Greetings Gryphons, this is Hadley Bachman, Dean of 5-8, with your weekly announcements. Join us in welcoming Ms. Sheffield as our new third grade teacher! We were thrilled that so many families joined us to meet Ms. Sheffield for our meet-the-teacher night on Tuesday and Munchies with Math on Friday.Now a few announcements for the week ahead: On Monday, February 18, we will not have school. On Tuesday, the 7th grade will be interviewing experts in cross-cultural community building for the When Cultures Collide expedition. The 5th grade will be traveling to The Works in Newark, Ohio on Wednesday, February 20th. They will be out of the building from 9:15 AM to 2:30 PM. Middle school violin students will be on fieldwork on Thursday, February 21 in the morning. In the afternoon, 2nd grade will host an expert from the Ohio Lepidopterist Society as part of the Butterflies Take Flight expedition. Finally, GEMS will be celebrating a Spirit Week this week! Lounge in your favorite (school appropriate) PJs on Tuesday. Show your support for your favorite sports team on Wednesday. Don your best hat for Hat Day on Thursday, and wear as much green and gryphon gear as you can on Friday for Gryphon Spirit Day.Here’s to a great week! Go Gryphons!
Please join The Graham Family of Schools for Have a Heart - Saturday, March 2, 2019 - 6:00-9:00pm at Peace Hall at Ohio Dominican University. Featuring nationally recognized educational leader and innovator Steven Levy. Please consider donating items to the silent auction. We are looking for a wide variety of items and services. For more information, please contact Jennifer Waddell at waddell.1@TheCharlesSchool.org or 614-258-8588.
Big news! GEM's eighth-grade project Ohio Veterans: Our True American Heroes has been accepted into the EL Education's Models of Excellence collection, an amazing and very selective resource of exemplary student work open to educators across the country. Take a look at the work created by students that will be used as a model to raise questions, provoke thinking, and inspire excellence: https://modelsofexcellence.eleducation.org/projects/ohio%E2%80%99s-veterans-our-true-american-heroes. Congratulations Mrs. Cohen and GEMS 8th grade students!