Friday Fridge Notes

January 17, 2011

Announcements Four of our 7th and 8th graders, Andrew, Galen, Michael, and Zach, will be participating in the “Math Counts” competition for middle school students that will held at Castleton State College on Saturday, February 5th. There will be a practice session at the Gailer School next Wednesday, January 26, after school from 3:30 until 5:30 for school teams from the area. All Gailer students are invited to attend and hone and test their math skills! More information about Math Counts can be found at: www.mathcounts.org Come one, come all! Lonny will be at school this Sunday afternoon at 1PM to finish building and flooding the Gailer School Ice Rink. The help of any students and/or parents would be greatly appreciated! Please RSVP to Lonny via e-mail if you can make it. Thank you! Brian Marohnic, father of former student Julian, will be offering a High End SAT Prep Class beginning this Sunday at The Middlebury Inn. Anyone who will be taking the SATs this spring and is interested can contact him at 462-2333 for more information about this class and/or future classes. Gailer Skiers! Please remember to bring in your ski fees every Wednesday for the Thursday Skiing Master Class! This coming Monday, the 24th of January, is an In-service Day for the Gailer faculty and staff. There are no classes for students!

Important Dates Monday, January 24th –Teacher’s In-service Day. No classes for students! Saturday, February 5th –Math Counts Competition at Castleton State College 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

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I would like to appreciate:

Snow! –Taran

* Debbie Lyons, for joining us today. –Lonny

* The giant pile of snow in my front yard that I turned into a snow fort yesterday. –

Galen

* Prussia Day! We all hail the great Prussia! –Genny

* My Tae Kwan Do instructor, for passing me on my red belt test. –Emily

* Everyone, and their search for the black pearl. –Kitty

* Marcia, because yesterday we gave her a standing ovation. –Halle

* My class, who gave me a standing ovation for no apparent reason. –Marcia

* Democracy Day and Representative Mike Fisher for coming to talk with us. -Lonny

* Next Monday because we don’t have school. –Jessie

* Piper, for returning my books to the library for me. –Jenny

* The teachers, for being here to support us whenever we need it. –Robin

* Robin, for being back. We missed him. –Nate

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Galen, for bringing me my Dungeons Master’s Guide. –Zach

* Genny, who is no longer a new student, but a seamless member of the Gailer

community. –Lonny

* My hair, for putting up with me. –Emily

* Taran’s cool pants. –Halle

* Broomball! –Lonny

* Lonny and Galen, for totaling losing to David and me! –Taran

* The word “tubular”. –David

* …and “stoked”. –Galen

* Our study hall war yesterday. –Halle

* All the words my mom doesn’t let me say. –Zach

* Genny, who’s out sick today. –Emily

* Rahela, who is the most dedicated student I know. She spent two hours yesterday climbing up the hill, and sliding down, climbing up the hill and sliding down. Next

week she’ll be on the lift! –Lonny

* Nate, for being with me all of the time skiing yesterday. -Mujtaba

* The food we made in cooking class yesterday. -Galen

* Taran, and his friend Alex, for skiing with me. -David

* Nate. -Emily