Jump Rope For Heart takes place on Friday, February 26 on campus. Please click Read More to see volunteer opportunities and to sign up online.
Join in the fun. It's time for Jump Rope For Heart.
Please join us for Family Night at Beef O'Brady's, located at 2819 S. MacDill Avenue (MacDill and Bay to Bay) on Wednesday night from 5 pm to 9 pm. Enjoy a dinner not made by you, and know 20% of the proceeds will benefit Grady Elementary. Please mention Grady Elementary to your server to ensure we get credit for your purchase.
Tiger Trek raised $10,000 for Grady Elementary! Coincidentally, that's the same amount that the PTA recently paid toward the school's technology upgrade! This money is going to be used to fund more technology as well as teacher grants, science supplies, art supplies, and books to enhance the curriculum. Thank you so much to all of you who sponsored students, volunteered, and served as family sponsors to Tiger Trek. Tiger Trek Prizes will be distributed on Thursday. Additional Tiger Trek shirts are still being printed, but anyone who ordered a shirt will be notified as soon as they arrive.
This Friday, February 12, Krispy Kreme doughnuts will be sold in the front of the school next to the flag pole. Doughnuts are $7/dozen or $1 each. Cash, check or credit card accepted. Proceeds will benefit the fifth grade end-of-year banquet, so please come by and get some doughnuts for yourself, your children or your office.
Also this Friday, all Kindergartners will be performing in an absolutely adorable Valentine's Concert. To see more information about the concert, please click here: Kindergarten Valentines Program. Please remember to bring government-issued identification (driver's license) to check in at the front office before the concert.
Please start sending in Box Tops now for the Winter Box Tops Competition that ends on February 24. For more information, please click here: Box Tops.
Kindergarten Parents and Family, please join us for our 8th Annual Kindergarten Valentine’s Concert on February 12, 2016 at 8:30 a.m.
Our performance will take place in the Cafeteria. Please don’t forget to sign in at the front office with your driver’s license. Every adult attending needs proper ID in order to attend the program.
We will have refreshments and cookies to share! Please join us for a program filled with love!
Friday, February 5 at midnight is the deadline to register your child for Spring After School Clubs. There are still spots open in Robotics K-2 and 3-5 and this program has a new curriculum that will involve building robotic models of animals, a windmill and a rocket. There are also open spots in Photography Club, Spanish & Music Club, Lego Club, and Chess Club. There are even open spots in our two sports clubs, Tennis and Basketball. To see information about clubs and club choices, click here: Club information. To register, click here: Club Registration.
Remember, you have the option to pay in two installments for clubs. To do so, simply email ASE Club Coordinator Moni Sears at [email protected].
Clubs start this coming Monday, so please remember to notify any aftercare provider that might be affected by your child’s participation in clubs. And on your child’s club day, please remind your child to go to the picnic area between second and third grade for club attendance. Students will be walked to their clubs from the attendance area. Students will be dismissed either to the YMCA or to the car line.
Also, next Wednesday, February 10, from 5 pm to 9 pm, is Grady Family Night at Beef O’Brady’s located at 2819 S. MacDill Ave. Next Friday is both the Kindergarten Valentine’s Day Program and the Fifth Grade Doughnut sale. You can check our website www.gradytigers.org for the details on events. And if you would like to see our Tiger Trek video, please click here: Tiger Trek Video.
LEGOLAND FLORIDA has a special deal for Grady PTA members. During all of 2016, Grady PTA members can purchase discounted tickets to LEGOLAND for $35 per person (adult or child) for the theme park and $50 per person for a combination ticket to both the theme park and the waterpark (waterpark opens on March 12, 2016). You do NOT need any kind of identification to show that you are a member of Grady PTA to take advantage of this deal. Simply click this link, LEGOLAND DEALS!, and enjoy tremendous discounts at LEGOLAND for you and your family.
LINK: LEGOLAND DEALS!
Tiger Trek 2016 from Mike House on Vimeo.
Thanks to all of the many volunteers and parents who helped at our annual Tiger Trek Walk-a-thon this past Friday. The event turned out great and the weather could not have been better. The kids all had a wonderful time, got some great exercise, and even took home a few goodies from our excellent sponsors.
Thank you to Jim Cornwell State Farm, Abdoney Orthodontics, After Hours Pediatrics, South Tampa Dental Krewe and South Tampa Pediatric Dentistry (Dr. Rudolph) for their generous donations and sponsorship of our event!
The walk-a-thon orange tiger striped t-shirts were such a hit that we have had many requests by students, teachers, etc. to obtain one. We have decided that we will leave the Tiger Trek Donation Page: Donate, active for one more week for anyone that would like a t-shirt to go online and make a minimum $35 donation. Orders for shirts will be placed with the printer at 3:30 pm on Friday, February 5. Prize levels have already been determined, so this donation would be for a shirt only. You may also fill out a donation envelope which was sent home with all students the first part of January and give it to your teacher or leave it in the front office. If you do not have an envelope, one may be obtained in the front office. Please be sure to mark down your child's t-shirt size. If an online donation is made, please let your student's teacher know your child's t-shirt size.
Again, thank you to all who helped make this event a huge success. Money raised from this event and others throughout the year are put towards teacher mini-grants, student enrichment programs, new classroom technology, etc. We could not do these improvements without you, and appreciate each and every one of you!
The sign up period for Grady After School Clubs ends at midnight on Friday, February 5. Click here to sign up: Club Signup. Clubs begin Monday, February 8. Robotics Club is introducing new a curriculum that will feature all new WeDo Lego robotics models including animals, rockets and windmills. Yoga Club for K-2 now offers the option for parent/child yoga, meaning that both the parent and child may sign up for this program. This is not an adults’ level yoga program, just a program that focuses on balance, Parents who sign up with their children will sign up for the club the same way the child does. Parents should be prepared to present ID in the school office before each yoga club meeting.
There are still spaces in Basketball 3-5, Tennis K-2, Chess K-5, Photography K-5 (cameras provided), Lego Tampa History K-2, Spanish & Music K-5, Robotics K-2 and 3-5, and Yoga K-2. Please contact ASE Club Coordinator Moni Sears with any questions about clubs at [email protected].
Children will hear stories from Celebrity Readers from Local Krewes! Students may come dressed as pirates or in pajamas.
There will be free books, beads, hot chocolate, cookies, and fun!!!
Parents of students in Grades K-2 will attend a program on reading essentials in the cafeteria
Parents of students in Grades 3-5 will attend an FSA Information Session in the Kay Hance Media Center