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Our second Talent Show rehearsal is this Wednesday in the Gant auditorium from 2:30pm to 4:30pm. Please email partyatgant@gmail.com if your child cannot attend rehearsal so that we can keep you in the lineup. We will be doing a full tech runthrough this week so it's important to be there if  you can! Also please email partyatgant@gmail.com your performer's audio track if they have one. Note, try to keep performances under 90 seconds, as we have a lot of acts to include. Reminder that the show itself will be at the Millikan auditorium on Friday, June 3, at 6 PM. Have questions? Email programs@gant-pta.com.

DEI COMMITTEE UPDATE

In effort to support the programs committee for our End of the Year picnic on June 10, which is King Kahmehameha Day. If you know of anyone who might be interested in performing hula,  haka or ukelele, please email: dei@gant-pta.com

We held our last DEI meeting in person this Wednesday. It was great collaborating in person. We have gotten the ball rolling on plans for next year. See the minutes for more details.

Gant's own Donovan C. is featured at 10:37. Congrats, Donovan!

Run Club t-shirts are still available! Email programs@gant-pta.com or come by the Run Club table on Wednesday or Friday mornings. Shirts are $10. 

Congrats to our 50 students who performed in the Jungle Book at St. Cornelius this past weekend on a job well done! The show was a huge success and was organized by Yaya's Performance Academy. 

The Gant Green team is looking for anyone who is interested in joining!  We will be preparing the garden site, talking about sustainability in school, and anything & everything relating to making our Gant campus green!  If you're interested in joining please email: greenteam@gant-pta.com  or fill out the sign up sheet here: Green Team sign up sheet

Parent Run Day on Friday, May 6, was a huge success! It was fantastic to see parents out there with their kids. We had a ton of parents and caregivers running laps with our students, and the parents alone ran a total of 165 laps (or 20.625 miles). Way to go! 

Thank you so much to everyone that came out to our Spring Carnival! We hope that everyone had a great time and that fun was had by all. The PTA was so excited to have a fun, free event for our community after almost two whole years without one! Attendance was fantastic, now we know to do it bigger and better next year because our Gant community is ready for it! A HUGE thank you to all of the volunteers that made the day run smoothly. And if you see Mr. Eric around campus, please thank him for being there all day on a Saturday to open doors and keep our campus clean. 

One of the last in-person activities Gant students completed just before the 2020 lockdown was Gators Give Back.  At that time, travel sanitizer bottles were scarce, but somehow, we came through to fill hygiene bags and to prepare sandwiches for those less fortunate.  

The 2022 comeback: donations trickled in—with plenty of sanitizer bottles—and students of all grade levels came to assemble over 125 hygiene bags and over 220 ham and cheese sandwiches! The enthusiasm in the room while the students completed their charity project spoke volumes of their desire to do good in the community and to be with each other in doing so. Yes, the spirit of charity is strong in the Gant community! Thank you to the families who donated items as well as the parents who joined us for the hands-on work!

The hygiene bags and sandwiches were given to the Long Beach Rescue Mission, an organization that provides approximately 900 meals a week and other basic necessities to those in need.  Awesome work, Gators! 

During Spring Break, Leadership Long Beach volunteers gathered across Long Beach to do service projects for a postponed MLK Day of Service event. One of the sites for volunteer projects was our very own Gant Elementary! The volunteers built six garden box planters for our students to use next school year and learn how to plant and grow their own food.

This project was a collaboration between our PTA Green Team, Leadership Long Beach, and Ground Education. Ground Education is a non-profit organization and will be on campus next year to bring learning into the garden.

We welcomed the Inspiration 52 character education program back to Gant this March. Jerome Carter is working with our 5th grade boys on life skills that will benefit them in middle school and beyond.

Robloks 3D modeling has arrived at Gant! Students are provided an experience to create 3D virtual worlds, all while learning important skills for tomorrow’s future. It's just a pilot program for now, but look for it in your classroom soon!

Many of you may not be aware but the nurse has items for kids who have accidents. She is currently in need of new and unused underwear and socks of all sizes.  Any donations would be greatly appreciated and can be delivered to the office.

The LBUSD Office of Child Development Centers is now enrolling for our full-day, fee-based preschool program. Please visit our web site here for specific details regarding locations and contact information. For enrollment assistance, call 562-429-8636.