Volume 8, Issue 1 September 28, 2018

Message –Mr. Lee 2

BRAIN BUSTERS 3

Community News 4

BOOSTERS 5

BOOK REVIEW 6

SPORTS 7

CALENDAR 8

Inside this issue:

Special points of

interest:

Interview with Mrs. Katus– pg. 2

Grizz Kid Interview– Kaylie –pg. 5

Choir & Ma-rimba’s—pg. 6

Pax & Kelso-pg. 7

Bookfair Nov. 1

Our Beloved Teacher- Favorite

cooking-

memory of

Mrs. Nedrow- Canned

Pickled

Bananas!

DYL

As some of you may

know, Mrs. Luann Nedrow re-

tired last June. Recently after

the last day of school in June,

she was diagnosed with can-

cer. And now we have very

sad news to tell you that Mrs.

Nedrow passed away on

Sunday, September 24th.

Our school and the Grantham

Boosters originally organized

a Spaghetti Feed to happen on October 9th to support

her and help her with her medical bills. Well,

Grantham Staff & the Boosters still want to support

Mrs. Nedrow’s husband with all of that. So please

come to the silent Auction & Spaghetti Feed!

Mrs. Nedrow worked here at our school for 39 years

as a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade teacher and one year

3rd/4th. We will miss her dearly. We hope

to see you October 9th to celebrate and

honor Mrs. Luann Nedrow!

This is Jetta J. signing off!

Adult Interview– Mrs. Nikki Katus!

You will know Mrs. Katus because she was Miss Van Leuven in the recent past! We wanted you to know that Miss Van Leuven just got married on September 15th! And so now she is Mrs. Katus! Her husbands name is Chris! Congratulate your new Mrs. Katus! We asked her how kin-dergarten is going and she said she has 21 Kinders this year! We asked her if she is still enjoying teaching the kinders and she said, “Yes!” So if you see her in the hall say, “Hi Mrs. Katus!” This is Jaiden B & Sophia R. with more news to come soon! Have a good weekend!

P A G E 2

A NOTE FROM OUR PRINCIPAL:

We are sad to have one of our Life Long Grizzlies pass

away. Mrs. Nedrow taught many children in her 39

year career here at Grantham. We will miss her

deeply. If anyone, you yourself or any in your family

needs to come in and talk about Mrs. Nedrow, our

door is open. She fought a tough battle

and in the end she has won, because

she is most likely head teacher there

now! Have GRIT Grizzlies! This

is what she would want! G R R

Don Lee, Principal

V O L U M E 8 , I S S U E 1

By Gavin F.

* Who helps little pumpkins cross the road

to school?

– The Crossing Gourd!

* How do you get an Elephant out of your

tree?

– Ask him to sit on a leaf and wait until Fall!

* What did one leaf say to another?

– I’m falling for you.

* What’s the cutest season?

– Awwwwtumn.

* What do you get if you drop a pumpkin?

– Squash!

* What did the tree say to autumn?

– Leaf me alone.

* Why did the scarecrow win the Nobel

Prize?

– He was “out standing in his field.”

* Why did Humpty Dumpty have a great

fall?

– To make up for his terrible summer!

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FALL PUZZLES

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 8 , I S S U E 1 Brain Busters

By Juliana K. & Trinity C.

1.) Kindergarten Color Days! Back by popular demand are Kindergarten Color Days! Every fall, as the kinders are learning their colors, we like to do a “Color Day” that corre-sponds with each color. The kinders wear the col-ors as well as the staff. The staff wears the color of the day to show support for our kindergarteners, and to just join in on the fun! We already had Red Day, Blue Day, Day, Green Day, Orange Day, Purple Day, and we just had Pink Day! If you want to wear one of the colors in October, follow the dates below: Tuesday, October 2nd – Gray Day, Thursday, October 4th – Brown Day, Tuesday, October 9th – Black Day, Tuesday, October 16th – White Day.

Have fun with the colors and thanks for helping the Kinders

learn theirs! This is what we call community, working together to help others!

2.) SmileMobile The SmileMobile dental clinic has been here this past week, Sept. 24 -28, 2018.

They were open to all children, birth – high school and pregnant women. The Smile-

Mobil workers did exams, e-rays,

cleaned, sealed, filled or did sim-

ple extractions! Those they

helped, were given a break on the

cost also!

Thanks to Arcora Foundation who was in partnership

with the Seattle Children’s Hospital and their workers

who helped our children with their teeth this week! Den-

tal health is very important!

3.) Spaghetti Dinner Please, come to the Spaghetti Dinner here at Grantham in honor of a very

special teacher, Mrs. Nedrow. We lost her to cancer on September 24th ,

fighting like a Grizzly with dignity. She loved teaching w/her whole heart!

Remember this Date and come help with this fundraiser!

October 9th, 2018 - 5:30pm – 7:00pm. Dinner Cost: $5.00-Adults, $3.00-Kids, $15.00-Family of 4, $20.00-Family

of 5. Baskets for the silent auction to bid on will be made by the staff

This is Juliana & Trinity’s Community News , and we’re off! Bye!

P A G E 4 V O L U M E 8 , I S S U E 1 Community News

This space is reserved for the Grizz Kid interview! Normally we would have one but our reporter is a 6th grader who got very busy with Marimba’s, starting, band, lunch help and so forth… So I decided to feature this young lady! Kaylie R.! Once the dust settles from the begin-ning of school she will be able to get down to business as a reporter! So be ready for an interview with Kaylie! You young kindergarteners are going to be on her radar! Kaylie have a great year, Mrs. Layes will cover for you! Just give me a heads up when you start mediating too!!! See you October 1st for your new assignment! Mrs. Layes

P A G E 5 V O L U M E 8 , I S S U E 1

Grantham Boosters— You may be asking your self who are the Grantham Boosters and

how do I find out about them? Well I am here to tell you! The Boost-

ers are made up of Parents, Teachers, Paras, anyone from the com-

munity and even Students. We all work together to better our

school! We have carnivals, book fairs, fund raisers and other projects

to help our school and its students within. For example: Boosters

raised the funds for the new play equipment you see on the play

ground. We help with the Awards Celebration Nights, STEAM

Nights and Support our staff and students with the funds we raise,

like go on the 5th grade boat trips, Science center trips, Student T-

Shirts or Wall Climbing. If you would like to participate and do not

mind a little work join us! We usually meet on Mondays at 6pm the

1st and 3rd Mondays of the month. (It does change sometimes.) You

may contact Tami Heath or Dani Layes if you are interested in joining

us with planning & help. Help with one thing this year or two or all!

And we thank you so much for caring! Gail will help you contact us!

Tami Heath—6th grade teacher & Dani Layes– Library & Boosters Sec.

Dork Diaries-Author: Rachel Renée Russell Tales from a Not so Happy Heartbreaker

Hey, I have been reading the “Tales from a Not so Happy Heartbreaker”! It is number 6 in the Dork Diary Series Books! It is a very funny & a great book about Valentine’s Day. If you have not read it, it is a good read! I am still in the middle of read-ing it right now and so far so good! If you have any questions about this book or want to know

more about the Dork Diaries, just ask me! Ta Ta for Now! This is Sophia R. with your latest book review! SR

Marimba’s have started up again and we have been

very excited to see some new faces! We have learned some new songs and our originals. We also have start-ed in early on Christmas songs. We are proud to say we are off to a great start for the year! Here are some pic-ture of us !

This is Jaden B. and Jetta J. signing off

P A G E 6 V O L U M E 8 , I S S U E 1 By: Sophia R.

Choir is off to a great start! Just recently we

have picked our first song of the year. I am new to choir and I already feel com-fortable with my group! Thank you to our favorite music teacher, Mrs. Thomp-son, for all her hard work and dedica-tion to Choir and the Marimba’s!

This is Jetta J. singing off!

Sports-Tetherball

By Emma F.

I’m here to talk about tetherball! Let

me tell you about the rules: no double tap-

ping, no crossing the line, no touching

the rope. It is a fun game to play come on

and join

tetherball

now!

Everyone can

play! It is a

fast, fun game to play!

Here are some picts of Grantham

kids playing!

See you later!

P A G E 7 V O L U M E 8 , I S S U E 1 Sports

October Calendar

2nd Gray Day By Hazel A.

3rd Individual Pictures Day!

4th Brown Day

5th No School - Prof. Development

8th Columbus Day

9th Black Day /Also- Spaghetti feed in

Honor of Mrs. Nedrow-5:30pm-7:00pm

10th -12th NO school - Conferences

16th

19th LCSC Free Volley Ball Night 7:00pm

24th United Nations Day / Full Moon

31st Halloween

1253 Poplar Street Clarkston, WA 99403 509-758-2503

Book Fair Starts

Come visit the

Enchanted Forest!

Next Booster Meeting: October 15 & 24, 2018

Mondays - 6:00pm - Library Boosters E-mail:

gesboosters@csdk12.org We can do TEXT

We’re on the web!

http://ges.csdk12.or

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Parents, Need help with anything?

Contact:

Rhonda Wells