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| Monday, September 23-Friday, September 27 |
CASE Benchmark Testing |
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| Friday, September 27 |
Family Movie Night |
6:15 PM, Dogwood campus |
| Friday, September 27 |
Deadline to submit Box Tops for Education to win class pizza party |
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| Saturday, September 28 |
St. Jude Walk/Run |
9:00 AM, St. Jude campus |
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Family Movie Night
Family Movie Night is THIS FRIDAY
, September 27th, behind Dogwood. Activities and Food Trucks will be open at 6:15 and the movie starts at 7:15. Be sure to keep an eye on Facebook or Bloomz this week for some fun announcements about the event!! Volunteers are still needed;
click here
to see the opportunities available. Contact Tina Thorn with any questions.
To view a list of food truck vendors and menus, please click here.
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Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month and St. Jude hosts is annual Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer on September 28th.
This is a great community event and one of the only public events hosted on St. Jude's Campus.
Registration is only $10 to walk and $20 for a timed bib. The Walk/Run is a 5K. There are volunteer opportunities as well.
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Walk or Bike to School Day
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Box Tops for Education
The class who earns the highest amount through
September 27th will win a
pizza party! Watch
this video to learn more about how easy the new program is to use. Get the new Box Tops app and scan your receipts within 14 days of purchase. Then go to
www.btfe.com -- school earnings -- your activity-- and print your sheet and send in to your child's homeroom teacher. If you have more than one student, we will count it for all their homerooms. Just send in a copy of the sheet with each child. You can still send in paper box tops, too!
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid Pre-Order
Jeff Kinney's newest book is scheduled to go on sale November 5, 2019. Our Scholastic Book Fair is offering a specially-priced paperback edition of
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball. To order a copy, complete a
pre-sale form and return by
October 2, 2019.
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Yearbook Cover Contest
The Yearbook Cover Contest has begun! This year's Yearbook theme is "Travel the World". Any Dogwood student can hand-draw a picture for the cover of the yearbook. The deadline is Friday, October 11th and all submissions should be turned in to Mrs. Mink in Classroom 31 on the green hall.
All submissions should include "Dogwood Elementary 2019-2020". Please submit designs with your name and homeroom teacher written on the back.
More information about Yearbook sales to come soon!
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Choose to Be NICE
The following students received a Dolphin Dollar and were invited to sign the Choose to Be NICE wall in the cafeteria this week:
Macy Thomas, Kelvin Jiang, Landon Klepko, and Nicholas Viotti
The criteria for selecting students is based on having demonstrated the following characteristics:
Noble
Inclusive
Compassionate
Excellent
Please help the counseling department reinforce the importance of being NICE and how it shapes character and promotes becoming a world changer.
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Shout Outs!
Shout out to Annabella Brandon for organizing volunteers and helping make Picture Day run so smoothly. Thank you to Tera Prather, Holly Joyner, Lauren Pardue, Kathryn Hickey, Susan Solomon, Amanda Harder, Hallie Peay, Kathryn Nelson, and Alicia Harrison for helping our students smile for the camera!
Thank you to Susan Solomon and Emily Ludwig for helping with pizza day in the cafeteria on Friday. And, thank you to Leigh Osborne, Carlos Shammas, Michelle Midha, and Kristin Hicks for volunteering in the Health Room this week.
The Dogwood community is the best!! There are so many people who serve our students, teachers, and families so well that we would like to recognize them more publicly throughout the year. If you have a shout out for a student, teacher, parent, or administrator any time throughout the year, please email it to elizgates@gmail.com.
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Volunteer Opportunities
Please visit the
PTO Volunteer website throughout the year to learn more about and sign up for a variety of volunteer opportunities available through the PTO!
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| Wednesday, October 2 |
Bike/Walk to School Day |
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| Wednesday, October 2 |
Marco's Pizza Spirit Night |
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| Wednesday, October 2 |
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Pre-Orders due |
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| Monday, October 7 |
GMSD Board of Education Meeting |
5:30 Work Session
6:30 Business Meeting
Germantown City Hall |
| Tuesday, October 8 |
PTO General Meeting and State of the School |
6:15 PM, Dogwood Cafeteria |
| Friday, October 11 |
End of First Quarter |
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| Monday, October 14-Friday, October 18 |
FALL BREAK- NO SCHOOL |
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| Monday, October 21 |
First Day of Second Quarter |
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| Monday, October 21- Friday October 25 |
Red Ribbon Week |
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Parents, if you have joined the PTO, please don't forget to download the Membership Toolkit App to your phone. This gives you access to the online directory at your fingertips!
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Germantown Municipal School District provides equal employment opportunity to all qualified persons without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, national origin, handicap/disability, sex, genetics or age.
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