Technology upgrades at GKMS

In the last year, GKMS has gone through several technology upgrades. We hope our new technology helps students stay engaged and increases the opportunities for learning. Some examples of the upgrades:

*Each classroom is equipped with a computer projector and either an Elmo or a Document Camera.

*Our two computer labs have received 60 new computers this school year.

*We have purchased a few iPads for a mobile classroom set. We hope to purchase more for each grade level to have a mobile lab.

*We have a mobile lab of 15 chrome books on the way. These will be used for research, google docs and for our new math intervention.

With these new upgrades, we hope our teachers and students will find new and exciting ways to teach and to learn.

Lunches at GKMS

We've been receiving some feedback in regards to our lunches here at GKMS.  One common theme is that sometimes we run out of food in either the hot lunch line or the ala carte line.  Because we want to make sure all of our students eat a good lunch, we want to work with our parents and students on this issue.

A big challenge we are currently facing at GKMS is our lunch counts are off by a considerable amount.  Each morning as 1st period begins, students are asked to raise their hand if they want hot lunch.  (hot lunch is read over the intercom).  We use these counts to determine how much food to make.  Here are some examples of some of the lunch counts over the past few weeks (first number is the morning count, second number is the actual count):

58/83
69/99
71/92
35/48
72/87
67/81
56/77

As you can tell, when our counts are off by 20 or 30, it is very difficult to judge how much food to make.  We hope our parents help us encourage our students to be attentive and accurate during lunch counts in the morning.  This well help us make sure enough hot lunch food is made for all students.

If you have any questions or concerns about this, please contact me at 815-784-5222.  Thanks!