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High 5's (December)

Posted by admin on January 3, 2012

High Fives December 6th, 2011


Important Reminders:

Scholastic Book Fair,  Monday Dec. 5 – Thursday Dec. 8

Principal’s Chat, Monday Dec. 12, 9:00-9:45 am

Diner's Night at Round Table, Tuesday Dec. 13, noon – 9 pm

(Via Valiente and Redmond locations)

Christmas Break (no school), Monday Dec. 19 – Friday Dec. 30

In-Service day (no school), Monday Jan. 2

Next H&SC meeting, Tuesday Jan. 3


Shopping with Amazon? Please remember to start at the Graystone HSC website (www.graystonehsc.org) and click on the link to Amazon from there. This will earn Graystone a percentage of your purchase, every time you shop!


  • Please remember to buy your cash cards.

    Special orders must be in to Gina Freitag by Saturday December 10 for guaranteed delivery before Christmas break. Email:ginafreitag@comcast.net

  • The cash card team will be selling cash cards every day next week in the superdome to make it easy to get your cards and support Graystone: December 12-16,

    Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at drop off and pick up.


Home & School Club business

  • Graystone Grownup Gathering is on Friday February 10, 2012 at the Scottish Rite Center. Planning meetings will take place starting in January. The first one is on Tuesday January 3rd, immediately following the H&SC meeting.

  • For the auction we need a live-auction chair person, as well as runners that will go and pick up donations that are being donated to Graystone. Please contact Holly Case (email: the_cases@yahoo.com ).

  • Class baskets: Carol Wein shared that emails went out to all class reps/organizers. Please get back to her in a timely matter.

  • Volunteers needed: coordinator for Movie Night, Back-to-school-night DVD, Cash Cards (Jene Biester will shadow Gina Freitag), Pumpkin Bust coordinators.

  • Available board positions for next school year: terms expire for Treasurer (Jeanette Yates) and Vice-President (Anne-Marie Nijssen).

  • Laurene Johnson was presented with a Volunteer Appreciation Certificate for coordinating the Holiday Boutique for the Roots and Wings program.

  • Heritage Day Planning meetings will start in January. The first meeting will be on Friday January 13th. Contact Carol Chiu (email:cichiu@pacbell.net ) for more info.


Principal’s report

  • The California Distinguished School Award application has been submitted.

  • Science lab teachers: The school district has changed hiring policies for science lab teachers, making the process much more difficult. There have been some gaps in some grades. Most grades are still running the labs. The teachers are working on getting the tests over with and contracts in place a.s.a.p.


Teacher's report

  • The teachers are looking forward to helping at the Graystone Grownup Gathering by providing desserts.

  • Liz Marino announces that the president of the San Jose Teachers Association will come to the next HSC meeting in January for a presentation. Please plan to be there!


Library/Media Center News

  • New books are coming in and volunteers are needed to put book jackets on to protect the books and make them last longer. Set up a time to help with either Diana or Melissa in the library.

  • Melissa announces a book swap for January and the Amazing Bubble Man for February.


And finally a reminder... the Adopt a Family Program is ending soon!!!
Imagine looking into your child's eyes and wishing you could provide a pair of shoes without holes or a pair of jeans that fit, or maybe a warm jacket to wear to school in the morning. Those are a few of the items our adopt a family individuals are asking for this holiday season and still remain hanging on some classroom giving tree's. If you have not yet participated in the adopt a family program, please think about stopping by and taking a post it note wish or tell your child to take a note for you. If your classroom's giving tree is empty, you may take a post it note from any other classroom and still return it to your child's classroom donation box as long as it still has the post it note attached.  You may even take a post it note and attach it to a gift card so it can be used for that purpose. All wrapped gifts need to be returned by Monday, December 12th. If you plan on making a cash donation, you may write a check to Graystone H&SC and we will use the money to purchase scrip grocery cards for the families. Please turn in all cash donations to your teacher by Friday, December 9th.  If you have any questions about any of the wishes that remain, please contact either Sheri Meeks sean.sheri.meeks@gmail.com or Amber Marienthal amarienthal@msn.com. We cannot thank you enough for supporting this program and making the holidays special for these families.