Our students are showing great growth with our new math curriculum. Pictured are students using hands on manipulatives, completing a math enrichment activity for Pick-a-Project, and being rewarded for different success criteria using our online adaptive system called Successmaker. Future mathematicians in the making! +-=
Reminder: The district is having two-hour early releases this year. Students will be dismissed at 1:45 p.m. next Friday, Oct. 14th, Dec. 16th and March 10th. Please mark your calendars.
Staff Spotlights
Kyle Mann has been with the Galion City Schools for the past 6 years as the Primary buildings morning custodian and is wonderful with our students. He knows almost all of their names and greets them in the morning and at lunch time. His favorite memory is when a student dressed up as him for staff appreciate week and he and the students love the field day tug-of-war against him.
Lindy Edgell has also been with Galion City Schools for the past 6 years as a preschool teacher. She serves on the Building Leadership Team (BLT), District Leadership Team (DLT), and the Positive Behavior Support (PBIS) Team. Lindy graduated from Galion, had family teach and be administrators in Galion, and can’t wait to raise her two little girls in the district in the place where she grew up.
We have 14 open spots left for Mid Ohio Youth Mentoring (MOYM)!
Primary students are matched with a Galion high school student "Big" and meet with them each Tuesday the last hour of school. If you think you child would benefit from this program please fill out the application and return it to your child's teacher a.s.a.p. T
he program starts next Tuesday, Oct. 11th and applications will be taken by a first-come-first-serve basis.
Reminder! Picture Day is Monday, Oct. 10th.
Wishing Mrs. Monica Shifley a very happy retirement. Mrs. Monica taught 2nd grade at Galion Primary School. Today ends her 22 year teaching career.
Congratulations Mrs. Shifley. We wish you the very best.
We are excited to share that for tonight's game and the remainder of our football games, there will be a special sections for all of our elementary and middle school students. The Tiger Squad is our newly formed student sections where Ms. Perry and a few GMS students will lead the section in cheers, play games, and had out prizes. If you plan to go to the game you have three choice of where you are REQUIRED to be:
1. You and your friends can report to the Tiger Squad section in the upper left hand corner of the stadium where you are required to stay until you are dismissed at half time and then at the end of the game.
2. If your family belongs to the Grid Iron, you can report there and stay until half time and then the end of the game. Only grid iron members are permitted in this area.
3. or you MUST be seated with an adult.
Students are NOT permitted to be running around inside of the stadium and must be accompanied by an adult if you are not in one of the three locations above. If you are not in one of these three areas you will be escorted to your parents, requested to leave, possibly banned from future games, and may be in trouble at school as the same rules that apply at school also apply at the stadium.
We want you to have a good time with your friends and be safe. We hope to see you tonight at the Tiger Squad where tonight's theme is to wear all black! Looking forward to seeing you at the game - GO TIGERS!
Lunch with the principal is just one of the many PBIS incentives students can earn with tickets for positive behavior. We had so many students this month we had to get creative with our lunch locations.🍎🍕🍪
Each Friday in October (7th, 14th, 21st, 28th) students can bring in socks to
earn an incentive for our first community service project for the year.
If you bring:
1 pair of socks: you can wear a hat on Friday
3 pair of socks: you can wear pajamas on Friday
5 pairs of socks: you can bring in a stuffed animal on Friday
The classroom with the most socks donated will receive an ice cream
sandwich party! These socks will be donated to the Marion
Homeless Shelter.
Hope to see you tonight at Elementary Football Night! Tailgate starts at 5 p.m. in the park.
We are currently experiencing an issue with our district phones and internet. We are working to fix the issue.
We are currently experiencing an issue with our district phones and internet. We are working to fix the issue.
Mark your calendars. We hope you join us for Elementary Football Night on Sept. 23rd.
Say Hello Week is next week, Sept. 19th-23rd! We hope you all participate in the weekly dress up activities.
Start Hello Week brings attention to the growing epidemic of social isolation and empowers young people to create a culture of inclusion and connectedness within their school and community.
Parents/ Guardians Volunteer Sign Up Form
We are looking for parents/guardians that can help us implement our monthly PBIS incentive dates. We will send specific details closer to each date on what the activity is.
Even if you can help out with one date, it would be much appreciated! If you can not volunteer all day, please leave what times you could help in the comment section.
Thank you!
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Congratulations to the following students for being selected for last years Art Picture Award. Thank you to the PTO for framing these beautiful pieces of art!
Macie Wolfersberger, Kindergarten 2022
Cooper Main, 1st Grade 2022
Quinn Bailey, 2nd Grade 2022
The PTO has framed the yearly student art pictures for each grade level from the 2021-22 school year. These works of art are are now hanging in the hallways of the Primary and Intermediate buildings along with the art from previous years.
Congratulations to the following students for having their art work chosen: KG Macie Wolfersberger, 1st Cooper Main, 2nd Quinn Bailey, 3rd Jocelyn Glass, 4th Jaquelyn Young, 5th Addison Parsons. We are looking forward to another great year of Art projects this year.
Jeanne Kuns
Jeanne has been with the district for 25 years and is the secretary of the Primary building. She loves working with the students, staff, and her family. "I don't know what you would her. She helped me immensely learn the new building last year." -Kayla H.
Monica Shifley
Monica has been with the district for 22 years and will be retiring at the end of September. We are so thankful for all she has done for Galion City School and wish her a happy retirement! "She was a fun teacher and I learned a lot from her." -Kathryn R. former student
Flyers for our Back Pack Program will be coming home this week. Please return to your classroom teacher if you are interested in participating.
This program provides participating students with a small bag filled with child-friendly, shelf stable food for the weekend.
Open House/ Orientation will be from 4-6 p.m. on August 16th.
Primary Students can receive popcorn and a slushy after meeting his/her teacher and exploring the Primary School.
Please bring all school supplies!
We look forward to seeing you there!
