GARDNER GAZETTE

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! TO ALL OF OUR STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE KIDS HEART CHALLENGE. GARDNER ELEMENTARY STUDENTS COLLECTED $19,676.61!!! THE TOTAL AMOUNT COLLECTED WITH ZAHNOW, ROGERS, GARDNER AND THE JR HIGH IS $66,795.34! WHAT AN AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENT! WE ARE SO PROUD OF OUR STUDENTS!!

We are not able to have our usual Kids Heart Challenge assembly this year so we would like to give a HUGE SHOUT OUT to our top 5 collectors from each grade level. Top collectors for 5th grade are, Sam Breitwiser, Reese Davis-Grandcolas, Jordyn Keller, Adler Hoffmann and Chandler VonYeast. Our top collectors in 4th grade are, Claire Stafford, Kaleigh Halleran, Charley Tankersley, Ethan Lauth, and Hunter Massey.

We'd also like to give a HUGE SHOUT OUT to SAM BREITWISER! Since kindergarten Sam has collected a whopping $7,877.00! Thank you to Sam and his family for collecting every year for this Amazing cause!

Reese is the winner of the "Name the Gym" drawing. She has decided to name the Gardner Elementary gym the "Reese Dacolas Gymnasium". Way to go Reese!

On Friday, May 7th students who collected $100.00 or more for the Kids Heart Challenge will be celebrated by having a snow cone/popcorn party at the Jr. High football field. Thank you again to all of our students and families that participated and raised money for the American Heart Association. We are truly humbled by your generosity!

4th grade is going on a field trip to Fort de Chartres! ALL permission slips are due by Thursday, May 6th. The schedule is as follows...

• Thursday, May 13th - Cooper & Huffman
• Friday, May 14th - Ahrens & Diener
• Tuesday, May 18th - Gilbert & Reifschneider
• Wednesday, May 19th - Dent & May

Gardner Getaway will be on Friday, May 21st for 5th grade and Monday, May 24th for 4th grade! Congratulations to Lainey from Mrs. Gilbert's class. Her t-shirt design was chosen as the winning design and will be featured on our Gardner Getaway t-shirts! Every student will receive a free shirt to wear! We are so excited to celebrate the end of the school year with our students. It has been a year like no other and they have persevered through it all and we are so proud of them!

Below is School Tool Box information for next school year's incoming 4th and 5th graders. All orders must be made online.

Winners of the AG in the classroom poster contest held by the Monroe County Farm Bureau were..Tyler Mueller, Lily Kolweier, Lou Jarden, Ruby Lucash, Belle Hennrich, Leah Stein, Kenzie Nordike and Braelyn Washausen. Congratulations!

Congratulations to our students who won an Above and Beyond award for the month of March. The March trait of the month was Optimism…”The belief that good things will happen”! The winners are, Kisen Augustine, Kayla Dell, Jace Robinson, Annabelle Kennedy, Bella Shelton, Kennedi McCormick, Lou Jarden, Austin Deffenbaugh, Sydney Hicks, Rosalia Petruso, Lilly Hicks, Jayden Pence, C.J. Melliere, Harper Kurtz, Grant Nobbe, Liam Garner, Scarlett Matzenbacher, Logan Schweitzer, Tyler Mueller, Landon Jones, Roslyn Meister, Olivia Mallery, Elijah Bell, Liam Dillenberger, Caitlyn Hargis, Blake Blackwell, Ellie Martin, Charley Nonn, and Jett Latchem. Not pictured are Sophia Roades, Hunter Howard, Fred Klohr, and Elizabeth Koch.

Fourth Grade Summer Learning

Here are some ideas for keeping school skills sharp over the summer:

• If your child has not yet mastered basic multiplication and division facts yet, they should continue to practice. They can also work on any of the unfinished pages in their math journal.

• Set aside time to read every day. Starting or ending the day with a good book also helps your child maintain a daily routine. When your child tells you they are bored, send them to the library! Encourage them to try a new genre or series, rather than reading the same ones over and over.

• Logins for the websites we use at school do not expire until the end of summer, so they can also visit the sites we use during the school year.

Students are excited that IAR testing is over and showed their excitement at an extra recess with popsicles. Now they are returning to a normal school routine by beginning a new math unit that will focus on multiplying and dividing decimals by powers of 10, line plots, volume, and decimal multiplication and division. This unit will take us close to the end of the school year. In reading, we are gearing up to come to the end of Maniac Magee and find out what kind of choices Maniac makes for himself now that Grayson is gone. Will he stay on the West side or move to the East side? Informational writing and research has consumed our writing classes. We took a break from writing during the IAR testing and students were very eager to dive back into their topics and share what they have learned. We began a new unit in science called Energy in the Ecosystems. Learners are being exposed to a lot of new vocabulary words like consumers, producers, and decomposers and how they all play a vital role in the food chain.

The fifth grade music classes will be learning about Jazz music. Music classes are working on improving their note reading skills on the treble clef staff. We will be reviewing musical elements from the previous quarters. The fourth grade is looking at the families of instruments. Each week there is a worksheet to complete and turn in by the next music class. The worksheets are a review and practice of the music ideas we learn about in class.

Remember if you are remote learning check your google classroom. Each week there will be lessons and assignments posted on google classroom under the music topic for your class. Please complete the lessons each week. Your music grade will include the remote learning assignments.

5th Grade Band

Band lessons have begun and are sounding great. Remember to sign up for the google classroom 5th grade band class. I post videos and reminders on the site. Summer band camp is being planned for July 6-8 and July 12-15. More information will be posted soon.

Beginning Band for next year’s 5th Grade(2021-2022)

We are planning to start next year’s 5th grade band over the summer with our band July 6-8 and July 12-15. Beginning Band information will be sent home the week of May 3. Instrument rental will be an online process this year due to covid. Any questions please send me an email at LZiegler@wcusd5.net.

Your child has learned a variety of different literacies this year… from technological to print literacies, your child has navigated with grace. This allowed them to GROW. We, at Gardner, are so very proud. This summer we would like to see that continue….summer Reading is ESSENTIAL!!!

Some summer reading activities could include:

• bedtime read alouds

• book scavenger hunts

• pass-the-book shared reading,

• a family book club

• a mini book report

• or independent reading

Making sure your child has time when their "eyes are on the text" is so important to maintaining the growth they made this school year. Have a great summer and enjoy reading!!!!

• May 7th - Kids Heart Challenge celebration
• May 12th - Papa John's Night
• May 13th - Cooper/Huffman - field trip
• May 14th - Ahrens/Diener - field trip
• May 18th - Gilbert/Reifschneider - field trip
• May 19th - Dent/May - field trip
• May 21st - 5th grade Gardner Getaway
• May 24th - 4th grade Gardner Getaway - Last day of school for students