Fitness Fundraiser Collection Days
Fitness Fundraiser COLLECTION Begins THIS WEEK. It is that season again! Please look for these flyers that came home with your child last week for information about our one PTA fundraiser of the year! This year we are celebrating our 30th Fitness Fundraiser! Here are the dates that we will have our collections days and sports sign ups:
- Tuesday, April 2
- Isibindi
- Altruismo
- Protos
- Wednesday, April 3
- Sollevare
- Tatonka
- Onraka
- Thursday, April 4
- Reveur,
- Nukumori
- Friday, April 5: ALL outstanding donations
State Testing Schedule
State Testing is HERE. Please make sure that your child gets a good night of sleep and a healthy breakfast prior to school on these days! They are ready...!
Here are the dates:
- Make ups: THIS WEEK
- Spring Break: April 6 - 15
- April 18: Math Testing Day #1
- April 19: Math Testing Day #2
- April 23: 8th Grade Science Testing
It is important every day, but these in particular. Students MUST have a fully charged chromebook when they arrive to school for testing.
UNO Tournament
eWaste Recycle Event at GMSE
The House of Tatonka is hosting an upcoming event at Gahanna Middle School East in order to honor their holiday…Earth Day!
On Wednesday, April 24th after school, East families are invited to participate in an E-Waste event! This event allows families to recycle electronic waste that otherwise is more difficult to dispose of. The waste will be collected here at school and Green Wave will come pick it up. Examples of e-waste are included below:
Batteries (All Kinds..alkaline, Li-Ion, Ni-MH, etc...)
*Computers / laptops
Calculators
Wires/ Cables/ Cords
Keyboards
DVD players
TVs
Telephones
Computer mice (and more… here is a complete list of acceptable items)
If you are interested in recycling e-waste from our list of acceptable items, please send items to school with your student on 4/24 OR drive by East anytime from 3:45-4:30 on Wednesday, April 24th. A drive through will be set-up to accept your e-waste.
*Green Wave indicates that they are an R2 Certified facility that conforms with the United States Department of Defense Standard DOD 5220.22-M for data destruction. We are audited yearly to this standard. All drives are either wiped in our facility or sent to an R2 Certified downstream vendor for shredding.
Thank you for supporting our school and our planet!
6th Grade Update
- Math 6: This week, students will be starting the Math Olympics which is a way to review for our Ohio State Test that is scheduled on April 18th and 19th. If possible, please bring in calculators this week!
- ACE 6/7: Students did awesome with the fraction division and statistics units! Their test came home last week. We are starting to solve equations and inequalities.
- ACE 7/8: Ace 7/8 students are beginning a new unit about Surface Area and Volume.
- ACE ELA: As writers, students will be planning out their own Pixar short and dig into the world of graphic novels! Students will learn from Pixar design specialists as they brainstorm, develop and write their Pixar short. After this initial phase, students will analyze features that make a graphic novel come to life in preparation to turn their Pixar short into a graphic novel. Please check in with your student from time to time to see how he/she is progressing both with the story idea as well as with the visual creation of this idea.
- ELA: Students will participate in book clubs for the second time this year, exploring social issues as well as reviewing important fiction elements. Students will read a portion of their book each night, so be sure to ask them about their reading progress!
- Science: Students are wrapping up our microscope study and moving into Earth Science. We will be investigating minerals, rocks and soil during this unit. Also we will discuss the April 8, 2024, total solar eclipse at the end of the week. The next “total” solar eclipse is in 2044 and only visible in a few states. (Montana and North Dakota)
- Social Studies: Students are learning about urban planning through Mohenjo-daro by studying the Indus River Valley Civilization.
8th Grade Update
- 8th Grade Science classes are looking to collect any 2 liter bottles for bottle rocket projects after spring break. Please consider donating any empty bottles you may have prior to recycling them!
Math calculators need to be turned into your child’s math teacher by this Friday before spring break so that we can collect them for testing the week we return.
“Shadowing Day” is April 25th! Please ask your student about this and begin discussions about where/who they could shadow. If you need help finding a placement for your student, please reach out to your student’s ELA teacher. *** There will be no classes for 8th graders at MSE that day.***
Anna Satterthwaite has officially taken over for Ms. Caudill since she is out on maternity leave! If you have any questions or need to contact your child’s social studies teacher, please email Anna directly at satterthwaitea@gjps.org.