Tiger Tracks

Our Top Ten

Riding in Style!

Thank you to our GES parents and students for collecting over $30,000 for our fundraiser.

Fourth Grade Glogs

Colette:

PTO and Family Literacy Night

GES Parents,

There will be 4 sessions to choose from 

Sessions:

Choose one:

Finley:  Reading Strategies

Griffin:  Math Strategies

Glover: Reading Strategies

Manning:  Technology

When:  November 15, 2011

Where: Gordonsville Elementary

Time:   6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

PTO will meet 5:30-6:00 p.m. to discuss and vote on distributions of Tiger Tracks 2011 funds.  Parent participation is needed.

Our "Land of Oz" Visit

A big Thank You to our staff for making life so pleasant for the GES students. We are appreciative of the extra effort you take to bring us smiles, as well as all of the delicious lunches.

Parent Appreciation Thanksgiving Meal

This year's Thanksgiving dinner will be on Wednesday, November 16. We would like to invite all parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, and uncles to come join us for a traditional Thanksgiving menu of:

turkey and gravy
dressing
creamed potatoes
green beans
fruit salad
rolls
cookie
milk, tea, or lemonade
If you would like to join us, you may purchase a ticket for $3.50 for adult visitors and $2.75 for child visitors.

Your visitor's tickets for the dinner must be purchased by November 3 and payment turned in to your student's teacher in an envelope. This deadline is important for us to be able to purchase and prepare the correct amount of food for the dinner. Tickets will be sent home by the student the week before the dinner.

We look forward to seeing everyone.

GES photos

Fun with Photo Booth!

iPad and iPod:

Science Enrichment: Thank you to our PTO!

Alli's drawing done on the Paint Program. Awesome job!

4th Grade Ad:

4th- Models of ships

Creating avatars:

Ready for basketball practice!

Art:

Writing sample:

The Key to a Successful School Year:

Kidz Central Celebration

Remember the celebration at Smith County Community Playground on Saturday, October 22.
Exhibits include:
Fire Safety Education (Smoke House)
DTC Texting Obstacle Course
Emergency Vehicles Exhibit
Traffic Safety
Riverview Regional Hospital
Smith County Health Department
Keep Smith County Beautiful

Live Music by the Community Kidz Choir, eXalt Community Teen Choir, FBC Quintets, Shannon Kemp, Jason Sanders, and the Cumberland River Blue Grass

Games:
Tug-A-War, Sack Race, Hula Hoops, and more!

The family Fun Run/Walk begins at 6:00

Free Hot Dogs and Hamburgers served between 4:00 and 6:00.

Two Schools will receive $200.00 based on the school with the greatest percentage of student participation!!

Salute to our Veterans

Please post a name of a veteran on the following wall.  Thank you to all who have served.

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/salutetoveterans

Flat Stanley Project

Brooke and Brooklyn's Flat Stanley story:




Jacob and Blake's Flat Stanley:


Keenan and David's Flat Stanley story:


Brant and Treyson's Flat Stanley story:



Gage and Treyson's Flat Stanley story:

The second grade students are finishing their project.  They will be working with their Vokis and Flat Stanley apps.  Check out the photos we published to Flatter World!

Read Tennessee Website Information

GES Parents,
On the following website:
http://www.readtennessee.org/
you will find helpful information to assist you in improving the reading achievement of your child/children.  The Common Core curriculum standards are explained and successful learning strategies and activities are listed.

Watch our video from
the First Lady of Tennessee

Thank you for visiting the home of Read Tennessee, a joint project designed to allow teachers, families and community members to work together for the benefit of young children throughout the state of Tennessee. We encourage you to explore our website to take advantage of the information provided to help accelerate the learning of Tennessee's most important resource, our children.

Second Grade Students

Choose a story from the link below:
http://www.storylineonline.net/

Click on the link below to post a sticky note to the wall telling something you learned from the story.

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/gessecond

First Grade Wall Wisher

First Grade Students,
Click on the link below:
http://www.storylineonline.net
Listen to one of the stories.  Put a sticky note on the wall telling something that happened in the story.

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/gesfirstgrade

QR codes

The QR code launcher app is free today.  Look for our QR poster near the front door after fall break.  This will allow you to easily access the GES Title I website.

Super Small: Top 20 Microscope Photos of the Year

  Sponsored by Nikon, check out the top 20 Microscope Photos of the year.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/nikon-small-world-2011

Flat Stanley by LManning

Flat Stanley by LManning
This link will take you to our "wallwisher" where the students posted their sticky notes on what they thought Flat Stanley did  while he went to California.

T-shirts

GHS Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) are raising money to support the Susan G. Komen Foundation.  The $10.00 t-shirts will be white with pink writing.  Contact Amanda Mason by October 5.

Sixth Grade Students Wallwisher

Please click on the following link and post a "sticky note" to the wall.  When you double click anywhere on the wall and type your one interesting fact, make sure you type your first name only (unless we need to know the first letter of your last name for identification).

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/SixthGradeSSProject

Examples of Sixth Grade Glogs

by: Grace



by: Grant


by: Kayleen

by: Caitlyn

by: Zoey

by: Anna

by: Lauren


by: Hallie


by: Noah


by: Britt:

by: Rhiannon

tizmos.com

This is a sample of tizmos.com-- a wonderful bookmarking site.  Tizmos is very 'kid friendly' with the pictures of the home page to make it easy for students to click on the picture and go directly to the website.  I also have a tizmos for my own personal favorite sites.

Flat Stanley Project

I will begin a special project this week with several second grade students. We will skype with a classroom in Joliet, Illinois. We will use the Flat Stanley app for each student to design and send to others. Using Edmodo, they will write an additional chapter for the book. This is a global reading project which has 72 classrooms listed for the Flat Stanley or Tuck Everlasting books. These classrooms are located in the United States, Canada, and 3 classrooms in Australia. Korea, Italy, and India each have one classroom enrolled in this project. We will keep you posted!