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The following Padlet address will become live again on Monday for another week of fun.    

at a Glance
12/11/20
MRS. JOHNSON'S NOTES
Dear Parents, 

Congratulations to the following students for placing in this year's PTA Reflections competition. These students will be moving on to the state competition.

                Jimmy Zhang - First Place for Fourth- grade literature
                Sanaa Williams - First Place for Film Production
                Matiwos Haile - Second Place for Film Production
 
We have enjoyed seeing the students participate in the holiday spirit days. Thanks for posting pictures to the Padlet on our eCLASS page. We will continue with the spirit days next week. I cannot wait to see all the creative ideas! Thank you to all the parents that donated gift cards for our staff Bingo game. The teachers are having fun with this.

If you are still considering a change from digital to in-person learning for the spring semester, you must make that change by Monday afternoon. The school needs time to plan for the additional students that will be coming back to the school. No changes will be allowed after Monday.

Have a great week!
PTA NEWS AND EVENTS
Thank you to all of our Reflections participants, Emilie DeBoer, Matiwos Haile, Aanya Pandey, Sanaa Williams, and Ji (Jimmy) Zhang.  A special congratulations to our Reflections winners who have moved onto the next round of judging! Thank you to all who participated, and we can't wait to see what you all create next year! 

Jimmy Zhang- 1st place for 4th grade- Literature

Sanaa Williams- 1st place- Film Production 

Matiwos Haile- 2nd place- Film Production 


We are sad to announce that our annual Holiday Shop will not be able to go on as planned this year. But there is still a super easy way for you to help raise money for our school, without any extra money out of your pocket- Sign Up for AmazonSmile.

Here's how to sign up for AmazonSmile:
  1. Visit smile.amazon.com.
  2. Sign in with your Amazon.com credentials.
  3. Choose a charitable organization to receive donations, or search for the charity of your choice.
  4. Select your charity.



Looking for an even easier holiday gift for your Bronco fan?? We are still selling our RD Head spirit wear! you can purchase anytime on member hub https://gapta-1792.new.memberhub.store/store

As you may have heard, we are having an exciting yearbook this year, with submissions from parents making up the majority of the yearbook.  So far, we have two challenges for submissions.  
Our August challenge: Submissions are closed!
Our September challenge: Visit a natural outdoor body of water (creek, stream, waterfall, river, lake, ocean, or sea) or outdoor water activity (water sprinkler, water balloons, swimming pool, water slide)
October Yearbook Challenge: zoo, animal, sanctuary, farm, or pet care. (Alpaca farm, yellow river sanctuary, do something with your pet, Stone Mountain barnyard, visit a pet store or a pet shelter)
November Yearbook Challenge: Take a hike, walk your neighborhood, go on a bike ride, scooter ride, roller skating, roller blading
December Yearbook Challenge: Bake something fun and share it with a friend or your family, make a holiday card and share it, or capture an act of kindness!

Please submit full resolution photos to rdheadyearbook@gmail.com

Follow us on Facebook for more information: https://www.facebook.com/HeadPTA

If you would like to volunteer, please contact any PTA Executive Committee member, we would love to have you!
AROUND SCHOOL

Winter Break Bedtime Stories
Over the break, make sure to visit our school's eCLASS page. A few of our Head Elementary staff members will be reading their favorite stories online. Stories will be posted by 5:00 PM for those that like to get to bed early!
 
Schedule of Readers: https://tinyurl.com/yy3ceclp
 
Student Portal/My eCLASS Link: https://publish.gwinnett.k12.ga.us/gcps/home/gcpslogin





Media Center

Remember digital pickup holds need to be placed by 4pm on Wednesdays and any books not picked up on Friday, 12/18 will be checked back in. You will need to replace holds in January when school reopens.  
Getting Ready for Winter Break? Here are some more options for reading!
Use the SORA app to read online (link on Media Center page in eclass.)  Since you are reading online, you can easily open a tab to take the AR quiz when you are finished. If you don't know the quiz # you can type the title or google AR book finder to get it. There is also an app for AR book finder. 

For those who want more books to read than we can provide at school (like the whole Wimpy Kid series at one time or ALL the Mo Willems books...) You can reserve books from the public library online and they will notify you when they are ready for pickup. You can even go into some branch locations to pick books in person using social distancing and wearing masks. 

With this link you enter the child's student ID number and their password is their birth month and day (ex. 0805.) From here you can navigate and put books on hold at your closest Gwinnett Public Library.  Just another way to keep reading or supplement what you check out from the school. 

If you have a library card you can reserve books that way as well.  

Most books have AR so once you finish your book you can google AR book finder to find the quiz # or just enter the tittle in the AR app.  
https://global-zone05.renaissance-go.com/welcomeportal/310783  Take AR quizzes here.  This link is also on the student eclass page and can be used from home until 10pm nightly.  

Our December challenge ends 12/31 so try to take as many quizzes as you can!  We can't wait to see the top 3 in every grade. Any quizzes taken after 1/1/2021 will count for the January challenge.

Don't forget that Mrs. Griffith has put many "how to" videos on the Media Center website to help with many of your questions, like how to take an AR quiz, put books on hold, etc. 
Bidding for Good
Visit the following site to bid for awesome prizes such as:
Lunch with the Principal in her office
Star on the Morning Announcements for a week
Become Principal for a Day
Go to the movies with Mrs. Johnson (you and a friend)!
Looking Ahead...
12/14-12/18 Continue following our holiday calendar! You all looked great this week!!!
12/15 - Dogwood Pizza Night
1/7 - Students return from Winter Break