Sayéik: GastiNEWS

Hello SGCS families,

Thanks for showing up for the Art Walk! We had no idea it would be so popular, next year we will have more pizza!! A big thanks to the teachers and students for producing such amazing art!

The Annual School Climate and Connectedness Survey has been published. This is your opporunity to share your family's experience with us. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey. The survey closes on February 21, please fill it out before it's too late!!

We look forward to seeing you Monday and Tuesday for Parent/Teacher conferences! If you don't know your day/time, please reach out to your child(ren)'s teacher!

Have a great weekend, stay warm!

In partnership,

Stacy Diouf

SGCS Principal

907-796-5075

Our SGCS Junior Native Youth Olympics Team recently competed in the district competition. Here are the results. Congrats to all the atheletes!

Recently your Sayéik: Gastineau Site Council identified timely snow removal as an important safety issue for our school community. A site council parent was able to carry the concerns to the Alaska Department of Transportation, resulting in changes to DOT's priorities for South Douglas snow plowing. We are hopeful that we'll see changes during upcoming storms, and that our community members will be safer as a result.

Do you have issues you'd like to see addressed at the school? Feel free to join an upcoming site council meeting, or to email sgcs-site-council@googlegroups.com to share your questions or ideas. Our February meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, February 19th at 5pm in the school library.

It's time for our Scholastic Book Fair!

Classes visited this week, we have two days left!

During conference days:

February 17--8:00-3:30

February 18-- 8:00-2:00

This is a fundraising event for our library that gives students access to a wide selection of inexpensive books (along with journals, bookmarks, posters, and writing tools).

The book fair will be open during library class, recess, after school, and on conference days. We need volunteers! Email your student's teacher or Ms. Brann (diana.brann@juneauschools.org) to sign up for a volunteer slot. Volunteers will help with tasks such as helping students find books, reading to students, helping with wish lists, or helping with the register.

Activate an e-Wallet for your student(s), a cashless account that you can set up ahead of time! It is easy to set up by visiting our book fair homepage here . Look for the e-Wallet button at the bottom of the page. For a video with more information, go here

**A new e-Wallet must be set up for each fair. If your child had $ left over from our Spring fair you should have received a gift card from Scholastic. These can be easily converted into a new e-wallet by going to our book fair website.**

If you would like to contribute to our school wide book fund so that every child can buy a book you will have the opportunity to contribute to the Share the Fair fund after setting up an eWallet.