Geist Gazette

Website: https://ges.hseschools.org/

Location: 14051 East 104th Street, Fishers, IN 46037
Phone: 317-915-4260
Twitter: @TherisaSeymour

Facebook: Geist Elementary PTO

1/10 - Report Cards Posted after 3PM

1/14 - Spirit Day - Hat Day!

1/15 - Dine to Donate at CR Heroes

Hats off to the amazing start of the 2025 new year! Show your spirit by wearing a hat that school day. #StrongerTogether

IN CLASS:

• January 7 – 13: Reviewing procedures, expectations, & culture

• January 14 – 17: Learning to jump & land safely with control; Learning to jump over a rope consecutively

OUT OF CLASS:

• HSE HS Athletics Schedule: https://hseathletics.com/Events

• Heart Hike: https://www.playfishers.com/466/Heart-Hike

• Storywalk - https://playfishers.com/333/StoryWalk

• Winter Running Trails & Tips - https://www.thisisfishers.com/winter-running-trails-tips/

GES Spring Choir:

GES 3rd & 4th Grade Spring Choir Registration is Due Monday, January 13th. Here is the link to Register: https://forms.office.com/r/3wd1LPLQbK

First & Third Grade Students:

1st & 3rd Graders have Demo Day in music January 31st-February 6th. Please look for your teacher's name below. Students can invite up to 4 adults to attend their music class in person or attend virtually through Microsoft Teams into their music class! Adult family members can join and children that are not in K-12th grade. Come watch and explore singing, dancing, and instruments with us! The Microsoft Teams link will be emailed out the weekend before the event if someone would like to join from work or from out of town.

Specific Demo Day Dates & Times:

Dobbins’ Class: 1/31 9:40am

Kelber’s Class: 1/31 1:20pm

Friedle’s Class: 2/3 9:40am

Barmore’s Class: 2/3 1:20pm

Povinelli’s Class: 2/4 8:50am

Savin’s Class: 2/4 1:20pm

Bradburn’s Class: 2/5 8:50am

Pasco’s Class: 2/5 1:20pm

Bullock’s Class: 2/6 8:50am

Galliher’s Class: 2/6 9:40am

Knox’s Class: 2/6 1:20pm

Mark your calendars! The GES International Fair will be on April 30th from 5:30-7:30pm. More details will go out later for those that want to volunteer to participate. Please note this is a different date than what was posted last semester. We can't wait to experience different cultures from around the world!

Welcome Back to School! During the month of January, we will be focused on learning about and building upon the character traits: Open-Minded and Creative

• Open-Minded: The willingness to try new and sometimes difficult things.
• Creative: Having or showing an ability to make new things or think of new ideas

At home, there will be many opportunities to highlight open-mindedness, respectfully disagreeing and listening without judgement.

Thank you for your partnership always!

Lisa Piatek Keller, M.S.

School Counselor

My name is Jessi Friedrichs and I work as a mental health counselor at Reclaimed Counseling in Noblesville. In the new year I'm conducting a parenting group for parents of kiddos with difficult behaviors. This group is aimed at giving parents tools to reduce and manage temper tantrums, aggression, and uncooperative behavior.

Contact information:

Jessi Friedrichs, LSW

Reclaimed Counseling

14701 Cumberland Road, Suite #170

Noblesville, IN 46060

317-572-5024

jessi@reclaimedcounseling.com

Kindergarten

Second Step Digital Curriculum: Unit 2: Emotion Management (SS)

Lesson 7: Sometimes We Feel Sad

Students will be able to give at least one reason why they think someone is feeling sad.

Summary: In this week’s lesson, your child will learn to use body language and context clues to figure out when someone feels sad. They’ll practice looking at the person’s face and body, as well as thinking about what’s going on in the situation.

Try This at Home: Encourage your child to notice when others around them feel sad. Have them practice using body language and context clues to figure out when family members, friends, or characters in books, movies, or on TV might be feeling sad.

First Grade

Second Step Digital Curriculum Unit 2: Emotion Management (SS)

Lesson 7: Sometimes We Feel Worried

Students will be able to name a reason for why they think someone feels worried

Summary: In this week’s lesson, your child will learn to use body language and context clues to figure out when someone feels worried. They’ll practice looking at the person’s face and body, as well as thinking about what’s going on in the situation.

Try This at Home: Encourage your child to notice when others around them might feel worried. Have them practice using body language and context clues to figure out when family members, friends, or characters in books, movies, or on TV might be feeling worried.

Second Grade

Second Step Digital Curriculum Unit 1: Growth Mindset and Goal Setting

Lesson 5: Learn and Get Better

Students will be able to apply what they’ve learned to give advice to someone having a hard time acquiring a new skill.

Summary: In this week’s lesson, your child will use what they’ve learned from the unit to give advice to someone who is struggling to learn something new.

Try This at Home: Ask your child what advice they would give you if you were having a hard time learning something new.

Third Grade

Second Step Digital Curriculum Unit 2: Emotion Management

Lesson 7: How Angry?

Students will be able to differentiate feeling annoyed, angry, and furious through contextual and behavioral clues.

Summary: In this week’s lesson, your child will learn words for three degrees of anger: annoyed, angry, and furious.

Try This at Home: Ask your child to explain the differences between feeling annoyed, angry, and furious.

Fourth Grade

Second Step Digital Curriculum Unit 1: Growth Mindset and Goal Setting

Lesson 1: Setting a Good Goal

Students will be able to use criteria to identify a class goal.

Summary: In this week’s lesson, your child’s class will work together to set a 2-week goal that’s specific, challenging, and doable.

Try This at Home: Ask your child to describe their class goal and explain what makes it challenging and doable for their class. Tell your child about a goal you recently set and what makes it challenging and doable for you.

HOT OPTIONS

Monday- Queso and grilled cheese dippers

Tuesday- Orange Chicken with fried rice

Wednesday- Breaded Chicken Sandwich

Thursday- Cheese Pizza

Friday- Chicken Tenders with Waffle

DAILY HOT OPTION: Impossible Burger (Vegetarian)

COLD OPTIONS FOR THE WEEK

PBJ

Garden salad

Specialty salad- Taco Pasta Salad

Bento Box- Pizza Pack

The GES Café welcomes lunch visitors! Sign-ups will be available one week in advance (cutoff is 10am on Friday the week prior), with a maximum of two visits per month. All visitors must have an approved valid Safe Visitor background check on file with the district before coming into the building. All visitors will need to have their ID with them to sign in to the building.

• NO restaurant food or drink may be brought in for lunch.
• Phones must be put away at all times/No pictures may be taken during your visit.
• One visitor will be allowed per grade level per day.
• Adults only please.
• Adults may purchase a lunch for $4.30 at the time of signup. Check or cash exact change only please. Please indicate your child's teacher and your lunch preference: 'Hot Lunch', 'Salad', 'Bring from Home', or 'None'.
  
• Please proceed to the office to check out when your child's teacher picks up the class.
• Sign ups for the week of Jan. 20: https://signup.com/go/gZfxmBU

Join the fun in the Geist Cafe! We're looking for a 10-2 kitchen / line employee. Work when the students attend school!
Contact: Karen Ogden, Director of Nutrition & Food Services
kogden@hse.k12.in.us

Get Connected: Follow us on Facebook @GeistElementaryPTO for updates on our upcoming events and how you can participate!

Get Involved: Click Here for current volunteer opportunities!

Contact Us: gesptopres@gmail.com

1/15 Dine to Donate- CR Heroes

This year we partnered with the Fishers Police Department again for our "Kids Helping Kids" winter service project during the classroom Winter Celebrations! Each student assembled a goodie bag filled with items for kids. These goodie bags were then donated to the Fishers Police, where they will keep the bags in patrol cars and at the station and give them to kids when the need arises.

Thank you to the Fishers Police Department for visiting classrooms throughout the day and to Sarah Pilli for organizing such an awesome project! We would also like to extend our gratitude to all of the amazing room parents for organizing fun filled winter celebrations for our students!

Each year, our PTO proudly allocates $1,000 to give back to our community, and this year, we focused on using some of those funds by making an impact within our own school district. We learned about a remarkable campus that provides students with the tools they need to succeed academically and behaviorally, equipping them to overcome obstacles and transition back to their home schools to graduate with their peers.

Since this campus doesn’t have a PTO of its own, we felt it was the perfect opportunity to support the dedicated staff who make such a difference in students’ lives. In December, we catered a lunch for the staff and fulfilled $50 worth of items from each of the six teachers’ Amazon wishlists, ensuring they have the resources they need to continue their important work.

We are honored to contribute to such an impactful program and hope to inspire others to do the same! Click Here to learn more about this program!

Just before Winter Break we purchased and delivered a tray of the famous cinnamon rolls from our recent fundraiser to every staff member to share with their families over break- if you participated you know just how amazing they are!

Join us all day, Wednesday January 15th for a dine to donate event at C.R. Heroes!

Did you know you can raise money for our school by grocery shopping? The PTO participates in retail rewards through Kroger Community Rewards and Box Tops for Education. Here is how to enroll:

Kroger: link your rewards card here: https://www.kroger.com/account/communityrewards/

Box Tops: Download the app and scan your paper or digital receipts to earn credit for participating products.