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News
Turn in your Annual Giving Help the Heron Fund pledge before Sept.1st and receive a handy dandy LGCS wooden spoon! ANY AMOUNT COUNTS! Please help Momma Heron fill her nest.Forms are in the Friday folders & in the office.
We are pleased to announce our 2008 Fundraising Registry for our new Green Kitchen. No other school in America has a "green" Healthy Kitchen, so needless to say we are very excited with this project! We are in the process of creating an up to date "bridal registry type" ordering system via PayPal purchases, but until that is in place please turn them into the office. The complete healthy kitchen menu can be found here.
Our sixth grade nature's classroom documentary will be on T.V. on Monday, August 25th at 3:30 p.m. It is on PBS / WUSF cable channel 16
(Bright House and Verizon FiOS).
Please check your local T.V. stations in regards to school
closings due to
hurricanes.
We follow the
decision of our
Hillsborough
County public
schools.
We want to take
this opportunity
to thank our
Learning Gate
Family (Parents,
Teachers, Staff
and Students)
for another
great year.
We are
especially
grateful to
everyone who
helped over the
last few weeks
to prepare the
school campus
for the Green
Building ribbon
cutting
ceremony.
Parent
volunteers
stepped up and
removed the
partitions from
Heron Hall,
moved the 4th
and 5th grade
classrooms into
the new Green
Buildings,
cleaned the new
classrooms and
Herron Hall,
picked up trash
around campus,
watered the new
plants, and
helped to set up
by directing
traffic,
greeting guests,
and helping in
the kitchen.
The event
allowed us to
showcase our
accomplishments
to the
community, but
we realize that
we couldn't have
done it without
you. Thank
you all for your
commitment to
our school, and
have a wonderful
summer and we
look forward to
another
successful
year! ~~
Michele.
We are looking
for grills and
grill masters
this Friday, May
16th from
9am-1pm.
Please contact
Chef Jill at
jill@learninggate.org
or 813.948.4190.
One of our
parents won
Volunteer of the
Year for Charter
Schools!
Congratulations
to Ms. Suzin
Carr for her
commitment to
our school.
We need your
help! A
great way to get
hours!
Come one come
all to help us
get ready by spiffing
up our campus
for our Green
Building Ribbon
Cutting
Ceremony.
We need help
EVERY day after
school the week
of May 12th-16th
from 4-7.
Please bring (if
you have it)
gloves, rakes,
shovels,
wheelbarrow,
spades, garbage
bags and lots of
energy.
Contact Michele
if you have
questions,
michelen@learninggate.org.
Contact your
homeroom parent
for more
details.
Each Homeroom
parent should
contact Cathy
Allard to
confirm details
of this fabulous
week!!!
Our school
participated in
the Hillsborough
County Tree
Plating.
They provided 38
pine tree
saplings in
honor of the
38th Earthday.
262 schools are
participating to
plant 9956 trees
in one hour/one
day, a new World
Record!!!
Channel 10 News
had a special
segment on
Learning Gate
and our
environmental
charter.
26th Annual
Community Design
Awards.
Learning Gate
won an Award for
Excellence for
Historic
Preservation of
the long cabin
and Outstanding
Award for the
Environment for
our
environmental
mission and
curriculum.
Thank you to the
parents,
volunteers,
golfers &
sponsors!
Our Tournament
was wonderful.
Thank you to
Natural Designs
for their
generous Eagle
Sponsorship.
Our Osprey
sponsors were:
Communication
Technologies;
The Wargo
Family; King &
Walker, CPA;
Larson Family;
and the Tampa
Electric
Company's
Manatee Viewing
Center.
You can download the PDF registration form from this link. [Golf fore the Gate.pdf]
We all set sail Saturday Night at the party of the year! If you did not
attend you'll soon hear of our Pirate Extravaganza 2008! Our 4th Annual
Casino Night had the highest turn out at over 300 in attendance. There was a
26ft pirate ship with cannons, fantastic food, a deserted island in the pool
with treasure, a steel drum band and a gorgeous red headed wench walking
around (our Principal).
To help raise the funds to our goal for our fundraiser we are still selling
the following:
FOR SALE: Free Dress Day $5, there are scrolls in the office for sale. (Must
have scroll to participate) You can buy one for your child & teachers.
Casino T-shirts Pirate theme $15 Adult Sm-XXL
CONGRATS & WHOOO HOOO to Ms Bridget's class for winning a FREE DRESS WEEK!!!
Thank you MsBridet's parent's for your support!
A special thank you to my dedicated Casino Crew!!! I had the most CREATIVE &
DEDICATED volunteers this year! Thank you! Thank you!
#1-Ms. Bridget
#2-Ms.Weis
#3-Ms.Sutton
#4-Ms.Angela
#5-Ms.Melissa
Reminder: the class with the highest ticket sales will win a FREE DRESS
WEEK. Many classes are mere dollars away from each other. Please send your
envelopes in ASAP!
Need not be present to win. Drawing Feb 23rd. Here are a few of our
highlighted items. There are 100's of prizes!
A Sports Wii, Busch Gardens tickets, Malibu Grand Prix Passes, Family Fun
Passes to Pin Chasers, Gift Cards to Lowry Park, MOSI, Flemings, McDonalds,
Dinner Done, Laser Tag, Olive Garden, Splitsville, Marble Slab Creamery,
Junction, Bounce Place, Chilis, Carrabas, & Gift Baskets Galore!
And much much more!!!
Casino Night is right around the corner. If you would like to be a sponsor you will need to fill out the sponsorship form below.
Check out the video preview of LG performing arts.
Thank you to the Dad's Club for coming out and helping over break with thegreen buildings. There are still opportunities to help if you are able. The buildings are coming along nicely. They are painting Mon, Tues, Wed and carpet is scheduled to be installed Thurs and Friday.
Thank you for your patience...they will be worth the wait.
Learning Gate was just informed that we won 1st place Organic Gold Garden Award of the Rodale Institute's Kidsregen.org 2007 Organic School Garden Awards Contest!!!
Congratulations to our Garden crew & Grant writers!
Check out our FOX13 segment on the green buildings from December 10th, 2007.
Our Green buildings are getting closer to completion. Currently the contractors are spraying the soy foam to encapsulate the building providing a chemical free alternative to standard insulation. The purpose of our buildings are to preserve natural resources while providing our students with a healthy environment to live and learn in.
The next phases should go quickly, drywall, painting, and creating our boardwalk. We've asked the Dad's Club for weekend help, if you'd like to assist on Saturday or Sunday please contact Rik Mathias at the email link below.
Please know that your children are doing great for the time being and it will be worth the wait once they are in their green buildings.
Thank you for your patience.
Please pass this on to friends & family.
Voting has opened for the WEDU Be More "People's Choice Award" and Learning Gate Community School is one of 85 non-profit organizations in the running for "People's Choice Award". Please click on the link below to vote.
https://www.wedutv.org/bemore/poll.htm
You can vote as many times as you want. Please feel free to forward this on to anyone you think might want to vote.
Thank you!
Learning Gate's Garden won the "Guardians of the Bay Contest". We were awarded first place for our "Wicked Weed of the Week" program. The judges
were very impressed with the enthusiasm of our students in learning about and eradicating invasive plants on school property. Tampa Bay Estuary
Program representatives will be coming to the school to present our award to Ms.Summer.
Congratulations Ms.Summer for your hard work.
SunTrust Bank is offering a $100 donation to Learning Gate Community School each time one of our families opens an account before December 31, 2007.
How? Contact SunTrust's Carrollwood office: 813-269-2001 Jen De Jesus or Jeanette Milam
Details: Open an account with any amount, accept a SunTrust Visa. Go to suntrust.com/mycause and choose Learning Gate for redemption. Please call the Carrollwood office to open one today. They have supported our Golf Tournament in the past.
Michele Northrup has applications in the front office if you need one.
96.2% partcipation!!! Thank you LG families for showing your incredible support! This community spirit is what makes LG so wonderful to be a part of. Thank you!
Ms.Patti & Michele did the funky chicken dance at the Great Hatching! Thank you to the Great Hatching Committee who gave their all to this egg-cellent night.
Thank you to Mrs.Suzin Carr for her commitment to our school. By attracting attention to the campaign while sacrificing her car, creating the Mrs Egg persona & hatching into the Heron. She has made us all smile, because she does this from her heart for our school. Thank you Suzin for your passion for Learning Gate.
We have a FREE DRESS DAY for the entire school!
Thank you families who have sent in their eggs. Hope to see you at the Great Hatching this Thursday 6-8. Radio Disney will be here to celebrate our Momma Heron's hatching. (1 parenting class perfamily)
Learning Gate receives a $1,000 IBM Grant! Thank you Kristy Varga for finding this resource. Learning Gate will use these funds to "Green Up" our
lighting on campus.
Our Annual Giving is our primary fundraiser of the school year. The goal is 100% participation. Keep an eye on our Momma Heron's nest in the driveway. For each donation an egg will be added to the nest. Every egg counts!
White- Any Amount
Blue- $250
Green- $500
Silver- $1000
Gold- $3000
You can choose, but don't be late....
the Library, Garden or Speech and Debate.
The Healthy Kitchen and Green Building too,
Where your pledge dollars go is up to you!!!
Please Help the Heron!
Forms are in the office.
Southern Living magazine will be doing a spread on our school focusing on the garden and green classrooms. It should be in the January 08 Issue. What an
honor for our school!
Learning Gate received over $3000 from the Lutz Civic Association Guv'na Grant Program. Thank you to the families of LG who came out to support the
campaign this summer. Our very own Michele Northrup is now the current Guv'na. The key to the city is in our front office. We raised aprox $17,000 for the non-profits of Lutz, an all time record! We will use the funds we were granted to improve the garden and green building.
Learning Gate recieved the Recycling Award for Keep Hillsborough County Beautiful. Out of the four schools participating 4500lbs of Pete1 & Pet1 plastic bottles were collected. Out of that LG collected the majority- 2500lbs! Thank you parents & students you worked so hard on this Grant. We will find
out this month if we won the national $1000 Grant. If you'd like to help with the Recycling Committee please contact Melissa.
Learning Gate Community School will be the first LEED rated Platninum rated Green School in the nation!!! Our environmental focus has motivated us to "Go Green" on our newest building project. We hope to showcase the positive benefits of an environmentally sustainable school within our community. There will be nine green modular classrooms totally approximately 8,000 sf. The buildings consist of recycled steel perimeter frames, Georgia Pacific SFI approved lumber, recycled stand and seam roof panels, and soy foam insulation. We are striving for a Zero Energy building using 25KW Solar Energy System to supplement TECO energy. To achieve water sustainability we are installing a living machine to process waste water by recycling it through the commodes. We will be using cisterns to capture rainwater, increasing water sustainability.
We are all very excited about this project.
If your company would like to be involved in this Green partnership please contact Michele at (813)948-4190. Your Annual Giving funds may be earmarked for the Green Building as well.
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Limited Edition Spoon can be yours.