Last week your child brought home a paper from the Goodness Gorillas all about the the Candy Cane Gram sale to support the Make a Wish foundation.

The Goodness Gorillas will be selling Candy Cane Grams at lunch for $0.25 each from Monday, December 15 through Friday, December 19. The students may send them to a friend, teacher, or staff member with a friendly holiday message.

Download the attached flyer for more forms if you need them!

candycanegrams

All of the proceeds will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The Candy Cane Grams will be distributed on Tuesday, December 23. Thank you for helping the Goodness Gorillas make someone’s wish come true!

Happy Thanksgiving! We have been talking a lot this week about everything we are thankful for. We made these beautiful turkeys out of tracings of our hands and feet. Check out the comments check out our acrostic poems, you can see what we are thankful for!

Have a fantastic, relaxing holiday break with your family. Happy Thanksgiving!

The Penn Manor School District in Partnership with the
Pennsylvania Department of Health and Lancaster
General is offering the Community
FREE FLU SHOTS
FOR CHILDREN 3 TO 18 YEARS OF AGE
(All ages must be accompanied by their parent or guardian. Shots
are only for children, adults can check with their healthcare provider
for information concerning the adult vaccine.)

WHEN: Thursday December 11, 2008

TIME: 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM (walk in no appointment needed)

WHERE: Penn Manor High School (library)
100 East Cottage Ave.
Millersville PA 17551
(When facing the central complex doors enter into the doors directly to the left)

WHY: In February 2008 the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention expanded the flu vaccination recommendations to
include all children 6 months through 18 years old

*For more information about influenza and the influenza vaccination go to the CDC
website: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/keyfacts.htm

*For more information about the clinic contact Ellen Pollock, assistant
superintendent at 872-9500 extension 2235.

* You do not have to reside in the Penn Manor School District to participate.

We had a blast on Fun Friday. We were able to use the macbooks and iBooks. On the iBooks we used KidPix which is a fun drawing program for children. On the macbooks we visited two websites, starfall.com and funbrain.com and we had a blast!

The Goodness Gorillas are at it again!  Here is some information about the Annual Canned Food Drive.  Please support our needy Pequea families!

A note from Goodwin Gorilla:
The Goodness Gorillas Canned Food Drive
Monday, November 17 to Friday, November 21

The Goodness Gorillas are coordinating a canned food drive to help people in need for the Holiday Season. Our goal is to collect as many canned or nonperishable items as possible. This will make the Gorillas go “bananas” for helping people!
We will have a competition between each class to see who can donate the most food. Please take your canned or dried food items to your class. Each day a Goodness Gorilla representative will come to your classroom to collect your donations. The class who donates the most food items will earn an ice cream party!
The final count will take place on the morning of Friday, November 21. The Goodness Gorillas will donate the canned food items to families in need. Thank you for your support!

Please visit our blog at http://blogs.pennmanor.net/goodnessgorillas/

Today we had an assembly to honor Veterans of the armed forces. We had a wonderful program filled with patriotic music, videos, and words. The picture above is of the veterans that took the time to come to our school and celebrate with us this morning. It was a moving experience! We would like to thank all veterans, and those currently serving, for serving our country. We are grateful for all you have sacrificed.

Leave a comment to recognize and thank a veteran!

Today was another fun spirit day. Today students were allowed to dress like a favorite book character. It was great to see all the different characters in the school. Here are the ones from our class:

The Cat in the hat Junie B. Jones

Fancy Nancy Storm Trooper

Miley Sheriff Woody

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We had a blast!

Today was the day for Pacing for Pequea.  We had a blast!  Everyone was constantly in motion…we ran or walked around the track, danced, did the limbo, ran through tires or army crawled through a course.  Thank you to everyone who sent in pledges to support the PTO through this fundraiser.  We greatly appreciate it!

To cap off the event, Cylo crashed our class!  We love it when he drilled us on reading the words “Pacing for Pequea.”

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The Pumpkin Penny Wars will take place Monday, October 27 to Thursday, October 30

Last week your child brought home a blue form explaining the pumpkin penny wars. Here are the rules:

Our sixth grade student council, the Goodness Gorillas, will be holding our annual pumpkin decorating contest at Pequea Elementary School. Interested students can decorate a pumpkin and bring it to school on Monday, October 27. We will also accept them throughout the week. You will place your pumpkin in your grade’s patch on the stage in the cafeteria.

Each grade will represent a pumpkin patch on the stage in the cafeteria. In front of each pumpkin patch will be a container for pennies. The grade that raises the most money wins the contest! Silver coins and paper money cancel out pennies! Students want to place pennies in their grade’s container, while placing paper money and silver coins in other grade’s containers!

Rules for the Contest
- Students may use pumpkins or gourds
- You may not cut or carve your pumpkin
- You may only decorate the outside of your pumpkin
- Your pumpkin must be decorated like a character from a book you read or one that was read to you.
- You must complete the description paper to accompany your pumpkin (if you need a form, please let me know)
- The grade with the most pennies by the end of the week wins!
- Each silver coin or bill placed in a grade’s container reduces the number of pennies from that container by the amount of the coin. (e.g. a nickel reduces the pennies by five, a dime by ten, a dollar by 100, etc…)

How will you decorate your pumpkin? Leave a comment to let us know!

Today in P.E. class Mr. Binkley told us all about Jump Rope for Heart. Jump Rope for Heart is a rope-jumping special event program that gives children an opportunity to engage in community service by raising money to support the American Heart Association. The purpose of the celebration is to teach children the importance of keeping their heart healthy. Our class will take part in this fun event over our PE time during the week of November 5th. The students will be bringing home a collection envelope today, along with a purple letter from Mr. Binkley. If your child would like to participate, please sign the permission form that is attached to the collection envelope and return it to school. Thank you very much for your support!