Thank You

Tremendous thanks to all of the parent volunteers who staffed the book fair! Thanks, also, to everyone who shopped. Your support makes good things possible.

The book fair earned over $600 in cash for us to spend on materials needed to help our students learn. We also received over $150 in free books from the fair. Thanks to all those students who showed me which ones we should choose!

Last, but definitely not least, thank you to the teachers who made time for their classes to visit the fair. Your willingness to participate is key to the book fair's success as a library fundraiser. Yay!

Congratulations to great kids!

Congratulations to all of the following GMS students, who did great things and won free books at our recent book fair:

Evelyn E. of 6B
Tameka
Olivia K.
Quinn
Cynthia S.
Masha
Julien of 6B
Jason P.

Keep it up!

Ms. Harrington and Ms. Shtulman want to encourage all students to keep doing their best work and being kind GMS citizens -- We'll come up with another prize for January.

Teachers: Keep nominating your students! All stundents who were nominated in December will be included in January's drawing.

Happy New Year!

Book Fair

Come to the GMS Book Fair during school on December 18th, 19th, and 20th! We will be open all day and during Flex I and Flex II. The book fair will also be open on Wednesday night, before and after the band concert. Families are welcome. Come support our school and pick up some wonderful new books!

Live and Learn

It takes a lot longer to walk to the library with 27 middle schoolers than it does by one's self! The good news is that the GPL will welcome us back for a second attempt and the kids want to go. We will definitely go again before winter break.

Walk to Read

Ms. Marchefka & Ms. Shtulman's Flex 2 group will be walking to read on December 10th! We're taking an on-foot field trip to the Greenfield Public Libary, where Children's Librarian Kay Lyons will show us around and sign us up for library cards.

World Eye Wow!

Our World Eye book-raiser is really taking off! Here are just a few of the titles we now have, thanks to community spirit: Meg Cabot's All-American Girl; The Last Holiday Concert; Naruto, The Lake of Souls; Winter of the Ice Wizard; Wabi: A Hero's Tale; and, Parvana's Journey. Many thanks to the Klein family, Lynda Leitner, Tom Carlson & Robyn S. Provost-Carlson, the de Bord family, and all our amazing anonymous donors!

See the Trees!

Fifth graders at GMS have been studying the science of trees. As a culminating project, each student created a 3-D model of a tree, real or imaginary. We have everything from electric trees to shoe trees to truffula trees, and they're all on display in the GMS library. They will be here until the book fair, Dec. 17th. Come see!