George White Elementary
Part 1
Information featured in Part 1:
• Green Team News!
• Holiday Toy Drive
• Spiritwear News
• Last Call for Yearbook Orders!
• Volunteer Opportunities!
• 5th Grade Talent Show! Be a Part of the team!
• Garden Committee Needs Volunteers!
• Booster Club News!
• Reading Olympics- November forms due NOW!
Green Team News!
CONGRATULATIONS
GEORGE WHITE KNIGHTS
WE RECEIVED
$764.40
FOR
RECYCLING BOTTLES AND CANS!
WATCH FOR OUR NEW RECYCLING CONTEST TO START IN JANUARY!
George White Elementary PTA Toy Drive
December 6 – 10
George White children and families please consider helping local families in need!
Please bring unwrapped, new toys to school during the week of December 5 – 10.
Look for donation boxes in front of the school
The Toy Drive benefits the New Parent Support Program at Camp Pendleton.
No used toys, please.
Thank you from the KICS (Kids In Community Service) Team!
Spiritwear News
Spiritwear is back with all new colors and styles to choose from. Look for Spiritwear order forms in this Wednesday’s Blue Envelope(Dec. 1st).
Order forms are due Tuesday, December 14th (sorry no exceptions). We anticipate a delivery time of early January.
It is encouraged that you try on samples of the clothing which will be available on select days in the next few weeks in front of the school.
A listserv will go out with the exact days and times the samples will be available.
Remember to wear your George White colors(blue and white) on Friday…Go GW!!!!!
LAST CALL FOR YEARBOOK ORDERS!
The yearbook order deadline will be extended until Friday, December 3rd. Please get your orders in. This will be the last opportunity to order yearbooks. If you need forms for Knights Knotes or Knights to Remember they are available in the office. Thank you.
Blue Ribbon Week: Volunteers
A new PTA sponsored awareness week for bullying prevention. If you would like to help our chairs coordinate a few events (an assembly, a parent education night, dress-up day “wear blue”, etc.) please let us know! Timing: Week of January 18-21
If interested, contact: Heather Daly at mrsdaly@earthlink.net
Friday Field Days: Co-Chair
During lunch recess, every other Friday, a group of volunteers helps provide students with fun and different games (battle ball, parachute games, soccer, capture the flag, hula hoops, and more!). We are looking for someone to help the current Chair coordinate schedule of volunteers, set-up equipment, clean up and return equipment to storage shed. Without a volunteer, this program will be canceled.
Timing: Program is offered every other Friday 10:50-12:50 throughout the year. Shifts are flexible, but generally 10:50-11:50, 11:50-12:50, or 11-1pm.
4th-5th grade parents, there is a big need for volunteers during the late shift (11:50-12:50)!
If interested, contact: Kim Bortnick at kimbortnick@cox.net
5th Grade Talent Show
There is still time to join the team! ATTENTION 5th Grade PARENTS! We need your help with the 5th Grade Talent Show!
There are lots of ways to help out behind the scenes as well as in front.
Make this a memorable and fun experience for you and your child!
Be a part of the team!
Contact 949-218-8578 lynnaustinfox@cox.net
George White School Garden Committee Forming
We are looking for people with a variety of skills to form the School Garden Committee!
Do you enjoy doing school projects with children?
Can you raise $100 for plants and supplies?
Do you have connections with a landscaping company, Home Depot, or a nursery?
Are you handy?
Do you enjoy sharing your love of gardening with children?
Would you like to do only one project a month… or a year?
Please contact Aneta Dorhout, School Garden Co-chair, aneta.dorhout@cox.net to
see how you can contribute to the George White School Garden.
BOOSTER CLUB NEWS
Don’t forget our marquee birthday messages for only $20! Make checks payable to GWES Booster Club, and drop them off in the office.
Raise Funds for George White While You Shop!
Please use the Amazon SchoolRewards link on the Booster Club website to help raise money for our school. Just go to http://www.gwbooster.org and click on the Amazon link on the Home Page, or on the Support Us page. Be sure to pass our link along to friends and family!
Reading Olympics
Ready…Set…READ!!!
November Reading Olympics forms are due this week and will not be accepted after next Monday December 6th. Please completely fill out form with your first AND last name, your minutes TOTALED, and a parent signature.
Congratulations to the many students that won prizes for completing books last month. Keep up the good work and Go for the Gold!!
If you need a replacement form, or have any questions regarding the
program, please email GWReadingOlympics@gmail.com
Part 2
Included: Regular Features
• Friday School Spirit Days
• Library Book Club
• Box Tops for Education
• Got Plastic Bottles & Aluminum Cans? Bring them Thursdays & GO GREEN!
• Cartridge Recycling
• Submit your Yearbook Photos
• KICS Philanthropy Project!
George White has spirit, yes we do!
Now show your spirit!
Every Friday
Wear your GW Spiritwear OR GW colors-Blue and White
And let everybody know…GW ROCKS!!!
LIBRARY BOOK CLUB
George White PTA
Library Book Club
Honor your child by donating
a book to our library!!!
Celebrate your child’s birthday, applaud a major accomplishment,
recognize good grades or just proclaim your child
as an outstanding George White Knight
by purchasing a book for the George White Library.
Your donation helps the library expand the book selection available to students
and is a great way to honor your child!
In recognition of your donation to the library, your child will be presented with a “Certificate of Appreciation” by Principal Spelber during the morning flag salute and a “Book Plate” will be affixed to the inside cover of your book selection announcing, “This book was donated in your child’s honor!”
To receive a list of books available for donation contact Kymberly Spector at 363.6696, or email ksspector@cox.net.
Or if you prefer, the Book Club Committee can choose a grade appropriate book for you.
Recognitions of book donations are presented every Friday at 7:45 am just before the flag salute.
Don’t forget to celebrate all those summer birthdays!
BRING IN YOUR BOX TOPS!!!
The box tops kickoff raffles begins soon!
Each Box top is worth $.10 for George White
Prize drawings will be held at flag salute on Fridays
You MUST write your name and your teacher’s name on the back of each box top!
Thanks and keep on clippin’!
Plastic Bottle & Aluminum Cans- Bring ‘em on Thursdays!
In addition to PLASTIC BOTTLES , we are now collecting ALUMINUM CANS! They need to be in separate bags.
Please place all plastic bottles in 1 bag and all aluminum cans in a 2nd bag. Thank you for your support and for “Going Green”!
CARTRIDGE RECYCLING IS BACK!!!
Help OUR SCHOOL get MONEY by bringing in YOUR TRASH!
Please bring in the following used items to the designated box in the Atrium (under the table):
INKJET CARTRIDGES
LASER CARTRIDGES
CELL PHONES
PDA’s
LAPTOPS
iPODS
GPS’
VIDEO SYSTEMS/GAMES
DIGITAL CAMERAS
Help the EARTH, GEORGE WHITE and YOU! This program will go on the entire school year. Thanks for your support.
Please do not bring any items not listed above. Questions? contact dilombardo@cox.net
Image Share – Get your pictures in the yearbook!
The Yearbook Staff invites students and parents to submit photos for the yearbook.
If you’ve got great photos of school or classroom events we’d like to see them.
Our photographers can’t be everywhere so help us get as many photos as possible to create a terrific book everyone will want to have.
Here is how you can submit photos online
Log on to: images.jostens.com
Enter Login ID: 400052345
Password: white11
• Browse to select the photo(s) you wish to upload, click on “Image Share”.
• Enter information about the photo (only one students name is needed) and provide contact information in case the staff needs information.
• Click “Save Details”.
It’s that easy! Submit your photos today!
The Yearbook Staff will review all photos and determine final yearbook content. We cannot guarantee that all submissions will be used in the book.
KICS Free Philanthropy for Albertsons’ Shoppers!
Help Kick Start a New Beginning While Shopping at Albertsons
This holiday season, as you are dashing through the aisles at Albertsons, please help KICS participate in a great philanthropic program that won’t cost you a cent. Albertsons currently has a promotion where they offer cookware for a penny when you collect their reward stickers (1 sticker for every $10 spent) and redeem numbers of them instore. Since many of us are probably stocked up on this stuff, wouldn’t it be nice to collect stickers and then donate the pots and pans to Human Options (an Orange County shelter that helps battered women, their families and our community break the cycle of domestic violence via emotional support and education).
Knowing that many of us shop at Albertsons’ – can’t go in to the Marina Hills one without knowing at least one person – why not, as long as you’re already there and provided you don’t need them for yourself, collect them. This is a no-brainer easy thing, right?
Please hold on to your stickers (keep ’em in a baggy?) and bring them right into the office or directly to Melissa Pearl. You can even drop the baggy in the Wednesday Blue Envelope. This promotion goes on through January so we’d love to see how many we can collect by January 5th. Thank you kindly
