may be in trouble at school as the same rules that apply at school also apply at the stadium.
We want you to have a good time with your friends and be safe. We hope to see you tonight at the Tiger Squad where tonight's theme is to wear all black! Looking forward to seeing you at the game - GO TIGERS!
Lunch with the principal is just one of the many PBIS incentives students can earn with tickets for positive behavior. We had so many students this month we had to get creative with our lunch locations.🍎🍕🍪
Each Friday in October (7th, 14th, 21st, 28th) students can bring in socks to
earn an incentive for our first community service project for the year.
If you bring:
1 pair of socks: you can wear a hat on Friday
3 pair of socks: you can wear pajamas on Friday
5 pairs of socks: you can bring in a stuffed animal on Friday
The classroom with the most socks donated will receive an ice cream
sandwich party! These socks will be donated to the Marion
Homeless Shelter.
Hope to see you tonight at Elementary Football Night! Tailgate starts at 5 p.m. in the park.
We are currently experiencing an issue with our district phones and internet. We are working to fix the issue.
We are currently experiencing an issue with our district phones and internet. We are working to fix the issue.
Mark your calendars. We hope you join us for Elementary Football Night on Sept. 23rd.
Say Hello Week is next week, Sept. 19th-23rd! We hope you all participate in the weekly dress up activities.
Start Hello Week brings attention to the growing epidemic of social isolation and empowers young people to create a culture of inclusion and connectedness within their school and community.
Parents/ Guardians Volunteer Sign Up Form
We are looking for parents/guardians that can help us implement our monthly PBIS incentive dates. We will send specific details closer to each date on what the activity is.
Even if you can help out with one date, it would be much appreciated! If you can not volunteer all day, please leave what times you could help in the comment section.
Thank you!
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