Golmen Gazette

Volume 2, Issue 3 September 3, 2010

What’s New? IMPORTANT INFORMATION

September Character Trait is
Responsibility!! As the year is progressing, we are seeing some
SOARing habits forming in the classroom. We really see
Individual Ownership of Actions
our students working hard to earn stars and
SOARbucks. Please encourage your students at school
Weekly Quizzes &Work
as well as at home.
Friday ~ Math Check Up, A couple of changes and reminders below:
Spelling Test, DLR Quiz DLR nightly homework is to be completed in
cursive. Students have a “review sheet” of
Daily- Reading towards 100
cursive in their binders. This is great practice and
minutes for the week.
cursive will be required 2nd semester in ALL
Future Plans! subjects.
Remember to look through your child’s daily or
Sept 3- Fundraiser Kick Off 9:15 Friday folder. All papers that receive a 69% or
Sept. 6-No school below (D or F) are signed and returned to their
Sept. 27-Grandparents Day teacher.
Oct. 5-Open House
Parent signatures are required to verify students
Oct. 12-Fall Picture Retakes
Oct. 15-Book Fair, PBS Big Event have completed their assigned reading.
for Students
Oct. 22-No School Soaring Success…
Marbles: 15 marbles earned, 10 to go!
Website of the Week:
SOAR bucks: Everyone is working hard to continue to
www.spellingcity.com earn SOAR bucks! Great job!!

http://www.golmen.blogspot. Merit Award Winners: Kaylee Uber and Markus

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What’s Coming Up?

Reading: Checking for understanding ( dialogue, punctuation, context clues)
Writing: Personal Narratives continued, Parts of Speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)
Working With Words: laugh, off, until, encouragement, richest, trouble, couple, young, tough, cousin
Prefix: en- Suffix: -est, -ment Blend: /ou/
Math: Place Value, ordering and comparing numbers, writing and reading large numbers
Science: Rocks unit