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Wildcat Essentials: Honesty: To tell the truth and make good

choices. Be honest and truthful. This leads to trust.

Important Dates
To Remember

January 6, 2015

Principals Message ~
Happy New Year! Please review your childs report card and their progress 1st
semester. The 2nd semester begins on January 6th, 2015.

Jan. 6 Report Cards go home

Jan. 13 Lanier Spelling Bee
9:00 am

Please visit the Lanier website for school information and I. C. Parent Portal for
attendance, report cards and grade book. I appreciate all your support and the
privilege of working with your children!
John Wiggins

(4th & 5th grades)

Jan. 19 Martin Luther King

Day - Holiday for
Students &Teachers

Jan. 27 Coffee with

Couselor 8:30-9:15(In
Spanish) and 9:3010:15 (In English only):
Communication, Conflict
Resolution, and Using the

Spelling Bee

All 4th and 5th graders competed in individual

classroom Spelling Bees. The class winners will
compete in our school Spelling Bee on January
13, 2015 at 9:00 in the Media Center. Our winner will then go on to compete in the district
spelling bee.

News from the Nurse

Cold and Flu Season is here! Please keep

yourself healthy by washing your hands often, especially after going to the bathroom,
coughing or sneezing. Eating a balanced diet
with all of the food groups and drinking
plenty of water daily is a great way to stay
healthy during the cold and flu season.
Please remember that if your child is runKatie Buffington
ning a temperature over 100.0, please keep
Teacher of the Month
them at home until they are fever free without use of fever reducing meds. If you have
any questions or concerns, please call me
th
This is my 7 year teaching at at 770-532-8781 or send me an email at:
angela.gilleland@hallco.org . Have a great
Lanier. I enjoy spending time
January! Nurse Angela
with my husband and my

Thank you!
Thank you to Clipper Petroleum for your
wonderful support for our school. We
appreciate your generosity and kindness.
Thank you to the Sign Shack for helping
us out with our new signs all around the
school. They look great!

De-Bug System at Home.

daughter, Molly Kate. I also

like to read and make crafts.
My favorite subject is Math.
Every day I come to work, I
am excited to be fulfilling my
lifelong dream of teaching.

On December 10th, we had a GAPSS visit

by 15 Hall County teachers and Administrators. They were very impressed with our
school and the visit went extremely well.
Thank you to all who pitched in to make
our school shine!

Technology Fair 2015

Seven of our 5th grade students will be participating in

the Hall County Technology
Fair on Wednesday, January
14th. These students will be presenting projects they have created
Parent/Community Survey
involving video production, Web
We invite our parents and community to participate in a 2.0 tools, game design, and case
satisfaction survey. The survey may be accessed through modification. We are extremely
the Hall County website (www.hallco.org) or by the fol- proud of their hard work and wish
them the best of luck!
lowing website:

http://apps.gadoe.org/schoolclimate/parents.nsf/
Survey.xsp