Good afternoon, Grant Gator Families,

Thank you everyone who came out to our first PTA meeting this past Tuesday. It was great seeing new and existing faces. We welcome everyone during these monthly meetings. Many of you already know this but we have a strong PTA who truly looks out for our students and community. We have many fun events already planned out for the year that our PTA puts on so thank you PTA and all parent volunteers who help support our students too.

Thank you everyone who came out to Curriculum Night and Open House last night. We had a an awesome turnout and it was great to see everyone!! We look forward to another amazing school year at Grant Elementary.

Finally, please reach out to me if you have any specific questions. Thank you for sharing your child(ren) with us!

Sherri Mazzoni

Dear Parent,

Blessings in a Backpack-Livonia is an all-volunteer program designed to provide students who are in need, with enough food for three meals a day during the weekends. If you participate in this program, your child will receive a bag at the end of every week of school (Thursday or Friday), filled with non-perishable food for the weekend. There is no cost to you for participating in this program. No further information is required. Your information will not be shared. If you would like to have your child participate in this program, fill out and submit the form using the link below as soon as possible. We are requesting your name and email address, so that a confirmation of registration will be emailed to you. Delivery will begin the week of September 11th.

https://forms.gle/oifKHq56fSvQ4Pis8

If your child participated in the program last year we do need a new enrollment form for this school year.

Currently, we are providing prepackaged bags, so we are unable to customize for allergies or religious dietary needs. We apologize for any inconvenience.

****You will need to complete a separate form for each child that you wish to enroll.****

If you have any additional questions, please feel free to email us at biablivonia@gmail.com

Every Wednesday at Grant Elementary is "Be Kind Wednesday" so wear your Kindness Shirts. We love wearing ours and love seeing our students do the same!

Every Friday at Grant Elementary is "Grant Gator Gear Day" so wear your awesome Gator Gear

• Tuesday, September 10 - 5:30-7:30 p.m. PTA Skate Night at Skatin Station in Canton
• Thursday, September 12 - 5:30-7:30 p.m. PTA Welcome Back Party at Grant Elementary
• Wednesday, September 18 - Mobile Dentist at Grant Elementary
• Thursday, September 19 - Lifetouch Pictures at Grant Elementary
• Thursday, September 19 - 6:00-7:00 p.m. Girls Scouts of Southeast Michigan Information Meeting in Cafeteria (Paige Hass)
• September 25 - PTA Dine to Donate at Buddy’s Pizza all-day - A percentage goes to our PTA
  
• September 27 - 9:15-1:00 p.m. 1st Grade Field Trip to Dominoes Farms and Petting Farms (Stanford, Corp, Byrne, Herman, Buscemi, 1st Grade MARP students)
• September 30 - 9:10 a.m. Student of the Month announcement for September - For Showing A Growth Mindset
  
• October 1 - 8:00-3:30 pm. No School for Students - PD for Staff
• October 1 - 5:00 p.m. PTA Meeting in the LMC (Mazzoni)
• October 2 - 6:00-8:00 p.m. PTSA Halloween Costume Closet at FHS
• October 9 - 5:00-8:00 p.m. Parent Teacher Conferences at Grant - Look for a sign-up genius from your childs teacher
• October 10 - No School for Studnets - We have Parent-Teacher Conferences at Grant from 9:00-12:00 p.m., 1:00-4:00 p.m. and 5:00-8:00 p.m.
• October 11 - 1st Popcorn Friday of the year 50 cents per bag or $4.00 for year - More information to come out from our PTA
• October 2 - 6:00-8:00 p.m. PTSA Halloween Costume Closet at FHS
  

A growth mindset is a theory or an idea that our brains are not fixed at a certain intelligence level. We can continue to expand our minds and intelligence by pushing ourselves to do new things, trying hard things, and redoing something until it’s successful. A fixed mindset is that either you can do it or you can’t. For example, either you can paint well or you can’t. There is no in-between.

Get your spirit wear. Just in case you want to get started on ordering Grant Gator Spiritwear. Every Friday we encourage our students to wear Grant Gator Gear for free.

HOME Grant Elementary Spiritwear (grantspiritwear.com)

We have really worked on spreading KINDNESS at Grant Elementary over the past year. We'd like to continue to do our "Be Kind Wednesdays" by wearing anything that spreads kindness at Grant Elementary. This is optional too. Here is a few websites where you can find some cool gear.

• Here is a link to a SUPER soft Be Kind T-shirt - BE KIND T-shirt.

• Here is another company started by a mother and daughter who has ASD- Jordyn's Summer Project BE KIND.

8:45 a.m. Slow Roll/Drop Off Begins at Grant Elementary (Bell 1)

8:55 a.m. Instructional Time Begins (Bell 2)

K-4 Full Day: 8:55 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Half Day: 8:55 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.

Office Hours: 8:00-4:30 p.m.

11:40-12:55 p.m. Lunch Time

4:00 p.m. Dismissal at Grant Elementary (Bell 3)

Our busses line up in our gymnasium and/or the LMC depending on what letter they take home at dismissal. When you get your child's teacher assignment on Thursday, August 22 you can come to Grant Elementary and show your child what door they will be entering or exiting daily too. just a friendly reminder that our parents do not enter the building to walk their child(ren) to class. We have a lot of greeters at our doors to ensure that all students get to the correct classroom.

@LPS_Grant

Email: akosinsk@livoniapublicschools.org
Website: https://www.livoniapublicschools.org/Page/25
Location: 9300 Hubbard Street, Livonia, MI, USA
Phone: 734-744-2720
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/grantpta/announcements