January 29th, 2016

Sixth Grade WEB is helping The Human Collective Club at Solano College and we want you to participate too! Our PonyTail Hat project serves to donate hair and make hats with ponytails for young people who may have hair lost due to different conditions, such as cancer, alopecia.  How might you feel is you had no hair?  But, do you realize hair is not the most important thing that makes you a great person?  We know that and want to share that with you.  We also would like to share our hair and will attach our pony tails to hats to give to someone.  It shows how we can help in creative ways!  WEB participants already helped by making happy, get well notes to donate at hospitals, where patients can pick them up and be inspired!  So what can you do? 

Ø  Be our guest Feb 2^nd during lunch time.

Ø  Make more happy, inspirational notes.  We will collect them Feb 2nd.

Ø  Volunteer yourself to cut our hair live that day!  We will have a box into which student names will be drawn to cut our hair during lunch time.

CHECK OUT MRS. BATES BLOG FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

http://gvmscounselorscorner.blogspot.com/

16-17 COURSE SELECTION IS COMING!!

Can you believe it?!?  We are ALREADY planning for the next school year!  In History, all 7th graders will be giving feedback as to what course they are interested in possibly coming to GVMS next year.  All 6th graders will share their thoughts in their classes as well.  Once this input has been gathered, we will have all 6th and 7th graders complete their course selections for English, Math, History, Science and electives for the 2016-2017 school year.  This will all be done AT GVMS and completely ONLINE.  We will also be sending the course description home through email so please be sure to read through them!!

Sacramento State, Admissions & Outreach is sponsoring a Parent & Student workshop, focused on Students Grade 6-9. It will take place on Sat.,April 2, 2016 from 8:00-1:00, Sacramento State/University Ballroom, 6000 J Street, Sacramento. The workshop is designed to communicate the importance of early academic and financial planning to assure students have choices after high school.

They will have interactive workshops about college majors and careers. The workshop is free to attend, and those interested in attending should register online at www.csus.edu/cmih.

Do you know what YikYak, Ask.FM and Snapchat do?  ALL parents should keep these apps on their radar as anyone can post ANONYMOUS comments about anyone and say whatever they want without being traced.  Take a look at THIS ARTICLE to see what they are all about and ways that you can educate your student to not be a target and not be part of the drama.

Our 2nd Annual Spring Fling is COMING soon and scheduled for Saturday, April 30th from 4-8 PM at GV Cellars!  We are excited to have this great community event to support local businesses, raise money for our goal of becoming a 1:1 device school (where each student has their OWN device to complete school work), and have families get to know each other even better!  TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!  If you have a donation or contact that you can send our way, please give them Mrs. Cherry's email KristenC@fsusd.org and we hope to see you at this fun filled event!