These students in Ms. Barr's class reached their AR goal this week and got to get a book out of the book vending machine. Congratulations!
TRIVIA: Which US President passed a bill proclaiming November 11th as Veterans day in 1954?
Congratulations to our librarian Ms. Sarah Simpson. She text the correct answer.
It was President Eisenhower.
Mrs. Kori Gill's 3rd grade math skill groups used their knowledge of addition with regrouping to serve up the correct pizza by solving the math recipe cards correctly. How fun!
Our 2nd and 3rd grade students learned about Veteran's Day while working on their projects in Art class.
GCT Elementary would like to thank all veterans for their service. Happy Veterans Day!
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We love our School Resource Officers
Bailey Harris, Tony Harris, and Landon Crumpton
GCT is proud of our SRO's and the service they provide!!
Our teachers have been meeting daily to plan assessments and curriculum that will provide students with the foundational skills necessary to ensure their success this year and beyond. During this process, they are developing assessments and using the data from these assessments to guide instruction. They have worked very hard so far this year and are already seeing some significant student growth so they were rewarded with desserts by Bloom Events.
Tuesday, November 14th the Elementary will be having class pictures. We will also be having re-takes for individual pictures for the yearbook.
We had so much fun giving away money as prizes to students who sold 5 or more items during our annual cookie dough fundraiser! Thank you to our PTO for their help with this!
Yesterday Mrs. Hannah Reddick's class celebrated earning 10 recess stickers with an extra recess. Congratulations on working so hard!
In honor of Veteran's Day, we have proudly displayed our Hallway of Heroes where we are honoring 110 veterans. Thank you to everyone that turned in these photos and to Ms. Dunnam for leading this project. We appreciate everyone that has served or who is currently serving in our military!
TECH TRIVIA: Who was the very first high school principal?
Congratulations to Mrs. Chelsie Gill for texting the correct answer!
The answer is Ms. Lena Simmerman.
Who loves the St. Louis Cardinals, has two grandchildren and loves Coke Zero?
Congratulations to 2nd grader Presley and 3rd grader Cruz for guessing the correct staff member!
It is one of our counselors, MRS. CARA WILLIAMS!
Mrs. Sara's class enjoyed their day at Hijinx participating in Special Olympics Bowling.
Mrs. Hatley's class attended Special Olympics Bowling and had a great time.
Mrs. Kristen Hedge's class got to play "knockout" in math skill group.
Mrs. Barr's third grade class enjoyed doing "spooky" science experiments for Halloween.
Thank you to all the families that came and made our Family Night a great success!
We want to thank Dr. Dunnam, Dr. Wright, AMMC and UAMS for being a part of our event. We also owe a thank you to the Sheriff's Department for donating fingerprinting kits and OPAA for providing us with cookies.
REMINDER: tonight is our Human Body Family Night, 5:30-7:00 in the Elementary Gym!
Today in Mrs. Gramling's reading room students participated in activities to understand the FLOSS spelling rule.
