Carnival - Oct. 21

We hope you will join us for our annual Carnival on Saturday from 2-5pm! This is a great event for our students and community. There will be Carnival games and booths, face painting, bounce houses, a Ninja Warrior course, and more! 

WE NEED A LOT MORE CARNIVAL VOLUNTEERS!

We have 40 booths at this year's carnival. It is going to be so fun for our community. However, we won't be able to keep all booths open, if we don't have more volunteers sign up to help.  Shifts are short- just 30 minutes. If you will be at carnival, please sign up to help.  We also welcome grandparents and high school student volunteers looking to get volunteer hours! 

• Prep, Setup, Cleanup & Donations - 2023 GES PTA Fall Carnival

• Adults - Booth Signup for 2023 GES PTA Fall Carnival

• Teens - Booth Signup for 2023 GES PTA Fall Carnival

Cake Walk Donations Needed

Cake Walk is one of our most popular Carnival games! We need store bought cupcakes, cakes, brownies, cookies, and treats. Volunteers will be at morning drop-off this week collecting these donations. These items can also be left in labeled boxes in the secure vestibule. We appreciate your help! 

Meat U Anywhere At Carnival 

We have extended Meat U Anywhere pre-sales until Tuesday.  The full menu we are offering for pre-order will not be available at Carnival.  In order for Meat U Anywhere to know how much food to bring, we are hoping to collect as many pre-orders as possible.  If you want to make sure you get the menu items your family wants, please consider getting your pre-order in on our website here. 

Report Cards Post Wednesday 

The 1st nine weeks ended on Friday, Oct. 13th. Report cards will post on Wednesday in Skyward for parents to view. Parents are encouraged to login and check their child's progress. Thanks for your continued partnership with us in your child's education. 

Unity Day - Wednesday, Oct. 18

WEAR AND SHARE ORANGE to unite for kindness, acceptance, and inclusion to send a visible message that no child should ever experience bullying.

Book Fair Volunteers Needed 

If you have completed your background check and would like to volunteer at our campus Book Fair the week of Oct. 30-Nov. 3, we would love the extra hands! Click here to join us!

Thank You from KHC

We want to give a huge THANK YOU to our families and students for an amazing Kids Heart Challenge campaign! Our campus raised over $25,000 to help the American Heart Association. We hit all of our goals including having 200 students sign-up online! Coach Basil gave out countless heart hero gifts and we have numerous students complete Finn's Challenge to learn Hands Only CPR! We also have more than 60 students who have qualified to slime Coach Basil and Mrs. Hale! Congratulations to our GES stars on making an impact in our own community! We appreciate all the support. 

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month

Did you know:

• Dyslexia is not related to low intelligence.  In fact, some of the smartest people have dyslexia.  For example, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell and Albert Einstein.

• Dyslexia is not a disease.  It is a learning DIFFERENCE that affects how language is processed in the brain.  

Myth vs Fact:

Myth #5:  Dyslexia only affects people who read English.

Fact:  Dyslexia occurs in every language; even in languages that do not use a standard alphabet.

Myth #6: Dyslexia does not run in families

Fact: Dyslexia can be inherited. 

October Zootique Volunteers Needed

We have loved having volunteers come in and run our Zootique for students to spend their Zoo Bucks! If you have a completed background check and are interested in volunteering your time and sharing in some financial literacy with students as they save and spend, you can sign up HERE. 

We also have continued to add to our Amazon wishlist and have some new seasonal items that we thought students might enjoy to add to the Zootique. If your family would like to make a donation, you can find the wishlist HERE. New this month, we will also have campus coupons that students can purchase for experiences such as eat lunch on the stage with a friend or lunch with the principal! 

Thank you so much for all the donations we have already had this year! Our GES families are the absolute best! 

Smartwatches

Reminder: Cell phones are expected to be turned off during the school day for all elementary students. Smart watches have the same functionality and capabilities as a cell phone and students must follow the same expectations. We appreciate your support in reminding your students. 

Save the Date - Book Character Parade

Our Book Character Parade is a beloved GES tradition! Save the date for Tuesday, October 31st at 8:00am. Parents are invited to come stand and watch from the exterior of the building as students and staff parade around the outside. 

Students are encouraged to dress up as a Book Character of their choice. This will be in combination with our Red Ribbon Week dress-up days that you will see below. 

Lunch Visitors

Lunch guests will sign-in through our secure vestibule with a valid ID, stop by the front office to check-in and receive a visitor badge, and then meet their GES star at the entrance to the cafeteria. Families will have the option to sit outside in the picnic table area for lunch or in our cafeteria at an empty table near the windows. Parents are welcome to bring in outside food when having their lunch with their child. We ask that you please be courteous to the rest of the community and limit lunch visits with your child to no more than one per month so that all families have the opportunity to visit. We appreciate your cooperation. 

Each family needs only 1 slot reserved. For example, Mom, Dad, and sister may all come eat lunch with Nancy. Only Mom needs to be registered as 1 visitor to reserve 1 picnic table together. When it asks for quantity of visitors, please select just 1. Lunch visitors may only eat with their child or student. You may not invite friends to sit with you when coming for lunch. 

You can sign-up for lunch from October 2-31 HERE. 

Volunteering

We LOVE our volunteers at GES! This year we are encouraging all families who plan to come to campus and interact with students to go ahead and complete the background check. Volunteers must complete this EACH YEAR beginning in August! It can take 1-2 weeks for your background check to clear. If you plan to be a guest reader, volunteer at a class party, chaperone a field trip, volunteer with PTA, open car doors with our Dad's Club, etc. you will need a completed Background Check!  

The following link takes you to the online Volunteer Handbook and background check: https://www.gcisd.net/o/gcisd/page/volunteer-background-check 

In order to volunteer at GES, or around GCISD, all volunteers must:

1. read the Volunteer Handbook (this replaces the previous face to face volunteer trainings held on campus)

2. watch the appropriate video included in the handbook

3. electronically sign the verification Google form for each campus you plan to volunteer

4. complete the volunteer background check. A link is included in the handbook.

When you are ready to volunteer at GES, feel free to call the front office at 817-251-5735 to verify that both of the required steps have been recorded as completed. We appreciate your support as you complete these steps and volunteer to work with our GES students.