Friday Fridge Notes

March 4, 2011

Announcements

Welcome home Gailer travelers! The International Trip to Spain was a true success. For a recap and some photos, please see the attachment from Lonny. The Gailer Viewbook can now be downloaded from the homepage of our website, www.gailer.org . Check it out, download and/or print it and send it on to your family and friends! Hard copies are available at the front desk. Bill Perta, a local chef, has offered to provide a lunch program to the Gailer School. For $6/day, four days a week (Monday-Thursday), he will provide a nutritious and delicious soup or stew and salad in the winter and a sandwich and salad in the spring. Ingredients will be locally grown and organic when possible. We need at least 12 students and faculty members to commit to purchasing the lunch on a monthly basis in order for this program to work. Please email Kitty at office@gailer.org if you are interested. Next Tuesday, March 8th, Nate and his Biology class will take to the woods up in Ripton for some wintertime exploration. Do you have a pair of snowshoes and/or binoculars that you’re willing to loan them for the day? Please bring them to Gailer on Monday or Tuesday morning. Many thanks! We are looking for parent volunteers to man the front desk and answer the school phone from 1-3:30PM Monday through Friday. Please contact Susan Bechhoefer if you can help. Thank you! The UVM Math Competition will take place at Gailer next Wednesday, March 9th, during the school day. All students are welcome to participate! A Chess Tournament, open to all 2nd – 12th graders in Addison County, will be held at the Gailer School on Saturday, March 19th. Any Gailer students who are interested in playing should contact Diane Guertin at dianeg@gailer.org ! The Gailer School’s Gala Auction Fundraiser is one month away! It will be held on Saturday, April 9 th from 7-10 PM 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 100% participation from Gailer families in order to make it a success, AND it’s a lot of fun to get to know each other better by working together. Please let Brie (briep@gailer.org) know what you are donating to the auction ASAP!

Important Dates

Wednesday, March 9th –UVM Math Competition at The Gailer School Friday, March 11th –Teachers’ In-service Day; No classes for students Saturday, March 19th –Chess Tournament at The Gailer School Saturday, April 9th –The Gailer Gala at Carol’s Hungry Mind from 7-10PM

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Happy Birthday, Genny!

* Everyone who got sick before, during and after the Spain trip. –Emily

* The cool shades I got in the winter. –Taran

* Lonny, for being such a great trip leader. –Isabel

* Joan, my housemother. –Rahela

* Lots of sleep. –Halle

* All of my friends who called me on Skipe for my birthday. –Genny

* Downhill skiing. –David

* Bowling day. –Mujtaba

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All the really cool clothing in Spain. –Emily

* Galen, for always making me smile. –Emily

* Nate, for covering my study hall yesterday. –Marcia

* Lonny, for giving Andrew and me a ride. –Jessie

* Nate, for coming to school so early to prepare our Biology experiment. –Mujtaba

* The gift my friends brought me from Spain! –Kitty

* Jessie’s and my conversation. –Andrew

* Fencing last night, when I discovered all of the masks made by a certain company had

the word “fencing” misspelled on them. -David

* Isabel and Ainaka for the lovely pillow cover they brought me from Spain. -Jenny

* The word “meeses”. –Ben

* Robin and Lonny, who brought me a soccer ball from Spain. –David

* My dad, who shocked himself while helping me build my electrostatic radial Dirod

generator for Inquiry. –Zach

* Jessie, for dressing like me today. –Emily

* The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler and Grand Pooh-Bah of Jealous Thunder Toads

of Transylvania. –David

* The dark corner of the school. –Ainaka

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Mujtaba, because of the Harry Potter book. –Rahela

* Isabel, because she is a really great traveler. –Lonny

* Lonny and Nate, for coming up with such a nice name for me. –Andrew

* The lady yesterday, who was having trouble getting into the carwash with a bike on

her roof rack!! -Halle

* That Jessie’s wearing a color! –Halle

* The fact that I might be able to go to another MCR concert two days after I go to the

first one! –Jessie

* Conference calls. –Genny

* My mom, for patching my leg up after I slipped and fell on the ice. –Zach

* Pringles! –Emily

* David’s(Taran’s) hip sunglasses. –Galen

* My son laughing in his sleep last night. –Ainaka

* The Batik Master Class. –Mujtaba

* The Photography Master Class. - Taran

* My friend, who left me a huge bag of clothes! –Emily

* Galen, who will be representing Gailer at the MATHCOUNTS Competition soon, and who has been putting in some extra practice in preparation for the event. –Diane

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The DV 11/12 class, who’ve been doing some extra work for me. –Lonny

* The Calligraphy Master Class. –Andrew

* Andrew and his openness and directness. –Ainaka

* Happy Birthday, Rahela!

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