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Gregory Activities THIS WEEK!

Pizza Night: Round Table Pizza night is THIS WEDNESDAY November 30th from 4:30-7:30pm. This time we will have a canned food drive to benefit the Highline Food Bank; and Round Table Pizza will donate a pizza party to the class that brings in the most non-perishable food items. No reservations are necessary, just show up! This is a great way to support our school and feast with friends. Location: 15730 1st Avenue South, Burien, WA 98148, (206) 431-8600.

Announcements

December Dollar Book Store Sale Our next Dollar Book Store sale will be Wednesday December 14. This is an opportunity for our students to buy books for $1 each with all proceeds going back into the program to sustain the sales. The goal as always is to create student interest in book ownership and provide books for our kids at a cheap cost. We would like to thank all the families that have donated books already toward this sale. Special thanks to Betsy Akina and Jill Mudge who have really added to our collection. Special thanks also to Christy Van Bodegom and Margaret Ann Van Bodegom and who have donated credit at the local Page 2 Book Store in Burien. Page 2 Books also has donated a number of books toward this program. All these generous gifts will help put books in our students hands! So remember the Dollar Book Store sale on December 14 and happy holidays!

Winter Clothing Drive: Our annual winter clothing drive begins December 5th and will run until December 9th. Families are encouraged to send in new or gently worn clothing for adults, youth, children, and infants. The clothing should be clean and no stains or holes. Shoes, hats, and gloves are welcomed. Any Gregory Heights logo shirt/sweatshirts will be given to the PTSA. There will be drop off boxes by the main doors and Mrs. Knutson’s class will pick up items from classrooms as well each day. Any questions please contact Mrs. Knutson, linnea.knutson@highlineschools.org or visit room 171.

Annual Holiday Giving Tree: It’s that time of year again when we start preparing for the upcoming holidays. Our Gregory Heights community is sponsoring a Giving Tree for those families that could use a little extra help during the holiday season. If you would like to make this a happier holiday season for a Gregory Heights’ student, or their siblings, please pick an ornament off of the Giving Tree (located by the school office) and sign up on the clip board for that particular child’s wish. Questions? Please contact our school counselor, Chris Barnes, Christine.Barnes@highlineschools.org.

FUNDRAISERS

Box Tops & Labels for Education

Thank you to everyone who helped start off the school year by turning in your Box Tops and Labels for Education. It is so easy to earn extra money for the PTSA through the Box Tops program and points to purchase art, academic and athletic supplies through the Labels for Education program.

For our first contest, we earned $450 through the Box Top program and 3100 points through the Labels for Education program. We are well on our way to reaching our goals. Please remember to save during the holidays and don’t forget to ask friends, family and neighbors to save for upcoming contests!

Check out the following Labels for Education website: http://www.elabelsforeducation.com/Sites/Campbells_eLabels/Page/HomePage

Sign up and register your shoppers card (Fred Meyer, Albertsons, QFC, etc) and assign it to Gregory Heights. Each time you purchase a Labels for Education product, your shoppers card will automatically send a point to our Labels for Education account. You also get to cut and turn in the label as well. So, we will receive 2 points for every 1 just by signing up!

For all of you online shoppers, go to the following Box Tops website: http://www.boxtops4education.com/earn/marketplace/Default.aspx When you join the Box Tops Marketplace, you will begin your online shopping here. It offers over 100 popular online shopping sites which will allow you to earn Box Tops just by doing your regular shopping!

Congratulations to Mr. Dennings’ class for winning the Box Tops contest and Ms. Jones’ class for winning the Labels for Education contest. Both classes will have earned a classroom party!

Feel free to contact JoAnn Wakefield at joannstampingfun@comcast.net or Lisa Courter at lisa.courter@comcat.net with any questions or comments.

LOVE IS…..

Our Gregory Heights Benefit Auction is just around the corner! We still have many more sponsorship and advertising opportunities. Please contact Brenda Sutherland-Field, sutherfield5@comcast.net for more information.

Looking Ahead…more info to come:

Next: Dollar Book Store Sale, Wednesday December 14 Lunch/Recess

Thanks for letting us “Keep you in the Loop!”