I am excited to announce this year's Teacher of the Year, Mr. Howard!  He will do an outstanding job representing Gorzycki!

It's time for next year's Choice Sheets.  All incoming 5th graders will receive them during presentations next week at their elementary campuses.  Current 6th and 7th graders will have presentations here at GMS.  Eighth graders will receive their high school choices the following week.  For those wanting to know a more, we are hosting our annual "Only One Gorzycki" February 2nd.  Please look at our website for specific times.

I'm not sure how the leadership class finds time to do all that they do but next week they will kick-off their annual "Super Bowl of Caring" contest.  Please help support the local food bank by bringing canned foods.  The EXCEL class with the most cans receives a movie party.

GMS is also forming their Capitol 10,000 team.  Check out the daily announcements if you are interested in participating.

As I visited classrooms this week, this is what I saw in our 7th grade science classes.  Students dissecting frogs!

Today, the students who read "The 5th Wave" and passed their AR test went to see the movie before anyone else did.  If you have never seen a movie with a theater full of middle school students, it is quite a fun experience!  The kids were great.  This is the 6th grade group once we got back to school - lunch in the commons.  

 Today was also the final round of the Geo Bee.  Will H., an 8th grader, was our winner.  Congratulations!

A shout-out to our awesome school board, and especially to our own Trustee Mrs. Wagner.  Thank you for all you do!  (I happened to be in the board room this week and snapped the picture of the banner from Gorzycki.)

Students interested in the Independent Study Fair were presented information today.  Please check with your child to learn more.

7th graders, are  you interested in the PALS program?  Next week you will have presentations from current PALS .Applications are due Feb. 3rd.

Have a great weekend!