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Red Ribbon Week - List of Daily Themes and Activities

RED RIBBON WEEK ACTIVITIES

Tuesday, October 27- Hand out Red Ribbons and Wear Red.

Wednesday, October 28- "TURN YOUR BACK ON DRUGS"-Wear your clothes backwards.

Thursday, October 29 -Poster Contest-Students will create their own “Say No to Drugs” poster (at home) and turn in to teacher no later than Thursday Oct. 29th @ 8:00 am. Teachers will choose ONE student per class as the winner and display the poster outside their classroom door. Each class winner will receive a free kid’s meal from Outback.

 

 Poster must be:

-Drawn using colors, markers, paints, and/or crayons.

-Posters must be original, no cutting and pasting of pictures or stickers.

-Posters must be on unlined 8 ½ x 11 white paper and in landscape position.

Principal's Request: Please Return Form To Help Your Child Select A Password

A Message from Principal Kristine Dosal:

Dear Parents,

This school year we are requiring elementary students to establish a unique password for the computer and software programs. We are sending you this communication to inform you about the requirement for secure passwords.

In Hillsborough County we strive to be clear about the safeguards we have in place to protect student data. One of those safeguards is for each student to complete challenge questions and set their own unique password.  Students. choose and answer any three of the seven challenge questions from the list provided. The Challenge questions are only used as verification if the student forgets their password and needs to reset it.

You Can assist your student by helping them with their responses to the challenge questions. These challenge questions will let students manage their own password resets. Resetting a password is a skill they will need as a digital learner and interact with technology.

As students create unique passwords in elementary schools this year, the curriculum software programs they use will also transition to using this same password. The goal is to protect student data and personal information and provide greater ease of use by having the student use the Same password far all applications, i.e. Edsby, MyOn, The more students use this password the easier this process will became for them

Protecting the personal information of our students in a secure and responsible way is at the heart of our efforts to provide a richer and more dynamic digital learning experience for all students. We appreciate your support in this effort.

Please print and fill out the attached form (click here: Printable Password Form) and return it to your child’s teacher as soon as possible.

Sincerely,

Kris Dosal

Information About Grady's Fall Festival, Friday October 23

Come to the Grady Elementary Fall Festival on FRIDAY, October 23 from 5 pm to 7:30 on Campus.  Teachers and parent volunteers are working together to provide you with wonderful family entertainment.  There will be two inflatable play areas: a giant inflatable obstacle course with a slide and a bounce house. There will be a funny photo booth, snow cones, popcorn, hot dogs and baked goods.  Most importantly there will be Games, Games and more Games!!   The games include: the Doughnut Chomp, the Pumpkin Toss, Skee Ball, Basketball, Pumpkin Putt-Putt, Pin the Tail on the Cat, Pumpkin Stacking and even an R2D2-themed game of Operation.  Prizes will be given to each game player.  Also, there will be hair and nail painting booths, face painting, temporary tattoo booths, scary feel and mystery boxes.  Hours of fun, food and family time. 

Admission to the festival itself is free for children and adults, but the games, food, bounce houses and photo booth cost money.  Without a wristband, games are $1 each and so are food items, except for the donation-only bake sale, which benefits the fifth grade.

You can purchase a wristband for your child that entitles each child to unlimited games, bouncing, snow cones and popcorn.  Wristbands are just $20 for the first child and $15 for each additional wristband.  This is a substantial discount.  To purchase a wristband please print and return the attached form -Wristband Order Form - with a check payable to Grady PTA or drop by the front of the school on Tuesday or Wednesday from 7:30 am until 8:30 am to pay by cash or credit card.  Pick up of all wristbands will be on the night of the Fall Festival at the PTA table.

Please purchase your wristband today and come out to enjoy our wonderful Fall Festival.

To volunteer at the Fall Festival, please send an email to VP of Volunteers, Chely Sierra at [email protected], or contact your child’s teacher.  

Please Volunteer to help at the Fall Festival

We need two kinds of volunteers for the Fall Festival. Each class will be sponsoring a booth and we need parents to run the booths. Parents, please contact your child's homeroom teacher or homeroom parent to volunteer for booth spots.


Also, the PTA also needs volunteers to run the big items such as the bounce houses, grill, popcorn, food booth and snow cone machine. To volunteer for these positions please email: [email protected]. 

Grady Participates in the Reflections Art Contest

Grady Elementary is participating in the Reflections Art Contest, a national art competition sponsored by the PTA.  The theme of this contest is "Let Your Imagination Fly," and all visual arts entries must relate to the theme of flying,  meaning that visual arts that depict flying bugs, planes, rockets or unicorns are all acceptable subjects.   Grady’s contest is being administered by Art Teacher, Lauren Niedergang (email: [email protected]).  Students in grades 3-5 have been preparing an art work that is suitable for submission in the contest.  It is the choice of each student, pending the permission of his/her parents, to submit a piece of art work into the Grady Reflections Art Contest.  Mrs. Niedergang has the student entry form and will send them home for your signature, but a printable extra copy may be found here: Reflections Student Entry Form.  Ms. Niedergang is also accepting submissions of visual arts (meaning ceramics, collages, photo collages with all original photos, and drawings and paintings) on or before October 23.  Only one entry per student, so if your student submits a separate entry, the art made during Mrs. Niedergang's class will not be submitted.  Paper works of art must be mounted on sturdy material like a cardboard mat, but may not be framed.  Although this contest is focused on grades 3-5, Ms. Niedergang is accepting entries from any Grady student, regardless of the grade of the student.  First, Second and Third Place ribbons will be awarded and every student's contribution will be celebrated.  There will be an ice cream party in the Art Room on November 4 from 1:30 to 2 pm to celebrate the student artists.  If you are able to volunteer to help serve ice cream at the party, please email Ellen Lyons at [email protected]. 

The rules for submissions are here: Reflections Rules

Please Pick Up Fall Fundraiser Merchandise

Please come pick up Fall Fundraiser Merchandise.  Pick up is in the cafeteria.  

Wednesday October 14: 12.30pm – 6.30pm

Thursday, October 15: 7.30 am – 8.00 am  AND 2.00 pm – 6.30 pm

Friday, October 16: 7.30am – 8.00am  AND 2.00pm – 6.30pm

Tiger Talk Update

What a great fall fundraiser we had! With your help we raised more than $6,000.00 for Grady which can now go towards programs to benefit your children. Items purchased during the fundraiser will be available for collection at the Grady Elementary Cafeteria from Wednesday October 14th. thru Friday, October 16th.  The collection times are listed below. We would appreciate if items, particularly perishables (eg. cookie dough, cheesecakes) could be collected as soon as possible to minimise the storage requirements.

Wednesday October 14th: 12.30pm – 6.30pm

Thursday, October 15th: 7.30am – 8.00am & 2.00pm – 6.30pm

Friday, October 16th: 7.30am – 8.00am & 2.00pm – 6.30pm

Our 2015 Fall Festival is right around the corner, Friday, October 23rd, 5:00-7:30 pm.  A flyer was sent home in binders last week, look for information on the activities and advanced purchase of wristbands.  Also, we still need volunteers to work the fall festival.  Please look for information soon, and consider helping make this event an even greater success.

It's spirit week at Fire House Subs!  Each night this week from 4:00-9:00 stop by for dinner at the Hire House Subs on Dale Mabry, across from Plant High School.  Be sure to mention you're with Grady Elementary School.  

A special thanks to all those who attended the Lee Roy Selmon's  Family Night, we earned $116. 

Grady Family Week at Firehouse Subs

It's Grady Family Week at Firehouse Subs, located at 2227 S Dale Mabry Hwy., Tampa, FL 33629 (just north of Steak 'n Shake). Come in from October 12 to 16 and 10% of your purchase will benefit Grady. Please mention Grady at the register to ensure our school gets credit for your purchase.

Grady Wins $2,000.00 from Westshore Plaza

Thank you, Tiger Families, for all of your shopping and voting. Your work has resulted in Grady winning the Facebook voting competition (prize of $500.00) and third place in the shopping competition ($1,500.00 prize) through Westshore Plaza's Earning for Learning Competition.  This money will help provide Grady students with after school tutoring.  Thanks again to our families and to Westshore Plaza for operating Earning for Learning.
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