Summer Edition 2011-2012

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The essence of teaching is to make learning contagious, to have one idea spark another.

Summer Information
Exciting Times for 2011-2012 Please go to the following
website and take the survey to
Take Your Survey Today! sign up for the units you would
most like to study next year
Welcome to enrichment! We are looking forward to next year. In anticipation of
during enrichment. Please note
next year, we are ready for you to tell us your favorite topics of study for next
that signing up for this does
year. We have created a survey that we would like for you to take as soon as you not guarantee your choices,
can. It is on the front page of our website and you can get to it by going to but we will do our best to
http://gsesenrichment.wiki.hoover.k12.al.us There you can choose from your assign you to at least one of
favorite topics listed below. your top three choices.

Some of the highlights we are expecting for next year are: a career fair, a
Enrichment Wiki
strategy game tournament, robotics teams, and much more. We hope you have a
great summer full of fun and rest. See you on August 15th!

E N R IC H ME NT C L A SSE S F O R 2 0 1 1 - 2 0 1 2
Fifth Grade Fourth Grade Third Grade

Nature’s Wacky and Wild Where in the World Are We? Photography

Creating a Culture Natural Disasters Architecture

Literature Tours Around the World Literature Tours Around the World Literature Tours Around the World
with Google Maps with Google Maps with Google Maps

Mysteries Mysteries Mysteries

Stock Market/ Finance CSI Wonders of the World

Problem Solving Games and Law Inventions and Inventors

Strategies

Mandy Fox & Judy Simpson gsesenrichment@hoover.k12.al.us

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Meet the Enrichment Teachers
Looking for something to do
over the summer? Please go
to our Summer Ideas page on
our website. There you will
find lots of ideas for each
subject area of interest. We
hope you find these helpful to
encourage your child to
continue learning and
exploring during the summer
break!
Summer Ideas Page
Parent Seminars Set to
Begin in August
Mandy Fox & Judy Simpson
Mandy Fox have been teaching for 14 years and
am Nationally Board Certified.
It is such a privilege to be an My husband, Steve Fox, is also a
enrichment teacher in
teacher for Hoover
Greystone. I and
have had a teaches
wonderful eighth
year and am grade
thrilled to science
have the at
opportunity Simmons
to work with Middle
you and your School. I
child this have
year where been
we will have married
lots of fun for nine
and make years and
many have three
memories. I hope this letter will help wonderful boys, Marshall, 6; Micah, 3;
you get to know me and answer any and Max, 1. I met my husband while
questions you might have. living in Guatemala where we both
worked as missionaries in an
I have been in Hoover City Schools for orphanage taking care of 500 children.
eight years. I was a technology coach I taught classes at the middle school
for Hoover City Schools for the first during the day and was mom to 63
six years. Before coming to Hoover, I teenage girls when I got home. Some
was a technology coordinator for of my hobbies are photography,
Highlands School and before that was moviemaking, spending time with my
a classroom teacher teaching fourth children, gardening, and computers.
and fifth grade. I went to Berry
College in Rome, Georgia for my One of my goals for this year is to help
undergrad in Elementary Education your child become a life-long learner. I
and have my Masters and EdS. in hope to develop students who are not
Educational Technology from Lesley afraid to ask questions and search for
University in Cambridge, the answers. I also hope that I can
Massachusetts. I am currently working instill in your child a love of learning
on a second Master degree in Gifted and an excitement about the
Education at Samford University. I possibilities that exist for their future.
Next year we are so excited to begin offering Parent
Seminar Opportunities such as a book study, guest
speakers, parenting tips, and more. Be looking for
information coming about these Parent Seminar
Opportunities beginning in August!
gsesenrichment@hoover.k12.al.us
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Parents:

If you would like to be involved in the enrichment program this year, we would love your help. Some of the
opportunities available are: bulletin boards, copying, field trips, robotics team support, magazine editing
support, and expert guest lecturers. Contact us at gsesenrichment@hoover.k12.al.us

Judy Simpson Education from Florida State appropriate, and what to do with that
University and a master’s in Gifted and information are skills they will need
Talented Education from the throughout their lifetime. It is my
I am looking forward to another
University of Alabama. I am also a desire to use the units of study that we
wonderful year working with your
National Board Certified Teacher. offer to help them accomplish this task.
children. This will be my fifteenth
My husband, Joel, is an architect. We
year at Greystone and my fourteenth as
have been married for nine years and
an enrichment teacher. I can honestly
between the two of us we have six
say that I have a fantastic job and am
grown children. We have two
blessed to work with amazing kids,
grandsons and 8 grand-dogs. We also
supportive families, and a dynamic
have two little kittens, Max and
faculty. I also have a great co-teacher
Abbey! We enjoy reading, movies,
for enrichment. Mandy and I work
gardening, and traveling.
together really well and have skills that
It is a privilege to work with the
complement each other. (she’s the
enrichment students. I know that these
techno-wizard and I’m the organizer!)
leaders of tomorrow will not learn all
Before I came to Greystone, I taught
they need to know in school. Knowing
sixth grade science and language arts
how to access information, how to
in Jacksonville, Florida for six years. I
discern which information is
have a bachelor’s degree in Elementary

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Mandy Fox & Judy Simpson gsesenrichment@hoover.k12.al.us