Sunday, September 19, 2010

School Store and Parent Meeting

We have had a busy few weeks of school! I hope your student is settling back into the school routine and enjoying their new team and classes. We had our first school store on the 9th during lunches and it was a huge success. Everyone did a great job working. We are planning our next store date for Friday, October 8th. I will be meeting with students prior to the 8th to work on budgeting, ordering, and advertising.

Thank you to all parents who attended the gifted program parent meeting prior to the start of open house on Wednesday. Hopefully any questions you had about the changes to the program were answered. I would also like to thank those parents that I met with this week for GIEP meetings. I appreciate your time and willingness to be part of your child's educational experience.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns you may have. I look forward to meeting with more parents for GIEP meetings in the coming weeks.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Program Information

We are now into our second week of school. I hope the first week went well for everyone. Last week I met with each student to talk about the changes to the gifted program. During that time, I shared that there is now a gifted/enrichment page on Moodle. Moodle can be accessed through the district webpage (www.pasd.us). On this page, we are listing different competitions and contests that are open for students to participate in.

Middle school gifted students have the option of helping to run the school store. This is the first year for the school store and PTO has purchased our first round of items to sell. Those that would like to participate will be working during lunches once a month to sell items. Eventually I would like to have those students assisting with the ordering, pricing, advertising, etc.

There will be a meeting for parents of middle school gifted students prior to the start of open house on Wednesday 9/15 at 6:30. We will be meeting in the LGI to discuss changes to the gifted program this year.

If you have not already done so, please sign and return the GIEP invite that was sent home last week. If the time does not work, please email or call me and we will schedule a new time. Invites can be returned to the main office at the middle school.