Click here for the May Polar Express Newsletter

MAY
May 1    Band Concert— at RBMS
May 2    4th graders to middle school for band assembly
May 4    National School Nurse Day
             1st grade field trip to Veteran's Acres
                               School Spirit Day
May 7    4th grade band tryouts—1:30 p.m. at G.R.
May 8    Market Day—3:30—4:30 p.m.
             PTA meeting—7:00 p.m.—LMC
May 9    4th Grade LA EC Fieldtrip
May 11  School Spirit Day—School Colors
             5th grade field trip
May 13  Mother’s Day
May 17  Open House—Please join us
May 18  School Spirit Day—wear favorite color
             5th grade LA EC fieldtrip
             Parent Surveys due
May 21  School Board meeting—7:00 p.m.—RBMS
May 22  Kdgn. field day (Volunteers only)
             3rd grade Economics Fair
May 23  Kdgn. field day—rain date
             Talent Show—6:30 p.m. (Grades 4-5)
May 24  5th grade field trip (rain date)
             5th Grade Patrol Breakfast
             4th grade field trip—Woods Creek Park
             Kindergarteners eat lunch at school
May 25  Field Day—Grades 1-5 (Volunteers only)
May 28  No School—Memorial Day
May 29  Ms. McCrea’s Wax Museum—a.m.
             Ms. Bernhard’s Wax Museum—p.m.
May 30  Mrs. Cannon’s Wax Museum—a.m.
             Ms. Thomas’ Wax Museum—p.m.
May 31  ECSE Graduation

JUNE
June 1    Field Day—Grades 1-5—rain date
              School Spirit Day—Crazy Hair day
              Last Day for Kdgn. attendance
June 4    Incoming Kdgn. screening
              5th Grade Orientation at Middle Schools
              5th Grade End of the Year Social—1:30 p.m.
June 5    Incoming Kdgn. screening
              Last day of attendance for Grades 1—5
              Market Day—10:30—12:30—Cafeteria
 
Jun 18—July 13 District 47 Special Education Summer School at Glacier Ridge

We love writing here at Glacier Ridge. To celebrate writing and creativity, we have begun a voluntary independent writing challenge called Polar Image-ination. This is a monthly challenge open to all students in grades 1-5. Each month the students are shown the same photograph and asked to write a fictional story that is reflective of the picture. Students will have approximately two and a half weeks to write their stories.
     The grade level winner is selected by Mr. Jacobsen and Mrs. Fletcher and announced on the morning announcements. These students are invited to bring his/her lunch to the office to dine with Mr. Jacobsen and Mrs. Fletcher. Additionally each selected story will be posted on the Glacier Ridge website for others to enjoy. Please share our excitement for this creativity by following the link below to view the stories!  Write On Glacier Ridge!  
Click here to view March winners.

Click here to view February winners.

This fall, students entering sixth and ninth grades will be required to provide proof of Tdap vaccination along with the school physical forms that are also required for these grades.  Click here for more information.

The Glacier Ridge PTA will be holding a spring eScrip card sale, and will accept  orders May 1 through May 18.  A percentage of each card purchased will help to fund our PTA. 
We will have your ordered gift cards available for pick-up beginning around May 25th until the end of the school year.  They make wonderful gifts for Mother's Day, Father's Day, birthdays, or just everyday shopping! 
For a full list or participating retailers, please visit www.glscrip.com and click on the “Retailer List” in the upper left portion of the website to view 100’s of other retailers available for purchase.  Use the blank lines on the order form to choose retailers that were not already listed. 
If you would like to order online, simply go to www.shopwithscrip.com, look for the green “Family Sign Up!” box in the upper left hand corner of the screen and click the “Create Account” button.  
Click here for the Glacier Ridge parent letter

Click here for the family order form

Purpose
During this past April's Board of Education meeting, the Board approved the implementation of five early release days for the 2011-2012 school year for the purposes of engaging District 47 teachers in structured and targeted staff development from which we hope to improve student learning outcomes.  While the concept of staff release time being utilized in this capacity is new to District 47, it is a relatively common practice in many neighboring school districts including our local area high school district. 
Read full article here

School Improvement Plan Summaries are available to view online.
Click here for SIP files

You and your extended family are invited to attend our annual Glacier Ridge Open House on Thursday, may 17th, as we celebrate together all of the great accomplishments of our students.  To help with traffic and crowds, we are suggesting that families with the last names from A-M attend from 6:30-7:15, and families with the last names from N-Z attend from 7:30-8:15.  the exception to this would be our 4th grade families who would need to attend the earlier session, so that they can attend the 4th grade musical at 7:30.

Get the latest scoop on what's new with the Glacier Ridge PTA.  Find out information about monthly meeting dates, committees, Market Day, and other upcoming events. Click on the PTA link under "Activities" to access the Glacier Ridge PTA info page.   Click here for the January PTA newsletter.
Next meeting:  Tuesday, May 8
7:00 pm  LMC 

Help Glacier Ridge earn points for our school!

Collect codes from cartons and bottle caps of Coke products.

Visit the My Coke Rewards.com website for full details.

Click here for the informational flyer (English)

Click here for the informational flyer (Spanish)

District 47 has purchased subscriptions to the following websites for student use at home.   Click here for more detailed information.