Kindergarten and First Grade Music Concert

Thursday evening, March 18, Grainwood hosted the Kindergarten and 1st Grade Music Concert. The gym was packed with families, friends and relatives enjoying a weather themed musical performance. A big thanks to Ms. Jungwirth and all the work she put forth preparing the students. If you did not have a chance to attend the performance, please view a song from the concert below or share its availability online with friends and relatives near and far.

District Calendar To Go Digital

Due to budget reductions and environmental considerations, the district will not be printing and mailing a district-wide calendar for the 2010-2011 school year. A printable version will be made available this summer on the website along with Free-and-Reduced Price lunch information. You can find calendar information under "Family Resources" on the district homepage.

Spring Conferences

Hope to see you at conferences on Tuesday night or Friday morning. Just a reminder that students do not have school this Friday, nor the following week due to Spring Break. Enjoy the extended time with your children and safe travels to those hitting the road or airways. School resumes Monday, March 29th!

Mix-It-Up Lunch

Thank you to the Grainwood Student Council for organizing and planning an event called Mix-It-Up Lunch. Mix-It-Up Lunch randomly places students within their grade level at one of nine tables in our lunchroom (each class occupies approximately 3 tables and we mostly have 3 sections per grade). Students then are seated with students they would normally not sit with to help initiate and/or strengthen student relationships throughout a grade level. Mix-It-Up Lunch is a national event promoted by the Southern Poverty Law Center and its publication Teaching Tolerance. Teaching Tolerance is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences for our nation's children. Grainwood's next Mix-It-Up Lunch will be Wednesday, April 7. Please ask your child about it! Please view the news clip below for a short report on one high school's Mix-It-Up Lunch Day.

Butter Braids for sale!

Grainwood PTC is proud to announce the 2nd annual Butter Braid Fundraiser. The fundraiser will run from March 2th - March 16th. Proceeds will go toward classroom activities, school assemblies and special events. It’s a quick and easy way to treat your family, friends, and relatives to a fresh, “homemade” out-of-the-oven pastry in just minutes! You can order this frozen Butter Braid pastry in 6 different flavors: Apple, Blueberry/Cream Cheese, Cinnamon, Cream Cheese, Raspberry, Strawberry/Cream Cheese. Carmel Rolls are also available! The cost is $10.00; all orders must be turned in by Monday, March 16th. Pick up your Butter Braid order on Tuesday, March 30th between 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM in the Grainwood gym.

March All School Meeting

Today we celebrated our monthly All School Meeting and rapped up our "I Love to Read" month activities. Congratulations to all Grainwood students for reading a total of 194,632 minutes during the month of February (which greatly exceeded our goal of 100,000 minutes). Special congrats to Grade 4 for reading the most minutes! As always, a student representative from each classroom was recognized for exhibiting one of our C.A.R.E.S. attributes throughout the month of February. February focused on Self-Control. To view the recognized representatives from each classroom, please visit our C.A.R.E.S. bulletin board near the front entrance of the School.