The Countdown to Winter Break is on! We will be dressing up to celebrate our last few days in school in 2021!
Tomorrow, Monday (Dec. 13) is Jingle Bells day- wear your favorite holiday bling (headands, necklaces, jingle bells, etc.)
Don't forget! Tomorrow, December 8th is an Early Release Day!
Dismissal will begin at 12:15pm!
🐊Attention Parents and Families🐊
In case you missed tonight’s phone call, here’s all the information.
🐊 Early Release is Wednesday, December 8. Students will be dismissed at 12;15. Please be sure to make pick-up arrangements if anything changes. If your child is a car rider, please be sure that they are picked up between 12:15 and 12:45.
🐊Parents, if you choose to have your child wear a mask, please provide a mask for them. Students who request a mask will be given one mask per day. Students who ride the school bus are required to wear a mask. If your child is wearing a cloth mask, please be sure to wash it regularly.
🐊Parents please make sure your child brings their device with them to school every day charged.
🐊Thank you for your continued support and willingness to do what is necessary to help your children. This a team effort. We cannot do this alone. We hope you all have a chomp, chomp, chomp Gatoriffic week!
It's a FREEBIE Friday!
Did you know there was FREE tutoring available for your student? SCDiscus is offering FREE tutoring that is available 24 hours a day every day of the week! Tutors are available to work with English and Spanish speakers with NO appointments necessary!
They offer help in all subjects but you must have access to the Internet!
Students should be able to access SCDiscus through Clever on their devices without the need of a username/password.
If you have any difficulty accessing SCDiscus through Clever, please contact the school for alternative log-in information.
Congratulations to our most recent Teacher of the Month and Support Staff Person of the Month! Both are new to the Swamp this year and are making a big impact!
Our Teacher of the Month is Mrs. Alex Simpson. Her peers said, Alex has jumped right in to be a part of the Gator family. She’s doing a wonderful job in Montessori and cares deeply about her students. She always has a smile and something positive to say." Congratulations, Mrs. Simpson!
Our Support Staff Person of the Month is Mr. Javier Rodriguez. Other staff members said, "He does a great job with his students and is very friendly and pleasant to work with. He's always willing to help any way that he can. Javier has built a relationship with not just the students in his classroom but also with students around the school." Congratulations!
🐊Attention Parents and Families🐊
In case you missed tonight’s phone call, here’s all the information.
🐊 We hope you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving Break!
Students return to school on Monday, November 29th.
🐊 Early Release is next Wednesday, December 8th. Students will be dismissed at 12:15 pm.
🐊Parents, if you choose to have your child wear a mask, please provide a mask for them. Students who request a mask will be given one mask per day. Students who ride the school bus is required to wear a mask. If your child is wearing a cloth mask, please be sure to wash it regularly.
🐊Parents please make sure your child brings their device with them to school every day charged.
🐊Thank you for your continued support and willingness to do what is necessary to help your children. This a team effort. We cannot do this alone. We hope you all have a chomp, chomp, chomp Gatoriffic week!
🐊Attention Parents and Families🐊
In case you missed tonight’s phone call, here’s all the information.
🐊 Monday, Interim Reports will be going home.
🐊Monday, we will have our virtual SIC meeting at 5:00 pm. Please call if you are interested in the link to participate.
🐊There will be no school Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday for observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. We will all return to school on Monday, November 29.
🐊 If you choose to have your child wear mask, please provide a mask for them. Students who request a mask will be given one mask per day. Students who ride the school bus are required to wear a mask. If your child is wearing a cloth mask, please be sure to wash it regularly.
🐊 Please make sure you are sending in parent excuses and doctor excuses for absences. Remember, if a child was quarantined they must complete the work in order for the absences to be excused. If there have been three absences without excuse, a warning letter is sent. Five absences without an excuse and you will receive a truancy letter. Seven or more absences without an excuse would result in having to attend truancy court with student services and DSS. Excessive absences will be reported to DSS.
🐊 Thank you for your continued support. I hope that you enjoy this much needed break with your children and your family. As I always say, we cannot do this alone. Our Gallman Gator family is continuing to learn and grow together. I hope you have a chomp, chomp, chomp Gatoriffic week!
WOW!! We not only met our Scholastic Book Fair goal of selling 520 items, we exceeded it by 400!!!
Mrs. Cobb said this was the best book fair GES has ever had!
Thank you to our wonderful students, families, and teachers for supporting our book fair and getting awesome books in the hands of our students!
🐊❤️️📚
Gallman Gators LOVE Books!
After day 3 of our Scholastic Book Fair, we have sold 480 items! We are almost at our goal of 520 items sold!
It looks like Ms. Hunter and Mr. Dukes will be reading to us from the raised bucket on a fire truck!
📚Scholastic Book Fair Update!📚
We're almost halfway there!
We have sold 240 items so far during our book fair and our goal is to sell 520!
Remember, the book fair is open each day this week for students to shop during the school day.
Thank you for sending a little extra to cover the taxes on purchases!
Don't forget the Scholastic Book Fair is OPEN this week!
📚Open daily during school hours for students to shop!
📚Please send a little extra money to cover taxes on purchases.
📚No open shopping times after school.
📚 Our goal is 520 items sold- help us reach it!
📚Order books online with more choices that can ship to YOU by visiting: http://www.scholastic.com/bf/gallmanelementaryschool
Congratulations to Gallman Elementary's 2021-2022 Distinguished Literacy Teacher, Mrs. Donna Shealy!
🐊Attention Parents and Families🐊
In case you missed tonight’s phone call, here’s all the information.
🐊 The Scholastic Book Fair is this week! Our book fair offers the cash free payment option called e-wallet is a convenient digital account that your child can use for shopping at our book fair. Grandparents, friends, and others can contribute too. We are strongly encouraging parents to shop by going to the virtual book fair by going to https://www.scholastic.com/bf/gallmanelementaryschool The great thing about shopping online is there are more books available and the books will ship directly to your house free of charge! The book fair night that was previously planned has been canceled. The online shopping will be one way parents can purchase books for their children, of course sending money with students to school is the other way please be sure that they have enough to pay the taxes as well.
🐊 If you choose to have your child wear mask, please provide a mask for them. Students who request a mask will be given one mask per day. Students who ride the school bus are required to wear a mask. If your child is wearing a cloth mask, please be sure to wash it regularly.
🐊 Please make sure you are sending in parent excuses and doctor excuses for absences. Remember, if a child was quarantined they must complete the work in order for the absences to be excused. If there have been three absences without excuse, a warning letter is sent. Five absences without an excuse and you will receive a truancy letter. Seven or more absences without an excuse would result in having to attend truancy court with student services and DSS. Excessive absences will be reported to DSS.
🐊 Veterans Day is this week. We are asking students to wear camouflage on Friday to help celebrate Veterans Day.
🐊Thank you for your continued support and willingness to do what is necessary to help your children. This is a team effort and we cannot do this alone we hope you all have a chomp, chomp, chomp Gatoriffic week!
The Scholastic Book Fair will be OPEN next week!
Our students got a sneak peek this morning on the Morning News and are very excited about all the awesome books that are available!
Scholastic books are very affordable and great quality! Our school is setting a goal (we'll share more about it soon!) for how many books our students purchase! We hope you can help us meet our goal!
Remember that books purchased at the book fair will have sales tax applied, so please send an extra dollar or so to cover the sales tax of any items purchased.
Congratulations to our September Teacher of the Month, Ms. Jaleesa Johnson. Ms. Johnson is our Guidance Counselor, and her peers said "Ms. Johnson is always willing to do whatever needs to be done. She is very helpful and supportive. Ms. Johnson is ALWAYS positive! She is very thoughtful and is just an all-around good person. She is a great example for us and our students!"
Congratulations to our Support Staff Person for September, Mrs. McKensey Cantrell. Mrs. Cantrell is an assistant in our Upper Montessori classroom. Her peers said, "She is willing to help whenever and wherever needed without hesitation. She is a wonderful addition to our staff. She is friendly and her bubbly outlook is contagious. She is kind to children and adults, and we need more folks like her in the world! She brings great energy to our team!"
Congratulations, ladies!
🐊Attention Parents and Families🐊
In case you missed tonight’s phone call, here’s all the information.
🐊 Students do not come to school on Monday, November 1.
🐊Monday is Parent-Teacher Conference Day from 12:00 noon until 7:30 pm. All in-person conferences should have been arranged already. Please arrive on-time to ensure you get the full 15 minutes allotted for each conference. Some conferences will be virtual or phone call—whatever you indicated to your child’s teacher (please be aware that the phone number calling you may not be the school number). Only parents will be allowed to come to the classroom and masks must be worn. Please do not bring children or others due taking all measures to preventing the spread of Covid-19.
🐊Parents, if you choose to have your child wear a mask, please provide a mask for them. Students who request a mask will be given one mask per day. Students who ride the school bus is required to wear a mask. If your child is wearing a cloth mask, please be sure to wash it regularly.
🐊Parents please make sure your child brings their device with them to school every day charged.
🐊 Thank you for your continued support and willingness to do what is necessary to help your children. This a team effort. We cannot do this alone. We hope you all have a chomp, chomp, chomp Gatoriffic week!
On our final day of Red Ribbon Week, we want to "Be a JEANius and say NO to drugs!"
Wear jeans and a favorite fall or Halloween shirt!
Tomorrow (Thursday) is PAJAMA Day!
Wake up drug free!
Don't forget that tomorrow, Wednesday, October 27 is an Early Release Day for students. Dismissal begins at 12:15pm! Please make any transportation changes in writing by sending a note or writing in your child's planner.
It's going to be a WACKY WEDNESDAY!
Tomorrow, we remember that "You'd be CRAZY to do drugs!" by wearing crazy hair and crazy socks!
