January 16th

Celebrations 
Spelling Bee -- Congratulations to Kate on being this year's spelling bee winner. Congratulations to Kash for finishing runner up. Both of them did a fantastic job. Thank you Jen Page for organizing, Charlotte Nagy for being the pronouncer, and to Shannon Tant, Mallory Mbalia, and Travis Shillings for being judges.  

Communication 

Broadway Beat Theater Production is Thursday night at 7pm.  Hope to see you there!

Volunteer Registration - 

This is a friendly reminder that any adult that would like to volunteer in our school or attend any field trips as a chaperone, are required to be a registered volunteer with Wake County Public Schools.  Volunteer registration must be filled out each school year.  It does not roll over.  Volunteer registration must be completed in a WCPSS school.  Volunteers list the schools they would like to volunteer at on the form.  If you have students at multiple schools make sure you list each school.  Thank you so much for helping support our students.   

Collaboration

CAM Docent Program will begin at the end of January.  Selected 5th grade students will go on five consecutive Tuesday afternoons for training after school, followed by presentation opportunities to the general public during First Friday Evening Events at CAM.  If you are able to come attend and help, please sign up here.  

Critical Thinking 

Year-Round / Magnet Schools Application for 2018-2019 -  application is ONLY for students that are enrolled or pre-registered to attend a Wake County Public School for the 2018-2019 school year. Any application submitted for a student that is not enrolled or pre-registered for the 2018-19 school year will not be processed. Go to https://magnet.wcpss.net/apply/ to complete the application. This includes rising sixth graders that are applying for a magnet middle school. January 10th - 31st. 

Creativity

Lego Club-We will be having an after school K-2 LEGO Engineering club starting on Wednesday, February 21st from 3:45-5:15pm (running 8 Wednesday afternoons). Parents need to be able to pick up at 5:15pm) In the spring, we will have a Grades 2-5 LEGO Engineering club opportunity.

Student and Staff Awesomeness -- Check out what our team is doing in their classrooms -- via Twitter - @underwoodgtm -- #weareunderwood Keep up the great work! 

Calendar:

January 15th-MLK Holiday (No school)
January 18th - Broadway Beats at 7:00 
January 23rd-SIP meeting
January 25th-Q2 elective report cards due
January 29th-Q3 electives begin
February 6th-Report Cards go home