Friday Fridge Notes February11, 2011
Announcements Congratulations to our MATHCOUNTS Team of Zach, Michael, Galen and Andrew. They placed 6th out of 14 teams at the MATHCOUNTS Competition last Saturday. This is a very good placement for a team that is participating for the first time! Galen Fastie placed 6th in the individual written competition, and FIRST in the individual, one-on-one elimination round, called the Countdown Round. As a result, Galen will be going to the Vermont State MATHCOUNTS Competition on March 26th. Three cheers for the Gailer Team! The Gailer School’s world travelers are leaving Sunday for Spain. We wish them a safe and fun-filled journey. We’ll be waiting anxiously to hear all about the trip and to pour over all the photos upon their safe return! Buen viaje!
The Gailer School’s Gala Auction Fundraiser will be held on Saturday, April 9th at Carol’s Hungry Mind Café! This is our big fundraising event of the year, which enables us to offer scholarships to students from our local community as well as the global one. We need everyone to participate in the event in order to make it a success, AND it’s a lot of fun to get to know each other better by working together! Here are some ideas for items we are looking for: Art Jewelry Wearable Art/Clothing (Any knitters, sewing whizzes, felters etc. out there?) Home and Garden (Furniture, antiques, garden sculptures, certificates for veggie/flower starts…) Personal Wellness (Gift certificates for massage, yoga or meditation instruction, herbal products...) Crafts (Pottery, quilting, calligraphy…) Sports and Fitness (Tickets to games, boat rides, bikes, sports equipment…) Vacation Homes (Trips, weekends at a lake house/camp, time-shares, flight points…) At Your Service (Certificates to do yard work, stack wood, for consulting, editing/proofreading…) Lessons and Classes (Share your talents – skiing, writing, woodworking, piano, painting, drawing…) Foodstuffs (Jams, pies, cookies, wine, dinner for two, Wine & Cheese Basket or other gift baskets…) Use your imagination and contact Brie (briep@gailer.org) with any ideas or questions about the Gala!
Important Dates Friday, February 11th –End of Macro 3 Sunday, February 13th to Thursday, February 24th –International Trip to Spain! Monday, February 14th to Friday, February 25th –Mid-winter Recess
Appreciations I would like to appreciate: Everyone who came to the open house. –Lonny
* The amazing weekend I had, followed by a day of being sick. –Emily
* The really weird fencing moves we made up. They were illegal, but really cool! –David
* Snow! –Taran
* Cal! –Lonny
* My grandfather, who passed away yesterday morning. –Jessie
* Emily, for her whole-hearted attempt at making me social. –Zach
* The North Branch School, for letting me attend my friend’s presentation. It was a lot of fun. -Piper Genny, for being such an active participant in my class. –Lonny
* Nate’s new beard/mustache thing. –Galen
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The vacation that is coming, because we all need it! –Emily
* Espana! –Robin
* Jessie –just because. –Nate
* That David went down Allen yesterday! –Ben
* Genny’s hair. –Halle
* My amazing hair stylist. –Genny
* First, that vacation starts after today. And second, my friends Sarah, Paul and Jessie, who have either just lost their grandparents, or are about to. –Emily
* The skiing Macro. I had a lot of fun. –Nate
* Rahela, for trusting me and going up the ski lift and down Voter. She actually flew through the air and came up laughing! –Lonny
* Rahela, for being so patient with her on-line class. –Jenny
* Jenny. –Rahela
* My DV 7/8 class yesterday for being so focused. –Jenny
* Halle, Zach, Andrew, Piper, Michael and Galen for being part of a GREAT kitchen team for our Cooking Master Class. -Kate