Golmen Gazette

Volume 2, Issue 18 January 7, 2010

What’s New? SOARing High

January Character Trait is With the beginning of 3 Quarter comes the beginning of a new
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Integrity!!
quarter of earning SOAR bucks. We have been re-teaching our
Doing what is right even when no
school-wide expectations and will continue to reinforce positive
one is watching!! 
behavior by rewarding students with SOAR bucks. These SOAR
bucks will allow students to gain entry to the BIG EVENT at the
Weekly Quizzes & Work (week of Jan.10-14) end of the quarter. This quarter students need to earn 6 SOAR
bucks in order to attend. Ask your child what they did to be a
Friday ~ Math Check Up, Spelling Test, Reading
Skill Assessment Safe, Outstanding learner, who is Always respectful and
Daily- Reading towards 100 minutes for the Responsible. Let’s SOAR!!
week, DLR

Great Start to the New Year!

Future Plans! We have had an unbelievable start to the New Year.
Jan. 13th Positive Parenting Everyone is working hard and putting forth their best effort
Meeting in everything they do. We would like to encourage these
Jan. 17th No School-Martin Luther behaviors to continue throughout the remainder of the year.
King Jr. Day (2ND Snow Day)
Jan. 21st PTA Movie Night Please remember to continue to encourage responsibility and
Jan. 25th Boot Camp sustained effort. Please continue to check and sign your
Jan. 27th Tropical Thursday
child’s Brain Book each night. I hope that you are finding
Feb. 11th Valentines Parties
Feb. 15th Spring Pictures them to be useful and informative. I am already beginning to
Feb. 15th, 17th, Parent/Teacher see improvement in grammar, punctuation, and handwriting.
Conferences We are also looking for continued reading practice. Students
Feb. 18th No School (3rd Snow Day)
st should be choosing and completing chapter books on a regular
Feb. 21 No School
Mar. 10 th
End of 3rd quarter/PBS basis.
Big Event Our Caring Kid for December is:
th th
Mar. 14 -18 Spring Break
Mar. 29th Boot Camp Lauren Dye
th th
Mar. 30 -Apr. 8 MAP Testing 

What’s Coming Up?

(week of Jan. 4-7)
Reading: Inferring; Drawing Conclusions
Writing: Effective Beginnings
Working With Words: by, sometimes, didn’t, irresponsible, misunderstand, powerful, thoughtful, cheerful,
peaceful, painful Prefix: mis- ir- Suffix: -ible -ful
Math: 3-D Geometry
Social Studies: Government and Principles of Constitutional Democracy