Hello Gardner Community!

I hope you all had a chance to read Superintendent Baier’s email regarding the last portion of our school year. As he mentioned, “the final eight days of the school year, from June 1-10, will include end-of-year celebrations, professional development, planning time, returning and receiving student materials, and packing up classrooms for summer.” This means the last day of teacher-directed instruction is Friday, May 29th. During the eight days of June 1st-June 10th, teachers will hold 3 to 4 Google Meets with their students. Please look for the dates and times of those class meetings from your teachers. Otherwise, teachers will be packing up classrooms, wrapping up this school year, and attending professional development to prepare for the next school year.

Several end-of-the-year items are currently being planned and I will send more details out on each event as I finalize them. These include:

• Parent Appreciation Week (Tuesday, May 26th - Friday, May 29th)

• Student items needing to be retrieved (June 1st-10th)

• School items needing to be returned (June 1st -10th)

• Talent Show (June 5th)

• 2020-21 Staff Assignments (announced June 5th)

• 6th-grade promotion (June 10th)

*DON’T FORGET TO VISIT THE GRIZZLY GREATNESS CLASSROOM TOMORROW MORNING FOR OUR “FRIDAY ASSEMBLY” AND A VERY-VERY SPECIAL GUEST SAYING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
 

Talent Show

1. Registration is due by Friday, May 15, 2020

   1. For this year ONLY, families in the same act may register together.

   2. Students in separate acts need to register separately.

   3. Contact Mrs. Loebner or Mrs. Fanter if you have any questions or have some other

   4. configuration of participants. ( ploebner@lasdschools.org and afanter@lasdschools.org)

2. Talent Show Date and Time: Friday, June 5, 2020

   1. Viewing platform still to be determined,

3. ALL ACTS can be no longer than 2 minutes.

   1. All videos will need to be submitted NO LATER THAN 5/29.

   2. After that date, there will be no guarantee that your video will be included in the program.

4. Register here!
    

A MESSAGE FROM YOUR LIBRARIAN, Mrs. De Rego​

• ​Keep your student’s virtual life engaging, entertaining and educational this summer with this curated list of free family e-resources!​ Keep this link handy and use it now and all summer long to find websites offering quality online material for reading, viewing, and listening, providing instruction and activities for many academic and art subject areas for all ages. Check back often for added resources! List of Summer Online Resources​

• Has everyone been accessing the Read Alouds and eBook Collections posted to the Library Google Classrooms? Please view often and leave a comment! If you need help with finding or accessing materials, please send Mrs. De Rego an email at tderego@lasdschools.org Happy Listening and Reading!

• Attention all 4th-6th graders! Our virtual Library Book Club has just started our 2nd book, The Drop by Jeff Ross. This book is an adventure novel about snowboarding backcountry-patrol-hopefuls in snowy British Columbia. To join the club, just show up at a meeting! We hold Meetups on Tuesdays and Fridays at 2:00. Chapters are being posted to your Library Google Classroom. Start reading and we'll hope to see you soon!
   

Have a wonderful weekend,
Nadia